1 hour ago Huge rise in pupils given extra time for exams to help soaring numbers of children with special educational needs

Around 420,000 pupils are being given additional time to finish exam papers, four times as many as a decade ago, according to Ofqual, the exam regulator.

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10 hours ago 'Big loss' as popular Welsh hotel and wedding venue 'goes into liquidation'

The hotel has been a popular wedding venue for decades but has closed its doors 'out of the blue'

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12 hours ago On LA fire lines, inmates shoulder heavy packs and tackle dangerous work for less than $30 a day

Over 1,100 California inmates have worked around the clock to help fight Los Angeles-area fires that have killed at least 25 people and destroyed thousands of homes

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6 hours ago LA firefighters helped by lull in winds, but more fire weather in forecast

Crews make progress but strong winds anticipated in Los Angles basin next week, carrying potential perilAnother round of fire-provoking Santa Ana winds are anticipated to sweep across the Los Angeles basin next week, carrying new peril as the area continues to assess the damage of the wildfires that devastated the Pacific Palisades and Altadena communities 10 days ago.“We’re looking at more Santa Ana winds and high fire danger. It could be a prolonged event next week,” said Alex Tardy, meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in San Diego. “The bottom line: we’re in uncharted territory this deep into the winter, or rainy season,” in having barely any rain, he added. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Henry Cavill and Natalie Viscuso spark engagement rumours after quietly welcoming first child

Superman actor Henry Cavill and his Hollywood executive girlfriend Natalie Viscuso appear to have a double reason to celebrate after she seen pushing a stroller and sporting a diamond ring

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23 hours ago Inside UK seaside town named Las Vegas of the North which tourists love

Tourists keep coming back to Blackpool year-after-year, with its impressive coastline and amusements keeping that retro, candyfloss, seaside feel for decades

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22 hours ago Nearly £3m of free school meal debt wiped out during cost of living crisis

Green MSP Ross Greer hailed the write-off after his party had pushed for a fund to help parents.

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8 hours ago Where are the original Gladiators now? From prison sentences to successful acting careers and age

Iconic TV show Gladiators is set to make a grand return to screens on Saturday with a BBC reboot, over three decades since it first aired. Find out where the originals are now.

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5 hours ago Arsenal’s scrambled brains and missed chances will really hurt Mikel Arteta | Jonathan Wilson

Eight minutes of nonsense have all but put paid to manager’s title dreams after draw with Aston VillaMikel Arteta dropped to his haunches, laid his hand on his brow and let his head slump. When he looked up again, he had his thumb and forefinger to his eyes. It was the fifth minute of injury time, Leandro Trossard had just rolled a shot wide and Arsenal’s final chance had vanished. With it, perhaps, so had their hopes of winning the league. At the very least, the gains of Wednesday were handed back.As it turned out Trossard, who had been Arsenal’s most dangerous forward, may have been a fraction offside anyway, which perhaps would have been the most fitting conclusion. In the previous eight minutes, Mikel Merino had seen a goalbound shot deflected in off Kai Havertz’s hand and hit the inside of a post. There was a sense in those closing stages of the fates, or at least Arsenal’s chronic inability to seize the moment, being against them. Continue reading...

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13 hours ago Lidl issues 'do not eat' warning and urgently recalls popular cheese product after it was found to contain dangerous bacteria that can cause meningitis

Customers in Northern Ireland have been advised to not eat Deluxe Sriracha Cheddar Cheese wedges due to the presence of Listeria monocytogenes which can in some cases cause meningitis.

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7 hours ago Women’s March lives on as the People’s March – at a fraction of the size of 2017

Comparative quiet on Saturday in Washington contrasts sharply with white-knuckled fury of inaugural rallyEight years since its gargantuan first protests as a reaction to the incoming president being serially accused of sexual misconduct and misogyny and campaigning on restricting reproductive rights, the Women’s March on Saturday reprised in the nation’s capital before the return of that man to the White House – with, as in 2017, spin-off rallies taking place in various other US cities.Rebranded and reorganized, the protest was given a new name by organizers, the People’s March, as a means to broaden support, especially during a difficult and introspective time for progressive organizing after Donald Trump’s decisive win in November. Continue reading...

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13 hours ago ‘Discovered’ diaries of British socialite Unity Mitford reveal Hitler relationship

Diaries, believed to be genuine, chronicle 139 pre-war meetings between antisemitic British socialite Unity Mitford and the Nazi leaderThe diary of an antisemitic British socialite who was obsessed with Adolf Hitler and struck up a personal relationship with the Nazi leader has been discovered, according to the Daily Mail.The leather-bound journals, which had been lost to historians and unseen for eight decades, appear to reveal the extent of aristocrat Unity Mitford’s relationship with the dictator. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago ‘Finally it’s happening. I know he’s still alive’: Families of Israeli hostages await nervously the return of their loved ones

The fate of captives held by Hamas is in the balance until they are finally swapped for Palestinian prisonersFor over a decade the world seemed to have forgotten Avera Mengistu.An Israeli Jew of Ethiopian heritage, who reportedly had mental health issues, Mengistu was 28 when he entered the Gaza Strip voluntarily on 7 September 2014 after a dispute with his mother. Continue reading...

