78 m. ago Foreign Office warning after number of deaths at popular holiday destination

The UK Foreign Office issued a travel alert on Friday

Events

2 h. ago Police issue major cryptocurrency fraud warning after nine lose £1million

Detectives in Kent today urged people to be alert to the scam following a data leak giving their personal details after nine people in the county were scammed out of their hard earned money

Events

2 h. ago Police issue major cryptocurrency fraud warning after nine people lose £1million

Detectives in Kent today urged people to be alert to the scam following a data leak giving their personal details after nine people in the county were scammed out of their hard earned money

Events

5 h. ago How big an asteroid needs to be to kill us all – spoiler alert, not very

Asteroids DO regularly hit Earth's atmosphere – think back to the Chelyabinsk Event in Russia that blazed over the southern Urals, lighting up the sky before exploding in the air

Events

22 h. ago Warning as spread of horrific genital infection is reported with doctors on high alert

Cases of the contagious infection dubbed a 'potential public health threat' have been on the rise in recent years, with it now being found in people after sexual contact.

Events

22 h. ago Dumfries and Galloway health bosses issue urgent alert over 'sudden collapse' drug overdoses

Health bosses are urging drug users to be “extra vigilant” amid reports of overdoses happening as soon as drugs are injected.

Events

22 h. ago Three steps to get rid of head lice as experts say nits are getting harder to kill

Commonly used chemical products aren’t working as well as they once did, meaning head lice are harder to kill

Events

23 h. ago Ungovernable by Simon Hart review: A tale of brothels, backbiting, and Conservative politics

The revelations are out from Simon Hart’s book: The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip. There’s the one about being woken at 4am by an MP who was being held in a Bayswater brothel by blackmailers, not to be confused with another MP, Mark Menzies, who found it difficult to extricate himself from “bad people” and allegedly paid for his release from local party funds (which he denied); then there was Rishi Sunak’s observation about the female minister promoted to the Cabinet who was “f***ing useless but we can’t get rid of her” — which may or may not have been Kemi Badenoch. There was Boris Johnson’s attempt to kill off a disobliging report by the Privileges Committee on his lockdown activities which did not, by that time, shock Hart.

Politics

26 h. ago Beaver lovers issue damning response to farmers after rodent 'right to kill' threat

EXCLUSIVE: 'Let our beavers do the dam thing!' That's the message from environmental campaigners who have hit back at farmers worried about the imapct the upcoming beaver release could have on their land

Events

29 h. ago James by Percival Everett audiobook review – reimagining Huckleberry Finn

Dominic Hoffman narrates this satirical, Booker-nominated reworking of the children’s classic, written from the perspective of the enslaved JimThis satirical, Booker-shortlisted tale flips the script on Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the children’s novel published in 1884 and set in Mississippi that went on to become a toxic cornerstone of the American canon. Where Twain had teenage Huck as his narrator, in James, Percival Everett reimagines the story from the perspective of his friend and fellow runaway Jim, an enslaved Black man who opens the book with the line: “Those little bastards were hiding out there in the tall grass.”The little bastards in question are Huck and his pal Tom Sawyer, who want to play a trick on Jim while he sleeps. He is alert to the boys’ games but plays along because, as he has learned from experience: “It always pays to give white folks what they want.” When our protagonist learns he is to be sold downriver and separated from h...

Politics

32 h. ago Licence to kill: could a James Bond horror emerge when book copyrights expire?

Character and plots of Ian Fleming’s original literary works become open for public use in most countries in 2035Amazon may have captured James Bond, paying billions to get creative control of the super spy, but a clock is now ticking that means 007 – or at least a version of him – could escape into the wider world in a decade’s time.The character and plots of the original literary works by creator Ian Fleming become open for public use in most countries in 2035, raising the prospect of Bond starring in rival film and TV stories of espionage, comedy or even horror. Continue reading...

Events

32 h. ago Fire Stick warning as users risk £1,000 fine with one simple mistake this weekend

Fire TV Stick users could risk a huge fine this weekend 🚨

Events

33 h. ago 'Leave work at 5pm on Friday' alert as UK workers owed £8,000 each

In total there is £32billion that has gone unpaid from last year alone

Economics

39 h. ago Patients are 'misled over physician associates' as they are not qualified doctors, coroner warns

Dr Karen Henderson issued her alert after the death of Pamela Marking, 77, whose family were under the impression she had been seen by a doctor and not a physician associate (PA).

Events

39 h. ago The JFK Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch: The plot to BLOW UP JFK

The untold story of the crazed religious zealot who set to out kill the President - and if he'd succeeded we'd never have heard of Lee Harvey Oswald

Politics

40 h. ago Norovirus stay at home alert as new strain of winter vomiting bug sees cases rise again

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued a warning as cases of norovirus continue to rise - and people are now being urged to stay home if they're feeling unwell

Events

40 h. ago The everyday dangers that could kill you instantly... including common household items

A group of Redditors came together to reveal the most unusually dangerous things that could kill you within minutes

Events

47 h. ago LAX on red alert as foreign traveler brings in deadly disease and infects unknown number

A passenger arriving on a Korean Air flight from Seoul to the US tested positive for the highly contagious respiratory illness.

Events

47 h. ago UK on alert after death toll from mystery illness in Congo rises

The outbreak of a mystery illness has now killed 60 people, the World Health Organisation said

Events

49 h. ago Major Joshua Kimmich update from Bayern Munich puts Liverpool and Man City on red alert

Germany and Bayern Munich star Joshua Kimmich could become one of the most in-demand free agents in world football this summer if contract talks are not revived

Events