66 minutes ago Urgent search as woman and four children aged between two and seven are forced into a van: Police share CCTV in desperate race to find them

Police have launched an urgent hunt after a woman and her four young children were reportedly forced into a van shortly after midnight on Monday in Pontypool, south Wales.

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66 minutes ago Chris Kaba shooting: Dramatic moment man killed by Met guns down rival gang member

A jury at the Old Bailey acquitted Martyn Blake, a Metropolitan Police firearms officer accused of the murder of Chris Kaba, after around three-and-a-half hours of deliberation on Monday

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67 minutes ago Clean car and make headlights sparkle with £1 product you already have at home

A woman who goes by the name of 'Driver Ms May' online has shared a number of cost-effective household hacks to help keep your car in tip-top condition - including using one everyday essential

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68 minutes ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Vito Coppola says 'love you' in joint Sarah Hadland message

The pair took a break from training for the BBC One dance contest this week to hit the red carpet

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68 minutes ago Joanna Lumley leads thousands of royal fans to welcome King Charles and Queen Camilla to Sydney Opera House

King Charles III and Queen Camilla received a rapturous reception from thousands of royal fans at the Sydney Opera House today as their Australia tour continued.

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68 minutes ago Charles and Camilla bid farewell to Australia after a ‘sausage sizzle’

Dame Joanna Lumley, who is staging her one-woman show at the Sydney Opera House, met the couple.

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69 minutes ago Woman and four young children 'forced into van' as police launch urgent search

Gwent Police are investigating after a caller 'reported seeing a woman being forced into a van by a man' along with four young children between the ages of two and seven

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71 minutes ago ‘It romanticised my night!’ The R&B slow jam events making Black British clubbers swoon

No pounding beats, no strobes – just sensual tracks, singalongs and nostalgic vibes. Black-club goers explain how this craze gives them a space to call their ownIt’s just past 5pm in West Silvertown, a random-feeling stop on the DLR line in east London’s docklands. It’s not the sexiest time or location, but as my friend and I step inside a nightclub, The Cause, a crowd is singing along to Joe’s outrageously horny 1996 hit All The Things (Your Man Won’t Do). The DJ smoothly transitions into SZA’s Snooze, and the energy in the room shifts – phones shoot up in the air as everyone prepares to belt out the chorus: “I can’t looooose, when I’m with yooooou!”This is SlowJamsWithA, part of a growing craze where club nights focus not on uptempo pop, house, techno or rap, but instead on slow, sens...

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87 minutes ago A Colombian warlord became the Amazon rainforest’s most unlikely protector. Now he is cutting it down

Deforestation fell by a third when the guerrilla leader Ivan Mordisco violently enforced a logging ban, but now he has changed tack and is threatening Cop16 biodiversity talksIn the Amazon states of southern Colombia, uniform patches of cattle pasture suddenly give way to trees so numerous and densely packed that the blots of emerald, lime green and white overlap as vines, leaves and tree trunks merge into one.According to official figures, this place is an international success story: the frontline of the country’s fight against deforestation, which it slashed last year by 36%. Continue reading...

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95 minutes ago Man arrested over spate of house breakings and thefts in West Lothian and beyond

The man has been charged in connection with a number of offences, including 13 housebreakings, four attempted housebreakings and five vehicle thefts

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