DWP updates Universal Credit payment rates to reflect new change for parents last month

Coronation Street star Channique Sterling-Brown appears to have already answered fans' demands as she teased a new storyline for her character. The actress has revealed that Dee-Dee Bailey's love life is set to be explored in upcoming scenes on the ITV soap.

More than 11,400 people from across the UK have signed an online petition calling for the concessionary bus travel scheme to include free country-wide train journeys. In Scotland, people over 60 are eligible to apply for the National Entitlement Card, it’s the same age in Wales and those living in London.

Liam Gallagher and Adidas have released a brand new colourway of their previous shoe collaboration, the LG2 SPZL.The shoe marks Gallagher’s third release with the brand. According to a press release, the creation of the new shoe came from former Oasis frontman and the Adidas Spezial founder Gary Aspden, after they reunited to create a second colourway of the LG2 SPZL.The new LG2 SPZL features the same hybrid silhouette the duo created, loosely based on several different historical Adidas footwear references, along with three bottle green stripes, a gum outsole and Gallagher’s portrait on the tongue.

Four fashion icons, all together.

John Lydon has said that he believes it’s “wrong” to credit Patti Smith and, more broadly, New York with punk’s origins – saying the UK did it first.Smith was an essential part of the punk movement within the US with her 1975 debut album ‘Horses’. The former Sex Pistol and Public Image Ltd frontman, however, claims that the UK is the actual birthplace of the genre with acts such as David Bowie, T-Rex, Sweet, The Clash, The Dammed and the Sex Pistols.In an interview with The Sun, Lydon said: “I’ve heard an awful lot of American journalists pretending that the whole punk influence came out of New York.

English Teacher have shared their latest track, ‘The World’s Biggest Paving Slab’. Check out the single below.Released today (August 10), the track is the latest single from the four-piece, and follows on from their hit track ‘Song About Love’ – which arrived at the start of the year and explored how love is a theme that is prominent in nearly all aspects of life.This time around, the members – Lily Fontaine, Douglas Frost, Nicholas Eden and Lewis Whiting – take an equally reflective view of the world around them, and explore how the social, economic and political landscape is a sharp juxtaposition from the beauty that can be found within the people existing inside it.“I wrote and recorded the demo in my bedroom in one day, during my final year of university in 2018,” the frontwoman said of the inspiration behind ‘The World’s Biggest Paving Slab’.“Moving to a city for university forced me to reflect on how my experience of growing up in and around Pendle, how witnessing the social, economic and political issues that exist around there in juxtaposition with the beauty of the landscape and the characters that live within in it, has shaped me into the artist and person that I am.”These semi-rural stories leak into most of my writing,” she continued.

UPDATED, 8:10 AM: “You ever get tired of being at the bottom of the top? What’s standing in our way? asks Joseph Sikora’s Tommy Egan at the beginning of the official Season 2 trailer for Starz’s Power Book IV: Force. Tommy is clearly ready for war and on a mission to avenge the death of his former nemesis turned business partner Lilliana. Watch the new trailer above and the first teaser below.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is gearing up to issue its next Cost of Living payment to eligible people across the country.

Proposals in an online petition calling for State Pension to be paid to all people in retirement at the same rate as the National Living Wage is now due an official response from the UK Government after passing the 10,000 signature threshold. The proposal would see some 12.6 million pensioners receive £364.70 each week - equivalent to just under £19,000 a year.

Madonna has announced that a “re-routed” schedule for Madonna: The Celebration Tour will “be coming in the next few days”.

Aldi has once again been named the cheapest supermarket in the UK after a new comparison found that shoppers could save more than £16 compared to the most expensive rival.

It is the unique story of a county which has taken on the UK's main talent shows and pretty much conquered the lot. When it comes to talented musicians, Ayrshire has proven it can punch well above its weight on the big stage. Whether it be the X Factor, Britain's Got Talent or The Voice, this corner of the country has produced an act fitting of the bill.

Harry Styles played to five million people over the course of his mammoth ‘Love On Tour’, with the dates raising $6.5million for charity.The two-year trek saw the soloist and former One Direction singer play 173 gigs in total, per a press release. He performed a record-breaking 18 nights at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, and smashed the attendance record for London’s Wembley Stadium.Additionally, Styles played 20 sold-out concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City and delivered a pair of headline sets at Coachella 2022.The ‘Love On Tour’ began in North America on September 4, 2021.

Anas Sarwar will use a review of universal credit by an incoming Labour Government to push for the end of the two-child benefit cap.

phone hacking case against the publication’s parent publisher, News Group Newspapers, on Thursday.Justice Timothy Fancourt has also discharged Harry’s claim that there is a “secret agreement” between Buckingham Palace and the media.However, the court is allowing Harry, 38, to take the Sun to trial over what he alleges were illegal practices to obtain information against him.The case is set to hit the UK’s High Court in January 2024.The Sun is part of NewsCorp, which is the parent company of The New York Post.According to the Associated Press, the judge said that the Invictus Games founder was aware of the phone hacking issue earlier and should have brought it up sooner to the court.News Group Newspapers asserted that the suit should be canceled because the allegations had been made after the six-year window for bringing them was over.“There is no evidence currently before me that the Duke knew before the (deadline to file a suit) that NGN had done anything other than hack his mobile phone (at the News of the World),” Fancourt said.

BBC News journalist Yalda Hakim is quitting less than four months after being promoted to a sought-after £230,000 ($300,000) chief presenter role on the UK broadcaster’s rolling news channel.

UK State Pensions for people living overseas in retirement only increase in-line with the annual uprating - the Triple Lock guarantee - where there is a legal requirement to do so. An example of this is where there is a reciprocal agreement between the UK and the country of residence.

Ozzy Osbourne has shared a health update after cancelling his headlining slot at the Power Trip festival later this year.The “Prince Of Darkness” was set to perform in Indio, California this October alongside headliners Metallica, AC/DC and Guns N’ Roses. But a statement shared by the metal legend explained that he was not ready to perform due to his health issues.“Unfortunately, my body is telling me that I’m just not ready yet and I am much too proud to have the first show that I do in nearly five years be half-assed,” Osbourne wrote in the statement.Speaking to his co-host, Billy Morrison, on SiriusXM’s Ozzy Speaks, Osbourne shared that he had recently had a blood clot filter removed from one of his arteries.“When I had the blood clots in my legs, they put a filter in your artery to stop the blood clots going to your heart and your brain,” Osbourne shared.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has introduced a new rule change this week that will see parents of children aged one and two on Universal Credit attend more face-to-face meetings with work coaches to help them prepare for employment. The appointments will include exploring steps to improve their skills, identifying support needs, learning about childcare provision, and boosting their confidence.

The secretary of State for Work and Pensions has explained how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will help speed up processing times for benefit claims, allowing more time for “in-depth conversions” with customers. In a new video posted on social media, Mel Stride MP said that he wants the UK welfare system to “be the best in the world”.