Becky Gittins calls for cosmetic firms to list ingredients in English, saying current labelling is ‘absolutely bonkers’

Cosmetic companies need to stop forcing people with food allergies to learn Latin to safeguard their health and display warnings written in plain English, according to an MP with a history of severe allergic reactions who is demanding a step change in how sufferers are treated.

Becky Gittins, the new Labour MP for Clwyd East, said that she and other food allergy sufferers currently had to learn Latin names for some crucial ingredients in face creams, lip balms and lotions to ensure they did not come into contact with a substance that could make them seriously ill.

As Howard University celebrates 100 years of alumni coming home to honor their beloved alma mater and each other, Kamala Harris, a Howard alum, is possibly on the verge of becoming the first Black woman president. The historically Black university’s homecoming marks a century of Black achievement, a familiar celebration for some of the most influential people in the nation. Below are decades of photographs that illustrate the prideful and jubilant atmosphere of homecoming through the years.

The actor, 78, talks about the thrill of performing, becoming a mother, and why hers is the luckiest generation of women

Panto was my chance to perform somewhere other than on the sideboard as a child. I’d be on the edge of my seat when they said, “Are there any little children in the audience?”

I still have a school exercise book where I wrote what I wanted to be when I grew up. It went: a) air hostess b) dress designer and c) actress. But as soon as everybody started applying for university, I’d done the musical festivals and elocution lessons and, in 1965, Lamda accepted me.

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Kylie Minogue’s follow-up to 2023’s euphoric Tension – and smash hit Padam Padam – fluctuates between sparkle and self-doubt, generic pap and two stone-cold bangers

It is impossibly easy to root for Kylie Minogue. The Australian pop princess is funny in interviews – see her dry, casual dismissal of the idea that Kylie Jenner could trademark their shared first name . She is also remarkably private – rarely, if ever, whipping up hokey, pseudo-emotional backstories for her records or trying to claim that she is some kind of pop auteur. In this sense, she is a rarity in the modern pop landscape, in which bleeding-heart confessionalism and grand posturing are de rigueur. Her wine brand is pretty good , and while her 2010s and 2020s output rarely holds a candle to her unimpeachable 90s and 00s run, she has continually released enough great singles, and mounted enough fantastic tours, to keep fans interested (and stay in high rotation at drag bars).

This surfeit of goodwill meant that when her career began to genuinely reignite on a mainstream level last year – after the single Padam Padam took on a life of its own thanks to its kooky lyrics and insistent hook – many were swept up in the “Padamic”. That song’s associated album, Tension , also had the huge benefit of being Minogue’s best full-length in many years: a euphoric EDM-pop record that also indulged her long-established love of glittery French touch and hazily remembered 80s nostalgia. Songs such as Hold on to Now, with its Robyn-esque slow build, and the robotic sex jam Tension are among Minogue’s best tracks in ages – capturing, perfectly, the heightened mix of cheekiness and steeliness that wasn’t even totally nailed on, say, Padam Padam, which, despite its success, also felt a little bit anonymous.

Exam board in England, Wales and Northern Ireland pilots tests that aim to show we ‘use maths all the time every day’

Secondary school children could be made to take maths tests that look at their ability to work out phone bills and rent to prepare them for life, an exam board has said.

The plans to help teenagers understand real-life situations would not make numeracy tests easier, said Colin Hughes, the chief executive of the AQA, an awarding body in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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We chased our international pleasures here, dug our Nations League treasures there, and now we’ve broken through to the other side. The Premier League is back, baby, after its latest interminable hiatus, and while the Doors aren’t exactly a fashionable reference point these days, it was either them or the Mike Sammes Singers again . Anyway, here are the 3pm kick-offs …

Fulham v Aston Villa

Ipswich Town v Everton

Manchester United v Brentford

Newcastle United v Brighton & Hove Albion

Southampton v Leicester City

Bridget Phillipson has been targeted with personal abuse on Facebook by campaigners opposed to Labour’s tax policy

Members of a campaign group ­opposing plans to apply VAT to ­private school fees have targeted the ­education ­secretary Bridget Phillipson with ­personal abuse, accusing her of aping the ­tactics of Nazi Germany and labelling her a “vile hag”.

A bitter row has emerged over the government’s proposed policy, amid claims from ­opponents that it will increase class sizes in state schools as some parents will no longer afford fees when 20% VAT is added to them in January.

Researchers hope to uncover how people died and how diseases have developed over 1,000 years

Deep beneath the streets of Paris, the dead are having their last word. They are recounting 1,000 years of death in the city: how many are ­buried in the labyrinth of tunnels that make up Les Catacombes , what killed them and how the diseases that may have led to their demise have ­developed over the centuries.

In the first ever scientific study of the site, a team of archeologists, anthropologists, biologists and ­doctors is examining some of the skeletons of an estimated 5-6 ­million people whose bones were literally dumped down quarry shafts at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th.

The granite city has weathered many storms over the years but people there now fear the impact of the government’s tax plans on the local economy and jobs

‘We’ve all accepted that the North Sea is declining,” says Roy, 70, a taxi driver working in Aberdeen for the past 20 years. “Over the years there have been a few huge market crashes but we always recover. This time, it’s a real decline.”

Drive along the granite city’s Union Street and there are dozens of shuttered shops, some empty for almost a decade following one of the longest routs in the history of the oil market, which brought oil prices to lows of less than $30 (£23) a barrel in 2016, less than half its value today.