4 h. ago 'I'm haunted by faces of people we abandoned in icy sea after their boat was blown apart'

Royal Marines veteran Alan Jukes, 101 shared his wartime memories of the worst day of his life - having to leave his fellow British seaman to perish during the Atlantic convoys

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8 h. ago Cholera signs and treatment as cases in Europe linked to holy water imported from Ethiopia

A multi-drug resistant strain has been identified in the UK

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16 h. ago Inside sickening crimes of 'Britain's most dangerous' inmate as he leaves 'glass cage'

Quadruple killer Robert Maudsley, once dubbed "Britain’s most dangerous prisoner", has been moved from his glass cage after 46 years in solitary confinement. Here we revisit his heinous crimes

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28 h. ago Brighton’s Carlos Baleba: ‘My dad said if I learn acrobatics it will help my timing’

Midfielder on overcoming Premier League nerves, adapting while grieving for his mum and what shaped his work ethicNot much fazes Carlos Baleba. The Brighton midfielder likes to spend his spare time watching horror films – “they don’t scare me; nothing has ever scared me” – or even dancing on his own to Mbolé music from his native Cameroon. “Sometimes I need to move my body,” Baleba says with a smirk.Thanks to a strict training regime that he began at the age of 10 under the watchful eye of his father, Eugene, Baleba has developed into one of the Premier League’s most imposing figures. The 21-year-old is tipped to become the latest big-money transfer to leave Brighton after Moisés Caicedo was sold to Chelsea for a British record £115m in the summer of 2023. Continue reading...

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56 h. ago Pension Credit rules older people need to know before going on holiday this year

Over 1.4 million people on Pension Credit should tell the DWP if they plan to leave mainland Britain for any reason.

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56 h. ago Pension Credit payment rules people should know before going on holiday this year

Over 1.4 million people on Pension Credit should tell the DWP if they plan to leave mainland Britain for any reason.

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2 d. ago Deadly Victorian disease in contaminated 'holy water' leaves Brits in hospital

Brit tourists have brought back cholera to the UK after catching the deadly bacterial disease from holy water which was bottled from the sacred Bermel Giorgis well in Ethiopia

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3 d. ago DWP to overhaul major benefit leaving millions of Brits worse off

The DWP is to overhaul how it checks breaches of Carer's Allowance rules - but claimants have been warned the scandal "is not over", despite the DWP moving to clean up Carer's Allowance

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3 d. ago Stunning aurora borealis geomagnetic storm leaves Brits 'a bit emotional'

Conditions for an aurora borealis geomagnetic storm - otherwise known as the Northern Lights - were expected to be optimum throughout Tuesday night, the Met Office said

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4 d. ago Keir Starmer facing claims of Brexit 'betrayal' as PM 'could align with Brussels rules on meat and dairy and accept rulings of EU judges'

Furious Brexiteers are warning the Prime Minister against leaving Britain as a 'rule-taker' in his ongoing negotiations with the EU.

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6 d. ago Britain's Got Talent viewers name 'winner' after performance leaves them with 'goosebumps'

Viewers have been heaping praise on the performer on social media

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6 d. ago Chinese executives 'tried to enter key areas' of British Steel plant hours before crunch debate that could bring furnace under government control

Police were called to the scene and forced bosses of British Steel owners Jingye to leave after they were prevented from accessing core areas of the plant, according to The Times.

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9 d. ago Thousands of Brits face holiday cancellations as major company goes into administration

A major travel company, which also operated under several different names, has been plunged into administration after 25 years – leaving some Brits at risk of holiday cancellation

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2 w. ago I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do itJust before the graphic artist Rebecca Burke left Seattle to travel to Vancouver, Canada, on 26 February, she posted an image of a rough comic to Instagram. “One part of travelling that I love is seeing glimpses of other lives,” read the bubble in the first panel, above sketches of cosy homes: crossword puzzle books, house plants, a lit candle, a steaming kettle on a gas stove. Burke had seen plenty of glimpses of other lives over the six weeks she had been backpacking in the US. She had been travelling on her own, staying on homestays free of charge in exchange for doing household chores, drawing as she went. For Burke, 28, it was absolute freedom.Within hours of posting that drawing, Burke got to see a much darker side of life in America, and f...

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2 w. ago Is this Britain's most stupid burglar? Career criminal caught after leaving telltale item in student house he raided

Bungling Barry Lowery handed police the golden opportunity to catch him. He has robbed dozens of student houses in of Durham over the last 31 years, so was already a prime suspect.

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2 w. ago REAL BRITAIN 'I tried to kill myself after son's birth sparked debt

As tomorrow marks the 22nd anniversary of Labour’s introduction of Statutory Paternity Leave, this week Real Britain talks to fathers about paternity pay and shared leave

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2 w. ago Grand National 2025: 'Bad boy' horse Mr Incredible banned despite having counselling

Mr Incredible will not be in the Grand National at Aintree after he was banned by the British Horseracing Authority for his unruly behaviour - leaving both his owner and trainer "devastated"

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2 w. ago 'Bad boy' horse Mr Incredible banned from Grand National – despite counselling

Mr Incredible will not be in the Grand National at Aintree after he was banned by the British Horseracing Authority for his unruly behaviour - leaving both his owner and trainer "devastated"

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2 w. ago British tennis star collapses during her match and leaves court in a wheelchair in concerning scenes in Colombia

British tennis star Fran Jones had to be taken off court in a wheelchair after collapsing in the final set of her match in Colombia on Tuesday night.

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2 w. ago Urgent search for Brit dad seen 'suddenly leaving boarding queue' at airport after Benidorm stag do

Spanish police have launched an urgent search for Jason Taylor, 36, after he failed to catch a return flight home to Birmingham, with his family flying to Benidorm to aid the search

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