46 minutes ago Man Utd's wasted talent told Gary Neville in canteen 'I'm gonna sign for Arsenal'

Ravel Morrison was once the most highly-rated youngster in English football but personal problems have seen his career take a nosedive - though his confidence has never waned

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12 hours ago Milo Ventimiglia and wife announce birth of first child weeks after losing home in LA wildfires

Couple lost two properties as well as everything they owned in the Palisades fire

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24 hours ago I spent £3k building picnic tables and now jobsworths are demanding I tear them down for a petty reason

EXCLUSIVE: A furious pub landlord has blasted 'jobsworth' national park planners after being threatened with legal action over a decking area he installed during lockdown .

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37 minutes ago British Airways flight toxic fume chaos as cabin filled with gas midair and passengers fell ill

British Airways Flight 0108 was an hour into its journey from Dubai when the captain elected to return owing to "toxic fumes" reported in the cabin, where passengers and crew fell ill

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72 minutes ago 'There's something in Greater Manchester that we just don't talk about enough'

As the government confirms that the Clean Air Zone will not be going ahead, Maddy Dawe from Asthma + Lung UK explains why the new plans to clean up the air don't go far enough

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22 hours ago Ryan Giggs shuts down neighbourhood restaurant with 'immediate effect' as furious staff claim they were 'told by text' that they had lost their jobs

Staff at a restaurant owned by former Manchester United star Ryan Giggs have been left bewildered after being told they had lost their jobs over text with 'immediate effect'.

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31 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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2 hours ago Emmanuel Macron’s got a point: Why shouldn’t we charge tourists to see our treasures? Catherine Bennett

The Louvre’s proposed two-tier fees are a better way to fund museums than iffy corporate sponsorship dealsIntroducing, five years on, another Brexit bonus: the chance to support the renovation of the Louvre. President Emmanuel Macron has proposed paying for the “renaissance” of the Paris museum, in part, by increasing entrance fees for visitors from outside the EU.After some initial attempts to represent this as a direct insult – “Brits will be forced to pay more than EU residents” (the Mail) – even the rabidly pro-Brexit press appears to have accepted that the scheme applies globally, to all non-EU visitors: an exceptionally cunning way of Brit-targeting, even for the French. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago The Grammys are here with Beyoncé leading all nominees at a show shaped by the LA wildfires

The 67th Grammy Awards will take place Sunday at the Crypto

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4 hours ago Residents oppose China’s London embassy plans in ‘David and Goliath’ fight

Residents oppose China’s London embassy plans in ‘David and Goliath’ fight  Financial Times

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5 hours ago Rod Stewart pledges to help rebuild Los Angeles after devastating wildfires

The singer made the pledge after thrilling fans with his set at the FireAid benefit concert in the city.

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5 hours ago The colourful town in Wales residents and visitors love that's got two big problems

Llandeilo boasts independent businesses, a buzzing community and amazing views - but there is some local concern

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5 hours ago Philadelphia plane crash latest updates: All crew and passengers in medical jet crash identified; death toll rises to seven

Air ambulance flight crashed near Roosevelt Mall about 30 seconds after taking off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport, killing seven

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11 hours ago Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon spark furious response over ‘out of touch’ comments

Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon have been out promoting their latest movie - a wedding rom-com. But it appears the duo have lost a lot of love from fans over one Q&A session.

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11 hours ago DC plane crash latest: Black Hawk helicopter was performing 'doomsday' training at the time of collision

None of the 67 passengers and crew are believed to have survived

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11 hours ago USAid website offline as Trump moves to put agency under state department

Move would threaten life-saving global humanitarian aid programs, from HIV/Aids treatments to clean water accessThe website for the US Agency for International Development, or USAid, appeared to be offline on Saturday, as the Trump administration moves to put the free-standing agency, and its current $42.8bn budget for global humanitarian operations, under state department control.A message stating that the “server IP address could not be found” appeared when attempts were made to access the website on Saturday. Continue reading...

