DWP court hearing over £20 Universal Credit uplift for legacy benefit claimants to go ahead this week

A British court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by a newspaper publisher seeking to overturn an earlier ruling that it breached the privacy of the Duchess of Sussex by publishing portions of a letter she wrote to her estranged father.

The UK Government has confirmed that State Pension and benefits delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) including Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) will increase by 3.1 per cent next year.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has released details about its new assessment contracts being offered to suitable supply partners across the UK to deliver disability consultations to people claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Employment Support Allowance (ESA) and Universal Credit from 2023.

The UK Government's decision not to extend the £20 uplift to those on legacy benefits delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to support them during the coronavirus pandemic was a "radical and unprecedented departure" from decades of benefits policy, the High Court has heard.

Adele has continued her comeback by sitting down with Oprah Winfrey for an exclusive two hour tell-all interview, where she discussed divorce, weight loss and her son. In the same rose garden where Harry and Meghan gave their televised Oprah interview earlier this year, the Tottenham-born star provided a CBS special called Adele One Night Only to launch for long awaited fourth album, 30.

Amazon has announced that from January 19, it will no longer accept payments for purchases made using UK-issued Visa credit cards.

The High Court will hear a legal challenge today over the UK Government's decision not to extend the £20 uplift to those on legacy benefits to support them during the coronavirus pandemic.

much-ballyhooed “One Night Only” concert Sunday on CBS, the 15-time Grammy Award winner set the scene for a Los Angeles man named Quentin Brunson to pop the question to his unsuspecting girlfriend of seven years, Ashleigh Mann. “I need every person to be really bloody quiet, alright?” whispered an excited Adele, 33, to her star-studded audience at the landmark Griffith Observatory in LA. “If you make a noise, I’m going to kill you,” the British bombshell jokingly threatened before instructing

Adele has continued her comeback by sitting down with Oprah Winfrey for an exclusive two hour tell-all interview, where she discussed divorce, weight loss and her son. In the same rose garden where Harry and Meghan gave their televised Oprah interview earlier this year, the Tottenham-born star provided a CBS special called Adele One Night Only to launch for long awaited fourth album, 30.

one-off concert filmed at the London Palladium, An Audience With Adele, will be broadcast on ITV this weekend on November 21. Both specials are being produced by British company Fulwell 73 Productions.

Adele says she will be cracking “filthy jokes” during what appears to be an otherwise classy live show recorded for her upcoming Oprah special in a trailer for the programme. Airing in the US on 14 November, the two-hour TV affair promises discussions about the British singing sensation’s new album 30, dropping 19 November, and will feature performances from Adele also.

“hello” to Adele in a two-hour TV special set to air on CBS this coming Sunday.“Adele One Night Only” will see the 15-time Grammy winner speak candidly with the talk show queen about diets, dating and divorce.The program will also feature the British songstress performing tracks from her highly-anticipated album “30” — set for release on Nov.

Meghan Markle has apologised to a British court after she failed to remember giving authorisation to a senior aide to brief the authors of her biography.The Duchess of Sussex, 40, had previously insisted that she and husband Prince Harry did not have any involvement with the biography Finding Freedom. Meghan and Harry's spokesperson said last year the couple "did not collaborate with the authors on the book, nor were they interviewed for it".

More than two million benefit claimants could be due £1,500 in back payments if the UK Government loses a legal case due to be heard next week on whether it was fair to exclude people on legacy benefits from extra Covid support.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Jay-Z claim in court that his fragrance launched in 2013 failed not because he didn’t live up to his agreement regarding promoting it but because of perfume company Parlux’s “crappy, lazy work”, plus the All Party Parliamentary Group On Music’s demand for “urgent action” from the UK government to tackle the crisis facing British musicians and crew planning to tour Europe as a result of

trading profile pics with star Penn Badgley to offering to officiate Kal Penn's wedding, Cardi B is making tons of new friends these days. And now she can add Robert Pattison to the list! The rapper shared a video to Twitter on Saturday from a Beverly Hills event honoring British  editor-in-chief Edward Enninful, where both stars were in attendance.