1 hour ago Laundry service at Motherwell tower block now fully functional after one year

A fire broke out at the electrical cupboard within Doonside Tower’s laundry area in June 2024 and the full service was unavailable to residents for 11 months.

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1 hour ago Rangers vs Dundee United LIVE score and goal updates from the Premiership clash at Ibrox

The Light Blues host the Terrors in their last Scottish Premiership game at Ibrox this season with plenty at stake for the visitors

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2 h. ago Rory McIlroy warns US PGA rivals: ‘Now I’ve won a career slam, the rest is a bonus’

Masters champion will not set targets after ‘north star’ gloryDeChambeau fallout: ‘I was trying to win, not be his mate’ Rory McIlroy has warned his rivals that he is playing with the biggest pile of house money imaginable as the Northern Irishman prepares for his first major since completion of the career grand slam.McIlroy will tee up on Thursday morning in the US PGA Championship at Quail Hollow – a venue where he has tasted victory four times – a month after claiming the Masters. McIlroy’s emotional glory at Augusta National made him just the sixth golfer in history to win all four men’s majors. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago A new discovery is rewriting the history of evolution by millions of years

The emergence of the first land-dwelling animals is estimated to have occurred around 400 million years ago

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2 h. ago US lab handling world's deadliest diseases is shut down after 'lover's spat' led to spiteful act

The US-based lab had been studying Ebola, Lassa fever, SARS-CoV-2 and Eastern Equine Encephalitis before it was placed on a shutdown. It is not clear when it will reopen.

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3 h. ago Sound of Falling review – intergenerational angst haunts a German farmhouse

Cannes film festival Told in four different timeframes in the same rural family home, this story of national guilt and yearning is powerfully unsettlingHere is a mysterious and uncanny prose-poem of guilt, shame and yearning in 20th-century Germany, and the 21st; a drama of intergenerational trauma and genetic memories, visions and experiences suppressed and handed on to descendants and grandchildren in whom they can return as neurotic symptoms of the repressed.There are visual rhymes and unexplained cosmic echoes, and the film speaks of militarism and resentment, guilt and horror, with dark hints of abuse and sterilisation, the female slavery of domestic servitude and the pastoral world of rural Germany in which the city’s political currents are only dimly perceived. And it gestures at the terrible pathos of the old GDR, which laboured and sacrificed for 40 years after the war in Soviet vassalage finally to discover it was for nothing. The film’s original German title is In Die Son...

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3 h. ago US and Qatar sign defense and aviation deal as Trump says of emir: ‘we just like each other’ – live

US president says $200bn Boeing order is ‘largest order of jets’ in its history and is full of praise for Qatar’s leader and country’s marble palacesThe meeting between Donald Trump and Syria’s president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, in Saudi Arabia was the culmination of months of diplomacy by the Syrians, as well as their Turkish and Saudi allies, who believed face time with Trump would help end Syria’s international isolation, writes William Christou.Damascus had prepared a pitch to Trump that included access to Syrian oil, reassurances of Israel’s security and a proposal to build a Trump tower in Damascus. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago London travel news LIVE: M25 partially reopens after huge crash closes motorway for hours

Three lanes of the M25 will remain closed overnight after a lorry crash caused oil, diesel and waste to spread across the motorway

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3 h. ago US lab handling world's deadliest diseases is shut down after 'lover's spat' led to spiteful and deadly act

The US-based lab had been studying Ebola, Lassa fever, SARS-CoV-2 and Eastern Equine Encephalitis before it was placed on a shutdown. It is not clear when it will reopen.

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3 h. ago How ancient reptile footprints are rewriting the history of when animals evolved to live on land

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone recovered near Melbourne

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3 h. ago Historian who exposed Holocaust denier David Irving makes startling admission about landmark libel case dramatised in 2016 Rachel Weisz film Denial

Twenty-five years on from her victory in the landmark libel trial brought by Holocaust denier David Irving, Deborah Lipstadt has admitted that she almost threw in the towel.

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3 h. ago Theatre exposes historic timber floor dubbed ‘dry equivalent of the Mary Rose’

St George’s Guildhall identified 15th century floorboards believed to have once been trodden by Shakespeare.

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3 h. ago Overnight campervan parking bays removed after resident fury over visitors 'urinating' in public

The overnight campervan bays have been removed after anger from local residents.

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4 h. ago US and Qatar sign defense and aviation deal as Trump say of emir: ‘we just like each other’ – live

US president says $200bn Boeing order is ‘largest order of jets’ in its history and is full of praise for Qatar’s leader and country’s marble palacesThe meeting between Donald Trump and Syria’s president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, in Saudi Arabia was the culmination of months of diplomacy by the Syrians, as well as their Turkish and Saudi allies, who believed face time with Trump would help end Syria’s international isolation, writes William Christou.Damascus had prepared a pitch to Trump that included access to Syrian oil, reassurances of Israel’s security and a proposal to build a Trump tower in Damascus. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago First look at Dumfries and Galloway homes aiming to be named Scotland’s Home of the Year

Properties in Dumfries and the Stewartry will feature in the south of Scotland episode of the popular BBC Scotland show.

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4 h. ago Mayfair owner told to restore historic home after banned refurb

Mayfair owner told to restore historic home after banned refurb  BBC

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4 h. ago Olly Murs shares heartbreaking family decision that 'changed everything'

Singer Olly Murs shares a heartbreaking revelation while researching his family history as the told the reason behind his great-grandmother leaving her family during World War Two

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5 h. ago US brothers are beaten up with miniature Eiffel Towers after angering Paris street vendors by filming them

The tourists were visiting the Eiffel Tower on Tuesday when they were reportedly attacked with miniature souvenirs of the iconic Parisian landmark.

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5 h. ago Donald Trump praises Syrian leader as ‘attractive guy, tough guy’ as trip continues in Qatar – US politics live

US president met Ahmed al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia before heading to Doha amid growing controversy over Qatar luxury plane gift The meeting between Donald Trump and Syria’s president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, in Saudi Arabia was the culmination of months of diplomacy by the Syrians, as well as their Turkish and Saudi allies, who believed face time with Trump would help end Syria’s international isolation, writes William Christou.Damascus had prepared a pitch to Trump that included access to Syrian oil, reassurances of Israel’s security and a proposal to build a Trump tower in Damascus. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Archaeologists discover 'b******s' dagger at Swedish fortress...with a distinctively

A team of archaeologists has made a very cheeky discovery in the remains of a 14th-century Swedish fortress.

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