22 minutes ago New charge for anyone staying overnight in Wales as tourism tax introduced

The Welsh Government has announced that a 'tourism tax' will be imposed on holidaymakers from 2027 - with families of four set to pay an extra £4-£6 per night to stay

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35 minutes ago Climate change experts warn of 'hidden silent ticking time bomb' ahead of Black Friday sales

Coastal erosion, sped up by the climate change, is exposing over 1,000 old landfill sites that experts call "ticking time bombs" - a stark reminder of our throwaway culture ahead of Black Friday

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37 minutes ago Tragic twist in case of woman who disappeared as father dies trying to find her

The ordeal is the latest grim chapter in the ongoing mystery of Hannah Kobayashi, 31, who vanished after landing at Los Angeles International Airport more than two weeks ago

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43 minutes ago ‘I feel guilty and angry’: the captain turned campaigner trying to keep cruise ships at bay

After spending most of his life on commercial vessels, Guillaume Picard is now fighting to keep these vast liners out of the French port of MarseilleFew people know the sea better than Guillaume Picard. He grew up on a boat moored in the port of Hyères in southern France after his parents left 1960s Paris. His first job was on a sailing boat. Then he spent 30 years in the merchant navy before becoming a commercial captain, ferrying tourists and containers across the Mediterranean for more than two decades.Now aged 65, his grey hair in a ponytail, it is with no small note of sadness that he says, increasingly, it is the land that calls him. “To be completely honest, I want to go to sea less and less,” he says. “I go hiking a lot in the mountains with my wife, and we’ve found an environme...

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48 minutes ago Mark Wright cracks his head open in horror Vegas fall that left him needing stitches in his scalp

Former The Only Way Is Essex star Mark Wright has revealed that he split his head open after falling in a hotel bathroom in Vegas, resulting in a trip to the hospital

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73 minutes ago Horror as father of missing Hannah Kobayashi is found dead at LAX after flying in to LA to help find her when she disappeared two weeks ago

The distraught father of a missing 31-year-old photographer has been found dead after he flew into Los Angeles to assist the search. 

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77 minutes ago Welsh Government announces changes to controversial farming payment scheme

Farmers will no longer be asked to have a minimum of 10% tree cover on their land.

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1 hour ago Trump Pentagon pick attacks UN and Nato and urges US to ignore Geneva conventions

Revealed: Pete Hegseth writes scathingly of key institutions and says ‘If you love America, you should love Israel’Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, has attacked several key US alliances such as Nato, allied countries such as Turkey and international institutions such as the United Nations in two recent books, as well as saying US troops should not be bound by the Geneva conventions.At the same time, the man who would head America’s gigantic military has tied US foreign policy almost entirely to the priority of Israel, a country of which he says: “If you love America, you should love Israel.” Continue reading...

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1 hour ago We must defend elective abortions, not just the most politically palatable cases | Moira Donegan

After Dobbs, pro-choice advocates have emphasized women in medical crises. But those tragic cases are a limited pictureA Kentucky woman known by the pseudonym Mary Poe recently filed a lawsuit against her state, seeking an abortion for what was once a banal reason: because she wanted one.Poe, who was about seven weeks pregnant at the time of the lawsuit’s filing, has since had an abortion out of state. But her attorneys argue that she still has standing to sue to overturn Kentucky’s two abortion bans – a six-week ban and a separate total ban – arguing that the laws violate the state constitution. This much, at least, is typical: lawsuits challenging abortion bans have sprung up across the country since Dobbs, with women and their families seeking to overturn bans, expand exceptions, or ...

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1 hour ago When is BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2024? SPOTY date confirmed and winner odds

A date has been set for one of the landmark nights of the British sporting calendar

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