50 m. ago Expert's three watering tricks to help hydrangeas bloom big and bright

Gorgeous and bold blooms on woody hydrangea shrubs are possible throughout spring and summer when they are taken care of - here's how to water the plant for big and beautiful flowers

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70 m. ago Lara Trump posts video of her 'jeopardizing the life' of the head of the Secret Service during car stunt

First daughter-in-law Lara Trump took Secret Service Director Sean Curran for a wild ride - as she toured the agency's Raleigh training center for her Fox News show.

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86 m. ago Insurance catch that cost Ecclestones £25m in Britain's biggest burglary: Tamara's husband reveals the astonishing oversight which left them unable to claim for stolen gems

EXCLUSIVE: Incredibly, the insurance policy for their £75million home contained an exemption clause for watches and jewellery that had previously gone unnoticed.

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89 m. ago Peaky Blinders star is back in trouble with law after missing out on playing Arthur Shelby in hit Cillian Murphy movie

EXCLUSIVE: The star, 50, has been convicted of riding a BMW motorbike without insurance in leafy St John's Wood close to Lord's Cricket Ground on August 12 last year.

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2 h. ago AI images of child sexual abuse getting ‘significantly more realistic’, says watchdog

Internet Watch Foundation report shows 380% increase in illegal AI-generated imagery in 2024, most of it ‘category A’Images of child sexual abuse created by artificial intelligence are becoming “significantly more realistic”, according to an online safety watchdog.The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said advances in AI are being reflected in illegal content created and consumed by paedophiles, saying: “In 2024, the quality of AI-generated videos improved exponentially, and all types of AI imagery assessed appeared significantly more realistic as the technology developed.” Continue reading...

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4 h. ago 6 ‘security guards’ charged after booting woman for Republican town hall

During the incident in February a female protester – Teresa Borrenpohl – was pulled from her seat, wrestled to the ground and dragged out of a packed auditorium by the unidentified men

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4 h. ago Joe Lycett’s United States of Birmingham review – what a brilliantly daft road trip, bab!

The comic’s love for his home town leads him on this charming and wacky odyssey to find ‘his people’ across the pond. Brummies of the world unite!Joe Lycett is on a mission to visit every one of the 17 Birminghams in the US and the one in Canada too. Why? Because he is a native of the UK’s own Birmingham, and he wants to see if there is any shared identifiable vibe and to foster a sense of togetherness among the scattered Brummies. Also, as he says, he has a pressing need to make a travelogue for Sky “and if anyone can do it, it’s Frank Sk– it’s me”. There is also a Birmingham on the moon (a remnant of an impact crater – save your jokes, please, that’s Joe’s department) and one in Belgium. But “we don’t have a lunar budget and I’m not going to Belgium,” says Lycett, so off he sets round the US in a tour bus suitably decked out in Cat Deeley and Alison Hammond scatter cushions. They both hail from Birmingham in the UK. This is not difficult, people. Do try to keep up.Joe has a sheaf ...

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5 h. ago UK prison opens Iceland and 'JP Sports' behind bars – lags even have sweet shop

The Iceland Foods opened in the Category C jail near Wolverhampton - the largest prison in the country - last month. Governor Sean Oliver said the move will also help prisoners learn how to budget

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5 h. ago US supreme court seems inclined to allow exemption of LGBTQ+ books for elementary schoolers

Justices heard from Christian and Muslim parents from Maryland seeking to pull children from certain classesThe US supreme court appeared inclined to rule in favor of Christian and Muslim parents in Maryland seeking to keep their elementary school children out of certain classes when storybooks with LGBTQ+ characters are read in the latest case involving the intersection of religion and LGBTQ+ rights.The nine justices heard arguments on Tuesday in an appeal by parents with children in public schools in Montgomery county, located just outside of Washington, after lower courts declined to order the local school district to let children opt out when these books are read. The plaintiffs – including Muslim, Roman Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox parents – contend that the school board’s policy of prohibiting opt-outs violates the US constitution’s first amendment protections for free exercise of religion. Donald Trump’s administration backed them in the case. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Tiny town changed forever after horrific act saw 600 men forced to hand over DNA

