77 m. ago French fugitive whose escape left two officers dead extradited from Romania

Mohamed Amra’s arrest ends nine-month manhunt when armed assailants ambushed prison convoy in NormandyA notorious French fugitive who staged a deadly escape that killed two guards last year has been extradited from Romania to France, days after his arrest in Bucharest ended a nine-month international manhunt.Mohamed Amra, nicknamed “The Fly”, was arrested near a shopping centre in Bucharest on Saturday after being identified by Romanian police, despite having dyed his hair red, possibly to evade detection. The Bucharest court of appeal approved his extradition request on Sunday. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian trolled in Bhad Bhabie’s latest diss track for Alabama

The 21-year-old singer and social media star has been locked in a rap feud with Travis’s daughter Alabama Barker since last year

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6 h. ago Lockerbie and District Rotary Club members get an insight into the work of The Salvation Army

Allan Isdale, Salvation Army Lockerbie Corps Leader gave a very interesting and informative talk about the work of the charity which began in 1865.

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7 h. ago Save £100 on Shark Cordless Stick Vacuum as Amazon slashes price in limited time deal

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7 h. ago Starmer must take baton from Macron in effort to sway Trump on Ukraine

UK and France need to convince US to align with them over Ukraine, while at the UN Trump openly sides with RussiaKeir Starmer, when he visits the White House on Thursday, will have to pick up the many loose threads left by another chaotic day of diplomacy in the US in which America voted with Russia at the UN to protect Vladimir Putin from criticism over the invasion of Ukraine, and then saw Trump make assurances that Putin was happy for European forces to enter Ukraine – only to be contradicted by Moscow hours later.Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has been working in lockstep with the UK in a way the two countries have failed to since Brexit, and the aim was for the two leaders of Europe’s major military powers to use their visits this week to operate as a pincer movement pressing Trump to question Putin’s trustworthiness and more broadly to accept that America’s future still lay as a partner with Europe. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Doge are expected to produce no savings – live

Almost 40% of federal contracts canceled as part of Doge’s cost-cutting efforts aren’t expected to save government any money, Trump administration’s own data showsIt’s coming down to the wire for beleaguered House speaker Mike Johnson, who is trying to rally GOP holdouts behind his budget plan for enacting Donald Trump’s agenda before the showdown vote this evening.Amid Republican opposition threatening to derail his bill, Johnson was up late last night locked in talks with holdouts from across his party who remain skeptical of his outline plan for tax and spending cuts - as well as border security, energy and defense policy - via a single reconciliation bill. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Make a meal of it: how to jazz up a tin of baked beans | Kitchen aide

Sausages, cheese, chilli all probably spring immediately to mind, but have you considered wine or sage instead?How can I make a tin of baked beans tastier? “You’ve come to the right place,” says food writer Melek Erdal. “One of my most popular recipes ever was jazzed-up beans on toast, which came out of lockdown, when we were all utilising everything.” Essentially, when it comes to injecting flavour into baked beans, it’s all about the base, and for Erdal that means toasting spices (cumin seeds, ground coriander, aleppo chilli) in an ovenproof pan, then adding “the magic triangle”, namely ginger, garlic and chilli, and some oil. “Add the beans, crumble feta on top, then pop it in the oven until the top caramelises.” Erdal might also add a drizzle of tahini, “for a take on shakshuka, and a lovely brunch or lunch.”In a similar riffable vein, Eleanor Maidment, author of Pulse, makes a base of chorizo and red peppers, then adds beans and poaches some eggs in them. Cured meat is, of cour...

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8 h. ago CCTV shows moment thieves roll £4.75 million gold toilet out of palace

They smashed through locked wooden gates into the grounds of Blenheim Palace before breaking in through a window, jurors heard.

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8 h. ago Is BT down? Thousands of users say they are locked out of email and broadband issues

Several customers have taken to social media to express anger after it appears BT dropped out and potentially stopped working for them while they tried to access applications

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8 h. ago Sabrina Carpenter's 'must have' hair treatment that 'beats all other brands' now under £20 on Amazon

The 25 year-old 'it' popstar swears by Redken's Acidic Bonding range that "strengthens hair in just one use."

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9 h. ago Best red light therapy devices to shop for home use, tried and tested

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10 h. ago Proposed investment of nearly £90million in Lockerbie creamery 'huge vote of confidence' in Scotland’s milk production

Arla Foods has announced it intends to make the investment into its plant at Priestfields to boost production of UHT and Lactofree milk.

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11 h. ago Millie Bobby Brown is almost unrecognisable with mature new look ahead of Stranger Things 5

The actress, who played psychic teenager Eleven in the Duffer Brothers’ hit series Stranger Things, has ditched the show’s shaven headed look for long blonde locks now that she has turned 21.

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11 h. ago Possible squirrelpox reported further north than previous cases

Sick looking red squirrels have been spotted near Stirling.

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12 h. ago ‘I know their names, what they eat’: tracking polar bears on Svalbard’s shifting icescapes

For more than 20 years, scientists have followed the animals in Norway’s Arctic archipelago to understand how they may adapt to changing threats as the ice they depend on meltsWhen Rolf-Arne Ølberg is hanging out of a helicopter with a gun, he needs to be able to assess from a distance of about 10 metres the sex and approximate weight of the moving animal he is aiming at, as well as how fat or muscular it is and whether it is in any distress. Only then can he dart it with the correct amount of sedative. Luckily, he says, polar bears are “quite good anaesthetic patients”.Ølberg is a vet working with the Norwegian Polar Institute, the body responsible for the monitoring of polar bears in Svalbard, an archipelago that lies between mainland Norway and the north pole. Every year he and his colleagues track the bears by helicopter, collect blood, fat and hair samples from them and fit electronic tracking collars. Continue reading...

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