29 minutes ago Storm Bert brings 80% of month’s rain in 48 hours as disruption continues

Strong winds have caused flights to be cancelled and trees have fallen on railway lines meaning lengthy delays.

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34 minutes ago I’ve written a diary every day since I was 14. What does that say about me?

Reading four decades of entries, I realise ego can take precedence over world events, life is never too dull to record – and I’ve learned not to take myself so seriously“Hello! I said to myself today that if I do five handstands and flip over it will be an excellent year and I did!” Thus, unceremoniously, began the 41-volume (and counting) story of my life. It was 1984 and I was 14, fumbling through adolescence in a scarlet beret. My likes, according to a list on the front page, included jacket potatoes and graveyards. My new year resolutions were to “see how long I can go without cake” and “improve my character.”I haven’t missed a day’s entry since that 1 January. My past crams two bookshelves in rows of page-a-day journals. It’s startling how little four decades seems when it’s repres...

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69 minutes ago Secret declassified document reveals list of Vladimir Putin's assassination targets for the first time as memo accuses Russian president of 'authorising killings abroad'

The bombshell memo, released following a Mandatory Declassification Review request from Bloomberg, has revealed that Putin directly ordered several assassinations.

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92 minutes ago Storm Bert latest updates: Danger to life warnings and homes submerged as nearly 400 areas hit by flood risk

Severe disruption as Storm Bert brings torrential rains and winds to UK

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94 minutes ago ‘I am nothing if not persistent’: Lesley Imgart, winner of our graphic short story prize 2024

It was fifth time lucky for Imgart in this year’s Observer/Faber award for emerging cartoonists, with her spellbinding tale about the life of a young witchRead winner Lesley Imgart’s Witch Way? hereRead runner-up Elly Bazigos’s LANSA Flight 508 hereSpeaking to the winner of the annual Observer/Faber graphic short story prize is always a highlight of my year, but this time around the experience was especially lovely. Lesley Imgart, whose brilliant broomstick-ridden story Witch Way? we publish today, has entered the competition five times in the past six years, and when she talks to me from her home in Edinburgh, she still sounds amazed finally to have triumphed. “It’s unbelievable,” she says. “It was this thing I just did every year I keep forgetting I’ve won, and then 15 minutes later, ...

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1 hour ago Warning issued at Prince William and Princess Kate's London royal home

Warning issued at Prince William and Princess Kate's London royal home  HELLO!

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2 hours ago ‘Deep in my madness, witches gave me hope’: Elizabeth Sankey on motherhood, depression and witches

While battling through the darkness of severe postpartum anxiety, Elizabeth Sankey saw a light of solidarity in the stories of witchcraftFour years ago, when my son was only one-month-old, he and I were admitted to a mother and baby unit, a psychiatric ward that cares for people with perinatal mental health issues and their babies. I was diagnosed with severe postpartum anxiety and depression, and placed on medication. I had weekly sessions with the psychiatric team about my progress, and my son and I spent time with the other women on the ward and their babies. Every day, sometimes twice a day, my husband would come and see us and we would walk around Hackney as I tried to remember who I once was, tried to resist the temptation to step in front of a car. Gradually, horrifically, painfu...

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2 hours ago Traitors star Charlotte Chilton told she couldn't have kids after crushing heartbreak with ex wife

Traitors star Charlotte Chilton has welcomed her beautiful daughter Penelope after fling with singer Conor Maynard, but prior to this she had seven miscarriages and was a failed round of IVF

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3 hours ago 'I always do one thing before getting on plane – it gets me the best seat'

A travel influencer has shared a 'flight hack' that she claims sometimes allows her to choose the best seat on the plane - it doesn't always work, but could be worth a try

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