2 h. ago Man who kept birds of prey in ‘appalling’ conditions banned from owning animals

Scottish SPCA inspectors said the conditions were among the worst they had ever witnessed.

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4 h. ago Barbaric birdman kept owls and birds of prey in tiny cages inside filthy home

Brandon Hodge, 28, kept 18 birds inside tiny cages in the property in Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire.

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7 h. ago Lifelong sweethearts reunited in death as devastated wife dies months after husband

Roy Kennard, a former Ofsted school inspector, was told he had just three months to live - and his wife Barbara was left 'broken-hearted' by his death

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8 h. ago Lily Allen's revenge outfit on David Harbour as she shows it all

Pop star Lily Allen made a huge statement on the red carpet in New York, turning heads in a tiny lace "revenge dress" that left very little to the imagination indeed

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9 h. ago ‘I want to ride out on a unicorn every night’: swords’n’sorcery heavy metal band Castle Rat

Wielding fantasy weapons and splashing fake blood, the New Yorkers have even learned how to make chainmail outfits – and they’re already aiming to conquer stadiumsWhile many a rocker has cribbed from high fantasy, few have truly walked the walk. Sure, they might bedeck their album sleeves with ghouls, goblins, manacled maidens and brawny barbarians, but did a member of Cirith Ungol ever have to retrieve a missing unicorn horn from a snowy field in the depths of winter? Has Yngwie Malmsteen spent time squinting in the back of a tour bus, repairing his own chainmail?Formed in 2019, Brooklyn’s Castle Rat have had to face both these scenarios and more as they live out their epic fantasies. From heraldic, earworm-heavy anthems to eye-popping live shows, costume design, videos and album art, they’re not so much a metal band as a full immersive experience. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Brief Encounter at 80: why we’re still falling for David Lean’s 1945 romance

The story of hot tea and unconsummated love hails from a very different era – and was far from easy to make. Yet it remains a key influence for film-makers from Sofia Coppola to Celine Song, James Ivory to Greta GerwigThe first time David Lean’s 1945 romantic masterpiece was shown to the public, the audience were in stitches. It not being a comedy, this was far from ideal. The director was so embarrassed, he returned to his hotel planning to break into the film lab and burn the negative at the earliest opportunity.Eighty years on, the legacy of Brief Encounter has proved anything but. First, its train station setting and ubiquity on British TV led to parodies by everyone from Victoria Wood to Birds Eye ready meals. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Sweet peregrine falcon chicks that delighted thousands of bird lovers on livestream were POISONED just weeks after someone stamped on eggs at another Cathedral

Fury is growing at Worcester Cathedral after tests revealed its little peregrine falcon chicks had been poisoned - in the bird community's second tragedy this year.

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21 h. ago Sweet peregrine falcon chicks that delighted thousands of bird lovers on livestream were POISONED just weeks after someone stamped on egg

Bird lovers were delighted earlier this year when they watched three chicks successfully hatch on the Cathedral's YouTube livestream. Now their cause of death has been revealed.

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21 h. ago Katie Price shocks fans with tiny waist snaps amid 'weight loss worries'

Fans of Katie Price have been left stunned by unbelievably small waist pictures after latest treatment.

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22 h. ago This easy coastal walk leads to some of the best fish and chips in Wales

One of my favourite short hikes combines sea views, ruins and a lush fish and chip shop in a tiny hamlet

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23 h. ago Frail Katie Price shocks fans with unbelievable tiny waist pics as weight plummets

WARNING: This story contains images some people may find distressing – Katie Price has shocked fans with her slimmed down waist while undergoing another tweakment

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26 h. ago The tiny city that's about to be flooded with 300 male migrants: It's an unfolding catastrophe... and gaslighting means that if you complain about any of this you're smeared as a racist: GRAHAM GRANT

The idea is to clear out the migrant hotels which have become the focus of protests by putting up the occupants in an Army barracks.

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26 h. ago Filthy bakery where inspectors found evidence of rats and mice everywhere

The bakery bosses were taken to court and ordered to pay thousands in fines

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26 h. ago Wildlife Trust: Does Bonfire Night harm wildlife? Three ways to make at

At-home bonfires can accidentally kill hedgehogs, while noisy fireworks displays may disturb birds 🎆

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27 h. ago ‘We’ve planted the apple that fell on Newton’s head’: the artists striking back against the climate emergency

From cultivating a spiral-shaped orchard to finding lost glaciers and dressing up as a landmark bird, on 4 November artists around the UK will participate in Remember Nature, a day of activism to offer hope for the futureBack in 2015, well into the twilight of his life, the artist and activist Gustav Metzger decided to embark on one last big project. Best known as the inventor of auto-destructive art – a response, he said, to the destructive horrors of the Holocaust – Metzger had also, over the course of a long career, been an inspirational teacher to Pete Townshend of the Who and campaigned for numerous causes including nuclear disarmament and vegetarianism. Now, on a video message barely three minutes long, he was making one final plea.“I, Gustav Metzger, am asking for your participation in this worldwide call for a day of action to remember nature on November 4th, 2015,” he began, appealing to creatives to take a stand against the ongoing erasure of species. “Our task is to remin...

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28 h. ago Prevent rats from being 'attracted' to your garden by adding 1 thing

Rats can be attracted to garden bird feeders by the way you are feeding the birds - here's how you can keep your garden free from rats with expert advice

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29 h. ago Council set to ban bonfire over safety but others hit back saying ‘it’s tiny!’

A huge mound of furniture and other items which has been dumped for a bonfire in a Valleys park has prompted the council, police and fire service to get involved

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30 h. ago Paralysed gardener loses £1m compensation bid after ladder fall at mansion

Barry Relph claims he was protecting a multimillionaire couple’s tennis court from defecating birds

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35 h. ago White House Farm killer Jeremy Bamber's guilt laid bare in tiny gesture almost everyone missed

The White House Farm murders in 1985 were a cold-blooded slaughter but one small detail gave the killer away, say experts

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36 h. ago Big trouble in ‘Little Berlin’: the tiny hamlet split in two by the cold war

A new museum in Mödlareuth tells the story of how a settlement of only 50 people straddled Bavaria in West Germany and Thuringia in the eastA creek so shallow you barely got your ankles wet divided a community for more than four decades. By an accident of topography, the 50 inhabitants of Mödlareuth, a hamlet surrounded by pine forests, meadows and spectacular vistas, found themselves at the heart of the cold war. They had the misfortune to straddle Bavaria, in West Germany, and Thuringia in the East, a border that was demarcated first by a fence and then by a wall. American soldiers called it Little Berlin.Months after their own wall was breached, and even before their country had reunified in 1990, a group of local people set about memorialising their history. The work is about to come to fruition: on 9 November, the 36th anniversary of the fall of the (big) Berlin Wall, the German-German Museum Mödlareuth will open. It was officially inaugurated by the federal president, Frank-Wa...

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