2 h. ago Live and work on a remote Scottish island with less than 20 residents this summer

A rare chance has opened up to spend summer 2025 working in one of the country's most special places

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4 h. ago Australia sees nearly 40% decline in plastic pollution along major city coastlines

Country has pledged to phase out unnecessary plastics by 2025 and recycle or reuse all its plastic waste by 2040

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24 h. ago UK rocked by 57th earthquake of the year as seismic activity ramps up across country

Experts from the British Geological Society has recorded another earthquake in the United Kingdom, which would be the 57th to strike the country since the start of 2025

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25 h. ago UK to sizzle in 22C heatwave as country gears up for first BBQ boom of 2025

With temperatures set to hit 22C this weekend, making the UK hotter than the Algarve, Brits are naturally gearing up for a big BBQ bonanza, with more than a million burgers and sausages set to be bought

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30 h. ago Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Ninja Tune)After losing their frontman, the band’s third studio album shows how resilient and adaptable they are, with luscious melodies, fantastical lyrics and lots of recordersThe last time Black Country, New Road released a studio album, in 2022, it was accompanied by a strange feeling. Their debut the previous year had reached No 4 in the UK charts, and Ants from Up There was an even greater breakthrough, the sound of the UK septet pulling confidently away from the serried ranks of sprechgesang-heavy alt-rock bands who proliferated in the late 2010s. But there was an elegiac feeling around its release: Black Country, New Road’s frontman, Isaac Wood, had announced his departure four days prior. The others had resolved to continue without him, but given how distinctive Wood’s declarative, ruminating vocals were, many thought the band’s future was uncertain at best.That proved to be an underestimation. Instead of touring Ants from Up There, the remaining members stopped playing an...

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3 d. ago Travel trade event brings new global opportunities for Lanarkshire businesses

VisitScotland Connect 2025 is designed to increase the country’s share of global travel in a sustainable way, supporting the economic growth of one of Scotland’s most valuable industries.

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5 d. ago ‘People have walked through here for centuries’: the rhythms of the Welsh valleys in pictures

The beautiful and hardy herds of the Welsh valleys act as a counterpoint to three decades of change in photographer Ken Grant’s imagesKen Grant’s Cwm: A Fair Country, a collection of nearly 30 years of landscape photography in the South Walian valleys, begins with a moving prologue. It mentions a painting he’s known since his Liverpudlian childhood, still sitting above his 92-year-old father’s mantelpiece: “Dapple-bruised Welsh horses, painted in a loose herd, are imagined beneath a sky that promises rain.”From 1998, on commutes from Liverpool to the University of Wales, Newport (where he led a documentary photography degree), he noticed similar horses – completely by coincidence. “I didn’t seek them out at first, but on my drives, I soon got aware that they were there. Sometimes up a valley’s road, you’d see packs of 40 or 50.” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago The city with '300 days of sun', pints for under a fiver and £14.99 flights from Manchester Airport

It's the latest route from Manchester Airport to one of the world's most in-demand holiday destinations

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8 d. ago Ella Langley leads 2025 ACM Awards nominations. Beyoncé and Miranda Lambert are shut out

Ella Langley leads the nominees for the 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards with eight nods to her name

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8 d. ago Europe's cheapest country for 2025 with pints for less than £2 and £28 flights

Bulgaria has been named the cheapest country in Europe for Brits to visit in 2025 - with pints for less than £2 and return flights for under £30

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9 d. ago Review – C2C Country to Country Festival 2025 Indigo at the O2

Review – C2C Country to Country Festival 2025 Indigo at the O2  Seen in the City

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1 week ago Experts reveals where to travel for the cheapest booze as wine is less than £4

This surprising destination is touted as the cheapest in Europe, with bottles of wine for under £4 , and flights from just £15 a day – holidaymakers can enjoy the sun on a budget

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1 week ago The ‘paradise’ European country named best to visit in 2025 with direct flights from Manchester Airport

This destination offers holidaymakers 'pristine coastlines' and 'over 1,000 dreamlike islands'

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1 week ago The 'new Croatia' that's perfect for a cheap holiday and is just as beautiful

The eastern European country is currently one of the cheapest options when it comes to the costs of flights, a three-course meal and a beer

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2 w. ago Incredible European seaside city named one of the cheapest places to visit in 2025

A new report has confirmed that prices for tourist-targeted activities have fallen in many popular EU holiday hotspots, and one Spanish destination has been named the most budget friendly

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2 w. ago Manchester Airport announces new direct flight to capital city where pints cost just £1.59

The north of the UK will soon be connected to Morocco's capital city

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2 w. ago As cyberwarfare threat looms, cashless Nordic nations go back to banknotes | Miranda Bryant

Nordic countries were early adopters of digital payments. Now, electronic banking is seen as a potential threat to national securityIn 2018 a former deputy governor of Sweden’s central bank predicted that by 2025 the country would probably be cashless.Seven years on, that prediction has turned out to be pretty much true. Just one in 10 purchases are made with cash, and card is the most common form of payment, followed by the Swedish mobile payment system Swish, launched by six banks in 2012 and now ubiquitous. Other mobile phone payment services are also growing quickly. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Chappell Roan: The Giver review – saddle up, there’s a new sheriff in town

The midwest princess embraces her roots with a queer country banger about pleasure that toys with the genre’s gender and class cosplayIt’s easy to forget that in the year that Chappell Roan became one of the world’s biggest pop stars, she only released one single. Good Luck, Babe! came out in April 2024, precipitating the explosion of the US pop star as a live phenomenon who made pop hyper fun and queer again, while also remaining strikingly principled about how far she was willing to go for her art.When streaming demands that pop stars pebbledash releases in order to stay buoyant on playlists, her disinclination to capitalise on Good Luck, Babe!’s success with more material is reflective of Roan’s confidence in her way of doing things, whether persisting with a vision that her previous label rejected – and being totally vindicated for it – or using her recent Grammys win to call for labels to provide musicians with proper healthcare. The tactic has paid off: in the absence of new s...

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3 w. ago Eurovision 2025 UK act 'revealed as country trio who appeared on The Voice'

The UK appear to have gone in bold new direction from its recent entries

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3 w. ago C2C Country to Country 2025 at London’s O2 Arena: set times, full lineup and everything you need to know

C2C Country to Country 2025 at London’s O2 Arena: set times, full lineup and everything you need to know  Time Out London

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