37 m. ago Toddler who choked on pea at nursery and died was 'brightest star', mum tells court

"We are tortured every day with the what ifs and how things might be and should have been different. The unfairness of Lauren not being with us weighs so heavily."

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66 m. ago Luke Littler claims Phil Taylor would struggle in modern darts era as he delivers this message to legend

Taylor is the sport's most decorated star but current golden boy Luke The Nuke reckons it's hard to compare eras

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3 h. ago Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that's the price of protest in Britain today | George Monbiot

It seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissentThe faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.Last week, six young women were having tea and biscuits in the Quaker meeting house in Westminster. Twenty police officers forced open the door and arrested them on conspiracy charges. Had the police discovered a plot to blow up parliament or to poison the water supply? No. It was an openly advertised, routine meeting of a protest group called Youth Demand, discussing climate breakdown and the assault on Gaza.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnistThe Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison, was published in paperb...

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3 h. ago Voices: Is the NHS in crisis? Join The Independent Debate as public satisfaction hits record low

A ‘startling collapse’ in public satisfaction with the NHS has left many questioning what needs to change. Have your say below...

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4 h. ago EU threatens countermeasures and Asian markets plunge after Trump tariff announcement – business live

Ursula von der Leyen says tariffs a ‘major blow’ to world economy after US President Trump targets allies on what he dubbed ‘liberation day’Full report: Trump announces sweeping new tariffs, upending decades of US trade policyAnalysis: Trump’s wall of tariffs is likely to raise prices and cause chaos for businessThe new US tariffs “will only create losers” with US consumers particularly hard hit, the German Automotive Industry Association (VDA), has said in a statement, calling on the EU “to act together and with the necessary force, while continuing to signal its willingness to negotiate.”The body, which represents the powerful German auto industry, said the tariffs markedthe United States’ departure from the rules-based global trade order – and thus a departure from the foundation for global value creation and corresponding growth and prosperity in many regions of the world.This is not America first; this is America alone. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago The Bondsman review – the scariest thing about Kevin Bacon’s demonic thriller? His singing

This bizarre drama stars the Hollywood actor as a dead bounty hunter brought back to life by the devil to do his bidding. Sadly, it also includes horrifying country musicThere is nothing very new to see in The Bondsman. How much you enjoy it will depend on how much you enjoy Kevin Bacon (laconic, hard-bitten Kevin Bacon, not Tremors Kevin Bacon and not Footloose Kevin Bacon), how much you enjoy tales of demonic possession in a small town in southern America and how much you enjoy the sound of partly severed heads, blown-out tracheas and bloodied fingers. I am seven degrees of separation from liking this last aspect.But Bacon is Bacon, and if he is slightly sleepwalking through his role here as Hub Halloran, tracker of ne’er-do-wells with warrants against their names, well, it is hardly inappropriate given that, for most of the eight episodes, Hub is dead. He is killed by local heavies hired by Lucky Callahan (Damon Herriman – you’ll know him when you see him), the new boyfriend of H...

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9 h. ago Heartbroken family open up about death of toddler, two, who choked on a pea at nursery

Little Lauren Boland had been attending the Little Explorers centre in Greystones, County Wicklow in Ireland on January 18 2023 when the tragic event took place.

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9 h. ago Starmer and Rayner launch local election campaign as Labour talks up NHS

The Prime Minister and his deputy will visit the Midlands on Thursday as the party asks voters ‘to play their part’ in delivering national renewal.

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9 h. ago Arne Slot admits he ‘hates’ offside rule that allowed Liverpool’s derby winner

Díaz set up Jota’s goal after coming from offside position‘Do I like the rule? No. It does not help attacking teams’Arne Slot said he hates the rule that allowed Diogo Jota’s winner in the Merseyside derby to stand as Liverpool restored their 12-point lead at the Premier League summit with a hard-fought victory over Everton.David Moyes, the Everton manager, claimed that Jota’s 57th‑minute strike should have been disallowed for an offside against Luis Díaz in the buildup. Díaz came from an offside position to regain possession from a James Tarkowski attempted clearance to set up Jota for the winner. According to the rulebook, however, the Colombian had to be “clearly attempting to play a ball which is close when this action impacts on an opponent” to be adjudged offside. He did not. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Mum shot dead outside son's nursery by kid's dad as horrified children watch on

