1 hour ago Skin is in: as sales of thong bikinis rise, is body confidence also growing?

A Sydney council’s ban on ‘inappropriate’ swimwear stirs a wider debate over complex feelings about women’s bottomsWhen it comes to clothing advice for women, the “rules” are endless. They range from sizeist – “avoid horizontal stripes if you have a wider frame”, to ageist – “don’t wear a crop top over 50”. Now Australia is weighing in. A council in Greater Sydney has banned thong and g-string bikinis at its public swimming pools causing outrage among pool users and stirring a wider debate about the policing of women’s bodies.In a now-deleted post on Facebook clarifying its swim-attire rules, Blue Mountains leisure centres stated that skimpy swimwear was “inappropriate” at its facilities. The guidelines were posted after pool users queried posters at centres warning that “revealing swimwear/thongs” were not to be worn. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Boy, 2, drowned in canal on same day family were moving house because of water fears

Two-year-old Jayce Olutola, from Wolverhampton, was found lifeless in a canal last year. He wandered outside of his home whilst his family were in the process of moving house

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60 minutes ago Cheshire mum buys mystery Greggs bag for £2.19 and is bowled away by contents

Typically at Greggs you can get one food item for £2.50, so imagine this mum's shock when she opened a cheap mystery box and got some unbelievable items inside it

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26 hours ago Football Daily | Spurs live down to underdog billing as Arsenal paint town red

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Since comfortably beating Aston Villa at the start of November, Tottenham Hotspur have won only two of the 11 Premier League matches they’ve contested. Well, played in or at least turned up for. Indeed, a good lawyer might argue that technically they haven’t really won any because one of the aforementioned victories came against peak b@nter era Manchester City, while not even Spurs were capable of doing anything other than swat the current Southampton rabble aside, a feat that is not so much something to be proud of, but more the equivalent of helping yourself to the pennies covering a dead man’s eyes. Having taken just eight points from their previous 10 games, Ange Postecoglou’s knack-depleted team went into Wednesday night’s north London derby as firm underdogs and duly lived down to their billing.I would never dare doubt the accuracy and reliability of statistics from Big Website, but some of the match stats from the Holsten Pil...

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25 minutes ago Woman appears in court charged with murder after death of pensioner in Hamilton

Susan Sergison's body was found by Police Scotland's officers earlier this week.

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3 hours ago From Mulholland Drive to Twin Peaks via Lost Highway: all David Lynch’s films and TV shows – ranked

The great American film-maker died this week, leaving behind a body of work unmatched in its seductive strangeness and transcendent mystery. We put it in orderIt is one of life’s eternal mysteries that for the last two decades of his life, no one was willing to fund another feature by America’s greatest film-maker of the time. Almost as much of a mystery was his final completed feature: the evil twin of his previous film, Mulholland Drive. As Laura Dern’s hexed actor segues into the character she is playing, this digitally shot rampage down Hollywood’s boulevard of broken dreams dials up the narrative fragmentation of his late period. It runs the gamut from inspired camcorder surrealism to making-it-up-as-you-go-along incoherence (which is what it was: Lynch shot without a finished screenplay). Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Katie Allan's mum says daughter was 'brutalised' at Polmont and 'not afforded right to live'

Katie, 21, was found dead in her cell after she took her own life at the young offenders institution near Falkirk in June 2018.

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7 hours ago Mysterious airstrip appears on Indian Ocean island in key shipping location

A mysterious airstrip being built on a remote island in Yemen is nearing completion, according to satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press

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1 hour ago Transport police confirm loss of life on rail tracks at Polmont Railway Station

One person is confirmed dead following a tragic incident on the railway tracks at Polmont station.

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28 minutes ago One dead at North Carolina’s North Hills mall as Raleigh police rush to scene of ‘active shooter’

The shooting reportedly took place in an affluent part of Raleigh

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36 hours ago ‘I didn’t sleep for days’: readers on the TV shows that went way too far

From fish and chip shop-induced trauma to programmes packed with relentless death and gore, here are the television moments that had you reaching for the remote‘Just too horrifying’There are two specific scenes that have forced me to stop watching a show or movie, both involving infants. One is the final scene from the fourth series of Dexter, where he finds his wife’s murdered body in the bathtub and their young son sitting in a pool of his mother’s blood. As a parent, this scene was just too horrifying for me to contemplate. Cushla, 52, Dunedin, New Zealand Continue reading...

