76 minutes ago Fires, first aid and guns: meet the Finnish women training for war with Russia

Anxious Finns are learning how to survive in the wild in preparation for an invasion by their hostile neighbour It is Friday night on a forested military base in western Finland. A group of women dressed in camouflage with matching purple beanie hats are sat in a dark tent discussing how their perspectives have changed since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.“I didn’t think it was a real threat that Russia would attack us,” says Sari, 42, who works in sales and lives in a nearby town. But then, she adds: “They attacked Ukraine. I saw that it is possible that we are next.” Continue reading...

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85 minutes ago Sir David Jason says he reached out to comfort Nicholas Lyndhurst after son's tragic death

Sir David Jason says he reached out to comfort Nicholas Lyndhurst after son's tragic death

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1 hour ago Nottingham attack families back police watchdog's probe into top cop cover

The Chief Constable will face an Independent Office for Police Conduct probe after she allegedly tried to stop journalists revealing knifeman Valdo Calocane had been reported TWICE to cops for stalking

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2 hours ago Victoria Beckham reveals the REAL reason for her extreme diet and admits she never cooks due to daughter Harper, 13, joking she can 'burn water'

The 50-year-old said she first give up meat when she was only eight and now continues to abide by a strict set of rules after struggling with acne at the height of her Spice Girls fame.

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2 hours ago Family gives heartbreaking update on man paralysed in Benidorm 'attack'

Andrew Frazer, 43, was on a birthday trip to Benidorm when he was allegedly punched outside a nightclub

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2 hours ago Eight areas in England are getting millions in cash for back to work schemes

Across eight “trailblazer” regions in England, mayors and council leaders will be able to join up health, work and skills services to deliver tailored services to the needs of the area

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2 hours ago Mikel Arteta blasts Bukayo Saka injury doubts and makes 'simple' offer to Arsenal critics

Mikel Arteta has lashed out at claims Bukayo Saka wasn't really injured when he withdrew from England duty only to return and score and assist in a 3-0 win over Nottingham Forest

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2 hours ago The Observer view: ICC’s Israel arrest warrants are a test the world must not fail

International criminal court’s intervention must be supported if global rules-based order is to have a meaningful futureThe decision by the international criminal court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, and Yoav Gallant, Israel’s former defence minister, for alleged war crimes committed in Gaza has huge implications for Israel and Palestine, for international justice and the rules-based global order that the UK and its allies are pledged to uphold. This unprecedented, necessary and impartial supranational attempt to prosecute democratically elected western politicians accused of grievous wrongdoing is a test the international community dare not fail.Netanyahu’s reaction to the charges was to dismiss them as “absurd” and “antisemitic” and the...

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2 hours ago Phillip Hughes: depth of loss even 10 years on speaks to the cricketer he was | Jonathan Horn

The young batter’s death stirred the public in ways we’d never before seen and remains a reminder that sport is ultimately a shared experienceThat day, that week, that helpless, hopeless fortnight comes at you 10 years later in a blur of images – the bowler cradling Phillip Hughes’ head, the teammate removing his pads, the orderly assembly of cricket bats on front porches, the detached explanation of the neurosurgeon, the mourners fanning themselves in the high school gymnasium.It was a basal subarachnoid haemorrhage – a sick fluke. We’re largely inured to such tragedies now but occasionally they get in your marrow. A child is struck by a car crashing into a playground. A family is blown to bits by a missile. A young girl is murdered and dumped in a tip. A cricketer is killed at the cre...

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