27 minutes ago UK floods latest: ‘Devastating’ floods cause train and traffic chaos as 150 weather warnings still in place

More than 150 flood warnings remain in place for England and Wales and travel issues are set to continue

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33 minutes ago Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban 'considering move back to Australia' after 'distressing' year

Urban is said to be planning to step back from touring to support his grief-stricken wife

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37 minutes ago Petition demanding new general election tops two million signatures: Elon Musk backs online campaign started by pub owner

The petition on the Parliament website was posted by a pub owner and complains that Keir Starmer has 'gone back on promises'.

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45 minutes ago Crooked HMRC worker stole £200k of taxpayers cash to pay off debt and mortgage

Joanne Connell worked for HMRC in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire for 15 years.

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49 minutes ago Two men arrested by immigration officers in raid on East Kilbride beauty salon

The Home Office confirmed two men were arrested following an intelligence-led visit to Honey Bee in the Plaza mall at East Kilbride Shopping Centre.

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52 minutes 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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52 minutes ago Rachel Roddy’s recipe for polenta with buttery garlic mushrooms | A kitchen in Rome

You can’t beat polenta with buttery mushrooms: it’s a hug in a bowlPolenta is occasionally known as pulenda. It’s a reminder that both the name and the cooking method has its roots in antiquity and in the Latin word puls, a blanket term for a universal method: long-cooked, semi-liquid dishes, or “mushes”, based on cereals or legumes. Which leads us to another nice word-link: puls is also the root of the word pulses. But back to antiquity, where the nature of the mushes depended on where in the world they were made, and what was available.In Italy, that was farro, spelt, barley, broad beans, millet, chestnuts; puls or polenta were made from them all. Then, in the middle of the 16th century, mais (maize) arrived in the north of Italy from Mesoamerica (the earliest examples of the genius o...

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54 minutes ago Andy Murray flooded with support as he shares heartbreaking family update

Former tennis star Andy Murray has revealed some tragic family news.

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74 minutes ago Trump to kick transgender troops from military as Republicans defend intel nominee Tulsi Gabbard: Live updates

President-elect planning to reinstate ban on trans soldiers as GOP senators back Gabbard despite past expressions of support for Vladimir Putin and Russia

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80 minutes ago Luke Humphries sprays fans with water after whistling can't stop him beating Luke Littler

Darts ace Luke Humphries celebrated winning the 2024 Players Championship final by spraying fans in attendance with water after beating Luke Littler 11-7

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