People urged to check future State Pension online to ensure full monthly payments in retirement

Hackread (via Billboard), the compromise in data was carried out by a well known hacker group called ShinyHunters, who claim that they have stolen 1.3 terabytes of data from Ticketmaster.Details obtained from the 560million customers include full names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, ticket sales and event details, order information, and partial payment card data. They are threatening to sell the data for $500,000 (£393,800).Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, has yet to acknowledge whether the reported data breach has in fact taken place.

A concerning new study has revealed the presence of microplastics in human testicles, raising serious concerns about male fertility.

Sabrina Carpenter’s smash hit ‘Espresso’ has completed an entire month at the top of the UK Singles Chart.On Friday (May 24), the song was announced as the Number One for a fourth consecutive week, holding off the challenge of Billie Eilish, whose track ‘LUNCH’ could only claim the Number Two spot.‘Espresso’s four-week supremacy matches Beyoncé’s ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ earlier this year, although Noah Kahan’s ‘Stick Season’ managed a total of seven weeks at the top in January and February.The song arrived last month, and came as the follow-up to Carpenter’s hit 2022 album ‘Emails I Can’t Send’ and recent singles ‘Nonsense’ and ‘Feather’.The singer also dropped a Christmas EP last year and hit the road with Taylor Swift, joining the pop icon as the support act for her recent run of ‘Eras’ tour dates across the US and Asia.Carpenter recently opened up about her mindset when she was writing the song. “There was something really exciting about the fact that there was so much personality throughout the entire song, because those are the ones that are really, really fun to sing live with a crowd,” she explained.“Those are the ones that people, I think when they don’t know my music or who I am or anything, they can just tune in to a single song and kind of leave with a better idea of my sense of humour.”She went on to say that the song was an attempt to capture a moment of self-confidence.

A much-loved Glasgow University professor has passed away, leaving colleagues heartbroken.

Campaigners are urging households to reclaim credit they have built up on their energy account from their provider in order to ‘reset’ direct debit payments that remain high as prices drop. The ‘Warm This Winter’ campaign, while stressing that customers should not cancel their direct debits as this could lead to higher unit costs being imposed on households, said early summer was the ideal time to reset energy payments for the year ahead.

Work and Pensions Secretary of State, Mel Stride MP, will face questions from the Work and Pensions Committee this week in an accountability session examining the work of his Department as well as recent UK Government announcements and policy developments. The meeting with the cross-party group of MPs will take place on Wednesday, May 22 at 9.25am.

The SNP is "too full of young people who have just come through the political ranks", Nicola Sturgeon has said.

Ed Meza @edmezavar Writer, director and actress Toni Kalem (“The Sopranos“) is adapting Lore Segal’s internationally acclaimed 1964 semi-autobiographical novel “Other People’s Houses,” about a Jewish child refugee who finds asylum in Britain via the Kindertransport rescue effort. The story follows a 10-year-old Jewish girl from Vienna who is sent to England as part of the 1938 children’s transport that followed Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria. She spends the next several years living in wildly disparate households, from wealthy families to modest working-class folks, an experience that presents her with stark impressions of England’s class system.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recently published a new update on progress of the State Pension Underpayments Legal Entitlements and Administrative Practice (LEAP) exercise. The latest figures show that 97,016 people over State Pension age - mostly women - have received back payments averaging £2,192, £5,713 and £12,486, depending on their pension category.

Sir Stephen Timms, chairman of the Work and Pensions Committee, has written to Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride, following an oral evidence session last week with the Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) Campaign and the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) on the findings in its final report into changes made to the State Pension age for millions of women born in the 1950s.

Scotland's "most dangerous" areas have been named in new research investigating crime rates across the country.

The next bank holiday takes place on May 27 which means some people will receive their scheduled State Pension or benefit payment early. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has already published updated payment date details for Tax Credits and Child Benefit, while the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Social Security Scotland are expected to announce similar changes soon.

Fox has announced that six male celebrities will be stripping on TV in an effort to raise money for charity!

Health experts have revealed five red flag signs of skin cancer that you should be watching out for when checking your body.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recently confirmed that millions of people claiming Universal Credit will see the annual uprating reflected in their monthly payments from Tuesday, May 14. However, some will have to wait nearly an extra month to receive the higher amount in their bank account.

Blake Shelton is being honored!

Emily Longeretta The cast of “One Tree Hill” will reunite for an upcoming charity basketball game to benefit the V Foundation for cancer research. Fans can watch the game via a live stream on “House of Highlights,” a leading TNT sports brand. On May 18, Friends With Benefit Charity Events will reunite the cast “One Tree Hill” basketball team for a game at Laney High School in Wilmington, North Carolina — the gym the Tree Hill Ravens played at in the show and the court where Michael Jordan played high school basketball.

Health experts have said lung cancer can be stopped at its earliest stage if you spot something in a simple 'finger test'.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has told MPs that he “understands the strong feelings” across Parliament over the lack of response to the recently published Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s (PHSO) final report into the impact of changes to the State Pension age for women born in the 1950s. During Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, he acknowledged the “desire for urgency in addressing them” but added that an update “will be given to the House once those findings have been fully considered”.

As rock legend Ozzy Osbourne has turned to stem cell therapy, some experts caution that it’s not for everyone. At the start of his latest episode of "Ozzy Speaks" on SiriusXM with Billy Morrison, Osbourne revealed that he recently returned from a follow-up appointment "after having some stem cells put in me." The rocker also had a previous treatment approximately three months ago, as he stated in the episode. "The thing is, you have it, and you go, ‘I don't feel that great,’ but I don't know what it would be like if I didn't have it," Osbourne said.