4 h. ago Tiny UK village with gorgeous beach and nature reserve that visitors call 'bliss'

Wrabness, a small village and civil parish in Essex, has a beach and a nature reserve, and it's no wonder that people flock here to escape the chaos of everyday life

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17 h. ago Your favourite podcast is now a video – but are vodcasts the future, or just ‘crap telly’?

Successful podcasters are filming their shows, putting traditional platforms under pressure. Does it add value or reflect YouTube’s increasing might?It is four in the afternoon at Pellicci’s, a family-run cafe on Bethnal Green Road in London that has been an East End institution for 125 years. Its famously loudmouthed owners, British-Italian siblings Nevio and Anna, have been serving fry-ups, soups, pasta and jam roly-polies since eight this morning. The cafe is now closed, but Anna and Nevio are just getting started on their second job as hosts of the podcast series Down the Caff, in which they interview people about food and life over a meal of the guest’s choosing. The conversations are sweary, chaotic and an absolute hoot.Their guests so far include actor and Pellicci’s regular Ray Winstone, Dexys’ Kevin Rowland, rapper Hak Baker and 86-year-old YouTuber Marge Keefe, AKA Grime Gran. Today’s interviewees are TikTok star John Fisher, AKA Big John, and his son, the boxer Johnny Fis...

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25 h. ago ‘I don’t want to be here. But we can’t go home’: what life is like for people forced to flee floods and fighting

Around the globe, conflict and the climate crisis have caused 83.4m people – a record number – to become refugees within their own countries. Three people from Bangladesh, Sudan and Colombia tell their storiesIn 2024, the number of internally displaced people around the world reached 83.4m, the highest figure ever recorded. Men, women, children, whole families and generations have been forced to flee their homes within their country as a result of conflict, violence, or natural disasters.“Internal displacement rarely makes the headlines, but for those living it, the suffering can last for years,” says Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, commenting on the latest figures from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Kendall vows to give young people ‘chances and choices’ for a better life

The Work and Pensions Secretary was speaking at the launch in Liverpool of a programme to get young people into education, work and training.

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40 h. ago 4 mental effects of fraud – and how to heal after being scammed

Being scammed can significantly impact mental health, leading to feelings of anxiety, shame and a loss of trust.

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49 h. ago Volodymyr Zelenskyy has courage. Pope Francis had it too. Why are there so many cowards? | Alexander Hurst

Corruption and greed have eroded morality in public life. Powerful people who do what is right are in short supply“Courage is seeking the truth and speaking it,” Jean Jaurès, the French philosopher and Socialist party leader, told a group of high school students in 1903. “It is not yielding to the law of the triumphant lie as it passes, and not echoing, with our soul, our mouth and our hands, mindless applause and fanatical jeering.”When the first world war reared its ugly, pointless head, Jaurès refused to give in to mindless fanaticism and attempted to coordinate a Franco-German general strike to stop the rush to war. In 1914, he paid for those efforts with his life when a 29-year-old French nationalist shot him twice in the back.Alexander Hurst is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

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52 h. ago Horror moment family is forced to flee their home in the middle of the night after 'arsonist' targets cars and sparks an inferno

Chilling footage shows the masked man pouring a liquid over the £70,000 Range Rover, a 1994 Mitsubishi 3000 GTO sports car and a van, before setting them all on fire.

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53 h. ago Older people with a ‘positive attitude’ could recover from injuries faster, study shows

A better ‘mindset’ about ageing could increase protection after a fall, a new study finds

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58 h. ago Why shoppers are boycotting Walmart again after March’s ‘economic blackout’

The boycott will run from May 20 to May 26

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63 h. ago Derek and Quentin, twins from Indiana who live in the woods: Robin de Puy’s best photograph

‘I spotted them in a town called Elkhart, jumped out of the car and ran towards them. If you didn’t know their story, you might think they were runners or cyclists. Then you see the tattoos’My first trip photographing Americans was in 2015, when I drove 8,000 miles across the country on a Harley-Davidson. I’d spent too long caught up in assignments and wanted to take some time off from commercial and editorial work to follow my own creative urges. America offered an opportunity to explore a landscape I didn’t know, and was far enough away from my home in the Netherlands to ensure it wouldn’t be easy for me to just go back if things got difficult.I think Europeans often don’t understand how tough life in America can be. I wanted to show real, underrepresented people who are just trying to survive, while also drawing attention to how rich their lives can be. At a time when people seem increasingly polarised in their views, my images seek to challenge the assumptions that often divide ...

