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House prices have surged by 2,534% in 50 years, while salary growth has failed to keep up, data shows.

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66 minutes ago Plane crash kills one person after DHL cargo flight crashes into a house as it approached Vilnius Airport

A DHL cargo flight has crashed into a house as it approached Vilnius Airport in Lithuania, with one person confirmed dead.

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76 minutes ago London travel news LIVE: Stansted airport and Paddington 'do not travel' warnings after Storm Bert

Do not travel warnings issued on Stansted

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77 minutes ago Storm Bert LIVE updates as flooding map shows new weather warnings sparking travel chaos

Storm Bert is set to continue to cause travel disruptions across parts of the UK as more than 200 flood warnings remain in place across England and Wales while clean up efforts begin

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87 minutes ago Mother to run third Santa Dash run in Liverpool in memory of late daughter

The Santa Dash 5K run in Liverpool will mark its 20th anniversary this year.

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92 minutes ago A new start after 60: I became a ‘hummingbird’ for people with dementia

When Ann Thomas-Carter retired, she lost her sense of purpose. Then she began volunteering in a care home and found six hours could fly past in six minutes At 63, Ann Thomas-Carter stepped into Framland care home for the first time and was immediately taken aback. “It wasn’t like a care home at all; it was this beautiful old manor house overlooking the Oxfordshire countryside and there were only 21 residents,” she says. “It felt like a big family, especially since everyone calls the residents ‘family members’. I fitted in right away.”Thomas-Carter used to work as a pharmacy dispenser at Boots in Oxford town centre. “I had worked most of my life at Boots and it was a safe place for me, somewhere I could be face to face with customers and help them,” she says. But when it emerged that the...

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2 hours ago Lord Byron museum to open in Italian building where poet had intense affair

Visitors will be able to explore Palazzo Guiccioli in Ravenna, where Byron romanced its aristocrat owner’s wifeA museum dedicated to the flamboyant British poet and satirist Lord Byron is due to open in the northern Italian city of Ravenna, housed in the same building where he pursued an intense affair with the wife of an aristocrat and completed some of his most famous works.Byron unabashedly moved in 1819 into Palazzo Guiccioli, owned by the husband of Countess Teresa Guiccioli, whom he met at a party in Venice. Continue reading...

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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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2 hours ago How to watch Newcastle vs West Ham: TV channel and live stream for Premier League today

Hammers looking to turn a corner under Julen Lopetegui

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Assume that having a phobia of a particular food means just disliking it? Think again. Charlotte Cripps meets people who’ve had their lives turned upside down

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