8 h. ago I tried out a virtual Halloween festival – and got more than I bargained for

Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival began as a lockdown project and has now become an annual gaming tradition. My children and I paid it a visitIn an attempt to avoid spending £80 to walk around a local park with my children to see some underwhelming spooky decorations, and having failed for the fifth year in a row to secure a ticket to a Scottish farm to tramp damply around looking at pumpkins, I tried something different with my kids this Halloween: a virtual pumpkin festival.Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival was first created in the depths of the 2020 pandemic, when game developer Adam Robinson-Yu’s real-life neighbourhood pumpkin festival was cancelled. (Yu also made the excellent and equally autumnal A Short Hike.) Since then, it has returned for a few weeks every year, letting players come together as adorable ghosts to explore a creepy little micro-world filled with player-created pumpkins. It has improved slightly every year: 2024’s big addition was a haunted house escape room, which took...

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24 h. ago Broadway's Shubert Organization makes historic London move with partnership of new Olympia Theatre

Broadway's Shubert Organization makes historic London move with partnership of new Olympia Theatre  WhatsOnStage

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34 h. ago Shubert Organization and Trafalgar Entertainment to refurbish London’s Olympia Theatre as a modern, accessible venue

Shubert Organization and Trafalgar Entertainment to refurbish London’s Olympia Theatre as a modern, accessible venue  Broadway News

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34 h. ago Shubert Organization and Trafalgar Entertainment Announce Joint Ownership of London's Olympia Theatre

Shubert Organization and Trafalgar Entertainment Announce Joint Ownership of London's Olympia Theatre  Playbill

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62 h. ago Broadway’s Shubert Organization makes historic London move with joint partnership of new Olympia Theatre

Broadway’s Shubert Organization makes historic London move with joint partnership of new Olympia Theatre  WhatsOnStage

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6 d. ago Woman slapped with £150 fine for pouring coffee down the drain

A coffee lover says she has been left shaken by an incident where she was hit by a £150 fine for pouring her brew down the drain - and told to tip it in the bin instead

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6 d. ago 'Ghost' shopping centre in Ayrshire town could make way for revived gym venture

A fresh planning application has been lodged, seeking permission for a change of use at the site.

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8 d. ago Police probe London Olympia pet show ‘fraud’ as organiser ‘vanishes’ after stallholders brand it a disaster

The event’s director, Oscar Von Keysall, is said to have ‘disappeared and ceased all communication’ after stall holders were allegedly left £200,000 out of pocket

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8 d. ago Police probe London Olympia pet show ‘fraud’ as organiser ‘vanishes’

The event’s director, Oscar Von Keysall, is said to have ‘disappeared and ceased all communication’ after stall holders were allegedly left £200,000 out of pocket

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8 d. ago Convicted fraudster behind 'deserted' London pet show vanishes leaving furious staff '£200,000 out of pocket'

Oscar Von Keysall, director of Elite Events Ltd, which organised last month's London Pet Show Live 2025 at Olympia, has 'disappeared and ceased all communication'.

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1 week ago Teen yobs set fire to cars, steal from tills and throw bricks at staff as car repair boss says police have left him feeling 'utterly helpless'

Neil Gibson has faced years of torment from youngster at his business, leaving him thousands of pounds out of pocket and fearing for the safety of his employees.

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1 week ago I’ve been waiting years for lover to leave her husband – even though I ended my marriage for her it’s driving me crazy

DEAR DEIDRE: FOUR years after we started seeing each other, my lover still hasn’t left her husband – even though I ended my marriage for her. She says she has to wait until her son has grown up and flown the nest, but I’m starting to wonder if that’ll ever happen. I’m not sure how...

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1 week ago Ghost town Hyena wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award

This year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year was won by South African wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever, who scooped top spot out of a record-breaking 60,636 images

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1 week ago In pictures: 12 incredible images from The Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025

HAUNTING IMAGE OF HYENA IN GHOST TOWN WINS WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

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2 w. ago What it is really like inside deserted US town where a fire has been burning for 60 YEARS

The ghost town of Centralia offers a stark contrast to Pennsylvania's greenery. A fire that started hundreds of feet underground in 1962 still burns today.

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2 w. ago Terrifying new footage captures moment elephant flips over safari canoe and tries to crush woman to death

Panicked holidaymakers were left clinging for their lives after the furious animal stormed toward them in the Okavango Delta. Astonishingly, they filmed their own attack.

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3 w. ago Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous creator reacts to outrage over same

Old episode of Netflix’s animated series left conservatives, including Elon Musk, furious

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3 w. ago 'Cringe' Kemi Badenoch does 'karaoke' in pub of young Tories as she fights 'ghost town' claims

EXCLUSIVE: Deluded Kemi Badenoch is comparing herself to Tory battleaxe Margaret Thatcher as she fights claims the Conservative party conference has been a “ghost town”.

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3 w. ago Jilted lover, 34, torched ex's home and left him with 'just clothes on his back' in arson attack

Reckless Stacey Hinks has been jailed after she started the blaze, which destroyed her ex's home and the houses of two of his neighbours, leaving them with nothing

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3 w. ago Morrisons and Sainsbury's shoppers spot new Babybel flavour and say same thing

The mini Babybel has remained a go-to snack for cheese lovers since launching in the 1970s, and now fans have been left delighted after spotted a brand new flavour with a twist in supermarkets

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