43 minutes ago Galopin Des Champs ready for historic third Cheltenham Gold Cup after Irish hat

The Willie Mullins-trained great took the Paddy Power Irish Gold Cup again under Paul Townend. Bookmakers William Hill go 4-6 that he can equal Best Mate in the Cheltenham Festival feature next month

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5 hours ago 'A girl in Pilates stopped to ask for my perfume– it's these £5 laundry scent boosters'

Our head of shopping was stopped in her Pilates class by a woman wanting to know the name of her perfume, but the scent was from a cheap box of 'incredible' in-wash scent boosters

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10 hours ago The unseen France v Wales moments as Welsh player overcome in tunnel and team

John Jones was in Paris to keep an eye on things away from the cameras as Wales faced France

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94 minutes ago Almost 60,000 remain without power on island of Ireland after Storm Eowyn

Engineers working to restore supply are being supported by counterparts from Great Britain and Europe.

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5 hours ago How to watch Ajax vs Feyenoord in the UK: Live stream and TV channel for Klassieker showdown

Two powerhouses of Dutch football lock horns in Amsterdam on Sunday

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77 minutes ago People who backed remain ‘shouldn’t be allowed to vote’, Reform rally hears

John Elliott, a businessman who has given his support to the party, shared a stage with Reform UK leader Nigel Farage as he made the claim.

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16 hours ago Clean fridges with one £3.62 item that stops fingerprints once and for all

Your fridge door will be streak-free and gleaming with this one incredibly cheap and common item that dissolves stains and doesn't damage surfaces

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6 hours ago Family pay final respects to Belfast father, 37, who was shot and stabbed in Alicante as Spanish police continue murder investigation

John George, 37, also known as John Hardy, had been on holiday in Alicante when he was reported missing on December 18 after failing to board his flight back home to Northern Ireland.

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26 hours ago Actors From the London Stage to perform ’Hamlet’ at John Carroll University: Press Run

Actors From the London Stage to perform ’Hamlet’ at John Carroll University: Press Run  cleveland.com

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96 minutes ago Miranda Hart's worried husband finds her 'weeping' at the kitchen table 'pretty much everday'

The Call The Midwife star says she is 'highly sensitive' and experiences life more intensely than others

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25 hours ago New fundraising powers for Sadiq Khan could unlock billions for Tube extensions, report claims

A similar model was used to partly-fund the Northern line extension to Battersea Power Station

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8 hours ago NATO scrambles warplanes as Putin strikes hit across Ukraine hours after Trump says he is talking to Russia about ending war

The wave of attacks by Vladimir Putin - which led to power cuts in multiple regions - came soon after Donald Trump announced in the Oval Office that his administration was actively talking to Moscow.

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32 hours ago Gary Kemp uses AI in music video because ‘record companies won’t fund them’

There are ‘no actors’ in his music video – just AI-generated fake London commuters.

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2 hours ago EastEnders' Cheryl Fergison announces her next gig is singing at the opening of a new Blackpool restaurant after she revealed her past money struggles

The EastEnders actress, 60, best known for her role as Heather Trott, recently spoke about her financial worries, making this opportunity particularly meaningful.

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27 hours ago Musselburgh Cheltenham Trials has Henry Brooke buzzing as David Power Jockeys’ Cup adds spice to bumper £400k weekend

The east Lothian course is staging a bumper two-day meeting this weekend

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9 hours ago 'I’ve saved lives and predicted deaths – my psychic powers even found me a husband'

EXCLUSIVE: Alla Kuzmis was only 10 years old when she discovered she had an unusual gift of seeing into the future - she even used it to unearth a family secret

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2 hours ago Damon Heta laps up his Paddy Power payday as he tells darts fans his first purchase – 'Living that fast life'

The Aussia got his dream gift after a big pay out from the oddsmakers

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27 hours ago Tesco shoppers rush to buy discontinued chocolate bars for incredible price

Chocolate fans share their excitement after discontinued chocolate bars have been spotted in a number of stores for a cheap price - and fans are rushing out to get their hands on them as their 'stomach missed them'

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11 hours ago Richey Edwards: The mysterious disappearance of the Manic Street Preachers star, 30 years on

The guitarist vanished on 1 February 1995 and is widely presumed to have taken his own life, but a body was never found and there is no definitive proof that he died by suicide. Thirty years later, Ed Power reflects on the rock star whose legacy is one of tragedy and conspiracy

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28 hours ago AstraZeneca cancels £450m Liverpool investment, blaming UK government funding cuts – business live

Pharmaceutical company says that it will not go ahead with investment at Speke, near LiverpoolDonald Trump’s White House will invoke emergency powers to introduce tariffs on Canada and Mexico, Reuters reports:Two sources familiar with the matter said that Trump was expected to invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) as the legal basis for the tariffs, declaring a national emergency over fentanyl overdoses that killed nearly 75,000 Americans in 2023 and illegal immigration.The statute enacted in 1977 and modified after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 gives the president broad powers to impose economic sanctions in a crisis. Continue reading...

