14 h. ago I was there when VE Day happened dizzy with excitement as the blackouts were called off and victory rejoiced

Eighty years ago this Thursday, victory in Europe was declared for the Allies, signalling the end of the Second World War after nearly six years.

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31 h. ago Slot says title can lure players to Liverpool, Allen to retire, Dier leaving Bayern: football – live

Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekendFixtures | Tables | Read Football Daily | Email TahaA bit more from Eddie Howe, on Alexander Isak: “He’s not for sale from my perspective ”Dejan Kulusevski has been talking about how the Europa League has brought out Tottenham’s best amid a wretched domestic season, PA Media reports“When you do performances like [the win at Eintracht Frankfurt], you want to repeat them,” Kulusevski said. “I think in Europe, we play a little bit different. We play with less risk and we put the ball up more in the space like we did today and we got to keep doing that in Europe.“This season has been really disappointing but at least, let’s finish it in the best possible way. We have got to do everything possible every day to make it happen. It is different football (on an artificial pitch), it is a different pitch, but in life, you have to do what you have to do to find a way to win and we have got to do that.” Continue reading...

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33 h. ago Slot says title win can lure players to Liverpool, Dier to leave Bayern: football – live

Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekendFixtures | Tables | Read Football Daily | Email JohnA bit more from Eddie Howe, on Alexander Isak: “He’s not for sale from my perspective ”Dejan Kulusevski has been talking about how the Europa League has brought out Tottenham’s best amid a wretched domestic season, PA Media reports“When you do performances like [the win at Eintracht Frankfurt], you want to repeat them,” Kulusevski said. “I think in Europe, we play a little bit different. We play with less risk and we put the ball up more in the space like we did today and we got to keep doing that in Europe.“This season has been really disappointing but at least, let’s finish it in the best possible way. We have got to do everything possible every day to make it happen. It is different football (on an artificial pitch), it is a different pitch, but in life, you have to do what you have to do to find a way to win and we have got to do that.” Continue reading...

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34 h. ago English trio close on European finals, Eric Dier to leave Bayern Munich: football – live

Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekendFixtures | Tables | Read Football Daily | Email DominicA bit more from Eddie Howe, on Alexander Isak: “He’s not for sale from my perspective ”Dejan Kulusevski has been talking about how the Europa League has brought out Tottenham’s best amid a wretched domestic season, PA Media reports“When you do performances like [the win at Eintracht Frankfurt], you want to repeat them,” Kulusevski said. “I think in Europe, we play a little bit different. We play with less risk and we put the ball up more in the space like we did today and we got to keep doing that in Europe.“This season has been really disappointing but at least, let’s finish it in the best possible way. We have got to do everything possible every day to make it happen. It is different football (on an artificial pitch), it is a different pitch, but in life, you have to do what you have to do to find a way to win and we have got to do that.” Continue reading...

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58 h. ago Messi and Ronaldo’s continental exits show the limits of their swan songs

The two best players of their generation suffered same-day disappointments that show the game is starting to move onNot long ago, the results might have been seismic. Or at the very least, worthy of an eyebrows-raised remark. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the two leading lights of their generation, the dominant on-field forces for most of this century, both going out of continental competition in the semi-finals? Both in upsets? On the same day?On Wednesday, it actually happened. Messi’s Inter Miami fell to Vancouver 5-1 on aggregate in the Concacaf Champions Cup, and Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr lost 3-2 to Kawasaki Frontale in the AFC Champions League Elite at a nominally neutral site in Saudi Arabia. Continue reading...

Culture

3 d. ago Spanish PM calls on private energy firms to help find cause of massive power cut

Pedro Sánchez says changes needed to guarantee ‘supply and future competitiveness’ of electricity after blackout Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has called on private energy operators to help his government establish the cause of Monday’s unprecedented power cut across the Iberian peninsula, and said changes and improvements must be made to guarantee “the supply and future competitiveness” of the country’s electrical system.Spain and Portugal suffered a massive power loss that began just after 12.30pm on Monday and lasted into the night. At least five people are thought to have died in Spain as a result of the blackout, which left people trapped on paralysed trains and in the static lifts of apartment blocks and offices. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump claims trade negotiations are happening every day with China. No one in Beijing or Washington seems to know who is doing the talking

President says U.S. and China are talking, China denies it, and no one in the administration seems to know about it

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6 d. ago Downfall of Darren Day: What happened to the notorious lothario who dated Hollywood stars after brutally dumping mother of his child Suzanne Shaw as she battled Postnatal depression

The star, 56, became known as a ladies man, becoming engaged to future Hollywood stars Isla Fisher and Anna Friel , before seemingly settling down with Hear'Say's Suzanne Shaw.

