1 hour ago Gender row Scotland: Public 'none the wiser' about Police Scotland's gender ruling stance

Concern raised over public confidence in Police Scotland and its stance on the gender ruling from the Supreme Court.

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2 h. ago ‘Made for sex’: the hedonistic party palaces of New York’s Fire Island – and the blond bombshell who made them

It is a ‘queer Xanadu’, a sliver of sand where weekend-long revelling takes place in fabulous modernist beach-houses. As Fire Island gets its mojo back, we celebrate the Speedos-wearing architect who defined its lookPosters advertising a “bear weekend” cling to the utility poles on Fire Island, punctuating the wooden boardwalks that meander through a lush dune landscape of beach grass and pitch pine. It’s not a celebration of grizzlies, by the looks of the flyers, but of large bearded men in small swimming trunks, bobbing in the pools and sprawled on the sundecks of mid-century modernist homes. You might also find them frolicking in the bushes of this idyllic car-free island, a nature reserve of an unusual kind that stretches in a 30-mile sliver of sand off the coast of Long Island in New York.Over the last century, Fire Island Pines, as the central square-mile section of this sandy spit is known, has evolved into something of a queer Xanadu. Now counting about 600 homes, it is a pl...

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3 h. ago Scotland's first safe consumption room is a vital step, but far from the finish line

Record View says the opening of one safe consumption room in one city was never going to solve in 12 weeks what remains a nationwide public health emergency.

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5 h. ago Thieves stole my car using a fiendish new device disguised as a Game Boy. So I tracked it down and stole it back myself: ALEX BANNISTER

This is not the Monday morning I had planned. I was meant to be in a business meeting in west London at 9.30.

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6 h. ago Bystanders jump in front of ICE vehicles with arrested migrants inside after raid on meat packing plant

Horrified locals threw themselves in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement vans which had been loaded with dozens of illegal migrants picked up in a raid on a food plant.

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7 h. ago Brutal killer who raped and shot young mum twitches during execution after 30 years on death row

Anthony Wainwright kidnapped Carmen Gayheart from a supermarket car park in Florida in April 1994 before raping her and shooting her twice in the back of the head

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7 h. ago Dad charged with murder after 'leaving baby inside roasting hot car for nine hours'

Joseph Boatman, 32, allegedly left the tot inside the vehicle for nine hours after consuming 'multiple' alcoholic beverages - and while temperatures that day reached a scorching 35C

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7 h. ago Government urged to disrupt ‘addictive grip’ of smartphones on children’s lives

Urgent action is needed to create more opportunities for children to play outdoors and away from digital devices, report suggests.

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9 h. ago Reuben Owen issues urgent plea for help after getting trapped at Ravenseat

Reuben Owen was forced to call brother Miles for help after getting his car stuck in a ditch.

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9 h. ago England fail to release handbrake as awful night against Senegal exposes gap to elite

Three Lions failed to deliver on Thomas Tuchel’s promise of a more exciting display to sum up a hugely frustrating camp

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10 h. ago Trump reveals identity of Joe Biden 'deep state' official he believes wielded the autopen to sign orders

Donald Trump has suggested which former 'deep state' official he believes may behind Joe Biden 's infamous autopen.

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10 h. ago Federal immigration raid at Omaha meat production plant sparks protests

Immigration authorities have raided at least one Omaha meat production plant

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11 h. ago Father and daughter killed in house blaze named as sister remains in hospital

Initital investigations suggest the blaze started in the kitchen area

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11 h. ago Louisiana father charged with murder after leaving daughter, 1, inside 105F car for NINE hours

Joseph Boatman, 32, was arrested for murder after he allegedly left his infant daughter inside a blistering 105F car for more than nine hours.

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11 h. ago Madeleine McCann: All evidence linking Christian Brueckner from hard drive to 'confession'

Police are determined to find conclusive evidence to link 48-year-old German paedophile Christian Brueckner to the Madeleine McCann case before he is set free from prison

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12 h. ago Two men jailed for life for supplying car bomb that killed Daphne Caruana Galizia

Robert Agius and Jamie Vella were convicted last week of their role in the anti-corruption journalist’s murder in 2017Two men have been sentenced to life in prison for supplying the car bomb that killed the anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta eight years ago.The sentencing on Tuesday of Robert Agius and Jamie Vella, reported to be members of the island’s criminal underworld, marked a significant step in the long campaign to bring those charged with Caruana Galizia’s murder to justice. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Drivers told to fill up their car's fuel tank before hot weather arrives

The warning comes as 24C temperatures are set to arrive on Wednesday

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13 h. ago The Guardian view on Zambia’s Trumpian predicament: US aid cuts are dwarfed by a far bigger heist | Editorial

As the US decries corruption, a paper suggests the real scandal is multinationals legally extracting billions from Africa’s resource-rich nationDonald Trump’s decision to cut $50m a year in aid to Zambia – one of the world’s poorest nations – is dreadful, and the reason given, corruption, rings hollow. There is evidence of large-scale looting, but the real scandal is that the theft appears legal, systemic and driven by foreign interests. In a paper presented to the Association for Heterodox Economics conference in London later this month, Andrew Fischer of Erasmus University Rotterdam argues that Zambia’s economy is not being plundered by domestic actors but rather by transnational corporate practices enabled by opaque accounting. His findings point to a staggering extraction of wealth that dwarfs the value of the aid intended to help.Zambia is blessed – or perhaps cursed – with mineral wealth. It is Africa’s second-largest copper producer. The metal, key to the green...

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13 h. ago British high society tycoon, 65, is found dead at his luxury villa in Marbella after returning from Italian car rally

A British high society tycoon has been found dead at his luxury villa in Marbella, MailOnline has learned.

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13 h. ago Tony Bloom Hearts cash plan revealed as chief admits 'difficult' financial season coming up but profit isn't the end game

Andrew McKinlay acknowledges that there's a gap to plug after the Jambos failed to qualify for Europe this season

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