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21 hours ago 'Violent spitting criminal thug' won't be smiling any more after Southport riot sentence

John Rasburn, 47, was captured on CCTV spitting and throwing cones at police officers during the Southport riots - he later handed himself into police and has now been jailed

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3 hours ago Premier League issue Liverpool statement as Reds breathe sigh of relief

Liverpool were left thanking VAR John Brooks after he ruled out an equaliser for Bournemouth in their Premier League clash on the South Coast, with the Reds ahead through Mo Salah's penalty

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30 hours ago FTSE 100 on course for biggest monthly gain in two years – business live

Live rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as Smiths Group leads index after promising break-up of FTSE 100 engineering companyDonald Trump’s White House will invoke emergency powers to introduce tariffs on Canada and Mexico, Reuters reports:Two sources familiar with the matter said that Trump was expected to invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) as the legal basis for the tariffs, declaring a national emergency over fentanyl overdoses that killed nearly 75,000 Americans in 2023 and illegal immigration.The statute enacted in 1977 and modified after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 gives the president broad powers to impose economic sanctions in a crisis. Continue reading...

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22 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...

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4 hours ago Donald Trump's 12th day back in office: Tariffs, FBI purges and Elon Musk's unchecked power

Donald Trump's 12th day back in office saw him take his biggest gamble yet with the economy and empty a couple of reservoirs for no reason, as well as oversee some deeply troubling - likely illegal - actions

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38 hours ago Wasting lots of taxpayer money has become almost routine for SNP government

Record View says if John Swinney is to win his own mandate as first minister next year, he needs to cut out the waste and start delivering.

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23 hours ago Where is Dwayne Myers on Death In Paradise? Danny John Jules' character's absence explained

Danny John Jules plays fan favourite Dwayne Myers on BBC detective drama Death In Paradise - but there is no sign of him in the new series of the hit show

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4 hours ago Voices: Dominic Cummings was right: Labour MPs should have voted for Theresa May’s Brexit

Keir Starmer should take his cue from Cummings in pursuing his EU ‘reset’ and seek a customs union with the EU. The director of the Vote Leave campaign supported it – among other surprises, writes John Rentoul

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23 hours ago ‘Ireland needs to be more resilient to storms’ as 74,000 remain without power

More than 400 technicians from abroad have arrived in Ireland to help with repairs as the ESB enters a more complex reconnection phase.

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5 hours ago Ron DeSantis tried to crusade against undocumented students. Florida is fighting back

Latest anti-immigration agenda pushes to strip in-state tuition rates from tens of thousands of college studentsIt was a week in which two of Ron DeSantis’s flagship culture war crusades – education and immigration – collided. And it did not end well for Florida’s hard-right Republican governor.Alongside a revolt by previously loyal lawmakers upset by DeSantis’s “power grab” in trying to write and impose immigration law, he also found himself under fire from tens of thousands of undocumented college and university students furious at his push to strip them of in-state tuition rates. Continue reading...

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24 hours ago A look back on Storm Éowyn as Scotland braces for another bout of heavy snow and

The windstorm, one of the UK's most powerful for a decade, brought red warnings, severe impacts and, tragically, deaths.

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6 hours ago Man Utd’s most valuable stars they could sell as club told to ‘flog assets over PSR worries’

Manchester United's financial situation has been condemned by former Premier League striker Alan Shearer, who fears the club will have to offload key players this year

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24 hours ago Moment 'show off' driver asks police 'Am I going to prison for this?' as he admits to doing 120mph when he crashed into pub and killed his 18

Reckless Jack Cracknell clocked a speed of 117mph before he lost control of his high-powered Ford Fiesta ST as he raced through a 40mph zone.

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7 hours ago DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Grok which is the best AI assistant? We put them to the test

Chatbots we tested can write a mean sonnet and struggled with images of clocks, but vary in willingness to talk politicsChatGPT and its owners must have hoped it was a hallucination.But DeepSeek is very real. Continue reading...

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25 hours ago Paddy Power Arsenal vs Man City Offer: Get 30/1 on Arsenal to be awarded a corner

Paddy Power is offering new customers to back Arsenal to get at least a corner in their Premier League clash with Man City this weekend

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7 hours ago Trump ally Peter Marocco behind evisceration of USAid: ‘He’s a destroyer’

Campaign ally sowed trail of enmity during first Trump presidency and allegedly was present at January 6 riotThe Trump administration’s evisceration of US overseas aid has been presided over by a campaign ally who sowed a trail of enmity at multiple agencies during the first Trump presidency and has been publicly identified as allegedly having been present at the January 6 insurrection when rioters stormed the Capitol.Peter Marocco has accumulated power in the office of foreign assistance, informally called “F”, that traditionally has helped coordinate US foreign aid programs. But under Marocco, it has enforced a full-scale freeze on overseas aid and a stop-work order that has in effect halted operations and already led to hundreds of layoffs in the United States and overseas. Continue reading...

