25 minutes ago SNP to be biggest party at Holyrood election as Scottish Labour to lose seats

Analysis by polling expert John Curtice suggested the SNP would win 51 seats, will Labour would win 16.

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8 hours ago SARAH VINE: Kate's 'very happy' childhood has given her the grounding to withstand the vicissitudes of Royal life. That's why she's perfect to help improve Britain's early years parenting

A new survey by a charity working to improve early-years development has revealed that 24 per cent of parents do not consider toilet training a necessary skill before their child starts primary school.

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1 hour ago Vet shares one dangerous plant dog owners should avoid at all costs on walks

Dog owners are being warned to be on the lookout for a dangerous plant that can threaten pets during walks - and there's one sign to watch out for that means your dog could be in danger

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14 hours ago England player ratings vs Ireland: Curry twins rise to occasion but Cadan Murley endures tough second half

Marcus Smith electric again in frustrating Six Nations opening loss as new captain Maro Itoje also impresses

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57 minutes ago Russia and Ukraine trade blame over an attack on a boarding school in Russia’s Kursk region

Competing claims have emerged over a deadly attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia’s Kursk region that has been under Ukrainian control for five months

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25 hours ago Actor and comedian Miles Jupp: 'At school I used to eat two puddings a day'

The actor and comedian, 45, tells Tom Parker Bowles about school Nutella feasts, the glamour of frozen orange juice and why he won't taste his own cooking

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8 hours ago Doctors said Trey, 11, just had a stomach bug. Now the schoolboy is in a coma fighting for his life and a heart transplant is his only hope...

It was the type of upsetting yet commonplace problem most parents face from time to time. Early last month, the Taylor family were on their way home from a meal out when Trey, 11, began feeling sick.

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2 hours ago Pregnant teenage wife dissolved in bath of acid by jealous and controlling husband

Arnima Hayat had ambitions of becoming a surgeon, but while at medical school in Austrlia, she met the man who would cut her life short before dissolving her body in a bath of acid

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21 hours ago The rise of supermarket fashion: Shoppers ditch high street stores in favour of supermarket own brands as they praise Zara and SKIMS dupes

Brands from PrettyLittleThing to Zara are no longer the favourite of fashion fans who have ditched the well-loved high street stores in favour of clothes from Tesco and Asda.

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18 hours ago Princess Anne wraps up warm as she greets rugby players ahead of the Scotland v Italy Six Nations clash in Edinburgh

The Princess Royal, 74, who is patron of the Scottish Rugby Union, met those competing for the Cuttitta Cup in Edinburgh on Saturday.

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3 hours ago Scotland must urgently get a grip on growing problem of weapons in schools

Fifty per cent rise in the use of weapons in schools after the pandemic hit must prompt a serious response from ministers

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3 hours ago 'Political will' needed from Labour to help Scottish fishermen in wake of 5

Scottish fishermen say there is an opportunity to negotiate better access to the seas post-Brexit.

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22 hours ago Alcohol prices go up TODAY as swingeing new tax rises come into effect

Consumers are being warned to expect the substantial price increase as a new system to tax wines and spirits based on strength is to be introduced.

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19 hours ago Livingston bosses launch probe after first team player racially targeted online

The club issued a statement expressing their anger after one of their players was the target of a racist post on social media.

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3 hours ago How late film director David Lynch is helping Scottish refugees and those dealing with trauma

Refugees and those dealing with trauma in Glasgow have opened up on how meditation - and a connection to the late film director David Lynch - is helping them to turn their lives around

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5 hours ago DWP confirms April 2025 increase to universal credit, PIP and attendance allowance

Millions of people will see a rise in their benefits in the coming months

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24 hours ago Alcohol prices go up TODAY with 54p on a bottle of wine and 32p on gin as swingeing new tax rises come into effect

Consumers are being warned to expect the substantial price increase as a new system to tax wines and spirits based on strength is to be introduced.

