7 h. ago Children left in tears and 'thousands' of revellers turned away after tech giant 'hijacked' festive event for private party

Arm Holdings, a software design company worth more than £100billion, reportedly paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to hire out Cambridge Christmas market for its staff on Saturday.

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13 h. ago Children left in tears and 'thousands' of revellers turned away after tech giant 'hijacked' festive event for  private party

Arm Holdings, a software design company worth more than £100billion, reportedly paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to hire out Cambridge Christmas market for its staff on Saturday.

Society

23 h. ago ‘This is the real Santa’s workshop’: a trip to Germany’s toy village

You don’t have to be a child to enjoy Seiffen, the magical ‘home of Christmas’ where they’ve been making traditional wooden toys for hundreds of yearsI feel terrible I’ve left the children at home and Seiffen, nicknamed Spielzeugdorf (The Toy Village), is literally a Christmas wonderland. Every street is alive with sparkling fairy lights and soft candlelight. There are thousands of tiny wooden figurines, train sets and toy animals displayed in shop windows, wooden pyramids taller than doorframes and colourful nutcracker characters. Forget elves in the north pole, this is the real Santa’s workshop. For hundreds of years, here in the village of Seiffen, wood turners and carvers have created classic wooden Christmas toys and sold them around the world.Near the border of the Czech Republic, Seiffen may be well known in the German-speaking world as the “home of Christmas”, but so far it has been largely missed by English-speaking seasonal tourists. Tucked away in the Ore Mountains, about...

Economics

38 h. ago Inside filthy house of horrors where starved kids 'beaten for vomiting out of hunger'

A couple have been charged over their alleged treatment of their three children after they apparently locked them in their rooms and left them to vomit from severe hunger

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42 h. ago Leaders of Britain, France, and Germany to meet before talks with Zelenskyy in London: Sky News learns details

Leaders of Britain, France, and Germany to meet before talks with Zelenskyy in London: Sky News learns details  Українські Національні Новини

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42 h. ago Sara Cox left devastated following tragic death of beloved pal Peta just weeks after completing 135

The Radio 2 DJ, 50, took to social media with the sad news just weeks after she completed her 135-mile Great Northern Marathon and raising a whopping £11.5MILLION for Children In Need .

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3 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: With no Miami breakthrough, Zelenskyy turns to European allies

Positive tone after Florida talks with Ukrainian president heading to London Street to see Starmer, Macron and Merz. What we know on day 1,383Three days of talks between Ukrainian and US officials in Miami, Florida produced no evident breakthrough by the end of Saturday. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said he joined his negotiators for a “very substantive and constructive” call with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. “Ukraine is committed to continuing to work honestly with the American side to bring about real peace,” Zelenskyy said on Telegram, adding that the parties agreed on the next steps and a format for talks.Zelenskyy will next turn to European allies when he visits London on Monday for an in-person meeting with leaders Keir Starmer of Britain, Emmanuel Macron of France and Friedrich Merz of Germany. Macron said the group would “take stock” of peace negotiations. The four leaders took part in a virtual meeting of the “coalition of the willing” about two w...

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3 d. ago Mass shooting at a South African bar leaves 12 dead, including 3 children

A mass shooting at a bar near Pretoria, South Africa, has left at least 12 people dead, including three children

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5 d. ago More than 400 people turn out to demand new West Lothian high school

Given the choice between that and bussing children to Winchburgh or Livingston a show of hands left council officials in no doubt that a new school for East Calder is the only choice for the majority.

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6 d. ago P Louise 'left in floods of tears' as she begs fans to help children's charity

Paige Louise Williams, 32, has urged people to donate to Cash for Kids as she's been "in tears" because the charity has "empty shelves" and they need more donations

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6 d. ago Southport killer Axel Rudakubana 'has nothing' and 'is just in a box'

Rudakubana, 18, will spend more than half a century behind bars for the brutal knife attack at a dance class in Southport which left three girls dead and eight other children injured

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7 d. ago California shooting marks 17th US mass killing this year – a 20

Experts warn this likely points to ‘regression to mean’ after recent spike in mass killings rather than continued declineA shooting last weekend at a children’s birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing in the US this year – the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database that tracks them.The mass killings – defined as incidents in which four or more people are killed in a 24-hour period, not including the killer – are tracked in a database maintained by the Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago ‘What am I looking at?’ Parents slam £94 drone show as ‘total c*** dystopian swarm of lights’ held in muddy field

IN a spectacular flop, a Christmas drone show has left children confused, parents embarrassed and families demanding refunds for a "joke" light display. Spectators were left squinting to work out what they were looking at during a drone show in West Sussex over the weekend, leaving audiences booing and families declaring it a "complete con"....

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8 d. ago The children left unable to sit up straight by social media: 'Deeply alarming' number suffer anxiety and behavioural problems, report warns

More than a third of children aged three to five now uses at least one social media platform, despite their links to anxiety, speech and sleep issues, bad behaviour and even physical problems.

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9 d. ago Stockton shooting all we know as four dead and 10 injured with suspect at large

A shooting at a children's birthday party in Stockton, California, has left four people dead and 10 injured. Police have launched a manhunt for the suspect who remains at large

Events

1 week ago Italy star's wife blasts burglars who struck during match while children at home

The stunning wife of a Serie A star thanked God after her children were left unharmed in a raid on their home and told the culprits "life will catch up with you"

Society

1 week ago Terrifying moment family is forced to scale down 150ft crane after getting trapped at ‘sky

A FAMILY had to make a terrifying climb after they were left dangling 150ft in the air at a sky-dining restaurant. The family of four, including two children, were rescued on Friday after a crane malfunction left them stranded in the sky. They were stuck in the air for more than two hours at the...

Events

1 week ago Mum of 22 Sue Radford laughs about school fines as she jets off on latest holiday

TV personality and matriarch of the UK's biggest family has swapped Britain for France, taking her 10th holiday this year, after a previous one saw her slapped school fines

Politics

1 week ago Legendary ITV newsreader leaves huge sum to family after his death

An ITV icon died in June following a career that spanned over half a century, and left an eye-wateringly large sum to his four children, as his wife died seven years earlier

Events

1 week ago ‘We have to be able to ask difficult questions’: who really took the iconic Napalm Girl photo?

A controversial Netflix documentary follows an investigation into the truth behind one of the most important wartime photos ever takenIt is one of the most recognizable photographs of the 20th century: a naked girl – arms wide, face contorted, skin scorched and peeling – running toward the camera as she flees a napalm attack in South Vietnam. To her right, a boy’s face is frozen in a Greek tragedy mask of pain. To her left, two other Vietnamese children run away from the bombed village of Trảng Bàng. Behind them, an indistinguishable group of soldiers and, behind them, a wall of black smoke.Within hours of publication in June 1972, the photo, officially titled The Terror of War but colloquially known as Napalm Girl, went the analog version of viral; seen and discussed by millions of people around the world, it’s widely credited with galvanizing public opinion against the US war in Vietnam. Susan Sontag later wrote that the horrifically indelible image of nine-year-old Kim Phúc in di...

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