5 hours ago Scots ‘can benefit from Trump uncertainty’ in green energy investment: Forbes

The Deputy First Minister also defended the Government’s stance that it would meet the President-elect.

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23 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 Britain's unlikely bureau de change boom... and the dark reason behind it: As 25 money changers pop up within 500 yards in one city, RORY TINGLE investigates

EXCLUSIVE: Bureau de change stores offering money transfer services are found in large numbers across many British towns and cities, defying the growing popularity of mobile payments.

Economics

9 hours ago Alfie Dorrington in Aberdeen transfer talks as Tottenham star in the making sees Ange promise to him come true

he Spurs staff want to get the under-19 England international out to get first-team experience

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4 hours ago Energy giant Southern California Edison 'investigated' over link to Hurst Wildfire

A California energy company is under investigation for a potential link to one of the wildfires currently raging in Los Angeles, with their possible role in the 800 acre Hurst fire under scrutiny

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6 hours ago Ed Miliband's 'reckless obsession' with renewable energy leaves consumers with record energy bills

Ed Miliband's 'obsession' with renewable energy is leaving consumers with record high bills to keep wind farms switched off, critics warned last night.

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8 hours ago Labour's Tulip Siddiq is under fresh pressure to quit as Bangladesh's new leader says London properties given to the anti

Labour's anti-corruption minister is under fresh pressure to quit over her links to Bangladesh's ousted regime after the new leader of the country intervened in the controversy.

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7 hours ago Ronnie O'Sullivan's company launches £10.2MILLION lawsuit against snooker bosses for 'abuse of their dominant position' in the game

DAVID COVERDALE: The company claim that 'unlawful and anti-competitive practices' have been used to prevent players from competing in rival tournaments.

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7 hours ago Kai Havertz's wife reveals sickening Instagram messages as Arsenal launch investigation

Kai Havertz missed the decisive penalty during Arsenal’s FA Cup defeat to Manchester United and his wife has been targeted by vile trolls in the aftermath of the Gunners’ elimination

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17 hours ago HMPV latest: Chinese health officials give update on virus infection rate

The update comes amid international concern over a potential pandemic

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8 hours ago Max George reveals new health fears as he faces a gruesome lung operation after undergoing life

The Wanted star, 36, shared that he could be forced to have another operation on his lungs, as doctors need to investigate enlarged lymph nodes in that area.

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17 hours ago London man who cut himself shaving wins £5K compensation from the razor company

London man who cut himself shaving wins £5K compensation from the razor company  Richmond and Twickenham Times

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7 hours ago Investigations after horror plane crash at UK airport cancels Manchester flights

An aircraft involved in the dramatic incident just before Christmas is to undergo further investigations

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11 hours ago The Guardian view on capital punishment: an upsurge in executions should concern us all | Editorial

The vast majority of countries have outlawed the death penalty. Yet the annual toll is growing – and Donald Trump wants to increase its useThe good news: Zimbabwe has just banned the death penalty. While it should remove an exemption clause, which might allow for capital punishment’s return were a state of emergency to be declared, the decision is another welcome step in the global journey towards abolition: 113 states have now banned executions.The bad news is that fewer countries have been killing more people in the last few years. Last May, Amnesty International recorded 1,153 executions in 2023, a 31% increase from the previous year and the highest level for almost a decade. (The figure is an underestimate since countries including China, believed to be the world’s largest executioner, do not publish data on the death penalty.) There was no letup in 2024. Iran reportedly executed more than 900 people. Saudi Arabia is believed to have killed another 330, compared with 172 in...

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28 hours ago Six household bills set to rise in the coming weeks including council tax and mobile phones

Households are set to be hit with a raft of price hikes in early 2025, including council tax, energy bills and mobile phone and broadband contracts

Economics

16 hours ago Boeing production in 2024 expected to be less than half of rival Airbus

US planemaker may have delivered 340 aircraft compared with 766 of European group, analysis suggestsBoeing is expected to confirm it made less than half of the aircraft of its rival Airbus in 2024, with analysts questioning whether the troubled US planemaker will be able to increase its rate of production as planned.The company is expected to report that it delivered only 340 aircraft to customers, when it publishes numbers on Tuesday, according to forecasts by Flight Plan. That is far below the 766 delivered by Airbus, Europe’s planemaking champion. Continue reading...

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8 hours ago Hackney shooting: Two men left with gunshot wounds and one stabbed as attackers on the run

Police are investigating a shooting in Hackney, where two men were found with gunshot wounds and where another was stabbed, with the attackers believed to still be on the run

Events

17 hours ago Return looted shipwreck treasures to countries of origin as reparations for slavery, says lawyer

Proposal suggests restitution for colonial artefacts should also apply to underwater heritage Shipwrecked colonial treasures that have lain on the seabed for centuries could be recovered and returned to their countries of origin as reparations for slavery.Tim Maxwell, an international cultural heritage lawyer, said repatriating artefacts found underwater could help former colonial powers meet moral obligations to countries they had historically exploited for their transatlantic trade. Continue reading...

