9 minutes ago Message in a bottle from 1892 is discovered hidden inside the walls of a Scottish lighthouse

Engineers working on a remote Scottish lighthouse were shocked to discover a hidden message from their past colleagues, written 132 years ago.

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18 minutes ago New plans for City's tallest skyscraper create 'environment of surveillance'

Britain’s biggest private pension fund objected to a seven-metre-high screen at the base of the planned tower

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33 minutes ago Aston Martin taps shareholders for cash after latest profit hit; Trump’s trade tariffs ‘threaten economic growth’ – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsTrump’s tariff threat sets stage for bitter global trade warTrump’s tariffs will lead to higher prices in the shops, and weaker currencies for Canada, China and Mexico, explains Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg Bank.Schmieding saysTaken at face value, such tariffs could raise the level of US consumer prices by c1% within a year if we assume that producers and distributors can pass on roughly 70% of higher import prices to consumers at a time of buoyant domestic demand. However, a depreciation of the Canadian, Mexican and Chinese currencies relative to the US dollar will likely absorb a significant part of that impact, perhaps up to half as a back-of-the envelope guess.Trump’s tariff statement is probably merely the...

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35 minutes ago Boffins solve 'bio duck' creepy underwater quack mystery and discover 'gold mine'

Scientists first discovered the 'bio duck' in the 60s when a a submarine expedition to the Southern Ocean returned with the mysterious tale of a baffling, creepy quack

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42 minutes ago Amazon users can get Echo Pop speaker for under £5 ahead of Black Friday

TopCashback is giving new members a £15 sign-up bonus and 2.5% cashback when buying Amazon's Echo speakers.

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76 minutes ago Men lose their memory 10 years earlier than women...but only if they suffer common health problem

Researchers at Imperial College London discovered that obesity can cause men in particular to develop the memory robbing condition years earlier.

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1 hour ago New plans for City's tallest skyscraper create “environment of surveillance”

Britain’s biggest private pension fund objected to a seven metre high screen at the base of the planned tower

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2 hours ago Terror police block 'October 7' video game that allows players to recreate Hamas atrocities by paragliding into Israeli base to kill soldiers

The game's trailer shows IDF soldiers being forced onto their knees and executed, blown up with grenades and shot in the head by terrorists wearing green Hamas-style headbands.

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3 hours ago BBC Strictly's Amy Dowden shares pride in 'little win' following cancer battle

The Welsh TV star was discovered she had breast cancer in spring last year and documented her journey during and after the treatment

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