85 m. ago Port Talbot moves towards arc furnace future with groundbreaking ceremony

Ministers and Tata chiefs will mark the beginning of construction of the new electric arc furnace with a groundbreaking ceremony.

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85 m. ago Frontline care workers should be free of intimidation and fear no matter the time of day

Record View says nobody should have to put up with the threats and violence experienced by female care staff.

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2 h. ago Southend Airport: Dad plane spotting with daughter saw jet 'corkscrew upside down into the floor'

A dad out planespotting with his young daughter has recalled the horror moment they saw a small plane crash into a 'fireball' yards from the runway at Southend Airport

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4 h. ago Christine McGuinness 'had fun fling with leading soap actress after meeting at awards ceremony' following split from Paddy

Christine McGuinness reportedly had a 'fun fling' with a leading soap actress at an awards ceremony back in 2023, following her split from ex-husband Paddy.

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4 h. ago Teenagers increasingly see AI chatbots as people, share intimate details and ask them for sensitive advice

Internet Matters warned that youngsters and parents are 'flying blind', lacking 'information or protective tools' to manage the technology, in research published yesterday.

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4 h. ago KATIE HIND: Tony Blair grasped that working class families like mine want to work hard and get on. After Starmer's attacks on aspiration, I'll NEVER vote Labour again

My dad would ridicule Blair for being 'almost a Tory', but I quickly realised that Blair and his party were willing to allow - even push - people like me to find a way to do well.

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4 h. ago Chelsea players react to Donald Trump’s bizarre involvement in Club World Cup trophy ceremony

Chelsea’s players were left baffled by Trump’s prolonged presence at the trophy ceremony

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5 h. ago Heartbroken dad speaks out after son, 25, dies in fall from hotel balcony in Malta

Police in Malta have named the man who tragically died after falling from a hotel balcony in St Julian, Malta, on Friday morning - his heartbroken father has spoken out following the tragic incident

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8 h. ago My dad was a secret service agent, here are the common things he taught me to NEVER do to keep myself safe

Ashley, who asked to keep her last name hidden for privacy reasons, 36, from Washington, D.C., said her dad learned a lot about how to keep himself and others safe during his 25 years in Secret Service.

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8 h. ago Man 'murders his parents, sister, and dog' in unimaginable horrors before 'dragging bodies to ravine'

Adlai Mestre, 24, was arrested outside the family home in Tijeras, New Mexico, and led police to the bodies of his mother Bertha Conde, 51, dad Raymundo Mestre, 46, sister Brielle Mestre, 17.

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8 h. ago The kindness of strangers: she bought a new sim card for my mum and installed it on her phone

Dad was in hospital in Spain; Mum couldn’t speak Spanish and didn’t know how to contact me, so I reached out to an expat community on FacebookRead more in the kindness of strangers seriesOne week before I was due to fly to Sweden to see my son get married, I got a frantic, jumbled message from Mum. My elderly parents were desperate to attend the big wedding but as they were both in their 80s, they’d decided it would be more comfortable to take a cruise ship from Australia to Europe than to fly. They’d set off two months before the rest of us.Mum’s message asked me to call her. “We’re being thrown off the ship,” she wrote. “Your father’s in an ambulance – I think it’s pneumonia. We’re somewhere in Spain.” Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Spencer Matthews takes brutal swipe at Vogue Williams ahead of her birthday

Irish TV presenter Vogue Williams married Made in Chelsea star Spencer Matthews in 2018, but he's made a savage age-related dig just months before the mum-of-three turns 40

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12 h. ago Brody Jenner marries Tia Blanco in intimate backyard ceremony in front of dad Caitlyn

At 41, The Hills alum is 13 years older than the professional surfer, but they've been going strong ever since meeting in Hawaii back in 2022

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13 h. ago Professor who studied love for 40 years and can predict divorce reveals subtle sign of a failing marriage

Dr John Gottman, a US-based marriage and family counsellor and founder of the Gottman Institute, has revealed a major sign that a marriage is facing failure in a video on YouTube.

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14 h. ago Lennon Miller transfer offer 'expected' by Motherwell as dad Lee drops hint on imminent next destination

Celtic have been among the interested clubs but look set to miss out on the playmaker

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15 h. ago Kerry Godliman looks back: ‘If my parents hadn’t laughed so much at my jokes, I wouldn’t be doing what I do now’

The actor and comedian on her bohemian upbringing, being headhunted by Ricky Gervais, and why her knickers are good for her comedyBorn in London in 1973, Kerry Godliman is a comedian and actor. She trained at Rose Bruford Drama School, before taking a course on standup comedy at the adult education college City Lit. In 2012, she was cast as Hannah in Ricky Gervais’s Derek, and has appeared in dramas including Save Me, Adult Material and Trigger Point, along with pursuing her career in live comedy and radio. Godliman hosts the Memory Lane podcast with Jen Brister, and performs live in London on 15 July. She is married to actor Ben Abell and they have two children.This was taken at my mum’s 40th – a big house party where everyone dressed up. I was going through a 60s phase with the dress, the hair and the eyeliner – all of which was probably inspired by Deee-Lite. There would have been a lot of drinking and smoking and good music. Pretty raucous all round. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Sophie Wessex 'nearly died twice' in desperate journey to become a mother

Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, shares children Lady Louise Windsor and James, Earl of Wessex, with husband Prince Edward who she married in 1999 aged 34 - but she struggled to conceive

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16 h. ago Special order given to man, 45, who married girl, 6, in sick ceremony

The Taliban has said it’s horrified’ that a 45-year-old man has married a six-year-old girl in a sickening ceremony in Afghanistan but says taking home a nine-year-old girl is OK

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17 h. ago First picture of 'devoted and beloved' dad who died in horror crash in Falkirk

Jamie Johnstone was driving a black Vauxhall Corsa northbound between junctions six and seven, near Carronshore in Falkirk, when the accident happened at around 4.30am on Wednesday.

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17 h. ago Dining across the divide: ‘She felt people had become hypersexualised – I don’t think the solution is to go completely the other way’

A teacher in London and a student in Margate had differing views on feminism and intimacy outside of marriage – could they find some common ground over sex workers?Jo, 38, LondonOccupation Teacher Continue reading...

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