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• The i Paper2026-10-15✓ Read

  Celebrity Traitors’ Sebastian Croft: ‘It was scary – the first time I’m being me’

  As he releases his first EP as a singer-songwriter, the actor talks about the thrill of being in the castle, his ambitions for his career in music - and getting his heart broken

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  Car wash bans and low water pressure could hit millions as severe drought declared

  Ministers have held a Cobra meeting to prepare emergency measures for millions of people as parts of England were placed into severe drought for the first time

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  Energy bills set to rise again as Healey won’t commit to keeping VAT cut

  The Chancellor is still expected to target help at poorer households in a 'see you next year' Budget

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  The pictures of Harry and Meghan that show what the Royal Family is missing

  The pair's first official engagement since living back in the UK has shown their popularity appears to remain, which may make them the envy of the royal who snubbed their return

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  The four ways state pensioners could be exempted from tax

  No 10 has committed to exempting those whose only income is the state pension from paying any income tax, but is yet to say how

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  Pension contributions won’t increase from 8% minimum

  Torsten Bell says pension contributions will not rise during this Parliament despite commissioners calling for an increase earlier this week

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  Trump’s league of disposable Maga women moulded to defend his worst actions

  Donald Trump has long made his views on women clear to the American people. Those closest to him are no exception.

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  Trump’s drone slowdown could change the course of Putin’s war

  'Russia will try to exploit every gap,' one Ukrainian MP tells The i Paper

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  The numbers that show why new small boats plan won’t work

  The Home Secretary has threatened a visa ban on Eritreans if the east African country does not take back illegal migrants and criminals

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  The eccentric ex-Marine leading English rugby league’s Mission Impossible

  Super League’s most successful coach Brian McDermott is a former soldier and professional boxer charged with breaking England’s World Cup drought Down Under

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  Farage’s biggest weakness will be exposed by an early election

  Michael Crick: The Reform UK leader should be careful what he wishes for. As ITV's expose shows, his candidates could be his undoing

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• The i Paper2026-10-15✓ Read

  The best books out in paperback in October 2026

  Our pick of 14 great reads, now out in their cheaper, lighter formats

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  The futuristic desert tourist fantasy that’s going up in smoke

  How the Saudi Crown Prince's ambitious dream for his kingdom collided with reality

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  I was at Russell Brand’s rape trial – he sat feet away, turning his prayer beads

  The comedian was 'ruthless', 'calculated' and a 'sexual predator', the jury at Southwark Crown Court was told

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• The i Paper2026-10-15✓ Read

  JD Vance’s anti-gay slur reveals which Democrat he most fears

  James Ball: The Vice President is panicking that the Republicans will lose Texas

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  Harry and Meghan are back – and want the Royal Family to see their star power

  Jennie Bond: It's beginning to look like a rival court

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  Amanda Redman: I love being a grandma – I never thought I would

  The veteran British actress on misbehaving with Ray Winstone, the accident that changed her life, and the invaluable advice Sir Anthony Hopkins gave her

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  Disabled young people are being locked out of a social life – it makes me furious

  Julie Burchill: At 67 I've had my fun, but these young people can't

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  Aston Villa showed why Mason Greenwood should never play for England again

  Greenwood returned to English football for the first time with Fenerbahce

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  Russians tell me they’ve had enough of Putin. The caviar parties are over

  Alexandra Prokopenko fled Russia in 2022. She has spent the years since collecting accounts of what life under Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship is really like

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  Dominic Cummings thinks civil servants are more dangerous than Putin. He’s deluded

  His appearance at a House of Lords committee was typical: offensive nonsense dressed up as profundity

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  Bank of Dave: Four ways the Budget could help you from tax cuts to fuel prices

  The Chancellor could make a series of changes that would financially help people immediately

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  Kevin McCloud: Why I’ll never buy another electric car

  The Grand Designs broadcaster on his love of old cars, and why he is sceptical about the future of EVs

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  State pension scheme scrapped in 2002 still costing taxpayers billions

  DWP figures reveal that pension promises can survive for decades after the policy that created them has ended

