4 h. ago Wildfire above Welsh train station sees fire service tell residents to 'shut windows and doors'

South Wales Fire and Rescue Service performed a 'tactical burn'

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5 h. ago There’s a place for audience participation, but ‘chicken jockey’ chaos takes it too far | Kate Maltby

Barrages of popcorn and even live poultry are featuring at screenings of A Minecraft Movie‘Chicken jockey!” If you know what this phrase means, you’re either a preteen boy or have accompanied one to a recent cinema screening of A Minecraft Movie.Warner Bros’ latest money-spinner is a movie adaptation of the Swedish game Minecraft, a prerequisite in the social lives of children between the age of eight and 12. The game enables children to explore and reconfigure a creative digital environment, accumulating resources in a world built from blocks. The movie enables children to explore and reconfigure the codes of basic decency in a cinema environment, testing the limits of any hapless usher left to supervise. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Britain's Got Talent star unrecognisable 12 years on after dramatic transformation

This talented BGT star was a huge hit on the ITV talent show 11 years ago, but has since undergone a dramatic transformation

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7 h. ago Gemma Collins leaves commuters gobsmacked with surprise piano performance

The Only Way Is Essex legend Gemma Collins showed off a secret skill - piano playing. She was filmed tinkling the ivories, and singing with a gospel choir, in front of shocked commuters at London's Liverpool Street Station

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7 h. ago Girls as young as 12 trafficked for sex amid Andrew Tate court case

The Daily Mirror travelled to Moldova as toxic influencer Tate is accused of raping woman from the Eastern European country - in a region that has become a hub for sex traffickers targeting desperately poor victims

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8 h. ago Three Edinburgh brothers set off to break Pacific Ocean rowing record with help of oats, haggis and curry

The brothers have 75kg of oats on board to help fuel their epic journey.

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8 h. ago Two teenage girls arrested after 'wilful' vehicle fires in Edinburgh

A pair of teenage girls have been arrested and charged after incidents of vehicles being deliberately set alight in Edinburgh.

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8 h. ago Star Wars artist fundraising for colleague who lost sight fighting in Ukraine

Andrey Kozyrenko, a 3D artist was injured when a drone exploded near his trench in southern Ukraine.

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8 h. ago Police searching for man who allegedly sexually abused corpse on New York subway

Video captured one person robbing corpse on idling train before another person robbed and sexually assaulted itA man sexually violated a corpse on a New York City subway train after stealing from the body, becoming the second of two people to rob that particular dead person, authorities said recently.One of the more grotesque US crime stories of late unfolded on a southbound R train near the Whitehall Street station in Manhattan at about 12.20am on Wednesday, when “an unidentified individual had sexual contact with an unconscious and unresponsive adult male” in plain view of surveillance cameras, according to a police statement. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago ‘Women are better at weighing the risks and rewards’: Aurora Straus on blazing a trail for female racers

The race car driver is drawing attention to the gender imbalance in motorsports – and auction houses – by teaming up with female artists on an ‘art car’ projectWhen the race car driver Aurora Straus first began competing professionally aged 16, she was the only female racer on the tracks in North America. Unsurprisingly, her entry into the male-dominated world of motorsports was not without its sexist challenges. In one incident, while she was being filmed for a documentary, she returned to her car with a camera crew in tow, to find a surprise.“I was doing an interview for this movie,” Straus recalls, “and I went to show them my car. When I opened the door, there was a dildo in there.” Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Elton John and Madonna have made up, but why do famous people publicly go to war?

Sorry seems to be the hardest word – and there is a public appetite for watching high-profile feudsMadonna and Elton John have kissed and made up. After decades of high-octane feuding (more of which anon), Madonna recently turned up impromptu backstage when John was appearing on late-night television sketch show, Saturday Night Live in New York to “confront” him. Her ensuing Instagram post, liked 420,605 times and counting, said: “Over the decades it hurt me to know that someone I admired so much shared his dislike of me publicly as an artist”.Madonna continued: “When I met him, the first thing out of his mouth was ‘Forgive me’, and the walls between us fell down.” Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Abandoned lynx, roaming wild boar, ‘beaver bombing’ – has rewilding got out of hand?

From unauthorised species releases to small groups buying up land, ‘guerrilla rewilding’ is going mainstream. But experts worry that these rogue efforts could do more harm than goodVisions of habitats teeming with nature are powerful, particularly so in an age of extinction. Rewilding, which offers the promise of such transformations, was once something most would have imagined happening far away, carried out by people unlike them, but times are changing. The wilderness is getting closer to home and more personal.In the past few months, there have been two suspected lynx releases and one of feral pigs in a small area of the Cairngorms, along with reports of a rise in “beaver bombing” on England’s rivers, and wild boar roaming Dartmoor. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Top designer Bella Freud reveals how she nearly crashed her father Lucian's Bentley at just eight years

She was only eight years old when she decided to 'go for a drive' in the artist's parked car.

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11 h. ago Batman and Robin swoop in on con artists targeting tourists in London

Batman and Robin swoop in on con artists targeting tourists in London  NBC News

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11 h. ago Mikel Arteta's 'sad' reason for quitting club to take on new adventure

Mikel Arteta has transformed Arsenal into one of the world's most feared sides since he arrived from Manchester City in 2019, having admitted he was "sad" to leave the Etihad club initially

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13 h. ago Two taken to hospital and big emergency services response after fight at Pontypridd bus station

A man has been arrested in connection with the incident after officers were called to the scene late on Friday evening, April 11, police confirmed

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14 h. ago Best Anker charging station under £80 reviewed: 200W GaN hub is perfect for decluttering your desk

Consumer technology writer Gareth Butterfield tests the Anker 200W 6-Port GaN Charging Station

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14 h. ago ‘Compact games are a good way to go’ – Nicolas Doucet on what publishers can learn from Astro Bot

I caught up with Astro Bot's creative director and Team Asboi studio head in the midst of the PS5 exclusive's continued success on the awards circuit.

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15 h. ago Police officers dress up as Batman and Robin in bizarre undercover sting

The officers used the creative tactic after criminals began to recognise them and flee

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16 h. ago HOROSCOPES: What star sign needs to shake up old dynamics that are no longer serving them?

by astrologer Jemima Cainer

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