17 h. ago New report details Ayrshire's highest paid local authority executives

According to the Town Hall Rich List 2025, a record 3,906 officials from local authorities around the UK received more than £100,000.

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21 h. ago Grand National 2025: The record runners who could make Saturday ‘a grey day’ for bookies

The hotly fancied Intense Raffles is one of a record number of seven grey horses aiming to be come the fifth grey winner of the £1 million race

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31 h. ago ‘Same shit, different year’: Australia records hottest 12 months and warmest March on record

ANU climate scientist says ‘everyone is getting fatigued these records keep falling – it’s now incredibly predictable’Election 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia has experienced its hottest 12-month period on record, ending with its hottest March on record, with last month seeing temperatures 2.41C above average, the Bureau of Meteorology has confirmed.The bureau said its data going back to 1910 showed the 12 months ending in March 2025 averaged 1.61C above average – the hottest of any 12-month period, beating the previous 1.51C mark set from January to December 2019.Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading...

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45 h. ago 13 of the most valuable vinyl records to own in the UK in 2025

Are you lucky enough to have picked up one of these 13 incredibly valuable vinyl in your collection?

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45 h. ago 13 of the most valuable vinyl records to own in the UK in April 2025

Are you lucky enough to have picked up one of these 13 incredibly valuable vinyl in your collection?

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2 d. ago Global cost of Trump trade war ‘could reach $1.4tn’; Goldman Sachs cuts UK growth forecast over tariff spillovers – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as UK business secretary warns Britain will be hit by ‘Liberation Day’ tariffsTrump prepares to unveil reciprocal tariffs as markets brace amid trade war fearsTrump’s new tariffs could backfire if they are set too high, explains Mark Haefele, chief investment officer at UBS Global Wealth Management:“Wednesday’s reciprocal tariffs could push the effective tariff rate another 4 percentage points higher. Anything further than that could move tariffs beyond a revenue-raising ‘sweet spot,’ in our view.Globally, the risk of high tariffs disrupting trade and economic activity would potentially offset any US federal revenue gains that the Trump administration seeks to use to further domestic policies.”“It appears tomorrow there’ll be no country in the world exempt from the initial announcements”.I tihnk that our trading relatinship is a very strong, and fair and balanced one, so I don’t think there is the need to do this. Continue ...

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3 d. ago Global cost of Trump trade war ‘could reach $1.4tn’; tariff fears hurt UK factories – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as UK business secretary warns Britain will be hit by ‘Liberation Day’ tariffsTrump prepares to unveil reciprocal tariffs as markets brace amid trade war fearsTrump’s new tariffs could backfire if they are set too high, explains Mark Haefele, chief investment officer at UBS Global Wealth Management:“Wednesday’s reciprocal tariffs could push the effective tariff rate another 4 percentage points higher. Anything further than that could move tariffs beyond a revenue-raising ‘sweet spot,’ in our view.Globally, the risk of high tariffs disrupting trade and economic activity would potentially offset any US federal revenue gains that the Trump administration seeks to use to further domestic policies.”“It appears tomorrow there’ll be no country in the world exempt from the initial announcements”.I tihnk that our trading relatinship is a very strong, and fair and balanced one, so I don’t think there is the need to do this. Continue ...

Economics

3 d. ago Gold at record high as markets brace for Trump tariffs ‘to affect every country’ – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as UK business secretary warns Britain will be hit by ‘Liberation Day’ tariffsTrump prepares to unveil reciprocal tariffs as markets brace amid trade war fearsTrump’s new tariffs could backfire if they are set too high, explains Mark Haefele, chief investment officer at UBS Global Wealth Management:“Wednesday’s reciprocal tariffs could push the effective tariff rate another 4 percentage points higher. Anything further than that could move tariffs beyond a revenue-raising ‘sweet spot,’ in our view.Globally, the risk of high tariffs disrupting trade and economic activity would potentially offset any US federal revenue gains that the Trump administration seeks to use to further domestic policies.”“It appears tomorrow there’ll be no country in the world exempt from the initial announcements”.I tihnk that our trading relatinship is a very strong, and fair and balanced one, so I don’t think there is the need to do this. Continue ...

