72 m. ago Masterchef judge attacks local council after he claims it cut the number of supper clubs he can hold at his farmhouse

William Sitwell slammed council planners after he was forced to apply for permission to continue holding the Sitwell Supper Club events at his £800,000 Rooks Nest Farm near Taunton.

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79 m. ago Trump's raunchy letter to Jeffrey Epstein celebrating their 'wonderful secret' is revealed

President Donald Trump sent a salacious birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein that included a risqué hand-drawn picture of a naked woman with a cryptic message inside, according to a new report.

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80 m. ago Nagasaki cathedral blesses a bell that replaces one destroyed by the US atomic bomb

Nagasaki cathedral has blessed the final piece to complete its restoration nearly 80 years after being destroyed by the second U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Japan: a reproduction of its lost bell restored by a group of Americans

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84 m. ago Crypto donations could entirely corrupt British politics. Labour must act quickly | Liam Byrne

We need to know who is funding our parties, but this new frontier is custom-built for hostile actors. The elections bill is a good start – but only thatLiam Byrne is the Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge HillOur party finance rules are riddled with loopholes. Shell companies. Unincorporated associations. Anonymous donations routed through digital campaigns between elections. All legal. All ripe for abuse. And now, a new gateway has opened: cryptocurrency.When someone buys a cryptocurrency their identity is anonymous, but the transaction itself is recorded on the blockchain and is publicly visible. So far we know that this anonymity has allowed cryptocurrencies to be used to fund everything from sanctions evasion to election interference. A recent report from the Centre for Information Resilience revealed that A7A5, a new “digital rouble”, has already been linked to sanctions evasions by Russians. The report also found that Ilan Shor, a fugitive oligarch who has been accused of being in...

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84 m. ago Young, educated and knee deep in rubbish: the recyclers cleaning up in Cairo’s Garbage City

Piles of waste line the streets of Manshiyet Nasr, turning it into a no-go zone for many. But a new generation see themselves as agents of change in the fight against plastic pollutionWhen Mina Nedi graduated with a nursing degree last year, his friends and family expected him to start working in one of Egypt’s overstretched hospitals. Instead, the 25-year-old decided to join his father’s recycling business in Manshiyet Nasr, a neighbourhood on Cairo’s eastern outskirts known as Garbage City.Every day, he sorts through thousands of plastic bottles, collected by a team of men who roam the city at night to pick up rubbish, separating them by colour and compressing them into large bundles with the help of a machine, ready to be sold for recycling and reuse.Mina Nedi, 25, has been working as a plastic collector for five years and funded his university education with it Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Felix Baumgartner 'was dead BEFORE he hit the ground': Space daredevil smashed into a woman as his paraglider plummeted into a busy hotel pool after 'heart attack'

The Austrian sportsman, 56, lost his life at around 4pm Thursday in Porto Sant'Elpidio, Marche region, while flying a motor powered paraglider.

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2 h. ago How much battery range has this electric Volkswagen lost after clocking 107,000 miles in four years?

One of the biggest concerns with electric cars is the lifespan of their batteries and how quickly they degrade over time and due to high mileage and repeat recharges.

Science

2 h. ago North Lanarkshire gets funding boost for greenspaces from National Lottery Heritage Fund

Approximately £640,000 will be spent by the creation of a ground-breaking ‘environmental justice map’.

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2 h. ago Asda security guard saving shoppers from common romance scam

Harry McCandless has warned that the problem is becoming more 'alarmingly common'

Economics

3 h. ago Coronation Street fans think 'secret child' in Carla Connor and Lisa Swain storyline

Spoilers for the ITV soap have hinted that Carla will be hiding something in upcoming scenes

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3 h. ago Coronation Street star says Carl Webster up against 'dangerous people' as secret 'exposed'

Carl only appeared in Weatherfield for the first time in April, having only ever been mentioned by name in the ITV soap

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3 h. ago Why is it so hard for the authorities to win public trust? Maybe because they keep lying to us | Gaby Hinsliff

If it’s not superinjunctions, it’s Epstein files or deepfakes. It’s hard not to be a conspiracy theorist when sometimes they really are out to get youIf you were to invent a scandal expressly to convince conspiracy theorists they were right all along, the story of the Afghan superinjunction would be hard to beat.A secret back door into Britain through which thousands of immigrants were brought, under cover of a draconian legal gagging order that helpfully also concealed an act of gross incompetence by the British state? It’s a rightwing agitator’s dream. “The real disinformation,” wrote Dominic Cummings on X, a platform notably awash with real disinformation, “is the regime media.” Yes, that Dominic Cummings.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Culture

3 h. ago Billie Marten: ‘Mostly, artists are in financial ruin no matter how successful they appear to be’

As the contemporary folk singer releases her fifth studio album, ‘Dog Eared’, she sits down with Helen Coffey to discuss her bold new sound, the mourning for lost childhood, and why our broken music industry means we all wind up paying Taylor Swift in the end

Economics

3 h. ago Jupiter was once massive enough to hold 2,000 Earths says research

Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, is 11 times wider than Earth, and has a mass 2.5 times greater than all of the rest of the planets combined

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4 h. ago 'I'm an American Airlines pilot – there's genius way we predict turbulence before flight'

American Airlines captain Steve often shares little-known secrets about life in the cockpit and his latest revelation really blew minds on TikTok where he boasts 398,000 followers

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4 h. ago ‘Our silence didn’t protect him’: daughter pleads for father on death row in Iran

Arrested in 2023 after helping those injured during Women, Life, Freedom protests, Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri has been subjected to torture and a forced confession, say family and campaignersIn late October 2022, as protests over 22-year-old Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody swept across Iran, Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri, a father of three, was racing through alleyways in the city of Bukan, in western Iran, carrying medical supplies to secret clinics where doctors treated injured demonstrators in defiance of the state.Many of the wounded were too afraid to seek hospital care after reports of secret police patrolling wards, interrogating patients and detaining injured protesters. By helping, Babamiri, a 47-year-old fruit and vegetable farmer, did not see himself as a revolutionary but simply as someone doing what was right, says his daughter, Zhino. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Indiana Jones whip snaps up $525,000 at auction after 'Citizen Kane' sled goes for $14.75 million

A whip wielded by Harrison Ford in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” that once belonged to Princess Diana has sold at auction for $525,000

Economics

4 h. ago 'My husband wanted to hire a hitman to kill me for £100,000'

Audrey Hunter split from ex Robert Hunter in 2023 but later discovered his disturbing claims.

Events

5 h. ago Britons puff over 78 MILLION cigarettes every day, shock study finds

Researchers in London , who assessed the smoking habits of almost 80,000 Britons, found smokers still had 10 cigarettes per day on average in 2024.

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5 h. ago Millionaire farmer 'died a day after secret wedding' as wife inherits £4.7 million fortune

Joe Grogan, 75, died just one day after marrying his carer Lisa Flaherty, 50, in a 'secret wedding' at a registry office - his family had called for a detailed forensic investigation into his death

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