36 m. ago We'd rather buy a £15 designer mug than a pint: Meet the Gen Z couple addicted to Le Creuset... and their friends love it too

The question Gen Z have on their mind is why spend time drinking with friends when you can invest in your future?

Economics

37 m. ago Inside newbuild home called an 'architectural masterpiece' by estate agent... but what do you think?

The County Durham home is up for sale for £1.75m with estate agents calling it an 'extraordinary residence' and 'one of the most prestigious homes in Wynyard'.

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72 m. ago I've lived in Dubai for 22 years and I'll never move back to Scotland

Kelly Lundberg who has lived in Dubai for 22 years after falling in love with the city when she started working as an air hostess, says that those who can't hack life in the UAE are approaching it wrong.

Politics

1 hour ago The story behind the ramen delivery service that started on an industrial estate and now is beloved by celebrity chefs and critics

Matsudai Ramen has garnered huge success over recent years, but its owner James Chant still can't quite believe it has reached to this point

Politics

2 h. ago JD Vance granted lightning audience with Pope Francis in Vatican

US vice-president spends few minutes with pontiff whom he has publicly disagreed with over migrationPope Francis and JD Vance, who have disagreed very publicly over the Trump administration’s attitude to immigration and its migrant deportation plans, met briefly in Rome on Sunday to exchange Easter greetings.The meeting came a day after the US vice-president, who converted to Roman Catholicism in 2019, sat down with senior Vatican officials and had “an exchange of opinions” over international conflicts and immigration. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago The love triangle scrap which foreshadowed a beautician's deadly thirst for revenge

Coleen Campbell was sentenced for violent disorder

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2 h. ago Easter BINNIES! As rubbish bags continue to pile high in Birmingham SEVEN council workers are seen emptying one car full of litter as strikes continue

Staff were based at several mobile refuse collection vans at Birmingham Central Mosque Car Park on Sunday to help clear the overflowing streets of waste.

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2 h. ago Council 'spending £3,500 a week on accommodation for just one homeless person'

A councillor said it raises 'serious questions about values for money'

Economics

2 h. ago 9 popular restaurant chains of the 70s, 80s, 90s and noughties we have lost, including much

They were some of the most popular restaurants and takeaways of their day.

Politics

2 h. ago RFK's claims about people with autism offer a sinister insight into how Trumpism sees us all | John Harris

The war on science being waged by the US health secretary and the White House is bound to spread. We must be on our guardIn the recent past, Robert F Kennedy Jr has said that Donald Trump is “a terrible human being” and “probably a sociopath”. But in the US’s new age of irrationalism and chaos, these two men are now of one voice, pursuing a strand of Trumpist politics that sometimes feels strangely overlooked. With Trump once again in the White House and Kennedy ensconced as his health and human services secretary, what they are jointly leading is becoming clearer by the day: a war on science and knowledge that aims to replace them with the modern superstitions of conspiracy theory.Nearly 2,000 members of the US’s National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have warned of “slashing funding for scientific agencies, terminating grants to scientists, defunding their laboratories, and hampering international scientific collaboration”. Even work on cancer is now under threa...

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2 h. ago RFK’s statements prove autistic people and their families everywhere should fear Trump and his allies | John Harris

The idea that autism is some aberration that can be cured is typical of a movement that celebrates simplistic thinking and loathes human differenceIn the recent past, Robert F Kennedy Jr has said that Donald Trump is “a terrible human being” and “probably a sociopath”. But in the US’s new age of irrationalism and chaos, these two men are now of one voice, pursuing a strand of Trumpist politics that sometimes feels strangely overlooked. With Trump once again in the White House and Kennedy ensconced as his health and human services secretary, what they are jointly leading is becoming clearer by the day: a war on science and knowledge that aims to replace them with the modern superstitions of conspiracy theory.Nearly 2,000 members of the US’s National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have warned of “slashing funding for scientific agencies, terminating grants to scientists, defunding their laboratories, and hampering international scientific collaboration”. Even work on...

