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Shocking figures reveal UK spends double the defence budget on working age benefits

Analysis by The Independent has revealed the scale of Britain’s welfare bill to the taxpayer

The Independent UK

Welfare in numbers: The facts behind Britain’s soaring benefits bill

As Labour attempts to tighten Britain’s burgeoning welfare belt, Alicja Hagopian and David Maddox investigate the true cost of the welfare state

The Independent UK

What Rachel Reeves can do to raise money instead of cutting public services

Letters: David Murray and Bernie Evans on the alternatives open to the chancellor to tackle Britain’s crumbling finances. Plus a letter from Elizabeth Atkinson

The Guardian - UK

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East of Empire: partitioning of India and Palestine unleashed the violent conflict that continues today

What can Indian and Pakistani press archives, government records and memoirs tell us about the Middle East of the 1920s and ’30s, when Britain’s empire was in its twilight years? What did the dissolution of the Ottoman empire, the movement for Egyptian independence, or the crisis in British Mandate Palestine…

The Conversation

Migrant’s Unbelievable Claim Works in Court: No ID, No Phone, No Deportation

An Iraqi man has managed to avoid being deported from the UK after claiming a people smuggler tossed his ID and forced him to get rid of his phone while on his way to Britain.

The Fashion Central

UK Targets Spending Cuts To Mend Public Finances

Britain's Labour government will deliver a highly anticipated fiscal update on Wednesday, with finance minister Rachel Reeves expected to detail billions of pounds of spending cuts to address the country's struggling economy.

International Business Times

How one of Britain’s ‘worst seaside resorts’ is reinventing itself with a multi-million transformation

Rhyl – once dubbed ‘Blackpool after a neutron bomb’ – hopes to improve its reputation

The Independent UK

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Thousands of jobs ‘could go as part of UK government’s rail shake-up’

Reports suggest cuts in Great Britain would include removing ‘duplication’ of teams, as well job losses at HS2

The Guardian - UK

Time to stop blaming bats and newts for blocking development? A new fund could support nature and ease building delays

For years, nature has been blamed as a blocker of economic growth. After some ministerial bluster about not letting newts and bats get in the way of growth ambitions, the UK government released more details of its plans to get Britain building again.

The Conversation

Heathrow defends response after substation fire grounds flights for 18 hours

The fire's impact raised concerns about the resilience of Britain's energy system to accident, natural disaster or attack.

Euronews

Heathrow defends its response as questions grow about why a fire shut the airport for so long

Heathrow bosses are defending their response to a fire that shut down Europe’s busiest air hub for almost a day

The Independent UK

Mahtab Hussain review – smoking mums, hidden mosques … and Rishi Sunak

The artist turns the state’s suspicious gaze on Britain’s Muslim community right back in the opposite direction in an overwhelming, galvanising show

The Guardian - UK

In Canada, I saw how Trump is ripping North America apart – and how hard its bond will be to repair

With the US president now warmer to Moscow than to Ottawa, it’s little surprise Canadians I met rolled their eyes at the decline of the special relationship, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Fortnum & Mason offers high-end hampers in minutes in new rapid delivery service

Britain’s oldest department store said Londoners will be able to order its hampers and groceries 24/7 via delivery app Zapp.

Evening Standard

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International Business Times UK

'Pay £750 to Sleep on a Sofa and Manage My Airbnb': Britain's Rental Market Hits New Low

A property listing is going viral due to the landlord asking renters to pay £750 to handle his Airbnb host responsibilities and sleep on a thin mattress in the living room.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Manchester United’s stadium plans: put the fans first

Editorial: A £2bn new arena for Britain’s biggest football club will bring regeneration to the surrounding area. But matchgoing supporters are right to be circumspect

The Guardian - UK

Ingebrigtsen secures double gold and GB athletes enjoy day of redemption

The Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen matched Haile Gebrselassie by winning the 1500m and 3,000m in the same world indoor championships

The National (Scotland)

Great Britain’s Neil Gourley wins world indoor 1500m silver

Britain’s Neil Gourley was thrilled after winning a silver medal in the men’s 1500 metres at the World Athletics Indoor Championships.

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The Independent UK

Neil Gourley and Georgia Hunter Bell earn redemption with World Indoor medals

Gourley took 1500m silver behind Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen as Hunter Bell nabbed bronze in the women’s event

The Guardian - UK

‘The only thing still working’: Russia and UK agreement to tend war graves transcends bitter international relations

Private understanding ensures tending of British military graves in Russia and Crimea, and Soviet graves in UK

The Guardian - UK

Hard times: why Rachel Reeves must be bold and ditch her Dickensian rulebook

In her crucial statement this week, the chancellor would do well to reject the Gradgrind mindset

The Guardian - UK

After America: can Europe learn to go it alone without the US?

In Germany, tariff-hit car factories are being repurposed for defence. In Britain, American academics are queueing up for jobs. The west will be different as a result of Trump – but will it be worse?

Euronews

Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB spy who defected to the UK in the Cold War, dies at 86

Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to the UK, has died at home in England.

The Guardian - UK

‘Wellbeing’ isn’t a joke – it’s a tool for tackling populism

In Britain, the Treasury is taking the idea of social happiness surprisingly seriously – and the chancellor needs to as well

The Guardian - UK

From the police to the prime minister: how Adolescence is making Britain face up to toxic masculinity

The Netflix drama isn’t just a critical smash – its tale of social media-fuelled violence to women by young boys has forced a national debate in the UK that might lead to genuine political change

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