16 h. ago The Rebel Bear's cool street art on show for a day at West Lothian industrial estate

The anonymous artist creates powerful murals that explore themes of love, politics, surveillance, and humanity

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22 h. ago Help! My local high street is full of mothers dressed like their children – and it’s the Kate Middleton effect!

Thanks to the Princess of Wales’s fondness for matching her outfit with her daughter Charlotte’s, mummy and me dressing is in every park – and all over Instagram. Charlotte Cripps is not a fan. She talks to experts about what lies behind the trend, and explains why she wouldn’t be seen dead dressed the same as her daughters

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48 h. ago The world wants China’s rare earth elements – what is life like in the city that produces them?

More than 80% of China’s rare earth reserves are located in Baotou, an industrial hub of 2.7 million people that abuts the Gobi desertCentral Baotou, an industrial hub of 2.7 million people that abuts the Gobi desert in north China, feels just like any other second-tier Chinese city. Large shopping malls featuring western chains including Starbucks and KFC stand alongside street after street of busy local restaurants, where people sit outside and children play late into the evening, enjoying the relative relief of the cooler temperatures that arrive after dark in Inner Mongolia’s baking summer.But a short drive into the city’s suburbs reveal another typical, less hospitable, Chinese scene. Factories crowd the city’s edges, with chimneys belching white plumes of smoke. As well as steel and silicon plants, Baotou is home to China’s monopoly on rare earths, the metallic elements that are used in oil refining equipment and car batteries and that have become a major sticking point in the...

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60 h. ago Flood measures in Valleys street won't be carried out because they are not economically viable

NRW said that the construction of a raised flood defence wall and the purchase of the most at-risk properties in Clydach Terrace had been considered

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7 d. ago Kate Middleton praises 'laughter and play' in moving tribute to children's hospices

The Princess of Wales has shared a moving message to mark Children's Hospice Week, as she praised the "life-changing work" of children's hospices across the UK

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7 d. ago Kate praises work of children’s hospices days after missing Royal Ascot

The Princess of Wales is royal patron of East Anglia Children’s Hospices and Tŷ Hafan Children’s Hospice in South Wales.

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7 d. ago Kate Middleton praises 'laughter and caring' in tribute to children's hospices

Kate Middleton has shared a personal message praising the work of children's hospices for Children's Hospice Week as the patron of East Anglia Children's Hospices and Tŷ Hafan Children’s Hospice

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7 d. ago ‘Youths everywhere were spitting over tinny beats playing off a Nokia’: great grime photographer Simon Wheatley

He was young and broke when he became grime’s first documentarian. Then his book Don’t Call Me Urban captured the energy of the grittier first wave – and an expanded edition is finally hereIt’s an overcast Thursday morning, and photographer Simon Wheatley is doing a soft-shoe shuffle through Roman Road in Bow, east London, as a market stall blares out exquisite 70s funk. “That’s more like it,” he says, with a grin on his face. “A bit of energy.” This was once grime’s artery, its chaotic central hub, even its muse – a street Wiley once told me was “the nurturer” of local talents like him and Dizzee Rascal. And it was here, in the 2000s, that Wheatley would create a vivid and intimate document of grime in its frenzied flush of youth, and of working-class neighbourhoods like this before they became considerably more sedate. Fourteen years after the release of Don’t Call Me Urban, Wheatley’s long-sold-out photo-book from that era – once described by Vice as “grime’s Old Testament” – it ...

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1 week ago People urged to celebrate high street heroes for 2025 Scotland Loves Local Awards

You can also put your home area forward for national accolades including Town of the Year.

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1 week ago Show the love for high street heroes in West Lothian by nominating them for award

Jim Allan from Bathgate was last year’s winner for the region

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1 week ago Trooping the Colour RECAP: Kate, William and children celebrate official birthday with Charles and Camilla

LIVE UPDATES: Follow MailOnline's live royal coverage from the 2025 Trooping the Colour as the nation celebrates King Charles' official birthday with a military parade in London

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1 week ago Millions expected at ‘No Kings’ protests before Trump’s military parade – live updates

‘No Kings’ protests across US come after a week of unrest over anti-immigration raids; Trump’s military parade to begin at 6.30pm ET in Washington DCA flagship No Kings march and rally are planned in Philadelphia, but no events are scheduled to take place in Washington DC, reports the Associated Press (AP). The demonstrations come on the heels of protests flaring up around the country over federal immigration enforcement raids that began last week and Donald Trump ordering national guard troops and marines to Los Angeles where protesters blocked a freeway and set cars on fire. Police responded with teargas, rubber bullets and flash-bang grenades while officials enforced curfews in Los Angeles and Democratic governors called Trump’s guard deployment “an alarming abuse of power” that “shows the Trump administration does not trust local law enforcement”.The White House’s escalating response to street protests echoes talk before Donald Trump’s inauguration of forcibly quelling resistanc...

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1 week ago Long to reign over us! Crowds cheer King Charles and Queen Camilla on balcony as Kate, William and their children join them to see Trooping the Colour flypast

Members of the royal family have appeared on the balcony at Buckingham Palace following the Trooping the Colour parade to celebrate King Charles III's official birthday.

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1 week ago Trooping the Colour live updates: Kate, William and children celebrate official birthday with Charles and Camilla

LIVE UPDATES: Follow MailOnline's live royal coverage from the 2025 Trooping the Colour as the nation celebrates King Charles' official birthday with a military parade in London

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1 week ago Trooping the Colour live updates: Kate, William and children arrive along with other senior royals to celebrate King Charles' official birthday

LIVE UPDATES: Follow MailOnline's live royal coverage from the 2025 Trooping the Colour as the nation celebrates King Charles' official birthday with a military parade in London

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3 w. ago Kate Ferdinand rings in her 34th birthday with husband Rio and their children as she gives an insight into celebrations

Giving an insight into the celebrations, the podcast host, said she was 'feeling blessed' as she blew out the candles on her cake.

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3 w. ago Madeleine McCann: where the family are now, from Kate's moving memoir to the brother tipped for the Olympics

Gerry and Kate McCann recently said they and their twin children were grateful to be able to “live a relatively normal and enjoyable life now”, with Maddie’s siblings studying at university and Gerry working as a heart specialist. Katie Strick reports

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3 w. ago Police issue statement after woman hit by bus on Oxford Street

Police issue statement after woman hit by bus on Oxford Street  This Is Local London

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3 w. ago ‘People think prison is for rehabilitation. It is all lies’: could community service work better than jail?

Colombia has seen a surge in the number of female inmates – many poor, from rural areas and convicted of drug offences. Now a radical scheme could release thousands to support their familiesThe baby calls out, reaching towards a metal detector security gate. “Mama, mama,” she says. A prison officer waves her through. It’s visiting time at El Buen Pastor prison, Colombia’s largest detention centre for women. Behind the black door, half a dozen women wait anxiously. Dressed in her best clothes, the mother folds herself around the child.Inside, the prison is crumbling. Black mould creeps up the walls; broken windows have been replaced with plastic sheets. Inmates say five to six people share cells built for two. Continue reading...

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