79 m. ago Edinburgh flight passengers 'left on tarmac' as plane forced to divert to London

The plane had left Edinburgh Airport, but was forced to divert to London Stansted after a 'medical incident' onboard.

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97 m. ago The households that can claim up to 70% discount on water bills

Water bills in Wales have had a huge hike after the start of 'Awful April', but there may be a way for customers to slash their water bills by hundreds of thousands of pound

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1 hour ago Elijah Wood says fees for Lord of the Rings actors were ‘not massive’

Star says cast took a ‘gamble’ appearing in Peter Jackson’s hit trilogy and did not earn enough to ‘rest easy’ for lifeElijah Wood has said that his salary for The Lord of the Rings movies was “not massive” and that appearing in the films was “a real gamble”.According to a report in Business Insider, which carried quotes from the star at the Texas film awards in March, Wood said the fact that the actors had to sign up for all three films at the start meant that their fees were not related to the film’s financial success. “Because we weren’t making one movie and then renegotiating a contract for the next, it wasn’t the sort of lucrative scenario that you could sort of rest easy for the rest of your life.” Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Grand National horse Willy De Houelle dies as Rachael Blackmore has scary fall

Champion trainer Willie Mullins had made a spectacular start by winning the first three races on Thursday but Willy De Houelle was a casualty in the second race

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2 h. ago Murders of two female students prompt calls for a ‘cultural rebellion’ in Italy

Sara Campanella and Ilaria Sula were found within 48 hours of each other, bringing the number of femicides in 2025 to 11There have been calls in Italy for a “cultural rebellion” amid outrage and protests over the murders of two female students found within 48 hours of each other, bringing the number of femicides in the country since the start of the year to 11.Sara Campanella, a 22-year-old biomedical student, was stabbed at a bus stop in the Sicilian city of Messina on Monday afternoon and died while being taken to hospital. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Huge number of Brits to lose access to free dental work or prescriptions within days

Universal Credit changes mean over two million people have already stopped seeing a dentist because they lost access to free care or confusing new process meant they assumed they had to start paying NHS charges

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2 h. ago EEOC chief shift focus to investigating DEI but her methods provoke outcries

The acting chief of the top federal agency for protecting worker rights has signaled a pivot toward prioritizing President Donald Trump’s campaign to stamp out diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the private and public sectors

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3 h. ago Triple Olympian Hannah Miley visits Lanarkshire pool and asks nation to support school swimming

The event at the Dollan Aqua Centre in East Kilbride showcased the importance of school swimming in Scotland.

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3 h. ago Dear Disney: don’t cave to Trump. We need you to shape dreams for kids everywhere | Jeff Yang

Maga is coming after the House of Mouse with a cynical attack on its diversity policies. Disney can – and should – fight backI remember the moment I truly recognized the power Disney has to move young hearts and minds.It was when I attended a sneak preview of Disney’s adaptation of the Chinese legend of Mulan, about a young woman who disguises herself as a man and takes up her wounded father’s sword to defend her nation. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Adolescence was just the start: BBC's Reunion is the makers' most groundbreaking, thrilling new drama yet

The team behind Netflix's record-breaking hit deliver a deaf-led revenge story so intense, it's set to eclipse their last work.

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4 h. ago No worries if not? Why Brits need to start saying what they actually mean

New research shows that British people are having conversations littered with ‘polite-isms’ to conceal the fact that they’re seething. Hannah Ewens thinks this could be solved by everyone having more arguments and confrontations

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4 h. ago New James Bond will be 'fresh and exotic', insists Amazon MGM as controversial reboot begins

Producers start work in London without original team as 007 franchise begins new era

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4 h. ago New 'controversial' James Bond will be 'fresh and exotic', insists Amazon as MGM reboot begins

Producers start work in London without original team as 007 franchise begins new era

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4 h. ago Our lives depend on seeds. Trump’s cuts put our vast reserves at risk | Thor Hanson

Maintaining seed diversity and abundance is essential – and requires constant work. It’s time for Congress to return to the seed businessFrom 1862 until 1923, US senators and members of Congress provided vast numbers of seeds to constituents. At its peak, the congressional seed distribution program delivered over 60m seed packets directly to farmers and market gardeners every year, helping introduce new varieties of everything from wheat and corn to oats, soybeans, flowers and vegetables. A century later, far fewer Americans till the soil for a living, but seeds remain central to our lives.To understand the importance of seeds, try to imagine a morning without them. It would begin naked on a bare mattress, with no cozy sheets or pajamas, and there would be no fluffy towel to wrap up in after your shower. All of those things come from the seeds of the cotton plant. Stumbling wet into the kitchen, you would find no coffee, and no toast or bagel to go with it. There would be no eggs, n...

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5 h. ago Top genome scientists to map DNA sequence of invertebrate winner 2025

Sanger Institute’s Tree of Life team say genomes offer invaluable insight into how species will fare under climate crisisVoting is now open! Vote for your favourite here“We are following the ‘invertebrate of the year’ series with bated breath,” began the email that arrived in the Guardian’s inbox last week.Mark Blaxter leads the Sanger Institute’s Tree of Life programme, a project that sequences species’ DNA to understand the diversity and origins of life on Earth. But far more importantly, Blaxter and his team are superfans of our invertebrate of the year competition and have offered to map the genome sequence of whoever wins this year. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Jamie Oliver's Favorite London Restaurant Is This Italian Eatery That Helped Jump Start His Career

Jamie Oliver's Favorite London Restaurant Is This Italian Eatery That Helped Jump Start His Career  Chowhound

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5 h. ago Hungary to pull out of ‘political’ ICC as Netanyahu visits Budapest

Israeli PM, who is wanted by the court, hails Viktor Orbán’s ‘bold and principled’ decision to leave the ‘corrupt’ bodyHungary will leave the international criminal court because it has become “political”, the country’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said as he welcomed his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanhayu - the subject of an ICC arrest warrant - to Budapest for an official visit.Standing beside Netanyahu at the start of the four-day visit, Orbàn said on Thursday that Hungary was convinced the “otherwise very important court” had “diminished into a political forum”. Netanyahu hailed “a bold and principled” decision. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago How long will Scotland's spring sunshine last after parts of Highlands reach 20C

April has got off to a fine and settled start and the forecast has hinted at whether that will end anytime soon

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6 h. ago When is the Grand National 2025? Start time, results, schedule, weather forecast, latest odds

The most famous steeplechase in the world

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6 h. ago Scott McTominay 'misprofiled' at Man Utd as Napoli star names 3 strengths he couldn't execute

The Scotland star has earned rave reviews at Napoli since swapping Old Trafford for a fresh start in Serie A

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