5 h. ago Migrants expected to face tougher English standards and longer residency waits

An immigration White Paper due to be published next week is expected to set out the reforms, media reports have suggested.

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8 h. ago Mum who needed emergency heart transplant vows to 'live best life' in honour of donor

Her condition was so severe that she was placed at the top of the UK's super-urgent heart transplant waiting list

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10 h. ago India and Pakistan need dialogue and trade, not nuclear brinkmanship

Editorial: A hot war between powerful neighbours is such an appalling prospect that the international community must energetically pursue all alternatives

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10 h. ago Alphabet shares slide as Apple seeks AI alternatives to Google search

Senior executive says tech group is looking at start-up options for iPhone and Safari browser

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11 h. ago Duchess Sophie stuns in florals at Buckingham Palace garden party

The Duchess of Edinburgh exuded elegance as she stepped out for the first Buckingham Palace garden party of the year.

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14 h. ago Town overrun by 75,000 tourists sparking 'gridlock' as sightseers wait 'hours'

Sightseers were reportedly left waiting 40 minutes just to make it through the town centre gates as vast crowds 'overran' the area - with around 75,000 visitors reported to have landed on the resort

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15 h. ago Coronation Street's Colson Smith teases move to 'big' BBC show after ITV soap farewell

Colson Smith, the face behind Craig Tinker, is set to leave Coronation Street in the coming weeks, but has claimed he is "waiting to hear back" from one drama for which he auditioned

Culture

16 h. ago Done waiting for Bloodborne? This excellent PS5 alternative is 34% off

Lies of P is a fantastic Soulslike that's seen a steep discount at Amazon right now on PS5 — here's why it's worth your time if you're fed up of the wait for more Bloodborne

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17 h. ago Real Betis confirm Antony transfer plan and send message to Manchester United

Antony has excelled on loan at Real Betis since arriving from Man United in the January transfer window.

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17 h. ago You are the head coach: Guardian writers choose their own Lions squads

We asked our rugby experts to elbow Andy Farrell aside and install themselves as the man in charge. This is who they picked and whyBuild the team around The majority of my spine players come in the pack. In some areas the leading candidate is a cut above the rest and none more so than Dan Sheehan at hooker. He’s nailed on as first choice. I’d put Maro Itoje in that bracket too and, due to lack of alternatives, I would’ve had Caelan Doris before news of his shoulder injury emerged. Perhaps the most important player is the one back I’ve selected in this category, however. Jamison Gibson-Park has been so exceptionally consistent and is someone you can look to build around. You build a team around your players of influence and, for me, they are Sheehan, Itoje and Gibson-Park. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Amazon slashes £500 off 'excellent quality' UHD 4K TV that's 'good for gaming'

The TV is almost half price and boasts 4K ultra HD, perfect for high-powered games and home cinema experiences

Economics

18 h. ago Cruden Group celebrates four shortlistings at 2025 Scottish Home Awards

Five star Scottish homebuilder Cruden Group has received four shortlist nominations at the prestigious 2025 Scottish Home Awards, highlighting the group's continued excellence across private and affordable housing developments.

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19 h. ago The world waits for white smoke: Cardinals prepare for first vote on new Pope TODAY with prayers in the Vatican ahead of sealing themselves off from the outside world for secretive conclave

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday begin the secretive, centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope Francis

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19 h. ago Boots' 'excellent' £10 after sun 'prolongs tan' and 'gives skin golden glow'

Boots has discounted the 'moisturising' lotion that 'prolongs your tan' from £27 to £10

Economics

20 h. ago Celtic vs Hibs injury news: 5 out and 2 doubts as Brendan Rodgers faces wait over key man at Celtic Park

Here is the latest team news ahead of Celtic v Hibs in the Scottish Premiership at Celtic Park on Saturday.

Events

20 h. ago Riefenstahl review – nauseating yet gripping story of Nazi poster woman

The only important woman in the Nazi movement entranced Hitler, directed Triumph of the Will – and spent the rest of her life alternately fearful and defiantAndres Veiel’s sombre documentary tells the gripping, incrementally nauseating story of Helene “Leni” Riefenstahl, the brilliant and pioneering German film-maker of the 20th century who isn’t getting her name on a Girls on Tops T-shirt any time soon.Riefenstahl was a dancer and actor in prewar movies by Arnold Fanck and GW Pabst, whose performance in 1932 in The Blue Light, her own Aryan romantic fantasy as director-star, entranced the Führer and secured her two historic directing commissions: Triumph of the Will in 1935, a monumentally euphoric and grandiose account of the Nazi party congress in Nuremberg, and Olympia, about the 1936 Berlin Games, with whose undoubtedly stunning images and choreography Riefenstahl effectively invented the modern-day Olympics with its opening and closing ceremonies and media coverage. Continue r...

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20 h. ago Chelsea may have to wait until 2042 for a new stadium, owner Todd Boehly admits, as board member breaks rank to suggest: 'I don't know if it's going to happen'

The issue of a new stadium for the west London club has been a discussion point for some time now, with the English giants' home of Stamford Bridge arguably falling behind their rivals'.

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22 h. ago The Names by Florence Knapp – the verdict on spring’s hottest debut

In this strikingly assured sliding doors tale, three alternate narratives unfold, showing how the choice of a name influences a lifeWhat’s in a name? More than Shakespeare might have led us to believe, according to research. Ever since 1985, when a study found that people tend to prefer the letters of their own initials over the other letters of the alphabet, research has confirmed the name-letter effect, proving that not only do consumers favour brands matching their initials, they are actually more likely to donate to relief efforts for a natural disaster such as a hurricane if they share an initial with that disaster. How far the name-letter effect influences our bigger life decisions – where we live, our choices of career or life partner – remains contentious, but there are clear indicators that, far from serving simply as identifiers, the names we are given at birth have the power to influence our psychological, social and economic outcomes.Florence Knapp’s strikingly assu...

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24 h. ago Louise Haigh says Labour’s ‘unpopular decisions overshadowing the good ones’

Ms Haigh said Labour should ‘properly explore’ a tax on the wealthy as an alternative to ‘cutting money from the people who can least afford it’.

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24 h. ago ‘The crux of all evil’: what happened to the first city that tried to ban smartphones for under

It’s a year since teachers in St Albans asked parents not to give younger children smartphones. How successful have they been? What do the kids think about it? And has it made the adults think about their own ‘addiction’?At 3.12pm on a sunny spring afternoon in St Albans, Yasser Afghen reaches for the iPhone in his jeans pocket, hoping to use the three minutes before his son emerges from his year 1 primary class to scroll through his emails. As he lifts the phone to his face, Matthew Tavender, the head teacher of Cunningham Hill school, strides across the playground towards him. Afghen smiles apologetically, puts his phone away, and spends the remaining waiting time listening to the birdsong in the trees behind the school yard.A one-storey 1960s block with 14 classrooms backing on to a playing field, Cunningham Hill primary feels like an unlikely hub for a revolution. But a year ago, Tavender and the school’s executive head, Justine Elbourne-Cload, began coordinating with the heads ...

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