63 m. ago Annual duck race at Salford Quays gets Easter weekend off to quacking start

Hundreds turned out to watch the spectacle despite the drizzle

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94 m. ago Philippe Coutinho gives honest verdict on career after Liverpool

Phillipe Coutinho became the most expensive player in Liverpool's history in January 2018 when he left Anfield to join Barcelona, but his dream move soon turned into a nightmare

Politics

99 m. ago BBC Escape to the Country's Sonali Shah issues 'word of warning' to couple over dream home

Escape to the Country host Sonali Shah was on hand to help find a couple find their dream home.

Events

1 hour ago Opening date for the Renfrew Bridge confirmed as Renfrewshire Council prepares for historic unveiling

The 184-metre twin-leaf bridge has been given an opening date of Friday, May 9.

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2 h. ago Moment girl, 2, is saved after surviving for 4 days alone drinking toilet water

Neighbours are seen on heartbreaking video pulling the two-year-old girl from Russia through metal bars and out of the window before calling police and an ambulance

Events

2 h. ago Man divides opinion by watching football game on his phone while his girlfriend gives birth 'in screaming pain' next to him

Keem Woodlands made the confession in a video posted to his TikTok where he showed his girlfriend in hospital as he watched Arsenal vs. Real Madrid.

Sport

2 h. ago Man who tried to abduct girl, 5, from Asda after holding her hand now on the run

Tadas Kuslevicius is on the run after being jailed in 2021 for an attempted kidnapping when he grabbed the hand of a five-year-old girl in the Asda supermarket in Queensferry, North Wales

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2 h. ago NFL's smallest market prepares to host league's top offseason spectacle as draft comes to Green Bay

The NFL draft’s annual pilgrimage to cities across the league is arriving in Green Bay next week with all the pageantry that comes from operating in the home of the league’s only publicly owned franchise

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3 h. ago Ronnie O'Sullivan delivers snub as World Championship opponent admits he almost withdrew

News and views from the World Snooker Championship as Ronnie O'Sullivan prepares to return to action against bitter rival Ali Carter, who has been recovering from a bizarre injury

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3 h. ago Man who tried to abduct girl, 5, from North Wales Asda one of UK's most wanted fugitives

Tadas Kuslevicius, jailed in 2021 for a kidnap bid after grabbing a five-year-old girl in the Asda supermarket in Queensferry, has vanished and is listed as one of the UK's most wanted criminals

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4 h. ago Cops fight back in gang war as gun seized and three people arrested

Two men and a teenage girl have been arrested as police try and tackle the growing gangland turf war which started in Edinburgh and spread to Glasgow.

Events

4 h. ago Part of Dover Port taped off amid police investigation after small boat migrant dies in Good Friday tragedy on the English Channel

Officials brought a body ashore at the Port of Dover after Border Force responded to an incident aboard a migrant dinghy mid-crossing.

Events

4 h. ago 'Snoring builder was first sign our dream home project was turning into a nightmare'

One family's life savings were left in ruins after hiring a builder for a home improvement project

Politics

4 h. ago Migrant dies after medical emergency on small boat in English Channel

The death comes after more than 700 migrants crossed the English Channel on Tuesday.

Events

5 h. ago Mortgage prenups: Should you sign one when buying a house with your partner, and what happens if you break up?

After one couple’s joint homebuying dream ‘fell apart’, an expert has offered advice on mortgage ‘prenups’ and what happens if you break up

Economics

5 h. ago Black barrister is hit with £20,000 legal bill after losing race claim against her employer who said her work was 'not vanilla enough'

Jeniffer Campbell had alleged her manager Alexandra Jacobs racially discriminated against her by using the phrase to refer to her writing, suggesting that it be 'safer and blander'.

Economics

5 h. ago LEGO fans race to buy £40 Harry Potter set for £24 in Easter bank holiday weekend deal

The set replicates the Owlery tower where Harry asks Cho if she'll go to the Yule Ball with him in the Goblet of Fire

Economics

5 h. ago Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (Tape Two) review – love, grief and self

PC, PS5, XBox; Don’t NodThe concluding half of this two-parter may be lacking in interactive challenges, but is profound, sensitively structured and emotionally resonantOne thing you realise as you get older is that memories are plastic and that the stories you tell about your life change with every recollection, depending on who you are at the time. This is one of the themes – and indeed the mechanics – of Lost Records, a narrative adventure about four teenage girls who develop an intense friendship in rural Michigan during the summer of 1995. In the first instalment, they form a band, discover an old shack in the woods to use as a clubhouse, and encounter a supernatural force emanating from a deep hole they discover nearby. But as autumn draws in and the girls plan a climactic rock gig, tragic secrets are uncovered.Cleverly, the story is told mostly in flashback, as the characters meet again, decades later, in their long-abandoned home town – they’re older, wiser and with new pers...

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5 h. ago Pink smoke, pigs and Pixar: a dozen movie Easter eggs to feast on

Hidden references and in-jokes in cinema can be an acquired taste, but here’s a festive selection of the best arch nods for aficionados to enjoyOne of Hollywood’s most durable Easter eggs debuted in Howard Hawks’s His Girl Friday (1940) when Cary Grant’s character says: “The last man who said that to me was Archie Leach just a week before he cut his throat!” And in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) his character sits pensively in a cemetery where Archie Leach’s gravestone is to be seen. In Charles Crichton’s A Fish Called Wanda (1988), John Cleese’s character is called Archie Leach. Leach is, of course, the real name of Cary Grant – a very goofy and unglamorous sounding name compared with the sonorous “Cary Grant” – and a rare example of Hollywood alluding to the open secret of rebranding its stars and effacing the bland ordinariness of their origins. Peter Bradshaw Continue reading...

Events

6 h. ago Chris Hughes and JoJo Siwa's relationship – from sharing bed to 'girlfriend' snub

Celebrity Big Brother stars Chris Hughes and Jojo Siwa are joined at the hip and often seen cuddling each other, sharing compliments and even tickling in bed

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