73 m. ago Cold War bunker goes up for auction near Bristol: ‘Discreetly integrated underground room’

A floor plan shows Room One — the only room

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1 hour ago UK politics live: Starmer considers digital ID cards in crackdown on small boat migrants

Sir Keir Starmer chaired a cabinet meeting as he looked into plans to introduce digital ID cards to tackle illegal immigration

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3 h. ago ‘I was killed in virtually every film’: how trailblazing Chinese

A retrospective at the BFI celebrates how Wong – whether typecast in orientalist fantasies or breaking taboos with a kiss – could always steal the showAnna May Wong is everywhere these days. The chic Chinese-American actor who first made a splash in the silent era has been fictionalised in films and TV shows, including Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood and Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, and an excellent novel, Amanda Lee Koe’s Delayed Rays of a Star. She has her face on the quarter, the first Asian-American to be honoured in that way, and she is the subject of a page-turner of a biography, Not Your China Doll by Katie Gee Salisbury. But what about the films? This month, BFI Southbank in London hosts a retrospective of this remarkable star’s career, titled Anna May Wong: the Art of Reinvention.Wong was born in Los Angeles to second-generation Chinese parents in 1905. At the very beginning of her film career in 1921, she self-consciously told a movie magazine that she was “a considerable spot of ye...

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3 h. ago 'I've had to consider moving my daughter's grave, it's heartbreaking'

The decision to remove all mementos from a church graveyard has left locals shocked and upset

Politics

4 h. ago Community set on buying 'Burke and Hare' kirk 'disgusted' by Church of Scotland's sale process

The community had plans to turn the Midlothian property in a multi-purpose community centre with a cafe, nursery facilities and history tours.

Economics

4 h. ago This digital air compressor has dropped to just £14.98 in Amazon sale

A best-selling car accessory has just dropped in price on Amazon, with the AstroAI digital air compressor now under £15 in a limited-time deal

Economics

5 h. ago ‘You need solidarity and consistency’: Pedro Sánchez on the EU, Trump and fighting the far right

Spanish PM insists ‘migration is an opportunity’ and is not afraid to discuss what he considers Europe’s recent failuresWhen Pedro Sánchez and Keir Starmer meet in Downing Street on Wednesday it will be the first such bilateral summit between a Spanish prime minister and his British counterpart for more than a decade, an interregnum explained by Brexit and the now healed sore of Gibraltar.The absence of highest level diplomacy has become more glaring given the two men are the leading social democratic leaders of Europe, facing similar problems of migration, souring populist parties, the climate crisis and divisions over how to minimise the damage caused to the European global influence by Donald Trump’s erratic unilateralism. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago What age can a child walk to school on their own, according to NSPCC expert

With many parents getting their children ready to go back to school, some will be considering letting their kids walk to school by themselves- but when is the right time to let them go?

Politics

10 h. ago Half of people don't take a wallet out with them anymore as more rely on digital payments

Less than half of Britons consider carrying a physical wallet to be an essential part of their day-to-day routine.

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12 h. ago Tories will challenge Government to rule out property tax hikes

Rachel Reeves is reportedly considering ending the exemption from capital gains tax for more expensive homes.

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12 h. ago Alcaraz finds dominant best to march past Lehecka and into US Open semi

Spaniard cruises to emphatic 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 victoryAlcaraz reaches last four without dropping a setIt took just seven minutes for Carlos Alcaraz to recognise that he was having another one of those days where he could do whatever he wanted with a tennis ball. Up a game point in his opening service game, the Spaniard skipped around the ball from far behind the baseline in his backhand corner and attempted the riskiest shot possible, unleashing a remarkable forehand winner.This would not be the last time that the Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd collectively gasped at Alcaraz’s greatness as he continued to radiate confidence and calm in New York, moving effortlessly into the semi‑finals with a 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 win against Jiri Lehecka. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago The Great British Bake Off airs first exit after brutal drama of collapsed cake

Poor Hassan is the first to go after his Signature looked like it had been 'dropped from a tree' and affected all his other baking efforts in the Channel 4 show's series opener

Events

13 h. ago Dead Man’s Wire review – Gus Van Sant calls the shots with surreal true

Venice film festivalAl Pacino, Colman Domingo and Myha’la excel in this gripping take on the events of 1977 when an Indianapolis businessman held his mortgage broker hostage With terrific chutzpah, black-comic flair and cool, cruel unsentimentality, screenwriter Austin Kolodney and director Gus Van Sant have made a true-crime suspense thriller set in the 1970s, tapping into the spirit of both Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon and Network. Apart from anything else, it is a reminder that in that post-Kennedy, post-Watergate age, plenty of lawless and febrile things happened that would now be considered phenomena purely attributable to social media.In 1977, an Indianapolis businessman named Tony Kiritsis, with many acquaintances in the police department, kidnapped a mortgage broker named Richard Hall, and tied Hall’s neck with a “dead man’s wire” to his shotgun, which would therefore go off if police sharpshooters tried to kill him. Kiritsis even paraded his victim like this on TV while...

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14 h. ago Trump fortune balloons by billions after family firm’s crypto token starts trading

World Liberty Financial’s digital token $WLFI fell in price on first day, a year after launch by Trump family and partnersThe Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture, World Liberty Financial, put its namesake digital tokens up for sale on Monday, adding some $5bn in paper value to Donald Trump’s family fortune. The token, known as $WLFI, fell in value on Monday in their first day of trading.The World Liberty tokens were sold to investors after the Trump family and its business partners last year launched the venture, a decentralized finance platform that has also issued a stablecoin, a cryptocurrency meant to maintain a specific price by tying its value to a specific asset. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Tim Walz will call special legislative session on gun laws in wake of Minneapolis school shooting

Governor Tim Walz plans to call a special session of the Minnesota Legislature to consider tougher gun laws after last week's shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis

Events

15 h. ago Ruthless Red Roses ready to send World Cup message as Australia consider pool permutations

Australia need only a point to join a dominant England in the last eight of the tournament

Politics

15 h. ago Sir Jim Ratcliffe blocked Manchester United transfer for Premier League star

Manchester United were desperate to sign a striker in the summer transfer window and even considered a move for a former player before splashing the cash on a new-look frontline

Sport

16 h. ago Boden's 'flowy' autumn sale dress is 'ideal both for the office and after work'

"It's just great. The dress fits wonderfully, the fabric is flowing. It's ideal for the office but also for after work or coffee dates."

Economics

16 h. ago England bowled out for just 131 in embarrassing first ODI loss to South Africa

England’s chosen XI turned in an error-strewn and incoherent effort at Headingley

Politics

16 h. ago Markram smashes South Africa to big first ODI victory after England collapse

England 131; South Africa 137-3; SA win by seven wicketsSonny Baker endures nightmare debut with ballThey say that if you fail to prepare you should prepare to fail, and it turns out that is what England were doing across the two understaffed days of training with which they launched themselves into this series. They proceeded to get bowled out for 131 in 24.3 overs, losing their last seven wickets for just 29 runs, before Aiden Markram humbled their bowlers in propelling South Africa towards victory by seven wickets, sealed with 175 balls to spare.A week ahead of this match Temba Bavuma’s team were in the middle of a convoluted, lengthy journey from Queensland to Yorkshire via Sydney, Singapore and London. But it was England who looked jetlagged by the less long-distance but more recent whiplash turnaround from the Hundred, in which several squad members, if only two of those selected for this series opener, were engaged 48 hours earlier. In their absence the team’s first training ...

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