2 h. ago London railway fire LIVE: Several crews fighting blaze on tracks as busy train stations evacuated

Queen's Road Peckham and South Bermondsey stations in south London have been affected by the train track fire, which the London Fire Brigade has described as "very visible"

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3 h. ago Andrew Mountbatten Windsor to move into exile pad 'in weeks' after Royal Lodge eviction

After Andrew Mountbatten Windsor was stripped of all his titles and told to leave the Windsor estate, the disgraced former prince is now set to move into his new home very soon

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3 h. ago Martin O'Neill lays bare Celtic transfer mess left behind by Paul Tisdale and makes Rangers and Hearts admission

The interim boss has been forced to take charge of the January shopping with eye-opening admission of Hoops failings

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3 h. ago My midwife told me I was days from death – says Capital DJ as she reveals terrifying experience weeks after giving birth

CAPITAL DJ Aimee Vivian has shared the traumatic ordeal that almost killed her weeks after giving birth. The radio host, 34, bravely shared the terrifying moment she was hospitalised with sepsis. Aimee gave birth to her daughter in June this year, but just a few weeks later was sent to the hospital herself. The new mum...

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4 h. ago Iran crisis live: US citizens should ‘leave Iran now’, says US state department

US government issues warning as Donald Trump says US will take ‘very strong action’ if Iran hangs protestersTrump says countries doing business with Iran face 25% tariff on US tradePeople in Iran: share your views on the current situationNon-essential French embassy staff have left Iran, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Agence France-Presse. The personnel left on Sunday and Monday, the sources added, without saying how many people had departed. “The protection of our personnel and our citizens is a priority,” a French foreign ministry official told AFP.Commenting on the protests, the UN high commissioner for human rights Volker Türk said:This cycle of horrific violence cannot continue. The Iranian people and their demands for fairness, equality and justice must be heard. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago West Lothian parents win first round in campaign for new high school

West Lothian’s Education Executive agreed to stall formal consultation on new catchment areas for East Calder children to allow more discussions with the community.

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4 h. ago Community pharmacy cholesterol testing pilot expands across east London

Community pharmacy cholesterol testing pilot expands across east London  The Pharmaceutical Journal

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4 h. ago Attorney General facing backlash over claims he lobbies Keir Starmer in the No 10 flat to water down policies that would curb human rights

Ministers have voiced frustration that Lord Hermer is exploiting his close personal friendship with Keir Starmer to bypass normal Cabinet government.

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5 h. ago UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’

Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rightsSeveral faculty groups have denounced the Trump administration’s efforts to obtain information about Jewish professors, staff and students at the University of Pennsylvania – including personal emails, phone numbers and home addresses – as government abuse with “ominous historical overtones”.The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is demanding the university turn over names and personal information about Jewish members of the Penn community as part of the administration’s stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses. But some Jewish faculty and staff have condemned the government’s demand as “a visceral threat to the safety of those who would find themselves identified because compiling and turning over to the government ‘lists of Jews’ conjures a terrifying history”, according to a press release put out by the groups’ lawyers. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Two young riders killed in Oulton Park race track tragedy suffered 'unsurvivable' injuries, inquest told

One of the deceased was considered a 'rising star' while the other had a 'very successful' international career

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5 h. ago Canadian Indigenous community told not to consume water after sanitation system fails as evacuations stall

The rural community in northern Ontario is only accessible by air most of the year

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5 h. ago Armed police scrambled and London street evacuated amid stand

The man was seen to be in possession of an object claimed to be a grenade

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5 h. ago Carstairs bowling green and hall to be leased to local community group

The former bowling green and hall will be leased to Clyde Model Railway Club for an initial period of one year at a nominal rent of £1.

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5 h. ago Covid leaves cystic fibrosis mum needing double lung transplant

Ashley Grigor fears the worse after her body failed to respond to medication for breathing issues.

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6 h. ago AIMEE WALSH: 'Elon Musk's Grok exposes a dark new way women and girls are being abused online'

Digital abuse has a terrifying new weapon. Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, is being used to degrade and humiliate women and girls of all ages - and the law is failing to protect them.

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6 h. ago Clintons face contempt charges after refusing testify for Epstein probe

In a letter, Bill and Hillary Clinton told the chairman of the House oversight committee he is on the cusp of a process ‘literally designed to result in our imprisonment’

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6 h. ago Digital ID 'to be scaled back in major climbdown' after huge backlash

The Government is reportedly set to water down plans to bring in mandatory digital ID after a fierce backlash - sparking accusations the idea is 'doomed to failure'

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7 h. ago Young Scots mum hospitalised for FIVE months after breathing issues revealed devastating diagnosis

A BRAVE Scots mum with cystic fibrosis is facing a double lung transplant after a Covid infection left her in hospital for five months. Ashley Grigor, 33, was told her lung function will never recover after it dropped to just 50 per cent of its normal capacity when she began struggling to breathe last year....

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7 h. ago Robbie Williams moves to Caribbean island paradise after banking HUGE sum buying & selling property

SINGER Robbie Williams has moved to the Bahamas after becoming a property tycoon. The 51-year-old has bought an eight-figure luxury pad in the archipelago, near Florida. It takes the property empire of Robbie and wife Ayda, 46, to more than £100million after they flipped homes over the past three years. And the couple and have told pals they intend...

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7 h. ago Heavy metal legends secretly thrashing out deal for huge Las Vegas residency at ‘enormous’ Sphere venue

METALLICA are thrashing out a deal to land a huge residency at Las Vegas’ greatest music venue, the Sphere. It comes as the heavy metal giants gear up to play four huge shows in the UK this summer, with concerts in Cardiff, Glasgow and London. One of my Sin City insiders told me that James...

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