Economics

23 hours ago The 10 most unbelievable transfers in Scottish football history as Jefte to Chelsea the latest eyebrow raiser

Some of them actually happened and some of them were links to some of the biggest names in the game we still talk about

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4 hours ago Pasadena school shooting: Elderly gunman opens fire during band competition, one injured

An 81-year-old man opened fire at a band event at Pasadena Memorial High School on Saturday evening, shooting one person, according to a Pasadena ISD official

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10 hours ago Angela Rayner was 'ready to launch coup' against Keir Starmer over reshuffle spat

A book on the rise to power of Sir Keir Starmer has revealed more on the prime minister’s relationship with Angela Rayner after the party's loss in 2021 Hartlepool by-election

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27 hours ago How slow tourism visitors have proven a £1m goldmine for Scottish Highland communities

The growing movement of ‘slow tourism’ offers a counterbalance to ‘overtourism’ in Scotland

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25 hours ago ‘I don’t like corporate boxes’: Jeremy and Ben Corbyn on Arsenal, coaching and Starmer

The former Labour leader and his son reveal how football changed their family, and discuss the pleasure and pain that comes from loving such a voraciously capitalist sportLast Saturday morning, with the biting cold and bright sunshine providing a perfect day for football, Jeremy Corbyn climbed off his bicycle at Tufnell Park playing fields. I joked about a red bike being appropriate for his politics and his beloved Arsenal but Corbyn just smiled and gazed at the teeming pitches.His eldest son, Ben, is a scout for the Arsenal academy and runs the London Football School which coaches around a thousand young footballers. They range in age from three to 18 and there are 42 LFS teams. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago Craig Mallon private detectives to hand over info on 'new witnesses' to death of Scot in Spain

A team led by retired Strathclyde Police detective David Swindle have been probing the case of Craig Mallon, who was killed in Lloret de Mar in 2012.

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16 hours ago PlayStation jibe from Rangers hero Kris Boyd before my Hearts stint is everything wrong with Scottish football

Ian Cathro's appointment at Tynecastle in 2016 was slammed by Boyd and other figures in Scottish football

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27 hours ago The transfer window champions are crowned as Jury sends Celtic back to the future

The Jury debate the big talking points in Scottish football

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5 hours ago Scots 'beastie House' paedos could take part in probe to stop sadistic abuse happening again

Members of the vile paedophile gang could be asked to take part in a learning review to identify how the crimes were missed by authorities.

Events

17 hours ago 'It was one of our best skates' says Scottish ice dancer despite medal disappointment at Europeans

Anastasia Vaipan-Law and Luke Digby also placed fifth in the pairs competition

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5 hours ago Cammy Day victim 'invited to disgraced council chief's caravan' claims bosses ignored complaints

Cammy Day quit last month, hours after we revealed allegations that he sexually harassed vulnerable Ukrainians fleeing war.

Events

18 hours 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"

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5 hours ago Sheku Bayoh probe must look at all factors as police chief takes court action

Mail Opinion says it is essential that by the conclusion everything possible is known so that every possible lesson can be learned.

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18 hours ago Deacon Blue star makes impromptu performance at Glasgow bar to say goodbye

The Scot paid tribute to The Baby Grand on its penultimate night trading.

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19 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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11 hours ago Year after lockdown and school closures saw tragic spike in attempted child suicides, shocking figures reveal

Suicides and attempted suicides by young people soared during lockdown, new figures reveal. Among them was Christopher Nota, from Essex, who was just 19 when he died in 2020.

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19 hours ago How a relatively unknown Scottish actor has emerged as the new favourite to replace Daniel Craig as James Bond

The 6ft 2in star, 38, has reportedly been involved in tentative 'under the radar' talks with Eon Productions, with insiders claiming he could be in 'serious contention' to play the 007 agent.

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12 hours ago Dancing on Ice judge Oti Mabuse pinpoints exact 'danger angle' that viewers love

Dancing on Ice judge Oti Mabuse thinks viewers absolutely love watching celebs taking a tumble on the ice and that is one of the reasons the show is such a massive hit

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20 hours ago Starmer accused of ‘fudging the facts’ of his schooling by education expert

Sutton Trust founder Sir Peter Lampl made the claim as he criticised the Government’s plans to charge VAT on private school fees.

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12 hours ago Terrified Lottie Moss shares her five haunting fears on Netflix jungle show with Holly

Lottie Moss, the half-sister of fashion icon Kate Moss, has admitted she is a scaredy cat and has a raft of phobias as the new series Celebrity Bear Hunt, based in the Costa Rican jungle is due to come out

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21 hours ago Nigel Farage compares Reform polling rise to Donald Trump's election victory: 'There's going to be an earthquake‘

Nigel Farage compared Reform’s polling rise to Donald Trump's US election victory, declaring “There's going to be an earthquake in British politics”.

