11 h. ago 'New Concorde' would cut UK to US flight time to 45 minutes going 7x speed of sound

The A-HyM Hypersonic Air Master is designed to carry 170 passengers and cruise at an altitude of 30,000 metres while travelling at speeds of Mach 7.3

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62 h. ago The strange Scottish road where cars appear to defy gravity and roll uphill

The mysterious quarter-mile stretch of road has attracted visitors from across the globe, including Dwight D Eisenhower before he became US President.

Transport

8 d. ago Cut speeds to just 10MPH on thousands of miles of roads in towns and cities, safety charity demands

This limit should be applied specifically around all schools, hospitals, as well as sporting, social and cultural venues but critics have said the proposals are 'so ridiculous it is simply laughable'.

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8 d. ago Motorists vent frustration over tailbacks as road dug up just a mile from major roundabout closure

'It feels like we are surrounded by road works at the moment'

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8 d. ago Set up small universities in towns to drive growth, shadow Commons leader says

Jesse Norman called for more universities across the UK in small cities and towns in the face of difficulties faced by the higher education sector.

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9 d. ago UK's longest road which covers 410 miles from London to Scotland

The A1 is the longest road in the UK, spanning around 410 miles from London to Edinburgh in Scotland, and passing through a total of 17 counties on its journey

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9 d. ago The 10 places in Britain where you'll get the biggest garden for your money

Data has revealed the cities and towns where you can get a bigger garden for your money, with Aberdeen named top.

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1 week ago UK's longest road stretches 410 miles and runs through 17 counties

The A1, which is the UK's longest road, covers around 410 miles from London in the south to Edinburgh in Scotland in the north, passing through 17 counties in total

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1 week ago Is Britain breaking international law over Israel to avoid offending Trump? We may find out in court this week | Yasmine Ahmed

The UK’s arms exports to Israel will be tested again as a Palestinian rights group challenges the governmentYasmine Ahmed is UK director of Human Rights WatchOn Tuesday, the British government will be in the high court defending the indefensible: its continuing approval of arms exports to Israel. As the government’s lawyers take the floor to deliver their opening remarks – in a case that was brought by the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq and is supported by Human Rights Watch – thousands of children in Gaza will be starving. This is the result of an Israeli blockade on food, aid and medical supplies that defies the binding orders of the international court of justice.Thousands of mothers will be mourning the children they have lost in an assault on Gaza that is estimated to have cost the lives of more than 50,000 people, according to the Gaza ministry of health. Thousands of people will be homeless, forcibly displaced and living among the rubble of the towns and cities they no...

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1 week ago Charity raises concerns as kids are 'forming romantic attachments to AI bots'

A children's online safety charity has revealed that British children are increasingly bypassing age verification checks to form both sexual and emotional relationships with AI chatbots

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1 week ago Locals in deprived seaside town say 'snobby' neighbours in £800k homes look down at them... despite living just seven miles up the road

EXCLUSIVE: Locals in Frinton, Essex, say the town is thriving, business is booming and it is a world apart from nearby Clacton, which was described by one person as a 's******'.

Economics

2 w. ago Putin's chilling WW3 threat to UK as towns and cities named on 'nuclear hitlist'

The Russian despot has made a number of threats to the UK in the past, with various towns and cities said to be on the list of potential targets in the event of a nuclear attack

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2 w. ago Vladimir Putin's chilling threat to UK as cities on Russia's nuclear 'hitlist' named

A number of towns and cities in the UK are said to be on Vladimir Putin's hitlist of nuclear targets should the despot decide to reach for the red button and declare war on NATO nations

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2 w. ago Brit drives in US for the first time – here’s what surprised her the most

Tati Reed tells The Independent about the ups and downs of her 4,000-mile road trip from Colorado to California via Montana

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2 w. ago Wikipedia challenging UK law it says exposes it to ‘manipulation and vandalism’

Wikimedia Foundation seeks judicial review of some requirements of Online Safety Act it claims may endanger safety of volunteer editorsThe charity that hosts Wikipedia is challenging the UK’s online safety legislation in the high court, saying some of its regulations would expose the site to “manipulation and vandalism”.In what could be the first judicial review related to the Online Safety Act, Wikimedia Foundation claims it is at risk of being subjected to the act’s toughest category 1 duties, which impose additional requirements on the biggest sites and apps. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago British & Irish Lions rugby squad announced for tour of Australia – live

All the latest as Andy Farrell’s 40-strong party is unveiledEmail Niall your thoughts | Sign up for The BreakdownLions szn is officially here. The first Test against Australia in Brisbane is just over a couple of months away, and the curtain-raiser against Argentina in Dublin will be upon us in six weeks’ time.This is the biggest milestone on the road to opening night, as Andy Farrell picks an expected 40-man squad from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales’ finest. It’ll be a career highlight for many players, and a day of great disappointment for others. Continue reading...

Society

2 w. ago Vladimir Putin declares Ukraine ceasefire as he marks 'Victory Day' in Russia

The Russian President has declared a three-day ceasefire in Ukraine, after his forces spent the past few days bombarding Ukrainian cities and towns with missiles and drones

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2 w. ago Mark Twain by Ron Chernow review – the story of America’s first literary celebrity, from the author of Hamilton

A definitive new biography takes in adventures on the Mississippi, racist stereotypes and get-rich-quick schemesIn his lifetime, Mark Twain was the greatest literary celebrity the world had ever known. In the US, he hobnobbed with presidents; on his many travels, he would dine privately with the German kaiser, the Austrian emperor, or the Prince of Wales. Visiting England to collect an honorary degree from Oxford University, he was cheered off his ship by the stevedores of the London docks, before making his way to Windsor Castle for tea with the king and queen.He was the bracing, irreverently humorous voice of America. Like Charles Dickens, whom he heard read from his own work in New York, he became a performer as well as an author. In London he was feted when he read passages from his travelogue of the Wild West, Roughing It. Everyone loved the “twang of his drawl”. He went on to take his work in progress, Huckleberry Finn, round more than 100 American towns and cities, earning ha...

Culture

2 w. ago A roofless palace in Italy's Viterbo hosted the first and longest conclave

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the Catholic Church’s history, forging for the first time the word “conclave.”

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2 w. ago ‘Protest can shape the world’: Rebecca Solnit on the fight back against Trump

Demonstrations against the US president have been underplayed and dismissed, but a lifetime of activism has taught me how powerful collective action can beOn 5 April, millions of people rallied against the Trump administration and its campaigns of destruction. In small towns and big cities from Alaska to Florida, red counties and blue (and a handful of European cities), they gathered with homemade signs full of fury and heartbreak and sarcasm. Yet the “Hands Off” protests received minimal media coverage, and the general response was that they didn’t do anything, because they didn’t have immediate and obvious, and most of all quantifiable, consequences. I’ve heard versions of “no one cares”, “no one is doing anything” and “nothing came of it” for all my activist life. These responses are sometimes a sign that the speaker isn’t really looking and sometimes that they don’t recognise impacts that aren’t immediate, direct or obvious. Tracking those indirect and unhurried impacts, trying ...

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