3 h. ago Government shares top 25 strangest objects lodged in people's bums in 2025

Officials have revealed some of the most bizarre objects people stick up their bums, a habit that causes nearly 40,000 individuals to seek hospital treatment each year

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64 h. ago Want a pay rise? These are the 10 jobs that saw the biggest salary bumps in 2025

There are roles that are still on the receiving end of hefty pay increases, if you look in the right place.

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9 d. ago Threat to community safety teams is 'going to have devastating effect' on town

The Shared Prosperity Fund from UK Government funds several roles in Merthyr Tydfil's community safety team, but it's due to end in March

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1 week ago Something gnawed your oak tree? Sink hole in your road? How Zurich’s beaver hotline is reassuring residents

As the number of the semi-aquatic creatures soars so can tensions. But the Swiss have a tried and tested system to calm the neighbours and restore harmony“I hate beavers,” a woman tells the beaver hotline. Forty years ago she planted an oak tree in a small town in southern Zurich – now at the frontier of beaver expansion – and it has just been felled: gnawed by the large, semi-aquatic rodents as they enter their seasonal home-improvement mode.The caller is one of 10 new people getting in touch each week at this time of year. Beavers, nature’s great engineers, can unleash mayhem during winter as they renovate their lodges and build up their dams. For people, this can mean flooding, sinkholes appearing in roads and trees being felled. A single incident can clock up 70,000 Swiss francs (£65,000) in damages. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Mecca Bingo owner Rank hit by £6.2m payment fraud in Spanish arm

The casino and bingo hall firm has reported the matter to the local police and has launched its own internal investigation.

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2 w. ago FTSE 100 Live 19 December: WH Smith pressure continues, retail sales disappoint

Black Friday failed to lift the retail sector after figures for November today came in below expectations.

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2 w. ago FTSE 100 Live 19 December: Retail sales disappoint, WH Smith posts delayed results

Black Friday failed to lift the retail sector after figures for November today came in below expectations.

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2 w. ago It's a been a bumper year for biographies and memoirs: here Ysenda Maxtone Graham has picked out the best ones of 2025

Dive into the lives and loves of some of the world's most eminent people through the best memoirs and biographies of the year

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2 w. ago Daughter of hero who died throwing brick at Bondi terrorist lashes out at Albanese government for 'failing' her father

Reuven Morrison died while standing up to the Bondi terrorists on Sunday. Now, his daughter has shared how the Australian Government 'failed' her family.

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2 w. ago Bump: A Christmas Film review – the most masochistic holiday ever?

Oly and Santi take their newborn on a hellish cruise halfway around the world. But amid the torture there are beautiful moments to treasure in this much-loved Aussie drama As a teenager, Oly Chalmers-Davis weathered her fair share of motherhood-related horrors. For a start, the high-achieving 16-year-old went into labour in the school toilets, having not even realised she was pregnant. Not long afterwards, she was forced to tell her boyfriend he wasn’t the father – the baby was the product of a fling with another classmate. Then, unable to entertain the prospect of her perfect grades slipping, she decided to juggle studying with looking after a newborn, all the while navigating mastitis, mockery from her classmates (including some inventively mean-spirited memes) and a rocky on-off romance with her child’s dad, Santi.After five series following Oly (Nathalie Morris) and Santi (Carlos Sanson Jr) as they struggled to adjust to parenthood, hit Australian comedy-drama Bump wrapped thing...

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2 w. ago Newsom and Pelosi lead Democrat mourning for Hollywood activist Rob Reiner who angrily called out Biden in election party outburst

Top Democrats including California Governor Gavin Newsom and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have shared their condolences for activist and producer Rob Reiner.

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2 w. ago Newsom and Pelosi lead Democrat mourning for Hollywood activist Rob Reiner who dared to speak the truth on Biden in election party outburst

Top Democrats including California Governor Gavin Newsom and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have shared their condolences for activist and producer Rob Reiner.

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2 w. ago Syrian man who ambushed and killed three Americans was government solider with ISIS links, officials say

A Syrian government official shared that the individual presumed responsible for the Saturday murder of American troops in the country was set to be fired from his job the next day.

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3 w. ago 2025's best Christmas gifts for every single person on your list

From glam grans to inscrutable teens and even your neighbours, this shopping expert has all bases covered

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3 w. ago DWP Universal Credit 'cancellations' alert as claimants impacted

The Government has shared some figures showing how widespread the issue is

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4 w. ago Why small farmers can’t fix our hunger problem | Cassandra Loftlin

Big farmers grab the lion’s share of US government support, and recent cuts have chipped away at small growers’ markets and marginsThe most significant food system failure since the pandemic was not a natural disaster: in October, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) was temporarily suspended for the month of November due to the government shutdownMore than 40 million people had to ration food, skip meals and make sacrifices we might associate with the Great Depression, not 21st-century America. Churches, community groups and neighbors sprang into action. They checked on single moms juggling multiple jobs, elderly friends living alone, people with disabilities and large families with children too young for school lunch programs. And though food stamps were restored, the Trump administration is now threatening to pull Snap funds from Democratic-led states. Continue reading...

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