62 m. ago Lip reader reveals Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick's lackluster conversation at Another Simpler Favor premiere

A lip reader has revealed what was really said between Lively and Kendrick at Tuesday's premiere of Another Simple Favor - and it looks like the two were keeping things surface level.

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1 hour ago Is Yellowstone's supervolcano on the brink of erupting? Concerning study reveals just how close the enormous magma reserve is to the surface

If it erupted today, it's thought Yellowstone in the northwestern United States could cause a prolonged nuclear winter and global starvation.

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2 h. ago Mysterious 'portal' discovered on Mars by NASA that could lead to new world of alien life

NASA has admitted that an over 300-foot-wide hole in the surface of Mars could be a 'portal' leading to alien life hiding underground on the Red Planet.

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4 h. ago The 10 places where the most sewage was released into Wales' water in 2024

Surfers Against Sewage has released its annual report

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5 h. ago Scottish surfing prodigy Ban Larg joins Lost Shore Surf Resort as Ambassador

Lost Shore Surf Resort, Europe’s largest inland surfing destination, has announced Scotland’s first professional surfer, Ben Larg as its official ambassador.

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13 h. ago ‘We feel like we’re back in Senegal’: the Sufis helping migrants in the Canaries

Part-school, part-social network, a Mouride circle on the Spanish island is helping teenage asylum seekers prepare for adulthood and navigate a challenging welfare system• Photographs by Diana TakacsovaIn a three-storey building in a residential neighbourhood in Gran Canaria, about an hour’s drive from the airport, more than a dozen teenage Senegalese boys in colourful, flowing robes sit in a circle, soulfully chanting supplications. Behind them, girls sit with their heads covered, praying. On the top-floor terrace a feast of steaming rice, meat and vegetable gravy is being prepared.It is a bright Sunday afternoon in February. The young people are mostly asylum seekers from Senegal, who live in detention centres where conditions can be brutal, according to Spanish human rights groups. Continue reading...

Events

13 h. ago Sewage caused sickness for nearly 2000 Scots using nation's waterways for swimming or surfing in 2024

Surfers Against Sewage blamed the 'appalling' rise of sewage leaks into the environment which contain dangerous bacteria.

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15 h. ago Britain's 'bullying' school WhatsApps: How parents gang up on teachers, embarrass children and humiliate parents in cliquey group chats

A WhatsApp chat of parents seems innocent on the surface but, according to testimonies from parents across the nation, they are a place where clique behaviours and humiliation run rife.

Society

18 h. ago 2,487 water pollution incidents recorded in 2024, say campaigners

Firms were collectively set a target of a 40% reduction in pollution incidents but instead recorded a 30% increase, Surfers Against Sewage said.

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23 h. ago Dodger Stadium to host baseball, with surfing and cricket outside Los Angeles at 2028 Olympics

The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics will feature baseball at Dodger Stadium in its return to the program with surfing and cricket held outside the city as part of an updated venue plan

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25 h. ago ‘I sent AI to art school!’ The postmodern master who taught a machine to beef up his old work

Warhol for colour, Hopper for volume American art world star David Salle is using AI on old paintings of his that had a mixed reception – with wild, sprawling results. Why isn’t he afraid of being replaced?By the time you read this article, there’s a good chance it will have already been scanned by an artificially intelligent machine. If asked about the artist David Salle, large language models such as ChatGPT or Gemini may repurpose some of the words below to come up with their answer. The bigger the data set, the more convincing the response – and Salle has been written about exhaustively since he first rose to art world stardom in the 1980s. The question is whether AI can ever say anything new about the artist and his work, or if it’s for ever condemned to generate more of the same.A similar question lingers beneath the surface of the paintings that Salle has been making since 2023, a new series of which he has just unveiled at Thaddaeus Ropac in London. His New Pastorals were ma...

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25 h. ago 13 of the best things to do in Cornwall on a rainy day, approved by families

While Cornwall boasts some of the most striking landscapes in the UK, there are plenty of things to do indoors when the heavens open and rain pours down

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26 h. ago The little known loophole used by second home owners to dodge soaring council tax bills in Britain's holiday hotspots

Experts fear property barons are putting their homes on the market to exploit a legal get-around that is helping them avoid new council tax premiums, with Padstow in Cornwall among the areas hit.

Economics

29 h. ago Plans lodged to protect historic Welsh castle in 'significant state of deterioration'

An application has been submitted which would include a new below ground surface water drainage network at Cyfarthfa Park

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35 h. ago The rise of the digital fishmonger: how Covid helped customers buy fresh from the boat

Britain’s traditional retailers were in decline for years. Then the pandemic changed how we buy food and boosted the fishing industryThe seafood chef and restaurateur Mitch Tonks recalls the moment things for him changed dramatically. It was March 2020, the start of Covid, when a local fishing boat skipper called him in a panic. “Nick was having a tough time; nobody was buying his catch, so I emailed our customer network,” he says.Tonks asked people to bring cash and containers. The next morning, Nick landed his boat at Brixham, the south Devon port that is England’s largest fish market by value of catch sold. “About 150 people turned up to buy his fish. Many asked ‘why can’t we just buy fish straight off boats like this normally?’” Continue reading...

Economics

53 h. ago Massive cliff collapses as 2,000 tonnes of rock plummet next to luxury development

The cliff face at Whipsiderry Beach, near Newquay in Cornwall, which has been subject to multiple protests against the construction of new homes on top of it, has partially collapsed

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54 h. ago Free screening of new Nicholas Cage film The Surfer coming to Ayrshire cinema

Ayr's Astoria Cinema will be screening a free preview of The Surfer starring Nicholas Cage and Julian McMahon later this month.

Culture

55 h. ago Restaurant rampage as female punters break waitress' pinky finger over £38 refund

Brutal footage has surfaced of two customers beating a waitress after she denied them a refund on £38 ($50) worth of half eaten food – the poor waitress' pinky finger was broken in the beating

Economics

59 h. ago Oscar's Book Prize 2025 shortlist revealed: £10,000 prize showcases writing and illustrating talent from across UK

The £10,000 award for the best picture book for young children this year spotlights authors and illustrators based from Cornwall to North Yorkshire

Economics

64 h. ago ON THE ROAD: From world's smallest stand to 'swimming' ball boys and Buckfast pies, Camelon can lay claim to being Scotland's zaniest club!

There is a feast of tales at Camelon. They must be sampled before the meat and bones of how and why the club is targeting SPFL football is investigated.

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