10 m. ago Storm Amy batters Britain with cars smashed and trees downed as weather warning extended

Tens of thousands of people were left without power on Saturday

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19 m. ago Caprice warns people against using weight loss jabs after revealing she suffered terrible side effects

Caprice Bourret took a ‘microdose’ of the weight loss drug for two months

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21 m. ago UNISON say Tories should 'hang heads in shame' over NHS after shadow minister defends 'proud record'

Stuart Andrew MP defended the Tory record, despite waiting lists soaring to a record 7.7 million on their watch, with more than 300,000 people waiting over a year for treatment

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43 m. ago ‘People are dying’: Belarusians warn Lukashenko’s crackdown is far from over

Those recently freed from jail say authoritarian leader is using political prisoners as bargaining chips to ease sanctionsAs the bus crossed into Lithuania, Mikola Dziadok, newly freed after five punishing years behind bars in Belarus, shouted: “God bless America.”It was an unlikely cry from a committed anarchist and journalist who had spent almost half of his adult life behind bars for defying Alexander Lukashenko’s regime. Continue reading...

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49 m. ago A year later, small Bosnian village remembers 19 victims of floods and landslide

Residents of the tiny village in southern Bosnia were marking one year since devastating floods and a landslide killed 19 people

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1 hour ago Costa del Sol 'tourist boat' explosion horror as people rushed to hospital

Eight people have been injured following the incident in Fuengirola, a resort on the Costa del Sol in Spain, and three of them have been taken to hospital, authorities have said

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1 hour ago People with these minor conditions could get prescriptions without a GP

Pharmacists are able to treat certain minor ailments with prescription medications even if you have not seen your GP

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2 h. ago Police given more time to question four people arrested in connection with synagogue terror attack

Warrants of further detention have been granted

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2 h. ago Psychic has everyone giggling as pub shares reason they've had to cancel gig

A pub in Northumberland has been forced to reschedule their upcoming psychic medium event - and people can't stop laughing at the reason why as it was shared online

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2 h. ago ‘People are really dying’: Belarusians warn Lukashenko’s crackdown is far from over

Those recently freed from jail say authoritarian leader is using political prisoners as bargaining chips to ease sanctionsAs the bus crossed into Lithuania, Mikola Dziadok, newly freed after five punishing years behind bars in Belarus, shouted: “God bless America.”It was an unlikely cry from a committed anarchist and journalist who had spent almost half of his adult life behind bars for defying Alexander Lukashenko’s regime. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago 'I met Ryan Reynolds and noticed three things that put Wrexham owner in a different league'

Wrexham's Hollywood owners have been praised for their approach to running the club after turning the Red Dragons into a global brand following three consecutive promotions

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3 h. ago OpenAI launch of video app Sora plagued by violent and racist images: ‘The guardrails are not real’

Misinformation researchers say lifelike scenes could obfuscate truth and lead to fraud, bullying and intimidationOpenAI launched the latest iteration of its artificial intelligence-powered video generator on Tuesday, adding a social feed that allows people to share their realistic videos.Within hours of Sora 2’s, release, though, many of the videos populating the feed and spilling over to older social media platforms depicted copyrighted characters in compromising situations as well as graphic scenes of violence and racism. OpenAI’s own terms of service for Sora as well as ChatGPT’s image or text generation prohibit content that “promotes violence” or, more broadly, “causes harm”. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Britain's most extreme cleaner has made millions taking jobs 'no

Growing up on a Welsh farm, Ben Giles, 49, realised clean-up jobs other people said no to he could cope with, sparking a lucrative career in biohazard cleaning.

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4 h. ago Met Office urges public to prepare emergency kit as Storm Amy wipes out power

The British public have been urged to prepare an emergency kit, with over 20,000 people currently without power as Storm Amy batters the UK - here's what you need to know

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4 h. ago Palestine protests latest: First arrests as demonstrators gather for London rally – defying calls to cancel

Defend Our Juries say more than 1,500 people have pledged to attend the protest in Trafalgar Square in the wake of a stabbing attack on a synagogue

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4 h. ago Restoration of power after Storm Amy could take until early next week

Tens of thousands of properties were still without power as a clean-up after Storm Amy got under way across the island of Ireland on Saturday.

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4 h. ago Legal setbacks mount for Trump’s birthright order before likely Supreme Court review

Now it's five federal courts that have rejected President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end automatic citizenship for the children of people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily

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4 h. ago After Manchester, progressives should know this: Jewish people feel very alone. We need you to stand with us | Dave Rich

There’ll be sympathy and heightened security, but in the 1960s when Jewish communities faced attack, there was also solidarity. We need that backYom Kippur is the holiest day in the Jewish year, a day of repentance, prayer, fasting; and now – for two Jewish families in Manchester – also a day of mourning. It is also, increasingly, a day when terrorists visit their local synagogue to murder the Jews inside.Six years ago, that terrorist was Stephan Balliet, a German neo-Nazi, and the synagogue was in Halle, Germany. Yesterday it was Jihad Al-Shamie, at the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester. Both attacks left two people dead; both were thwarted from further atrocities by the simple act of closing the front door.Dave Rich is director of policy at the Community Security Trust and the author of Everyday Hate: How Antisemitism is Built into Our World – and How You Can Change it Continue reading...

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4 h. ago DWP and HMRC payment dates for October, including state pension

Millions of people get regular payments from the DWP and HMRC

Economics

4 h. ago Pub shares reason for rescheduling psychic as people are left in stitches

A pub in Northumberland has been forced to reschedule an event involving a psychic and social media users couldn't help but joke about the 'ironic' reason given

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