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Households face heightened winter pressure from energy bills after regulator Ofgem revealed today that its price cap will increase by 4 per cent to a three-year high.Ofgem said the cap will rise by £60 per year – or £5 per month – to £1,723 for the average household using both electricity and gas if this level was sustained for a year.This increase reflected higher wholesale gas prices as a result of war in the Middle East, with volatile global markets remaining the dominant driver of price changes.The ongoing heatwaves across Europe have added further pressure by increasing gas demand for…

Darline Graham pulled off a victory in the South Carolina Republican Senate runoff — powered by the unwavering backing of President Donald Trump after home-state Republicans raised serious doubts about her campaign.On Tuesday, the adopted sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham defeated Congressman Ralph Norman, who positioned himself as the authentic and experienced conservative in the race. NBC News called the race just before 9 pm Eastern. Norman conceded defeat to Graham, while making clear he is far from pleased with President Trump’s involvement in the race.’His policies are good. I never understood why he got in this race,’ Norman said of Trump’s…

ITV News presenter Mary Nightingale appeared to have been hit hard by Dolly Parton’s death as she announced the sad news on Tuesday evening.The newsreader, 63, shared the breaking story during the 6.30pm programme and viewers at home noticed Mary ‘welling up’ as she read the report.Mary looked noticeably shaken by the news and her voice broke as she delivered the update to viewers at home, at one point saying she needed to ‘take a deep breath’.The breaking news was announced just before an advert and Mary said: ‘Just before we go to the break tonight, some very sad news…

Britain’s Waspi chairman Angela Madden is quietly confident that Prime Minister Andy Burnham will honour a longstanding pledge to pay compensation to 3.5million women born in the 1950s who were given inadequate notice of increases to their state pension age.Many were hit hard in the pocket as a result – and left with little time to plug the hole in their finances.Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail, 72-year-old Madden believes Burnham is in ‘listening mode’ and that ‘if he can do something, he will’. She is adamant this is the case despite the PM seemingly rowing back on his support…

The family of the mother and young child allegedly attacked by a random stranger in broad daylight outside Melbourne’s police headquarters have thanked the Good Samaritans who came to their rescue, as anger erupted online over the incident.Jerry Sowood, 27, of Sunshine West in Melbourne’s western suburbs, appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday charged with affray, intentionally causing injury, two counts of unlawful assault, conduct endangering life, and conduct endangering serious injury. The Liberian-born budding rap star made no application for bail and was remanded in custody until his next court appearance in September. A woman claiming to be the mother…

BDO Australia’s internal probe is ongoing Do you know more? Email kylie.stevens@dailymail.com.au See more Daily Mail on Google – save us as a Preferred Source One of Australia’s biggest accounting and audit firms has launched an internal investigation after a senior partner made derogatory comments about the Acknowledgement of Country at a national staff meeting.BDO Australia has condemned undisclosed comments made by a senior partner during his welcome address at the July town hall meeting for the firm’s projects and infrastructure advisory group.The unnamed executive chose not to give an Acknowledgement of Country, despite it appearing on every page of the firm’s…

Filmmaker Griff Furst, who worked with Hayden Panettiere on the motion picture A Breed Apart, said that Brian Hickerson boasted to him he could get the late actress ‘to do anything’ while making the movie.Furst, 44, took to Instagram on Monday and shared a story about a troubling interaction he claimed he had with Hickerson during the moviemaking process.’The first scene that I’m directing Hayden in, we are in the middle of a camera rehearsal, and I’m at the monitor, and he’s about 15 feet away on the set,’ Furst said. ‘And I feel Brian hovering in on my shoulder,…

Dolly Parton’s private cancer battle has been revealed following the heartbreaking news of her death at the age of 80 on Tuesday.The legendary country singer’s death sent shockwaves through the music world and came after months of health woes that saw her pull out of a string of public appearances, fueling fan fears for her wellbeing. Those close to the singer said she had both became increasingly reclusive and secretive about her own ill health in recent months. And now, Parton’s representatives revealed that the Jolene singer died following a ‘brief battle with cancer’ in a statement to People, though they did not disclose what type…

Australian singer Tina Arena has launched a scathing attack on Hayden Panettiere’s mother, blaming her parenting for the death of the 36-year-old actress..uring a radio interview with Jonesy & Amanda on Gold FM, saying she was “so disturbed” after briefly seeing Lesley Vogel speak about her daughter’s death on television she had to turn it off.“When I look at the parents today, not all of them, but particularly, let’s take the example of that beautiful young woman, Hayden Panettiere,” Arena said.Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Arrow“I very briefly saw her mother being interviewed on television this…

Usha Vance offered a heartfelt response after Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed ripped JD Vance and suggested the VP’s family would not have been accepting of the Second Lady. El-Sayed was initially responding to Vance invoking his late maternal grandfather, James ‘Papaw’ Vance, to criticize the leftist candidate, with El-Sayed saying: ‘So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no…’Second Lady Usha took a classy route in response when asked about El-Sayed’s comments on Fox News.’I have to admit, I kind of laughed. Because yes, I never met JD’s Mamaw and Papaw. But I…