61 minutes ago Born of prosperity, sunlight and optimism, California’s dream homes now lie in ashes | Rowan Moore

Magnificent, irreplaceable 20th-century architecture made with craft and imagination was destroyed in the Palisades wildfiresPacific Palisades and its surrounding neighbourhoods, which have burned so ferociously over the past three weeks, happen to be the location of some beautiful and magnificent 20th-century architecture. Or were, as the fire has taken a terrible toll.Houses by the émigré Austrian modernist Richard Neutra have gone, as have most of the Park Planned Homes of 1948, an idealistic experiment in affordable modern living by the architect Gregory Ain. Stone chimney stacks are all that remain of the scaled-up cabin that was Will Rogers’ ranch house. His 30-horse stables, in their centre a rotonda like an equine chapter house, are ashes. Continue reading...

Politics

38 hours ago Heathrow airport expansion will smash our community, say nearby villagers

Hundreds of homes could be demolished in the west London villages of Harmondsworth and Longford if the expansion gets the green light.

Society

7 hours ago ‘Dark and dingy’ or ‘a real loss’? Shoppers react to possible loss of WH Smith

Stevenage is one of 500 UK towns where threatened closures will affect local retailers and the publishing tradeWH Smith sale could turn high street into ‘book desert’, authors sayJust two shop floor staff are on duty and shoppers are mostly serving themselves at shouty automated tills in WH Smith’s Stevenage branch, where there are boxes of goods on the floor, some empty shelves and missing signage.Set in a faded shopping centre that was cutting-edge when it heralded Great Britain’s first new town in 1965 but is now gap-toothed with empty stores, WH Smith in Stevenage is a clear example of what is at stake for 500 communities across Britain whose local store is now at risk. Continue reading...

Economics

23 hours ago EA FC 25 update sees players awarded a win when the opponent quits while drawing

EA Sports continues to give the EA FC 25 community what they are asking for, with a feature that players have been demanding for years being added to the game.

Sport

46 minutes ago D Is for Distance review – tender portrait of parents battling for their son’s medication

Only medical cannabis can stop Louis’ epileptic seizures, but the NHS refuses to supply it. Chris Petit and Emma Matthews have turned their fight into a filmThat uniquely valuable British writer and independent film-maker Chris Petit, creator of downbeat classics such as Radio On from 1979 and An Unsuitable Job for a Woman from 1982, may not these days find it easy to get an outlet for his work; this would be appear to be his first feature credit for 15 years. But he and co-director, editor and partner Emma Matthews have emerged with a deeply personal movie: painful, complex, challenging and engaging.Petit and Matthews riff and free-associate on the themes of memory, memory-loss and the moving image on video and celluloid, but at the centre of this is an urgent story from their own lives. In his early teens, their son Louis, now 22, a talented artist and musician, began to have epileptic seizures that wiped out his memories of childhood; some of these were of the type nicknamed “Ali...

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20 hours ago Scots author tells Davina McCall 'number one reason why people will never give up alcohol'

Challenges like Dry January and Sober October present an opportunity to go teetotal for a while, but the effects of hitting the booze are never too away.

Culture

28 hours ago The tech thriller is fiction's most exciting development in years. But could real

A new generation of authors are coming up the ranks, with a new literary genre for our stranger-than-fiction times. But can they win the race against innovation?

Science

67 minutes ago Linda Nolan's last laugh as she sends funeral mourners into fits of giggles

Linda Nolan used her wicked sense of humour as a way to cope with her cancer diagnosis, and even left friends and family in stitches at her own funeral on Saturday

Politics

25 hours ago BBC The Traitors' Alexander inspires £60k charity donation after touching ITV appearance

The Traitors star made a rare appearance on Good Morning Britain this week - and fans flocked to donate to his chosen charity after hearing his story

Economics

48 minutes ago Dozy missed Rangers transfer target falls foul of furious boss as he’s axed from squad for SLEEPING IN

It could have been a different story for the centre-back had he made the move to Ibrox

Events

31 hours ago Dancing On Ice star suffered tragic miscarriage at start of training for ITV show

Dancing On Ice star Chelsee Healey reportedly suffered a tragic miscarriage when she first started training for the show and wants to share her story to "help other women"

Culture

92 minutes ago Quarter of young people are making the same dangerous food storage change to save money

Official data from the Food Standards Agency show the number of young people taking dangerous measures to cope with rising energy costs - which campaigners say is "beyond messed up"

Politics

25 hours ago Dumfries and Galloway Council faced with £34million financial black hole over next three years

The amount the local authority thought it would have to save between 2025 and 2028 has risen by £4million.

