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By HUGO DUNCAN Updated: 04:29 EST, 3 January 2025 Labour’s ‘bombshell’ plan to levy inheritance tax on retirement pots will hit Middle England and leave millions in poverty, according to a former pensions minister.Ros Altmann argues the Chancellor’s raid on prudent savers is ‘horribly reminiscent’ of the ‘fatal blow’Gordon Brown inflicted when he removed dividend tax credits from UK pension funds in 1997.Writing in the Mail, she warns Rachel Reeves that the new death duty is ‘more like confiscation than taxation’ and could ‘destroy’ the pensions system.And the boss of City wealth manager Quilter has warned that the move risks…
Jennifer Lopez posed for another knockout pinup shoot that she posted to Instagram on Thursday.The diva from the Bronx made the most of her shapely figure in a black string bikini with gold accents that put her abs on display.And because the Unstoppable actress was in Aspen, Colorado, she added fur boots and a cowboy hat in black for a country cool vibe.The looker was also heavily made up and accented her look with gold bling here and there.The single siren seemed to be showing estranged husband Ben Affleck what he was missing five months after she filed for divorce…
Meteorologists are tracking a winter storm that will hit a 1,500-mile-long swath of the US this week, and a map of its impact has everyone making the same joke.The AccuWeather forecast map shows the pink, phallic-shaped storm blowing across states from Kansas to Virginia. ‘Looks like a large portion of the country is really getting the shaft,’ one X user wrote.’If that’s the size when it’s cold I’d hate to see what warm weather brings,’ jested another.Some likened the map to a female sex toy, calling it ‘the great blizzildo of 2025.’Meteorologists are predicting major snowfall from a large part of…
By XANTHA LEATHAM DEPUTY SCIENCE EDITOR Published: 19:00 EST, 2 January 2025 | Updated: 19:54 EST, 2 January 2025 The number of obese patients receiving hospital treatment has quadrupled in a decade, new figures show.Official data reveals almost 1.9 million obese people had hospital treatment in 2023-24, up from 442,083 a decade ago.This includes 14,010 children and teenagers under the age of 18 – nearly a threefold increase from 4,655 in 2013-14.The figures, from NHS England, cover all patients with a diagnosis of obesity, meaning their excess weight was deemed to have fuelled their health issue.And they include 11,221 cases…
When the Duchess of Sussex announced her Netflix cooking show, she promised viewers an intimate ‘at home with Meghan’ experience.But MailOnline can reveal she has chosen to film ‘With Love, Meghan’ in a kitchen that isn’t her own – despite living nearby in her own Montecito mansion.The 43-year-old duchess set up shop at a sprawling estate just two miles from the £11million home she shares with Prince Harry and their children, Archie and Lilibet. The property where her Netflix show was filmed, an idyllic $5million estate nestled within a gated community, boasts eight acres of avocado trees and lemon groves, owned by…
Sweden has recorded its lowest number of asylum applications since 1997 following a huge crackdown as the immigration minister blames migrants’ failure to integrate.For decades, Sweden was hailed as a beacon of compassion, offering an unparalleled welcome to refugees with Europe’s most generous support schemes.The Nordic state went further than just opening its borders, but celebrated cultural diversity by funding migrants’ efforts to maintain their native languages and traditions.But in the past decade, deadly violence linked to feuds between criminal gangs has escalated against the backdrop of the high levels of migration into the country. During the 2015 migration crisis, Sweden…
By LEOCCIANO CALLAO Published: 11:29 EST, 2 January 2025 | Updated: 12:17 EST, 2 January 2025 Detroit Pistons star Jaden Ivey will likely sit out the remainder of the NBA season after sustaining a broken fibula on his left leg, per ESPN.During Wednesday’s game between the Pistons and the Orlando Magic, Ivey was stretchered out of the court after a brutal collision with Cole Anthony in the fourth quarter.After the ball was cleared on a failed rebound attempt from both teams, Ivey and Anthony dove in to recover the loose rock. As they both went in face first, Ivey was…
The gold price racked up a stunning 26.6 per cent gain in 2024, beating even US stocks – and is now up nearly 800 per cent since the new millennium.The S&P 500 rose 23 per cent last year, while the FTSE 100 lagged well behind with a return of nearly 6 per cent.Gold hit an all-time record at $2,790 an ounce on Halloween, 31 October, and was trading at $2,642 at the time of writing.Financial experts say a stock sell-off, inflation or geopolitical shocks could trigger another move higher for gold in 2025.However, the price gain achieved in 2024 surpassed…
Justin Baldoni ‘absolutely’ plans to sue Blake Lively back amid their spiraling legal battle, his attorney announced this Thursday.She first sued on December 20, accusing Baldoni of sexually harassing her and fostering a toxic work environment on the set of their film It Ends With Us, in which he both directed her and acted with her. He has staunchly denied the allegations.In the first complaint, she also claimed Baldoni worked to tarnish her reputation with a team including his publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis PR Melissa Nathan, who previously worked with Johnny Depp. Abel has denied waging a ‘smear campaign.’Lively, 37, then launched more formal…
Scientists investigating the Yellowstone supervolcano have discovered movement deep in the crater, sparking fears the sleeping giant could erupt.The volcano, located under Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, is capable of producing a devastating magnitude 8 eruption.And because it has not exploded in about 640,000 years, some experts and locals believe the volcano is overdue. Researchers analyzing the supervolcano’s crater, or caldera, found magma inside is moving northeast and shifting the concentration of volcanic activity along with it.That means if the volcano were to erupt, it would happen in this area compared to previous warnings in the western region.The Yellowstone Caldera is the 1,350-square-mile…