34 minutes ago Sir Keir Starmer is accused of smothering Britain in red tape after Labour set up new quango every week since election victory

Keir Starmer was last night accused of smothering Britain in red tape after it emerged Labour has set up a new quango every week since taking power.

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35 minutes ago Mother who fought for justice in daughter's murder case involving Kennedy cousin has died

Dorthy Moxley, the mother who fought for decades to bring her teenage daughter’s killer to justice in a roller-coaster Connecticut murder case, has died

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81 minutes ago Teenage boy, 17, fled home screaming 'he's stabbed me' after double murder in Christmas Day stabbing that also left a dog dead

Neighbours said the 17-year-old, who has not been named, suffered wounds to his head and chest in the attack in which the women, aged 38 and 24 also died.

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90 minutes ago Wayne Rooney fires clear response to managerial future as Man United icon faces pressure

Plymouth Argyle were beaten 4-0 by Coventry City at St Andrew's on Boxing Day and manager Wayne Rooney admitted after the game that his side were two different teams at home and away

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1 hour ago Woman arrested on suspicion of murder after loving dad dies on Christmas Day

Police attended at the home following a report that a man had suffered a cardiac arrest. But when they arrived at around 3.25am on Christmas Day they found Louis Price gravely injured.

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2 hours ago Organizers say two sailors have died in Sydney to Hobart yacht race amid wild weather conditions

Organizers said that two Sydney to Hobart sailors have died at sea amid wild weather conditions that forced line honors favorite Master Lock Comanche to withdraw among mass retirements

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2 hours ago Owner of Britain's oldest DVD rental store shares how business still booms 40 years on

Alongside renting DVDs, the dad-of-two also sells stationary, repairs scratched DVDs discs and runs a successful photocopying and printing service whilst also having become a local community hub

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2 hours ago Covid restriction returns to UK as health experts issue urgent warning

Several hospital trusts across the country are re-introducing face masks for patients, staff and visitors in response to "low uptake of the flu vaccine" and the high number of flu, norovirus, RSV and Covid cases

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3 hours ago Residents ‘deeply shocked’ after two women die in Christmas Day ‘stabbing’

A 49-year-old man from Milton Keynes was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder and is in custody.

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3 hours ago Hundreds of theatres and museums face closure as crisis in sectors laid bare

Alarm in sector as four in 10 of Britain’s theatres as well as many regional museums containing local and national archives are on the brink of closure

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3 hours ago Haiti’s health minister loses his job after a deadly gang attack on a hospital in the capital

Government officials tell The Associated Press that Haiti’s health minister has been removed from his post after a deadly gang attack on the largest public hospital in the capital, Port-au-Prince

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4 hours ago Two women and dog are killed in Christmas Day stabbing that also sees man and teenage boy seriously injured as police grill double murder suspect

Police rushed to the block of apartments in Santa Cruz Avenue, in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, just after 6.30pm following reports of a stabbing on Christmas Day.

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6 hours ago Trump’s ‘border czar’ says migrant families will be put in detention centers once again

Tom Homan says the administration will construct ‘family facilities’ for mass deportation plans, including removing citizen children with undocumented parents

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6 hours ago People urged to do at least 150 minutes of aerobic exercise a week to lose weight

Review of 116 clinical trials finds less than 30 minutes a day, five days a week only results in minor reductionsPeople who want to lose meaningful amounts of weight through exercise may need to devote more than two-and-a-half hours a week to aerobic training such as running, walking or cycling, researchers say.The finding emerged from a review of 116 published clinical trials that explored the impact of physical exercise on weight loss, waist size and body fat. In total, the trials reported data for nearly 7,000 adults who were overweight or obese, meaning their body mass index (BMI) was more than 25. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago Giant dunce hats, questionable resemblances and a huge poo emoji: Britain's most ridiculous statues

Reactions to the creations have ranged from confusion to horror as well as outcry from those who just find them downright offensive.

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7 hours ago Revealing the secrets of Britain’s lost world: Archaeologists discover Stone Age artefacts under North Sea

Archaeologists are recovering Stone Age artefacts from the bottom of the North Sea

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16 hours ago Young people’s shrinking attention spans are nothing to worry about. Here’s why | Marion Thain

Distractions long predated today’s fast-moving online world. Young people may well be discovering new ways of paying attentionMarion Thain is professor of culture and technology at King’s College London and director of the Digital Futures InstituteIn late-19th-century Britain, Londoners could expect to receive up to 12 postal deliveries a day. Letters were often exchanged with the frequency that we imagine only occurred with the advent of email. Today, archives brim with scrawled missives detailing arrangements to meet for dinner that are made first thing in the morning, only to be followed by an argument unfolding in the middle of the day, culminating in a reconciliation and reinstatement of the plan to meet. All before nightfall.We tend to think of the pre-digital era as much the same as now but without our myriad digital distractions, but it was not so. With ink blots and wild fountain-pen trails going up the margins, it is clear these historical writers were dashing off many suc...

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16 hours ago Are young people's attention spans really shrinking? It's more complex than you might think | Marion Thain

Distractions long predated today’s fast-moving online world. Understanding this age-old problem could help us regain controlMarion Thain is professor of culture and technology at King’s College London and director of the Digital Futures InstituteIn late-19th-century Britain, Londoners could expect to receive up to 12 postal deliveries a day. Letters were often exchanged with the frequency that we imagine only occurred with the advent of email. Today, archives brim with scrawled missives detailing arrangements to meet for dinner that are made first thing in the morning, only to be followed by an argument unfolding in the middle of the day, culminating in a reconciliation and reinstatement of the plan to meet. All before nightfall.We tend to think of the pre-digital era as much the same as now but without our myriad digital distractions, but it was not so. With ink blots and wild fountain-pen trails going up the margins, it is clear these historical writers were dashing off many such ...

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18 hours ago ScottishPower thanks Record after 'overwhelming' response from Grangemouth workers to jobs call

Hundreds of staff facing redundancy at Scotland’s last oil refinery thrown jobs lifeline by ScottishPower earlier this month, as revealed in the Record.

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21 hours ago Is THIS Britain's tighest loyalty scheme? Penny pinching pub offers free pint to regular punters... but there is a VERY big catch

EXC: The Ecclian pub in Eccleshall, is offering his customers a free pint after the Chancellor bragged about cutting the cost of the pint by 1p.

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