VOTERS were last night braced for swingeing tax rises, after Rachel Reeves embarked on an unprecedented spending spree.

SOME diminutive gents may claim it’s little more than a tall story.

ELIZABETH Hurley had never been shy about showing off her figure. And now, looking as youthful as ever, she’s posed naked in a field to celebrate turning 60.

SOARING temperatures and thunderstorms will sweep across Britain tomorrow.

Anger at Starmer’s ‘surrender deal’ with EU that hands Spain control over territory’s border

A LONER who gunned down more than 20 pupils and staff at his former school, killing ten, left a suicide note requesting that someone look after his cat, it emerged yesterday.

IT WAS first coined to demonstrate how economically, socially and culturally ­different the North felt from the South.

...but Tories are quick to ask: Where are you going to put them instead?

POLICE chiefs warned last night that they have not been given enough money to maintain officer numbers or meet Government targets to get more bobbies on the beat.

THE NHS is unlikely to hit waiting time targets despite getting an extra £29billion a year in the Spending Review, health chiefs said last night.

THE average home’s council tax bill will increase by £359 by 2029, the Spending Review revealed.

SCHOOLS will get a cash boost of more than £4.5 billion - but teachers say it is not enough to plug funding gaps.

RACHEL Reeves extended the £3 cap on bus fares across England until March 2027.

EXPERTS have cast doubt on the Chancellor’s plan to make her sums add up by saving billions through ‘technical efficiency gains’, slashing admin spending and clamping down on tax.

RACHEL Reeves has imposed a freeze on defence spending beyond 2027, offering no sign of how Labour will reach its 3 per cent target.

JUST one in 20 Britons are confident that taxes are being spent well, according to polling.

A LEISURE centre used as an emergency shelter for families was set on fire by hooded thugs last night during a third day of ‘racist’ violence in Northern Ireland.

THE White House has criticised Britain’s decision to sanction two Israeli ministers over ‘egregious abuses’ of human rights in Gaza.

RACIAL discrimination claims made against employers have tripled in eight years, it emerged last night.

FAMILIES with children at private schools will find out tomorrow whether Labour’s decision to place VAT on fees was legal, following a judicial review at the High Court.

CCTV images show the moment a Bridgerton star fights off a prolific thief as he tries to steal her mobile phone.

ROYAL Navy chiefs voiced concerns last night after Donald Trump ordered a review of the nuclear submarine pact between the UK, the US and Australia.

TENT cities could pop up across the UK as rough sleeping is decriminalised, critics of the policy say.

MPs have been criticised for their ‘hostile and unprofessional’ questioning of the head of the equality watchdog over the landmark Supreme Court gender ruling.

Government suing over Covid contract ‘initiated’ by Tory peer

A LIMIT on the height of car bonnets is needed as SUVs present a ‘clear and growing threat to public safety’, according to a study.

HARVEY Weinstein was found guilty yesterday of sexually assaulting his former assistant.

HARROGATE Ladies’ College is to take in boys for the first time in its history - and change its name, it announced yesterday.

Damning report shows 91% of children exceeding daily limit of six teaspoons

HE’S perhaps not the first person that springs to mind as a candidate to edit Country Life magazine.

THE BBC failed to show Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter in the doubles at Queen’s on television for the second time this week - broadcasting repeats instead.

A COMPANY director throttled his neighbour and damaged a Jaguar car during an altercation over a ‘messy’, long-running shared driveway dispute, a court has heard.

THE bells of St Michael’s in the pretty village of Mytholmroyd have marked the passing of the hours for 177 years.

A FULL Strawberry Moon appears to perform a balancing act in these stunning photos. The name is given to the full Moon in June and occurs when it sits very low in the sky – making it appear much larger than usual. Here it looks as if the Earth’s satellite is hovering above Big Ben in London, Dovercourt Lower Lighthouse in Essex and the Empire State Building in New York City.

RUSSIA is plotting an attack on Nato territory to test the Western alliance’s unity, a spy chief warned yesterday.

THE personalised number plate has long attracted celebrities from showbiz to sport and even royalty - with some costing hundreds of thousands of pounds.

ELON Musk regrets some of the things he said about Donald Trump last week, he admitted yesterday in a climbdown from his online feud with the US President.

PROTESTS over immigration raids that erupted in Los Angeles have spread across the US, with even more expected.

How tribunal ruled light-hearted term for males may be ‘sexual harassment’

WALKER Bill Braddock stops to admire the Singing Ringing Tree, a musical sculpture designed to look like a windswept tree. From its vantage point overlooking Burnley, the sculpture at Crown Point in the Pennines emits a low, tuneful song when the wind blows.