10 h. ago Ukrainian troops to join London procession to celebrate VE Day anniversary

The Ukrainian armed forces will join around 1,000 UK armed forces personnel, including soldiers on horseback and seven military bands.

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24 h. ago Tourist father and son help rescue great white shark stranded in shallow waters

Tourist and son, 11, join forces with local men to help marine predator back into ocean

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42 h. ago NHS Forth Valley will work closely with other boards across the country

Forth Valley health chiefs joining forces with other boards in progressive venture

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42 h. ago 'Back off my Benidorm bouncers under attack from drunk Brits with broken bottles'

EXCLUSIVE: As 5,000 Brits join forces to fight the blight of heavy-handed bouncers dishing out 'unprovoked beating', the manager of Benidorm's 'best' nightclub told the Daily Star of the horrors his staff face

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48 h. ago Yasmin Le Bon, 60, joins forces with George at Asda as evergreen model fronts new affordable fashion campaign ahead of supermarket chain's 60th anniversary

Le Bon, 60, fronts the campaign as Asda celebrates sixty years since the Asquith brothers joined forces with Associated Dairies to create the nationwide supermarket chain.

Culture

53 h. ago The ancient psychedelics myth: ‘People tell tourists the stories they think are interesting for them’

The narrative of ancient tribes around the world regularly using ayahuasca and magic mushrooms in healing practices is a popular one. Is it true?Beginning in 2001, the Austrian anthropologist Bernd Brabec de Mori spent six years living in the western Amazon. He first arrived as a backpacker, returned to do a master’s thesis on ayahuasca songs, and eventually did a PhD on the music of eight Indigenous peoples in the region. Along the way, he married a woman of the local Shipibo tribe and settled down.“I did not have a lot of money,” he told me, “so I had to make my living there.” He became a teacher. He built a house. He and his wife had children. That rare experience of joining the community, he said, forced him to realise that many of the assumptions he had picked up as an anthropologist were wrong. Continue reading...

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63 h. ago South Ayrshire Council face calls for independent inquiry into contract awards as fallout from Martin Dowey row continues

Two local Labour MPs have joined forces to demand an outside probe into how South Ayrshire Council have been doing business.

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69 h. ago Julia Donaldson to release first Gruffalo book in 20 years as she shares 'hope'

Julia Donaldson will be once again joining forces with illustrator Axel Scheffle to release the first Gruffalo book since 2004

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3 d. ago British forces strike Houthi military target in Yemen in joint operation with US

Defence Secretary John Healey said all UK aircraft and personnel involved in the operation had returned to base safely

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3 d. ago Amazon customers can now choose their new CAR on the retail giant's website

The online retailer has joined forces with Skoda to offer a clever new "click to drive" service

Economics

4 d. ago Colleges fight back: Elite schools join forces to resist Trump’s demands

A group of schools have formed a discreet alliance, intending to strategize ways to combat Trump’s agenda

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7 d. ago Emmerdale stars Matthew Wolfenden and Roxy Shahidi announce 'exciting times ahead for us'

They've joined forces and took to social media to share the news

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9 d. ago Martin Lewis issues new State Pension age change compensation warning to all WASPI women

The consumer champion has joined forces with WASPI and Independent Age to warn 1950s-born women of a dangerous ‘new trend’.

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9 d. ago New Tom Hardy action movie Havoc finally releasing on Netflix three years after filming

The film sees the actor joining forces with one of the genre's best auteurs

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9 d. ago A silent majority of the world’s people wants stronger climate action. It’s time to wake up | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope

About 89% of the public want their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis – but don’t know they’re the majorityThe Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch the 89% Project – and highlight the fact that the vast majority of the world’s population wants climate action. Read moreA superpower in the fight against global heating is hiding in plain sight. It turns out that the overwhelming majority of people in the world – between 80% and 89%, according to a growing number of peer-reviewed scientific studies – want their governments to take stronger climate action.As co-founders of a non-profit that studies news coverage of climate change, those findings surprised even us. And they are a sharp rebuttal to the Trump administration’s efforts to attack anyone who does care about the climate crisis.Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope are the co-founders of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now Continue reading...

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1 week ago Emmerdale fans say Vanity reunion is 'so happening' as it's 'on the cards'

Viewers have long awaited a Vanity reunion in the Dales, and upcoming scenes tease them potentially joining forces once more

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1 week ago ‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?

Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do notActivate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts sayThe Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch the 89 Percent Project—and highlight the fact that the vast majority of the world’s population wants climate action. Read moreHow much of a $450 (£339) pot would you give to a charity that cuts carbon emissions by investing in renewable energy, and how much would you keep for yourself? That was the question posed in a recent academic experiment. The answers mattered: real money was handed out as a result to some randomly chosen participants.The average person gave away about half the money and kept the rest. But what if you had been told beforehand that the vast majority of other people think climate action is really important? Might you have given more to the charity? Continue reading...

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1 week ago Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say

Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?The Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch the 89 Percent Project—and highlight the fact that the vast majority of the world’s population wants climate action. Read moreA huge 89% majority of the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis but feel they are trapped in a self-fulfilling “spiral of silence” because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research suggests.Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, by far the majority could unlock a social tipping point and push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed, experts say. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Kevin De Bruyne ‘a bit surprised’ not to be offered new Manchester City deal

‘I was a bit surprised but I just have to accept it’Midfielder unsure if he will be part of Club World CupKevin De Bruyne has admitted to being “a little bit” shocked at not being offered a new contract at Manchester City, with the 33‑year‑old saying the club took the decision unilaterally. De Bruyne is also unsure if he will be part of City’s Club World Cup campaign that begins in June in the US.The Belgian is City’s most decorated footballer with 19 honours and is considered one of the club’s greatest players. Yet De Bruyne, who joined in August 2015 from Wolfsburg, will be forced to depart in the close season after the club did not make a fresh offer. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Convert or get hurt: How Islamist gangs are terrorising staff in high

For an insight into the current state of the British penal system, the case of Denny De Silva is as instructive as it is worrying.

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