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Prince’s Trust renamed in hint King Charles unlikely to hand it over to sons

King Charles delivers his first King’s Speech in Parliament King Charles has given his biggest hint yet that he will not be handing down his charity to his warring sons Prince William or Prince Harry, as Buckingham Palace revealed the Prince’s Trust has been renamed the King’s Trust. In 1976, when he was still Prince […]

Meghan Markle’s attempt to ‘divert attention’ from blunders backfires

Meghan Markle may be using a simple trick to “divert attention” from potentially embarrassing headlines, a royal expert has claimed – but it does not appear to be working. The Duchess of Sussex could be releasing stories with similar headlines to drive down search results on similar sounding stories that are embarrassing to Meghan, royal […]

Pensioner speaks out after being abused by angry shopper while selling poppies

A pensioner who was abused by a raging shopper as she sold poppies in Tesco has spoken out. In a video widely shared on social media, the woman approached the Royal British Legion volunteers in Tesco, Lurgan, Northern Ireland. The shopper told security it was “not acceptable” to Catholics to see the badges sold. The woman […]

Prolific thief caught on CCTV robbing elderly man on a mobility scooter

Andrew Merritt, 34, asked the 88-year-old victim if he could spare a couple of pounds and the kind pensioner took out his wallet and gave him £3.10. CCTV showed Merritt hugging the elderly man before grabbing his wallet and walking away smiling. As the elderly man pleaded for it back, Merritt counted the large wad […]

NHS faces ‘real test’ as backlog hits 7.77m high

Further detail published by the NHS for the first time showed there were 6.5 million individual patients in the queue. Some 15 per cent needed to be seen more than once. Eight in ten were waiting for an outpatient appointment and the rest required an operation. The most common procedures patients were awaiting were cataract […]

The British Heart Foundation to hand out 220 defibrillators across the UK

Almost 80,000 of the life-saving devices are registered on The Circuit, the UK’s national network used to direct 999 callers to them. But they are not evenly distributed and experts fear “black spots” are putting lives at risk. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) will hand out 220 defibrillator packages over the next year, thanks to […]

NatWest ‘to scrap bulk of £10m payout to former CEO’ after debanking row

NatWest is reportedly on the brink of scrapping the bulk of a suggested £10m or more payout to its former CEO Dame Alison Rose, after the debanking row involving Nigel Farage. Sky News reports that NatWest’s board has decided to not pay Dame Alison most of the discretionary elements of her pay package due at […]