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25 hours ago Grumpy Harrison Ford, a mystery asterisk and AI gone wild: everything from Disney’s new slate presentation

Few sights are as majestic as an 82-year-old legend being nonplussed at promoting Captain America: Brave New World. Plus: is Thunderbolts* Marvel’s answer to The Suicide Squad and will Tron: Ares be as good as it looks?There are moments in life when you expect to be confronted by greatness: hearing a live orchestra swell into the opening notes of John Williams’ Star Wars theme; standing at the edge of the Scottish Highlands; watching a dog somehow open a fridge and retrieve a beer for its owner. And then there are moments when greatness sneaks up on you in the form of an 82-year-old Hollywood legend, materialising like a grumpy mirage, one metre from your face, during what you thought was a routine Disney presentation of new movies and TV shows.Harrison Ford is not a man one simply stumbles upon. He is a force of nature, a living relic of an era when leading men didn’t have to spend six months on a chicken-and-rice diet before taking their shirts off. And yet, here he is, looking su...

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7 hours ago Eating certain chocolate regularly could help to 'boost brain function'

A health guru took to TikTok to recommend munching on a certain type of chocolate to boost brain power – and the delicious item could have other benefits too

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26 hours ago Badenoch not at all worried about ‘protest party’ Reform ahead of rally in constituency

Nigel Farage is set to hold a rally with Reform UK members in Kemi Badenoch’s constituency on Friday evening

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7 hours ago How fashion's ice queen froze out the First Lady (but does Melania even care?)

Starkly dressed in black and white and photographed in monochrome, Melania Trump appears intent on projecting not only stylishness but power and determination.

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28 hours ago Terminally ill man among thousands without power a week after Storm Eowyn

Efforts to repair damage caused by Storm Eowyn in Northern Ireland continue into a seventh day with 8,000 homes still without power.

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7 hours ago Barbara Hepworth’s string sculptures exhibited in public for first time

Artist’s fascination with string is focus of show opening next week with works not seen beyond private collectionsFor more than 60 years, Barbara Hepworth’s Winged Figure has loomed over London’s Oxford Street, hanging off the side of its John Lewis store. Made of aluminium and incorporating slender rods, it is one of dozens of “string” sculptures the Cornwall-based artist created during her five-decade career.Unlike Winged Figure, many of these works have never been publicly displayed. That is about to change as they go on show in a London gallery in the first ever dedicated exhibition on Thursday. Continue reading...

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29 hours ago Terminally ill man among 8,000 homes without power a week after Storm Eowyn

Efforts to repair damages caused by Storm Eowyn in Northern Ireland continue into a seventh day.

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10 hours ago Paddy Power Offer: Back Willie Mullins to bring home a winner at 30/1 odds

Dublin Racing Festival is upon us and Paddy Power has launched an enhanced offer on trainer Willie Mullins to bring home a winner on day one

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29 hours ago ‘Witchcraft’ medicine and God’s ‘healing power’: inside the Australian ‘cult’ that killed an eight

For 17 years Brendan Stevens led a small conservative Christian sect known as the Saints, disavowing birthdays, schooling and medicine – including the insulin that would have saved Elizabeth Struhs’ lifeThey said he was “appointed by God”. They called him “the pastor”, “the messenger” and “the healer”.For 17 years, Brendan Stevens led his small congregation known as the Saints, a religious sect thrust into the international spotlight this week after one of its flock, an eight-year-old diabetic named Elizabeth Struhs, died after members denied her life-saving insulin. Fourteen members of the Saints, including Elizabeth’s parents, her brother and Stevens, were this week convicted of her 2022 manslaughter in a Queensland court. Continue reading...

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10 hours ago Ireland vs England betting offer: Get 40/1 or 80/1 pick the winner with Paddy Power

Paddy Power is offering new customers the chance to back either Arsenal or Tottenham Hotspur at enhanced odds of 40/1 or 100/1 respectively

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29 hours ago Photographer who founded event for children’s charities had 700 images of child sexual abuse 

Father-of-two John Rampton, who lives in Welshpool, was found with the images after his estranged wife told the police

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11 hours ago Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for celeriac and lentil gratin | The new vegan

A creamy, savoury gratin that’s so much more than the sum of its partsA few years ago, my recipe tester Hannah rang me to rave about a celeriac and lentil gratin she’d made from Jenny Chandler’s book Pulse. I made it, then Hugh, my husband, made it, and then the friends we’d cooked it for also made it. Conclusion: people love it. Staring at a gnarly celeriac, some tins of tomatoes and lentils, plus a couple of handfuls of cashews, you’d never imagine they’d create something so moreish. But that’s the strength of great knowhow (Jenny’s) and the transformative power of time and heat on even the most simple of ingredients. Continue reading...

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30 hours ago Dumfries and Galloway residents 'frustrated' in bid to find out power cut information after Storm Eowyn

People appreciated the hard work of engineers but were unhappy with Scottish Power Energy Networks' communication.

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11 hours ago 'Don't sleep on Queensberry's future stars – we've got plenty of power in our stable'

FRANK WARREN COLUMN: Queensberry promoter insists his stable have got boxers able to compete with Adam Azim, who fights Sergey Lipinets on Saturday

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30 hours ago Why skiing can play havoc with your periods: Top gynaecologists reveal how you can avoid cramps and injuries on the slopes this winter

You may have thought about how getting your period on your winter ski holiday could ruin your week on the slopes. But did you know skiing itself has the power to mess with your menstrual cycle?

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