The TV presenter Paul O’Grady has died at the age of 67.

The comedian, also known for his drag queen persona, Lily Savage, died “unexpectedly but peacefully” on Tuesday evening, his partner, Andre Portasio, said thetimes.co.uk/article/tv-pre…

Rishi Sunak is pledging a crackdown on the disorderly Airbnb renters who are making residents’ lives hell.

But nowhere in its 41-page antisocial behaviour plans does the government mention the platform’s biggest problem: the hosts | ✍️ Charlotte Lytton
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Ministers must swiftly rein in Britain’s gaming industry, which has long prioritised its wealth over its customers’ health | ✍️ Alice Thomson

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A 32-year-old businessman who runs a chain of IVF clinics is among those who could take on Jeremy Corbyn at the next election after Labour banned its former leader from standing for the party again

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Giorgia Meloni’s nous has surprised critics and made her the country’s most popular politician | ✍️ Tom Kington

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The SNP’s bitter divisions have deepened after Kate Forbes quit the government having rejected Humza Yousaf’s offer to retain a cabinet position but with a significant demotion

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Nashville police have released graphic video of the moment they confronted and shot dead a heavily armed attacker who killed three children and three staff at a private Christian school

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A landscape painting owned by a Cambridge museum was once at the heart of an “art swap” between two of Hitler’s henchmen and should be returned to the heirs of the Jewish owner from whom it was looted, a government panel has advised
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There has been an electric bike or scooter fire every two days in the capital this year, a 60% increase of the same period last year, according to London Fire Brigade

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The fondness of Italians for bad language was measured by Preply, an online language learning platform, which found that Italians uttered an expletive an average of 8.9 times a day, with men the worst.

But which Italian city swears the most? 👇

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Crystal Palace Park is to receive £5 million from the latest National Lottery Heritage Fund grants, an amount that will secure the future of its “dinosaurs”, the southeast London park’s great, if biologically inaccurate, statues

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For the first time in more than two decades the rare Yangtze sturgeon, previously considered extinct, has laid eggs in the wild in a development hailed as a major breakthrough for the species by Beijing

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The opponents of President Macron’s pensions reform hope to make him follow the example of his predecessor Jacques Chirac, who scrapped a pensions revamp in 1995 after a month of strikes and protests

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It takes only a few seconds for people to distinguish between the “pleasant-sounding” laugh of friends and the “more baby-like, more submissive” laugh of those in early romances, according to research led by the University of Baltimore in the US

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