Tuesday October 21 2025
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Prince Andrew has not paid rent on Royal Lodge for two decades

Prince has paid only ‘peppercorn’ rent on the grace-and-favour mansion on Windsor Estate since 2003 after £8.5 million upfront costs

Royal family

Prince Andrew looking concerned at the damaged Tadcaster Bridge after flooding.
Could Andrew be stripped of his prince title as well?

There is cross-party support for an act of parliament to formally remove the disgraced royal’s titles, but the government does not want to get involved


Met to stop investigating non-crime hate after dropping Linehan case

Force says officers will ‘focus on matters that meet the threshold for criminal investigations’



Virginia Roberts Giuffre as a teenager standing in the ocean.
‘I was Epstein’s perfect victim’: the life of Virginia Giuffre in her own words

Finished shortly before her death, Virginia Giuffre’s memoir Nobody’s Girl traces her abuse by Epstein and Maxwell, and alleged encounters with Prince Andrew



Grand gallery inside the Louvre Museum.
How the Louvre heist unfolded

Rachel Reeves speaking to staff at the opening of Google's new data centre.
Rachel Reeves to cut £6bn of red tape in hope of balancing budget
Patient playing a clarinet during brain surgery.
Woman plays clarinet during surgery for Parkinson’s
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A young man in a green Waitrose apron smiles while stocking shelves with toiletries.

Grand gallery inside the Louvre Museum.
How the Louvre heist unfolded





A young man in a green Waitrose apron smiles while stocking shelves with toiletries.
Waitrose axed autistic volunteer after family asked for him to be paid


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People running and walking away from an explosion with debris covering the ground.
Officials blocked Martin McGuinness questioning over IRA Poppy Day bomb

McGuinness was a person of interest in a 2011 review of the Enniskillen bombing during the Troubles, the Poppy Day Bomb podcast reveals


Fiona Goddard, a survivor, attending a press conference about grooming gangs.



Sheila Irvine wearing an electronic eye implant and viewing a computer screen displaying large text.





10-year-old WFM Bodhana Sivanandan (left) playing against GM Mariya Muzychuk (right) at the European Chess Club Cup in Rhodes.

Bodhana Sivanandan’s win over former world champion Mariya Muzychuk puts her within reach of becoming the youngest grandmaster



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Editor's Picks



Grayson Perry posing in a colorful patterned dress and platform heels, holding a teddy bear.
Grayson Perry: Are You Good? — an art outsider turns grumpy old man

This genial stage show touches on pet peeves from Lycra guys to victimhood, and rounds off with a tricky quiz (this critic’s score: nul points)


A woman with red lipstick bites into a chocolate bar.
The good chocolate guide: how healthy is your favourite?


David Beckham holding a bunch of carrots in a greenhouse.
I tried David Beckham’s Good Life. It didn’t go well

Collage of a smiling woman in a pink shirt and Prince Andrew in ceremonial attire.
Diary of Prince Andrew. A flunky arrives: ‘The King requires you to stay in…’


Portrait of choreographer Akram Khan with a wooden chair resting on his left shoulder.
Akram Khan: Why I made a ballet for Saudi Arabia
Theatre & Dance
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Collage of a man hiking in a forest and a black-and-white photo of a woman raising her hand in a courtroom with two men.
An 800-mile walk to Auschwitz at 70? Unwise, but I had hidden stories to tell




Collage of Finnish President Alexander Stubb and soldiers in a tank in a snowy forest.

Alexander Stubb has built a strong relationship with President Trump, whom he claims is 100 per cent committed to Nato



We need less build, build, build: more think, think, think

Time and again government fails to grasp that growth is driven by ideas and innovation not just spades in the ground



Illustration of a man and woman in front of an Amazon building. The man in a red robe holds a severed cable, while the woman wields large wire cutters, asking "Where else do people buy books?!"

Cartoon by Morten Morland



Headshot of Melanie Phillips.
We can’t let this bigotry become the norm






Headshot of Melanie Phillips.
We can’t let this bigotry become the norm




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The illuminated Apple logo on the glass entrance of the renovated Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, with skyscrapers reflected in the glass.
Apple shares close at record after strong sales of iPhone 17


Offices of the 79th Group, with a sign displaying the company's logo and name.
Suspected Ponzi scheme ran for eight months despite FCA ‘concerns’

a man wearing glasses and a suit stands in front of a white background
Alistair OsborneSpooky season for retailer’s investors



B&M finance chief steps down after accounting error




Rishi Bhuchar brings banker’s mindset to commercial property


Empty stadium seats are visible during a football match between West Ham United and Brentford.

West Ham 0 Brentford 2: Abject hosts lose fifth successive home game for first time since 1931 as Nuno admits: ‘We have a problem’

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Virginia Giuffre holding up a photo of herself as a teenager.

Nobody’s Girl, the posthumous memoir by Prince Andrew’s accuser, is a dark, painful excursion into the most unimaginable regions of human suffering


Author Andrew Michael Hurley sitting on a stone wall outdoors.
Welcome to Happylands — Andrew Michael Hurley’s spookiest novel yet



New houses on a British housing estate.
Scrapping the Lifetime Isa ‘would cost taxpayers £3bn’


I want to lend a friend £25k, but First Direct won’t let me


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