22 minutes ago Crash horror on M74 as Porsche driver dead and two others rushed to hospital

The road was closed for nearly 12 hours while road traffic police investigated the scene.

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30 minutes ago Medik8's winter sale offers 40% off on skincare— including cleansers, night creams and serums

The sale from Medik8, a go-to for skincare enthusiasts and dermatologists alike, is the ideal opportunity to invest in glowing, healthy skin for 2025

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81 minutes ago Shocking amount Diddly Squat farm makes as Jeremy Clarkson says pub financial disaster

Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson has opened up about the unexpected disasters that have struck his country pub that have left him having to fork out for costs ahead of Christmas

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82 minutes ago Middle East crisis live: Israel orders closure of one of last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza

Head of Kamal Adwan hospital says it is ‘next to impossible’ to obey shut down order due to lack of ambulances to evacuate patientsThe UN agency for Palestinian Refugees, Unrwa, has been planning all year for winter in Gaza, but the aid it was able to get into the territory is “not even close to being enough for people,” Louise Wateridge, an agency spokesperson, said as many of the near 2 million Palestinians displaced by Israel’s war struggle to protect themselves from the wind, cold and rain.Unrwa distributed 6,000 tents over the past four weeks in northern Gaza but was unable to get them to other parts of the Strip, including areas where there has been fighting. About 22,000 tents have been stuck in Jordan and 600,000 blankets and 33 truckloads of mattresses have been sitting in Egypt since the summer because the agency doesn’t have Israeli approval or a safe route to bring them into Gaza and because it had to prioritise desperately needed food aid, Wateridge said.In the early ho...

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87 minutes ago Kilmarnock bus crash cops charge man after double decker smashed into bridge

Emergency services rushed to the horror smash between the bus and a railway bridge last week.

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99 minutes ago Heartbroken family pay tribute to 'perfect son' after horror Scots road crash

"He's left an irreplaceable void in his devoted family's life and will be sorely missed by all."

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2 hours ago Notre Dame rose again from the ashes – so too can France’s battered democracy | Alexander Hurst

With the country in stalemate, people have lost faith in government. But citizens’ assemblies show one way forwardWhen Notre Dame burned, something in the flames seemed to speak to the combustibility of our age. Nothing is for ever, the fire said, even those edifices – stone or institutional – that we assume will always be there. In almost every democracy, there are similar forces of backlash and disaffection. The anger is diffuse and the discontents vary, but there is a general agitation that seems to boil down to the feeling that someone should do something.At the moment, France seems to have crystallised this phenomenon in a way that other democracies might draw both warnings and lessons from. Will François Bayrou last longer as prime minister than Michel Barnier? Perhaps. But the basic impediment remains: the country is politically split roughly into thirds (and the “left” is split among itself), with the end result that creating a majority for anything is almost impossible. Con...

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4 hours ago Scottish rock band’s frontman delights bar with impromptu karaoke performance of hit song in brilliant footage

Fantastic video shows Travis frontman Fran Healy getting a bar crowd singing and dancing as he gave an impromptu karaoke performance of one of the band’s biggest hits.

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5 hours ago Over 100 rough sleepers in Edinburgh each night as homelessness reaches record levels

Rough sleeping has doubled in recents months on the streets of the capital city.

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