21 minutes ago Shocking moment vandal causes £200,000 of damage as he scratches 15 shopfronts in just one hour

North Herts police are yet to identify a suspect seen in CCTV footage appearing to vandalise shops in Hitchin in the early hours of Sunday, October 26

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29 minutes ago The extravagant gift Vladimir Putin sent Kim Jong Un in thanks after North Korea sent him 12,000 soldiers to fight Ukraine war

The delivery included an African lion, two bears, two domestic yaks, 25 pheasants, 40 mandarin ducks and five white cockatoos, the statement said

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36 minutes ago Emily Atack shares rare photo of baby son Barney and shows how much he has grown

Emily Atack, who is starring in Disney+ racy drama Rivals, has shared a rare photo of her son Barney and he has grown a lot since the last time he appeared on social media

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37 minutes ago I’ve joined Bluesky and it feels like a breath of fresh air – in some ways | John Naughton

The flourishing new platform may be like Twitter once was. The problem is the limited algorithmic scope of all social mediaAs I write, there’s a window on my laptop screen that is providing a live view of a stampede. It’s logging the numbers of people joining the social network Bluesky. At the moment, the number of registered users is 20.5 million. By the time you read this there will be more than 30 million of them, judging by the rate that people are currently joining.The proximate cause of it is the role that Elon Musk, owner of X (née Twitter), played in the election of Donald Trump, when a significant proportion of the platform’s 200 million-plus users realised that they’d been had – that they had, in effect, been useful idiots for Musk on his path to the centre of political power....

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49 minutes ago Who are the shellsuit boys in image that captures the 1980s? New Tate Britain show solves mystery

Friends who posed for celebrated photographer Ingrid Pollard in 1989 are reunited for new picture 35 years laterIn 1989, three 15-year-olds, dressed in identical shellsuits and trainers, posed for a photo to commemorate the imminent closure of their south London school. It was one of 24 photos taken that day by Ingrid Pollard, an up-and-coming photographer in her mid-30s, who simply stored the contact prints away in a box at home.“From time to time, I would wonder what happened to those boys, particularly the ones in their shellsuits, because it was a very special photo,” said Pollard, who last month received the prestigious Hasselblad award, the top international photography prize. Continue reading...

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79 minutes ago The Ukraine missile crisis: Putin’s shadow war against the west finally breaks cover

After Kyiv used Storm Shadow missiles, Russia’s leader asserted his ‘right’ to attack the UK and US. In truth, he has been doing exactly that for two years nowThe unprecedented firing by Ukrainian forces of British-made long-range Storm Shadow missiles at military targets inside Russia last week means the UK, along with the US, is now viewed by Moscow as a legitimate target for punitive, possibly violent retaliation.In a significant escalation in response to the missile launches, Vladimir Putin confirmed that, for the first time in the war, Russia had fired an intermediate-range ­ballistic missile, targeting the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Putin also said Russia now believed it had the “right” to attack “military facilities” in countries that supply Kyiv with long-range weapons. Though he...

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2 hours ago Nadine Merabi viral bridal jumpsuit gets 50% cut in rare sale that's set to sell out all items

2025 brides, take note. Nadine Merabi is having a major Black Friday sale that sees bridal favourites ranging from the Misha white jumpsuit to Darcie PJs slashed as low as half price

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2 hours ago I sell my sexy pictures on OnlyFans because no one will hire me for a 9

The TOWIE star, 38, said she is living a 'basic' life in an ordinary semi-detached home with her daughter Larose, three, who she shares with her ex Charles Drury .

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2 hours ago Controlling thug is guilty of brutal sex murder of vulnerable mother who reported his violence to police repeatedly before he killed her

Paul Irwin, 50, faces a life prison sentence for killing Tiffany Render, 34, who bled to death inside his flat after he launched a ferocious sexual assault upon her on March 22 while high on cocaine.

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2 hours ago Even with access to blockbuster obesity drugs, some people don't lose weight

Most people taking popular drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy to lose weight have shed significant pounds

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