55 m. ago Tour de force! British soldiers don their finest uniforms for the Colonel's Review

The occasion transforms the Mall as crowds line up the streets waving flags as 1400 soldiers parade alongside 200 horses and 400 musicians from Horse Guard's Parade to Buckingham Palace .

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61 m. ago Met Office weather warning extended as huge thunder and lightning alert issued for 36 areas

A yellow warning for thunder and lightining is in place in parts of England today - the Met Office warned there could be some damage to some buildongs and structures

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62 m. ago Appleby Horse Fair chaos as blaze breaks out as thousands of travellers attend

Tens of thousands of travellers descended on Appleby for the tiny village's annual horse fair, but visitors were forced to evacuate an area on Saturday as a fire broke out

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86 m. ago Manchester's lost nightclubs we loved despite the sticky floors and sweaty walls

Remembering those chaotic nights when tomorrow's pounding head and queasy guts were an accepted part of a big night out

Politics

88 m. ago The 13 Brits banged up abroad amid alarm over 'drug mule' explosion

There's mounting concern among police and border force officials about the rise in Britons being detained over drugs trafficking

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99 m. ago Months after being caught at Forest Bank prison, he went on a 10

Wasim Omar, and four others, stole more than £100,000 from their victims in a ten-month rampage

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1 hour ago Trafford Centre statement after chaotic crowd surge at opening of world's largest JD Sports

"Our officers were on hand to manage this"

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1 hour ago Thunderstorms on cards for parts of England and Wales, forecasters say

Up to 40mm of rain could fall in a few hours in some places – more than in the entire month of May.

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2 h. ago How Hollywood took over Broadway and obliterated box office records

George Clooney, Denzel Washington and Kieran Culkin helped Broadway set new box office records this year thanks to sky-high ticket prices. ‘The Independent’s’ resident Broadway expert Caitlin Hornik examines what this could mean for the Great White Way

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2 h. ago Germany plans rapid bunker expansion amid fears of Russian attack

Civil protection agency chief says country is ill-prepared for conflict and calls for urgent upgrades to cold war sheltersGermany is drawing up plans to rapidly expand its network of bomb-proof bunkers and shelters, the government’s most senior civilian protection official has said, warning the state needs to be prepared for an attack from Russia within the next four years.Ralph Tiesler, the head of the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK), said Europe’s largest economy needed to wake up to the reality of conflict, and that in its current state Germany was inadequately prepared. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Riot cops storm Glasgow city centre streets as man arrested amid 'disturbance'

Pictures show a heavy police presence hours after emergency services were called to Kent Road, near St Vincent Street, around 4.45am on Saturday.

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2 h. ago Nick Knowles, 64, marries fiancée Katie, 34, in romantic six

Nick Knowles first met his new wife Katie Dadzie back in 2019 and the pair have now made it official and tied the knot

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3 h. ago Supermarket worker caught at airport with £1.2million in his suitcase as he claimed he was jetting off on family holiday is jailed for money laundering

Mazen Al Shaar, 48, was stopped by Border Force officers on March 15 as he was about to fly from Terminal Three at Heathrow to Beirut .

Economics

3 h. ago Home Office plans to spend £2.2bn of foreign aid on asylum support this year

International rules allow countries to count first-year costs of supporting refugees as overseas development assistance.

Economics

4 h. ago Southport killer Axel Rudkubana's life in prison as he gets 'legal minimum rights'

Axel Rudakubana, 18, was jailed for life with a minimum of 52 years in January after he killed three children in a knife attack at a workshop in Southport, Merseyside

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5 h. ago Defined benefit pension reform will spur limited UK investment, officials warn

Rules to release surpluses will only extract 5% of £160bn in excess assets, according to departmental assessment

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5 h. ago Southport killer Axel Rudakubana's life in prison after alleged attack on officer

He is said to be receiving ''minimum legal entitlements'

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6 h. ago Death row inmate's last meal caused so much fury prisoners now can't pick final food

Lawrence Brewer was executed in 2011 for kidnapping and killing James Byrd Jr, but not before he ordered a whopper of a final meal including two chicken steaks, a cheeseburger and a pound of ice cream

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6 h. ago Glasgow city centre streets locked down for six hours as man arrested over 'disturbance'

Officers were called to the scene near St Vincent Street at around 4.45am on Saturday.

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6 h. ago Survivors are pulled from rubble after massive Putin strike on Ukraine's second city Kharkiv killed two as Trump says Ukrainians brought attack on themselves

More than 40 explosions were heard as Kremlin forces unleashed 48 kamikaze drones plus six aerial bombs and missiles on Kharkiv just before dawn today.

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