54 minutes ago Dream journey: a nostalgic trip aboard the sleeper train from Amsterdam to Berlin

Taking the overnight train between the capital cities and on to Dresden is all about slow travel and the romance of life on the trackOn the evening of our overnight train journey from Amsterdam to Berlin and on to Dresden aboard the European Sleeper, we enjoy a restorative plate of oysters and steak tartare on the decks of Amsterdam’s BrasserieMarie overlooking the Amstel. Then, after a nightcap in the adjoining Freddy’s Bar, a legendary spot in the Hotel De L’Europe, we make the short stroll to Amsterdam Centraal Station for the so-called Good Night Train.At 22.20 we board the train to Berlin, the bunks are swiftly made up and the blinds part pulled down for sleep. You can open the window for fresh air, brush your teeth in your own basin and there is crisp, clean linen. This slow journey is all about the romance of life on the track – and, for me, a lingering nostalgia. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago 'Shocked' building firm issues apology after demolishing childhood home of AC/DC rock stars

Company promises to create ‘special space’ to commemorate site

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4 hours ago Five sunny destinations for January travel – including hotspot with £17.99 flights

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17 hours ago Outlander fans 'getting so tired' as season 7 finale won’t air for another week in major schedule shake

Fans of the hit Starz drama Outlander were left disappointed when the season seven finale failed to air this Friday

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60 minutes ago Temperatures hit minus 13.9C overnight but cold spell coming to an end

Kinbrace in northern Scotland saw the lowest overnight temperature with minus 13.9C overnight, the Met Office said.

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2 hours ago Truth behind Macy Gray's Masked Singer meltdown and what ITV didn't show you

The Masked Singer fans were stunned when Toad in The Hole star Macy Gray stormed off stage following the decision to reveal her - but not all of the antics were shown on air

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23 hours ago Protection zone set up after bird flu outbreak in Angus area of Scotland

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22 hours ago Three in hospital and cars burst into flames after s'erious' incident on Scottish road

Three people were taken to hospital after a serious road accident last night which saw two vehicles burst into flames.

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1 hour ago Ben Doak Liverpool transfer price tag 'revealed' as ex Celtic kid adds Bournemouth to list of suitors

The Scotland cap has been tearing it up in the English Championship on loan at Middlesbrough

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17 hours ago The One Show's Alex Jones pauses show to make Elton John announcement live on air

Alex Jones went on to present a snippet of the iconic singer Elton John, speaking directly from his house.

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13 hours ago Inside Hearts' January transfer dealings and the role played by Jamestown Analytics

Neil Critchley lifts lid on recruitment process

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Red Devils out to build on encouraging display against Liverpool

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87 minutes ago Devastated Simon Cowell makes urgent LA wildfire plea in new video message

Simon Cowell has urged people to help victims of the California wildfires, saying he is devastated by what has happened.

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2 hours ago What will my descendants make of my photo 100 years from now? | Seamas O'Reilly

Looking at a sepia-tinged picture of my grandmother, she has the kind of face you don’t see any more The photo shows my grandmother. She’s among the adults at the back, fourth from right, peeping out from a row of old-timey faces. The kind of faces you don’t see any more, faces that could only come from the past. Even without the sepia tint and the period clothing, you know you’d have a hard time showing them an iPhone or talking to them about AI. Frankly, you’d have a hard time explaining ITV4.But it is sepia-tinted, this photo, almost artificially so; its stock-still adults and fidgety kids captured in eerie permanence, so perfectly composed as to recall the cover of a stirring Irish childhood memoir. Judging by the boys and girls in their little suits and sparkling white dresses, it’s from a first holy communion ceremony, presumably one with pupils from the small primary school in Mulleek, Fermanagh, where she taught for 30 years. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Watch as man goes snowboarding down street during heavy snow as cold weather continues

Watch the moment a skatepark owner tries his hand at snowboarding down his local street, making the most of the heavy snow.

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20 hours ago Gatwick Airport CCTV image is released after family have luggage stolen containing house keys, bank cards, Apple gadgets and scuba gear

A family were preparing to depart on a long haul flight when the theft happened at the check-in area A in the South Terminal at London Gatwick.

