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Kwasi Kwarteng’s high stakes bet on growth

FOR a “fiscal event” or even a mini-Budget, there is an extraordinary change of direction identified in the Chancellor’s speech today — enough for a couple of conventional Budgets. He told us this morning, “there are too many barriers to enterprise”. Accordingly, he has set out a dizzying range of…

Evening Standard

Fred Wright insists Britain’s got talent to produce road cycling world champion

The Bahrain-Victorious rider says the potential is there to follow Sir Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas.

The Independent UK

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Glasgow tenement included in shortlist for Britain’s most loved private building

An early 20th century tenement in Shawlands has been shortlisted for the award of Britain's most loved private building, after the owners association worked tirelessly to repair the structure.

Glasgow Live

Britain's 'roughest estate' where yobs set fire to homes and rip the heads off live pigeons

Locals live in fear of violence and racial abuse, with some too afraid to leave their homes - even during the day

Wales Online

Rees-Mogg: ‘Britain must get every cubic inch of gas out of North Sea’

Leaked video shows business secretary ‘greenwashing fossil fuels’ and putting ‘ideology before climate’, say critics

The Guardian - UK

Mini-budget: Kwasi Kwarteng slashes income tax in growth gamble

The Chancellor swung his axe at income tax, National Insurance, corporation tax and stamp duty in a historic mini-budget aimed at transforming Britain’s lacklustre growth rate

Evening Standard

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Killing Leprechauns: Irish satirist mines British ignorance in comedy podcast

Oliver Callan questions British comics on Irish history and current affairs and finds general response is obliviousness

The Guardian - UK

Pet Club: Britain’s first police Staffie sniffer dog retires after eight years service

This week on the Mirror's Pet Club: PD Stella sniffed out thousands of pounds of stolen money, drugs including heroin, cocaine and ecstasy as well as guns and ammunition while on duty with Gloucestershire Constabulary

Daily Mirror

Tory tax cuts for wealthy will drive 'broke, broken Britain' into 'economic chaos', critics warn

THE Tories’ emergency mini-budget has been branded a recipe for “economic chaos” as the country faces the likely recession amid warnings there…

The National (Scotland)

Kwarteng axes higher income tax for top earners and accelerates 1p cut for all

Chancellor claims abolishing 45p rate – already cut from 50p by George Osborne – ‘will make Britain more competitive’

The Independent UK

Pound plunges through $1.09 as former US Treasury secretary blasts ‘naive’ UK policies in mini-budget– as it happened

Sterling has tumbled by over three cents to 37-year low, and UK gilt yields are surging, after Kwasi Kwarteng announced huge unfunded tax cuts

The Guardian - UK

Who wants Liz Truss’s bonfire of net-zero red tape? Not big business, for a start

The Tories were once the party of business. Now all they know how to do is drag Britain back to the 1980s, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

Palestinians Slam UK 'Review' of Israel Embassy Location

The Palestinians on Thursday said any move by Britain to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would be "a blatant violation of International law". British Prime Minister Liz Truss, in New York for the UN General Assembly, told her Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid on Wednesday "about…

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Israel PM: World Must Use Force if Iran Builds Nuclear Bomb

The international community should use military force if Iran develops nuclear weapons, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid told the United Nations on Thursday, as he reiterated support for creation of a "peaceful" Palestinian state. Israel has been conducting an intense diplomatic offensive in recent months to try to persuade the…

Manchester Evening News

Inside Greater Manchester's 'Investment Zone' talks - from affordable housing to job 'poaching'

Town hall leaders have flagged a string of concerns about the new low-tax initiative dubbed a 'new era for Britain'

The Guardian - UK

Five charts that will underpin chancellor’s mini-budget

From soaring inflation and gas prices to tax take and national debt, these are the trend lines that frame Kwasi Kwarteng’s calculations

Bangkok Post

Thai Tributes to Queen Elizabeth II

In the wake of the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, Thailand has joined in paying tributes to and mourning the world's and Britain's longest-reigning monarch. Here are a few heartfelt highlights.

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Daily Mirror

Kwasi Kwarteng's tax cutting 'mini-Budget' to promise 'new era for Britain' - after 12 years of Tory rule

The chancellor will scrap Boris Johnson's hike in national insurance from November 6 despite experts warning it will disproportionately benefit the richest households

Reuters

UK's Truss reviews location of British embassy in Israel

British Prime Minister Liz Truss has told her Israeli counterpart she is reviewing the location of Britain's embassy in Israel, her office said on Thursday.

Los Angeles Times

Burial fit for a queen, yes, but what of monarchy's true cost?

LONDON — Many Britons are feeling poorer all the time. But their royal family is very rich indeed.

Nottingham Post

DWP Universal Credit work scheme changes to affect 120,000 claimants

"We must get Britain working again", says the chancellor

Reuters

Britain, Poland, Ukraine to strengthen defence co-operation

Britain, Poland and Ukraine will develop trilateral co-operation including by strengthening their defence capabilities and the NATO Eastern flank, according to a joint statement from their foreign ministers on Thursday.

Wales Online

Hiker who had cardiac arrest on Ben Nevis finally reaches summit with woman who saved him

Courtney Ferguson leapt into action when she saw Trevor Botwood collapse halfway up Britain's tallest mountain in the summer of 2020

Reuters

Ban on gas fracking in England lifted in push for energy independence

Britain on Thursday formally lifted a moratorium on fracking for shale gas in England that has been in place since 2019, saying strengthening the country's energy supply was an "absolute priority".

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