5 h. ago Live Lotto results for Wednesday, August 13: National Lottery winning numbers from tonight's draw

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5 h. ago How the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War will be celebrated in Bolton

Services, children's events and music will form part of the borough's commemorations

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6 h. ago National Lottery Lotto results LIVE: Numbers for £2m draw on Wednesday, August 13

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31 h. ago EuroMillions draw LIVE: Massive £185million jackpot up for grabs tonight

Brits will be in with a chance of winning big during the National Lottery's EuroMillions draw tonight, with the jackpot standing at a staggering £185m - plus more prizes up for grabs

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39 h. ago The loneliest continent: epidemic of social isolation hits Africans as western culture spreads

A World Health Organization study challenges traditional views of African society. Some blame technology, others urbanisation and living costs, but what is the solution?Loneliness has been a constant feature of Macyleen’s life since she was nine years old and her mother died in their home town in Zimbabwe. She was sent to live with her father, but he worked away from home a lot. His new wife resented his other children and was emotionally abusive.Macyleen lived with three half-siblings, but they were much older. “We were there to survive and just get to the next day. I knew I was alone,” she recalls. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago I have been to lots of live music events lately and one thing keeps happening that has me worried

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4 d. ago Lotto numbers LIVE: One National Lottery ticket holder wins £7.3m jackpot

One ticket holder has won a life-changing National Lottery jackpot in Saturday's draw, just in time to book a last-minute summer holiday with the cash

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4 d. ago Lotto numbers RECAP: One National Lottery ticket holder wins £7.3m jackpot

One ticket holder has won a life-changing National Lottery jackpot in Saturday's draw, just in time to book a last-minute summer holiday with the cash

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4 d. ago National Lottery Lotto results LIVE: Numbers for £7.3m draw on Saturday, August 9

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5 d. ago EuroMillions results LIVE: Lottery numbers for £172m draw on Friday, August 8

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5 d. ago Fort Stewart shooting suspect was relentlessly mocked for stutter, soldiers say

Friend says Quornelius Radford, man accused of shooting five fellow soldiers at an army base, was ‘bullied a lot’US politics live – latest updatesA friend of the man accused of gunning down five fellow soldiers at the Fort Stewart army base in Georgia earlier this week recounted how the suspect had been repeatedly bullied for having a serious stutter, according to a news report.Meanwhile, soldiers who acted swiftly to suppress the gunman and prevent the possibility of a much higher death toll were being hailed as heroes for their bravery in the terrifying moments after shots rang out on the sprawling military base on Wednesday morning. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Education Secretary Linda McMahon derailed by hacker’s clown music at conservative student event

Former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, president of the Young America's Foundation, blamed the Chinese Communist Party and liberals for the interruptions

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6 d. ago Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3; Two Scherzos album review – deft execution of the Russian’s early exuberance

BBC Philharmonic/John Storgårds/Hallé Choir(Chandos)Capturing the momentum of two of Shostakovich’s first Soviet-era symphonies, this performance adds a pair of scherzos that pre-date even themIf the key stylistic reference in Shostakovich’s symphonies from the Fifth onwards would unmistakably be Mahler, his early symphonies show a much more catholic array of influences, and often hint at other directions his music might have taken had events in the Soviet Union allowed him the freedom of choice. The First Symphony in particular, composed in 1924-25, is an energised bundle of ideas derived from many sources, with the Stravinsky of Petrushka and the early neoclassicism of Paul Hindemith vying for supremacy in music that careers along with sudden changes of direction – alternating exuberance with flashes of pathos – which never fail to surprise.In what is the latest instalment of their Shostakovich series for Chandos, John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic are more effective in maint...

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8 d. ago EuroMillions results LIVE: Lottery numbers for £157m draw on Tuesday, August 5

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1 week ago Civil servants attending hundreds of 'woke' events each month during working hours

The meetings include 'listening circles for trans colleagues and allies', music sessions called 'sapphic sounds' and two-hour-long diversity and inclusion sessions.

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3 w. ago 'Adrenaline junkie' surgeon who sued McLaren for £14m over brain injuries he suffered in snowmobile crash loses case after texts emerged of him telling staff 'no worries... s*** happens'

Andrew Cannestra suffered multiple injuries when the skidoo he was riding careered off a forest track in Lapland during a £23,000 luxury break he had aken with his then partner Kaitlin Mealor.

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3 w. ago Tomorrowland Festival will go ahead as planned despite horrifying main stage blaze

Despite a fire destroying the main stage at Tomorrowland festival, the music event will still go ahead as planned, welcoming an estimated 100,000 festivalgoers

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4 w. ago Fire destroys main stage at Belgium’s Tomorrowland festival on eve of opening

Blaze came a day before thousands of electronic dance music fans were set to descend on the Belgian eventThe main stage of the Tomorrowland music festival near Antwerp was totally destroyed by fire on Wednesday, a day before thousands of electronic dance music lovers were due to arrive at the Belgian event.There were no injuries, organisers said, insisting they would still go ahead with the festival over the next two weekends. Continue reading...

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