64 m. ago Baby owl born at Scots sanctuary was hand reared after storm wrecked shelter

The American Barn Owl has been named Bob the Builder.

Events

67 m. ago Amandaland actor Peter Serafinowicz splits from TV star wife of 23 years

Couple’s ‘very sad’ split comes after over two decades together and two children

Culture

71 m. ago A week after catastrophic earthquake, focus turns to a growing humanitarian crisis in Myanmar

Search teams have pulled more bodies from the ruins of buildings a week after a massive earthquake rocked Myanmar killing more than 3,100 people

Events

74 m. ago F1 Japan GP LIVE: Jack Doohan suffers massive 185mph crash in practice

Follow all the latest updates from Suzuka after a disrupted second practice session with four red flags

Events

1 hour ago NHS hospitals plagued by rats and vermin as staff survey reveals disgusting state of buildings

Around one in six NHS staff said they had seen vermin such as rats inside their building in the past 12 months, in a report published by Unison.

Politics

1 hour ago ‘Cathedral of crap’: is this the world’s most beautiful sewage treatment plant?

Its lab buildings have a rusticated air while its sleek, paper-thin louvre windows are reminiscent of a luxury ocean-liner. More importantly, the people of Arklow in Ireland can finally go swimming without fear of floatersIt is not often that the arts section of a newspaper finds itself concerned with the aesthetic merits of a sewage works. But then there are few facilities designed with the finesse of the new €139m (£117m) wastewater treatment plant in Arklow, which stands like a pair of minty green pagodas on the edge of the Irish Sea. Nor are there many architectural firms who have thought so deeply about the poetics of effluent as Clancy Moore.“There’s a wonderful passage in Ulysses,” says practice co-founder, Andrew Clancy, summoning James Joyce as we tiptoe along a metal gantry above a gigantic vat of bubbling brown sludge. “The narrator turns on the tap to fill a kettle, sparking a lengthy rumination on where the water comes from, how it flows from reservoirs, through aqueduc...

Economics

2 h. ago Stop rats and mice chewing on garden plants without pesticides in one trick

This is how to deter rodents from your back garden

Politics

2 h. ago Did John and Yoko split because of Richard Nixon? The making of revelatory music film One to One

The director of One to One: John & Yoko reveals how he was given access to a trove of intimate and family archive material that changes how we see the star couplePeople are usually at their most interesting when they are in flux – uncertain of the way forward, of what life they ought to build. That was the case with John Lennon and Yoko Ono when they arrived in New York in 1971. They were both fleeing England – the recriminations around the Beatles breakup; the terrible misogyny and racism levelled at Ono – but also running towards the optimism and creative excitement of the New York art scene.This is the period I have tried to recreate in my film One to One: John & Yoko – using a plethora of previously unheard phone recordings, home movies and archive. It’s an unconventional film in many ways, pitching the viewer headfirst into the life, politics and music of the time without the usual music documentary guardrails. At its heart is the One to One concert that the couple...

Culture

2 h. ago Grand National results LIVE: Tips and updates as Jonbon set to headline day two at Aintree

Follow all the action from Aintree as the festival builds up to the showpiece on Saturday

Politics

3 h. ago Builder charged woman £17,000 then left massive hole in her house and walked away

Gary Roberts, 60, has been handed a suspended sentence

Economics

3 h. ago Man wrecked woman's home weeks after signing contract with her

Gary Roberts, 60, has been handed a suspended sentence

Politics

5 h. ago UK weather: Met Office forecast maps show 'mini heatwave' spikes in 42 counties

Weather maps show the parts of the country where mercury will hit at least 20C over the next couple of days as we are set for the hottest temperature of the year so far at 24C

Society

5 h. ago Good Night, and Good Luck review – George Clooney’s Broadway debut never quite lands

Winter Garden Theatre, New YorkThe actor-director brings his 2005 drama to the stage, now playing the lead role, but while it’s timely and nicely staged, it feels stiffTime has been kind to Good Night, and Good Luck, George Clooney’s sincere dramatization of the broadcaster Edward R Murrow’s on-air tangles with Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. Sleek, slim and reverent, the 2005 film recalled a time of both cultural panic and promise, before American attention splintered and television’s road forked toward cable news. In its own era, the movie played in implicit contrast to mainstream media’s failure to interrogate the Bush administration’s dubious justifications for the Iraq war. In 2025, well now, as in 1953, the lies run rampant. But in Clooney’s stark black-and-white drama, truth prevails.Wouldn’t that be nice. The ongoing lurch away from due process casts both a haunting pall and a self-congratulatory glow over New York’s Winter Garden Theatre, where Clooney leads a profici...

Politics

5 h. ago Amazon shoppers praise 'super comfy' £26 sandals that 'look just like' £115 brand

These sandals are perfect for wearing by the beach, pool, or even for walking about the garden in the summer.

Economics

6 h. ago Gardeners urged to place cotton balls around their garden immediately

Rodents like rats can be quite a burden when it comes to ruining our garden spaces, but there's one way to get rid of them - and all you need is a pack of cotton balls

Politics

7 h. ago Gardeners urged to feed birds with exact mix to stop pigeons wading in

If you've noticed a horde of pesky pigeons invading your garden, follow these expert tips to keep them far away and to stop them from sniping food from other birds

Politics

8 h. ago NHS staff lift the lid on appalling conditions with hospitals 'plagued by rats and cockroaches' in bombshell report

NHS staff have revealed the 'worst of the problems' in the health service - including exposing hospitals and buildings that are 'plagued by rats, cockroaches and sliverfish'

Events

9 h. ago Inside the 'perfect' £530m British town filled with Tudor buildings, red phone boxes and cobbled streets

From red telephone boxes to Tudor cobbled streets and traditional country pubs to Gothic churches, it looks like any other quaint English village - but there's one quirk that makes Thames Town unique.

Economics

10 h. ago Major report discovers rats, cockroaches and silverfish in NHS buildings...is your local hospital infested?

Health workers for the union Unison suggests pests may be thriving in damp conditions and unfixed premises.

Politics

11 h. ago Inside Kanye West and Bianca Censori's rocky marriage as rapper splits from wife

Kanye West secretly married Bianca Censori in December 2022, just one month after his divorce from Kim Kardashian was finalised, and the couple have been causing controversy ever since

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