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7 d. ago Inside the dirtiest race in Olympic history: ‘It wasn’t fair. I wasn’t on a level playing field’

How did the women’s 1500m in the 2012 London Olympics get its unenviable reputation? Athletes who were cheated out of medals talk about what happened that day – and how the results have slowly unravelledThe tunnel in which athletes wait before they enter a stadium ahead of a major race is “by no means a friendly place to be”, says Lisa Dobriskey – and as a former Team GB athlete who won Commonwealth gold and world championship silver at 1500m, she has stood in enough of them to know. “Different people handle it differently,” she says. “Some people are really relaxed and friendly; other people just look right through you. It’s scary. I remember my coach saying to me, ‘When you go to the Olympics, you’ll be standing next to the meanest, toughest, hardest people that you’ll ever face.’ Everybody wants to win.”As it turned out, the wait to walk into London’s Olympic stadium for the final of her event in August 2012 was even more stressful than she’d been warned. With British excitement ...

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8 d. ago In Kyiv, we don’t believe in the fantasy of Trump's ‘peace deal’. Our reality is more dead civilians | Nataliya Gumenyuk

At the scene of the deadliest attack on our capital this year, I see the war on Ukraine is still very real – and Putin shows no signs of ending itWar teaches you to believe only in what happens, rather than what is merely said or promised. A day after the “peace talks” in London, which the US secretary of state Marco Rubio didn’t even turn up for, Ukrainians were not anxiously waiting for the results of a possible deal, which looked unfeasible anyway. Instead, they were counting their dead.According to Ukraine’s air force, in the early hours of Thursday morning Russia launched 11 Iskander ballistic missiles, 37 KH-101 cruise missiles, six Iskander-K cruise missiles, 12 Kalibr cruise missiles, 4 KH-59/KH-69 missiles and 145 drones. For Kyiv and Kharkiv residents that night, this was not just a case of reading numbers on a news feed, but hearing and feeling explosions rock their cities. It turned out to be the deadliest night for the Ukrainian capital this year.Nataliya Gumenyuk is a ...

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1 week ago Schoolgirl's weeping mother relives horror after 'rape gang lured youngster into car outside Asda with promise of a cigarette'

Today in harrowing testimony the victim's mother wept as she told how she discovered what had happened after her daughter returned home to Kent following the two-day ordeal.

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1 week ago Schoolgirl's weeping mother relives horror after 'rape gang lured youngster into car outside Asda with promise of a cigarette' 

Today in harrowing testimony the victim's mother wept as she told how she discovered what had happened after her daughter returned home to Kent following the two-day ordeal.

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1 week ago Schoolgirl's weeping mother relives horror after 'rape gang lured youngster into car outside Asda with promise of a cigarette before passing her around like a receptacle'

Today in harrowing testimony the victim's mother wept as she told how she discovered what had happened after her daughter returned home to Kent following the two-day ordeal.

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1 week ago Dog attacks rocket to 87 every day – interactive map reveals how many happen near you

Dog attacks are increasing in every part of England and Wales, according to worrying new data - check how many have been reported in your area with our interactive map

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2 w. ago The full list of VE Day 80th anniversary events happening in Wales

When is VE Day 2025 and what is happening in Wales? We’ve compiled a guide to picnics, street parties and parades organised across the country

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2 w. ago Darren Day reveals what REALLY happened during Celebrity Big Brother's iconic 'David's dead' moment as he admits he's never rewatched the viral gaffe

The actor, 56, appeared on the Channel 5 show back in 2016 alongside stars including David Gest, Gemma Collins , Angie Bowie and Tiffany Pollard.

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3 w. ago Cyber attacker who hacked 19 railway station information boards to post a rant about Muslims is facing jail

Customers who expected to see a notice about terms and conditions were instead told that 'Islamification of Europe is already happening and it's getting worse each day.'

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3 w. ago On the Calculation of Volume, Volumes I & II review: 'rewrites the rules of the novel'

A stark, eerie and deceptively simple opening belies the scale of the achievement to come, writes Stuart Kelly. And it all happens in one day

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3 w. ago ‘It is about all of humankind’: Ukrainian violinist Valentina Goncharova on her cosmic call to compose

Born in Kyiv, trained in a Soviet conservatory and inspired in a Mongolian temple, the experimental musician describes the impulse that led to her first original album in 30 yearsOn 7 October 2023, Kyiv-born, Tallinn-based violinist and electronic musician Valentina Goncharova “woke up in a bad state”, she says. “I felt something terrible was happening on our planet I called my sister and brother in Ukraine. Nothing had happened to them. But I continued to feel some kind of uncontrollable violence.“An inner impulse told me: ‘You must urgently return to work.’ I turned on the electric violin, put on Tibetan percussion instruments, and began recording,” she says. Then, later that day, she opened the news “and found out what had happened in Israel”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Record Store Day Scotland Events 2025: Here's what's happening in Scotland for the celebration of vinyl

It’s one of the biggest days of the year for independent music retailers.

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