26 minutes ago A white Christmas is looking likely as heavy snow expected in parts of the UK in December

The Met Office has issued a snow warning for parts of the UK as 14cm of the white stuff is set to fall in just a matter of hours in Scotland on December 11 as well as flurries elsewhere

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40 minutes ago The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?

Across the globe, vast swathes of land are being left to be reclaimed by nature. To see what could be coming, look to BulgariaAbandonment, when it came, crept in from the outskirts. Homes at the edge of town were first to go, then the peripheral grocery stores. It moved inward, slow but inexorable. The petrol station closed, and creeper vines climbed the pumps, amassing on the roof until it buckled under the strain. It swallowed the outer bus shelters, the pharmacies, the cinema, the cafe. The school shut down.Today, one of the last institutions sustaining human occupation in Tyurkmen, a village in central Bulgaria, is the post office. Dimitrinka Dimcheva, a 56-year-old post officer, still keeps it open two days a week, bringing in packages of goods that local shops no longer exist to s...

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40 minutes ago ‘By 8pm it is time to head home’: whatever happened to the big night out?

This week, the chief executive of a major bar group suggested 3pm is the new 9pm. Why have we stopped drinking and dancing the night away on a Friday and Saturday night?The atmosphere in the club is friendly, people generally aren’t drunk, and since it’s dark inside, it could just as well be 4am instead of 4pm. Welcome to the daytime rave, where you can dance, meet people and still be curled up on the sofa afterwards in time for Newsnight. It’s a home from home for Joyce Harper, who says she has been “a big clubber my whole life. In the 1990s, I used to go religiously twice a month and we’d stay up all night. We were knocked out for days and always felt terrible. I realised, as I’ve got older and wiser, the importance of sleep.”Last week she was at a day rave at the London club Fabric, ...

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40 minutes ago What UK time is Slim vs Gib fight? Start time for Misfits Boxing 19 in Qatar

AnEsonGib and Slim Albaher will finally settle their rivalry tonight when they headline the Misfits Boxing 19 Supercard in Qatar

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41 minutes ago Police arrest Sydney woman accused of attempting to drown her children

In September 2023, a passerby rescued two girls, aged seven and eight, from the Georges River in Sydney’s south-west

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70 minutes ago Woman broke kid's collarbone after shoving her off trampoline she didn't want to share

Perth Sheriff Court was told that Ferguson was on the centre of the trampoline and the child was outside the safety net.

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3 hours ago Woman's £3k collection of 90s and noughties memorabilia brings 'Christmas every day' joy

Samantha Hughes, 34, who lives near Birmingham with her husband Luke, 35, has dedicated countless hours to building her collection and has even given her love for the decade a permanent place on her skin

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4 hours ago 'Nanny state' SNP plans to cut national speed limit from 60mph to 50mph will result in much longer car journeys

The national speed limit is set to be slashed to 50 miles per hour on all of Scotland's single carriageway roads under 'nanny state' proposals by SNP ministers.

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4 hours ago Slowthai's friend 'forced himself on woman and raped her at house party after rapper's gig', court hears

A woman has described how the friend of Grammy-nominated rapper Slowthai (Pictured with wife Anne Marie outside Oxford crown court) forced himself upon her at a house party, a court heard. 

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