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3 hours ago North Korea troops fighting for Putin ‘could all be dead or wounded by April’ as casualties mount

North Korean troops have suffered thousands of casualties in Russia’s Kursk region, according to Ukrainian estimates

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28 hours ago Spain cracks down on holiday rentals with new bans in 43 areas to tackle overtourism

New restrictions are geared toward curbing the number of holiday home rentals in the Costa del Sol

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2 hours ago How water from a tin became a billion pound business: Brands like Cano Water and Liquid Death are soaring with environmentally conscious Gen Z with a lot of famous faces

Once reserved for beers, fizzy drinks and all manner of nitro infused cocktail tins, the aluminium can has now also become the go-to vessel for drinking water across the world.

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2 hours ago ‘He was gone in a flash’: Police investigate as London woman’s ponytail slashed in surprise attack

The 55-year-old woman said she was set upon by a mystery man as she emptied her bins down the communal rubbish chute on Tuesday evening

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3 hours ago Britain's growth is set to trail the US and Canada despite Starmer's vow of best performance in G7, IMF says

The international body believes Britain will see a 1.6 per cent expansion this year - slightly up from the 1.5 per cent it pencilled in last October.

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2 hours ago Inside Katie Price's weight loss as fans beg star to seek help amid health fears

Katie Price has left fans concerned after she showcased her slimmer figure in a new video, with some urging the star to seek help. Here's all we know about her body alterations...

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3 hours ago Mystery of missing sisters continues as new CCTV shows pair on bridge where they were last seen the day before they disappeared

Eliza and Henrietta Huszti were spotted trudging through the snow to Aberdeen's Victoria Bridge less than 12 hours before they disappeared from the same spot, new CCTV reveals

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5 hours ago Woman called 'stupid' after allowing fiance to tattoo her face on impulse

Alitia Thoburn, 20, has more than 50 hours of ink on her body and had always dreamed of having a face tattoo from a young age - but she did not expect to get it when she did

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7 hours ago Be at One customers poke fun at bar staff's 'insane' antics as they gyrate on the bar and hose each other with water

Be At One UK customers have recently taken to social media to lament the fact that they can never get their hands on a drink as the bar staff are too busy pulling wild stunts.

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3 hours ago 'Best jacket I've ever bought' Uniqlo down jacket that is 'very warm for winter' has 30% off

This Uniqlo Down Jacket is a perfect addition to your winter wardrobe. It's warm, water-repellent and windproof, and it's currently on sale for 30% off

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6 hours ago Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith joke Judi Dench 'has paws on all acting jobs' in resurfaced video

Dame Joan Plowright took a playful swipe at friend and fellow actor Dame Judi Dench in a clip from Tea with the Dames.

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7 hours ago Brit Emily Damari is confirmed to be among 33 Hamas hostages to be released as part of Gaza ceasefire deal

The 28-year-old was shot in the hand and leg when she was snatched from her home in southern Israel during the October 7 attack by Hamas.

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3 hours ago My brother and father drowned on a bright summer day. Swimming brings me closer to the two men I’ve lost | Indigo Perry

When my grief was new and raw, I discovered that feeling it was preferable to the numbness that had set in since we’d buried themLast week, I swam in the sea, slowly wading in until the water reached my hips, and then diving under the softly rippling waves. Clear jellyfish gleamed from the sand. Turning over to float on my back, I let my limbs and hair drift around me, and I thought about the spectral presence-absence of my father and brother, who drowned on a very hot summer’s day more than 30 years ago.My memories of the time when they drowned veer up in summer, especially on certain hot days ending with thunderstorms. Anyone who’s spent a summer in Victoria knows the kind of day that marks the end of a heatwave. It starts off hot, everyone kicking off their bedcovers before it’s time to get up. The temperature hasn’t dropped below 30C all night and possibly all week. The sky is a hard blue at midday, and it seems nothing will break the heat, despite the weather bureau’s promises....

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7 hours ago Gardening expert's '10 second' orchid hack keeps them thriving in winter

Orchids can be tricky to look after, but there's a simple 10 second trick that will help you know when to water them - and it's especially important during the winter months

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15 hours ago Pension triple lock threat as Conservatives float scrapping guaranteed income boost for older Brits

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the triple lock pension guarantee could become income-based - just weeks after attacking Labour for means testing the Winter Fuel Payment

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4 hours ago Loodunnit mystery deepens: Gang steals 25 portable toilets in night raid just three days after 13 were swiped 150 miles away

Southern and eastern England appears to be in the grip of a bizarre crime wave after 25 portable toilets were stolen from a depot in Ipswich, just three days after a near-identical incident in Oxfordshire.

