19 m. ago Police 'missed opportunity' to arrest gun thug before he murdered innocent man

Mikey Rainsford, 20, was shot dead by brothers Michael and James Foy at his home in Litherland in April 2020 in a revenge attack for something he had nothing to do with

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22 m. ago Solar farm at Merthyr school gets the go ahead from councillors

The plans say it will provide electricity to local schools as well as Prince Charles Hospital

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23 m. ago Ministers deny handing Donald Trump's White House a 'veto' over Chinese investment in the UK in the terms of new US trade deal

Darren Jones said reports that the White House would be able to block sources of foreign cash were 'nonsense', the day after Sir Keir Starmer and the president announced a tariff-reduction agreement.

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40 m. ago Boy, 5, 'beaten to death with belt' after uncle sees low grades on school report

James Alberto Caicedo, 38, beat his nephew Yosuar Smith Cabrera, 5, to death as punishment for receiving low grades in school. Yosuar was pronounced dead as soon as he arrived to the hospital

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70 m. ago Putin and Xi defy Trump's attempts to drive them apart with show of unity at Moscow Victory Day parade

The Russian and Chinese leaders nestled side-by-side to watch the parade in a show of unity after they issued a statement yesterday condemning Trump 's plan for a missile defence system

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1 hour ago Trinity High win visit from Scotland’s most decorated Olympian Duncan Scott

The Eco Club at the school won Scottish Water’s 2025 Making Waves Challenge.

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2 h. ago ‘Rethink it all!’ Why is one Danish school producing nearly every cool alt

Copenhagen’s Rhythmic Music Conservatory finds common ground between Ella Fitzgerald and Charli xcx – and its free-thinking alumni are thriving. We go on a tour to see what’s in the water there (aside from shipwrecks)Before she was getting DMs from Dua Lipa and minting K-pop hits, and long before yesterday’s surprise release of her sumptuous fourth album, Erika de Casier was a nervous student in her 20s debating what to wear on her first day.It was 2019, her debut album Essentials had come out that year and received critical acclaim. But at Copenhagen’s Rhythmic Music Conservatory (RMC), that was by the by. “In Denmark, it’s incorporated in our way of being: everybody is so humble,” says the Portuguese musician. “It wasn’t like I went to school and people were like ” She makes an exaggerated starstruck face. “That would be crazy. It was just, ‘Oh, congrats. I heard the new album. Sounds great.’” Continue reading...

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3 h. ago London borough hit by two more primary school closures as cost of living drives families out of capital

Southwark’s Charlotte Sharman and St Mary Magdalene schools are set to close on August 31

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4 h. ago Daughter of 'mushroom poisoner' reveals what mum told her before fatal lunch that killed three

Erin Patterson has denied deliberately poisoning a beef wellington in an attempt to kill four members of Simon Patterson’s family in Victoria, Australia

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4 h. ago 'My entitled neighbour is constantly parks across my driveway and I've had enough'

A man was left seething with his neighbours after they repeatedly blocked his garage by parking on his driveway and using it to their hearts content without even asking him was it okay

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5 h. ago Daughter says mom 'gave me life twice' with kidney donation as pair graduate nursing school together

Two years after a Louisiana mother donated her kidney to her daughter, the duo graduated together from nursing school

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6 h. ago Mum left fearing for baby's life when he was rushed to another hospital straight after birth

Baby David was flown to a different hospital but his distraught mum could not go with him.

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6 h. ago Tragedy as high school lacrosse star dies at 16 after 'being struck in the back of the head'

Dylan Veselic, a sophomore at Bay High School near Cleveland, was reportedly rushed to the hospital in an ambulance before being flown by helicopter to another center.

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7 h. ago Martin Lews warns drivers to make crucial check to avoid costly test drive mistake

Martin Lewis has issued an important warning to anyone planning to test drive a car - and it's something many drivers may not be aware of

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7 h. ago Martin Lewis warns drivers to make crucial check to avoid costly test drive mistake

Martin Lewis has issued an important warning to anyone planning to test drive a car - and it's something many drivers may not be aware of

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8 h. ago Chicago reacts to hometown Pope Leo: ‘Like the Cubs winning the World Series’

Residents – Catholic and non-Catholic – celebrate a ‘moment of joy’ as native son Robert Prevost becomes new pontiffAs white smoke billowed from the Vatican in Rome, yellow papal flags whipped in the crisp Lake Michigan breeze in front of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy on Chicago’s North Side.Screams of “Habemus Papam!” echoed throughout the cafeteria at the Catholic school on Thursday afternoon, when news broke that Chicago’s Robert Prevost had become Pope Leo XIV. Continue reading...

Culture

8 h. ago PETER HOSKIN reviews: Revenge Of The Savage Planet: Why bigger may not be better for the Savage Planet series

PETER HOSKIN: At the start of Revenge Of The Savage Planet, your undauntable astronaut is quite literally dumped on a faraway world full of fluorescent plants and weirdo creatures.

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9 h. ago Breakthrough made in cold case of California school teacher whose remains were found 100 miles apart

The first break in Kay Adams case occurred when the killer sent police a package containing some of teacher’s skeletal remains

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10 h. ago Teaching apprenticeships shortened to get more teachers into classroom sooner

The change comes after Labour pledged to recruit an additional 6,500 new expert teachers over the course of its five-year parliamentary term.

Society

10 h. ago Schoolgirls in Wales report problematic social media use double that of boys

Data came from the 2023 The School Health Research Network student health and wellbeing secondary school survey.

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