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  Trump put a speed limit on Ukraine’s military and Putin has taken notice

  Zelensky says the Pentagon's restriction on SpaceX's 'Starshield' network has crippled missile interceptor drones

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• The i Paper2026-10-14✓ Read

  Labour has failed to start work on a single new town. There are fears it never will

  Andy Burnham's party risks failing young people over delayed plans to build seven new towns across the UK, damning report says

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• The i Paper2026-10-14✓ Read

  Capital gains tax rise ‘ruled out’ – making these hikes more likely

  Chancellor's options for raising money are narrowing

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  Russell Brand was ‘ruthless sexual predator’ – five key takeaways from trial so far

  The actor forced women into sexual acts in an 'obsessive' campaign to sleep with 5,000 women, court hears

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  Millwall’s pathetic reaction to racist fans totally misses the point

  The game was stopped after Swansea reported a racist slur towards Eom Ji-sung

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  ‘Waitrose Woman’ is Badenoch’s new Tory target as she ditches Red Wall

  The Conservative leader's strategy of slow but solid recovery is starting to bear fruit

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• The i Paper2026-10-14✓ Read

  My identity was stolen by an AI scammer. It could happen to anyone

  A British journalist discovered her byline on an article in a prestigious journal – but she hadn't written it. We found out who did... here's the full, bizarre story

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• The i Paper2026-10-14✓ Read

  I’m an economist – this is what capital gains tax increase will mean for your money

  Hamish McRae: Governments need revenue, but they also need to create incentives

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  The sea that’s becoming crucial to Putin’s hybrid war

  Bulgaria has summoned the Russian ambassador after drones hit ships in the Black Sea

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  Katie Zacharia is the new face of America’s intellectual collapse

  Ian Dunt: Welcome to New America. It is no longer a place where a free press is encouraged, or where governments subject themselves to scrutiny

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  Trump’s sadistic tiger videos are a hideous window into his mind

  The US President shared footage of a British man being mauled to death – followed by AI slop in which he wrestles a tiger

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• The i Paper2026-10-14✓ Read

  Sunderland have a plan to fix their second-season syndrome

  'No panic' is the message from the boardroom - and there are several reasons for that

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  Minute by minute, how the Navy’s ships and gunners would respond to a drone attack

  The i Paper went on board a warship to see how the Navy is preparing to deal with a growing threat

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  Seven easy ways to sleep better in your 40s, according to experts

  Mental load, stressful career and hormonal changes often mean you don't sleep as well as you used to. Here's what you can do

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• The i Paper2026-10-14✓ Read

  10 ways a Brexit U-turn could impact your money

  Andy Burnham has floated the idea that Britain could rejoin the EU. Here's what it could mean for the UK economy

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  The 14 spectacular film flops that are actually worth watching

  Digger has proved a catastrophic disaster at the box office – but Tom Cruise can take comfort from these unappreciated gems

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  The dad bod is back – and so is a sly double standard

  If only we could extend our fondness for 'dad bods' to 'mum bods'

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  Motability cars given to drivers with food allergies and tennis elbow

  Critics want government to review the welfare scheme's eligibility, but disability campaigners say public transport is 'inadequate and inaccessible'

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  I’m a food editor – five easy pasta dishes I cook every week in autumn

  The drizzly autumn months are here, and with it comes the perfect cosy dinner

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  High maintenance men are everywhere – are you one?

  Kate Lister: Unlike women, men don’t seem to have any problems expressing their needs

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  Man Utd’s managerial merry-go-round will never fix what is broken

  Lisandro Martinez has exposed the Red Devils' fatal flaw - and Michael Carrick is not it

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  The rise and fall of Trump’s ‘lady in red’ who was never out of the headlines

  The US President fired his ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, saying 'I didn't like what I read'

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  The big Farage-Trump-Putin lie is falling apart in front of us

  James O'Brien: Connect the dots and a sinister picture begins to emerge

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  The £3m payment from Man City owners now being probed by local council

  Manchester City Council has received £3m from a property deal struck with Abu Dhabi United Group

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  Three experts on the tax cuts they want to see in the Budget

  From changes to inheritance tax to the abolition of stamp duty, what are these professionals looking for on 28 October?

