4 h. ago Popular fireworks display at Strathclyde Park postponed for next two years

Major construction work to transform the watersports centre and its immediate surroundings means that the public fireworks display hosted jointly by North and South Lanarkshire Councils in Strathclyde Country Park will not be held this year or 2026.

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5 h. ago Outrageous Homes is returning to Channel 4 and they're looking for Welsh people

The popular property show is back - and they want to see the weird and the wonderful homes of Wales in all their glory, and the people who live in them

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15 h. ago Reform UK heads offshore to raise funds from world’s wealthy

Party treasurer Nick Candy says events will be held ‘in restaurants, people’s private homes and on yachts’

Economics

20 h. ago A locked door thriller for April: The Secret Room by Jane Casey, The Other People by C. B. Everett, This Is Not A Game by Kelly Mullen

Geoffrey Wansell reviews the best Crime fiction out now.

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24 h. ago EastEnders fans baffled as they work out just how many people live in Sonia's home

EastEnders fans have been left utterly gobsmacked after they worked out that a grand total of 14 people are currently living in Sonia Fowler's home on the BBC soap

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24 h. ago What to know as US prepares to require REAL ID for many air travelers next month

The U.S. will require enhanced identification for many air travelers starting May 7

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34 h. ago UK households urged to switch off their landlines now to avoid costly bill

Many people are simply not getting enough use out of their home phone to warrant the cost

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34 h. ago Voices: Poll of the day: Should how much you pay for energy depend on where you live?

Have your say: Should your postcode decide your power bill? A new government plan could mean cheaper energy up north, and higher costs down south

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36 h. ago Live in the South? You could pay more than Northerners for energy! Ed Miliband says 'zonal' power pricing is on the table

Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband said he was 'studying the detail' amid claims officials have recommended implementing the idea.

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57 h. ago New Jersey wildfire forces evacuations and reaches closed nuclear power plant

Stretch of major highway shut as 3,000 people moved to safety and homes left without powerA fast-moving wildfire burning in New Jersey has forced thousands of people to evacuate, closed a stretch of a main highway and reached a shuttered nuclear power plant.Flames from the Jones Road wildfire in Ocean County had reached buildings on the campus of the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant, according to the local Lakewood Scoop newspaper. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Track meet murder suspect Karmelo Anthony moved for safety reasons, family says

The Anthony family representatives claim they have received disturbing mail and has found people loitering on their property, taking photos of their home, and driving in circles around their neighborhood

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4 d. ago California city may start arresting homeless people who refuse offer of shelter

Approximately 187,000 people are sleeping on the streets statewide

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5 d. ago Urgent warning to those with home camera systems as 'disturbing' website could be watching you sleep

The site Insecam allows anyone to access live video feeds from devices such as baby monitors, web cams and CCTV from inside people's homes.

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5 d. ago The North Road by Rob Cowen review – the poetry and pain of Britain’s backbone

A beautifully written study of our longest numbered route, the A1, is full of rich asides and haunting explorations, conjuring the visual pleasure of a road movieMost people know the North Road of this book’s title as the London-to-Edinburgh A1. But, as Rob Cowen writes, A1 is a cipher for a 400-mile multiplicity of roads – a historically diverse bundle that includes ancient trackways, a Roman road, the “Old North Road” and the “Great North Road” (the name generally applied to what became the A1 in the road-numbering scheme of the 1920s). This collective forms, as Cowen has it, our primary road – the “backbone” of Britain.As a frequent shuttler between north and south, I prefer the North Road to its rival, the bland, homogenous M1. It has verges and laybys, eccentric pit-stops where the coffee is not necessarily Costa, and a scruffy, improvised air, suggesting something organically arisen from the landscape. But whereas I have merely driven along the road, Cowen has communed with it...

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6 d. ago ‘Nobody has done this before’: Britain’s beloved steam trains trial pioneering technology

In-cab digital signalling was tested last week as part of a project to secure the future of main-line locomotivesAbout 500 steam trains run across the UK each year, from Penzance in the south to Inverness in the north, ­transporting tens of thousands of passengers to a bygone age, ­bringing joy to the faces of enthusiasts and bemusing commuters.But the future of main line steam operations could be under threat unless the traditional fire-breathing machines can be fitted with pioneering modern technology. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Garden buffs can snag luxurious garden egg chair for £150 less in spring sale

The Artemis Home Oakley Double Swing Egg Pod Chair can easily fit two people and is the perfect way to add some comfort and luxury to your garden

Economics

7 d. ago ‘They were chanting as they killed people in their homes’: survivors describe attack on Sudan’s Zamzam camp

On 11 April Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries attacked the country’s largest displacement camp. The extent of the brutality remains unclear, but some accounts are now emergingOnce they had massed on the perimeter of Sudan’s Zamzam camp, the Rapid Support Forces began the onslaught – shelling, firing from anti-aircraft guns mounted on pickup trucks and storming into the camp chanting racial slurs as they fired on their victims.An estimated 700,000 people had sought refuge in Zamzam, Sudan’s largest displacement camp, but last weekend they were forced to seek cover and plot the best escape route. Most had fled these fighters before. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Paria Veisi: Two people arrested in murder probe after woman vanishes on way home from work

South Wales Police have arrested 41-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman on suspicion of murder after Paria Veisi went missing last weekend on her way home from work

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8 d. ago UK court ruling just the latest global move to limit transgender recognition

Crackdowns include bans on trans people in women’s sport, homeless shelters and bathrooms

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9 d. ago Tom Gleisner: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

The comedian and television presenter shares his subjective selections for laugh-out-loud moments, from stage fails and pollie pratfalls to on-air gaffes and priceless vintage TV clipsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailLike many people, my earliest internet videos came courtesy of YouTube and most involved self-injury. Pre-internet, if you wanted to watch people hurting themselves, you had to sit through Australia’s Funniest Home Videos on Channel Nine – or a high school eisteddfod.In recent times, my viewing has moved largely to TikTok. I’m fascinated by how their algorithm determines what I am interested in. Lately, I have been getting a steady stream of defence personnel returning home to surprise their loved ones, testimonials from recovering alcoholics and random people unblocking clogged drains. I have obviously been deemed a sentimental heavy drinker with unresolved constipation. Continue reading...

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