24 m. ago Salvage Hunters star forced to sell antiques after running out of cash for home

Salvage Hunters star Drew Pritchard has been feeling the financial pressure of his Georgian house restoration project in Bath, with the renovation almost grinding to a halt

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32 m. ago 'I'm branded a bad mum but I'm forced to lock my fridge as my 17st son, 12, won't stop eating'

Caden Graham's mum has taken to social media to defend her parenting after revealing his debilitating genetic condition causes him to root through the rubbish in search for food

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39 m. ago Ruud van Nistelrooy admits Leicester face ‘huge mountain’ to avoid relegation

Brentford moved into the top half of the Premier League with a 4-0 win

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42 m. ago BBC Breakfast halted for 'breaking news' as host forced to cut interview short

BBC Breakfast presenter Charlie Stayt was forced to cut his interview with former UK ambassador to Ukraine Simon Smith short due to a breaking news announcement

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46 m. ago If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt

Deaths on the road costs countries up to 5% of GDP. Centring transport around people, not cars, can propel developmentIf you had to guess the leading cause of death for children and young people around the world, what would you say? Malaria perhaps? Pneumonia? Suicide? They’re all high up there, but no, it’s road accidents.Cars have been around for more than 120 years, and we know how to prevent these tragedies. Yet road crashes still claim more than two lives every minute – killing nearly 1.2 million people every year. Continue reading...

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46 m. ago Daniel Dubois fight return date as Frank Warren explains decision – 'we don't take risks'

FRANK WARREN COLUMN: Daniel Dubois was forced to pull out of his clash with Joseph Parker due to illness - but 'Dynamite' will return to the ring soon

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46 m. ago Tesco worker reveals the one item you didn't know you could get in a meal deal

Tesco TikTokker Nathan Lorenzo has blown the collective minds of the British people by divulging some vital in-store intel to do with the traditional meal deal and what you can get

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85 m. ago Ruud van Nistelrooy breaks unwanted Premier League record as Leicester crisis deepens

Leicester City were thrashed 4-0 at home by Brentford on Friday night in a match which saw them hit a new low in the Premier League under manager Ruud van Nistelrooy

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1 hour ago Toxic Town: Jodie Whittaker is absolutely flawless as she battles real

The hasty regeneration of Corby’s old steelworks poisoned a generation. Now the story of how it came to court is told in a harrowing, if slightly melodramatic, new Netflix seriesJack Thorne writes the kind of meaningful, worthwhile dramas that you definitely – no, honestly – do plan to watch but just maybe not tonight. Best Interests from 2023, about a distraught mother battling the NHS doctors who decide to allow her severely ill teenage daughter to die, was warm, miraculously funny, and as gripping as a thriller. It was also so traumatising that it could make the viewer feel as if they were in actual physical pain. Before that, there was The Accident, whose matter-of-fact title only hinted at the harrowing subject matter: the series covered the aftermath of a construction site explosion in Wales that killed eight children.Toxic Town (Thursday 27 February, Netflix) – Thorne’s new four-part series – could be considered a companion piece to The Accident: it also deals with a dea...

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1 hour ago Plastic bags and chicken bones: the fossils scientists believe will become our eternal legacy

Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientistsAs an eternal testament of humanity, plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones are not a glorious legacy. But two scientists exploring which items from our technological civilisation are most likely to survive for many millions of years as fossils have reached an ironic but instructive conclusion: fast food and fast fashion will be our everlasting geological signature.“Plastic will definitely be a signature ‘technofossil’, because it is incredibly durable, we are making massive amounts of it, and it gets around the entire globe,” says the palaeontologist Prof Sarah Gabbott, a University of Leicester expert on the way that fossils form. “So wherever those future civilisations dig, they are going to find plastic. There will be a plastic signal that will wrap around the globe.” Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Extremists would not need to create an authoritarian state in Britain: Starmer is doing that for them | George Monbiot