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7 hours ago Space X Starship explodes minutes after launch from Texas forcing airlines to alter course

Video captured by Reuters showed orange balls of light streaking across the sky over the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, leaving trails of smoke behind

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19 hours ago Dragons' Den viewers are left baffled by 'wild scenes' as Sara Davies invests £50,000 in a football shirt business

Co-founder and AFC Wimbledon supporter Alex Street went on the BBC show hoping to get a £50,000 investment for a 10 per cent equity share of his company, Mystery Jersey King.

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4 hours ago Missing TikTok star Jiare Schneider's cause of death confirmed after horror incident

TikTok star Jiare Schneider, 31, was found dead in a woodland in Georgia, US a whole 10 days after he went missing - authorities have now confirmed his cause of death

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8 hours ago Chancellor Rachel Reeves urges regulators to 'tear down' red tape to promote growth

The under-pressure Chancellor and Business Secretary met with bosses of watchdogs covering the railways, water, energy, and aviation sectors on Thursday

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25 hours ago Fears shops will run out of bottled water after burst pipe at treatment plant leaves 40,000 homes without supply in Conwy

Around 40,000 households in north Wales face having no water as five schools have been forced to temporarily shut their doors after a pipe burst at a treatment plant. 

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5 hours ago Neighbours heard 'screaming and shouting' before woman in her 20s was found dead and two

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder after a woman in her 20s died and a two-year-old girl was seriously injured in Ashford, Surrey, yesterday.

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9 hours ago ‘The high point of TV as a medium’: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks may never be bettered

The surreal murder mystery’s impact is so profound that its fingerprints are on every show made during TV’s golden age. What a legacy In the coming days and weeks, much will be made about David Lynch’s gargantuan contribution to cinema. This will be undeniable and well deserved. However, there is the argument to be made that in actual fact David Lynch was able to master every medium in which he chose to work. His music, for instance, sounded like music that only he could make. And, sincerely, in both his daily weather report and his Today’s Number Is lottery draw, he deserves to be remembered as a pioneering YouTuber.However, in terms of pure influence, it might end up being the case that Lynch’s most important realm was television. In his lifetime, Lynch only ever worked on four TV projects. Two of them were cancelled after just three episodes. But the other two were Twin Peaks. And the impact both Twin Peaks series had on TV as a medium is hard to overstate. Continue reading...

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30 hours ago Thousands left without water and schools forced to close after pipe burst at treatment plant

Around 40,000 households in north Wales face having no water as five schools have been forced to temporarily shut their doors after a pipe burst at a treatment plant. 

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5 hours ago Missing twin sisters' mystery 2am text message to landlord before vanishing in Aberdeen

A text message was sent from Henrietta Huszti's mobile phone to their landlady at 2.12am on January 7, from the area of Victoria Bridge, indicating she and Eliza would not be returning to the flat

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10 hours ago 'My heart is broken': Naomi Watts pays tribute to legendary Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director David Lynch

The filmmaker, writer and artist was Oscar-nominated for his films Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man and Mulholland Drive

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36 hours ago Amazon's £9 mould solution that 'gets to work immediately' and costs nothing to use

"As soon as I put these in the bedrooms they were actively collecting water so you could see they were actually working"

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7 hours ago Boy, two, drowned in canal while family were in process of moving because they feared they were too close to the water, inquest hears

Jayce Olutola, two, was found floating face down in a canal by a police officer after he went missing from his home in Ettingshall, Wolverhampton on August 11, 2024, an inquest has heard.

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10 hours ago ‘The river that runs in the sky’: readers choose their wonders of the world

From Margate to Uzbekistan our tipsters reveal the special sites that made a lasting impression on themThomas Telford’s Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is the centrepiece of a world heritage site that crosses three counties and two countries. They call it “the river that runs in the sky”, and there is a rough magic to standing halfway across, looking down on the tumbling River Dee, source of the slow-moving flow at your heels, water Telford drew from Horseshoe Falls for his impossible project. Rather than a chain of locks cut across the valley, his iron trough spans it, joints sealed with red Welsh flannel dipped in boiling sugar. Opened in 1805, it is the highest, longest aqueduct in Britain. Fiona Collins Continue reading...

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41 hours ago People’s Pension plans to invest up to £4bn into private market assets

The body which serves more than 6.8 million pension savers is set to start investing a significant proportion into private markets later this year.

