64 minutes ago Nigel Farage proclaimed ‘Britain’s future PM’ at champagne fuelled Trump celebration party

The Independent’s political editor David Maddox and White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg were at the Hay Adams hotel opposite the White House as Brexiteer Brits hosted the biggest inauguration party in town and plotted a populist future with their US allies

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3 hours ago Trump departs Palm Beach for D.C. as inauguration ceremony moved inside by freezing weather: Live

President-elect says he has ordered inauguration and speeches to take place in the Capitol Rotunda ‘as used by Ronald Reagan in 1985’

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11 hours ago M&S shoppers adore 'versatile' new jacket that can be 'worn all year' for under £70

No matter what the weather is like, the retail giant's new Faux leather Collared Short Jacket will see you through all seasons.

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4 hours ago Vanity Fair blasts Harry and Meghan with 10 bombshell revelations since quitting firm

The popular fashion magazine has put Prince Harry and Meghan on blast for their actions over the past five years, criticising their life living the 'American dream' and their Netflix and Spotify cash grabs

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18 hours ago AP Photos: Japanese bathe in icy water at a Tokyo shrine to purify their souls

Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese tradition to purify the soul and pray for good health in the new year

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1 hour ago Trump arrives in D.C. with Melania and Barron as inauguration ceremony moved inside by freezing weather: Live

President-elect says he has ordered inauguration and speeches to take place in the Capitol Rotunda ‘as used by Ronald Reagan in 1985’

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10 hours ago Met Office weather maps forecast exact date snow will return to UK next week

Some snow is expected to return to the UK next week

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14 hours ago Woman thought phone call was a scam before she inherited stranger's £400,000 estate

Lorraine Gesell, a Canadian who has only been to the UK once, received a phone call to say she was the beneficiary of Brit Raymond Barry's £400k estate - she'd never heard of him

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5 hours ago Emergency workers in urgent search for survivors after gasoline tanker explosion in Nigeria kills 78

The blast happened in the early hours of Saturday near the Suleja area of Niger state after individual.

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19 hours ago 'Best Denzel Washington movie by a country mile' that is 'iconic' on TV tonight

The 'iconic' gangster film which is also based on a true story, will be airing for free on TV this weekend and can't be streamed anywhere - so mark the date in your diary

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3 hours ago Prince Harry's children will not return to UK with him for heartbreaking reason

Archie and Lilibet have not visited the UK since 2022, and it seems that the siblings will not be returning to their father's home country anytime soon for one crucial reason

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19 hours ago What Spain’s property ‘100 per cent’ tax hike means for Brits looking for their dream holiday home

Spain's prime minister has set out plans to increase property taxes for non-EU buyers, which could drive Brits to purchase holiday homes elsewhere

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16 hours ago The £4.5m haul of designer fakes seized at Britain's border: From knock

EXCLUSIVE: Experts warn fakes can also pose a potentially deadly threat to buyers, with faulty electrical items at risk of suddenly catching fire.

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5 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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4 hours ago Farage proclaimed ‘Britain’s future PM’ at champagne fuelled Trump celebration party

The Independent’s political editor David Maddox and White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg were at the Hay Adams hotel opposite the White House as Brexiteer Brits hosted the biggest inauguration party in town and plotted a populist right future with their US allies

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24 hours ago Record numbers of British millionaires ditch UK over fears Labour's tax plans are damaging the economy

Thousands of millionaires have fled Britain amid growing concerns that new tax plans will damage the economy and international investors.

