79 minutes ago In Moldova, we held our EU referendum in Russia’s shadow. The result was too close for comfort | Paula Erizanu

Like Brexit, our vote on Europe teetered on a knife-edge. While the pro-EU side scraped a win, Russia is waiting to undermine itI have now gone through two EU referendums in my life – Brexit and Moldova’s 20 October vote on whether to include EU integration in its constitution. As an EU national in the UK, I was not able to cast my ballot in 2016. I remember the expectation most people had that Brexit would not win. I received the news while travelling in Spain and staying with a British national settled there, who could not vote in the referendum either. Some London-born friends told me they felt as though they could no longer recognise their country, which had been split in two. With that British experience on my mind, I had a sense of deja vu as I watched the results unfold in my nat...

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79 minutes ago 'People say my name is embarrassing – I'm worried it'll hold me back in life'

A woman has been left questioning whether she should change her name after receiving no end of insults about it. While she doesn't mind the moniker, she is worried it'll hold her back in life

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84 minutes ago A moment that changed me: I first heard Oasis at 14 – and they gave me the swagger to come out

Definitely Maybe spoke to me as a working-class Glasgow teenager and gave me hope. Be Here Now brought it all crashing downI was visiting my brother at RAF Chivenor in 1994, where he was based as an armourer. My parents and I had driven from Glasgow for the weekend so they could go for dinner with him and his new girlfriend. I didn’t want to go. Fortunately, my brother knew that and suggested I stay in his room and ransack his music collection. “Here, listen to that one first,” he said, handing me a CD. The now unmistakable opening chords of Rock ’n’ Roll Star started. The filthy guitar riff announced the arrival of Oasis in my life, when I was 14.When I got back home, I rushed out to buy my own copy of Definitely Maybe, the band’s first album. My running trainers, jogging bottoms and S...

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2 hours ago Michael Newman 'saved David Hasselhoff's life four times' as they filmed Baywatch

Michael Newman was the third most regular actor on Baywatch after David Hasselhoff, who played Mitch Buchannon, and Jeremy Jackson, who played Hasselhoff's on-screen son Hobie Buchannon

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2 hours ago I fell for a Coldplay concert ticket scam on Facebook – here’s how to avoid my mistake

Someone on your social media has tickets to a massive gig but they can’t make it any more – seems legit. Except, in Kate Solomon’s case it wasn’t, and revealed a new frontier of scamming that social media platforms are struggling to get a grip on

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3 hours ago With or without the far right in power, Austria's links with Russia cause concern among allies

Ever since Austria held elections last month, the prospect of the country's first far-right led government since the end of World War II has raised concern among its allies

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3 hours ago Mums of Scots girls tormented online say bullying hell "robbed them of childhoods"

Angela Jarvis, 45, and Vicky Donald, 38, are backing Children First after the charity declared a "childhood emergency" in Scotland amid a surge in online bullying.

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5 hours ago Rare penny coin with 'valuable' detail worth hundreds – and you could have it

Some rare coins are worth hundreds, if not thousands of pounds, making them a lot more than their actual face value. Now an expert revealed a penny to look out for in your change

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6 hours ago Police: Young girl hospitalized after being struck by car in New London

Police: Young girl hospitalized after being struck by car in New London  Hartford Courant

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