45 minutes ago It was a wildlife conservation triumph, then came the corpses – podcast

Biodiversity writer Phoebe Weston hears from farmers on the west coast of Scotland who claim they are losing hundreds of lambs a year in a case of rewilding gone wrong“Fair enough, if it was a select number of birds ,” one farmer said to biodiversity writer Phoebe Weston during her trip to Scotland, “but when it’s mass murder, then it’s not acceptable.”Out on the cold west coast, there is a heated dispute about one of the country’s most successful ever rewilding programmes: the reintroduce of sea eagles to their natural habitat more than 50 years ago. Continue reading...

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8 hours ago Everton SACK manager Sean Dyche just THREE HOURS before FA Cup tie as club captain Seamus Coleman takes charge tonight

The Toffees are in another fight against relegation but the timing of Sean Dyche's dismissal will raise eyebrows with it coming so close to kick-off at Goodison Park on Thursday night.

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9 hours ago Scotland duo Scott McTominay and Billy Gilmour's Napoli title charge could be hijacked by huge £70m deal

French giants lining up astronomical bid for Serie A sensation

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17 hours ago Rasmus Hojlund agrees with Lisandro Martinez about Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim

There have been signs of progress with Ruben Amorim in charge and Sunday's draw against Liverpool was a good point.

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46 minutes ago Record hot 2024 was first year to break 1.5C warming threshold, scientists say

Climate datasets confirm last year was the hottest on record.

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15 hours ago Charged up: What needs to be done to get more Scots into battery electric vehicles

“The biggest concern we have is increasing the sales mix of battery electric vehicles” – Alan Gall, SMTA

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3 hours ago Sir Alex Ferguson's son slammed after denying Ashley Young's son chance to make history

Ashley Young, 39, did not get to play against his 18-year-old son Tyler in Everton's FA Cup tie against Peterborough after the teenager was not brought off the bench by manager Darren Ferguson

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9 hours ago Everton SACK manager Sean Dyche just three hours BEFORE they play in the FA Cup, as club captain Seamus Coleman takes charge tonight

The Toffees are in another fight against relegation but the timing of Sean Dyche's dismissal will raise eyebrows with it coming so close to kick-off at Goodison Park on Thursday night.

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10 hours ago Firms to pass on tax hikes through lower wages in long run, Bank executive says

Sarah Breeden, the Bank’s deputy governor for financial stability, also said firms might respond to the tax rises by cutting staff or raising prices.

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22 hours ago Manchester United's first January transfer decision is sign of major revamp in key department

Man Utd have recalled young goalkeeper Elyh Harrison from his loan spell at Chester and will run the rule over the teenager for the rest of the season.

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65 minutes ago ‘Serious youth violence’ feared after 'aspiring' teenage rapper fatally stabbed in London: Police

‘Serious youth violence’ feared after 'aspiring' teenage rapper fatally stabbed in London: Police  Hindustan Times

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16 hours ago Patients in chairs ‘day and night’ and physio gym turned into ward, say doctors

The Royal College of Physicians has published accounts from doctors on the front line talking about the crisis in NHS hospitals.

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5 hours ago Beto and Ndiaye see off Peterborough as Everton’s caretakers pick up slack

Another new era for Everton, this one promising stability, and another managerial search is under way after the sacking of Sean Dyche. The Friedkin Group, the club’s new owners, were at least spared the ignominy of seeing their new investment exit the FA Cup against League One opposition.Beto, on paper the most expensive signing of the Dyche era, and Iliman Ndiaye, one of the few pluses, scored the goals that took Everton into the fourth round at the expense of Peterborough United. Darren Ferguson’s side competed admirably without seriously threatening to add upset to Everton’s latest sense of turmoil. Continue reading...

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10 hours ago Everton SACK manager Sean Dyche, just three hours BEFORE they play in the FA Cup, as club captain Seamus Coleman takes charge tonight

Everton have sacked Sean Dyche as their manager just three hours before their FA Cup third-round tie against Peterborough United on Thursday night.

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2 hours ago Recruitment freezes in NHS scanning and cancer departments are 'risking patient care', radiologists warn

Recruitment freezes in NHS scanning and cancer departments are putting patients at risk of harm, the Royal College of Radiologists has warned.

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6 hours ago Real Madrid vs Mallorca LIVE! Spanish Super Cup result, match stream and latest updates today

Jude Bellingham leads charge as Carlo Ancelotti’s side leave it late

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2 hours ago Businessman, 64, accused of murdering his wife, 37, at their flat told a 999 call handler he woke up at the property to find his wife was 'cold to the touch', court hears

Walter Buchanan, 66, appeared in the dock yesterday charged with killing 37-year-old Darrel Buchanan (pictured) at their flat in Hamilton on February 18, 2023.

