56 m. ago Devon residents without water to receive £200 compensation, says MP

South West Water said around 9,500 properties in the Torquay area were still affected after a pipe burst on Monday.

Economics

82 m. ago Freddie Flintoff makes telling admission on TV career after terrifying Top Gear crash

Freddie Flintoff is working as the head coach of England Lions and is clear that cricket is the most important thing for him work-wise, having rediscovered the sport

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94 m. ago IMF forecasts three more Bank of England rate cuts this year

The International Monetary Fund has slashed its forecasts for the UK economy on the back of Donald Trump's trade tariff uncertainty warning the UK is likely to see an inflation spike

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1 hour ago Number of Channel migrants is up a THIRD on previous record as 9,500 reach Britain in just four months this year

Official figures show the hefty figure compares to to 6,691 in the same period in the record-breaking year of 2022. And 5,916 had reached the UK in the same time frame last year.

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2 h. ago Pharrell’s $500 Adidas Super Shoe Is Returning Only for the London Marathon in Limited Numbers

Pharrell’s $500 Adidas Super Shoe Is Returning Only for the London Marathon in Limited Numbers  Footwear News

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2 h. ago Vicar, 79, found with vile 'eunuch maker' images as police raided his house over meth and ketamine hoard he claimed helped him relate to followers

Geoffrey Baulcomb, a former Church of England vicar who claimed his drug habit helped him relate to his parishioners, has admitted possessing indecent images linked to the 'eunuch maker' case.

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3 h. ago Gold climbs above $3,500 for first time as Wall Street rallies after slide

Dollar also recovers after Monday’s sell-off prompted by Trump’s attack on Federal Reserve chair caused alarm among investorsBusiness live – latest updatesGold has climbed above $3,500 an ounce for the first time while stocks on Wall Street and the dollar rose following Monday’s sell-off that was prompted by Donald Trump’s blistering attack on the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, caused alarm among investors.Spot gold reached the record price of $3,500.01 on Tuesday, extending a rally that has pushed bullion up from $2,623 an ounce at the start of this year. Analysts now predict the metal could even reach $4,000 only a matter of weeks after the price moved through $3,000 for the first time. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago RFK Jr’s autism study collecting Americans’ private medical records

The National Institutes of Health claims it is fulfilling RFK’s promise to find and root out cause of autism by SeptemberThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) is collecting the private medical records of many Americans from several different federal and commercial databases to give to researchers for US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s new autism study.With this information being included in the database, they’re also reportedly crafting a new registry to track those with autism, per CBS News. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Tonight's rugby news as WRU chief issues warning to regions and England great retires

The latest headlines from Wales and around the world

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3 h. ago Shock study shows marriage is linked to increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease

Staying single or divorcing could lower your odds of getting dementia

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3 h. ago Georgia university receives $500,000 grant to preserve Gullah Geechee heritage

GSU will establish the Gullah Geechee Sacred Land Project to research and protect the community and its cultureA new $500,000 Mellon grant will allow Georgia State University to develop archival, historical and cultural research to protect Gullah Geechee heritage and communities in Georgia and South Carolina.Using the grant, GSU will establish the Gullah Geechee Sacred Land Project (GGSLP), which will be “dedicated to maintaining African American burial grounds by recovering communities’ spiritual, genealogical and spatial lineages and safeguarding the places where those communities interred their ancestors”, according to a statement by the college. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Look to his stand on Gaza: Pope Francis gave us moral leadership in amoral times | Owen Jones

With his outspokenness about Israel’s outrages, the late pope showed up the hypocrisy of the media and politiciansThe deaths of major public figures can provoke the most grotesque outpourings of hypocrisy. So it goes for Pope Francis, now lauded by leaders and media outlets that were complicit in the very evils he condemned. “Pope Francis was a pope for the poor, the downtrodden and the forgotten,” said Keir Starmer, a prime minister who stripped the winter fuel payment from many vulnerable pensioners before launching an assault on disability benefits predicted to drive up to 400,000 Britons into poverty. “He promoted an end to suffering across the globe,” wrote Joe Biden, enabler of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza.Indeed, the fate of Gaza seemed to preoccupy the pope’s final years. In his last Easter address, he condemned the “death and destruction” and resulting “dramatic and deplorable humanitarian situation” – a powerful sermon that hardly any western media outlets covered. I...

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4 h. ago JD Vance’s children steal limelight during meeting with Indian prime minister Modi

JD Vance's three young children stole the show as their father paid a special visit to meet with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.

Politics

4 h. ago Church of England vicar admits possessing child sex abuse and extreme porn images

The vicar admitted child sex offences following a raid on his cottage

Events

4 h. ago Scientists identify common virus that makes you SEVEN TIMES more likely to get early dementia

In the new study, the Italian researchers recruited 132,986 adults aged 50 and older - 12,000 of who were hospitalised with a common virus.

Science

4 h. ago Teenagers who go to bed early and sleep longer have sharper brains, study finds

Researchers surprised at impact that even small differences in sleep make to adolescents’ cognitive abilitiesTeenagers who go to bed earlier and sleep for longer than their peers tend to have sharper mental skills and score better on cognitive tests, researchers have said.A study of more than 3,000 adolescents showed that those who turned in earliest, slept the longest, and had the lowest sleeping heart rates outperformed others on reading, vocabulary, problem solving and other mental tests. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Youngsters who sleep longer may perform better in tests, study suggests

The group that slept the longest performed the best, the research showed.

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5 h. ago Are you using the correct pillow for your body type? These are the 6 biggest pillow mistakes according to a sleep expert

According to Lisa Artis, deputy CEO of The Sleep Charity, poor pillow habits aren't just uncomfortable - they can trigger allergies, mess with spinal alignment and leave you tossing and turning all night.

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5 h. ago Common fruit scientists say you should eat more of to lower blood pressure

A new study has suggested that increasing the ratio of dietary potassium to sodium intake could be effective in lowering blood pressure

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6 h. ago Shock study reveals store cupboard favourite is laced with alarming amounts of toxic 'plasticisers', possible cancer cause

Scientists have exposed the common foods most likely to be teeming with worrying levels of toxic chemicals that have been linked to Alzheimer's and cancer.

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