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3 d. ago Half a billion young people will be obese or overweight by 2030, report finds

Health of adolescents worldwide has reached a ‘tipping point’, authors of Lancet commission analysis warnAlmost half a billion adolescents worldwide will be living with obesity or overweight and 1 billion at risk of preventable ill health by 2030, according to an international report.While adolescent mortality has declined by more than a quarter over the past two decades, comprehensive analysis of global data calculated that in five years, at least half of the world’s 10- to 24-year-olds will be living in countries where preventable health problems such as HIV/Aids, early pregnancy, depression and poor nutrition pose a “daily threat to their health, wellbeing and life chance”. Young people’s health has reached a “tipping point”, the authors warned. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ‘I’m in love with the birds and the river’: how ecotourism helped a small Colombian town recover from war

Since the 2016 peace treaty, Mesetas has embraced its natural assets and visitors have flocked to enjoy the region’s unique biodiversity. But the threat of violence is never far awayPhotographs by Antonio CascioTen years ago, violent conflict made it impossible for tourists to enjoy the natural riches of Mesetas. The town was one of the centres of the armed conflict that ravaged Colombia for decades, claiming nearly half a million lives.But since the historic peace treaty in 2016, with efforts to uphold it now led by the leftist president, Gustavo Petro, the people of Mesetas have had their hopes raised for a better life, thanks to those natural assets. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago British tourist fighting for life in Thailand after being 'stabbed and hurled from car'

A British man is fighting for his life after being attacked in Pattaya, Thailand, by three people who threw him from a car and left him for dead, bloodied and injured

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6 d. ago 'Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll? We were too exhausted': Spandau Ballet singer TONY HADLEY relives Live Aid 40 years on

From the biggest charity concert ever staged to powerful women bosses on national newspapers - the 80s defined life as we know it. The people who were there remember

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7 d. ago Bargain buy Tamfana giving ‘people from all walks of life’ a taste of racing’s big time

The filly originally cost her connections just £16,000 and has earned more than £500,000 before she lines up as one of the leading contenders in the £400,000 Lockinge Stakes

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7 d. ago I woke up one morning and my hearing had disappeared. It never came back

Alison woke up 'profoundly deaf' one morning

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9 d. ago Pope vows every effort to work for peace in regions where Christians persecuted, forced to flee

Pope Leo XIV is vowing to actively promote and protect the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite churches, those Catholic communities with origins in the Middle East and North Africa that have been decimated by conflict and persecution

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1 week ago Kim Kardashian trial live: Stylist Simone Harouche ‘heard screaming’ and feared star was being raped

Celebrity stylist Simone Harouche tells court she heard Kardashian pleading for her life as 10 people face trial over $10m jewellery heist in Paris apartment in 2016

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1 week ago 'When it rains, there's loo roll and sanitary products hanging from people’s rose bushes'

Furious residents are fighting repeated flooding incidents on the border between two Greater Manchester boroughs

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1 week ago We told young people that degrees were their ticket to a better life. It’s become a great betrayal | Gaby Hinsliff

With the labour market declining and AI a threat to entry-level jobs, graduates have been sold a lie. It’s no wonder they’re angryIt’s boomerang season again. Or to put it another way, the time of year when adult children you imagined might be flying the nest come home instead to roost, a ritual that seems to happen earlier every year.Though the university year isn’t formally finished yet, so many institutions are dumping written exams in favour of dissertations or online assessments (cheaper to run, apparently) that third years have started cutting their losses and their food bills by heading home not long after Easter. In a worrying number of cases, they’re leaving with no job to go to.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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