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6 hours ago BBC The Traitors fans left gobsmacked as yet another 'emotional' twist airs

On Thursday night's episode of BBC's The Traitors, there was a surprise for fans as they discovered whether the remaining two Traitors had decided whether to recruit a new Traitor or murder a Faithful

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3 hours ago Twisted rap lyrics boasting about hunting schoolboy down and stabbing him to death on a double

They boast about hunting the schoolboy down and how he's 'now sitting' there stiff' after he was knifed to death on Tuesday in broad daylight on the number 472 London double-decker bus in Woolwich.

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8 hours ago Teenage boy who stabbed girl in back at train station to be detained in hospital

A 15-year-old boy attempted to murder the girl during a serious assault at Cadoxton railway station in Barry.

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3 hours ago How the wildfires in Los Angeles area could affect California's home insurance market

The wildfires that destroyed homes in multiple sections of the Los Angeles area will test California’s efforts to stabilize the state’s insurance marketplace after many insurers stopped issuing residential policies due to the high fire risk

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8 hours ago David Moyes in talks over remarkable return to Everton after Sean Dyche sacking

Moyes was previously in charge at Goodison Park between 2002 and 2013

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3 hours ago Police fear more ‘serious youth violence’ after teenager stabbed to death on bus

Kelyan Bokassa was killed on a route 472 bus in Woolwich Church Street, near Woolwich Ferry, just before 2.30pm on Tuesday.

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10 hours ago Everton sack Sean Dyche just hours before FA Cup clash as Seamus Coleman takes role in dugout

Seamus Coleman and Leighton Baines to take charge against Peterborough in FA Cup

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4 hours ago NHS board fails to gag tribunal of nurse who objected to transgender medic using the same changing room

A nurse suspended from work after complaining about a trans college using a female changing room has told of her joy after an NHS demand for an employment tribunal to be anonymous was rejected.

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11 hours ago Mom 'walks in on female school aide, 45, raping her disabled teenage son on snow day'

Christin Coble allegedly raped the 15-year-old boy in his Ohio home on Monday. The teen has the mental capacity of a nine-year-old, his mother said.

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4 hours ago Sickening rap lyrics boasting about murder of schoolboy Kelyan Bokassa on London bus shared online

Kelyan Bokassa, 14, was stabbed to death on a bus in Woolwich, South East London, and as tributes pour in for the youngster, sick lyrics have also appeared on Instagram about the attack

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12 hours ago Government says ‘no need for emergency intervention’ in financial markets

Uncertainty over fiscal stability and wider global pressures caused sterling to weaken on Thursday.

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4 hours ago Woman and teenager arrested on suspicion of manslaughter two YEARS after teenager died in house fire

A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after a horrific blaze tore through a home and killed a 18-year-old teenager, Leah Casson (pictured), two years ago.

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14 hours ago Sickening Snapchats paedo Ellis Dismore sent girl before stabbing her in street

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. Ellis Dismore, 24, sent sickening voice notes threatening to rape and stab young teenage girls before attacking one victim in the street

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4 hours ago Young hospital worker charged with child abuse after multiple babies suffer 'inexplicable injuries'

Former nurse Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman, 26, is in jail and has been ordered to have no contact with any child under the age of 18. She is due to appear in court on March 24

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15 hours ago NATO's maritime show of force on Putin's doorstep: Alliance sends fleet of 10 ships to the Baltic to protect Europe's crucial undersea cables after sabotage attacks

The ships are set to remain at sea until April and will be strategically positioned near energy and data cables in an effort to deter any attempts to destroy them.

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4 hours ago Bus station stabbing victim pictured as tributes paid to to 'popular teen'

Thomas Taylor, 17, was attacked by a group of males at 5.50pm on Wednesday as he walked along Greenhill Street, close to Bedford bus station, officers said.

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15 hours ago London has a congestion charge – and traffic in gridlock. We need other ways to end the obsession with cars | Jonn Elledge

The charge was seen as draconian, but new thinking is now essential. Look to the cities trying a range of bold ideasThere was a moment, during the long, strange summer of 2020, when it felt like Covid might reshape London, as it seemed set to change so much else. The streets of the capital, so long given over to dangerous metal boxes spewing out fumes, felt open to human life once again. Main streets were closed to private traffic; and an abundance of new low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) and cycle lanes appeared. When the world reopened, the bars and restaurants of Soho began spilling out into the semi-pedestrianised streets.But this, as with so many of the changes wreaked by the pandemic, turned out to be a mirage. Westminster council removed traffic restrictions in Soho, while Kensington and Chelsea ripped out a brand new cycle lane. Low-traffic neighbourhoods, meanwhile, brought the English closer to civil war than Brexit ever managed. The car remained king after all.Jonn Elledg...