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8 hours ago Arsenal investigate threats to Kai Havertz’s wife after Man United defeat

Arsenal are investigating threatening messages sent to the pregnant wife of player Kai Havertz following a loss on Sunday evening

Events

18 hours ago Gregg Wallace returns to TV for first time since leaving MasterChef amid 'sexual misconduct probe'

The TV presenter, 60, is currently under investigation over a string of allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour and stepped down from hosting the show in November.

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10 hours ago OAP, 69, dies after being hit by a Volkswagen in an Asda car park: Heroic bystanders leapt into action to try to save his life

An investigation has been launched by police after the 69-year-old man was certified dead at the scene of the incident, which took place at the Dock Road branch of ASDA.

Events

18 hours ago Cardiff City transfer bulletin as midfielder reveals reason behind move and new international linked

The latest Bluebirds transfer news

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13 hours ago Fired US Center for SafeSport investigator arrested again, this time charged with rape

An investigator fired from his job at the U.S. Center for SafeSport for allegedly stealing money seized at a drug bust has been arrested again

Events

19 hours ago Alan Shearer's daughters both have famous boyfriends – including England international

Legendary former Newcastle United and England striker Alan Shearer has been married to his wife Lainya for nearly 34 years and the pair have two daughters and a son

Politics

13 hours ago The Shetland Way by Marianne Brown review – a daughter’s journey to the heart of the climate crisis

An environmental writer returns to her father’s home for his funeral in a family memoir that becomes an examination of Shetland’s crucial role in the energy landscapeAs with many nature-centric memoirs of recent years, Marianne Brown’s debut, The Shetland Way, begins with personal loss. It opens at the funeral of her father, Bill, on his home island of Shetland, a place she knows only in glimpses; her parents separated when she was two, and her relationship with her father was characterised by absence, “always promising something it would never deliver”. But her connection with the islands and her late father is forced into an accelerated intimacy; the funeral takes place in February 2020 as the pandemic spreads, and Brown finds herself unexpectedly spending the months of lockdown with her partner and young daughter in Shetland: “Confinement in a land that claimed half my genealogy, a history and culture of which I knew next to nothing about.”They stay in the house that Bill, a pott...

Events

19 hours ago ‘Would love to see her faked’: the dark world of sexual deepfakes – and the women fighting back

The government has promised a crackdown on synthetic image abuse – but campaigners warn it doesn’t go far enoughIt began with an anonymous email. “I’m genuinely so, so sorry to reach out to you,” it read. Beneath the words were three links to an internet forum. “Huge trigger warning They contain lewd photoshopped images of you.”Jodie (not her real name) froze. In the past, the 27-year-old from Cambridgeshire had had problems with people stealing her photos to set up dating profiles and social media accounts. She had reported it to police but been told there was nothing they could do, so pushed it to the back of her mind. Continue reading...

Politics

14 hours ago Keir Starmer ‘will act on findings of Tulip Siddiq investigation regardless of outcome’

Minister hits back after Tories call for PM to sack anti-corruption minister at centre of Bangladesh property rowKeir Starmer will act on the findings of an independent investigation into Tulip Siddiq’s conduct regardless of the outcome, a cabinet minister has said, as Kemi Badenoch called for her to be sacked.Badenoch, the Conservative leader, accused the prime minister of appointing “his personal friend as anti-corruption minister and she is accused herself of corruption”, after the Bangladesh government raised serious concerns about Siddiq’s links to the regime of Sheikh Hasina, her aunt. Continue reading...

Events

19 hours ago Cleaning expert shows how to leave filthy radiator gleaming in simple steps

A clean radiator not only keeps your living spaces fresh, it also helps you be more energy efficient as radiators covered in dust will have to work extra hard to heat your home

Politics

15 hours ago Woman uses AirTag to track cat and is shocked when it turns up in unexpected place

A cat owner has left the internet confused after she shared a video of her tracking down her pet on the 'Find My' app - but people were left baffled by how her cat had got so far away

Events

20 hours ago Notes on a sandal: why I’m a Birkenstock afficionado | Teo van den Broeke

As the brand sues rivals, arguing its designs are artefacts that transcend footwear, a devotee hails the 250-year-old, once humble corkbed shoesBirkenstock is suing several competitors for allegedly copying four of its most ­recognisable styles: the Arizona and Madrid sandals, the Gizeh flip-flop, and the Boston clog – a closed-toe design beloved by the likes of Kaia Gerber, Jason Momoa and Gigi Hadid, with sales in 2024 more than doubling the company’s average.Defending its litigious stance, the German brand, which has been crafting sandals in the Linz am Rhein region since the 18th century, claims its products transcend everyday footwear and should instead be considered pieces of “applied art” – wearable artefacts of historic craftsmanship deserving protection from imitators such as Tchibo, another German company, which is named in the lawsuit. Continue reading...