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6 hours ago Man's dramatic rescue of dog from freezing river in Vermont caught on video

A Vermont man waded into a river to rescue a dog that was struggling to escape the icy waters

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5 hours ago Brits reckon Donald Trump is either a zombie or a hologram who will 'malfunction soon'

Donald Trump, who becomes the President of the United States for the second time around on Monday, is a hologram or has been 'raised from the dead', according suspicious Brits

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6 hours ago Nigerian gasoline tanker explosion kills at least 70 people, authorities say

At least 70 people have been killed in north-central Nigeria after a gasoline tanker exploded, the country’s emergency response agency said

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7 hours ago British film studios to rescue Hollywood after movie industry shattered by LA wildfires

Experts and studio executives have already begun planning for a raft of devastating issues impacting the world's movie capital in the wake of the region's worst natural disaster in history

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6 hours ago Santander considers UK exit amid frustrations with high street banking

Spanish group reviewing its presence in the country as returns lag other markets

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11 hours ago The landlord and the LA fires: how my friend’s loss revealed a new hierarchy of who gets help

GoFundMe is now the backbone of American comeback stories. But the people with better connections get lifted up firstI love my landlord. I don’t mean that I find him charming, though I do. I mean I moved on to a swath of dirt in Los Angeles county with three ancient cabins on it, and over the course of six years, went from pleasantries in the driveway to saying: “Love you Jeri, bye!” on the phone.When I moved into one of the rickety structures on his unlandscaped property in Topanga Canyon, one of the last hippie enclaves just north of the Pacific Palisades, I was the latest in a very long line of tenants. It was a bucolic slice of land and it had to be, because without the scenery, you would notice the three cabins were one good gust away from falling down the cliff.Kelton Wright writes ShangriLogs, a diary from another fire country in Colorado Continue reading...

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6 hours ago 10 places across UK where pub numbers are 'surging' despite 'significant challenges'

While British pubs may be in strife across the board there's a slew of cities where boozers and pub culture is thriving, with a healthy spate of new openings cropping up - here's where

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12 hours ago Britain's filthiest restaurants, named and shamed: Nearly 5,000 fail hygiene ratings... so is yours one of them?

Food Standards Agency (FSA) data show there are thousands of restaurants and cafes across the UK where dirty kitchens and dining rooms are failing health inspections.

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7 hours ago Trump inauguration moved inside by freezing weather as large crowds gather in Washington for protests: Live

President-elect says he has ordered inauguration and speeches to take place in the Capitol Rotunda ‘as used by Ronald Reagan in 1985’

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12 hours ago Revealed: Why late billionaire owner of Leicester City who died in helicopter crash had just £50k of assets in Britain

EXCLUSIVE: Khun Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, 60, was killed with four other people when his personal Leonardo AW169 helicopter span out of control and smashed into the ground in a fireball

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7 hours ago I'm A Celebrity's Myles Stephenson rushes daughter, two, to hospital as she turns blue after seizure

Former X Factor star Myles Stephenson has shared his horror after his two-year-old daughter, Sahara, was rushed to hospital after suffering a seizure and a high temperature

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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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9 hours ago Ten people hurt, two seriously, after ski lift collapse at Spanish resort

Emergency services say 30 people were involved, of whom 10 were taken to hospital, at Astún in the PyreneesTen people have been hurt, two of them seriously, after a ski lift collapsed at a resort in north-east Spain, hurling dozens of passengers into the snow below.Although initial reports said 35 people had been injured on Saturday at the Pyrenean resort of Astún, in the Aragón region, the figures were later revised down. Continue reading...

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14 hours ago James McClean brands Shrewsbury a 'cesspit full of inbreds' as he blasts back at fans abuse with savage attack

The 35-year-old is regularly targeted by away fans and has taken to social media to have his say after abuse

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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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14 hours ago 'I went from fighting fires to selling out arenas thanks to one bold move'

Country singer Tyler Braden has opened up on his bold career move that switched him from putting fires out to setting the music charts alight

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10 hours ago Are we a racist society? The majority of us say no – but science begs to differ

Although greater awareness of prejudice would suggest we are less bigoted than ever, empirical evidence indicates notQ&A with Keon West, author of The Science of RacismDo we still have a problem with racism? If you ask the average person even the most basic question about it – “Does racism still exist?” – half the population will say it doesn’t. According to a recent Guardian poll of British adults, more than half thought ethnic minorities faced less or the same discrimination as White people in most areas of life, such as the news, TV or films, the workplace, access to finance and jobs, and access to university or good schooling. Results in the US are similar. A 2021 Gallup poll revealed that slightly more than half of the White American population believe “racism against Black [people is] widespread in the US”. In the meantime, according to the same poll, slightly less than half of the White American population believe “racism against Whites [is] widespread in the US”. An earl...