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13 hours ago Neymar heads home from £322m Saudi calamity still a prisoner of his potential | Jonathan Wilson

Brazilian’s injury-blighted career highlights iniquities of the game, from inflated expectations to curse of celebrity excessNever go back, but sometimes going back is all that remains. Just 18 months after he joined Al-Hilal, Neymar and the Saudi club have agreed to terminate his contract, allowing him to return to Brazil and rejoin Santos. Al-Hilal paid £77m to sign Neymar from Paris Saint-Germain on a salary of £2.5m a week. He will be paid 85% of that for the remainder of this season, meaning he cost the club £322m for seven appearances, three assists and one goal. Like so much of Neymar’s career, it all seems such a dreadful waste.His is a story almost designed to highlight the iniquities of the modern game, from the impossible pressures placed on young players to the curse of celebrity and financial excess. Neymar’s great misfortune was to emerge just after Lionel Messi. Argentina had seemingly found a second Diego Maradona, so Brazil needed a second Pelé. When, in June 2011, ...

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14 hours ago Sick and wounded Palestinian children wait for evacuation as Rafah crossing reopens – video

Palestine Red Crescent Society crews prepare sick and wounded children to be evacuated from Gaza into Egypt as Israel reopens the critical Rafah crossing after nine months. The reopening is part of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, and allows for medical evacuations for patients with urgent care needs. The crossing is a vital conduit into Gaza, and its closure caused outcry, trapping people with medical needs inside the territory.Rafah crossing reopens for Gaza’s sick and injured children after months of closure Continue reading...

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17 hours ago Mould, money and murder accusations – residents try to oust management on their London housing estate

The organisation managing the Loughborough Estate in Lambeth is beset by complaints of disrepair, damp and vermin – and has made some big claims of its ownWhen it rains, Dionne* can feel water coming through her bedroom wall. “I touch it and I can literally feel the water soaking from outside to inside,” she said.Dionne has lived in a two-bedroom flat on the Loughborough Estate in south London since 2010 and has complained about mould to the organisation which manages the estate since 2018. Continue reading...

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14 hours ago Premier League issue statement as Aston Villa fume over major VAR controversy

Donyell Malen thought he'd scored his first Aston Villa goal to equalise against Wolves, but VAR confirmed the on-field decision of no goal, leaving the away side furious

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17 hours 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

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15 hours ago The Last Leg star Adam Hills apologises multiple times for Brian Cox's furious Donald Trump rant

Fans tuning in to The Last Leg on Channel 4 on Friday night were stunned when Succession actor Brian Cox did not censor his thoughts - or language - about President Donald Trump

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17 hours ago UK town hall engulfed in flames with smoke seen for miles as crews tackle blaze

A huge fire has broken out at Maghull Town Hall in Merseyside where witnesses have reported seeing flames rippling from its roof as smoke billows into the sky.

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17 hours ago ‘Humanure’: RHS plans rollout of first compost toilet to fertilise flowerbeds

The horticultural charity’s showpiece garden in Surrey is setting aside an space to test human waste fertiliserFor more than 200 years, gardeners at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) have been reaping the benefits of using compost and manure in their flowerbeds.But until now, they have never had the satisfaction of using compost created from their own human waste. Continue reading...

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18 hours ago DC plane crash latest: Three black boxes recovered; victims named in fatal midair collision

None of the 67 passengers and crew are believed to have survived

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17 hours 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...

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20 hours ago 'Philadelphia air ambulance crash saw little girl's life snatched away in cruellest way imaginable'

A little girl was among six people dead after a plane careered into a residential Philadelphia neighbourhood – the youngster was travelling with her mother and four others in the Learjet 55, a medical transport jet, when it crashed.

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19 hours ago Clean Slate's release date, cast and all you need to know about Amazon Prime show

Clean Slate is a new comedy series on Amazon Prime starring Laverne Cox

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20 hours ago Author's story of coping after a wildfire resonates with community affected by latest LA

The timing is uncanny for Pico Iyer’s new book “Aflame: Learning from Silence,” a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire

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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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21 hours ago Jon Lewis remains committed and promises review after England’s Ashes whitewash

Australia completed an historic clean sweep with an innings and 122-run victory in the day/night Test in Melbourne.

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20 hours ago My council is kicking me out of my flat weeks before I'm due to give birth so homeless people can move in

'It would be difficult to carry a lot of stuff, I find it hard already to just clean the house, I get so exhausted', the expecting mother admitted, despite council ignoring her pleas for an extension.

