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Controversial tower opposed by Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and Felicity Kendal rejected

Property

Plans for a 29-storey mixed-use tower at the southern end of Battersea Bridge have been unanimously rejected by Wandsworth Council. The 110-home Glassmill scheme was voted down at meeting of the authority’s planning committee on Thursday night. The decision follows months of local opposition to the project, with more than 2,000 objections from members of […]
Trump’s apparent change of heart on Russia ‘welcome’, says senior minister

Politics

Crisis, debt and a £46bn bailout: Inside Natwest’s return to private ownership

Banking

Natwest is set to end one of British banking’s longest running sagas, as the lender stands inches away from returning to private ownership for the first time in nearly two decades. The FTSE 100 giant has whittled the UK government’s share in the bank to under three per cent, with a full exit expected in […]

Opinion

Pandering to Reform won’t revive the Conservative Party, it will kill it

Opinion

The Conservative Party doesn’t need to unite with Reform, it needs to remember what it stands for, writes Aaron Newbury.
Labour’s EV and heat pump push is paving a path to bankruptcy

Opinion

How the modern world is changing grave stone design forever

Life&Style

Death is the only thing surer than taxes. But how we’re remembered is a strange and sometimes controversial business. Ralph Jones meets the people rewriting the rules, one grave stone at a time Stonemason Neil Luxton once agreed to use comic sans on a grave. Once was enough – he has refused ever since. Luxton, […]
Life on the edge: A deep dive into the crazy world of Margate

Life&Style
It takes a village: Do we need to rethink our attitude to old age?

Life&Style

Who is David Kogan, the future football regulator facing the ‘piranha club’?

Sport Business

David Kogan once claimed to have helped introduce bingo to Daily Star readers but his forthcoming job as chair of the independent football regulator represents an altogether different kind of gamble – and some much bigger numbers. Subject to a pre-appointment grilling by the Culture, Media and Sport select committee early next month, the seasoned […]
Ease of Red Roses Six Nations run worries me ahead of Rugby World Cup

Sport

Lessons for Man Utd from Everton’s new stadium – by the architect behind it

Sport Business

The architect behind the new Everton Stadium on marrying history with future and why Manchester United chiefs should take note as they plot an Old Trafford rebuild. American architect Dan Meis knew he was going out on a limb when he submitted his design for Everton’s new stadium. Eschewing the trend for modern spacecraft-like arenas, […]

Libby’s Naked Wines Diary: Even students can enjoy great wines

Wine

I feel for final year University students right now. When the world is just waking up to those stirrings of spring and longer, sunnier days, they are finishing lengthy dissertations or beginning to cram for exams. Undoubtedly, having left it until the eleventh hour, the next few weeks for many will be spent tangled in […]
Eat, Drink, Sleep, Repeat: Our top food columnist on his favourite New York dining spots

Life&Style

Libby’s Naked Wines Diary: Even students can enjoy great wines

Wine

I feel for final year University students right now. When the world is just waking up to those stirrings of spring and longer, sunnier days, they are finishing lengthy dissertations or beginning to cram for exams. Undoubtedly, having left it until the eleventh hour, the next few weeks for many will be spent tangled in […]
Libby’s Naked Wines Diary: How to celebrate Steak Day right

Wine
Libby’s Naked Wine Diary: The perfect glass to enjoy with friends

Life&Style

Ka Ying rises to Champions Day challenge

Sport

HONG Kong Jockey Club Chief Executive Officer, Mr Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, has hailed 2025 FWD Champions Day as one of the best editions of the flagship meeting in a “very long period of time” after Ka Ying Rising, Red Lion and Japan’s Tastiera took Group One honours at Sha Tin on Sunday (27 April). Ka Ying […]
Legends J-Mac and Williams have Super chances at Sha Tin

Sport
Reve can chase home Sha Tin sprint king Ka Ying

Sport