Donald Trump has said oil prices will drop once the conflict in Iran ends, after costs eclipsed $100 per barrel for the first time in more than three and a half years. The US President said “short term” spikes were a “very small price to pay” for safety and peace, adding “only fools would think differently”. Separately, Iran’s ⁠Assembly of Experts has ⁠named ​Mojtaba ⁠Khamenei ⁠to ​replace ⁠his ‌father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ‌as ‌the ⁠country’s new supreme leader, state media reported ‌o...

The cost of doing laundry at a university is so expensive that students are choosing between eating or washing their clothes, a union has claimed.University of York Students' Union (York SU) said washing and drying clothes in university-owned accommodation costs £5.10 per load.Sam Dickinson, wellbeing officer at the union, said this was £2.10 more expensive per wash than the fees at nearby York St John University and added: "Everyone deserves to have clean clothes and high laundry prices are a b...

A third of delivery drivers arrested in a national Home Office sting were operating in south London, new figures show. The Home Office said 171 delivery riders were arrested over seven days in November for illegal working as part of Operation Equalise, an operation to crack down on delivery riders working illegally in the gig economy. In new data shared with The i Paper, it can be revealed that 56 of those arrested were drivers in south London.South London had the highest number of illegal...

Police have arrested two men in connection with a mobile phone hidden in the House of Commons that was reportedly planted there to play sex noises during prime minister’s questions.The phone was found near the frontbench during a routine sweep of the chamber. It is believed to have been intended to interrupt the keynote weekly showdown between Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch in September.The police believe the phone was deliberately placed to cause disruption. A Metropolitan police spokesperson s...

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