25 h. ago Boy, 6, has genitals cut off and left for dead in ditch after 'Satanic ritual'

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: The six-year-old boy was found covered in blood and unable to see properly due to the pepper spray which was sprayed in his eyes and face

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27 h. ago Boy, 6, found covered in blood after having genitals cut off in 'voodoo' attack

The maimed boy was found crying in a ditch by people living in the South African scrubland. They rushed to his aid and saw he had been castrated and was bleeding out

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54 h. ago Diver 'died' 300ft underwater after losing oxygen but what happened next defied science

In a miracle survival story, North Sea oil rig diver Chris Lemons clung on to life after a freak accident left him cut off from his air supply 300 feet below the surface of the sea

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3 d. ago Sunday Brunch interrupted as show forced to ad break after guests' dramatic exit

Sunday Brunch was thrown into chaos as the Channel 4 show was forced to cut to an ad break after two guests left the studio

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5 d. ago BBC Wimbledon coverage cut off minutes in as fans fume 'waste of licence fee'

Viewers watching the 2025 Championships at Wimbledon on the BBC were left fuming after the coverage inexplicably cut out during Novak Djokovic's second-round match

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5 d. ago Diogo Jota gave Liverpool fans goals and a glorious song. He will never be forgotten | Sachin Nakrani

The ‘lad from Portugal’ was celebrated by those who watched him at Anfield for his brilliance and commitment to the causeInitially it was hard to make out the words. Then when I knew the words I found it hard to sing them. Mainly because there seemed to be too many, leading to lines being tripped over and bafflement with the sound of everyone around me sticking with it. But they were, so I did too, and eventually I got it, and loved it, and, as such, I sang it, over and over again.“Oh, he wears the No 20 / He will take us to victory / And when he’s running down the left wing / He’ll cut inside and score for LFC / He’s a lad from Portugal / Better than Figo don’t you know / Oh, his name is Diogo!” Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Tax rises 'increasingly likely' after DWP savings 'dwindle to nothing'

The benefits cut U-turn has left Rachel Reeves with a £4.8billion hole to fill

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8 d. ago To all who think capitalism can drive progressive change, it won’t – and here’s the shocking proof | Polly Toynbee

Asset manager Aberdeen’s surprise cut to funding research into inequality has left those that used its grants for good works reelingThe axe fell with shocking suddenness. On Thursday Aberdeen Group plc terminated its Financial Fairness Trust without notice and sacked the CEO, Mubin Haq, the chair and all the trustees, leaving eight staff dangling. The company tells me it plans to move in a different direction. That dreaded phrase marks the end of 16 remarkable years, during which the trust sponsored some of the most influential research into inequality and its financial causes.Aberdeen is a wealth management and investment company. I admired its willingness to fund research not in its own immediate interest, but for the sake of social improvement, as a sign that decent capitalism was possible. Now that’s over. The mood has changed. Wildfires started by President Trump are engulfing global companies as his administration attempts to bar asset and retirement plan managers from conside...

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2 w. ago SNP urges UK Government to speed up smart meter roll out after RTS switch

EXCLUSIVE: Nationalist MP Graham Leadbitter has called for "a cast iron guarantee to Scottish communities that never again will they be left to live in fear of their hot water supply being cut-off and their electricity supply disrupted."

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3 w. ago Who gets dumped on Love Island? Fans 'solve' who left villa as scenes cut

There was news of a Love Island dumping on the ITV2 series on Thursday night, the second of the series so far, but a cliffhanger meant the exit was cut from the latest episode

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4 w. ago Massive power cut hits British holiday hotspot with 'entire Spanish island left without electricity'

Spain's national grid has confirmed that power had been fully restored to the Canary Islands hotspot within three hours, after the blackout affected some 82,000 people.

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