Economics

2 hours ago The emotional story of a Welsh soldier and why it led him to going on TV

'Although I may look like I’m not struggling, I am struggling but I am there. Not getting on with it, but I am overcoming my obstacles, my challenges and I am doing what I want to do.'

Events

1 hour ago I Who Have Never Known Men: the lost dystopia finding new readers after buzz on TikTok

First published in 1995 then virtually forgotten, a bleak tale of women caged by men has been embraced as a gen Z Handmaid’s TaleTwo people a year, or maybe three, used to buy Jacqueline Harpman’s novel I Who Have Never Known Men. Her story of a girl locked in a cage with 39 women in an underground bunker on a nameless world was published in 1995 then slid into obscurity.Something has changed since then, because the novel’s tale of sisterhood and survival has become one of the hottest reads this year, drawing comparisons to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Octavia E Butler’s Parable series of novels. Continue reading...

Politics

29 hours ago 'Hardship' payment of £200 to be paid into bank accounts from this date – exact details

Local authorities in England have been distributing £200 'hardship' payments to help households with living costs - and more areas are expected to roll out the scheme

Economics

2 hours ago I signed up to Dignitas when doctors told me I would be dead from MND in six months but they were wrong

After hearing that he may have just six months to live Peter Sefton-Williams realised he was too afraid to cope with the deterioration of his body.

Events

2 hours ago Virologist Wendy Barclay: ‘Wild avian viruses are mixing up their genetics all the time. It’s like viral sex on steroids’

The British scientist on the risk of humans contracting bird flu, how people would cope with new lockdowns and being asked to pour the tea because she is a womanWendy Barclay is a leading British virologist and head of the department of infectious disease and the Action Medical Research chair in virology at Imperial College London. An expert on the pathogenesis and transmissibility of influenza viruses, she served on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) and the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) during the Covid-19 pandemic, providing advice on the risks posed by the coronavirus and appropriate medical countermeasures.What prompted you to study virology? After I graduated from Cambridge with a degree in natural sciences I thought I might get a job with a pharmaceutical company. Then I saw that the Common Cold Unit in Salisbury was looking for a PhD to work on rhinoviruses, the viruses that cause the common cold. I hadn’t studied virus...

Politics

31 hours ago Transfer deadline day: Get the latest breaking stories and done deals straight to your phone

Transfer deadline day is nearly upon us, and you can get the latest breaking news, rumours and done deals straight to your phone via our WhatsApp Community

Economics

3 hours ago Inside Essex estate where homes are boarded up and 'last proper pub' is due to close as locals say community has been 'swallowed up'

Frustrated locals say their town has been 'swallowed up' by new regeneration plans as the 'last proper pub' is set to be demolished and the area surrounding it is now a ghost town.

Politics

4 hours ago Sign up for free Man City WhatsApp updates to get transfer latest as deadline day approaches

The Manchester Evening News' Man City team has a free WhatsApp community where subscribers will receive all of the biggest stories

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5 hours ago This is how we do it: ‘As I got older, I struggled to have an erection then my wife introduced her alter ego, Miss Fifi’

When Eric’s sex drive started to wane, Violet knew exactly how to increase his desireHow do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymouslyViolet is beautiful, she always has been, and as Miss Fifi she puts on sexy underwear, which really turns me on Continue reading...

