1 hour ago Bizarre disguise used by fly tipper on Essex street leaves locals baffled

After one of the more unusual fly-tipping offences, the race has begun to unmask a person dressed in a purple dinosaur outfit in Southend-on-Sea, Essex which has left locals baffled

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2 h. ago All the excuses they give us for why you can never find a bin in the street are just a load of garbage: MATTHEW BOWLES

Black bins, green bins, brown bins, red bins tens of millions of them. Britain has become a nation of recycling bins, writes MATTHEW BOWLES.

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3 h. ago The 'longest garden' in Britain: House for sale for £600,000 has land big enough to land a plane in

The three-bed home, situated at Little Downham, near Ely in Cambridge, features a 500ft-long garden.

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3 h. ago Why this Yorkshire market town is the happiest place to live in the UK

People praised Skipton’s range of shops, its high street and nearby green space

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6 h. ago Moment thug calmly asks ‘can I put my shoes on?’ as he’s arrested on his doorstep after murdering pensioner neighbour

THIS is the moment a murderer calmly asks "Can I put my shoes on?" as he's arrested on his doorstep. Footage shows David Hill, 57, being questioned by cops after violently attacking his pensioner neighbour in his Huddersfield home. The entitled thug turns to officers as they try to handcuff him and says: "Can I...

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6 h. ago Small businesses prepare for their busiest period as they fill High Street void

SMALL businesses are banking on tomorrow to kickstart a bumper Christmas. It marks the annual Small Business Saturday, when shoppers are urged to shop local and support independent retailers nationwide. The campaign — founded in the US 15 years ago — arrived in the UK in 2013. Since then, it has seen a huge growth...

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6 h. ago Mom stages disabled daughter’s fake kidnapping to teach a lesson after she was groomed online by Luke Bryan impersonator: cops

The developmentally delayed 22-year-old woman was allegedly found tied to a tree in an Arkansas field

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8 h. ago Joe Root is finally a wizard in Aus after Harry Brook’s Bazball scarecrow act | Barney Ronay

A tale of two Yorkshiremen, one keeping England in the series, the other batting without a brainIn the end even the celebration was perfect, out there under that strange deep-blue southern sky, in the frenzy of the game-state – manic Baz energy, England’s lower order scything away death cult-style at the other end, the way even the grass seems lacquered and glazed by the lights.So yeah. All that stuff. In the middle of this Joe Root guided the ball away through fine leg to complete his first Test hundred in Australia, then marked it with a gentle smile and a wave of the bat, no fist-punching, no monkeys off backs, no angsty and pointed messaging. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Man arrested after body found at Scots home as forensic officers swoop scene

Emergency services raced to Strathspey Place, off Inshes Road in the city, after the alarm was raised at around 8.30am on Thursday.

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9 h. ago Majestic Root basks in Australian glory at last but Brook’s folly could be costly | Barney Ronay

A tale of two Yorkshiremen, one keeping England in the series, the other a scarecrow batting without a brainIn the end even the celebration was perfect, out there under that strange deep-blue southern sky, in the frenzy of the game-state – manic Baz energy, England’s lower order scything away death cult-style at the other end, the way even the grass seems lacquered and glazed by the lights.So yeah. All that stuff. In the middle of this Joe Root guided the ball away through point to complete his first Test hundred in Australia, then marked it with a gentle smile and a wave of the bat, no fist-punching, no monkeys off backs, no angsty and pointed messaging. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Former Wishaw Credit Union building in the heart of town centre put up for sale

The Main Street property is on the market for a price of just £100,000.

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10 h. ago Bungling contractors cut down the wrong cherry tree in the wrong London borough after mixing up street names

Premier Tree Care & Conservation felled the tree on Priory Road in Kew, Richmond, instead of one on a street with the same name in Ealing.

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10 h. ago Noise around Donald Trump an unwanted distraction to World Cup draw of dreams

Amid all the hoopla circling its Washington backdrop, Friday’s event must be all about firing the starting gun on football’s biggest showWhen the sculptor Joel Shapiro created Blue, the piece that stands around the back of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, looking out over the Potomac River in Washington, he wanted to tap into a number of elements. The giant matchstick figure denotes movement and energy, risk and possibility. As Shapiro himself has said, it is supposed to “reconfigure depending on how you look at it”.It has the perfect home at the Kennedy Center, the vast cultural hub for ballet and opera, stage productions and concerts. And it resonates on a new level now as the venue prepares to host Friday’s World Cup draw, at which the competing nations at next summer’s extravaganza in the United States, Canada and Mexico will discover their group opponents and knockout round pathways. Because from one angle it is plain that Blue is executing a raking pass. From...

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10 h. ago ‘A joyous and emotional journey’: immersive exhibition charts Coventry’s south Asian heritage

Hardish Virk uses photography, film, music and his family’s memorabilia to tell a wider story of migration and community resilienceAs you enter the living room at the Stories That Made Us exhibition, a stereo plays the Hindi anthem Yeh Dosti Hum Nahi Todenge. It’s a ballad celebrating friendship and love from the epic film Sholay. Beside the stereo, sits a bottle of Johnnie Walker and a red glass decanter. On the table are copies of the Punjabi newspaper Des Pardes, which translates as “home abroad”.The scene, which depicts the childhood home of Coventry-born curator and artist Hardish Virk, is one of several spaces in an immersive exhibition at the city’s Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. It traces four decades of the experiences of south Asians as they arrived and adapted to the social, political and cultural changes in modern Britain. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Salisbury Novichok poisoners' web of deceit as fake jobs and Russia links uncovered

Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov took up false identities and used a slew of false documents to work their way across Europe, new documents released by counterterror cops show

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11 h. ago Heir kisses! Lip reader reveals what Camilla said to Kate after blowing a kiss to the Prince and Princess of Wales during German state visit

Queen Camilla shared a light-hearted moment with Kate Middleton on Wednesday morning, jovially acknowledging that they were both wearing similar shades of blue for the German state visit.

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11 h. ago Coronation Street's Jack P Shepherd dropped major Emmerdale crossover hint before huge details revealed

The actor, who is famed for playing David Platt, wasn't revealed to be taking part in the historic TV event at the time

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11 h. ago Coronation Street's Brooke Vincent breaks down as she discusses tragic personal loss

Coronation Street actress Brooke Vincent has been left devastated by the loss of her grandmother in October 2024 as she admits "nothing will hurt me as much as this"

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11 h. ago Coronation Street fans spot 'key' to Becky Swain downfall and it's 'looming'

Some fans of the ITV soap think Becky's days are numbered now Carla Connor and DC Kit Green are joining forces

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11 h. ago US and EU critical minerals project could displace thousands in DRC– report

Global Witness says plan to upgrade railway line to Angola puts up to 1,200 buildings at risk of demolitionUp to 6,500 people are at risk of being displaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure project funded by the EU and the US, amid a global race to secure supplies of copper, cobalt and other “critical minerals”, according to a report by campaign group Global Witness.The project, labelled the Lobito Corridor, aims to upgrade the colonial-era Benguela railway from the DRC to Lobito on Angola’s coast and improve port infrastructure, as well as building a railway line to Zambia and supporting agriculture and solar power installations along the route. Angola has said it needs $4.5bn (£3.4bn) for its stretch of the line. Continue reading...

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