81 minutes ago Northumberland is back on track: a new railway line is opening up this lesser

The Northumberland line will soon return passenger services linking Newcastle to coastal towns such as Blyth, giving a much-needed boost to the regionSome of Northumberland’s attractive coastal towns, wild countryside and interior villages are about to become more accessible thanks to a new railway line from Newcastle to Ashington set to open in December. Coupled with the Tyne and Wear Metro receiving its first new fleet of trains in more than 40 years,visitors without a car will find travelling around the county so much easier.Arriving into Newcastle by train from the south provides a spectacular aerial tour of the Tyne Gorge, which is crossed by seven bridges in short succession and densely packed with buildings spilling down the banks. Continue reading...

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88 minutes ago King Charles confronted by another Australian indigenous activist hours after angry protestor

King Charles and the Queen have been welcomed by an Indigenous elder during a visit to the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence in Sydney on the second day of their Australian tour

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1 hour ago Bank of America exec stripped of his role after death of Green Beret employee who worked 100 hours per week

A Bank of America executive was recently removed from overseeing a key division following the death of a junior banker earlier this year who worked 100-hour weeks.

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2 hours ago CCTV shows moment couple allegedly use handbag trick to walk off from restaurant without paying £80 bill

Watch the moment a woman left an empty handbag in a restaurant as she “nipped out for a cigarette” - before she and a man walked off without paying their £80 bill.

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3 hours ago Horniness, hedonism and hope: why Rivals makes me surprisingly nostalgic

The TV drama doesn’t shy away from the worst aspects of the Thatcher era. But this version of Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster also captures the lust, laughter and late-night partiesThere is no watching Rivals, the Disney+ adaptation of the Jilly Cooper classic, and pretending the 80s weren’t like that. The poisonous, unabashed homophobia of Tory politics; the hushed-up rapes, the sexual exploitation, the abuse of power, the objectification. Not to mention the inequality, the snobbery, the vulgar excess, the truly nauseating deference to aristocracy – a craven surrender to their innate superiority – and the racism and misogynoir. There is a highly plausible depiction of just how hard a black woman had to fight to exist and to be seen, even by the characters who are meant to be right-on. There ...

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3 hours ago The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter

Using cutting-edge methods, Alexandra Morton-Hayward is cracking the secrets of ancient brains – even as hers betrays herAlexandra Morton-Hayward, a 35-year-old mortician turned molecular palaeontologist, had been behind the wheel of her rented Vauxhall for five hours, motoring across three countries, when a torrential storm broke loose on the plains of Belgium. Her wipers pulsed at full speed as the green fields of Flanders turned a blurry grey. Behind her sat a small, black picnic cooler. Within 24 hours, it would be full of human brains – not modern specimens, but brains that had contemplated this landscape as far back as the middle ages and had, miraculously, remained intact.For centuries, archaeologists have been perplexed by discoveries of ancient skeletons devoid of all soft tiss...

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3 hours ago Eleanor Brown: Vengeful daughter put naked photos of dad's mistress on escort website

Eleanor Brown was "utterly, utterly unapologetic" about plastering nude images of the woman on an escort site called "Beaver Street" - and a judge ignored pleas to suspend her jail term

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3 hours ago Edinburgh woman with cancer was told 'not to worry' after finding lump in breast

Kat Denisi, from Edinburgh, was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer in June 2022 and has since undergone chemotherapy, radiotherapy and multiple surgeries

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5 hours ago Efforts continue to rescue cockatoo ‘living on brioche’ for four weeks inside Sydney supermarket

NSW environment minister reassures public ‘Mickey will be freed’ after false rumours of ‘kill order’ spread onlineFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWildlife services are working to rescue a cockatoo called Mickey that has been “living on brioche” inside a Sydney supermarket for four weeks.The New South Wales environment minister, Penny Sharpe, on Tuesday promised the bird was “not going to be shot” after false rumours of a “kill order” had spread online.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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