Woman named as 13-year-old bailed in murder probe 23. November 2025 (17:12) Sarah Forrester, 55, died following an incident at a house in Baydon Close, Moredon, Swindon, on Friday evening.(London News)
Minister indicates sympathy for artists in debate over AI and copyright 23. November 2025 (17:00) People rightly want to get get paid for their work, says Liz Kendall, in apparent change of tack to predecessor The technology secretary, Liz Kendall, has indicated she is sympathetic to artists’ demands not to have their copyrighted works scraped by AI companies without payment and said she wanted to “reset” the debate.In remarks that suggest a change in approach from her predecessor, Peter Kyle, who had hoped to require artists to actively opt out of having their work ingested by generative AI systems, she said “people rightly want to get paid for the work that they do” and “we have to find a way that both sectors can grow and thrive in future”. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
‘I used to call him on Father’s Day’: Oakland shattered by football coach’s killing 23. November 2025 (17:00) In a city where football is more than a sport, the gun death of John Beam has provoked an outpouring of emotionFootball in Oakland, California, is more than a sport. It’s a community. In many schools, coaches are like parental figures who get young people through vulnerable times, into universities and sometimes even drafted to the National Football League.So when gun violence came for longtime Oakland football coach John Beam, whose mentorship had changed the lives of generations of students, the devastation reverberated around the city. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Unions urge Rachel Reeves to deliver ‘living standards budget’ 23. November 2025 (16:45) TUC calls on chancellor to focus on child poverty and upping minimum wageUnions have urged the chancellor to keep focused on raising living standards, targeting child poverty and upping the national minimum wage, in the face of renewed calls from business to change course on employment rights.The TUC said that Rachel Reeves must deliver “a living standards budget” on Wednesday to ease the pressure on working households whose incomes have remained stagnant in more than a decade. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Trump says Ukraine has ‘zero gratitude’ for peace plan amid international talks 23. November 2025 (16:18) US president appears to roll back from demand Zelenskyy sign by Thursday amid claims Russia authored the textDonald Trump on Sunday claimed Ukraine had shown no gratitude for US efforts to end the war, as American, Ukrainian and international negotiators met in Switzerland to discuss the “peace plan” that would involve significant concessions to Moscow from Kyiv.Poland’s president, Donald Tusk, asked where Trump’s “peace plan” came from, after an apparent admission by the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, that the text was originally drafted by Moscow. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
