9 h. ago Disney+ streamers who take out a new plan before this date cut the price to £3.99

Disney+ has knocked 33% off its monthly price but the rare deal ends on this looming date

Economics

9 h. ago Shock moment plane passenger from hell rests her FEET on headrest in act of revenge after fellow flier reclined her seat

THIS is the moment a passenger from hell shamelessly planted her feet on a headrest after the woman in front dared to recline her seat. Footage from a Qatar Airways flight shows the enraged woman stretching her legs over the back of an economy class seat on a Doha to Moscow service, turning the cabin...

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9 h. ago Liam Gallagher weighs in on Harry Styles' ticket outrage and says Oasis' pricing was 'reasonable' by comparison as fans slam 'diabolical' cost

Weighing in on the outage, Liam joked that he had bought tickets to Harry's tour which he planned on selling online for 'ten times the price.'

Sport

9 h. ago AD FEATURE: 'Charmingly beautiful' Turkish Riviera has pristine beaches and 300 days of sunshine

Brits planning their next Türkiye holidays may want to check out the breathtaking region of Antalya that's packed with beautiful beaches, epic hiking trails and unrivalled scenery

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9 h. ago The US drew up a plan to invade Canada in 1930. Now Trump is reviving old fears

Now the US is vying regional dominance, experts point to War Plan Red as proof its Canadian allyship has always been flimsyFirst, American forces would strike with poison gas munitions, seizing a strategically valuable port city. Soldiers would sever undersea cables, destroy bridges and rail lines to paralyze infrastructure. Major cities on the shores of lakes and rivers would be captured in order to blunt any civilian resistance.The multipronged invasion would rely on ground forces, amphibious landing and then mass internments. According to the architects of the plan, the attack would be short-lived and the besieged country would fall within days. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago ‘The land will be left as ashes’: why Patagonia’s wildfires are almost impossible to stop

Funding cuts, conspiracy theories and ‘powder keg’ pine plantations have seen January’s forest fires tear through Chubut in southern Argentina Lucas Chiappe had known for a long time that the fire was coming. For decades, the environmentalist had warned that replacing native trees in the Andes mountain range with highly flammable foreign pine was a recipe for disaster.In early January, flames raced down the Pirque hill and edged closer to his home in the Patagonian town of Epuyén, Argentina, where he had lived since the 1970s. Thirty people with six motor pumps fought for hours, hoses stretched for kilometres, but “there was no way”. Continue reading...

Events

9 h. ago Know the score? I don’t read music, but that’s no hindrance to reimagining great classical works

Folk duo Pound & Stevens have transformed, and added to, Holst’s The Planets Suite and tour the new work this week with Britten Sinfonia. Will Pound explains why playing by ear is his greatest strengthI’m a harmonica and accordion player and one half of folk-classical duo Stevens & Pound. As a multi-instrumentalist I am rooted in a folk tradition that is oral, aural and communal. Music and song are passed down by ear, either through recordings or – more fun – traditional music sessions. Here, players and singers get together to share, swap and play tunes, drawing from a repertoire that is always evolving. While collections of tunes are certainly notated, their scores act as a skeleton – providing the basic architecture of pitch and rhythm but rarely offering explicit guidance on how the music should be played.Delia Stevens and I are about to head out on tour, performing with the Britten Sinfonia and Robert Macfarlane in a new work called The Silent Planet, a recomposition of...

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10 h. ago Coronation Street Debbie star breaks silence on ITV soap future in huge twist

Coronation Street's Debbie Webster has been at the centre of a huge plot twist on the ITV soap

Politics

10 h. ago No extra budget cuts planned for Merthyr Tydfil schools next year

One councillor welcomed the proposal not to ask for any further budget reductions from schools in next year's proposed budget

Politics

10 h. ago Reform’s tax plans for Scotland would require ‘difficult decisions’, experts say

The proposals would see tax bands realigned with the rest of the UK as well as a 1p-in-the-pound cut immediately.

