2 h. ago Care home workers who fabricated OAP's will to embezzle £178k jailed

Jamiel Slaney-Summers, 65, together with Graham Walker, 74, and his wife Lyn, 71, conspired to defraud vulnerable 85-year-old Rita Barnsley.

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2 h. ago George Clarke opens Strictly’s musicals week with ‘sensational’ Argentine tango

Ahead of musicals week the pair met cast members from The Phantom Of The Opera to get into character.

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4 h. ago West Lothian musician makes 'gutting' discovery upon returning to car after gig

Kyle Wood had been supporting American touring band Dim Wizard at Bloc+ in Glasgow on Tuesday, December 2, when he made the discovery.

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5 h. ago Strictly's Amy Dowden shows true feelings over Tom Fletcher after pair 'sobbed and sobbed'

Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden has spoken about how her close friendship with former celebrity partner Tom Fletcher became life-saving after his charity work led to her cancer diagnosis

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6 h. ago A third of company bosses are planning to lay off staff over holiday season, survey suggests

Over half of company heads said their cuts would most likely come between Thanksgiving and Christmas

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7 h. ago Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’

AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’A single person claims to have authored 113 academic papers on artificial intelligence this year, 89 of which will be presented this week at one of the world’s leading conference on AI and machine learning, which has raised questions among computer scientists about the state of AI research.The author, Kevin Zhu, recently finished a bachelor’s degree in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and now runs Algoverse, an AI research and mentoring company for high schoolers – many of whom are his co-authors on the papers. Zhu himself graduated from high school in 2018. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago How Prince Harry and Meghan Markle celebrated their first Christmas together in secret

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's first Christmas as a couple was suitably low-key, with the pair selecting a six-foot-tall tree and decorating it together at Nottingham Cottage, Kensington Palace.

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7 h. ago Katy Perry 'hard launches' Justin Trudeau romance with double date

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau have made their romance official with a high profile outing in Tokyo, where the pair joined Japan's former prime minister Fumio Kishida and his wife Yuko for an elegant lunch

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8 h. ago Cowboy builder leaves couple's home in ruins and makes off with £100,000: Devastated wife reveals how the stress led to her losing a baby

Andy Clarke, 46, and his then-pregnant wife, Lisa Clarke, 43, from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, were forced to pay another firm £150,000 to get the work completed.

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8 h. ago Max Holloway vs Charles Oliveira 2 official with ‘BMF’ title on the line at UFC 326

Eleven years after Holloway beat the Brazilian, the pair will square off again

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9 h. ago ‘Mouthpieces for Trump’: inside the rightwing takeover of the Pentagon press corps

Pentagon press passes once held by credentialed journalists are now in the hands of rightwing pundits and Trump alliesBeing a member of the Pentagon press corps was once one of the more prestigious assignments in US journalism, a position reserved for heavy hitters from venerable newspapers and news channels, reporters at the peak of their powers.Not any more. A press conference last week – held at a crucial time for a Pentagon embroiled in scandal – was instead attended by more than a dozen rightwing activists, with the government being held to account by a close ally of Donald Trump, an employee at Turning Point USA and someone from a pillow salesman’s nascent media company. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Cops watchdog to probe death of man in custody after major Glasgow incident

A 39-year-old man died on Friday, December 5, after being taken into custody following a reported disturbance.

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10 h. ago 'I was never gifted with a pair of boobs – then I had surgery after giving birth'

Leanna Armstrong, 22, had always felt self-conscious about the size of her chest, but after having her daughter Darcie-May at the age of 17, she felt unhappier with her appearance than ever

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10 h. ago Glasgow Berkeley Street incident: Man, 39, who died after Glasgow ‘disturbance’ was in police custody

Police Scotland said the death is being treated as unexplained

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11 h. ago Arsenal and Chelsea suffer January blow as £39m target snubs transfer for rival club

Arsenal and Chelsea have been monitoring one of European football's hottest prospects but the Premier League pair have been dealt a blow ahead of the winter window

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12 h. ago Toyota Land Cruiser review: unstoppable in the worst UK weather

Caught in a storm with the new Toyota Land Cruiser? Perfect timing. On flooded roads, high winds and rural chaos, this iconic 4x4 showed exactly why it has a 70-year reputation for being unstoppable

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12 h. ago Beauty fans can bag £145 eye cream for £100 less in Christmas beauty box worth £375

The Christmas Beauty Gift Edit contains ten products and shopping writer Nisha Mal tested it out to see if it was worth its £44.99 price tag

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13 h. ago Meghan Markle just wore the perfect red pyjamas in her Netflix Christmas special

Cosy season has officially arrived - and what better way to celebrate than by slipping into a brand new pair of pyjamas?

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13 h. ago Man died in police custody after major Glasgow police incident

The 39-year-old man died in custody following an incident on Berkeley Street in Glasgow.

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14 h. ago Five years on: rugby’s brain damaged players wait and wait for the help they need

In 2020 Steve Thompson revealed he could not remember winning the Rugby World Cup and since then his case and others have been caught up in a warren of legal argumentThe Royal Courts of Justice are a warren. They were built piecemeal over 125 years of intermittent construction, wings were added, blocks were expanded and then joined by a web of twisting staircases and long corridors. You navigate your way to whichever corner of it you have business in by checking the tiny print on the long daily case lists that are posted in the lobby early each morning, when the building always seems to be full of people hurrying in the other direction. For the last three years, three separate sets of legal action about brain damage in sport have been slowly making their way through here, lost in the hallways.One is in football, one is in rugby union, one is in rugby league. The same small firm, Rylands Garth, is behind all three. Sometimes these hearings take place in the modern rooms of the east b...

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