18 h. ago Cockerel owner hit with fine after neighbours complain about noisy bird

Brutus the cockerel reportedly started crowing as early as 5am

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18 h. ago Cockerel owner ordered to pay almost £4,000 for disturbing neighbours' sleep with '5am crowing'

The man received complaints from 20 different households over the space of two years

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22 h. ago Pensioner, 80, is ordered to pay nearly £4,000 after his pet cockerel 'tortured' neighbours by waking them up at 3am as it crowed for hour and a half

Harold Brown's 'nuisance' pet bird was recorded crowing once a minute for an hour and a half after his New Forest neighbours complained of the early 'cock-a-doodle-do'.

Economics

54 h. ago Plan to give council chief executives £19,000 pay hike shelved

A proposal that triggered a backlash has been deferred by council chiefs.

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67 h. ago Hopes fading for end to bitter Birmingham bin strike after council revealed plans to cut drivers' pay by £8,000 prompting outrage from unions

Unite said the move by the city council to downgrade wagon drivers' pay amounted to an 'escalation' in the dispute.

Economics

67 h. ago The ‘rat person’ trend is here – and I thoroughly approve | Arwa Mahdawi

Do you like sleeping, eating and scrolling? Me too. What if I told you this was also a way to protest capitalism?Somewhere in Zhejiang province, China, a woman is living my dream. She gets up in the morning and then, almost immediately, goes back to bed. She lies prostrate all day long, scrolling, eating some food, opening some packages, showering at 2am, then snoozing again. As a longtime sleep enthusiast – and the mother of a child who thinks that 5am is a good time to start the day, all systems go – I think this sounds like bliss.The woman in Zhejiang is known as @jiawensishi – and also “rat person”. I am not being rude; that’s what she calls herself. There are lots of rat people out there: it’s a whole trend in China. You might have heard of the “lying flat” movement a few years ago, when young people lazed around displaying symptoms of mild depression, and some thinkers, including the novelist Liao Zenghu, theorised that it was a passive-aggressive resistance movement, rebellin...

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3 d. ago Teacher union must pay £78,000 in legal fees over appointment of firebrand leader with no classroom experience after it was forced into U

An emergency High Court hearing convened yesterday after the NASUWT made Matt Wrack its general secretary while wrongfully blocking another candidate.

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4 d. ago Asda ordered to pay £432,000 after selling food four weeks past use

Any food displayed for sale past its use-by date is legally deemed to be unsafe

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5 d. ago World bids farewell to 'profound' Pope Francis as 400,000 mourners gather for touching Vatican funeral

Heads of state, royalty and religious leaders joined 400,000 mourners in Rome to pay their respects to His Holiness

Economics

5 d. ago Pope Francis’s funeral in pictures: world leaders and 400,000 people pay their respects

Pope Francis’s funeral brought together leaders from across the globe with potentially historic consequences as presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky sat down together

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5 d. ago Lip reader reveals the four words Melania Trump said to Donald to stop things turning awkward at Pope Francis's funeral

More than 250,000 mourners gathered in St Peter's Square to pay their respects to the Argentine pontiff who died from a stroke, aged 88, on Easter Monday.

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6 d. ago As it happened: Coffin of Pope Francis sealed after 250,000 pay homage to head of Catholic Church

Pope Francis’s coffin was sealed after a quarter of million people visited the late spiritual leader, as heads of state fly in to attend Saturday’s ceremony in St Peter’s Square

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6 d. ago Pope Francis funeral latest: Pontiff’s coffin sealed after 250,000 pay homage to head of Catholic Church

Pope Francis’s coffin was sealed after a quarter of million people visited the late spiritual leader, as heads of state fly in to attend Saturday’s ceremony in St Peter’s Square

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6 d. ago Chris Eubank Jr blames Conor Benn after £375,000 fine for missing weight

Chris Eubank Jr will be forced to pay £375,000 to Conor Benn after he missed weight by 0.05lb ahead of their showdown at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday night

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6 d. ago World leaders arriving for Pope’s funeral as 150,000 mourners pay respects

The coffin will be closed on Friday evening ahead of Saturday’s requiem mass.

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7 d. ago Gangster enjoyed £500,000 from his life of crime but only has to pay back £1

Paul Woodford was a trusted associate of a notorious gang leader

Economics

7 d. ago Italy prepares ring of steel for Pope Francis’s funeral in Rome with Nato jets, snipers and 8,000 police

Italian authorities are preparing one of the most complex and secretive security operations in Vatican history as 200,000 people descend to pay respects to Pope Francis ahead of his funeral.

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7 d. ago Married couple who met during papal visit 40 years ago describe 'surreal' moment they saw Pope Francis' remains

The retired pair from Ireland were among some 20,000 people who queued to pay their respects overnight

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8 d. ago Pope Francis mourners furious as people snap 'disrespectful' selfies with his dead body

Some 20,000 worshippers have queued up to pay their respects to the late pontiff - but many sparked widespread fury after they were spotted snapping selfies with Francis' body

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8 d. ago Pope Francis death latest: 20,000 mourners gather at St Peter's Basilica to pay respects to late pontiff

The Pope died on Easter Monday aged 88

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