47 m. ago Grand National results LIVE: Winners, odds and latest updates on huge day of Aintree racing

The world’s greatest horse race headlines the final day at Aintree with I Am Maximus aiming for double glory

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56 m. ago Trump news today: Thousands to protest at ‘Hands Off’ rally nationwide to push back on Trump and Musk agenda

Trump’s trade war escalates as China strikes back with 34 percent tariffs on all U.S. goods, sending stock markets plummeting and wiping out $6 trillion in two days

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86 m. ago Donald Trump's outrageous move on DAY OFF as his wild tariffs crashed global economy

Donald Trump slapped massive tariffs across dozens of nations that he said - contrary to most economists' opinions - would boost the American economy and bring manufacturing back to the US

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95 m. ago Woman unmasks dad as evil killer as she solves cold case murder of teen 30 years on

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: The mutilated body of 17-year-old Melanie Road was found by a milkman and his 10-year-old son and sparked a nationwide manhunt, but her killer was only caught three decades later

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1 hour ago Grand National results LIVE: Winners, runners and latest updates on huge day of racing at Aintree

The world’s greatest horse race headlines the final day at Aintree with I Am Maximus aiming for double glory

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1 hour ago Legendary jockey Hayley Turner announces retirement hours before Grand National 2025

Hayley Turner, who has ridden more than 1,000 winners and reached many landmarks in a 25 year career, announced her immediate retirement to start a family

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2 h. ago Racegoers arrive at Aintree for ‘great day out’ at Grand National

The famous steeplechase will be held at 4pm.

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2 h. ago British woman who went to Syria 'to join ISIS' could win back UK citizenship from camp that holds Shamima Begum as court says she should have more time to plead her case

Former Home Secretary Amber Rudd deemed the woman a risk to national security for her allegiance to the Islamic terror state ISIS.

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2 h. ago Helen Flanagan, 34, cuts a glamorous figure in a pink gown as she cuddles up to Robbie Talbot, 45, for the Grand National race at Aintree

The former Coronation Street star, 34, put on a very cosy display with her construction worker boyfriend, 45, as they arrived arm-in-arm for the big day.

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2 h. ago Grand National 2025: 'I'm an astrologist – this is the horse you should back to win'

The Grand National is here and for those wanting some help from the stars for their selection, here is what you should be backing, according to an astrologist

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2 h. ago 'I ate Tim Martin's Wetherspoons order – my mouth was on fire and one thing was missing'

EXCLUSIVE: What happens when you go to Wetherspoons three times in a day and eat every meal there? Well you're set to have quite a blissful day sampling some of the finest pub grub

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2 h. ago Grand National 2025: Full list of confirmed runners, favourite and tips

The Grand National race takes place this afternoon at Aintree. Willie Mullins' I Am Maximus is bidding to make history once again, by winning for a second time. Here is the full list of runners

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2 h. ago Kimi Antonelli did something 'quite exceptional' that left Mercedes F1 chief stunned

Lewis Hamilton's exit could have derailed Mercedes even further but the rookie who has replaced him, Kimi Antonelli, has enjoyed a very impressive start in Formula 1

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2 h. ago Exciting times to be part of – Lucy Bronze says England on ‘upward trajectory’

The England defender is in an upbeat mood after a 5-0 Nations League victory over Belgium.

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2 h. ago Grand National 2025 tips as experts report late 'wave of interest' on one horse

One of the Grand National favourites has received huge backing on Saturday, while another is strongly fancied by tipsters

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3 h. ago The frenzied 24 hours when Venezuelan migrants in the US were shipped to an El Salvador prison

President Donald Trump has invoked a rarely used 1798 law that gives a president immense powers to arrest and deport noncitizens in a time of war

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3 h. ago South Asian garment makers anxious about future after Trump’s ‘shock’ tariffs: ’Terrible for business’

Manufacturers fear retailers will opt for other cost-effective nations with lower tariffs on imports

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3 h. ago Grand National 2025 LIVE results: Horse racing updates, latest news, odds, betting tips and more

Horse racing's most famous steeplechase takes centre stage at Aintree

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3 h. ago Patwa is not ‘broken English’: the African ties that bind US and Caribbean languages

Centuries later, Jamaican Patwa and US Gullah Creole retain many Africanisms adopted from enslaved peopleIllustrations by Alexis Chivir-ter TsegbaIn 2000, I won a writing competition that awakened me to the depth and variety of Caribbean languages. As the Jamaica finalist for the My Caribbean essay competition, I joined more than 20 children from the region to form the youth delegation of the 24th Caribbean Tourism Conference in Bridgetown, Barbados.I spent days with peers from islands that, until then, I did not know existed, such as the small but brilliant Sint Eustatius and Saba in the Leeward Islands. What I remember most are the simple greetings and phrases the other children and I taught one another in our different Creoles. Every child had an official language they wrote in to win their national competition – English, French, Dutch etc – but as soon as we were comfortable enough, we ditched those and shared as much as we could in our everyday tongues. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago ‘Shame’ on world leaders for neglect of displaced civilians in DRC, says aid chief

US and Europe criticised by head of Norwegian Refugee Council for ‘neglect’ of people living ‘subhuman’ existence World leaders should be ashamed of their neglect of people whose lives were “hanging by a thread” at a time of surging violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the international charity leader Jan Egeland has said.In a stinging attack on aid cuts and the “nationalistic winds” blowing across Europe and the US, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s head told the Guardian how people were living out in the open, in overcrowded, unsanitary displacement encampments around the city of Goma, where 1.2 million people have had to flee from their homes as the M23 rebels advanced through the DRC’s North and South Kivu provinces. Continue reading...

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