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15 hours ago Rangers CEO lifts lid on January window plans, Hamza Igamane stance, why squad is good enough and club finances

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It's the start of a new era for one of Scotland's greatest ever sportsmen as Andy Murray joins Novak Djokovic's coaching team

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1 hour ago PC Rosie Prior and man dead after being hit by HGV when she stopped to help motorists following A19 crash

Tributes have been paid to a police officer who died after being hit by a HGV when she stopped to help motorists involved in an earlier crash.

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4 hours ago What time is Dancing on Ice on TV tonight? ITV start time for 2025 reality show

Dancing on Ice is skating back onto ITV tonight 🚨

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2 hours ago Jimmy Thelin makes Aberdeen DNA promise as clear transfer pattern emerges at Pittodrie

The Swede has brought in eight Aberdeen signings to date - and only ONE has been Scottish

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19 hours ago Sick 'Eunuch Maker' who offered desperate men £25k to lop off their genitals with knives

Marius Gustavson armed himself with instruments designed for farm animals to carry out his extreme mutilations on blokes in rented hotel rooms and grubby flats in London

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1 hour ago Geordie Shore icon lifts lid on Gavin And Stacey star and Corrie beauty flings

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5 hours ago Landowner and music festival founder claims mass pylons will 'ruin' Highlands

Hundreds of miles of new powerlines and pylons are due to cross the Highlands.

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2 hours ago UK snow maps turn purple as huge Arctic blast bears down on millions of Brits

According to WXCharts, their weather map turns purple on Friday 24 January from 6am and more snow looks set to hit the Scottish Highlands before moving down to Edinburgh and Inverness

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22 hours ago Philippe Clement SAFE at Rangers for now but CEO Patrick Stewart sets beleaguered boss one condition to keep job

The Belgian is under huge pressure after falling so far behind in the Scottish Premiership due to a woeful run of away results

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2 hours ago Inside the chilling story of one of Britain's longest serving prisoners... that you've never heard of: How murderer, 72, met grisly end in Scottish jail after 55 years behind bars

One of the UK's longest-serving prisoners has died at the age of 72 after spending more than 50 years behind bars... but you've likely never heard of him.

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21 hours ago Photographer captures proposal at Scots tourist spot and begs others to 'get out shot'

"It wasn't a pleasure editing everyone else out though but all part of the job."

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22 hours ago Novice investor flips 8 homes in unlikely US boomtown... and reveals how she made a big profit

A woman has flipped eight homes in the city and has shared how she has made a huge profit. 

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2 hours ago Manchester United close in on first January signing as Diego Leon flies in for medical

The left-back is set to finalise a deal which will see him join when he turns 18

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29 hours ago 'Quintessentially English film' fans call 'a timeless masterpiece' is on TV tonight

Based on Jane Austen's classic novel, the drama is considered a 'cinematic classic' by film fans and critics alike - and it will air on BBC Two today

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2 hours ago In Attendance: Paying Attention in a Fragile World review – visions of mortality abound

Fitzrovia Chapel, LondonIn a former hospital chapel replete with its own stories, works by Paula Rego, Phyllida Barlow and others resonate in their exquisitely contemplative surroundingsThe Fitzrovia Chapel is a miniature cathedral in the heart of London – a tiny vault of marble, stained glass and gold conceived on the most human of scales. Old photographs show congregations of barely more than 50. It is possible to walk from one end to the other in fewer than a dozen steps, but along the way are glimmering mosaics, glowing stars and some of the most moving words I have ever read in a church.This chapel, where King Charles recorded his recent Christmas message, is all that remains of the old Middlesex hospital in the heart of London. A neo-gothic building of dark red brick, it once nestled inside this venerable teaching hospital, founded in 1745. Now it stands alone, and fully visible, dwarfed instead by the high-rise apartments and luxury shops of the Pearson Square complex that re...

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27 hours ago I ditched 'Dry January' to celebrate winning spellbinding £4m mansion with unreal views in Omaze prize draw

A mum won a £4m home - then immediately broke her 'dry January' with a bottle of champagne.