Politics

16 hours ago Rise in vigilante attacks in US highlight growing online DIY terrorism resources

Availability of manuals and instructions on less moderated apps and forums is making extremist content accessibleA spate of recent vigilante and extremist attacks in the US have highlighted how the booming availability of internet resources is a growing national security concern.Experts and world governments have been sounding the alarm on digital radicalization as accessibility to materials such as assassination manuals, files for 3D printed guns, or something as simple as ChatGPT grows. Continue reading...

Events

21 hours ago Britain is a weak link in Donald Trump’s new world order, so it needs to find friends fast | Will Hutton

Amid deepening debt and an onslaught by the president-elect, Labour must calm the markets, then think big economicallyIt’s certainly not 2008, nor even Truss 2022, but the men and women who move the financial markets are suddenly darkly pessimistic. Some of the private emails and WhatsApp messages circulating last week matched any efforts by Cassandra. The mood has turned against Britain.It is not one single thing, but a toxic mix. There is the prospect of a long period of stagflation, the consequence, as even the markets recognise, of 14 years of epic misgovernment. The problem now is partly that Labour does not have a plausible growth story, partly that the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is painted as having an economic tin ear that douses capitalist animal spirits, and partly because Trump’s arrival has exposed just how dependent an indebted, economically wounded Britain is on the kindness of strangers. It’s not yet a crisis – the stock market has held up – but without some skilful e...

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17 hours ago Japanese filmmaker whose arrest caused international outcry backs calls for Aung San Suu Kyi’s release

Toru Kubota backed calls from three former foreign secretaries William Hague, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw for Aung San Suu Kyi’s release from Myanmar’s brutal dictatorship

Events

21 hours ago Mikel Merino eager to prove he can play like Arsenal and Man City legends

Mikel Merino joined Arsenal last summer to add more physicality to their midfield but Spain international believes he can also create in a similar way to compatriot Cesc Fabregas

Politics

18 hours ago California fires live: around 35,000 LA homes and businesses without electricity as police issue warning over looters

LA Department of Water and Power says it is working to restore power; Los Angeles county sheriff says death toll expected to rise; police say looters posed as firefighters coming out of housesFull report: international crews arrive to battle raging wildfiresPoliticians quibbling as LA burns: Gavin Newsom’s latest beef with TrumpDetails emerge about the LA fire victimsAs is noted in our news report on the California wildfires, at least 20 arrests have been made for looting. Officials have imposed a mandatory curfew in evacuation zones as well as in the city of Santa Monica, which is next to Pacific Palisades.“Looting is an issue, the number of arrests is continuously growing,” Capt Mike Lorenz of the Los Angeles Police Department said yesterday. Continue reading...

Events

23 hours ago From the Beatles to biologics – how Liverpool became a life science hotspot

The city has a long history with tropical medicine and is now home to one of the largest biotech clusters in EuropeTucked away in the village of Leasowe, near Moreton on the Wirral peninsula west of Liverpool, the US pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) is building a new £35m glass-clad laboratory building.It is part of a growing life sciences cluster in and around Liverpool, one of the largest in Europe, and a leader in vaccine development and manufacture, as well as infectious disease research projects in the UK. Continue reading...

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18 hours ago California fires live: around 35,000 homes and business without electricity in LA as 16 deaths confirmed

LA Department of Water and Power says it is working to restore power as Los Angeles county sheriff says death toll expected to riseFull report: international crews arrive to battle raging wildfiresPoliticians quibbling as LA burns: Gavin Newsom’s latest beef with TrumpDetails emerge about the LA fire victimsHere is video of Los Angeles residents returning to their homes to assess the damaged left by the devastating fires which raged through multiple areas of the city:34,646 homes and businesses in Los Angeles are now without electricity, according to Poweroutage.us, an outage monitor that tracks blackouts across the US.San Bernardino: 8,333Riverside: 7, 152Santa Barbara: 2,081 Continue reading...

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20 hours ago California fires live: 16 deaths confirmed as flames threaten UCLA campus and worsening winds predicted

Los Angeles county sheriff says death toll expected to rise, with firefighters racing to contain Palisades fireFull report: international crews arrive to battle raging wildfiresPoliticians quibbling as LA burns: Gavin Newsom’s latest beef with TrumpDetails emerge about the LA fire victimsCalifornia attorney general Rob Bonta has warned that it is illegal to engage in price gouging, looting or scamming of any kind and those who do in response to the fires will be held accountable by the law.“We’ve seen businesses and landlords jack up the price,” he told journalists at a press conference yesterday. “It’s called price gouging. It is illegal. You cannot do it. It is a crime punishable by up to a year in jail and fines.” Continue reading...

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23 hours ago 'Overeager' reporter slammed by internet as cringeworthy Dennis Quaid interview goes viral amid LA fires

In a now-viral news clip, the 70-year-old actor was interrupted by a reporter for NBC 4 Los Angeles and his cameraperson outside of his Brentwood home.

Events

23 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

Events

28 hours ago I don't want my teenage daughters to see my latest sex scenes, says Nicole Kidman following release of steamy drama Babygirl

The Australian actress plays a married middle-aged executive who has a highly erotic affair with a much younger intern in her latest film Babygirl.

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