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7 hours ago How missing fragments of ancient Stone of Destiny were hidden in plain sight for decades

The exact location of most of these small chips lost in the famous theft from Westminster Abbey remains a mystery

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12 hours ago Severance season two review – this weird, wild show is impossibly mesmerising

Adam Scott’s workplace thriller is back – and somehow even more clever, trippy and heartbreaking than before. A total TV triumphIt has been a three-year wait for fans, but the creators of Severance clearly haven’t wasted a minute of it. The first series was fantastically stylish, clever, trippy and compelling. The second is even more so. It demands all your concentration and takes you down rabbit holes so deep and twisted that you may meet yourself coming back. One half of your brain tries to keep up with developments while the other half is trying to digest what it all means. You are effectively severed yourself.When we left our four heroes, Dylan (Zach Cherry) had broken into the security room and tripped the switch that awoke his three friends’s Innies in the Outie world, in the hope of shining a light on Lumon’s cruelties towards employees and its ultimately-unknown-but-surely-not-morally-sound purpose. Mark (Adam Scott) discovered that his supposedly dead wife, Gemma (Dichen La...

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8 hours ago ‘I was stuck for 12 hours with no water': Inside crisis in London A&Es as patients face ‘horrendous’ waits

A severe flu wave has left hospitals overwhelmed and staff at breaking point. The Standard speaks to patients feeling the impact

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20 hours ago North Wales without water: Tens of thousands could be without supply until SUNDAY after a single pipe burst

Supply issues first became a problem for residents in the Conwy county on Wednesday, after a major water main was reported damaged at the Bryn Cowlyd Water Treatment Works in Dolgarrog.

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8 hours ago Dozens dead at Turkey hotspot and four arrested amid new 'alcohol poisoning' warning

"People have died or suffered serious illness in Istanbul, Turkey after drinking illegally produced local spirits and counterfeit bottles of branded alcohol."

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20 hours ago ITV Masked Singer UK Snail's identity 'uncovered' as pop icon, fans are convinced

The Masked Singer fans are desperate to know who is behind the Snail costume on the hit ITV show and they think they have finally cracked the identity of the mystery singer.

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8 hours ago Man arrested after woman found dead and toddler found with serious injuries at house in Surrey

The woman and a two-year-old girl were discovered at an address in Ashford

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20 hours ago People 'scoop water from sea' to flush toilets as tens of thousands without supply

Farmers have been left without water for their livestock and pet owners are going thirsty so that their animals can drink

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8 hours ago NATO fighter jets scrambled as Putin kamikaze drones hit port by Romanian border

Footage showed a dramatic explosion believed to be at a port on the Ukrainian side of the River Danube which forms the frontier with Romania.

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21 hours ago Barack and Michelle Obama showed 'no signs of togetherness' on last outing amid divorce rumors, expert claims

Body language expert Judi James said Barack looked 'rather somber' and 'walked behind his wife,' adding that there was 'no sign of any chatting or coupling up between them.'

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9 hours ago Mystery as Brit, 53, is found dead in water at a Costa Blanca holiday hotspot port

The man's body was found by Civil Guard divers at the marina in Calpe north of Benidorm after the alarm was raised just over an hour earlier

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24 hours ago Sainsbury's shoppers 'need' to find new 'mystery' Pringles with Super Mario logo

Pringles are a firm favourite, with its iconic tubes of original ready salted, sour cream and onion, and salt and vinegar flavours a regular in many homes up and down the country

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26 hours ago Sainsbury's shoppers baffled by 'mystery' Pringles flavour they 'need' to try

Think you've tasted every flavour of Pringle there is? Think again, as a brand new 'mystery' flavour has hit shelves at Sainsbury's, and snack fans are eager to try them for themselves

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10 hours ago TikTok star Chris O'Donnell dead at 31: Influencer's cause of death revealed as fans pay tribute

TikTok star Chris O'Donnell, known online as Creeohdee, has died at the age of 31. The fitness influencer passed away on January 11 according to an online obituary.

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28 hours ago Popular Welsh beach remains one of the country's worst for bathing water quality

Ogmore-by-Sea beach in the Vale of Glamorgan was designated for bathing in 2023, but soon got given a 'poor' rating for bathing water quality which remains in place

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10 hours ago New 'alcohol poisoning' warning in Turkey holiday hotspot as 33 dead and 4 arrested

Authorities say 33 people have died and another 43 hospitalised after drinking bootleg alcoholic drinks laced with methanol in Istanbul, Turkey - four people have been arrested

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