16 m. ago Council defends throwing St Peter's Square tents into bin lorry as dozens of homeless evicted

Manchester council won a 'possession order' to retake the land earlier this month

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17 m. ago Moment police catch criminal hiding in frigid lake after he spent 45 minutes submerged in bid to escape from cops

Crook, Davey Smith, 18, was fished out of a lake by police after submerging himself in a freezing lake in North Yorkshire for 45 minutes in a bid to escape justice. 

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26 m. ago FTSE 100 Live 26 February: BP slashes green energy spending, miners drive index rally

Aston Martin Lagonda and shopping centre owner Hammerson are among the companies reporting today.

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41 m. ago MLB players are giving their new robot umpire overlords a cautious welcome

Anger over blown calls is as old as baseball itself. But in Spring Training this year, players can ask technology for a little helpFor the first time ever this month, major league players who disagree with an umpire’s rendering of the strike zone can do something about it. Something other than an exaggerated pantomime of disbelief or a testy reply liable to get them thrown out of the game entirely. They can do something effectual, productive, process-based. They can appeal to a higher power, one that has become revered within the sport for its ability to optimize anything and everything: Technology.Major League Baseball is testing the challenge system version of the Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) in roughly 60% of Spring Training games this preseason. In layman’s terms: this spring, players can ask robot umps to review pitch calls. Continue reading...

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51 m. ago Prisoner set free from jail under Keir Starmer's early release scheme 'groped woman within 15 minutes', court hears

Amari Ward, 31, is accused of sexually assaulting the female while she gave him a lift to a train station, he denies the charge.

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79 m. ago Is this the reason for Millie Bobby Brown's much criticised 'mommy' makeover?

Millie Bobby Brown has shocked fans with her major makeover, rocking platinum blonde locks this month.

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85 m. ago Bitcoin value crashes after hackers steal £1.2bn from crypto exchange

The cryptocurrency had previously soared to all-time highs of £86,100 per Bitcoin late last year, buoyed by an endorsement from Donald Trump and his incoming US administration

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89 m. ago Sky Sports F1's Ted Kravitz and David Croft argue live on air 45 minutes into F1 Testing

They are Sky Sports F1 colleagues who regularly have on-screen debates during live broadcasts, and it took less than an hour of the first day of testing in 2025 for their first argument

Society

93 m. ago FTSE 100 Live 26 February: Miners fuel index rally, Aston Martin Lagonda eyes 2025 recovery

Aston Martin Lagonda and shopping centre owner Hammerson are among the companies reporting today.

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1 hour ago Winter Fuel Payments to be reinstated for all people over State Pension age in Scotland

Pensioners in Scotland will receive between £100 and £303 through a new devolved annual heating payment.

Economics

2 h. ago Which football teams have gone longest without conceding a goal in the league? | The Knowledge

Plus: short men’s players scoring headers; Young Boys v Old Boys; and failing to go up with great goal differencesMail us with your questions and answers“Burnley’s 4-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday on Friday was the 12th consecutive Championship game in which they kept a clean sheet,” writes Graham Davidson. “Is this a record for a domestic men’s league?”It’s now 1,090 minutes (plus added time, which is never included in such lists) since Burnley last conceded a league goal (Watford’s Kwadwo Baah scoring on 21 December). Since that match, which Burnley won 2-1, their record is eye-catching to say the least: P12 W6 D6 L0 F15 A0 Pts 24. We had a related question in 2009 when Manchester United and Edwin van der Sar were racking up clean sheets. That was for individual goalkeepers and, while James Trafford has been in goal throughout Burnley’s Fort Knox period, there are plenty of examples of teams putting together even longer runs in which they used more than one goalkeeper. Continue re...

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2 h. ago Robert De Niro reveals shocking lengths he went to gain weight for Raging Bull role

Robert De Niro gained a considerable amount of weight for his role in 1980 movie Raging Bull - and he's now opened on the extreme lengths he went to to do so

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2 h. ago Robert De Niro reveals the 'extreme lengths' he went to gain weight for Raging Bull role

Robert De Niro has opened up about the extreme lengths he went to to put on 60lbs for his role in the 1980 movie Raging Bull, for which he won his first Best Actor Oscar

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3 h. ago Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods review – classic anime has cosmic charm

An anniversary edition of the 2013 martial arts animation is light on bombast, funny and mischievousHere is a 10th-anniversary extended edition, with 20 added minutes, of the 18th theatrical outing for Dragon Ball, which was credited with revitalising the franchise. With original series creator Akira Toriyama apparently taking a stronger hand during production, this 2013 film hit the sweet spot where daffy character comedy powered up OTT anime smackdown, in the process laying the groundwork for the brand’s next phase, Dragon Ball Super.“Such over-the-top naming. It ends up sounding tawdry,” comments a lackey to intergalactic god of destruction Beerus (Kōichi Yamadera) when the pair hear of a “Super Saiyan God” on the loose. Despite being a nap-centric sphynx cat in harem pants, Beerus is impatient for a worthy foe, so he decides to call in on any nearby Saiyans (a race of super-strong aliens) who might point him in the right direction. After wiping the floor with series hero Goku (M...

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4 h. ago New rules on £30 'ghost plates' that make you invisible to speed camera

The maximum penalty at the minute is just £100

Economics

4 h. ago ‘Losing hope with every day that passes’: torment of the ships’ crews abandoned at sea

Thousands of seafarers are left on board their vessels in foreign waters, unpaid, with scant supplies – and no way of getting home When Vihaan* set off from his home in Tamil Nadu, south India, to work on a vessel crossing the Bay of Bengal into neighbouring Bangladesh, he told his family he would be gone a few months. After delivering his cargo of stone to Bangladesh’s Kutubdia Island, the marine engineer was due to head home in March 2024 to disembark at Thoothukudi port, India.But that month, the rusting tug, the Navimar 3, which was being operated by Middle East Marine (MEM), was detained by the authorities in Bangladesh due to unpaid fees. For almost a year, Vihaan has become a virtual prisoner on board, he says, forced to work without pay to keep the vessel safe, amid strong currents where it is anchored off the island in the cyclone-prone bay. His passport and certification documents are being held by a local agent for the Dubai-based company. With no means of getting home, n...

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5 h. ago ‘Homegrown’ Swedish battery startup admits importing vital components

Northvolt, which claims to run Europe’s first homegrown gigafactory, admits it depends on Chinese suppliers for cathode active materialThe Swedish startup Northvolt has admitted that a vital component of its batteries is imported amid claims that the company, which claims to run Europe’s first homegrown gigafactory, depends on Chinese suppliers.It comes as a documentary programme to be shown in Sweden on Wednesday by the national broadcaster SVT, exposes the company’s failure to build a truly homegrown battery after its attempts to produce its own cathode active material at its Northvolt Ett factory in Skellefteå, northern Sweden, were unsuccessful. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago UK set to outshine Madrid with soaring temperatures as weather maps pinpoint balmy days ahead

The latest GFS weather maps show when temperatures across the UK could soar in just a few days' time as the Met Office says Brits can expect "fine" weather at the start of next month

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5 h. ago Incredible Spanish city with less tourists in March and still 17C before summer

Barcelona is one of Spain's most visited cities, and you'd be surprised to know that the best month to visit it is in March. Why? Less tourists and warm temperatures.

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5 h. ago DWP giving people with respiratory issues including asthma up to £737 each month

PIP is awarded to people who have difficulty doing certain everyday tasks due to an illness, disability or mental health condition

Economics