3 d. ago Dumfriesshire business hosts launch for search for Helping It Happen Awards 2025

Claxton's Whisky and Dalswinton Estate won the rural business category at last year's awards.

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3 d. ago Transfer window updates, World Cup qualifying and more: football news – live

Men’s transfer interactive | Women’s transfer interactiveRead the latest edition of Football Daily | And mail BarryWomen’s Euro 2025: A glitzy, celeb-speckled Euro squad launch helped the feelgood factor around England’s Lionesses a month ahead of this summer’s Euros but there are still questions over squad harmony, strength in depth and player welfare. Words: Suzanne Wrack.Nations League semi-final: Down 5-1 after 67 minutes at the Stuttgart Arena, France scored three goals to reduce their deficit but it was Spain who advanced to Sunday’s final against Portugal. Sid Lowe reports Continue reading...

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6 d. ago AD FEATURE: 7 Father’s Day gift and meal ideas you can surprise your dad with this year

Dads deserve to be spoiled - here’s our handy 2025 guide to help you out

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8 d. ago Immunotherapy trial helps cancer patients with tumours live 40% longer

Experts praise groundbreaking results from therapy using genetically modified Car T-cells Cancer patients treated with a pioneering immunotherapy that genetically modifies their own cells to wipe out tumours live 40% longer, according to “exciting” and “groundbreaking” results from a world-first clinical trial.Car T-cell therapy is a new form of immunotherapy where a patient’s own T-cells – a type of white blood cell – are tweaked in a lab to target and kill cancer cells. The designer cells are then infused back into their bloodstream to fight the disease. Continue reading...

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1 week ago AD FEATURE: Reimagining Manchester's skyline: The innovation hubs opening in 2025 helping drive growth across the city

Bruntwood SciTech unveils great workspaces for you to be based at this year

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1 week ago Late try helps Maroons save face in Game 3 of women’s Origin series

Chelsea Lenarduzzi clinches 18-14 win for QueenslandBumper crowd seals Newcastle as home of women’s gameQueensland salvaged pride in the Women’s State of Origin series by claiming the third contest 18-14 thanks to a second-half comeback in Newcastle that prevented the Blues from securing a first clean sweep in the three-match series.Powerful Maroons prop Chelsea Lenarduzzi crashed over from an Ali Brigginshaw pass with four minutes to go, taking three Blues defenders with her, to put Queensland into the lead and spoil the Blues’ party. “Ali actually gave me a bit of a look, and I knew what she meant,” Lenarduzzi said. “It’s one of my favourite plays, and worked at the right time.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Can trade in soil carbon credits help farmers – and the climate?

Regenerative agriculture has growth potential for the offsets market, but scientists question its green credentialsOn a blustery spring day, Thomas Gent is walking through a field of winter wheat on his family’s farm, which straddles the Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire border. Some of the green shoots reach his knees, while the ground between the plants is covered with clover.Sinking a spade into the soil, Gent grins as he points to the freshly dug clod of earth on the blade. “Look at the root structure,” he says. “It rained 20mm last night. The water has drained down because the soil structure is in the right format.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘If dieting works, where’s the evidence?’ How weightlifting helped Casey Johnston love her body again

The American writer spent year after miserable year trying to be smaller. Then she stepped into a gym, picked up a barbell – and never looked back. She talks about self-confidence, her new book and the joy of eating like a ‘big beautiful horse’Before Casey Johnston started weightlifting, she had assumed it was the preserve of “people who already had some sort of talent or need for it – like you’re a football player, a firefighter or in the military, and you need to be physically capable in that specific way”. Getting started seemed intimidating: the technique, the gym environment.Cardio, however, had always felt intuitive. “You go out the door and you run until you can’t run any more, and that’s it,” she says. As was the idea that it should be punishing. As a younger woman always obsessively trying to lose weight, she ran half-marathons in sub-zero temperatures and feared eating even the calories burned by any run in case it “undid” her hard work – never mind how cold her extremitie...

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2 w. ago First look at how Oldham skyline could be dramatically changed with four huge developments

Four new building complexes are planned

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2 w. ago The future of Manchester's tallest tower set to 'shape city's skyline' is in doubt

Councillors will debate it next week

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2 w. ago Zebu Live 2025 to Drive UK’s Web3 Renaissance as London Becomes Global Innovation Hub

Zebu Live 2025 to Drive UK’s Web3 Renaissance as London Becomes Global Innovation Hub  dlnews.com

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3 w. ago Ben Stokes quits alcohol to help hamstring injury rehabilitation

England Test captain to return against Zimbabwe‘It’s just getting harder to do everything’Ben Stokes has stopped drinking alcohol during his latest injury rehabilitation in an effort to be firing on all cylinders for England this summer. The Test captain is set to make his comeback on Thursday in the one-off Test against Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge, having been sidelined since December after tearing his left hamstring in New Zealand.He rushed back from a similar injury last year but his recovery this time after an operation has been painstakingly managed and Stokes has left no stone unturned to fulfil his vow to return in peak physical condition. Speaking to the Untapped podcast, the 33-year-old said: “After my first major injury, I remember the shock of it, after the initial adrenaline had stopped, thinking: ‘How has this happened? We did have a bit of a drink four or five nights ago, could that have played a part? It wouldn’t have helped.’ Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Wheatley’s bursaries to support customers into further education

Wheatley Group has opened its leading bursary programme for 2025 – which has already helped almost 500 people to go on to study at university and college.

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3 w. ago Beware unkempt tourists: Latvia tells citizens how to spot Russian spies

Security agency warns people in Baltic state to be wary of nosy small talk and tourists with specialist equipmentOne of Latvia’s intelligence services has warned its citizens that there may be Russian saboteurs and spies in their midst, and given them a handy guide on how to spot them.In its annual report, the Baltic state’s Defence Intelligence and Security Service, known as MIDD, offered advice to its nearly two million-strong population on how to scope out possible operatives sent by Russia. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Set up small universities in towns to drive growth, shadow Commons leader says

Jesse Norman called for more universities across the UK in small cities and towns in the face of difficulties faced by the higher education sector.

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4 w. ago Best evaporative air coolers of 2025 to help you deal with the heat

Read on for cost-efficient whole-home cooling power

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4 w. ago Plans For A London Cancer Hub Promises New Destination For Biotech Innovation

Plans For A London Cancer Hub Promises New Destination For Biotech Innovation  insights.citeline.com

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last month Tim Dowling: Help! We have no internet and I really do have work to do

I’ve got a date with one of the country’s worst-rated customer service departments. What could possibly go right?I’m sitting at my computer when a link refuses to load, leaving me with a white screen. I click on several of the 37 other windows I have open. None of them loads. I go and find my wife in front of her computer.“Are you having trouble with the internet?” I say. Continue reading...

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last month ‘Buddhism and Björk help me handle fame’: novelist Ocean Vuong

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous made him a literary superstar. Now the Vietnamese American author is exploring his working-class roots in an ambitious follow‑upThere are three kinds of family, muses the novelist and poet Ocean Vuong. There’s the nuclear family, “which often we talk about as the central tenet of American life”. There’s the chosen family, “the pushback”, the community and friendships built by people who have been rejected by their parents, often because of their sexuality or gender identity. And then there’s the family we talk about much less frequently, but spend most of our waking hours within – our colleagues, or what Vuong describes as “the circumstantial family around labour”.Vuong’s forthcoming second novel, The Emperor of Gladness, encompasses them all. There’s its 19-year‑old hero Hai’s relationship with his mother, a poor Vietnamese immigrant who believes that he has fulfilled her desperate aspirations for him by going to university, when he has actually...

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