61 m. ago The Victorian flower making a comeback with British shoppers

The blooms had a hidden meaning in the 19th century

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68 m. ago 'I visited a magical family holiday destination with midnight sun and summer Santa visits'

Lapland is famous for Father Christmas, reindeer and snow, but it's also a great place to visit in the summer, as celebrity and TV writer Elizabeth Cotton discovered.

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89 m. ago Boots launches £40 beauty box with The Ordinary and Caudalie saving shoppers £130

The Beauty Drop Beauty Box is a nine-piece set that is worth £178.40, but Boots is selling it for £40. The haul includes top beauty brands and products

Economics

1 hour ago DC takeover latest: National Guard hit streets of Washington DC as mayor attacks Trump’s ‘authoritarian push’

Troops spotted at armory and Washington Monument as first night of operations for president’s crime crackdown got underway

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1 hour ago Adult star driver nearly killed by psycho pigeon gives horror 'memory loss' update

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Model Mercedes Valentine, 25, smashed her motorbike into a parked car after the winged terror swooped and hit her on the head as she rode home last year, causing a brain injury

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1 hour ago Marcus Rashford hits out at major problems at Man United – 'Transition hasn't started yet!'

Following his loan move to Barcelona, Marcus Rashford has hit out at Manchester United's direction ever since Sir Alex Ferguson retired from management

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2 h. ago 'Politics of envy': Fury as Labour opens the door to an inheritance tax raid on Middle England as ministers fail to deny push to end tax

Dame Diana Johnson, the policing minister, failed to rule out changes to the so-called 'death tax' this autumn amid growing concerns about the state of the public finances.

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2 h. ago DC takeover live: National Guard hit streets of Washington as mayor attacks Trump’s ‘authoritarian push’

Troops spotted at armory and Washington Monument as first night of operations for president’s crime crackdown got underway

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2 h. ago Mysterious illness forces Rag’n’Bone Man to cancel European show hours before taking to the stage

The singer is currently ‘stuck in a hospital bed’ after being struck down by illness before his Lithuanian performance.

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2 h. ago Rag'n'Bone Man shares photograph from his hospital bed in Lithuania as he gives fans update after being forced to cancel show in country at last minute

The singer, 40, whose real name is Rory Graham, had to cancel his concert in Kaunas, Lithuania, on Tuesday just hours before taking to the stage due to illness.

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2 h. ago How hot it will be in Manchester today as UK braces for another heatwave

Parts of the UK are expected to hit 34C as yet another heatwave hits

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3 h. ago After Manchester United hit rock bottom, are the good times finally coming?

A disastrous season left Ruben Amorim under pressure after just months in the job - but a productive summer gives hope of brighter times ahead

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3 h. ago Mapped: Where in the UK are people most at risk from potentially deadly heatwave?

New analysis shows thousands of young children, hospital patients and elderly people at risk as UK hit by fourth heatwave of summer

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3 h. ago Air ambulance lands after boy hit by car on busy Greater Manchester road

Police were called out to the scene

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3 h. ago Zidane, Eusebio, Adams: footballers whose names are also song titles | The Knowledge

Plus: two European ties in the same stadium on one day and the highest opening weekend goals-per-game ratioMail us with your questions and answers“I have just heard CMAT’s song Vincent Kompany because I am cool, young and relevant,” writes the cool, young and relevant Will Unwin. “I was wondering if any other player’s name is the title of a song, beyond simply being referred to?”In this age of streaming, there are many songs online whose titles are the names of footballers, but a few hundred listens here and there doesn’t make them particularly noteworthy. So we have wound back a bit to a time when songs were more commonly created in studios, not bedrooms. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Gaza’s sick children wait in torturous limbo for medical evacuations

For some the only hope is treatment abroad, but not all survive the long, desperate wait for Israel’s approvalAbdel Karim Wahdan no longer has the energy to speak. When visitors arrive, the eight-year-old pretends to be sleeping so that no one looks at him. Between his frequent dialysis sessions, he cries. His bones hurt, he says.Abdel Karim is dying. His death should be preventable but because he lives in Gaza he cannot access the treatment that would save his life. What started as acute kidney failure is now chronic: his small body has begun to swell and he spends his days between hospital beds and injections that he hates. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Temperature control bedding set praised by shoppers for helping them sleep on hot nights

If the heatwave has you tossing and turning at night, this bamboo bedding set could be your sleep saviour

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4 h. ago The last taboo that will save your boring sex life: Your husband will be VERY surprised to hear you suggest it

British relationship expert Tracey Cox reveals how this surprising switch-up can spice things up again in the bedroom.

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4 h. ago Chasing the Dark by Ben Machell review – the original ghostbuster

An entrancing biography of Tony Cornell, who displayed a scientist’s commitment to impartiality as he investigated the paranormalMy first and only experience with a Ouija board occurred when I was 11, at a friend’s house. It was good, spooky fun until it wasn’t. I recall movement and the start of a message before we recoiled from the board. Later that evening, I learned that my grandfather had died. While I realise now that a boy with a terminally ill relative and a lurid imagination was not the most reliable witness, I remember wanting to believe that I’d had a brush with the uncanny.When Times journalist Ben Machell’s dying grandmother bequeathed him a crystal ball, he began idly searching for mediums and happened across the work of a man named Tony Cornell. Between 1952 and 2004, Cornell worked (unpaid and to the detriment of two marriages) for the Society for Psychical Research (SPR). Weeding out deception and delusion from accounts of paranormal activity to find out w...

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4 h. ago Amber warning in place as London basks in third day of heatwave with temperatures set to hit 30C

The capital sizzles in another day of sunshine on Wednesday as the fourth heatwave of the summer continues

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