Politics

6 hours ago Glam influencer dies aged 27 just three days after cosmetic surgery in Mexico

Tributes have poured in for an influencer who tragically passed away at the age of 27 after undergoing a cosmetic procedure at a clinic in her native Mexico not authorised to perform the surgery

Events

7 hours ago Inside forbidden love story that threatened to destroy the Norwegian monarchy

When King Harald of Norway first met his wife Sonja, their love story was totally 'forbidden' and for nearly a decade, their romance threatened to destroy the monarchy itself

Politics

6 hours ago Norway releases a ship initially suspected of involvement in damage to a Baltic Sea cable

A Norwegian-owned and Russian-crewed ship that authorities initially suspected may have been involved in damage to an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland has been released

Events

7 hours ago Linda Nolan's rollercoaster life from naughty nickname to devastating loss

Linda Nolan's funeral will today take place in her 'spiritual home' of Blackpool, with fans lining the streets to mark the final chapter in her extraordinary life story

Politics

8 hours ago NATO fighter planes scrambled after Putin's newest drone attack risks WW3

Harrowing footage showed residents in Poltava screaming after a Russian missile strike with NATO planes deployed - We'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story

Events

9 hours ago What drove Jane Austen's sister to become one of literature’s most notorious vandals

A new BBC drama explores one of the most vexing acts of sabotage in literary history: the decision by Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra to burn nearly all the writer’s letters after her death. Keeley Hawes and the cast, as well as the series director, talk to Katie Rosseinsky about what might have motivated Cassandra, the perils of being unmarried and female in Regency England and the extraordinary love that existed between the two sisters

Politics

9 hours ago Kathy Eldon thought her world had ended when her son was murdered. She reveals how his memory helped her cope when the Palisades fire threatened her Malibu home

Kathy Eldon thought her world ended when her son was murdered. She tells how his memory helped her cope with one of the worst natural disasters ever to strike LA

Events

9 hours ago Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte review – ‘like being inside the internet’

A questionable male feminist, a closet sadist and a disaffected Twitter addict populate this acerbic story collection that captures the spirit of our doomscrolling ageIn 2019, the Brooklyn-based literary magazine n+1 published a short story that went viral. Titled The Feminist, it follows the life of a man who turns from a bell hooks-reading Supporter of Women into a bitter moderator in an online forum about how feminism is a cancer. Rejection has hardened him over the years. In university, he always supported his friends – predominantly women – throughout their emotional crises, and was surprised to discover that his attentiveness was not rewarded with love or sex. After university, his online dates ghost him. He fears the nerves of his penis have been dulled by vigorous masturbation. The Feminist satirised in witty and lurid detail a familiar type in the online zeitgeist: the staunch male ally, emerging out of the political currents of #MeToo and the movement against Trump. The mo...

Politics

9 hours ago ITV Emmerdale spoiler with April's heartbreaking story and the 'terrifying' truth behind her disappearance

Fans of Emmerdale will finally find out what happened to April Windsor

Events

11 hours ago Alexander McCall Smith on the return of 44 Scotland Street to The Scotsman

With Bertie’s Theory of Ice Cream, the seventy-something Scottish author continues to delight his fans worldwide

Politics

10 hours ago Middle East latest: 3 Israeli hostages and dozens of Palestinian prisoners set to be freed

Three high-profile Israeli hostages are set to be released by Hamas on Saturday, while Palestinian authorities say Israel has agreed to release dozens of prisoners, in the fourth round of exchanges during the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas

Events

11 hours ago Campaigners hail ‘important victory’ in protection of England’s national parks

Minister says there was error when Manningtree station car park extension was approved under last governmentCampaigners have celebrated an “important victory” in a closely watched case that will determine whether the government will enforce new legislation aimed at protecting national parks and landscapes in England.Dedham Vale is a designated “national landscape” on the border of Essex and Suffolk, home to increasingly rare species including hazel dormice and hedgehogs. Within it is Manningtree station, where the train operator Greater Anglia built an extension to the car park to cope with increased traffic. Continue reading...

Politics

11 hours ago Netflix’s The Sandman to end amid Neil Gaiman sexual assault allegations

The ‘American Gods’ author has denied accusations of ‘non-consensual sexual activity’ from multiple women

Events

11 hours ago What drove Jane Austen's sister to become one of literature's most notorious vandals

A new BBC drama explores one of the most vexing acts of sabotage in literary history: the decision by Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra to burn nearly all the writer’s letters after her death. Keeley Hawes and the cast, as well as the series director, talk to Katie Rosseinsky about what might have motivated Cassandra, the perils of being unmarried and female in Regency England and the extraordinary love that existed between the two sisters

Politics

16 hours ago Inside Jane Austen's death and tragic last days of Pride and Prejudice author

This year marks the author's 250th birthday

Events

18 hours ago Netflix’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman to end after its second series

It comes amid sexual assault allegations about author Gaiman.

