63 m. ago Oscar winner Brenda Fricker says she’s having a ‘dreadful death’

‘I’m just dying – every day in pain,’ the ‘Home Alone 2’ actor said

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2 h. ago Melania Trump's 'optical illusion' dress sparks huge online debate over unusual colour

At the state banquet at Windsor Castle last night, President Trump was welcomed to the UK by the King and Queen - but the internet's attention has been on Melania Trump's divisive gown

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2 h. ago Brits get 'buzz' from shopping when they save this exact amount, study finds

A recent poll shows just how much Brits love a bargain. But it turns out they're most likely to get excited about saving this exact amount.

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3 h. ago Divisive treatment provides relief for back pain in groundbreaking study

Lower back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide

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3 h. ago Melania's 'optical illusion' belt and dress combo sparks unprecedented division. So what color do YOU think it is? We reveal the truth

Melania Trump turned heads as she attended a state banquet at Windsor Castle in a yellow, off-the-shoulder gown on Wednesday evening.

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3 h. ago From chronic pain to the catwalk — how Jean Campbell became the darling of London Fashion Week

At one point the model couldn’t walk, let alone strut down a catwalk — now she balances superstardom with a chronic condition and, through her hit podcast I’m Fine, inspires others to face their fears too

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4 h. ago Oscar winner Brenda Fricker having ‘dreadful death’ after painful health problem

‘I’m just dying – every day in pain,’ the ‘Home Alone 2’ actor said

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4 h. ago Novo Nordisk shares shoot up amid promising results for anti

Stock climbs above £6.5bn in early trading as trial shows ‘significant weight loss’ for pill version of WegovyBusiness live – latest updatesThe value of the drugmaker Novo Nordisk has shot up by more than £6.5bn after research showed its new anti-obesity pill resulted in almost as much weight loss as its Wegovy jab, as it races against its US rival Eli Lilly to get a tablet treatment to market.Stock in the Danish company climbed by more than 4.5% on Thursday morning on hopes it could claw back market share lost to Eli Lilly and cheaper generic versions of GLP-1 drugs. Shares have fallen nearly 60% in the past year as sales slowed. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Dementia warning as risk '40pc higher' if you have this sleep problem says study

A study of 2,750 adults linked it with an increased risk of dementia

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4 h. ago From Benedict Cumberbatch and Florence Pugh to Yara Eid and Mehdi Hasan: key speeches from star

Concert raises £1.5m for humanitarian relief efforts in Gaza

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4 h. ago New study reveals whether your sunscreen is impacting your vitamin D levels

Vitamin D supplements are recommended in some cases. Here’s what to know

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5 h. ago Electric shock therapy 'steals mum's memories' as grim NHS treatment 'never fit for purpose'

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) passes a small electrical current through the brain to induce a quick seizure under general anaesthetic

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5 h. ago Starmer and Trump’s ‘special relationship’ could unravel over these divisive issues

As Trump heads to Chequers, political editor David Maddox says Starmer needs a diplomatic success to bolster his own position at home – but he’ll have to sidestep several other issues first

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5 h. ago Southport killer's brother speaks out after Rudakubana's horrific crimes

Dion Rudakubana has spoken publicly for the first time, acknowledging the "immense pain" caused by his killer brother.

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5 h. ago Brother of Southport killer Axel Rudakubana speaks publicly for first time

Dion Rudakubana has acknowledging the 'immense pain' caused by his killer brother

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6 h. ago Student success rates at Dumfries and Galloway College highlight quality of learning

Dumfries and Galloway College (DGC) has achieved an impressive set of results in the latest Performance Indicators report for academic year 2023–24, which show that students across the institution are successfully gaining qualifications and progressing confidently into further study or employment.

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6 h. ago Ghost Trail review – pain and paranoia as a Syrian refugee attempts to track down his torturer

Jonathan Millet makes his fiction feature debut with an ambitious slow-burn thriller that opens up a complex world of painThe face of a Syrian refugee is the enigmatic key to this slow-burning drama-thriller, the fiction feature debut of French film-maker Jonathan Millet; it is hard, blank, withdrawn, yet showing us an inexpressible agony, a suppressed, unprocessed trauma, complicated by what is evidently a new strategic wariness. The refugee is Hamid (played by Adam Bessa), a former literature professor from Aleppo who is now in Strasbourg in France in 2016, having suffered torture in Damascus’s notorious Sednaya prison, and the killing of his wife and infant daughter.Hamid asks expatriate Syrians if they know a certain man, showing them a hazy photograph, claiming that this is his cousin. In fact, it is a man who tortured him and Hamid is a member of a ring dedicated to tracking down Syrian war criminals all over Europe. Haunted, exhausted and unhappy, Hamid’s only real relationsh...

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7 h. ago Vuelta chaos shows selling sport as a tool for peace can create its own battlefield | Jonathan Liew

Once teams promote a country, are owned by states or have to reflect government policy, sport becomes a playground for powerHigh fives all round at Hamas high command. The triumphant clink of Gaza Cola tins pings across the bunker. It’s been a tough week for the lads, what with five of their members being killed in the Doha airstrike, but you’ve got to celebrate the little victories, yeah? And as they use what remains of their fragile satellite internet connection to refresh the Cyclingnews live blog for the final time, the Hamas Grand Tour Disruption Division (Vuelta Branch) can toast an operation executed to perfection: the successful mobilisation of more than 100,000 members of the Madrid battalion to force the curtailment of stage 21 of the Tour of Spain.“They asked us to quit the Vuelta, but we did not surrender to the terrorists,” said Sylvan Adams, co‑owner of the Israel-Premier Tech team targeted by mass protests that disrupted several stages. O...

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7 h. ago After quitting the US, Britain seemed like a sanctuary from Trump’s Maga movement. Now I wonder, for how long? | Emma Brockes

I was the envy of the friends I’d left behind. Now it seems prudent to assess how much that nativism will truly take root hereThis time last year, I had just moved back to Britain from the US and was enjoying the almost universal envy of American friends. While they were looking down the barrel of a second Trump presidency with its guarantee of chaos and division, we had elected Keir Starmer by a landslide and were feeling pretty pleased with ourselves. I remember people congratulating me on the prescience of my move, which I absolutely took even though politics hadn’t been part of my decision (not least because, for most of 2024, I had assumed Trump would lose). Anyway, here we are a year later and who’s laughing now?I guess the answer to that is Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party, which has somehow managed to harness the anger, disappointment and shame felt by large numbers of people who voted for and were then let down by Brexit, and are now in search of another fire to light. ...

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7 h. ago I quit the US and Britain seemed like a sanctuary from Trump’s Maga movement. Now I wonder, for how long | Emma Brockes

I was the envy of the friends I’d left behind. Now it seems prudent to assess how much that nativism will truly take root hereThis time last year, I had just moved back to Britain from the US and was enjoying the almost universal envy of American friends. While they were looking down the barrel of a second Trump presidency with its guarantee of chaos and division, we had elected Keir Starmer by a landslide and were feeling pretty pleased with ourselves. I remember people congratulating me on the prescience of my move, which I absolutely took even though politics hadn’t been part of my decision (not least because, for most of 2024, I had assumed Trump would lose). Anyway, here we are a year later and who’s laughing now?I guess the answer to that is Nigel Farage and his Reform UK party, which has somehow managed to harness the anger, disappointment and shame felt by large numbers of people who voted for and were then let down by Brexit, and are now in search of another fire to light. ...

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