26 m. ago Netflix Love Is Blind UK star has been seen on TV before and has link to a Love Island winner

Love Is Blind UK fans have been tuning in to the latest episodes, which dropped on Netflix today, and now realise where they have seen one star before

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30 m. ago Two women die after eating poisonous guacamole at Italian food festival

School cook Valeria Sollai, 62, collapsed after eating the contaminated dip at the Fiesta Latina food event in Monserrato, Cagliari.

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31 m. ago Love Is Blind UK star in tears minutes into latest episode 'I don't want to be the villain'

One Love Is Blind UK couple haven't fully convinced their co-stars that they're ready to tie the knot.

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45 m. ago Dramatic rise in whale and marine mammal strandings in Scotland

University of Glasgow research shows steep increases over past 30 years, after summer of strandings across EuropeThe number of marine mammals stranded in Scotland has risen dramatically in the past 30 years, a study has found.From 1992 to 2022, 5,147 cetaceans died on Scottish shores, and a new paper shows steep increases in the rate of strandings of up to 800% in some species, continuing exponentially every year. Continue reading...

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45 m. ago Consume Me, the highly personal game about feeling ‘stupid, fat and ugly’ in high school

Jenny Jiao Hsia’s award-winning coming-of-age tale is a charming look at a teen trying her best to stay on top of thingsIf you visited the V&A’s Design/Play/Disrupt exhibition in 2018, you may have played an interesting minigame collection, in which you fought wobbly physics to feed a girl named Jenny, using a Tetris-style board to achieve the perfect calorie amount, and then twisting her into pilates poses.Almost seven years later, the full version of Consume Me, which won this year’s Independent Games festival grand prize, is set for a September release. According to developer Jenny Jiao Hsia, the game has become a semiautobiographical tale about how she felt “stupid, fat and ugly” in high school. What started as a collection of minigames about Hsia’s struggles with dieting and disordered eating grew into a game that looks at the many facets of her life as a teenager, including her relationship with her mother – who appears accompanied by Persona-style boss battle music and al...

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46 m. ago Scottish Love Is Blind star breaks down in tears saying ‘I don’t want to be the villain'

Love Is Blind UK returned to Netflix today and viewers can expect emotional scenes just minutes into the first episode.

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53 m. ago Stirling union members to honour sole Scots woman who died at Auschwitz with visit

The study tour will be an opportunity for members to learn about the atrocities of the Holocaust and to pay tribute to the only Scottish woman known to have died there.

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82 m. ago Locals hit out at the ‘Disneyfication’ of this Paris suburb as overtourism strikes again

Butchers, bakeries and grocers are vanishing, replaced by ice-cream stalls, bubble-tea vendors and souvenir stands

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83 m. ago Edinburgh incident: Man pronounced dead at scene after 'fall from scaffolding' in Edinburgh's Dublin Street

Officers say there are no suspicious circumstances.

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99 m. ago Residents trapped in flats as 'thousands of flies' swarm after neighbour dies

Atlanta Jackson, from Co Antrim, says that she could see thousands of bluebottles and flies against the window of a neighbour's flat following her neighbour dying

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1 hour ago State Pension, PIP, UC, Child Benefit and DLA to be paid early by DWP this week

The early payment policy – which will come in handy as kids go back to school – is designed to guarantee recipients they are paid before banks and government offices shut down for the holiday weekend

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2 h. ago Tamar Braxton says she ‘almost died’ after being found in ‘pool of blood’

The reality TV star says she fractured her nose and lost some teeth in the weekend accident

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2 h. ago Heartbreaking photos of girl, 13,with baby sis as mystery grows over final hours

Casey-Louise Horrocks, 13, was found unresponsive at a flat in Huddersfield and died in the early hours of the following morning - her friends and family have paid moving tributes

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2 h. ago Blind pensioner dies after spilling tea on her lap at nursing home in scalding

Margaret Eluned Roberts was told she should have been given a cup with a handle but staff said they didn't know they were to do something different.

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3 h. ago Final and rarest batch of £1 coins bearing the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II which were minted the year she died are released into circulation

More than 23 million Queen coins are being released alongside 7.5 million new King Charles III £1 coins, the Royal Mint has announced.

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3 h. ago Parents call for better mental health care after daughter died in understaffed London hospital

Bonnie Young died in an ‘unsafe’ private mental health hospital in Ealing

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3 h. ago Hot springs, empty beaches, forests and wine: exploring the unspoilt Greek island of Ikaria

On a trip to the eastern Aegean isle with my mum after my dad died, we found inspiring landscapes, delicious local produce, and a profound sense of peaceThere are no signs to the hot spring, but I locate it on the map and we drive to the end of the paved road. Overlooking the sea is a stone bench someone has dedicated to her parents, “with gratitude and love as deep as the Aegean”. My dad died recently and the words strike home. I’m glad my mum has joined me on this little adventure.We walk down to the deserted cove at Agia Kyriaki thermal springs. There are old fishing shacks with stone-slab roofs, and shuttered cottages. Down an unmarked path, we find a rock pool where hot waters bubble gently from the sand, blending with the sea to a perfect temperature. Immersed in the healing mineral bath, I look up at juniper trees and blue sky, lulled by lapping waves and cicadas. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Pensioner died after hospital missed bleed on the brain, then made it worse

Kenneth Edwards died at Stepping Hill Hospital the day after falling in the street

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5 h. ago Teen stabbed to death during classroom brawl as school locked down for hours

A student has tragically died after a fight involving two students and a pair of scissors on Tuesday afternoon, prompting an hours-long lockdown at the facility

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5 h. ago French government investigating death of man during live stream

Police in Nice have been probing alleged ‘deliberate violent acts’ against ‘vulnerable people’ that have ended up on the internetProsecutors in the south of France have said they are investigating the death of a 46-year-old man who died during a live streaming event showing him being mistreated.The man – whose real name is Raphael Graven, but was known online as Jean Pormanove or JP – had built a following by putting on live internet shows in which he was abused or humiliated. Continue reading...

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