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2 hours ago Chelsea suffer Mathys Tel blow as Bayern Munich sporting director sends 'clear' message

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56 minutes ago The ‘convoy of incredible people’ saving animals from California’s infernal fires

As fires licked the Los Angeles landscape, a network of volunteers plunged into action to rescue pets and livestockAs flames roared into communities on all sides of Los Angeles last week, and tens of thousands of residents rushed to evacuate, trailers across southern California were being hitched and trucks fueled. A network of volunteers was preparing to descend on the fire zones, ready to risk it all to save pets and livestock in need.In the rural enclaves tucked close to the canyons most prime to burn, scores of animals – horses, goats, pigs, chickens, and even emus among them – were in danger as the fast-moving fires swept closer. Some had been left behind during chaotic evacuations. Others required large trailers or a gentle hand to calmly coax them through the terror caused by howling winds, ashen air and the very strangers desperately trying to get them to safety. Continue reading...

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66 minutes ago Scots comedy duo 'Francie' and 'Josie' bringing new show to Airdrie Town Hall

Panto and variety stars Liam Dolan and Johnny Mac will deliver hearty humour and marvellous music on February 23.

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2 hours ago How injections of a common household disinfectant could make cancer therapy work better: It's an incredible breakthrough, reveals THEA JOURDAN... and now it's being tested here

Hydrogen peroxide creates a toxic environment for cancer cells. The jabs, given directly into the tumour, weaken the cells, making them more vulnerable to radiotherapy.

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2 hours ago Catching Dust review – urbanites and hillbillies clash in confident desert noir

Stuart Gatt’s adventurous debut pitches meathead Clyde and his downtrodden wife Geena against city-dwelling newcomers Andy and AmayaBritish director Stuart Gatt’s confidently handled debut is a tale of two trailers: one a banged-up redneck bolthole in a godforsaken Texas desert commune; the other the minimalist glamping palace opposite. Taciturn meathead Clyde (Jai Courtney) occupies the former with his downtrodden wife, Geena (Erin Moriarty), and is none too pleased when vacationing New Yorkers Andy (Ryan Corr) and Amaya (Dina Shihabi) pitch up. Not just because their swanky digs are ridiculously out of place, but because their presence might draw attention to what he’s doing out there in the first place.Where many foreign directors come a cropper trying to show fealty to classic American iconography, Gatt has the confidence to do his own thing – kicking this off as a cagey town and country comedy of manners. The urbanites upend Clyde’s established order with deluxe pastries and ma...

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9 hours ago Inside one of Pacific Palisades' last standing malls after billionaire developer who ran against under fire mayor Karen Bass saved it from LA fire

Billionaire developer Rick Caruso 's Palisades Village Mall was directly in the path of the Palisades fire , which has already burned through 23,713 acres of prime southern California real estate.

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17 hours ago Wigan Warriors' Liam Farrell says Super League champions can't be "disrespectful"

Ex-England second-row, 34, leads Matt Peet's side into another season knowing it will be hard to eclipse last year's quadruple - and everyone will be hunting them

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1 hour ago Diddy accuser 'became incredibly reclusive' after he allegedly 'raped her with remote'

Sean 'Diddy' Combs has been accused of raping a woman with a remote control. The accuser appeared on Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy documentary and detailed the alleged incident

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10 hours ago How injections of a common household disinfectant could make cancer therapy work better: It's an incredible breakthrough, reveals THEA JORDAN... and now it's being tested here

Hydrogen peroxide creates a toxic environment for cancer cells. The jabs, given directly into the tumour, weaken the cells, making them more vulnerable to radiotherapy.

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3 hours ago Jack Smith insists Trump WOULD have been convicted of election interference in bombshell report

Donald Trump raged against special counsel Jack Smith's report in a late night rant to Truth Social shortly after it was released.