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16 hours ago Sting's tantric sex truth revealed: Star reveals what really happens during 7 hour sessions with wife Trudie Styler

Their tantric sex life has been a hot topic for decades, after famously claiming to bed each other for hours on end back in the nineties.

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23 hours ago Paul Driscoll, an unflappable editor who led the AP's Chicago bureau for decades, has died at age 91

Former Associated Press journalist and newsroom leader Paul Driscoll has died at the age of 91

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10 hours ago ‘It’s an absolute travesty’: fears for border wildlife as Trump takes office

Environmentalists are braced for new construction on the president’s signature border wall – and the damage that would wreakDuring Donald Trump’s first presidential term, he began an ambitious and costly border militarization program, including the construction of over 450 miles of wall that severed wildlife corridors and fragmented ecosystems in some of the country’s most remote and biodiverse regions. With his second inauguration on Monday, environmentalists are bracing for any new phase of construction that could exacerbate the ecological toll of the border wall.“It’s an absolute travesty and a disaster for border wildlife,” said Margaret Wilder, a human-environment geographer and political ecologist at the University of Arizona, regarding the environmental impact of the existing border wall and the prospect of renewed construction. She said the wall harmed efforts “after many decades of binational cooperation between the US and Mexico to protect this fragile and biodiverse regio...

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12 hours ago The wild animals next door: Interactive map reveals where 2,700 dangerous exotic pets are being kept in the UK

As semi-tame lynx are captured roaming in the Cairngorms, experts have raised concerns that Britain's exotic pets could be putting animals and humans at risk.

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12 hours ago 'I'm a male stripper – this is what women really get up to at hen parties'

EXCLUSIVE: Nath Wyld has worked as a stripper for the best part of a decade, and he said hen parties can be just as wild as stag dos. After all, he's seen a lot in his time

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14 hours ago Ben and Georgie Ainslie reflect on ‘horrific’ IVF journey: ‘Infertility pushed us over the edge’

Couple underwent seven rounds of IVF and had three miscarriages

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15 hours ago 'I let Cristiano Ronaldo take my place in queue at Man Utd – Sir Alex Ferguson was livid'

Cristiano Ronaldo has been a football superstar for two decades since making his name at Manchester United but Sir Alex Ferguson wasn’t happy with the way he was treated by a young team-mate

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16 hours ago Netflix The Bank of Dave 2 star Amit Shah's life from romance to Happy Valley confession

Amit Shah, who plays Oliver in Netflix's The Bank of Dave 2, has been a regular on our screens for the past two decades - but there's a lot more to know about the actor.

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16 hours ago Why I decided to 'reverse retire': At 60, I left my comfortable life in Somerset to rent a flat in London

Speaking exclusively to FEMAIL, life coach and author Fiona Harrold, 60, dubbed the sexennial decade 'your new forties' as she detailed her move to London.

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17 hours ago How the cast of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding has remained embroiled in controversy a decade after the show was axed

My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding captured the hearts of Brits for its authentic documentaries about the extravagant worlds of the traveller community.

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18 hours ago Labour is right to forge more trade links with China – not doing so would be folly | Kerry Brown

From a ‘golden era’ to post-pandemic mistrust, the UK has had a turbulent relationship with the world’s second-largest economyKerry Brown is director of the Lau China Institute, King’s College LondonIn the last decade, Britain’s relations with China have been on a rollercoaster. In 2015, during the visit of Chinese leader Xi Jinping to the UK, then chancellor George Osborne was able to declare the two countries were in a “golden era”. He did this with the conviction that with a growing economy and rising middle class, China offered plenty of opportunities for Britain. But by 2022, Rishi Sunak had declared the “end of the golden era”. And in 2023, deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden labelled China Britain’s greatest economic security threat, to align closer with the position of the US, and through fears of deeper Chinese espionage and interference in the outside world. Seldom had a diplomatic boom-bust cycle happened so rapidly and so completely.In view of extremes such as these, to ...

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22 hours ago The pub down a country road where you can relax next to one of Wales' most beautiful beaches

The Wiseman's Bridge Inn in Pembrokeshire has been pulling in punters for decades and with views like the ones it has to offer it's not difficult to understand why it's so popular

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24 hours ago Picturesque European city 90 minutes from UK that is uncrowded alternative to Paris

Hop across the Channel to discover a city with Flemish charm and a quieter pace of life

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25 hours ago US accuses Walgreens of filling millions of illegitimate prescriptions, including for opioids

The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit accusing Walgreens of filling millions of prescriptions for Americans over the last decade and more without a legitimate purpose, including for dangerous amounts of opioids

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26 hours ago Why turning down the lead role in Baywatch three decades ago means supermodel Caprice is now making a family

In a corner of a Perthshire bookstore - closed for the day for movie-making purposes - former supermodel Caprice Bourret briefly lets her mind unspool. It's been a morning.

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