1 hour ago Driver, 21, fined massive £11,000 by parking firm over the 'pay in five minutes' rule

Hannah Robinson (pictured), of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, was slapped with the £11,390 bill by Excel Parking after amassing nearly 70 fines in a car park in nearby Darlington.

Economics

1 hour ago I lost both my arms when I was blasted by a 33,000 volt explosion at work and got a £1.8million payout but now it's all gone after I poured the cash into a 'dodgy' investment

Robert Cooke, 65, put £900k into a firm that was developing housing, under the trusted advice of the well-known property developer Richard Hayward.

Economics

2 h. ago Piers Morgan leads outrage after two transgender players contest final of women's pool competition

The comments came after Harriet Haynes defeated Lucy Smith 8-6 in the final of a Women's Pro Series event, one of eight events on the Ultimate Pool Group's 2025 women's circuit.

Sport

5 h. ago Molly Malone statue to be guarded as tourists won't stop rubbing bronze boobs 'for luck'

Tourists making tits of themselves in Dublin's fair city have been urged to leave Molly alone after the pervy practice of fondling her breasts has rubbed people up the wrong way

Politics

8 h. ago Liverpool’s title stumble shows strength of Premier League, not its weakness | Barney Ronay

Fulham were excellent in beating the champions-elect and credit should be given to the mid-table tier’s progressionHere it comes then. The much‑promised collapse. The improbable, but somehow also deserved and collectively willed disintegration of these champions by default. Something like that anyway. Tell you what though. Fulham are good aren’t they? And particularly so, it should be said, for a team that started the day 10th in an apparently mediocre league. Or is that not part of the story?At the end of a fun, boisterous 3‑2 victory for Marco Silva’s excellent, vigorous upper‑midtable team the talk will of course be about Liverpool, and not necessarily in a very flattering way. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Where things went wrong for Southampton as they set relegation record

The Saints became the first team in Premier League history to be relegated with seven games to spare.

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11 h. ago Fulham vs Liverpool LIVE: Arne Slot’s side dealt second defeat of Premier League season by impressive hosts

Fulham 3-2 Liverpool: An excellent first-half performance took the hosts to a fine victory at Craven Cottage

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12 h. ago Top rugby match delayed as parachutist crashes into stadium and left dangling from roof

There were chaotic scenes in France as a pre-match display went very wrong

Events

15 h. ago 'I won huge payout in work accident that saw both arms amputated – now I've lost it all'

Robert Cooke said he now survives of his pension and benefits despite landing a seven-figure work injury payout. The grandad revealed how one wrong investment changed his life

Economics

17 h. ago Back To The Future FAKERY! All the things that are wrong with the 1980s sci

Boasting a 93 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and ranking 11th on UK Empire's Greatest Movies, the time-travel movie has become a certified classic - but it is riddled with errors and fakery.

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20 h. ago Change the way you dress with the viral outfit hack loved by fashion influencers

'Sandwich dressing' is the simple styling method that TikTok can't get enough of and can help you create stylish and cohesive outfits with products you already have in your wardrobe

Culture

21 h. ago Roast meat cooking times: How long to cook every joint for a perfect Easter lunch

Overcooked lamb, dry chicken, pork with no crackle – the Easter roast can be a battlefield. Here’s how to nail every joint, every time, with timings that actually work and tips that don’t involve guesswork or blind hope

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22 h. ago Gardeners should place potato on bird feeders now according to wildlife experts

Gardeners are urged to add cooked potatoes to bird feeders this spring to help support nesting birds with the energy they need

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23 h. ago I lost my arms in work accident and got a big payout. Now it's all gone

Double amputee Robert Cooke says he is on the brink of losing his home after investments with a property developer ended in disaster

Economics

30 h. ago What does Australian sovereignty look like? It’s a question we now must answer thanks to Donald Trump | Julianne Schultz

Confidence in American reliability is tumbling in every poll. As tariffs kick in, how can we adjust to not having a great superpower as our protector?Prof Hugh White, the esteemed yet critical analyst of Australian defence policy, took a deep breath, surveyed the men he had spent a lifetime debating, and said: “Donald Trump is doing us a favour.” He is proving that our old assumptions are “all wrong”.White knew this was a provocation, but maybe one whose time had come. Malcolm Turnbull agreed that this was a debate we needed to have. As the shopping list election campaign sidesteps the changed world order, the 29th prime minister used his convening power to host a forum at the press club about the bigger underlying issues.Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...

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30 h. ago ‘Fundamentally wrong, brutal and paranoid’: how will the world respond to Donald Trump’s tariffs?

The US president’s sweeping, unprecedented tariffs on countries around the world are threatening to reshape the global economy – so, what exactly happens next?On Thursday evening, towards the end of a long week at a textiles factory on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen Thi Dieu and her husband were watching the news. More than 8,700 miles away, US president Donald Trump was announcing sweeping, unprecedented tariffs on every country around the world. Nowhere was safe, even the uninhabited Heard Island and McDonald Islands off the western coast of Australia that, for some unexplained reason, were hit with a 10% tariff.His announcement launched a fierce global trade war and triggered a global market meltdown, including on Trump’s own cherished Wall Street, where hundreds of billions of dollars of stock values evaporated. Continue reading...

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31 h. ago Kris Boyd has Celtic title party plan as Paul Merson and Co clued in on something wrong about Rangers

The Sky Sports man has ruled himself out of the punditry line-up for next week's potential title-clincher at Parkhead

Politics

34 h. ago Cosori TwinFry Dual Blaze 10L air fryer review: big capacity, clever cooking

This roomy air fryer might dominate your kitchen counter, but its smart divider system and powerful performance make it a top pick for larger households.

Society

35 h. ago No forgetting my encounter with two giants of the stage | Tim Lewis

Old pals Ewan McGregor and Michael Grandage prepare for their new play, My Master Builder, by chuckling about everything that could go wrong and hasFor today’s Observer New Review I had the not-exactly-onerous assignment of spending an hour with the actor Ewan McGregor and director Michael Grandage, as they prepared to put on a new play, My Master Builder, in London’s West End. The two men go way back, and mostly they were cracking each other up with knockabout old stories – much of which there wasn’t room for in my article. McGregor recalled one of his first roles on stage, as Orlando in As You Like It, and how when Simon Callow – multiple Olivier and Bafta award winner – played the part in 1979, he walked out on stage at the National Theatre only to promptly forget the first line of the play.“If you’re a woman and you’re about to have a baby, everybody tells you nightmare stories about childbirth,” said McGregor. “And when you’re an actor about to do a play, everybody tells you te...

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35 h. ago Pitch Perfect star Adam Devine, 41, was 'told he was dying' a month before his son was born

Pitch Perfect and Isn't It Romantic star Adam Devine has recalled the horrifying moment doctors told him he was dying - but luckily they got it wrong

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