6 h. ago Developers building skyscrapers on Diecast site 'expected' to include affordable flats

A development blueprint to build 1,400 new homes, ‘significant’ hotel space, and a permanent home for Diecast where the venue currently sits is now out for public feedback

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53 h. ago Liverpool transfer news: Reds learn star's £51m asking price as Luis Diaz makes admission

Liverpool players report back to the club's training centre on Tuesday including their new summers signings with more arrivals and departures expected

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4 d. ago The 5 best Ikea hacks to turn basic furniture buys into stunning designer dupes, whatever your DIY level

IKEA furniture is the holy grail of budget decorating: functional, affordable, and of course, flat-packed.

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5 d. ago Hundreds more flights cancelled on Friday in air traffic control strike

Expect disruption on multiple airlines including Ryanair and easyJet, and in countries including France, Spain and Greece

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1 week ago UK scientists to synthesise human genome to learn more about how DNA works

Five-year SynHG project aims to pave way for next generation of medical therapies and treatment of diseasesResearchers are embarking on an ambitious project to construct human genetic material from scratch to learn more about how DNA works and pave the way for the next generation of medical therapies.Scientists on the Synthetic Human Genome (SynHG) project will spend the next five years developing the tools and knowhow to build long sections of human genetic code in the lab. These will be inserted into living cells to understand how the code operates. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Steam Summer Sale 2025 start time: Here's when huge PC games go on sale as first discounts arrive

We hope your payday has been and gone, because you're bound to find something tempting in the Steam Summer Sale - here's what to expect, including that all important start time

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1 week ago Glastonbury gates open as festivalgoers descend for politically charged event

More than 200,000 people expected at Worthy Farm for lineup including Olivia Rodrigo and Irish band KneecapThe gates to Glastonbury festival have opened for 2025 with more than 200,000 ticket-holders set to descend for a long weekend of performing arts and music.In what promises to be a politically charged gathering at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, campers can expect a mixed bag of sunshine and rain throughout the week. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Guests including Ivanka Trump arrive in Venice for divisive Jeff Bezos wedding

Nuptials of Amazon founder and Lauren Sánchez to kick off on Thursday as activists continue to protest eventScores of celebrities and members of the world’s super-rich are arriving in Venice aboard private jets and mega-yachts to celebrate the wedding of Jeff Bezos, the billionaire Amazon founder, and Lauren Sánchez, a former TV journalist.In a three-day jamboree dubbed the “wedding of the century” and rumoured to include pyjama parties and elegant dinners, the divisive event is expected to see more than 90 private jets land in the Italian city before celebrations officially begin on Thursday. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump is angry with a world that won't give him easy deals | Rafael Behr

In the Middle East as in Ukraine, the president is discovering that simple bullying tricks don’t resolve complex international crisesIt was as close as Donald Trump might get to a lucid statement of his governing doctrine. “I may do it. I may not do it,” the president said to reporters on the White House lawn. “Nobody knows what I’m going to do.”The question was about joining Israeli air strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Days later, US bombers were on their way. Some expected it to happen. Others, including Keir Starmer, had gone on record to say they didn’t. No one had known. The unpredictability doctrine wouldn’t have been violated either way.Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Everything we know about EA FC 26 – expected release date and leaks including new FUT Heroes

EA FC 26 will be the next EA Sports FC game to be released, with the game projected to drop in a few months.

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3 w. ago New London tower block 'UK first' is being built for women only

Brook House has offered housing in Acton, west London, for more than 90 years but a fresh rebuild has created 102 'genuinely affordable' social rented flats in the block.

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3 w. ago Is THIS the world's most stubborn homeowner? Man refuses to leave home as developer demolishes neighbours' houses... and builds 10 storey pyramid instead

Most of Chen Tianming's village was razed in 2018 to build a lucrative tourist resort but the 42-year-old refused to leave - instead began building his own 10-storey tower.

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3 w. ago Gardeners advised to get rid of misleading weed in June which looks like pretty flower

Gardening experts have issued a warning this month regarding weeds you can expect to see in June, including one which creates attractive flowers.

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3 w. ago Women’s prize winner Yael van der Wouden: ‘It’s heartbreaking to see so much hatred towards queer people’

The winner of this year’s fiction prize on growing up as an outsider, why we’re all guilty of complicity, and using her acceptance speech to reveal that she is intersexIt has been a dramatic couple of years for 37-year-old Dutch author Yael van der Wouden: her first novel, The Safekeep, a love story that deals with the legacy of the Holocaust in the Netherlands, was the focus of a frenzied bidding war and shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. Last night it won the Women’s prize for fiction.“I wrote this book from a place of hopelessness,” she says when we meet. “I was looking for a ray of sunshine.” This morning in London the sun is blazing. She could never have expected that her novel would see off shortlisted authors including Miranda July (of whose work she is a big fan) and Elizabeth Strout. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Controversial plan to build new homes on greenbelt land near Airdrie kicked out by councillors

The massive Orchard Brae development, which proposed to build almost 1000 new homes on the Europark site, adjacent to Eurocentral, went before councillors on Thursday.

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3 w. ago NHS Dumfries and Galloway predicts budget burst of £28 million in 2025/26 financial year

The overspend is down from the £33.6 million previously expected and includes £21.7 million of cuts.

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3 w. ago First Job, first flat: Data reveals Dundee is an affordable UK city for New graduates

Many fresh grads are finding their first paycheques swallowed whole by sky-high rent. Moving Expert reveals which cities have the most affordable rent.

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4 w. ago Meta is looking to build an AI lab to develop ‘superintelligence’

Mark Zuckerberg’s company is spending billions on AI infrastructure projects

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4 w. ago Trooping the Colour 2025: King Charles' to 'skip' birthday parade tradition

With King Charles' official birthday celebrations set to kick off on Saturday, here's everything you need to know about Trooping the Colour 2025 - including what royals are expected to attend, how to watch, and where the longstanding tradition comes from

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