In 1999, the horrific sexual assault on an elderly woman, led to a ground breaking tool - DNA forensics - which is now vital for Police when catching criminals

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6 h. ago Chris Eubank Jr: ‘I shouldn’t be doing this. But we are the daredevils of sport’

British boxer discusses the horrors of making weight and strained relations with his dad before Saturday’s grudge match with Conor BennChris Eubank Jr sits in his hotel room, locked in the extremes of a savage weight cut. Boiling down in weight gets even harder at the age of 35 but the words still flow freely. Eubank Jr can produce intelligent insights as easily as he churns out typical bombast and so he has no difficulty in explaining why his fight on Saturday night with Conor Benn will darken the British sporting landscape this week.They were first meant to fight in October 2022, when a manufactured scrap was built on the enmity between their fathers, Chris Eubank Sr and Nigel Benn, in the 1990s. Separated by two weight divisions, the sons were brought together in a dubious catchweight contest while banging on about family feuds and legacies. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Living Nostradamus says Pope Francis will be 'the last leader of Catholic church'

EXCLUSIVE: Athos Salomé, who is known as the 'Living Nostradamus', has released a series of bombshell predictions about the future of the Catholic church and Rome being hit by an earthquake

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8 h. ago Megan Fox's baby daddy Machine Gun Kelly spotted on rare outing with teen daughter after welcoming 2nd child

On Monday, the rapper was joined by his mother Angela Andaloro and his 13-year-old daughter Casie as he went grocery shopping at Erewhon in Calabasas.

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8 h. ago Wildlife increasingly targeted with catapults as 'unspeakably cruel' games lead to painful deaths

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES. Wildlife rescuers say they have seen a worrying increase in the number of attacks using catapults causing injuries and deaths to birds, foxes and other animals as the animals face painful deaths

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8 h. ago Pete Hegseth attacks Biden for ‘handling classified documents flippantly’ in resurfaced Fox News interview

US defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s 2023 remarks attacking then President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents have resurfaced online, as the Republican finds himself embroiled in his own security scandal.

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9 h. ago Pope Francis’s funeral to be held at St Peter’s Basilica on Saturday

Francis will be buried in Rome’s Esquilino neighbourhood, in break from traditionLatest updates after death of Pope FrancisThe funeral of Pope Francis will be held on Saturday at St Peter’s Square, the Vatican said on Tuesday, as a host of world leaders and royals including Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Donald Trump and the Prince of Wales confirmed their attendance.The pope, the head of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, died at his home in the Vatican on Monday aged 88 after a stroke. He had been recovering from double pneumonia for which he was hospitalised for five weeks. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Pope Francis had ‘unfinished business’, says Michael D Higgins

The President of Ireland said he hopes the next pope will build on the steps Francis was able to take.

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9 h. ago Georgia university receives $500,000 grant to preserve Gullah Geechee heritage

GSU will establish the Gullah Geechee Sacred Land Project to research and protect the community and its cultureA new $500,000 Mellon grant will allow Georgia State University to develop archival, historical and cultural research to protect Gullah Geechee heritage and communities in Georgia and South Carolina.Using the grant, GSU will establish the Gullah Geechee Sacred Land Project (GGSLP), which will be “dedicated to maintaining African American burial grounds by recovering communities’ spiritual, genealogical and spatial lineages and safeguarding the places where those communities interred their ancestors”, according to a statement by the college. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Husband, 41, in court accused of murdering businesswoman wife, 37, whose body was found in back garden

Alireza Askari, 41, is accused of murdering Paria Veisi, 37, whose body was later found at a property in the Penylan area of Cardiff.

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10 h. ago What are the costs when buying a house, including solicitors fees, removals and stamp duty

There are lots of costs to consider when moving home

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