1 hour ago Inside the plush Central London neighbourhood that has become the UK's number one burglary hotspot where 'everything keeps getting worse'

The central London neighbourhood of Oxford Street, Mayfair and Soho has become the UK's burglary hotspot, as residents complain that things are getting worse.

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1 hour ago ‘People are so polite’: the Ukrainian refugee bonding with the British over borscht and chips

First Ukrainian refugee to arrive in UK after Russia invasion says even the British dogs are better behaved, but that ‘the weather is sad’Sharing a bowl of homemade Ukrainian borscht with your neighbours is one way to make friends in a new country, according to the first refugee to arrive in the UK after Russia invaded her country three years ago.Ukrainian refugee Valentyna Klymova, 72, now settled in Erith in Kent, has done just that, lovingly preparing the traditional soup containing beetroot, other vegetables and meat stock, served with a dollop of sour cream and rye bread. She offers it to English people she knows and says it has had a positive reception. In turn, she has embraced quintessentially British fish and chips, although she has not yet tried to cook it at home. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Mystery over identity of body in wetsuit found in Welsh reservoir

Police probing ‘highly unusual’ circumstances around body suspected to have gone undiscovered in Claerwen Reservoir for up to 12 weeks

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3 h. ago 'I'm a dopamine dresser, and more people should dress like I do'

Kerry Jones briefly lost her identity after becoming a mum, packing away her colourful outfits

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3 h. ago European football: Napoli title hopes suffer blow with shock defeat by Como

Napoli’s winless run now at four games after 2-1 lossLa Liga: in-form Athletic Bilbao thrash Valladolid 7-1Napoli’s title hopes suffered another blow as they were beaten 2-1 by promoted Como at the Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia on Sunday. Antonio Conte’s side missed the chance to reclaim top spot in Serie A as Assane Diao’s fine strike extended the visitors’ winless streak to four matches.Having been overtaken at the summit by Inter on Saturday, Napoli made a nightmare start when Amir Rrahmani gifted the lead to Como in the seventh minute. The Kosovan centre back attempted a back pass from Matteo Politano’s throw-in, but with goalkeeper Alex Meret out of position, the ball bounced into an empty net. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Residents gather in anger to take on neighbour's huge security gates

A homeowner decided to commission security guards and erect gates to prevent access to a part of the countryside the community has been using for years

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3 h. ago Inside neighbourhood with 'highest crime rates in England' as locals all say same thing

Residents of one of the most crime-ridden neighbourhoods in England and Wales were surprised to find their area had the worst rates of some felonies and spoke out in support of their area

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5 h. ago Mother of Dave Grohl’s new baby ‘revealed’ after months of secrecy

Musician shocked fans when he announced he had fathered a baby outside of his 21-year marriage

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5 h. ago Liverpool cult hero is also an icon for La Liga side who named their press room after him

EXCLUSIVE Michael Robinson was a European cup winner with Liverpool, but he's best known in Spain for his post-career work - where he became an icon at Osasuna

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5 h. ago How Osasuna carved their own La Liga identity with their closest neighbours all Basque

EXCLUSIVE Osasuna aren't just the only club in the city, their the only club in their region - and, surrounded by Basque clubs, they've carved their identity

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7 h. ago Death of a neighbourhood: Fury as uni students who don't pay council tax and host noisy parties turning suburban street into a 'family

A £550k home for sale on Sunbury Avenue, on the outskirts of Newcastle, is set to become a HMO. Of the 51 homes on the street, 48 are lived in by undergraduate students.

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9 h. ago Julen Lopetegui: ‘Of course we could have played better. It was our fault’

Spaniard on the ‘pain and anger’ of his sacking at West Ham and rejecting an immediate return to management“And then suddenly they sacked me.” Julen Lopetegui is running through the reasons to be cheerful – safety secure, 17 shots at the Etihad and the physical stats, an identity emerging, a winter window and a kinder calendar coming – when he uses one of only two English lines in as many hours, delivered as if the final page of a story. The other, not entirely incidentally, is “no comment”, and a smile accompanies both. Five weeks from his sacking at West Ham, the anger and hurt has subsided, on the surface at least. The period of mourning, as he puts it, is over.“My father died and, although you can’t compare them, personal and professional mourning came together,” Lopetegui says. Offers arrived, but it was too soon. Instead he headed to Mexico, where he is building a hotel with his brother Joxean, a former pelota player, and as he arrives at another hotel, this time in Madrid, it...

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9 h. ago Can a brown Hindu be English? English people say yes. Why do so many on the right say no? | Kenan Malik

An argument about Rishi Sunak’s identity reveals how ideas of ethnicity and race have become conflated‘They think they’re English because they’re born here. That means if a dog’s born in a stable it’s a horse.” That was a staple of the comedian Bernard Manning’s routine back in the 1970s. Enoch Powell had, a decade earlier, expressed the same sentiment in more refined language: “The West Indian or Asian does not, by being born in England, become an Englishman. In law he becomes a United Kingdom citizen by birth; in fact he is a West Indian or an Asian still.”Few today would laugh along with Manning or take seriously the claim that only white people can be English. Britain has transformed over the past half-century and most English people now embrace Ian Wright and Idris Elba as being as English as David Beckham or Joanna Lumley. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Sarwar and Swinney must now accept the circle cannot be squared on gender debate

It was not a good week for self-identifying ‘progressive’ male politicians

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12 h. ago Breathtaking mansion 'bigger than Buckingham Palace' left to rot in UK countryside

What would likely have been the UK's most stunning mansion - that is said to be even larger than Buckingham Palace itself - has never been completed and left to rot in the Sussex countryside, to the annoyance of neighbours

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15 h. ago England and Wales's burglary hotspots: Interactive map of 37,000 neighbourhoods lays bare streets with most break

London's Oxford Street and the upmarket area of Soho to its south stretching to Piccadilly Circus is the nation's number one burglary hotspot, MailOnline can reveal.

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16 h. ago Identity of mystery woman spotted at Chiltern Firehouse with Jack Grealish is revealed

Jack, who recently welcomed his first child with girlfriend Sasha Attwood , shouted: 'She's not with me!' as they left the restaurant before he got into his car alone.

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17 h. ago People who find themselves attractive more likely to find misshapen fruit and veg disgusting, research finds

The reason is that self-identifying beautiful people feel more entitled and believe they deserve more perfect-looking food, say researchers at York University in Toronto, Canada.

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19 h. ago European football: Barcelona march on at top of La Liga as Inter scrape by Genoa

Barça beat Las Palmas 2-0 and Atléti stay on their heelsInter move top of Serie A with Napoli to play on SundayDani Olmo and Ferran Torres came off the bench to rescue a 2-0 win for Barcelona at Las Palmas on Saturday that sent them back to the top of the La Liga table after a game that is unlikely to live long in the memory.Barcelona now lead on 54 points, one ahead of Atlético Madrid. Real Madrid are third on 51 but have a game in hand and will host Girona on Sunday. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Police officer killed amid shooting at Pennsylvania hospital

Andrew Duarte of West York borough police department was slain Saturday at UPMC memorial hospital in YorkA police officer was killed Saturday after responding to a shooting at a central Pennsylvania hospital, officials said.The officer slain in the shooting at UPMC memorial hospital in York was identified as Andrew Duarte of the West York borough police department. He had been responding to a mutual aid call, the department posted on its Facebook page.Guardian staff contributed reporting Continue reading...

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