4 h. ago 100,000 descending on city centre among 14 unmissable things to do in Greater Manchester this Bank Holiday weekend

There's some big festivals and events taking place this August Bank Holiday weekend in Manchester

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8 h. ago I fled to the UK for safety. So why are your leaders cosying up to the brutal despots in Beijing who've put a £100,000 bounty on my head?

Chloe Cheung Cheung never takes the same route home twice in succession. She carries self protection devices, including alarms and air tags, in case she is kidnapped.

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13 h. ago A hearing aid before the age of 70 can dramatically reduce risk of dementia, new research finds

Dementia affects more than 6 million Americans and leads to more than 100,000 deaths each year

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30 h. ago Neanderthals bred with humans 100,000 YEARS earlier than first thought, scientists say

Experts have discovered that a five-year-old child who lived 140,000 years ago had parents from both species.

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42 h. ago £100,000 fine for North Lanarkshire company after steam cleaning accident

Dundas Chemical Company admitted a breach of health and safety laws that resulted in severe injury and permanent scarring to an employee.

Economics

42 h. ago Gerry Adams donates to ‘good causes’ after BBC pays 100,000 euro damages

The broadcaster lost a major defamation case earlier this year after Mr Adams took them to court over a 2016 episode of its Spotlight programme.

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48 h. ago Manchester United are importing a sinister US tactic: Public money for stadiums

Similar grand promises made when building US sports arenas are now being used to justify a huge outlay in the UK, with little return to show for themIn March, Manchester United officially unveiled images and plans for a new 100,000-seater stadium to replace their current aging home, Old Trafford. While the grandiosity of the circus-tent-like structure attracted widespread attention, something else did, too: as part of this project, United are planning to secure land not by paying for it themselves – but by having the UK government do it for them.In order to clear the site that the club wants to use, a rail freight hub will need to be moved to out near St Helens, a town in between Manchester and Liverpool. The cost of moving the hub is estimated to be between £200m and 300m ($270-405m), but that may be an optimistic appraisal; in the past, the project budget was estimated at closer to a £1bn ($1.35bn). Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Historic Dumfries and Galloway hotel back on the market for £225,000

The asking price for The Douglas Arms in Castle Douglas is more than £100,000 below the starting bid when it was listed for auction just months ago.

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3 d. ago Daily Record Pride of Scotland award winner Georgie shares her cancer story in powerful podcast

Seventeen-year-old is also urging people to get behind her as she attempts to raise £100,000 for charity.

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3 d. ago Government orders striking Air Canada flight attendants to return to work

Union criticises move less than 12 hours after start of action that has left more than 100,000 travellers strandedThe Canadian government has forced flight attendants at Air Canada back to work less than 12 hours after they began striking and ordered binding arbitration over a dispute that has left more than 100,000 travellers stranded around the world during the peak summer travel season.Since March, Canada’s largest airline and the union representing its flight attendants have been locked in an increasingly bitter dispute over what the union has described as “poverty wages” and unpaid labour. Flight attendants are not paid for any work before or after the plane takes off. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago 'I went on holiday and caught a disease that kills 100,000 a year'

Alysha, 27, thought she had a hangover - but i turned out to be a deadly infection from food or animals

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6 d. ago Over 100,000 Drinkmate carbonation bottles recalled due to risk of explosion

More than 100,000 Drinkmate-branded bottles are being recalled across the U.S. and Canada

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8 d. ago Trump places $5m bounty on brutal warlord ‘Barbecue’ who burned 70 people to death

Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier has been indicted on charges of conspiring to transfer funds from the United States to fund gang activities in Haiti and now has a $5 million bounty on his head

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8 d. ago Russian forces break through Ukraine frontline days before Putin

Around 100,000 Russian troops are believed to have travelled at least 10km north of the Ukrainian frontline - days before upcoming peace talks between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin

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1 week ago The Adversary by Michael Crummey review – dark humour and depravity at the edge of the Earth

This prize-winning take on a biblical tale set in 1800s Newfoundland is grim, but has energy, empathy – and a wickedly colourful way with wordsSeveral years have passed since Michael Crummey’s last novel The Innocents was published in the UK in 2020. A pandemic has since occurred and, appropriately perhaps, The Adversary begins on a dark note of contagion. “There was a killing sickness on the shore that winter and the only services at the church were funerals,” runs the opening line, setting the tone for a book that plumbs the depths of depravity but – thanks to its energy, and its ripe and adventurous language – never loses a black sense of humour. Having now won the 30th annual Dublin Literary award, worth €100,000, The Adversary is proof that Crummey is beginning to garner the accolades he deserves beyond his native Canada.Crummey hails from Newfoundland; all six of his novels are set there. He understands the power of lashing sea, scouring wind, an eked-out existence far from wh...

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1 week ago ‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head

After speaking out about the suppression of Hong Kong’s protests, Chloe Cheung was targeted by Beijing, followed on the street and abused online. Yet she remains defiantIt was Christmas Eve 2024 and 19-year-old Chloe Cheung was lying in bed at home in Leeds when she found out the Chinese authorities had put a bounty on her head. As she scrolled through Instagram looking at festive songs, a stream of messages from old school friends started coming into her phone. Look at the news, they told her.Media outlets across east Asia were reporting that Cheung, who had just finished her A-levels, had been declared a threat to national security by officials in Hong Kong. There was an offer of HK$1m (£94,000) to anyone who could assist in her arrest or capture. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Mum trades her busy UK life to live in luxury in huge villa in Spain with a pool and private  gym

British mother Bridie has wowed thousands after giving a virtual tour of her huge new home in Spain. The lavish villa cost £100,000 less than her Essex home.

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1 week ago Heartbreaking last picture of Oasis fan before he plunged to his death at Wembley gig

Landscape gardener Lee Claydon, 45, tumbled from the venue's upper tier during the concert for 100,000 spectators in North London on Saturday evening.

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1 week ago Welsh council to hire new officer and pay them £100,000 salary

Pembrokeshire Council is to recruit for a new senior officer, a post which commands a salary of up to £101,000

Economics

1 week ago Cannabis gardener returned to UK after deportation and was again caught working for criminal gang

Thin Trieu Nguyen, 37, has now been jailed for four years after plants worth £100,000 were found in a house in Coatbridge.

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