Politics

17 hours ago Gwen Stefani, 55, looks much younger than her years as she reunites with No Doubt at FireAid in LA

Gwen Stefani reunited with No Doubt for the FireAid Relief concert benefiting victims of the Los Angeles wildfires, on Thursday evening. It the group's first performance since Coachella in April 2023.

Events

22 hours ago Could the Washington DC air disaster happen in Britain? As Trump blames diversity, how the UK's air traffic controllers are recruited

Inevitably, air traffic control authorities around the world - including within the UK - will be carefully analysing Wednesday night's disaster.

Politics

18 hours ago Dozens who died over Washington shared a flight but each had their own story

Mourners are grasping to make sense of the random circumstances that put their friends and loved ones in harm's way when an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter collided over Washington, D

Events

25 hours ago The Weeknd: Hurry Up Tomorrow review – a record that will floor you and drive you up the wall

(XO Music/Republic)On a somewhat exhausting sixth album, Abel Tesfaye uses Brazilian funk, punishing house and lush 70s soul to press great songs into the service of rotten lyricsIt takes precisely 20 seconds for the Weeknd’s sixth album to imply that it might also be his last. “All I have is my legacy I’m all alone when it fades to black,” Abel Tesfaye sings over a lush bed of synthesisers that quickly takes on the influence of 80s boogie. It’s a line that feels very on brand. Hurry Up Tomorrow’s release has been promoted with billboards declaring “THE END IS NEAR”, social media posts in which Tesfaye has inferred the album is the final “beautiful chapter” in his story and interviews during which he’s suggested that a 2022 incident in which he lost his voice on stage was some kind of cosmic message: “You can end it now when is the right time to leave if not at your peak?”It is perhaps worth noting that the same was true of his last album more-or-less: 2022’s Dawn FM was rich with e...

Politics

20 hours ago California officials investigate utilities company in search for cause of fires

Firefighters believe Palisades fire started from small blaze that may have reignited due to hurricane-force windsAs Los Angeles grapples with the aftermath of the devastating fires that killed dozens and laid waste to entire neighborhoods, the potential causes of the disasters are beginning to come into focus.The siege of wildfires, sparked amid powerful Santa Ana winds earlier this month, created chaos around the city for weeks. They scorched around 60 sq miles (155 sq km) of the city, destroying the Pacific Palisades and Altadena neighborhoods, and killed at least 29 people. Preliminary estimates of the economic losses have exceeded $250bn. Firefighters have only recently managed to achieve near containment of the fires, and residents begin returning to what remains of their communities, looking for answers. Continue reading...

Events

25 hours ago David marks his 100th birthday with ‘extra whisky’ surrounded by family, friends and laughter

David celebrated his 100th birthday on January 30, 2025.

Politics

22 hours ago Air ambulance lands as person is trapped inside car in Port Eynon after crashing into wall

A large-scale emergency services rescue operation was launched in the Gower community and the road remained closed this evening with diversions in place

Events

25 hours ago Glasgow care home residents celebrate Chinese New Year with celebratory meal and joyful gathering

The Chinese New Year is a celebration of family reunions, renewal, and tradition that spans 15 days

Politics

23 hours ago Teenage Washington DC crash victim shared dream of skating for Team USA in heartbreaking interview

Everly and Alydia Livingston were well-known in the figure skating community before their death in the Washington D.C. plane crash on Wednesday

Events

27 hours ago People are only just realising surprising origin of the phrase 'feeling blue'

An architecture expert has revealed the surprising story behind some of the phrases we use day-to-day, including when we say we're 'feeling blue' - and it's left people stunned

Politics

24 hours ago A man shot himself in the head inside a Baltimore courthouse, police say

Baltimore's police commissioner says a man who appeared to be suffering from a “behavioral crisis” walked into the entrance of a Baltimore courthouse and shot himself in the head after authorities tried to interact with him before a security area

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