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3 h. ago 'I’ve no great love of my boobs. They’ve served their purpose. Surgery was a no

Jade, 33, allowed BBC cameras to follow her surgical journey at Llandough Breast Centre

Politics

3 h. ago Easter around the world: From bombed out church in Lebanon to community prayer in Pakistan, how Christian occasion was marked across the globe

All Christians, from Orthodox and Western churches, are observing the holiday on the same day this year in a rare occurrence which sees the churches calendars align.

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3 h. ago I told a truly weird lie on a first date 30 years ago – and it worked out surprisingly well | Emma Beddington

A new E4 dating show brings the lies we tell while dating into the spotlight. But is bending the truth always a bad thing when looking for love?In 1994, I went on a date. I had just arrived in a new country and I liked the guy: he seemed funny and confident. He took me to a hardware store (weird, but not a dealbreaker) and then for a Tex-Mex meal during which, at some point, I told him I drove a Land Rover.It was a truly weird, dumb, lie – I knew nothing about cars and cared even less. Maybe I thought it made me sound grown up, tougher and more capable than I was, or maybe the margaritas went to my head? I’m sure I told him other lies (I remember giving the impression that I enjoyed clubbing), but that one was memorably stupid. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago ‘Their pursuits are the cigar and the siesta’: how two centuries of British writers helped forge our view of Spain

Laurie Lee and Robert Graves among ‘English-speaking Quixotes’ in new book celebrating literary love for all things SpanishAlmost 200 years ago, the pioneering British travel writer Richard Ford offered an observation that has been happily ignored by the legions of authors who have traipsed in his dusty footsteps across Spain, toting notebooks, the odd violin or Bible, and, of course, their own particular prejudices.“Nothing causes more pain to Spaniards”, Ford noted in his 1845 Handbook for Travellers in Spain, “than to see volume after volume written by foreigners about their country.” Continue reading...

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3 h. ago 'I'm going Barbie butless for my wedding – the right person will love you hole or no hole'

EXCLUSIVE: Matilda Ahdrian, 28, is strutting into her wedding with a brand-new life and a 'Barbie butt' to match after turning her health battle into a message of empowerment

Politics

4 h. ago Barry Hoban, British cycling legend and Tour de France icon, dies aged 85

Yorkshire-born cyclist won eight stages of Tour de FranceFamously beat Eddy Merckx at Gent-Wevelgem in 1974The pioneering British road sprinter and Classics rider Barry Hoban has died at the age of 85. Hoban was for many years the UK record holder for stage wins in the Tour de France notching up a tally of eight during his 17-year professional racing career, a total bettered only by the greatest sprinter of them all, Mark Cavendish, in 2009.Hoban’s first stage victory in the Tour, in 1967, was not one he cared to remember – or that he felt was really a win – as it came the day after the sudden death of his friend and rival Tom Simpson on Mont Ventoux; he was “permitted” to escape and cross the line first by the grieving peloton. Continue reading...

Events

4 h. ago BBC presenter Nick Owen says cancer diagnosis was ‘worst day of my life’

Veteran presenter called the response he has received ‘breathtaking and emotional’

Science

4 h. ago Police in central Germany hunt for a suspect on the run after 2 people were shot dead

German police in a spa town north of Frankfurt on Sunday were widening a manhunt for a suspect still on the loose after two people were fatally shot a day earlier

Events

5 h. ago Zelenskyy says Russia has intensified shelling despite ‘Easter truce’ as Moscow also accuses Ukraine of breaching ceasefire – live

‘Easter truce’ ordered by Putin on Saturday but Ukraine president says Russian army continuing efforts to advanceEaster falls on the same day this year for orthodox and western churches, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Ukrainians not to give up hope that peace will one day return.Here are some of the latest images coming out of the newswires from Ukraine where festivities continue despite Russian attacks:We are documenting every Russian violation of its self-declared commitment to a full ceasefire for the Easter period and are prepared to provide the necessary information to our partners. In practice, either Putin does not have full control over his army, or the situation proves that in Russia, they have no intention of making a genuine move toward ending the war, and are only interested in favorable PR coverage. It’s a good thing, at least, that there were no air raid sirens. Continue reading...

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