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11 hours ago Coronation Street star Simon Gregson 'owes £165,000 to the tax office and bank' and is now being probed by the Government

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3 hours ago M90 closed in both directions as smoke billows from huge recycling centre blaze

Residents have been asked to keep windows closed and stay away from the area, while firefighters battle the blaze.

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3 hours ago Nottingham Forest and Liverpool revive rivalry forged in late 1970s | Will Unwin

Classes of 2025 meet on Tuesday, echoing trophy-dictating matches between sides coached by Clough and PaisleyAt the end of the 1970s, there were two teams dominating English football: Bob Paisley’s much-lauded Liverpool and an up-and-coming Nottingham Forest under the guidance of the inimitable Brian Clough. In the final two seasons of the decade, they were the top two in the old First Division, winning a title each. When the two went face-to-face, it felt as if the victor was guaranteed success.Liverpool have maintained their place at the top tables in England and Europe, whereas Forest’s journey has been more storied, the club dropping to the third tier before making it back to the top flight after almost a quarter of a century away. Now the pair are rivals for trophies again; Liverpool travel to the City Ground on Tuesday at the top of the pile and, much to almost everyone’s surprise, Forest are only two places below and dreaming of reliving the glory days. Win and they will be t...

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17 hours ago My £35 supermarket food shop was incredible, it'll last my family weeks

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3 hours ago Major Scottish motorway shut in both directions due to large recycling centre fire

“Scottish Fire and Rescue is advising people living nearby keep their windows closed due to the volume of smoke.”

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3 hours ago Incredible EU city ranked most walkable in the world for two major reasons

You can walk through this entire city, dripping with history, delicious eateries, and stunning architecture, in a single day - or admire the big tourist attractions in a mere 10 minute stroll

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20 hours ago Jimmy Anderson signs new Lancashire deal to continue cricket career despite England axe

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3 hours ago Friarton Bridge: Major Scottish motorway shut in both directions due to large recycling centre fire

“Scottish Fire and Rescue is advising people living nearby keep their windows closed due to the volume of smoke.”

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5 hours ago Hallelujah! Glen Sannox may be late and expensive, but seems like a good ferry

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23 hours ago How your £5 Shein dress really gets made: Inside the fast fashion 'village' where labourers toil through 75

According to a BBC report, it is not unusual to face 12-hour work days with staff leaving the textile hubs in Guangzhou as late as 10pm and beyond.

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3 hours ago West Ham’s striker obsession remains unresolved after years of failure | Jacob Steinberg

Graham Potter must quickly get to grips with the club’s failure to sign the right centre-forward over the past 15 yearsWest Ham rarely hit the target when they buy a striker. Names such as Mido, Ilan, Benni McCarthy, Jonathan Calleri and Simone Zaza will send a shiver down the spine of Hammers supporters, who must despair at the same old mistakes being made over and over again.This has been a constant theme since David Sullivan and the late David Gold bought the club in January 2010. The 15-year anniversary arrives on Sunday and the numbers have not improved in the eight years since I first wrote about West Ham’s striking failure, detailing how the 32 forwards bought during Sullivan and Gold’s ownership at that point had mustered 128 goals in 643 appearances. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago Beni Baningime in honest Hearts confession as he reacts to Liam Boyce exit and Kye Rowles' expected MLS transfer

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23 hours ago AT LAST! Six years late and four times over budget at £400MILLION, SNPs fiasco

The Glen Sannox has formally entered service with CalMac, conducting its first service to the island of Arran at around 7am this morning.

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4 hours ago Oliviero Toscani death: Photographer known for provocative Benetton campaigns dies aged 82

The former art director’s campaigns focused on social themes like the AIDS pandemic, racism, death penalty, and war

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11 hours ago Elizabeth II was 'not officially' told that one of her most senior courtiers Anthony Blunt was a Russian spy for almost 10 years, secret MI5 files reveal

The late Queen was not officially told that one of her senior courtiers was a Russian spy for almost a decade after he confessed, secret MI5 files reveal today.