Orlando Mitchell, 35, opened fire and shot dead his former girlfriend Krystal Walton, 32, outside Charity Child Care, in Indianapolis, where she had been dropping off their son

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11 h. ago Will Best slams Celebrity Big Brother star as 'hard work' as line

Celebrity Big Brother hosts Will Best and AJ Odudu have reacted to the official line-up for the upcoming ITV show - and there's one star they don't want to interview

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11 h. ago Diogo Jota breaks down Everton’s blue wall as Liverpool move closer to title

The 246th Merseyside derby was as much of a cathartic release for Liverpool as another step closer to a 20th league title. Arne Slot’s side cleansed themselves of recent torment against Everton and two deflating cup defeats with a hard-fought but deserved victory courtesy of Diogo Jota’s fine individual goal. A maximum of 13 points is all that is required from the remaining eight games of the season to put the Premier League trophy on display at Anfield once again.There was a determination to seize control of the derby from the start by Liverpool and, unlike the previous two encounters at Goodison Park, a composure in possession that enabled them to do so. The painful Champions League exit and deserved Carabao Cup final defeat that preceded the international break, plus of course memories of their last run-in with Everton 49 days ago, may also have fuelled the hunger and intensity of a team closing in on the Premier League title. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Perilous and chaotic, Trump’s ‘liberation day’ imperils the world’s broken economy – and him | Martin Kettle

While the president has identified the need to do things differently, his strategy risks a slump, hitting the very Americans he claims to championIt would be “liberation day” in the US, the White House announced. Well, we shall see. Yet even if one puts the noise and nastiness that accompany a Donald Trump announcement to one side – in this case tonight’s pronouncement that there will be an executive order announcing “reciprocal tariffs on countries throughout the world”, a 10% tariff on the UK and 20% on the EU – the significance of the theatre is hard to miss. Whether they presage the US’s liberation, or instead the disintegration of the global trading order, Trump’s tariffs add up to an attempt to transform a badly broken economic model. And that is something that affects us all.Trump’s announcement was awash with insult and rambling nonsense. The rest of the world had looted, raped and pillaged, had scavenged and ransacked America – shocking claims if they had come from any othe...

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11 h. ago Perilous and chaotic, Trump’s ‘liberation day’ endangers the world’s broken economy – and him | Martin Kettle

While the president has identified the need to do things differently, his strategy risks a slump, hitting the very Americans he claims to championIt would be “liberation day” in the US, the White House announced. Well, we shall see. Yet even if one puts the noise and nastiness that accompany a Donald Trump announcement to one side – in this case tonight’s pronouncement that there will be an executive order announcing “reciprocal tariffs on countries throughout the world”, a 10% tariff on the UK and 20% on the EU – the significance of the theatre is hard to miss. Whether they presage the US’s liberation, or instead the disintegration of the global trading order, Trump’s tariffs add up to an attempt to transform a badly broken economic model. And that is something that affects us all.Trump’s announcement was awash with insult and rambling nonsense. The rest of the world had looted, raped and pillaged, had scavenged and ransacked America – shocking claims if they had come from any othe...

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12 h. ago Johnny Tillotson dead: Poetry in Motion singer dies aged 86 after Parkinson's battle

American singer-songwriter Johnny Tillotson, who was best known for his hits in the 1960s, has died at the age of 86 after suffering complications from Parkinson's disease

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14 h. ago MP calls for ‘statutory protection’ for British soldiers following Clonoe ruling

Conservative former minister Sir David Davis said he would find it hard to imagine a ‘more clear cut case’.

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14 h. ago Johnny Tillotson dead at 86: Poetry in Motion singer passes following battle with Parkinson's

Tillotson passed due to complications from Parkinson's disease, his wife Nancy Tillotson told TMZ .

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14 h. ago Fran Jones says her ‘heart worked a little too hard’ after on

Jones was taken out on a wheelchair as she withdrew from the tournament in Bogota.

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15 h. ago Arsenal chief Andrea Berta's secret Nico Williams transfer talks emerge DAYS after taking job

Arsenal sporting director Andrea Berta is already hard at work ahead of what is expected to be a significant summer transfer window for Mikel Arteta and his team

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15 h. ago NHS Lanarkshire’s Director of Public Health has released their Annual Report

The main focus of the report is the health of infants, children and young people.

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