6 h. ago Flytippers fill grandad's garage with three tonnes of rubbish

Contractors sent to help him clear up the mess emptied the wrong building

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21 h. ago Marcus Rashford’s Barcelona transfer reports branded ‘absolute rubbish’

Reports that Marcus Rashford’s time at Barcelona could already be heading to an end after just three games have been shot down as ‘absolute rubbish’

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23 h. ago Core blimey! Apple strudel chain stretching 3km and made with five tonnes of flour and fruit clinches world record back from rival Croatian town

Two tonnes of flour and three tonnes of apples were used to make the nearly 9,000 strudels in the small village of Jaskovo, Strudelfest organisers said.

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27 h. ago I thought I was growing up in a racially tolerant Britain. I now realise I was wrong | Rohan Sathyamoorthy

I’ve experienced more racism in the past year than the rest of my life put together – the only answer is for young people to stand up to the far rightSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreWhen my dad went to school in the 1970s, the kids used to pretend he was invisible. Every day he would try to make conversation and play with the other children, and every day he would be ignored. One night it got so bad that my grandma found him crying himself to sleep, unable to process, as an eight-year-old, why no one would want to talk to “the brown kid”. This kind of social exclusion was sadly all too familiar in postwar Britain – my white grandma had endured her own share of abuse ever since she fell in love with my Sri Lankan grandad in 1966, committing the family’s original sin of interracial marriage.When I heard these stories as a child, they felt like terrible...

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35 h. ago Trash to transport: crossing Bass Strait in a boat made of Tasmanian fish farm debris

Samuel McLennan spent two years salvaging for his ocean-going vessel and has slowly made his way to Victoria. Otis Filley jumps aboard for part of the journeySign up for the Rural Network email newsletterWord spread through French Island’s WhatsApp group before we’d even docked – there was a boat made of rubbish heading their way. By the time Samuel McLennan secured his vessel built from marine debris at Tankerton Jetty, a small crowd had formed. Alan Pentland, editor of Off-the-Grid, the island’s newsletter, was already waiting to get a photo and eager for a story.A constant stream of people came down over the next two hours – to have a chat, come onboard, ask questions and share their excitement.French Island residents gather to inspect the unusual vessel after word spread through the islands WhatsApp group about the arrival of a boat made of rubbish. Continue reading...

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45 h. ago 'My sister was killed by SeaWorld orca Tilikum – it haunts me every day'

Dawn Brancheau was killed by Tilikum, a 5.4 tonne orca measuring more than 22ft in length, in a prolonged and violent attack in front of horrified onlookers at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida

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55 h. ago UK couple may have to evict Ukrainian refugees owing to planning rules

Rosemary Duckett, 80, and her husband, Anthony, 88, say situation is ‘bureaucracy gone mad’A couple who the prime minister thanked for housing Ukrainian refugees have been told by their local council they may have to evict their current guest due to planning rules which the couple describe as “bureaucracy gone mad”.Rosemary Duckett, 80, a retired magistrate and former chair of her local YMCA, and her husband, Anthony, 88, have been providing accommodation in a room above their garage to Ukrainian refugees since 2022. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago The golden rule of Trump and Farage’s free speech crusade: they’re allowed to chat rubbish – you’re not | Marina Hyde

The Reform leader has been in the US, bemoaning Britain’s ‘awful authoritarian situation’. It’s a shame about his party’s own anti-media huff back homeSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and morePop quiz. Of whom did Donald Trump say admiringly: “I also learned that he loves his country very much”? And: “He wrote me beautiful letters. And they are great letters. We fell in love”?If you answered “Nigel Farage”, then I’m sorry. The Reform UK leader might have spent this pre-party conference week in his happy place – lodged several feet up the US presidential colon – and rhetorically demanding of US lawmakers: “At what point did [the UK] become North Korea?” But those Trump compliments were in fact previously made about Kim Jong-un, the dictator of well, you know the rest.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Contaminated car fuel wrecks vehicles in Scotland as outraged owners left out of pocket

Drivers say premium diesel from a Morrisons garage in Kirkcaldy wrecked engines and forced vehicles off the road, sparking calls for compensation and possible legal action.

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3 d. ago Jury begins deliberations in trial of Florida matriarch charged in her ex

Jurors in Florida have begun deliberating in the murder trial of a 75-year-old woman accused of being the mastermind behind the plot in which a hired hit man shot her former son-in-law in the head in his Tallahassee garage

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3 d. ago Ebola outbreak kills 15 with deadly symptoms including 'bleeding eyes'

The World Health Organization (WHO) has rushed in two tonnes of critical supplies, including personal protective equipment, mobile lab equipment and medical kits

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3 d. ago ‘Someone needs to answer for what happened’: Lisbon reacts to streetcar crash that killed 16

Residents recall smoke, screams and a mountain of bodies at site of ‘one of the biggest tragedies in our recent history’António Azevedo was in central Lisbon early on Wednesday evening, waiting to gather enough tourists for a ride in his tuk-tuk, when he heard what sounded like dozens of glass containers being dropped into rubbish trucks.The driver looked around Restauradores Square but saw no trucks, only smoke rising from the lower station of the Elevador da Glória funicular railway, 100 metres from where his vehicle was parked. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Craig David unveiled as new voice of Just Eat with garage spin on jingle

He is the first home-grown star to front a campaign after Snoop Dogg, Katy Perry and Christina Aguilera

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4 d. ago More than a million Range Rover and Jaguar drivers face lengthy repair delays after cyber attack crippled garages as well as showrooms

The British car manufacturer has become the latest big-named firm to have been hit by hackers, following similar digital strikes on Marks and Spencer and Co-op.

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4 d. ago West Lothian football pitches left covered in rubbish by travellers

The makeshift day-long encampment at Eliburn’s football pitches left behind enough rubbish to fill 18 bags when local members of the West Lothian Litter Pickers moved in to clean up.

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4 d. ago Grandad, 89, dies as moisturiser on his skin catches fire from spark on gas heater

Warnings have been issued after an 89-year-old grandfather spontaneously combusted at his Doncaster home due to a moisturising cream he had been using to treat a skin condition

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4 d. ago Baby goes missing from nursery after grandad 'takes home wrong child'

The grandfather didn't realise he had picked up the wrong child at Bangor's First Steps Learning Academy in Sydney before taking him home

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5 d. ago World's largest iceberg is falling apart! Huge TRILLION tonne megaberg that was once more than twice the size of Greater London breaks into chunks

At the start of this year, it was more than twice the size of Greater London. But the world's largest iceberg, known as A23a, is finally nearing its end.

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5 d. ago Shocking pictures show piles of rubbish at travellers' site which received £116,000 of taxpayer cash

Drone images from the site showed huge piles of rubbish strewn across the site in Swansea as 'investigations are ongoing' into waste being burnt at the site.

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5 d. ago Lake District campaigners demand tourists are fined after 'epidemic' of litter and fly

Organisation Friends of the Lake District conducted a survey which highlighted anti-social parking, flytipping and general littering, and it's no longer limited to the most famous scenic locations.

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