56 m. ago US rivers are full of dumped tires. The ‘River Cowboy’ won’t stand for it

Tires take decades to decompose, and millions are improperly dumped every year. An intrepid group sets out to clear Kentucky’s ‘conveyor belt of trash’In the 1980s, Russ Miller and his wife moved to a far edge of eastern Kentucky’s Red River Gorge, where they built a homestead on a ridge hugged by three sides of the river. It’s the kind of place you can only get to with a hand-drawn map. A place so remote that the farther and farther you drive to get to it, the more unsure you are that you are in the right place.They would spend leisurely afternoons drifting the river in inner tubes, until they started noticing what floated alongside them: heaps of discarded junk. Continue reading...

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56 m. ago Ofqual data ‘significantly overstated’ number of pupils given extra exam time

The exams regulator is withdrawing its statistics on access arrangements for GCSE and A-levels from 2014 to 2024 after data issues were found.

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90 m. ago 'Woke' Jaguar Land Rover joins UK jobs bloodbath just two months after Starmer boasted of 'saving' staff... as unemployment hits four

The UK unemployment rate has risen to a four-year high, going from 4.6 per cent in the three months to April to 4.7 per cent in the three months to May.

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92 m. ago John Torode was sacked by the BBC from MasterChef for using 'the worst racial slur there is'

The Australian-born chef, 59, has also been accused of lying about claims he wasn't told he was being sacked before it ended up in the press.

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1 hour ago ‘I was censored for a long time’: the woman who photographed Chile’s sex workers and dissidents

From brothels to boxing rings, Paz Errázuriz’s tender images always challenged the Pinochet dictatorship. Now 81 years old – and ahead of a UK show – the spiky-haired artist recounts a career spent on the fringesWhen the Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz showed her first photobook to a well-known society photographer of the day, he told her “look, a housewife will never be a photographer”.“That’s what he said!” she laughs. “Imagine that was my beginning.” Today, aged 81, her work documenting life on the fringes of Chilean society sits in the collections of Tate Modern and MoMA in New York and in 2015 she represented Chile at the Venice Biennale. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Max Verstappen's Red Bull switch approved by Toto Wolff's boss as Mercedes make power play

Mercedes have been heavily linked with a move for Max Verstappen, who could find a way out of his Red Bull contract, with Toto Wolff's superior green lighting the move

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2 h. ago Is THIS the key to finally slashing screentime? 'Dumb' iPhone is devoid of the internet, games, or social media apps

The Sage phone, launched in the UK this week by US firm Techless, comes without internet, web browsers, games and social apps like TikTok and Instagram.

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2 h. ago London weather: Thunderstorm alert for capital as Met Office issues 'deadly' flood warning

Yellow thunderstorms alert lasts from 9pm on Friday until 6pm on Saturday

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2 h. ago Brian Leishman rules out joining the SNP or Jeremy Corbyn's new party after Labour suspension

EXCLUSIVE: The Alloa and Grangemouth MP told the Record he is "committed rock solid to the Labour Party" and wants the whip back.

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2 h. ago Jaguar Land Rover joins UK jobs bloodbath just two months after Starmer boasted of 'saving' staff... as unemployment hits four

The UK unemployment rate has risen to a four-year high, going from 4.6 per cent in the three months to April to 4.7 per cent in the three months to May.

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2 h. ago The rise in unemployment shows the UK jobs market is cooling, but it is not collapsing

Despite the latest poor data, wage growth remains resilient and there are ‘signs of confidence returning’UK unemployment rises as jobs market ‘weakens’Business live – latest updatesAnaemic economic growth, rising inflation, and a worsening outlook in the jobs market. If the inheritance from the Conservatives had been bad, the situation a year in to the new Labour government do not look much better.The latest figures show unemployment nudged up to 4.7% in May, hitting the highest level in four years, while wage growth slowed for a third consecutive month, and employers cut back on hiring. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Rise in unemployment shows UK jobs market is cooling, but it is not collapsing

Despite latest poor data wage growth remains resilient, and there are ‘signs of confidence returning’UK unemployment rises as jobs market ‘weakens’Business live – latest updatesAnaemic economic growth, rising inflation, and a worsening outlook in the jobs market. If the inheritance from the Conservatives had been bad, the situation a year in to the new Labour government does not look much better.The latest figures show unemployment nudged up to 4.7% in May, hitting the highest level in four years, while wage growth slowed for a third consecutive month, and employers cut back on hiring. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Major Dumfries and Galloway road closed due to lorry fire as drivers told to 'take care'

Emergency services are currently dealing with the incident on the A75 near Annan.

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2 h. ago Government 'faces £1bn compensation claim' over Afghan data breach

Lawyers representing the Afghan data breach victims say they will sue for compensation

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2 h. ago Camp leader may not have seen urgent alert before deadly Texas flood, family says

The new account by the family comes as Camp Mystic staff has come under scrutiny

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2 h. ago ‘He told us to just tell the truth’ – behind a revealing Billy Joel documentary

In HBO’s five-hour portrait, the chart-dominating singer-songwriter gives unusual insight into his career with support from his A-list friends and collaboratorsIn 2011, singer-songwriter and pop legend Billy Joel returned a multimillion-dollar advance paid on a memoir to his would-be publisher, HarperCollins. He had apparently co-written an autobiographical book as planned, but ultimately decided that he didn’t want to publish it. “It took working on writing a book to make me realize that I’m not all that interested in talking about the past,” he said at the time, “and that the best expression of my life has been and remains my music.”Billy Joel: And So It Goes, a two-part feature documentary premiering this week on HBO, feels like an attempt to stay true to that same basic ethos while not shying away from Joel’s public and private life over the years. The five-hour project tells Joel’s story, but does so by prioritizing his music, in content and in form. “He has 121 songs in his ca...

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2 h. ago BBC period drama hailed as 'one of the best ever' with 'magical' storylines

The BBC series, which stars Derek Jacobi, is told from the perspective of Roman Emperor Claudius - who is also the narrator of the series

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2 h. ago Summer holiday warning as children told not to drink popular ice drink

Exposure to glycerol can cause shock, very low blood sugar levels and loss of consciousness, the watchdog said

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3 h. ago Urgent warning as rare red weather alert issued for Canary Islands

Temperatures continue to soar in the popular holiday destination

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3 h. ago Disney sues company it claims is selling illegal Mickey Mouse jewellery

The Walt Disney Co. has initiated legal proceedings against a Hong Kong jewellery company, accusing it of selling unauthorised Mickey Mouse merchandise.

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