4 h. ago Fire plea after Birmingham resident burns recycling inside home amid bin strike

Rubbish has been piling up in the streets since hundreds of bin workers walked out on March 11 in a dispute with Birmingham City Council.

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10 h. ago Scots dad who died after being knocked down remembered by daughter as 'hero'

Brian Roan, 58, was struck by a Volkswagen on Carntyne Road, in the city's east end, at around 8.40pm on March 22.

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34 h. ago Glasgow Orange Walk road closures as 500 to march through city

The procession will march through streets in the city centre this weekend.

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4 d. ago Thousands of trans rights campaigners take to Cardiff streets to protest Supreme Court ruling

The march wound through the city centre, with participants waving flags and holding banners

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4 d. ago Terrifying discovery in the back of minivan after Colorado cops pulled over two Mexican men

Fremont County Sheriff's Office (FSCO) detectives made the deadly discovery after noticing a white Chevrolet van driving by them without dimming its headlights in Canon City, Colorado on March 26.

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7 d. ago Hundreds take to Manchester city streets in trans rights march

The protest comes after the UK’s Supreme Court ruled this week that the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex

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7 d. ago Bernardo Silva thinks Chelsea are signing his successor after £42m transfer agreement

Chelsea agreed a deal for this Sporting CP starlet in March, and Manchester City ace Bernardo Silva feels as though they've bagged a prodigious talent

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1 week ago Missing Kaliyah Coa: Body found in River Thames search for missing 11

Kaliyah, who had been playing during a school inset day, entered the water near Barge House Causeway, close to London City Airport, in east London on Monday, March 31

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1 week ago The world’s largest comic convention is held in which city? The Saturday quiz

From button, Grecian and hawk to Yellowknife and Whitehorse, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 Emilio Palma was, in 1978, the first person to be born where?2 Which series of tasks were imposed by King Eurystheus?3 What gen Z retort to the old was popularised by journalist Taylor Lorenz?4 “For Gallantry” and “We Also Serve” are written on which medal?5 Which province of Pakistan has a population of about 130 million?6 The world’s largest comic convention is held in which city?7 Who got married in Gibraltar on 20 March 1969?8 What was the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia?What links: 9 Dryden; Shadwell; Tate; Rowe; Eusden?10 Iqaluit; Yellowknife; Whitehorse?11 Button; Grecian; hawk; Nubian; Roman; snub?12 Bin (TV baking); blood (rugby); pizza (football); water (politics)?13 12 (20); 3 (6); 6 (3); 9 (11)?14 Bulbophyllum orchids; Rafflesia; Stapelia; titan arum?15 Wilhelmina; Juliana; Beatrix? Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Saturday’s Trump protests weren’t perfect. But they brought a glimmer of hope | Moira Donegan

The Hands Off event proved Americans with a slew of different priorities can still form a broad left-liberal coalitionWhat is the point of street protest? This is the question I asked myself as I rode the bus downtown to San Francisco city hall, where activists were hosting a rally and march for Hands Off, a national day of action meant to collect a broad range of resistance to the Trump regime under one banner.During the first Trump administration, I’d gone to these a lot. I’d attended the Women’s March in Washington in January of 2017, and felt myself crushed between the bodies of the hundreds of thousands of attenders; I’d held a sign at JFK airport, chanting “Immigrants are welcome here”, a few weeks later, when Trump instituted his travel ban. In 2020, I’d marched in Black Lives Matter protests, trying to avenge the horror I had felt when I’d seen videos of police officers killing Black men, often as they begged for their lives, played over and over again on the tiny screen of ...

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2 w. ago Rayner to meet with Birmingham council leaders as bin strikes continue

The city council declared a major incident on Monday March 31 because of the impact of the strike by members of the Unite union.

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3 w. ago Glasgow locals fear rat invasion as 'putrid' bins not emptied in a month

They fear the area will soon by taken over by rats and other vermin after telling how they hadn't been emptied by city binmen since the beginning of March.

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4 w. ago Kansas babysitter checking for monsters finds man hiding under bed

Police arrest suspect after sitter shocked to encounter man when trying to show child there was nothing under the bedA babysitter in Kansas who was asked by a child to check for monsters under their bed was stunned to discover a man hiding there, police have said.The shocking incident occurred on 24 March at a property just outside the city of Great Bend, when the sitter was seeking to put the children she was looking after to bed. However, one of them was afraid. Continue reading...

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