10 h. ago Horror crash outside private Glasgow school as police cordon off road

Emergency services were called to Kirklee Road, outside Kelvinside Academy, after the alarm was raised at around 4.10pm on Thursday.

Events

11 h. ago Art Basel Miami 2025: Latin American artists take center stage

The Florida-based art gathering is spearheaded this year by artists from Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and PanamaWhether it’s literally bringing Panamanian soil to Miami, or subverting the messages of Mexican religious cults by appropriating their iconography into tile murals dripping with sexual innuendo, Latin American artists at Art Basel Miami Beach this year are finding ways to reinvent their cultural heritage as surprising and fantastic pieces of art.The Mexican artist Renata Petersen, originally from Guadalajara, has outfitted her Art Basel booth with three collections that may at first appear disconnected – intricate murals made from tiles and covered slogans and iconography, 80 chrome-blown glass works that look slightly like chess pieces but are actually derived from sex toys, and ceramic vases sporting carefully arranged motifs. For Petersen, these works spring from a childhood lived with her anthropologist mother, where she learned to look at cults and other religious moveme...

Politics

11 h. ago Labour misses target for hiring new teachers despite VAT raid on private schools to pay for them

Official figures show that for 2025/26, the Government only recruited 88 per cent of the required 19,270 new secondary school teachers.

Economics

11 h. ago Bing and Kathryn Crosby’s private collection to go under the hammer

Some 185 items belonging to the Hollywood couple were going on sale at Sotheby’s in New York later this month.

Politics

12 h. ago Family seeks £216k tutor to help their children 'keep pace with peers' in London private school

The advert, posted on the website Tutors International, states the successful applicant should be someone raised in a 'socially appropriate background'

Economics

12 h. ago Observer festive toy appeal ramps up as final call for donations launched

Our annual Give A Gift appeal is into full swing ahead of the charities' collection day on December 10 - with the appeal's organiser urging those wishing to donate to get in touch with a local drop-in point.

Politics

12 h. ago Chilling meaning behind eerie handwritten scrawls on Jeffrey Epstein's wall

New images from inside Jeffrey Epstein's private island lair were released by the House Oversight Committee and a body language expert has suggested some of these rooms were intentionally made to "cause panic"

Politics

13 h. ago Boden’s new Lucy collection offers a chic alternative to Christmas knitwear

This dopamine-inducing capsule collection embodies the brand’s ethos

Politics

14 h. ago Family seeks £195k tutor to help their children 'keep pace with peers' in London private school

The advert, posted on the website Tutors International, states the successful applicant should be someone raised in a 'socially appropriate background'

Economics

15 h. ago PANGAIA x Hattie Stewart Unveil “Natural Wonder” Collection at Selfridges London

PANGAIA x Hattie Stewart Unveil “Natural Wonder” Collection at Selfridges London  stupidDOPE

Events

16 h. ago Private investigator's warning to parents over seemingly innocent emojis children are using

Chris Thomas from UK Private Investigators has warned parents to look out for a set of disturbing emojis that predators are using to secretly communicate with children.

Events

16 h. ago Bank of England to stress test private credit firms as concerns grow

The central bank said it has launched a new exercise to stress-test the resilience of the market.

Economics

16 h. ago Bank of England launches stress test of private equity and credit

Bank of England launches stress test of private equity and credit  Reuters

Economics

16 h. ago Macron reportedly warned European leaders ‘there is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine’ – Europe live

German magazine Der Spiegel has reported the warning, quoting a leaked note from a recent call between the European leadersBut on a more serious note, we are hearing that German chancellor Friedrich Merz has postponed his planned visit to Norway scheduled for Friday and will travel to Brussels instead.Merz will travel to Belgium for a private dinner with Belgian prime minister Bart De Wever and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, his spokesperson said in comments reported by Reuters. Continue reading...

Events

17 h. ago Has anyone asked the Chancellor? Treasury launches 'leak inquiry' into Budget... but City watchdog is waiting in the wings

Officials have been ordered to root out the source of briefings that misrepresented economic forecasts the department was being given privately by the OBR watchdog.

Politics

18 h. ago Has anyone asked the Chancellor? Farce as Treasury launches 'leak inquiry' into Budget despite Reeves being at the heart of the furore

Officials have been ordered to root out the source of briefings that misrepresented economic forecasts the department was being given privately by the OBR watchdog.

Politics

19 h. ago Private View at Soho Theatre: 'Like Tom Stoppard doing a dark, queer love play'

This debut play by Jess Edwards is a brainy rush of ideas

Politics

19 h. ago Hilton’s Curio Collection Strengthens Its London Roots with The BoTree Signing

Hilton’s Curio Collection Strengthens Its London Roots with The BoTree Signing  Hospitality Net

Politics

21 h. ago Inside the rise of Scotland’s richest man – the billionaire behind Bestseller and country’s biggest private landowner

WITH a £7.7billion fortune, Anders Holch Povlsen is Scotland’s richest man - and the country’s biggest private landowner. The ASOS and Bestseller boss, 52, hit headlines this week after it emerged he was eyeing up an English football club - having turned his back on Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Born on November 4, 1972 in Egvad,...

Economics

23 h. ago Island community races to save former charity home as fears grow over private sale

The 71-acre island property has come on the market for £755,000

Economics