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5 hours ago Judge releases woman who stabbed a classmate to please Slender Man from a psychiatric hospital

A judge has ruled that a Wisconsin woman who stabbed her sixth grade classmate to please horror character Slender Man can be released from a psychiatric hospital

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15 hours ago Lambrini Girls: Who Let the Dogs Out review – stomps straight to the top of British punk’s table

(City Slang)Championed by Iggy Pop and riot grrrl royalty, the Brighton duo pile on the jagged riffs, scabrous humour and swearing for their politically charged debutFor the most part, Lambrini Girls’ debut album barrels along in roughly the style that’s hoisted the Brighton duo to cult success over the last few years. There are huge, distorted basslines courtesy of Lily Macieira and equally distorted guitar playing from Phoebe Lunny that flits between post-punk angularity and occasional bursts of poppier, Ramones-y chords. The rhythms are frantically paced, and there are lyrics that focus on societal ills, delivered in Lunny’s distinctive vocal style: she sings like someone angrily trying to make their point in a particularly noisy bar, as a bouncer struggles to usher them out of the door.Combined, this music has drawn appreciative nods from a range of forebears including Iggy Pop, Kathleen Hanna and Sleater Kinney’s Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein. Iggy is so enamoured of the d...

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5 hours ago Transgender Slender Man stabber Morgan Geyser to be released from prison despite victim Payton Leutner's pleas

Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were 12 when they attacked Payton Leutner, also 12, in a sickening attack that shocked America in 2014.

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15 hours ago London has a congestion charge – and traffic in gridlock. We need other ways to end the obsession with cars

London has a congestion charge – and traffic in gridlock. We need other ways to end the obsession with cars  The Guardian

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6 hours ago Schoolboy Kelyan Bokassa's chilling last Instagram post before being stabbed to death on bus

Kelyan Bokassa, 14, an aspiring drill rapper who used the stage name Grippa, was stabbed to death on a bus in Woolwich, South East London, and so far his attackers have not be found

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15 hours ago South of Scotland Destination Alliance names preferred EV charging partner

The leading electric vehicle (EV) chargepoint operator for the hospitality and leisure sectors in the UK has been appointed as the preferred EV charging provider for the South of Scotland Destination Alliance (SSDA).

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7 hours ago Bedford bus station stabbing victim Thomas Taylor pictured as 'popular' teen remembered

Thomas Taylor, 17, was stabbed while walking along Greenhill Street, close to Bedford bus station, and rushed to hospital with serious injuries but died a short time later

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16 hours ago Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell review – a tense portrait of coercive control

Trapped between a controlling partner and a housing system in crisis, a mother in Dublin struggles to protect her children and herselfAbout a quarter of the way through Roisín O’Donnell’s unbearably tense debut novel, the protagonist finds herself in the foyer of a Dublin hotel. She picks up a brochure, which advises her to “escape the pressures of everyday life at the Hotel Eden”; the problem is that Ciara and her two young daughters are not trying to escape everyday stresses, but Ciara’s coercive and domineering husband – and crucially, this time they are trying to stay away for good.Ireland’s housing crisis means there is nowhere, physically, for them to go. Ciara’s family are based in the UK and Ryan has put a block on the girls’ passports, while his controlling ways have cut Ciara off from all her friends. She is also completely financially dependent on him. What follows, then, is a nightmarish attempt to navigate the housing system – a series of cramped wai...

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8 hours ago NHS board fails to gag tribunal of nurse who objected to transgender medic using same changing room

A nurse suspended from work after complaining about a trans college using a female changing room has told of her joy after an NHS demand for an employment tribunal to be anonymous was rejected.

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18 hours ago Murray ready to be on the end of any Djokovic outbursts at Australian Open

Both players well known for fiery demeanour on court‘I’m fine with him expressing himself how he wants’Andy Murray says he would be absolutely fine with receiving any angry outbursts of emotion or venting on-court from Novak Djokovic, his new coaching charge, as the two former longtime rivals prepare for their first tournament together on the same team at the Australian Open.“Of course, I’ve thought about it,” said Murray to a group of British tennis journalists on Thursday in Melbourne. “I would think that I’d be one of the people that would maybe hopefully understand that side of things. I know it’s not easy out there, and it’s stressful, and at times he’s going to want to vent towards his team and his box. Provided that he’s giving his best effort and trying as hard as he can, I’m absolutely fine with him expressing himself how he wants.” Continue reading...

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8 hours ago Horror as second teenager stabbed just 24 hours after London bus attack with manhunt launched for gang of men

Horror as second teenager stabbed just 24 hours after London bus attack with manhunt launched for gang of men  GB News

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23 hours ago Brit kids are being given lessons on how to make calls as 'phone anxiety' takes over

Nottingham College is running coaching sessions on phone confidence and etiquette to support youngsters in overcoming their fear of speaking to people on the blower

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9 hours ago Liam Payne's father was told of his son's tragic death in phone call from 'friend and manager' Roger Nores who is now facing manslaughter charge, prosecution witness statement reveals

The tragic One Direction star plunged to his death from a third-floor balcony of a hotel following a drink and drugs binge.

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9 hours ago Premier League star accused of rape: Prosecutors are 'carefully reviewing' file of evidence handed to CPS by the police this week

MIKE KEEGAN: Crown Prosecution Service officials will decide whether to charge the well-known international footballer, after being handed a dossier of evidence by Metropolitan Police.

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