The PM and his ministers are supporting illiberal laws that hard-right authoritarians could apply with zealIf the Trump project implodes, it might take with it the extreme and far-right European parties to which it is umbilically connected. Like all such parties, the hard-right Reform UK poses as patriotic while grovelling to foreign interests, and this could be its undoing.But we cannot bank on it. The UK government must do all it can to prevent the disaster that has befallen several other European nations. If it fails to meet people’s needs and keeps echoing far-right talking points, we could go the same way as Italy, the Netherlands, Hungary, Finland, Sweden and Austria.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Which English arboreal project occupies 200 square miles? The Saturday quiz

From back, basting and zigzag to ‘the stuff that dreams are made of’, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 What TV cliffhanger was resolved on 21 November 1980?2 Which body in the solar system has lakes of liquid methane?3 What Yorkshire side were the first national women’s football league champions?4 In a 1941 film, what was “the stuff that dreams are made of”?5 Who writes the Empyrean fantasy book series?6 What does the US defense department classify as UAP?7 What arboreal project occupies 200 square miles of central England?8 Which monarch was killed in 1057 at the Battle of Lumphanan?What links: 9 Emotion icon; glamorous camping; smoke and fog; fan magazine; romantic comedy?10 Cantuar; Dunelm; Ebor; Petriburg; Roffen; Sarum?11 Tom Cruise (6.5 mins, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation); Kate Winslet (7.25 mins, Avatar: The Way of Water)?12 Seth Pecksniff; Howard Roark; Anthony Royal; Rudolf Santonix?13 Back; basting; blind; cross; running; slip; zigzag?14 8 (1950-60); 9 (19...

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2 h. ago Daniel Dubois' huge net worth, biggest boxing purse to date and model 'girlfriend'

Daniel Dubois has been forced to withdraw from his Saturday night IBF title defence with Joseph Parker due to illness, replaced by Martin Bakole in the eleventh hour to save the fight

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2 h. ago Man Utd decision 'upset' Sir Alex Ferguson before he angrily hit back at 'nonsense' claim

Sir Alex Ferguson delivered trophy after trophy over the course of his historic reign at Manchester United, but David Moyes' spell in charge after he succeeded his fellow Scot proved problematic

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2 h. ago Body of hostage Shiri Bibas identified, Israeli Army radio says

Authorities in Israel have reportedly identified the body of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas, who was likely killed in Hamas captivity with her two children.

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2 h. ago Why it's important to remember Scotland's police officers, nurses and social workers are real

Emergency service personal and other public sector workers do difficult jobs for relatively low levels of pay and save countless lives

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2 h. ago Shiri Bibas remains identified as Israel and Hamas prepare for another hostage

Gaza ceasefire deal still on track amid uproar over fate of two Israeli boys and initial false return of their mother’s bodyThe body of the Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas has been identified, Israel’s army radio reported early on Saturday, adding that Bibas was likely killed in captivity with her children.The confirmation came as Israelis and Palestinians braced for another tense exchange of hostages, prisoners and detainees on Saturday after uproar in Israel over allegations that two child hostages were “brutally murdered” by Hamas, and the group’s initial failure to deliver the body of their mother, instead returning the corpse of an unidentified woman. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Tesco confirms popular breakfast products have been discontinued in all stores

The products in question are Tesco's Apricot Wheats and the branded version from Kellogg's which are both small wholegrain wheat squares with a fruit-flavoured filling

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2 h. ago Sir Alex Ferguson was 'upset' by Man United decision after hitting back at 'nonsense' claim

Sir Alex Ferguson had a big hand in David Moyes becoming his successor at Manchester United, but unfortunately the Everton boss' time at Old Trafford was cut short after a troublesome spell in charge

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2 h. ago Discovery of potential pandemic virus in China raises global health concerns

Researchers in China have discovered a new coronavirus in bats that they say has the potential to spread to humans, after the world was recently hit by the COVID-19 pandemic

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