30 m. ago Voices: Why my friend Greta Thunberg had no choice but to sail an aid boat to Gaza

If I know anything about Greta, it is that she would want this moment to bring light to the ongoing repression and human rights violations of Palestinian civilians, writes fellow youth climate campaigner Scarlett Westbrook

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1 hour ago M&S finally restarts online orders six weeks after the cyber attack—but there's a catch

Marks & Spencer has finally announced that online orders are back up and running following April's cyber attack, meaning shoppers can now shop the new summer collection online - but there's one catch

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1 hour ago Trooping the Colour 2025: King Charles' to 'skip' birthday parade tradition

With King Charles' official birthday celebrations set to kick off on Saturday, here's everything you need to know about Trooping the Colour 2025 - including what royals are expected to attend, how to watch, and where the longstanding tradition comes from

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2 h. ago Festival goers urged to bring this unexpected item with them to help get a good night’s sleep

Have you planned how to stay well rested at your festival this summer?

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2 h. ago The rugby legend Wales didn't want because of the colour of his skin

Billy Boston has become the first ever rugby league player to receive a knighthood, as part of the King's 2025 Birthday Honours

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2 h. ago Single word that spelled end for Harry and Meghan in eyes of the Queen revealed for the first time: It wasn't the racism accusations

In all the Royal Family's troubled relations with Harry and Meghan, it was a single word that sent a collective shiver down the spine of Buckingham Palace.

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3 h. ago Coldstream Guards mark 375th anniversary with return to birthplace Berwick

Ceremonial soldiers made the symbolic journey north before Trooping the Colour.

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5 h. ago Football transfer rumours: Gittens to Chelsea before first deadline closes?

This stuff is just looking for somethingThe summer’s first transfer window will close on Tuesday night at 7pm UK time ahead of the Fifa Club World Cup so watch out for some last-minute jobs to fill up squads for Gianni Infantino’s folly. Will Manchester City get Rayan Cherki signed in time? Chelsea are after a keeper in Milan’s Mike Maignan and want to add Jamie Gittens of Borussia Dortmund to their winger collection. Both deals may go to the wire.When Bournemouth were flying high in mid-winter there was a fun game to play. Less fun if you were a Cherries fan, of course, but the game was to fit their unearthed gems with the clubs they would end up at. Dean Huijsen to Real Madrid was unexpected but then again Illia Zabarnyi to PSG, actual European champions, may well trump that. The club are prepared to sell, at the right price, but have demanded a £59m fee for the Ukrainian. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago In limbo: families hoping for change to UK income rules for spousal visas

The migration advisory committee is due to release a review of the UK’s minimum income requirement for family visas – currently set at £29,000. Many British families are in a state of enforced separation. Family visas represent just 5% of total UK visa applications, yet are a key focus of a migration crackdown. Working with Reunite Families, photographer Frankie Mills documents the lives of nine families whose stories illustrate the human cost of this policy thresholdThree weeks ago, Keir Starmer said the UK was at risk of becoming an “island of strangers”. But for countless British citizens across the country, that isolation is already a lived reality by design of immigration rules that force them to choose between their homeland and family.The minimum income requirement dictates how much a person needs to earn in order to bring their non-British partner here. Set at £18,600 for a decade, the Conservatives announced plans to raise it dramatically to £38,700 before backtracking afte...

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6 h. ago Dead elephants and feral sea lions: how poisonous algal blooms harm the planet

As the Earth heats up, the amount of algae in our waterways is rapidly increasing, transforming the colour of lakes and killing entire ecosystemsBefore the elephants collapsed, they walked in aimless circles. Some fell head first, dying where they stood moments earlier; their carcasses scattered near watering holes across the Okavango delta. The unexplained deaths in May 2020 alarmed conservationists. By July, at least 350 elephants had died and nobody knew why.“The animals all had their tusks, so poaching was unlikely. A lot of them had obviously died relatively suddenly: they had dropped on to their sternums, which was indicating a sudden loss of muscle function or neural capacity,” says Niall McCann, director of the conservation group National Park Rescue. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Selfridges x Salford Rum: A limited edition collaboration celebrating local craft and luxury

The limited edition Salford Rum bottle is a true collector’s item that everyone will be wanting to get their hands on.

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7 h. ago Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal review – an ambitious Indian panorama

In the first novel from the author of We Move, descendants of a proscribed intercaste marriage are connected across continents and centuriesGurnaik Johal’s first book, 2022’s We Move, demonstrated how rewarding it can be for a gifted young writer to ignore conventional wisdom. Writers who land in agents’ inboxes with collections of stories are invariably told to come back when they have a novel, and to write about what they know. Johal’s stories were set in a world he knows intimately – the immigrant communities of west London – but they moved between professions and generations with thrilling confidence.Saraswati is also populated by a large cast of diaspora Punjabis. But where Johal’s collection stood apart from the landscape it was published into, his first novel is a representative example of a ubiquitous 21st-century genre. That genre lacks a name – in 2012, Douglas Coupland proposed “translit”, which didn’t catch on then and certainly won’t now – but its features are all ...

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10 h. ago UK weather maps show Friday the 13th to unleash huge rain bomb and hours of downpours

Lots of people think Friday the 13th is associated with bad luck due to a combination of superstitions, but this week it's set to bring a downpour of rain for areas across the UK

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10 h. ago Turn pink hydrangeas 'beautiful' blue with scrap kitchen item

Hydrangea flowers can range in colour from pink to blue, and one gardener has shared a simple trick to turn your pink hydrangeas blue - and it's all down to one kitchen scrap item

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14 h. ago Family visa salary threshold should not be raised warns Home Office

The minimum income to bring a family member from abroad to Britain should be lowered to £23,000 to £25,000, the Migration Advisory Committee suggested

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15 h. ago Love Island's Megan Clarke takes inspiration from Michelle Keegan with nameplate necklace

Personalised jewellery is a major jewellery trend this year, and Love Island's Megan Forte Clarke has just taken inspiraton from Michelle Keegan with her personalised gold chain

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20 h. ago Jonathan Milan surges to stage win in Critérium du Dauphiné and snatches lead from Pogacar

Italian sprinter collects victory and takes yellow jerseyBritain’s Fred Wright is runner-up on second stageThe Italian sprinter Jonathan Milan surged away from the pack to win the second stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné in Issoire and take the overall lead from Tadej Pogacar.Milan (Lidl-Trek) had to battle to keep up on a hilly 204.6km run through central France from Prémilhat. When the pack hit the home straight, he rocketed away from his rivals to collect a 10-second victory bonus and the yellow jersey. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago A £25m project could bring more than 700 new jobs to a Greater Manchester town

The major scheme is about to get underway and should be completed by July 2026.

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20 h. ago Scots households being paid to bring plastic bottles back to four major supermarkets

Households across the UK are being given a financial incentive to return single-use empty bottles to supermarkets where the products can be recycled in a new government scheme to tackle plastic waste.

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21 h. ago Coronation Street 'to bring back legend' to run Street Cars after Eileen's exit

Coronation Street fans are convinced they know who will replace Eileen Grimshaw at Street Cars after she made her exit from the soap last week after 21 years

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