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3 hours ago Hearts new boy opens up on his brush with death and what Arnaud Djoum told him to expect at Tynecastle

26 y/o striker spent 14 days in a coma

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3 hours ago What channel is Rangers v St Johnstone on? TV, live stream and highlights details plus team news

Full details ahead of Rangers v St Johnstone at Ibrox

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28 hours ago Top destination with ‘340 days of sunshine’ a year is only a £17 flight from Manchester Airport

Escape the January chill with this sunny city break destination, that's been dubbed the 'new Turkey'

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3 hours ago Man puts 25 dynamite sticks in mum's suitcase before plane explodes killing all on board

John 'Jack' Gilbert Graham hated him mum so much that he packed her suitcase bound for a flight to Alaska with 25 sticks of dynamite, ultimately killing all 44 people on board

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3 hours ago A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin spar in sublimely bittersweet Holocaust tour movie

The stars play Jewish American cousins touring Poland in honour of their grandmother in Eisenberg’s sharp, highly personal comedy boasting an Oscar-tipped performance from CulkinIt’s a slip of a thing, clocking in at a tight 90 minutes; a deft, light-footed amalgamation of two potentially formulaic comedy genres: the road movie and the mismatched buddy flick. But the second directorial venture from actor Jesse Eisenberg, which he also wrote and stars in, is considerably more than the seemingly slight sum of its parts. A Real Pain is a whip-sharp comedy driven by the rattling verbal sparring between uptight, neurotic David (Eisenberg) and his outgoing, unpredictable cousin Benji (Kieran Culkin). It’s also a profound character study – a substantial and emotionally nourishing journey that contains, courtesy of Culkin, perhaps the most devastating final shot of any film you will see this year.It’s a notable step up for Eisenberg as a writer-director. His 2022 debut, When You Finish Savi...

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29 hours ago Scotsman readers offer 'lifeline' to help boost Cyrenians campaign fund to £100k

The Scotsman joined forces with Cyrenians for its winter campaign

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5 hours ago Burns Night celebrations in Edinburgh fall flat after festival is hit by funding problems

New event honouring ‘The Bard’ was launched in Edinburgh’s Old and New Towns in 2019.

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4 hours ago Scottish referee and VAR duo selected among best in Europe after receiving elite UEFA invite

SFA duo handpicked for advanced course

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31 hours ago American pays £1.3k to rent Edinburgh flat but finds out "doesn't exist"

Olivia Ellen Homer was left "completely blindsided," when she arrived to the capital on January 6 ahead of starting a course at Napier University.

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5 hours ago Why abandoning Ukraine will usher in new world order in which great wars are inevitable

The current international legal order prohibits the use of force by countries to win territory. If this concept is shattered in Ukraine, a new world order based on threats and violence will emerge

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5 hours ago Sunday with Jo Malone: ‘I’m always wearing four or five different fragrances’

The perfumer and her husband enjoy life in Dubai, with its silk shops, water workouts, large lunches and friends who are like familyUp early? I’m not the earliest of risers, but I live in Dubai and can walk to the beach for sunrise at 6.30am. Other than people, I miss nothing about home – my husband Gary and I feel as if we’re living our senior gap year.Sunday breakfast? A green juice and a red juice but, if I’m hungover, it’s eggs Benedict. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago Ash Regan: Why Gisèle Pelicot's case and grooming gangs scandal will help my prostitution law pass

Ash Regan MSP hopes 2025 will be the year her prostitution bill gets passed - and says the public’s attitude is shifting thanks to women like Gisèle Pelicot

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5 hours ago Playing Nice cast: who are ITV cast members and where have you seen them before?

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5 hours ago Anas Sarwar to harness Andy Burnham to 'do devolution better' if Labour win power in 2026

Anas Sarwar will learn lessons from Andy Burnham and other governments across Europe and the United States as Scottish Labour plan to “rejuvenate Scotland’s national, regional and local governments”.

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5 hours ago Stephen Flynn accuses UK government of denying Scotland same land borrowing powers as England

The decision not to expand the powers to Scotland has sparked a row

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5 hours ago Liz Truss legal letter to Sir Keir Starmer the latest disaster from joke that keeps on giving

Liz Truss, remember her?

