4 h. ago Europe's smallest pub with Britain's biggest landlord: Owner keeps banging his head at the one boozer in UK where it IS acceptable to queue single

Barry Hayes (pictured), 60, is the owner of The Circus Tavern in Manchester city centre, which is just 45 feet long, with the bar itself only three feet in length.

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11 h. ago Hibs vs Hearts is biggest game in BRITAIN this weekend and new boys will be blown away – Ryan Stevenson

It's the biggest of big ones in Edinburgh on Sunday and former Hearts man Stevo admits he can barely remember a derby where both sides are in such good form.

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59 h. ago ‘Losing hope with every day that passes’: torment of the ships’ crews abandoned at sea

Thousands of seafarers are left on board their vessels in foreign waters, unpaid, with scant supplies – and no way of getting home When Vihaan* set off from his home in Tamil Nadu, south India, to work on a vessel crossing the Bay of Bengal into neighbouring Bangladesh, he told his family he would be gone a few months. After delivering his cargo of stone to Bangladesh’s Kutubdia Island, the marine engineer was due to head home in March 2024 to disembark at Thoothukudi port, India.But that month, the rusting tug, the Navimar 3, which was being operated by Middle East Marine (MEM), was detained by the authorities in Bangladesh due to unpaid fees. For almost a year, Vihaan has become a virtual prisoner on board, he says, forced to work without pay to keep the vessel safe, amid strong currents where it is anchored off the island in the cyclone-prone bay. His passport and certification documents are being held by a local agent for the Dubai-based company. With no means of getting home, n...

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6 d. ago Billionaire Issa brothers suffer setback over plans to build Britain's biggest Muslim cemetery

There have been more than 1000 objections to the Issa brother's plans, a local councillor has claimed, as concerns surround the impact of green belt land.

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7 d. ago Google, Meta and the rest of US Big Tech are the robber barons of our age. Now, incredibly, a Labour Government is planning to help them pull off the theft of the century: ANDREW NEIL

Labour wants to give American Big Tech the right to hoover up the copyrighted creations of Britain's biggest brands - without paying a bean.

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9 d. ago Greggs stash 100 rashers into one roll after bloke orders Britain's biggest bacon bap

The giant order of 100 slices of bacon had to be piled into a special roll as the dad-of-three who ordered the 'bacon Mount Everest' said it was 'impossible' to finish

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1 week ago Britain’s biggest police force facing ‘substantial tough choices’ over cuts

Funding rises from local and central government are not enough to plug the budget gap, the Metropolitan Police has warned.

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