5 d. ago Scottish Football Writers award nominees revealed as Celtic, Hibs and Hearts feature but Rangers excluded

Three prestigious awards up for grabs

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7 d. ago PFA Scotland award winners revealed as man to play every minute of season among prize guys

McGlynn pips Rodgers and Gray to manager of year

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7 d. ago UK wins £500m in science grants from EU Horizon scheme after Brexit lockout

Exclusive: British scientists ‘over the moon’ with re-entry to funding scheme after losing out for three yearsBritish scientists are “over the moon” to be back in the EU’s flagship science research programme Horizon after a three-year Brexit lockout, with new data revealing they have been awarded about £500m in grants since re-entry.As the EU secretly draws up strategies for the next seven-year funding cycle in 2027, the UK is hoping its success in the first 12 months since returning to Horizon will leave it in pole position with Germany and France to dominate European science, despite Brexit. Continue reading...

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1 week ago George Clooney receives first ever Tony Award nomination as full list of nominees revealed

George Clooney was named in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play category for his Broadway debut in 'Good Night, and Good Luck'

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1 week ago Coronation Street dealt blow as British Soap Awards shortlist revealed with weeks until awards

The ITV soap will go up against Emmerdale, EastEnders and Hollyoaks at the awards bash later this month

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2 w. ago Britain tried to control migration – and created the worst of all worlds

Editorial: As The Independent reveals, up to £2bn of private contracts have been awarded since 2017 aimed at curbing illegal migration across the English Channel and the costs of asylum application processing. It is hard to point to any positive results of this gross expense

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2 w. ago Britain's Got Talent star Eden Choi's secret famous past and award wins revealed

Eden Choi is a magician taking part in Britain's Got Talent's first live semi-final this week, but he has millions of online followers and has multiple awards to his name

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3 w. ago Bog standard? Tokyo’s spectacular public toilets – in pictures

Public toilets are rarely thought of fondly – that is unless you’re talking about those in Tokyo’s Shibuya district. Commissioned in 2019, creatives including renowned architects Shigeru Ban and the late Fumihiko Maki designed 17 beautiful, functional, meticulously clean public toilets, some of which featured in Wim Wenders’s 2023 film Perfect Days. Hong Kong-based photographer Ulana Switucha came across the toilets, each unique, while working on a project about Japanese architecture in 2023, and went back to photograph them the following year. “These structures are works of art,” she says. “They shine as beacons in their urban setting and demonstrate that public design can go beyond functionality to represent cultural and artistic value.”Ulana Switucha is the winner of the architecture and design category of the Sony world photography awards 2025 Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Historic Greater Manchester pub amongst venues nominated in prestigious pub and bar awards

­­­The 2025 National Pub & Bar Awards shortlist has been revealed and includes a number of north west venues

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3 w. ago Apes, toilets, conflicts and cowboys: Sony World Photography awards – in pictures

Artists on the moon, gods in the sea, and guns at the ready in America here are photographs from the overall winners of this year’s professional competition Continue reading...

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3 w. ago From a powerful Moroccan equestrian performance to a female Peruvian prison: The breathtaking winners of the 2025 Sony World Photography Awards revealed

The winners of the 2025 Sony World Photography Awards have been revealed in the 18th annual competition. The images are currently on display at Somerset House in London.

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