76 minutes ago Inside Chelsea's trendy King's Road as thieves target shoppers at luxury boutiques to steal 30 phones a day

Shoppers who have their mobile phones stolen on the fashionable King's Road, like Christine Lampard, won't get them back, say security guards who work in the upmarket boutiques of Chelsea.

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79 minutes ago UK Woman Who Wanted Escape From 'London Noise' Dies During Drug Retreat

UK Woman Who Wanted Escape From 'London Noise' Dies During Drug Retreat  NDTV

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2 hours ago He wants to see his parents before they die, but has no idea when he'll be free

Neil Hore was 25 when he was jailed in 2006... now he's 43 and still behind bars

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2 hours ago ‘Woke’ didn’t lose the US election: the patrician class who hijacked identity politics did | Nesrine Malik

Why is this simple explanation being so widely embraced? Because it does not require a commitment to real, structural changeThe day that wokeness died. That has been one of the primary analyses of Donald Trump’s resounding election victory: that it was a resounding rejection of the “woke” left and the casting off of the shackles of political correctness. According to sections of the media and political establishment, people are tired of being harangued and scolded for not using the right language, annoyed by a constant focus on race and identity, and alarmed by a new orthodoxy of radical politics eager to please individual groups at the expense of common sense. “The era,” summarised one British journalist, “of Black Lives Matter, Latinx, critical race theory, pronouns and defunding the ...

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3 hours ago Polluted rivers, uprooted farmland and lost taxes: Ghana counts cost of illegal gold mining boom

Estimated $2bn lost in missed taxes from environmentally destructive practice some blame on political corruptionFelicity Nelson remembers her 17-day detention last September vividly. The 34-year-old Ghanaian activist was one of 53 people arrested at a road junction in Accra after demonstrating alongside hundreds of other youths against illegal mining.In detention, the group found a 54th person in their midst who had not been at the protest but was apprehended after visiting Oliver Barker-Vormawor, the protest’s organiser in hospital. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report

Of the 85,000 women killed by men in 2023, 60% died at the hands of a partner or family member, new UN figures showAn estimated 140 women and girls across the world die at the hands of their partner or family member every day, according to new global estimates on femicide by the UN.The report by UN Women found 85,000 women and girls were killed intentionally by men in 2023, with 60% (51,100) of these deaths committed by someone close to the victim. The organisation said its figures showed that, globally, the most dangerous place for a woman to be was in her home, where the majority of women die at the hands of men. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Dear Coleen: I know marriage isn't for me, what should I tell my wife?

Agony aunt Coleen Nolan has advice for a reader whose husband has accumulated £90,000 in debt.

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4 hours ago Sarco suicide pods will be coming to the UK, says creator: MPs claim assisted dying bill so well supported it is likely to be passed

Dr Phillip Nitschke, 77, revealed he is ready to launch his 3D-printed portable machine that fills with nitrogen gas in Britain, should Kim Leadbeater's legislation go through.

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4 hours ago Ruben Amorim reveals what Amad improved in only three days of training at Manchester United

Amad started on the right wing in Man United's new 3-4-3 formation and assisted Marcus Rashford after only 80 seconds.

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