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14 hours ago Mum of schoolgirl, 14, murdered by dad in 'playfight' is 'standing by him'

Sarah Hall is struggling after the killing of her daughter Scarlett Vickers and the jailing of her husband Simon Vickers for murder, according to her mother Elaine Hall

Events

22 hours ago How Trump has spent his first weeks targeting transgender and nonbinary people

President Donald Trump has targeted the rights of transgender people in executive orders in his first two weeks back

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14 hours ago Missing Aberdeen sisters search team captured in poignant pictures as second body recovered

Police have thanked "everyone who has assisted" with their investigation into the disappearance of Eliza and Henrietta Huszti.

Events

22 hours ago UK weather maps turn green revealing date Brits to see rare dangerous phenomenon

Brits in parts of the UK have been warned of a dangerous weather phenomenon to hit within days as temperatures dip to zero and a wall of snow covering a huge chunk of the country is forecast

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19 hours ago Six Nations star accused of revenge mission following 'deplorable' incident

Romain Ntamack was shown a red card for a dangerous tackle on Wales' Ben Thomas during France's opening night victory in the Six Nations for a challenge he didn't need to make

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23 hours ago It's clear Britain can't survive without immigration. Now Labour must convince voters | Simon Jenkins

Yet more evidence shows that we will only rely on it more as time goes on. It’s time to debate it without toxic rhetoricBritain needs immigrants. According to the Office for National Statistics this week, Britain’s “indigenous” population in the 2030s will be static and ageing. Growth in population will be buoyed only by immigrants, their number predicted to rise by 5 million over the next seven years. Thank goodness, surely, for them.As this debate lurches back into public discourse, it is cursed by the ease with which xenophobia delivers political gain. The fact is that Britons have turned massively in favour of immigration over the past half century. In the 1950s and 1960s, roughly 80%-90% wanted it to stop. Then the inflow was under 250,000 a year and Enoch Powell could forecast “rivers of blood”. Net migration was below zero.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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19 hours ago Renee Zellweger's red carpet secret weapon revealed: Bridget Jones icon loves to show her toned arms achieved through 'gruelling two

Her red carpet outings might be rare, but Renee Zellweger always turns heads when she does don her best glam. And the Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy premiere was no exception.

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25 hours ago AD FEATURE: Greater Manchester leaders benefit from 50% funding for business courses

Alliance Manchester Business School is offering extra funding on its short business courses to celebrate its milestone anniversary

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21 hours ago Man arrested after car didn't stop amid police pursuit through Glasgow

The incident lead to a serious crash.

Events

25 hours ago 'I got detention because my teacher can't pronounce my name – it's not my fault'

A student has taken to social media to share how his dad taught a school teacher a lesson after he continuously pronounced his son's name wrong – making a fool of him in the process

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22 hours ago Celtic eye £8m UCL striker, Rangers star is Serie A target, Hearts not finished yet

Latest Scottish transfer rumours

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27 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

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23 hours ago I feared I would die in my sleep despite only being in my 20s: SARFRAZ MANZOOR reveals how the sudden death of his father left him obsessed that he'd go to bed and never wake up

Traumatised by the sudden loss of his father, Sarfraz Manzoor grew terrified of perishing alone while away from his family. His salvation? A professional wake-up call

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27 hours ago ‘Worse than the 1980s’ – that’s the arts sector now. It’s not a good look for a Labour government | Charlotte Higgins

So many pre-election promises: but still a cultural malaise spreads from our schools to museums, galleries and theatresIf a former director of the National Theatre says that “more harm has been done than good” to the arts by the new Labour government, it is safe to say things have got off to a rocky start. It is hard to imagine a slice of British society more sympathetic on principle to Labour than those working in the creative sector. Hopes were high: Keir Starmer made a powerful speech on the arts before the election. The culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, began by doing everyone a service by unilaterally declaring the end of the culture wars – perhaps something not entirely in her gift, though it’s clear she was calling time on the endless spitting and sniping at the “woke” arts favoured by the previous government. And yet: all I hear is disappointment and desperation, and not only from Nicholas Hytner. There is a void where policy and action should be. In a speech in Gateshead in mi...

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24 hours ago Caught in possession: Interactive map reveals which London club has most fans arrested for DRUGS as Premier League boss blasts football's 'growing problem'

The 'beautiful game' has created some of the most iconic sporting and cultural moments in history but football also has formed a reputation for hooliganism and is now battling a rise in drug-related crimes.

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