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14 hours ago Met Office warns UK faces more 'snow and ice' and reveals where will be 'wettest'

The Met Office has warned that the UK can expect a further blast of cold weather with snow and ice next month while maps show the temperature dipping to -4C on February 1

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10 hours ago Inside the scramble to move Trump’s inauguration indoors as MAGAworld caught off guard

Trump confirmed his inauguration was moving inside as temperatures are forecast to plummet to the low 20s

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15 hours ago Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas will begin tomorrow with Brit Emily Damari one of the 33 hostages to be released

Until now, the exact time of the ceasefire's start had been unclear, though Israel had said that no Palestinian prisoners would be freed before 2pm GMT.

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11 hours ago Dean Windass has noticed only one change to body since dementia diagnosis

After his devastating dementia diagnosis broke the heart of the football world, Dean Windass offered an insight into how the condition is taking grip

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15 hours ago Briton jailed in Dubai for 16 years ordered to sign document claiming his human rights are being upheld

Exclusive: Imprisoned British businessman Ryan Cornelius has appealed to the Foreign Office for help after his Dubai jailers tried to force him to sign a document claiming his human rights were being upheld, we can reveal

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11 hours ago If Radley London isn’t on your radar yet, it should be. This British handbag brand has just

If Radley London isn’t on your radar yet, it should be. This British handbag brand has just-launched styles f  NJ.com

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16 hours ago Newly engaged British comedian Jack Whitehall arrives at Sydney airport with fiancé Roxy Horner and their daughter Elsie

Jack Whitehall cut a casual figure on Saturday as he arrived in Sydney with fiancée Roxy Horner and their daughter Elsie.

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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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16 hours ago Our neighbours' homes might be demolished... and we're HAPPY about it: Locals living next to £327k newbuilds blast 'illegal' block as council warns residents could be EVICTED

EXCLUSIVE: Furious locals living in Langley, Slough, next to an illegally-built block of flats that could be demolished by the council say they don't care if neighbours are made homeless.

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12 hours ago 'Kate would hate it!' Princess of Wales's neighbours blast plans for 2,500

EXCLUSIVE: Locals said Kate Middleton would be extremely upset over the plans near her Berkshire family home and would be thinking, 'Oh my God, what's happening?'

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17 hours ago Revealed: The secret to Jack Draper's  remarkable physical improvement

MATTHEW LAMBERT IN MELBOURNE: It is quite the turnaround for a man whose fitness, by his own admission, could not be relied upon in the early years of his career.

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13 hours ago Emma Raducanu stays positive but has ‘no excuses’ after Australian Open rout

British No 2 beaten 6-1, 6-0 by Iga Swiatek in third round‘Given the preparation I had, I have to be grateful’Emma Raducanu says she leaves Melbourne positive about her progress and development despite suffering the heaviest defeat of her grand slam career to Iga Swiatek, the No 2 seed, in the third round of the Australian Open.“Three weeks ago when I was in Auckland, at the end of last year, I was doing pool rehab. I think to be on a tennis court playing matches and competing is something I have to be grateful for. I started hitting when I came here 18 days ago. I have to take a positive that I was able to beat two top opponents in the first two rounds,” said Raducanu. Continue reading...

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18 hours ago London faces frazzling in heatwave over 40°C, warns Government in new risk report

The Tube, rail and buses could be disrupted and tens of thousands more workers may stay at home

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14 hours ago Top 10 revelations from Vanity Fair's savage takedown of Prince Harry and Meghan

A major new article by Vanity Fair magazine has looked over the five years that have elapsed since Harry and Meghan stepped down from their senior roles in the British Royal Family.

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18 hours ago F1 driver quit racing after crash killed 84 before fleeing UK over serious allegations

John Riseley-Prichard drove in the Formula 1 British Grand Prix and also took part in the most infamous race in Le Mans history before later fleeing to Thailand to avoid trial

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