Economics

3 d. ago Wrexham announce record revenue of £26.7m after boost in US popularity

More than half its turnover outside Europe in 2023-24Filming continuing for fourth TV series about the club Wrexham’s increasing popularity in the United States helped the club secure record revenue of £26.7m in their latest accounts, up 155% on the previous year. Wrexham, who are co-owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, said they generated more than half (52.1%) of that record turnover from outside Europe – primarily North America – for the year ending 30 June 2024.That compared with 24.6% of turnover being generated outside Europe in the previous year’s figures. The club said the spectacular rise highlighted the effect of the “Welcome to Wrexham” documentary series, with the fourth instalment being filmed this season. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Weather tracker: Arctic winter sea ice at record low in 2025, scientists say

Annual peak is lowest on record, covering 5.53m sq miles – about 30,000 sq miles below the previous low in 2017Winter sea ice in the Arctic has reached a record low in 2025, according to Nasa and the US’s National Snow and Ice Data Center. The annual peak, recorded on 22 March, was the lowest since records began 47 years ago, with sea ice covering just 5.53m sq miles – about 1.1m sq miles less than last year – and 30,000 sq miles below the previous low in 2017. The Gulf of St Lawrence had almost no ice, while the Sea of Okhotsk experienced notably lower than average sea ice extent.In late January, sea ice extent in the Arctic unexpectedly decreased, losing an area the size of Italy (more than 115,000 sq miles). This can be attributed to cyclones pushing southerly winds in the Barents and Bering seas, causing ocean waves that broke apart and melted thin ice at the edge of the ice sheet. Temperatures up to 12C above normal were recorded between northern Greenland and the north pole. C...

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6 d. ago The Official Eurovision podcast will host a live recording at the London Eurovision Party 2025

The Official Eurovision podcast will host a live recording at the London Eurovision Party 2025 - get your tickets now!  wiwibloggs

Society

7 d. ago When is the University Boat Race 2025? Here's when Oxford take on Cambridge, crews, route, TV times, records and prize

It’s one of the world’s most famous sporting contests.

Culture

8 d. ago Chic, Missy and Bryan Ferry’s wallpaper: 75 years of Atlantic Records – in pictures

Founded by a $10,000 loan from a dentist, the label has had an extraordinary array of groundbreakers from Aretha Franklin to the Drifters, from Abba to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Continue reading...

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9 d. ago ‘Really like Big Macs’: meet the US man who has eaten a record

Donald Gorske, 71, has eaten two of the McDonald’s offering every day since 1972, and holds the Guinness World RecordIf chowing down on Big Mac hamburgers daily for more than 50 years had ever inflicted any harm on him, Donald Gorske would probably get himself evaluated for an obsessive disorder, he admitted.But he has attained a measure of fame, having held since 1999 the Guinness World Record for most Big Macs eaten over a lifetime – while maintaining his cholesterol and blood sugar levels have always been normal. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Cameron Myers: from promising schoolboy to contender in greatest middle distance era | Jack Snape

Expectation around the 18-year-old is sky high after the Australian athlete twice broke the under-20 mile recordAt the end of his final day of high school in December, Cameron Myers cut his hair. It was done without forethought or fanfare at his friend’s house in Canberra, as one of the world’s most highly-touted teenage athletes marked the end of one chapter, and the start of another.Cropped short, the new style has stuck, part of a personal overhaul in the past 12 months that has elevated him from schoolboy of promise to contender in the greatest era of men’s middle distance running. “Having short hair is a nice change, and almost just feels like you’re a different person,” he says. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago US honeybee deaths hit record high as scientists scramble to find main cause

US Department of Agriculture calls in university to help study decline as Trump administration staff cuts stingHoneybee deaths have hit record highs in the US, with the unprecedented loss of colonies pushing many beekeepers close to ruin as scientists scramble to identify the main cause of the huge declines.Commercial beekeepers have reported losing more than 60% of their colonies, on average, over the winter, according to an ongoing Project Apis m. survey that covers more than two-thirds of America’s managed bees. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago Record 275,000 tickets sold for Women's Rugby World Cup 2025

The event is now the most successful tournament ever following unprecedented sales across the eight host venues in England

Sport

1 week ago Scotland's record goalscorer 2025: The top 15 Scottish players with the most international goals

Where does Scott McTominay place in Scotland’s list of record goalscorers after his winning penalty vs Greece?

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2 w. ago Met Office warns of ‘thundery’ and ‘unsettled’ conditions after UK records hottest days of 2025

Pollen levels are forecast to be "very high" today

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2 w. ago ‘The ground keeps breaking and deforming’: life in Italy’s volcanic Phlegraean Fields

Photojournalist Alessandro Gandolfi has been documenting the Phlegraean Fields in southern Italy, where a record 6,740 earthquakes were recorded in 2024, and the seismic swarm has continued in 2025. The volcanic field has been active for more than 80,000 years. It is dotted with craters, lakes and fumaroles as well as roads, factories and the homes of more than 600,000 peopleIn the square in Monterusciello, a few kilometres from Pozzuoli, 12-year-old Angelo Di Roberto climbed into the civil defence bus with his grandfather. “None of my schoolmates wanted to come, but I wanted to” he said. “It seemed like the right thing to do.”He was right. It was important. The authorities were simulating a large-scale evacuation, the kind they would have to carry out in the event of a volcanic eruption in the seismically active Campi Flegrei or Phlegraean Fields near the southern Italian city of Naples.During an exercise to simulate an evacuation in the event of a volcanic eruption in the Phlegrae...

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