31 m. ago Wrexham star suffers horror injury and 'requires oxygen' as clash stopped

Wrexham star Andy Cannon was administered oxygen on Sunday afternoon as he suffered a horror injury against Mansfield Town in their League One clash

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45 m. ago Hospital where gunman took hostages remains closed to visitors as injured reported stable

Workers at a Pennsylvania hospital who were injured during a shooting that left the gunman and a police officer dead are reported in “medically stable” condition

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71 m. ago Newcastle hold off Nottingham Forest as Isak double edges seven

Anyone doubting the determination of Eddie Howe and Nuno Espírito Santo to take their players on grand tours of Europe next season will have changed their minds after watching this.When the final whistle blew, Howe’s fifth-placed team had closed the gap on Nuno’s Forest to three points and must have felt that Madrid, Milan, Munich and the rest of the Champions League staging posts had moved into sharper focus on the horizon. Continue reading...

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75 m. ago What is Keir Starmer’s plan to boost UK defence spending and is it affordable?

Keir Starmer is expected to outline plans to hike Britain’s defence spending, The Independent looks at what has been said about the move

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79 m. ago Met Office issues fresh spate of weather warnings including rare amber 'danger to life' alert

Several weather warnings have been issues in different parts of the country amid strong gales and constant downpour with up to 70mph along the Irish Sea

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1 hour ago Trump takeover sees Kennedy Center suffer ticket sale collapse, says report

Trump fired the Kennedy Center’s leadership upon his return to the Oval Office and put MAGA loyalist in charge of the famed institution

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1 hour ago Holly Willoughby’s new life after sick murder plot and Phillip Schofield scandal

After a rollercoaster few years in the public eye, Dancing On Ice host Holly Willoughby is taking life ‘one day at a time’ and choosing to ‘positively move forward’

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1 hour ago Met Police officers taken to hospital after crash in west London

Footage shared on X showed the overturned vehicle

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2 h. ago Defense secretary defends Pentagon firings, says more dismals may come

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is defending President Donald Trump’s firing of the nation’s senior military officer and a wave of top dismals at the Pentagon, insisting that they weren’t unusual despite accusations that the new administration is injecting politics into the military

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2 h. ago Meet the Liverpool and Man City WAGs – from 'prettiest girl ever' to Love Island star

Liverpool and Manchester City meet in the Premier League with the clash taking on a very different feel to recent years as the Reds look to move closer to the title against a broken City side

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2 h. ago Bernardo Silva has made feelings clear as Man United reach 'verbal agreement' for £50m ace

Manchester United are possible suitors for burgeoning Portuguese wing-back Geovany Quenda, who was given his big break at Sporting CP by Ruben Amorim before his move to Old Trafford

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2 h. ago Moment mockery is made of the Met Police as schoolchildren steal officers' uniforms and stand on cop car dancing before two boys, both under 16, are arrested

Footage circulating online shows hundreds of youngsters gathering around as at least 10 boys, some wearing stolen police uniforms, hijacked an emergency vehicle in Soho.

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2 h. ago ‘We are pissed’: opposition to Trump, slow to energize, now shakes off its slumber

The slash-and-burn approach of Trump and his ‘Doge’ head Elon Musk has reinvigorated resistance to the Republican administrationOn a bright winter’s day this week, a group of protesters fanned out along a palm tree-lined thoroughfare in the picturesque city of Palm Desert to demand that their Republican congressman stand up to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn effort to reshape the American government. “You work for us, not Musk!” read one sign. “Remember your oath,” another warned, as a mobile billboard circled nearby, featuring the president and the billionaire tech mogul, with the message: “When he’s snooping through your bank accounts, you dump him.”The group, dozens strong, cheered wildly when the driver of a white Tesla turned the corner and laid on his horn. A smaller contingent of constituents had attempted to secure a meeting with the congressman, Ken Calvert, but found the door of his regional office locked and the blinds drawn. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago ‘Heinous actions’: opposition to Trump, slow to energize, shakes off its slumber

The slash-and-burn approach of Trump and his ‘Doge’ head Musk has reinvigorated resistance to the administrationOn a bright winter’s day this week, a group of protesters fanned out along a palm tree-lined thoroughfare in the picturesque city of Palm Desert to demand that their Republican congressman stand up to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn effort to reshape the American government. “You work for us, not Musk!” read one sign. “Remember your oath,” another warned, as a mobile billboard circled nearby, featuring the president and the billionaire tech mogul, with the message: “When he’s snooping through your bank accounts, you dump him.”The group, dozens strong, cheered wildly when the driver of a white Tesla turned the corner and laid on his horn. A smaller contingent of constituents had attempted to secure a meeting with the congressman, Ken Calvert, but found the door of his regional office locked and the blinds drawn. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Woman stamped on victim's head and attacked police officer in 10

A woman who committed five violent crimes in the space of 10 days – including biting two people, stamping on another's head and attacking a police officer – has been jailed for four years

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2 h. ago Archaeologists may have found second tomb of mysterious Egyptian pharaoh

Egyptologists believe Thutmose II’s mummified remains are hidden in a chamber beneath 23 metres of man-made mountain

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3 h. ago Kash Patel tells FBI staff to ignore Elon Musk request to list their achievements

Agency reportedly seeking guidance from DoJ as Musk’s demand sparks confusion across key government agenciesThe new FBI director, Kash Patel, has told his agency employees to hold off on responding to an email from the Donald Trump administration asking them to list their accomplishments in the last week as tech billionaire Elon Musk expands his crusade to slash the federal government’s size.Hundreds of thousands of federal workers had been given little more than 48 hours to explain what they achieved to the office of personnel management (OPM), sparking confusion across key agencies that included the US’s top law enforcement agency. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Police officer and suspect who took hostages at Pennsylvania hospital killed in shootout

A doctor, a nurse and a custodian at UPMC Memorial, and two other officers were shot and wounded in attackA man armed with a pistol and carrying zip ties entered a Pennsylvania hospital’s intensive care unit Saturday and took staff members hostage before he was killed by police in a shootout that also left an officer dead, authorities said.Three workers at UPMC Memorial hospital, including a doctor, a nurse and a custodian, and two other officers were shot and wounded in the attack, York county district attorney Tim Barker said. A fourth staffer was injured in a fall.Guardian staff contributed reporting Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Fabrizio Romano announces major move for darts star Mike De Decker after Prem bust

Football reporter and transfer guru Fabrizio Romano reported another major move but in the darting world, as he announced Mike De Decker’s breaking news following his Premier League snub

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4 h. ago UK weather maps show when eye of the storm will hit Wales after Met Office issue amber 'danger to life' warning

The Met Office has issued an amber rain warning for part of Wales, which will bring a risk of "danger to life". Rain will start on Sunday afternoon, with the heaviest expected to fall from 4pm until Monday at 7am.

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