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27 hours ago Treasury using AI to reply to taxpayers’ emails as Starmer vows to ‘mainline technology into veins’ of UK

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9 hours ago Incredible story of heroic brain surgeon who saved his entire Malibu street from LA's wildfires holding flames at bay for five nights

Chester Griffiths, 62, had just finished performing brain surgery when he dashed to his car and drove across Los Angeles to save his beachfront home from being engulfed in fire.

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11 hours ago MI5 files suggest queen was not briefed on spy in royal household for nine years

Documents indicate monarch was informed Anthony Blunt was Soviet agent in 1973, though he confessed in 1964The late Queen Elizabeth II was not told for almost 10 years that Anthony Blunt, a surveyor of the queen’s pictures and a member of the royal household, had confessed to being a Soviet double agent, previously secret security files suggest.Declassified MI5 documents throw intriguing new light on how the security services closely guarded news that the art historian, of the notorious Cambridge Five spy ring, had confessed in April 1964, with records indicating the queen was only informed in 1973. Continue reading...

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10 hours ago Priscilla Presley pays tribute to her late daughter Lisa Marie two years after her untimely death

Priscilla Presley is paying tribute to her late daughter Lisa Marie Presley , two years after her passing.

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14 hours ago One Direction reveal final gesture to honour the memory of their late bandmate and friend Liam Payne

Niall Horan , Zayn Malik , Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles were left devastated when their bandmate and friend fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Argentina on October 16.

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11 hours ago Fired worker blamed for hundreds of dead fish and polluted river by chemical company

Peter Brooke, a director of Brooke Additives Ltd, said the pollution had been caused by a former employee who had been 'let go'

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11 hours ago Actor Dirk Bogarde was ‘disturbed’ by KGB sting warning, declassified files reveal

MI5 told Bogarde in 1971 that he had been identified as ‘practising homosexual’ of interest by Russian spiesThe film star Dirk Bogarde was “clearly disturbed” and “troubled” after MI5 warned him that his name had been given to the KGB as a “practising homosexual” and he risked being compromised in a sting operation, newly declassified intelligence files show.Bogarde, who died in 1999 and never came out publicly but lived with his life partner and manager, Anthony Forwood, was told by security services that his name was on a list of “six practising British homosexuals” given to the Russians by an unnamed source who had himself been sexually compromised during a visit to Moscow in the late 1950s. Continue reading...

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17 hours ago The Guardian view on globalisation and its discontents: how the left was left behind | Editorial

As national populist parties gain ground in the west, progressives must put social and climate priorities ahead of market interestsDifferent year, same direction of travel. The likely formation of the first far-right-led government in Austria’s postwar history, after the breakdown this month of coalition talks between mainstream parties, is the latest confirmation of the illiberal drift in western democracies. Only a few years ago, Viktor Orbán’s Hungary remained a troublesome outlier in the European Union. These days, variations on Mr Orbán’s ethno-nationalist approach to 21st-century politics are flourishing across the continent. And in a week’s time, Donald Trump will be back in the White House.In an era of stagnating living standards and rising inequality, the growing appeal of national populism should not come as a surprise. The targeting of immigration, “liberal elites” and globalisation has channelled resentments felt in deindustrialised regions, where good jobs and a sense o...

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11 hours ago Aubrey Plaza's husband's devastating obituary released days after tragic death

Film director Jeff Baena tragically died at the age of 47 earlier this month as his family and wife Aubrey Plaza shared a heartbreaking obituary as they remembered him

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17 hours ago Barcelona, Dani Olmo and Laporta revel in ‘superbeating’ of Real Madrid | Sid Lowe

Super Cup victory in Saudi Arabia helps club and president to try and push results and player registration saga asideJoan Laporta arrived at the King Abdullah stadium in Jeddah performing an up-yours and shouting at the “shameless sons of bitches” there, and left again three nights later with the Spanish Super Cup. These had been some weeks and this was some way to end them, only this never truly ends. Debated in parliament, a question of state occupying everyone, Barcelona’s president could not escape the spotlight; now, late on Sunday, 12 days into the new year and 12 days on from that deadline, nor did he want to. So on the pitch, surrounded by confetti, cameras right in front of him and players right behind – Dani Olmo and Pau Víctor included – he stepped centre-stage again, this time taking the trophy, all triumphant.At the end of the Super Cup, the Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez had whispered to Luka Modric “we had to lose a final some time, no?” and the Croatian agree...

