14 minutes ago Google wants to build more AI infrastructure in UK but needs 'right conditions'

'We hope to build more here and continue to invest here, we obviously have a huge new facility opening next year or so. We’d like to build more here, it is true'

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16 minutes ago Doctor reveals simple overnight sore throat remedy on TikTok that has users buzzing

Dr Alan Mandell shared his 'miracle' way to cure a sore throat overnight on TikTok - and some people have claimed it works wonders for them, while others weren't so convinced.

Politics

20 minutes ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Pete Wicks issues Jowita Przystal refusal after 'apparently' response to Musicals Week

The pair are preparing for their next performance in the quarter-final of the BBC dance contest

Culture

23 minutes ago Ruth Langsford reveals 'bizarre' experience on flight to Australia as she jets off for I'm A Celeb

Ruth Langsford is heading Down Under to join the I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Unpacked team, but admitted she had a 'bizarre' moment during her flight to Oz

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34 minutes ago FTSE 100 Live 28 November: Direct Line in bid focus after Aviva approach, Loungers backs £338m takeover

Direct Line Insurance shares are back in the takeover spotlight after the Green Flag owner rejected a £3.3 billion approach by Aviva.

Economics

48 minutes ago Direct Line shares surge after insurer rejects £3.3bn Aviva takeover tilt

Direct Line said the approach ‘substantially undervalued’ the company.

Economics

55 minutes ago Woman finds brother who went missing 25 years ago alive after spotting him in news article

Thomas Edward Manizak, 53, was last heard from on July 30, 1999, when he was just 28-years-old - he had been travelling through the US in his van when he called his mother from a truck stop

Events

56 minutes ago Poor Artists by The White Pube review – how to make it in the art world

An aspiring young artist’s journey makes for a critique of the art world, in novel formThe White Pube, the collaborative identity of critics Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad, have always pushed hard at the idea of art criticism. The name is a sardonic twist on both the “white cube” method of presenting art and the eponymous blue-chip gallery. The pair set up a website in 2015 and have become remarkable essayists and critics, refusing to conform to the expectations of the art world establishment. Each time they write, they seem to be asking themselves and the reader: what is criticism?Poor Artists is their first book, and although they tell us directly in the introduction that we “are reading a piece of art criticism”, they also ask us to “let go o...

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65 minutes ago Direct Line shares jump 38% after rejecting Aviva’s £3.3bn offer to create insurance giant – business live

UK car insurer, which owns Churchill and Green Flag brands, said approach was ‘highly opportunistic and substantially undervalued the company’Jefferies analysts Philip Kett and James Pearse said they believe that “a higher offer might be forthcoming if the board considered engaging with Aviva”.Direct Line has rejected its third bid this year, this time from a new suitor, Aviva, who in offering 112.5p in cash and 0.282 new Aviva shares values Direct Line at 250p per share.Given that this is a relatively small uplift from the previous two offers, and the consideration is similarly split between cash and shares, we are unsurprised that the bid was rejected.The offer is reasonable, in our view, discounts Direct Line Group (DLG’s) full recovery potential, and includes a bid premium in our vi...

Economics

82 minutes ago The Prat Pack: Bradley Walsh, Shane Richie, Brian Conley & Joe Pasquale team up for tour

After 32 years waiting, four of the UK most beloved personalities finally share the stage again 🎤

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