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• The i Paper2026-10-13✓ Read

  Revealed: The human cost of UK’s killer kitchens – with 166 firms breaking law

  HSE inspectors found breaches of health and safety law at more than half of 430 quartz fabricators, with workers exposed to 'billowing' silica dust

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• The i Paper2026-10-13✓ Read

  Pope Leo diagnosed with cancer after having surgery to remove part of his lung

  The announcement was made after the pontiff, 71, underwent a 90 minute surgery at Rome's Gemelli Hospital

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  The ‘decimated’ Red Wall town split by Burnham’s Brexit ‘reversal’

  More than 68 per cent of voters in this South Yorkshire town backed Brexit in 2016 - but the jury is still out on whether residents think they made the right decision

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• The i Paper2026-10-13✓ Read

  Gary Neville’s new podcast is a charisma-free zone

  The football content bubble will burst if he is not careful

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  Trump’s sycophantic new Maga star’s disturbing embrace of dark-web conspiracies

  Katie Zacharia, White House Press Secretary, was on a PR blitz during her first briefing

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• The i Paper2026-10-13✓ Read

  Robert Jenrick has confused cruelty with courage

  Jonn Elledge: The Reform politician thinks he's brave to say what he does – he's actually just got no humanity

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  The one simple Budget change that would lead to thousands of new homes and towns

  Behind the scenes, there has been a fair amount of wrangling over the funding of Labour's new towns, set to provide a minimum of 10,000 homes each across England

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• The i Paper2026-10-13✓ Read

  Trump is showing signs of despair. I’ve personally seen what comes next

  Miles Taylor: Billionaires and smear merchants are pitching in to help Trump salvage this election

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  The rising threat to the UK from Iran’s shadowy IRGC

  The UK has accused Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of being behind the recent security incident at RAF Fairford

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  Trump has shamed Europe over Putin – awkwardly, he’s got a point

  James Ball: The US President is for once right to call out Europe for buying Russian gas

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  Flights suspended at Nuremberg Airport after plane raised hijack alarm

  Flights at Germany’s Nuremberg Airport have been suspended after a plane sent out an emergency code signalling it was being hijacked.

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  UK at growing risk of terror attack with deadly manmade viruses, warns MI5 boss

  Sir Ken McCallum said AI is 'supercharging' security threats in the UK and meant terrorists could gain the ability to create bioweapons

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  My first London home made me £850,000 – I sold my second at a loss

  Housing in the capital used to be an investors' dream. But as properties sit empty and sell at a loss, has the bubble finally burst?

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• The i Paper2026-10-13✓ Read

  Crystal Palace have left me with a nagging worry

  I'm sure the football is tremendous fun for neutrals - but it leaves me feeling uneasy

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  My adult children no longer speak – it breaks my heart

  Many parents blame themselves when their children fall out. Here, experts offer advice on how to manage (and mistakes to avoid) when that sibling bond begins to break

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  Three changes Newcastle must make after £115m trio struggle

  The chastening defeat at Coventry exposed problems Matthias Jaissle can no longer ignore

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  Harry is no longer untouchable – but he can say what no other royal can

  Richard Palmer: The Duke of Sussex can use the platform his birthright gave him to help hold Britain to account

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  The immigration case that shows what happens to Trump’s political enemies

  US agents raided the home of Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who accused the President of a 'campaign of intimidation', saying 'I will not be silenced'

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  I earn £100,000 – how much should I put into my pension to cut my tax bill?

  A young reader wants to reduce the tax they pay by boosting their retirement savings

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  Inside Trump’s destructive feud with Zelensky

  The eruption of mutual dislike between the two is of the worst order seen since their infamous dust-up in February 2025

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  I felt unsafe in a shared flat. My older male flatmate tidied my knicker drawer

  Realising renting was unaffordable in London on her own, Francesca Baker-Brooker moved into a house-share – but found it an unsettling and uncomfortable experience

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