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5 hours ago Scotland's next crop of keepers CAN be as good as Craig Gordon and David Marshall as new SFA goalie guru makes pledge

Graeme Smith played in goals in Scotland for 20 years and now wants to help produce the next batch of quality shot-stoppers

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7 hours ago Tokyo pub hosts a haggis, neeps and tatties Burns night as Japanese chef serenades diners with bagpipes

Japanese chef Tomohiro Onuki took up playing the bagpipes and opened his own Scots restaurant in Tokyo

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7 hours ago John Swinney 'wants to be First Minister until 2031' as he makes clear 'caretaker' status is over

The SNP leader has opened up on his ambitions, and also talked for the first time about a heart scare in the back of a ministerial car that inspired him to take up running.

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7 hours ago Bible John author suffers DNA blow in bid to prove her theory on killer's identity

John Templeton was named as the possible killer of third victim Helen Puttock, in a book by Australian Jill Bavin-Mizzi.

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7 hours ago Nicola Sturgeon aims for Gadd Globes glory alongside writer and pal Val McDermid

The ex-First Minister revealed she was inspired by Richard Gadd and would like to attend the Golden Globes with pal Val McDermid

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7 hours ago Rape survivor must sign gagging order if she wants to watch attacker's freedom hearing

Ellie Wilson, who will have to sign a gagging order to protect her attacker’s privacy, has accused the parole board of “silencing her”.

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11 hours ago Special Forces secrets exposed... by the Ministry of Defence! Veterans slam officials for printing shadowy force's tests in magazine feature

Veterans have been angered by the disclosing of precise details of the tests applicants must take to apply for the Special Air Service (SAS), the Special Boat Service (SBS) and other secretive units.

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8 hours ago California fires: 16 killed and 10,000 structures destroyed as blazes continue

Strong winds and low humidity continue as five fires rage across Los Angeles area, with death toll expected to riseLos Angeles fires: the damage in maps, video and imagesWeather forecasters in Los Angeles were expecting fast, dry winds to return towards the end of the weekend, threatening to fuel wildfires that have already destroyed 10,000 structures and killed 16 people.Urgent “red flag” alerts – meaning critical fire weather conditions – announced by the US National Weather Service (NWS) said moderate to strong wind and low humidity would continue on Friday morning, as five fires raged across the metropolis. Continue reading...

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11 hours ago Ruben Amorim urged to brutally axe Man Utd star who spoke out over 'leaders' claim

Manchester United have endured a rollercoaster season under Erik ten Hag and then Ruben Amorim and the Red Devils boss has been told to stop playing one star in particular

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9 hours ago Ukraine war briefing: Ukraine ‘captures two North Korean soldiers in Russia’

Pair being interrogated in Kyiv, with intelligence agency SBU saying one had fake Russian military ID; Russia claims control of village near PokrovskSee all our Ukraine coverageUkraine said it was interrogating two North Korean soldiers after capturing the pair in Russia’s Kursk region – the first time it has announced the capture of North Korean soldiers alive since their entry into the war last year. The president, Volodymyr Zelensyy, said on X on Saturday the soldiers were captured by Ukraine’s special forces and were being interrogated by the SBU domestic intelligence agency in Kyiv. The SBU released a video showing the two men in hospital bunks, one with bandaged hands and the other with a bandaged jaw. It said their questioning was being done in Korean with the help of South Korea’s NIS intelligence agency. Neither Russia nor North Korea immediately reacted to the announcement.The SBU said the two captured North Korean men had told interrogators they were experienced army sold...

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12 hours ago Will Kate be the Baftas' comeback of the year? Princess of Wales set to return to royal working life with show

Insiders at the awards are 'pulling out all the stops' to ensure the ceremony marks the Princess of Wales's return to the red carpet following her cancer diagnosis and treatment last year

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10 hours ago Marcus Rashford sent warning shot over dream move as Barcelona boss puts foot down

Marcus Rashford is keen on a move to Barcelona as he looks to leave Manchester United, but the La Liga side's manager Hansi Flick has made a decision that may make him reconsider

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13 hours ago Britain's three more days in the freezer! Country shivers through coldest January night in 15 years

Cold-weather health warnings were extended until Tuesday as much of the country endured below-zero temperatures, with -18.9C (-2F) recorded in Altnaharra, Scotland on Friday night.

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12 hours ago Mayotte on red alert again as another cyclone heads toward the French territory off Africa

The French territory of Mayotte is on red alert again with another cyclone heading toward the islands off Africa that were devastated by their worst storm in nearly a century last month

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