Politics

10 h. ago ‘Historic and sensitive’ site near castle to have 48 homes built on it

The plans say the homes would 'assimilate with the typical local character'

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10 h. ago The Standard podcast: Will Brick Lane’s Truman Brewery become a data centre?

A £500m plan to redevelop East London’s historic Truman Brewery has sparked a bitter row in Brick Lane

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10 h. ago Coronation Street Debbie Webster star confirms ITV soap future and it's bad news

Coronation Street's Debbie Webster actress Sue Devaney has addressed her character's future

Politics

10 h. ago Local anger over plans for remote home in the same family for six decades

Planning officers had concluded the plan 'poses no conflict with policy and would not result in any harm to the character or housing mix of the area'

Society

10 h. ago UK ally and NATO country preparing for 'war in two years' as WW3 fears grow

A German military commander has warned the nation must prepare for the possibility of Russia launching a full-scale aggressive war against NATO within just two to three years

Events

10 h. ago The Breakdown | So much at stake and Six Nations just the start in ‘massive year for rugby union’

We may know the sport’s future is bright when trendsetters worldwide are wearing Fabien Galthié-style shadesOn the surface it was business at usual at this year’s Six Nations launch in a chilly Edinburgh. Had the city’s most famous literary sleuth poked his nose into the venue at the top of the Royal Mile, Inspector Rebus would have clocked the usual suspects: head coaches trying not to divulge any secrets, captains quietly studying their opposite numbers and content creators seeking to “jazz up” their tournament previews.This year’s booby prize went to the “influencer” who asked Caelan Doris, Ireland’s captain, whether or not he liked Fabien Galthié’s thick-rimmed glasses. It was almost on a par with the Breakdown’s all-time classic: the day someone asked Rob Baxter, Exeter’s director of rugby, to pick his favourite motorway service station. “Taunton Deane,” came the instant reply. “Because it means we’re almost home.” Brilliant. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Neil Young gifts Greenland free access to his music and withdraws it from Amazon over Trump

The singer-songwriter has donated access to his music archive to ‘ease the unwarranted stress and threats’ Greenlanders have experienced from the US governmentNeil Young has donated a year’s worth of access to his music and documentary archive to the people of Greenland after the territory’s future became the subject of a fraught dispute with the US.“I hope my music and music films will ease some of the unwarranted stress and threats you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,” Young wrote in a statement on his website, Neil Young Archives, which offers comprehensive access to the 80-year-old songwriter’s recorded and live catalogues and other output. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Mother, 28, killed herself after mistakenly being told her benefits were being cut, inquest finds

Tamara Jade Logan died at Tameside General Hospital two days after she was found hanged in Glossop, Derbyshire, on May 18, 2025.

Events

10 h. ago 'Build muscle' and 'burn fat' with free PureGym fitness plan anyone can use

The popular gym chain is offering free workouts for people looking to improve their health and fitness

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10 h. ago Victoria Beckham has trademarked her kids’ names – and my dog is not happy about it | Zoe Williams

My pup Romeo and daughter Harper share names with the Beckham offspring. Could VB not just have laid claim to ‘Posh’ instead?As a sidebar to the civil war in the House of Beckham, it emerged at the weekend that Victoria has trademarked all her children’s names. A lot of people think this is a peculiar parenting move, and a lot of other people think this a perfectly natural thing to do, for someone who has built a global brand from just their name and raw talent – but I thought, wait a second: my daughter is also called Harper and my dog is called Romeo, and even though neither of them has imminent plans to launch a perfume, I still should have been consulted on this.My Harper was born two years before the Beckhams’, and therefore by any reasonable metric, Posh copied me. But – see brand-building, above – by the time my Harper was four, even her own father couldn’t remember which one had come first. No such excuse for Romeo the dog, who started out 14 years younger than Romeo Beckham...

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