34 h. ago Person rushed to hospital after youth football match ends in 'fighting'

The FA is investigating the trouble which erupted at the end of an under 15s match in Reddish

Sport

43 h. ago House passes Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ tax and spending bill after months of wrangling – US politics live

Sweeping legislation will now be sent to the SenateThe Kremlin said on Thursday that a report in the Wall Street Journal which said US president Donald Trump had told European leaders that President Vladimir Putin did not want to end the war in Ukraine contrasted with its own knowledge.The Journal said Trump had briefed European leaders after talking to Putin by phone on Monday and said Putin wanted to keep fighting in Ukraine because he thought he was winning.With a narrow 220-212 majority, House Speaker Mike Johnson could not afford to lose more than a handful of votes from his side.Republicans on the party’s right flank had pushed for deeper spending cuts to lessen the budget impact, but they met resistance from centrists who worried they would fall too heavily on the 71 million low-income Americans enrolled in the Medicaid health program. Continue reading...

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46 h. ago NSW floods: three dead, one missing as state faces worse flooding than many have seen in their lifetimes

With more intense rain forecast, the SES has a fleet of 500 boats and nine helicopters trying to assist 48,000 people isolated in flood watersNSW floods live updates: latest flooding newsNSW floods map: record-breaking rain in charts and mapsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA third person has died in flood waters on the New South Wales mid-north coast and authorities hold grave fears for one person still missing.NSW police advised late on Thursday that the bodies of three people had been recovered. One remains missing in floodwaters on the mid north coast.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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48 h. ago NSW floods: second person dead and ‘grave fears’ for two still missing as crisis worsens

With 48,000 already isolated, forecasters say intense rainfall has spread north bringing life-threatening riskNSW floods live updates: latest flooding newsNSW floods map: record-breaking rain in charts and mapsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA second person has died in flood waters on the New South Wales mid-north coast and authorities hold grave fears for two people still missing.NSW police said the body of a man, likely in his 30s and who was missing since Wednesday night, was found near Rosewood on Thursday morningSign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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3 d. ago How Celtic star dealt with personal criticism that crossed a line

Life was easier in the nineties, insists veteran goalkeeper

Economics

3 d. ago Person flown to hospital following crash between motorbike and car

The incident closed the road in Pembrokeshire for several hours

Events

3 d. ago Personal trainer who put seven police officers in hospital after causing six

Mazyar Azarbonyad was giving the woman a lift back in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, in his BMW 5 series, when officers attempted to pull him over due to a faulty rear light.

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4 d. ago Hackers steal the most personal information from more than a million vulnerable Brits

The Ministry of Justice conceded that a devastating cyber attack last month was far worse than initially assessed after hackers revealed they had stolen millions of pieces of information.

Events

4 d. ago Personal stylist shares five items you need in your wardrobe for spring

It can be hard to decide what to wear every day and trying to pick an outfit for different occasions, keeping the seasons in mind, so a personal stylist has shared five basic items to add to your wardrobe this spring

Events

4 d. ago Ministry of Justice cyberattack: What data was stolen and what to do next

The cyberattackers claimed 2.1m pieces of customer data were stolen from the Legal Aid Agency

Events

4 d. ago Hackers steal 'significant amount of personal data' from Ministry of Justice in brazen cyber

The personal data of people who applied to the Legal Aid Agency since 2010, including criminal records, was accessed and downloaded in a cyber attack in April this year, the MoJ has said.

Events

5 d. ago Could a British Fox News personality fix Republicans’ losing streak in California?

Steve Hilton, once an adviser to David Cameron, sees signs of Democrats’ grip on the state slackening – but the Trump factor could prove trickyCalifornia is usually regarded as a political graveyard for ambitious Republicans, but Steve Hilton, the smiling, bald-headed former British political consultant turned Fox News personality, has a few theories of how to turn that around.Theory number one is that the Democrats, who have not lost a statewide election in almost 20 years and enjoy a supermajority in the California legislature, make the argument for change more or less by themselves, because the state has become too expensive for many of its residents and is mired in a steep budgetary crisis. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago 'I'm only person in world with this allergy and have to be fed through my heart'

Finley Ranson, 14, has a rare digestive condition that has yet to be named - his body treats most food as a foreign object and he has to be fed lipids directly into his heart to keep him alive

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6 d. ago Homeless person 'randomly set on fire by sick woman' as witnesses 'still hear her screams'

Police arrested a woman after grim CCTV footage showed a homeless person being set on fire - the victim suffered burns to a third of her body and had to be intubated for two weeks

Events

6 d. ago FIA rule stops Flavio Briatore from being F1 team principal as Alpine issue statement

It turns out Flavio Briatore cannot be Alpine team principal as far as the FIA are concerned, after the surprised news that previous boss Oliver Oakes had stepped away for personal reasons

Politics

7 d. ago Jeremy Irons is perfectly cast as the sea – but who should play the clouds?

The raging beauty of the ocean has clearly found its perfect embodiment. Now we need to decide who will play the other elemental forcesSome actors are lucky and manage to immediately luck into a perfect role. Others have to struggle for years, sometimes even decades, before eventually finding a part that completely encapsulates their personality. Jeremy Irons is one of them. But the good news is that his number has just come up, because Jeremy Irons has just been cast as the sea.According to Variety, Water People: The Story of Us, the first documentary feature by acclaimed artist Maya de Almeida Araujo has just cast Irons as the voice of the ocean. Which just makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? Continue reading...

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7 d. ago The richest under 40s in Britain revealed: Dua Lipa is youngest person on list with astonishing sum below Georgia Toffolo and Ed Sheeran

Dance The Night singer Dua Lipa, 29, who has won several Brit Awards and three Grammys , is 34th on this year's Sunday Times 40 Under 40 Rich List, with an estimated wealth of £115million.

Politics

8 d. ago Dua Lipa is youngest person to feature on Sunday Times under

Ed Sheeran and Harry Styles are among the other musicians on the 40 Under 40 Rich List.

Politics

8 d. ago Fashion tycoon named Scotland’s richest person for fourth year in a row

This year saw the largest fall in the number of billionaires in the Sunday Times Rich List’s 37-year history.

Politics

8 d. ago King as rich as Sunak and wife as Charles’s personal wealth jumps £30m to £640m

The monarch is joint 238th in the list of the UK’s 350 wealthiest people and families, according to analysis by The Sunday Times Rich List.

Economics