78 m. ago Paddy McGuinness shares reason dating show Take Me Out wouldn’t be allowed to air now

Take Me Out presenter Paddy McGuinness says the show wouldn't get commissioned today because it will offend snowflakes, and TV executives aren't ready to take that risk

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1 hour ago Police 'increasingly concerned' for missing 'vulnerable' man last seen near major train station

Alan was last seen on Wednesday afternoon (March 19)

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1 hour ago ‘Very comfortable and good value’ garden chairs drop in price by 15% on Amazon but you'll have to be quick

Two chairs with padding and reclining function means rwo people to relax in the sun

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2 h. ago Justice Department moves to drop lawsuit that would allow Texas police to arrest migrants

The Trump administration has moved to dismiss a lawsuit against Texas over a law that would allow local police to arrest migrants who enter the country illegally

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4 h. ago Trump says he wouldn’t defy courts despite claims he ignored deportation order

Administration accused of deliberately flouting James Boasberg’s ruling to halt deportation of 200 immigrantsDonald Trump has repeated his declaration that he would not defy a court ruling, even as controversy swirls about whether his administration has already ignored several of them following a spate of negative judgments that threaten to block his governing agenda.Anger among the president’s supporters has been simmering against a federal judge, James Boasberg, who ordered a halt to the deportation of more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants last weekend. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Florida mayor drops threat to evict cinema over No Other Land screening

The Oscar-winning film, about a Palestinian community resisting displacement and violence from Israeli forces, has become the latest focus of a culture war in the stateAfter a week of controversy, the mayor of Miami Beach decided to withdraw his initial proposal to cancel the lease and block a small cinema’s funding due to its screening of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land.Residents packed city hall to make public comments, and regardless of their backgrounds and opinions, the majority, including city commissioners, agreed that censorship, eviction and defunding of O Cinema were not the answer or the path forward. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Judge throws the book at a West Virginia couple convicted of treating adopted Black kids as ‘slaves’

In January, a jury found Jeanne Whitefeather and Donald Ray Lantz guilty on multiple counts of forced labor, human trafficking, and child abuse and neglect

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5 h. ago What ARE the 'skeletons' hiding in Gary Lineker's closet? Inside the 13

Matt Le Tissier has reignited his feud with Gary Lineker by claiming the Match of the Day host is 'hiding skeletons in the closet'.

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5 h. ago The world is getting noisier, and it’s making us ill. I’ve certainly played my part

It only needs a handful of people to raise their voices and suddenly all eight billion of us are in the middle of a shouting match. And here I am, booming out from the radioThe sound of the penny dropping was so loud it hurt. This was upon learning how noise knackers you, mentally and physically. Charlotte Clark, a professor of environmental epidemiology, didn’t put it quite like that, but I heard her loud and clear. She points out that our emotional response to sound is an aspect of our fight-or-flight response, evolved to get us up to speed when danger announces itself. A big noise equals big danger, possibly.Back in the day I suppose this might have amounted to a lion roaring, or an angry neighbour clubbing the door to your cave, swearing vengeance about nicking his kindling or something. I can’t think of many other loud noises our ancestors would have had to endure. Thunder must have scared the bejesus out of them – but otherwise, when it came to noise, I think they had it rathe...

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5 h. ago Blizzard conditions hit the Midwest while wildfires and tornadoes threaten Central US

Another storm system is affecting millions of people in the middle of the U.S. Parts of the Midwest and Great Plains faced blizzard conditions Wednesday and a broad swath of neighboring states are at risk of high winds and wildfires

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5 h. ago I turned my boring beige bathroom into a luxurious loo for under £250

Naomi Davidson, from Derbyshire, showed off the jaw-dropping makeover on the Facebook page DIY On A Budge t, where she also broke down the costs of her project.

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5 h. ago First British astronaut explains why 'overview effect' changes life on Earth for those returning from Space as stranded NASA astronauts finally make it home

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are home, but it's likely their nine months at the International Space Station (ISS) has left them vulnerable to 'overview effect'.

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5 h. ago Starmer must drop ‘cruel’ Pip proposals or face ‘mother of all rebellions’, Labour MP says – UK politics live

Richard Burgon says PM’s failure to defend new Pip eligibility rules at PMQs shows why ‘cruel’ plans should be droppedLast night, to back up its analysis of the disability cuts, the Institute for Fiscal Studies published two charts illustrating aspects of the changes.This one shows how the £5bn cuts announced yesterday compare in scale to previous benefit cuts, listed here in order of how big they were, in current prices. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Cereal Partners Bromborough: popular UK breakfast cereal maker of Golden Nuggets to shut factory, jobs at risk

Cereal sales are dropping, and hundreds of workers now face uncertainty 📉

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5 h. ago How would I survive the apocalypse? By stocking up on the key item most preppers forget | Emma Brockes

With France about to advise its citizens on how to survive an ‘imminent threat’, it’s time to wise up to what the real essentials areIt’s a fairly strong indication that your US presidency is not going well when, within three months of you taking office, one of your closest allies feels the need to issue its entire population with a manual on how to survive an “imminent threat”. According to French media reports, that is what the French government is planning in the form of a 20-page booklet to go out to its citizens this summer. And while it’s intended for use against natural disaster or medical threat, we all know what we’re really talking about here. The French government would like to remind its people that, in the event of a nuclear attack, they must remember to close the doors and windows.My dad recalls Buckinghamshire county council issuing a similar pamphlet in the 1980s, for when Russia dropped an atomic bomb on Aylesbury. My family didn’t need the advice, as it happened; i...

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5 h. ago Cheerios and Shreddies cereal blow as maker announces factory to close

Company announces 300 jobs are at risk as demand for cereals plunges

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6 h. ago Man hit by train and killed days after being released from prison after charge was dropped

Darren Stokes died less than a fortnight after a three-week stint on remand in HMP Cardiff, but a report has found no failings by the authorities

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6 h. ago Ministers told to ‘stop pussyfooting around’ and end nuclear block in Scotland

Scotland’s sole remaining nuclear power station is at Torness, where operations have been extended to 2030.

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6 h. ago Dementia expert warns key sleep pattern doubles risk of condition

Sleep is vital for brain health but researchers say there could be a connection between how someone sleeps and their likelihood of developing dementia

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6 h. ago Psychologists in touch with Antarctic base after assault allegation, South Africa confirms

Ministers also investigating sexual harassment claim at country’s isolated Sanae IV research stationPsychologists are in “constant” contact with a South African science team isolated for months at a base in Antarctica after physical assault and sexual harassment allegations were made, a government minister has said.The environment minister, Dion George, whose department manages the country’s Antarctic programme, confirmed to the Guardian that psychologists and other experts were in “direct and constant” communication with the nine-member research team. Continue reading...

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