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15 hours ago Outrage as adult man in Speedo is caught twerking in children's fountain

Video footage shows the nearly nude man standing directly above a stream of water at the fountain in the Brazilian city of São Vicente.

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18 hours ago Jay McGuiness gives update on The Wanted bandmate Max George after 'scary' health woes

EXCLUSIVE: The boybander-turned-theatre star says he has been in touch with his pal who has faced a number of health complications over the past month

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19 hours ago Lower your cancer risk by axing two common foods from diet, experts say

These two foods are known to have a direct link to cancer risk, expert reveals.

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19 hours ago Jesy Nelson's ex reacts to her twin pregnancy as Little Mix bandmates remain quiet

Nelson, 33, dated Hughes, 32, for a year until 2020

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20 hours ago Winter Sun Direct From Scotland: Here are 11 warm destinations to fly to in February

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19 hours ago Head to 'brightest place in the world' direct from Scotland for perfect January escape

In January Vilnius, Lithuania holds a spectacular light festival and visiting won't break the bank

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21 hours ago Liam Williams and Taulupe Faletau return to Wales squad for Six Nations but Warren Gatland dealt injury blow

Fly halves Sam Costelow and Gareth Anscombe have both been left out after suffering injuries

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20 hours ago The major new EU red tape to be imposed on British travellers this year after lengthy delays

Exclusive: The Independent believes nothing will change until late autumn 2025 at the earliest

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23 hours ago Little Mix's wall of silence as Perrie Edwards, Jade Thirlwall and Leigh

Jesy Nelson's exciting pregnancy announcement on Instagram has been ignored by her former Little Mix bandmates. 

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20 hours ago The major new EU red tape to be imposed on British travellers after lengthy delays

Exclusive: The Independent believes nothing will change until late autumn 2025 at the earliest

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24 hours ago Oliviero Toscani, photographer behind provocative Benetton ads, dies aged 83

Tributes paid to Italian known for images that drew attention to social themes including HIV/Aids and racismTributes have been paid to Oliviero Toscani, the Italian fashion photographer renowned for the provocative images used in Benetton’s advertising campaigns, who has died aged 83.Toscani, who for two decades was the art director of the global clothing chain, died on Monday after being hospitalised close to his home in the Tuscan town of Cecina. Continue reading...

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20 hours ago Harry Styles declined to star in popular Netflix romcom – for key reason

Former One Direction singer Harry Styles has become a big name in Hollywood in recent years, but he did turn down a major role in a hit film you can watch on Netflix

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24 hours ago Oliviero Toscani, photographer behind provocative Benetton ads, dies aged 82

Tributes paid to Italian known for images that drew attention to social themes including HIV/Aids and racismTributes have been paid to Oliviero Toscani, the Italian fashion photographer renowned for the provocative images used in Benetton’s advertising campaigns, who has died aged 82.Toscani, who for two decades was the art director of the global clothing chain, died on Monday after being hospitalised close to his home in the Tuscan town of Cecina. Continue reading...

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20 hours ago Fresh summit on youth violence hailed 'step in right direction' by campaigners

First Minister John Swinney hosted the emergency event at St Andrew's House in Edinburgh on Monday.

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24 hours ago The LA fire conspiracy theories that are flooding the internet: From plot to protect P Diddy to a 'direct energy weapon' and drone cover

The out of control blazes have caused misery on an almost unimaginable scale, with families grieving the loss of loved-ones or rebuilding their lives after losing their homes.

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