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23 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

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20 hours ago Darts referee slams crowd during Luke Littler match with furious demand

Luke Littler faced a hostile crowd during his win over Andy Baetens in the first round of the World Masters, with referee Kirk Bevins forced to intervene to stop the whistling

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23 hours ago Thousands of Brits left furious as they are hit with huge energy bills as suppliers break rules to charge them for 'back bills'

BBC Radio 4's Money Box reported 3,308 people complained to the energy ombudsman about receiving 'back bills' in the year to September 2024 despite the practice being outlawed

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24 hours ago Mark Steel: ‘At 16, I thought I’d help transform the world into a socialist arena of peace and justice. I’m not sure we’ve managed it’

The comedian on liberating a budgie, stealing carrier bags, and his recent brush with deathBorn in Kent, Mark Steel, 64, began his radio career in 1992 with the satirical show The Mark Steel Solution. From 1999 to 2002, he presented The Mark Steel Lectures on Radio 4, which was nominated for a Bafta when it transferred to television. He has made 13 series of Mark Steel’s in Town for Radio 4, and his podcast is What the F*** Is Going On?. On 12 February, he begins a tour of The Leopard in My House and publishes an accompanying book. He lives in London and has two children. His partner is the comedian Shaparak Khorsandi.What is your earliest memory? When I was three years old, my mum and dad took the budgie cage out into the garden to clean it and I thought: “I’m going to open the door to see what happens.” Obviously what happened was the budgie flew out of the cage. I remember thinking: “Blimey, I’ve gone and done it now”, which sort of set the tone for the rest of my life. Continue ...

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24 hours ago DC plane crash latest: Black box from army Black Hawk helicopter recovered from wreckage as victims named

None of the 67 passengers and crew are believed to have survived

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24 hours ago ‘People want clothes that match their values’: sustainability takes centre stage at Nairobi fashion week

As the dumping of textile waste continues in African countries, designers are making a feature of reusing and recycling – from flea markets, landfill or upcyled curtainsFrom recycled wide-leg denims to Afrofuturistic designs made from secondhand curtains, the catwalk at Nairobi fashion week has featured a wave of new designers focussed on sustainable fashion in Africa.The annual event, which began in 2013 to promote Africa’s then nascent fashion industry, has grown to become a showcase for sustainability in recent years amid concerning reports on the environmental impacts of textile waste on the continent. Continue reading...

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25 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

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25 hours ago Snooker No1 Judd Trump’s ‘life has changed for the better' in new Hong Kong home

Judd Trump has become a leading figure in snooker and has now moved to Hong Kong after gaining residency in the region, where he will be based with his girlfriend, Maisy Ma

Politics

27 hours ago Russian spy ship fire exposes poor state of Mediterranean fleet, say experts

Incident reveals Russia’s maritime presence in the area is in a state of disrepair and disarray, argue western sourcesA fire onboard a Russian spy ship off the coast of Syria has underlined the poor state of the Russian navy as its toehold in the Mediterranean hangs in the balance, analysts and western security services say.The 55-year-old Kildin got into trouble off the Syrian coast last Thursday, when flames and thick black smoke could be seen billowing from its funnel and it hoisted two black balls up its mast, signifying that the crew no longer had control of the vessel. Continue reading...

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26 hours ago Snooker star Judd Trump's life in Hong Kong as he says it has 'changed for the better'

Former World Snooker Champion Judd Trump has taken up residency in Hong Kong, a move that has been inspired by his girlfriend Maisy Ma and snooker legend Ronnie O'Sullivan

Politics

28 hours ago Medical jet carrying six people crashes in Philadelphia, setting homes on fire

Jet Rescue Air Ambulance said it could not ‘confirm any survivors’ aboard plane that went down near Roosevelt MallA medical transport jet carrying a child patient, her mother and four others including crew crashed into a north-east Philadelphia neighborhood on Friday evening, erupting in a fireball and setting several homes ablaze just 30 seconds after taking off.“We cannot confirm any survivors,” said a statement from Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, which operated the Learjet 55. “Our immediate concern is for the patient’s family, our personnel, their families and other victims that may have been hurt on the ground.” Continue reading...

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