15 h. ago Electrician who worked in busy office block for two decades dies aged 66

Andrew Horton's family has launched a civil compensation claim alleging his death was the result of asbestos exposure

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7 d. ago I can knock decades off your biological age and help you shed 3 stone in 3 weeks: Longevity expert DR ASH KAPOOR, 59, reveals the steps he swears by, supplements you must take, and his game

Longevity specialist Dr Ash Kapoor gives his simple daily hacks that he says are going to help him live to 123.

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9 d. ago 'Precious' and 'amazing' man died more than two decades after attacker left him for dead in Cardiff train station

Leon Adams finished his shift at a Cardiff pub one February evening in 2002. He never made it back to his Grangetown home and was found unconscious and covered in blood early the following morning

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9 d. ago Federal judge says she’s ‘inclined’ to block mass layoffs as Trump official estimates 10,000 could be affected – live

Judge Susan Illston says administration has ‘taken advantage of lapse in government functioning’; Russell Vought says his office wants to be ‘very aggressive in shuttering bureaucracy’The far-right US congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is further distancing herself from her fellow Republicans and accusing men in her party of being “weak”.In an interview with the Washington Post, Greene expressed her frustrations with Republicans, signaling her further deviation from the political strategies of her party, as the government shutdown beginning 1 October was slated to enter its third week. Continue reading...

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1 week ago EastEnders Roy Evans actor Tony Caunter dies days after wife of 63 years passed

Soap star Tony Caunter, best known for playing Roy Evans in the BBC series EastEnders, has sadly died just days after his wife of over six decades also passed away

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1 week ago Con artists bought £100m London office block with proceeds from fake 'romance' scam

Con artists bought £100m London office block with proceeds from fake 'romance' scam  Daily Express

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1 week ago Dolly Parton's late husband's will and what he left her revealed amid health

Just a little over a year after her husband of nearly six decades died at the age of 82, it was revealed what he left her in his will.

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2 w. ago Legendary nightclub turned into striking £49m office block where you can work from roof terrace

The new Swansea office block with six-storeys used to be the Oceana nightclub

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2 w. ago Dundee incident: Five workers fall unwell after 'potential hazardous materials incident' at flats

Police officers, firefighters and ambulance staff attended the flat block.

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2 w. ago 'Godfather' of cloning whose work paved the way for Dolly the Sheep decades after he flunked biology class at Eton and was told dreams of becoming a scientist were 'ridiculous' dies aged 92

Sir John Gurdon, who died on Tuesday, won the Nobel Prize for discovering that all body cells have the same gene. His work led to Dolly the Sheep. But at Eton he performed terribly in biology class.

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2 w. ago London skyline set to be transformed after 'jewel like' skyscraper approved for construction in Square Mile

The vacant office block at 130 Fenchurch Street, known as Fountain House, will be demolished to make way for two new high-rise towers at a cost of £300 million

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2 w. ago Man should have died decades ago from condition that tuned his legs rock solid

Remarkably his family are convinced there is no one older in the whole of the UK with the same condition

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3 w. ago Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured

Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori todayMore than 100 years ago, a Māori woman packed up her life as a tour guide and entertainer in New Zealand and set off for England, where she would soon make history by enrolling at Oxford university.In a tragic turn, Mākereti Papakura – believed to be the first woman from an Indigenous community to study at the university – died just weeks before completing her thesis, and in the decades since, her family has fought to have her degree recognised. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Jane Goodall dead UPDATES: Iconic chimpanzee expert passes away on tour aged 91

Primatologist and UN Messenger of Peace and Founder Jane Goodall, known for her ground-breaking studies involving chimpanzees for decades, has died aged 91

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3 w. ago Jane Goodall dead: World's 'top expert on chimpanzees' passes away at 91

Much-loved primatologist and UN Messenger of Peace and Founder Jane Goodall, known for her ground-breaking studies involving chimpanzees for decades, has died aged 91

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3 w. ago Leaky roofs, collapsed walls, mega debts: when Donald Judd, art’s master minimalist, tried architecture

Weary of the New York scene, and keen to focus on architecture, the artist started buying up properties to play with in a tiny Texas town. Trouble was, he couldn’t stop. We take the tour of his Marfa creationsA colossal cliff of green-tinted glass stretches along the side of a railway line, like a minty glacier greeting arriving trains. The glazing shimmers strangely in the light, its surface variously matt and gloss, wrapping offices and atriums together inside a changeable crystal skin. There’s a reason it looks unlike a typical office block – and it’s not just the Swiss precision.Completed in 2000, the facade of Peter Merian Haus in Basel is the largest, and yet perhaps least known, work of Donald Judd, one of the 20th century’s most important minimalist artists. If you have ever pondered a polished aluminium box in an art museum, or encountered a gnomic stack of coloured acrylic rectangles projecting from a wall, they were probably by him. But few realise that Judd’s prolific ou...

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3 w. ago Leaky roofs, collapsed walls, mega debts: when art’s master minimalist Donald Judd tried architecture

Weary of the New York scene, and keen to focus on architecture, the artist started buying up properties to play with in a tiny Texas town. Trouble was, he couldn’t stop. We take the tour of his Marfa creationsA colossal cliff of green-tinted glass stretches along the side of a railway line, like a minty glacier greeting arriving trains. The glazing shimmers strangely in the light, its surface variously matt and gloss, wrapping offices and atriums together inside a changeable crystal skin. There’s a reason it looks unlike a typical office block – and it’s not just the Swiss precision.Completed in 2000, the facade of Peter Merian Haus in Basel is the largest, and yet perhaps least known, work of Donald Judd, one of the 20th century’s most important minimalist artists. If you have ever pondered a polished aluminium box in an art museum, or encountered a gnomic stack of coloured acrylic rectangles projecting from a wall, they were probably by him. But few realise that Judd’s prolific ou...

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3 w. ago London's ancient relics dating back centuries... now surrounded by towering glass skyscrapers

Dramatic photos showed the tower of All Hallows Staining Church balanced on stilts to preserve it as a new office block is built, but it is far from the only example of old London surrounded by the new.

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4 w. ago The bloody history of church 'saved' by expert engineering, including fishmonger who met nasty end and a woman beaten to death

Photos yesterday showed how the tower of All Hallows Staining has been balanced 45 feet above the ground as part of an ongoing office block development.

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