2 h. ago ‘I was told I had two weeks to live’ – why are so many young, fit, non

For decades, lung cancer has been viewed as a disease of older men who smoked. Now, cases among young women are on the rise and doctors are baffled. Could air pollution be behind it?Towards the end of 2019, Becca Smith’s life was full and hectic. At 28, she had taken on a unit in Chester to convert into a yoga studio, poured in all her savings and hired teachers, while at the same time working as a personal trainer. Her days started at 5am; she was driven, stressed, excited, and had no time for the back pain that just would not subside.“It kept moving around,” she says. “Every day it would be in a different part of my back. I was strapping on heat packs and ice packs just to get to work.” Smith saw her GP, her physiotherapist and a chiropractor, all of whom suspected a torn muscle. “What really worried me,” she says, “the worst-case scenario, was a slipped disc.” One day in March 2020, the pain was so intense that Smith took to her bed, fell asleep and woke with a crashing migraine ...

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40 h. ago Trump’s border czar admits ICE is running out of beds to house migrants arrested in president’s deportation sweeps

‘We’re almost at capacity,’ Tom Homan told reporters at the White House earlier this week, but added that ‘we got beds coming online every day’

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49 h. ago UK households told to lock their doors and windows this weekend

The Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings for wind across much of the UK this weekend, with gusts expected to reach up to 70mph in some areas - and households are being urged to take precautions

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6 d. ago Rick Astley feared he'd have to 'walk off live TV' after coughing fit

Ronan Keating had to rush to help Rick after he suffered a coughing fit during an appearance on The One Show

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8 d. ago 'The English don't come any more...we miss their money': How Mallorca's war on British tourists backfired

A string of bar owners told the Daily Mail this week how they have suffered year-on-year losses of up to 40 per cent this summer.

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8 d. ago Rick Astley in coughing fit with Ronan Keating coming to his aid on The One Show

Watch as Rick Astley has a coughing fit live on air as Ronan Keating comes to his aid.

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9 d. ago Jaguar Land Rover factory workers told to stay home until at least Tuesday as it grapples with cyber attack

Staff at JLR vehicle plants in Halewood, Merseyside, and Solihull in the West Midlands - as well as the engine factory in Wolverhampton - have been told to remain at home until next week.

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1 week ago People food shopping this week told 'do not unpack groceries in kitchen'

People are being urged to take care where they leave their reusable plastic bags at home

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1 week ago New deputy Green leader describes racist abuse on family seaside trip

Leeds councillor says people who threw bottles and shouted insults emboldened by rightwing rhetoricThe newly elected deputy leader of the Green party and his family were attacked on a day out at the seaside last week, with bottles thrown and racist abuse hurled, he has told the Guardian.Mothin Ali, a Leeds councillor, said the incident was a reflection of extreme rightwingers using inflammatory language to blame immigrants and refugees for social problems. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Staff feel 'betrayed' as Rosebank distillery bosses in Falkirk axe jobs

Staff at the Rosebank Distillery visitor centre were called to a meeting by management earlier this week and told they would be losing their jobs.

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1 week ago Budget compromise needed if PM ousted, says French finance minister

Éric Lombard says he hopes François Bayrou will survive vote and dismisses talk of looming debt crisisThe French finance minister, Éric Lombard, has said the government would have to compromise on plans to cut the budget deficit if the prime minister, François Bayrou, is toppled in a confidence vote next week.Lombard told the Financial Times that fresh negotiations would require the government to make concessions to the left to reduce the size of the fiscal package if the government falls. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump news at a glance: president shrugs off ill health rumours as ‘fake news’

Trump says he was ‘very active over the weekend’ and swipes at speculation ‘there must be something wrong with him’ – key US politics stories from Tuesday 2 SeptemberDonald Trump has dismissed speculation that he is in ill health, saying he was busy on the Labor Day weekend giving media interviews and visiting his Virginia golf course.“I was very active over the weekend,” Trump, 79, told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday. Asked about rumours on social media that he may have died, he called them “fake news”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Amy Dowden in tears as she shares major news ahead of show return

The Strictly Come Dancing star was overwhelmed with emotion as she told fans the exciting news she had 'woken' to weeks before her BBC return.

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1 week ago Strictly Come Dancing's Amy Dowden fights tears as she 'wakes' to major news before show return

The dancer was overcome with emotion as she told fans the exciting news she had 'woken' to weeks before her BBC return

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1 week ago Voting for Brexit, stopping the small boats – none of it will ever appease those who wage war on immigration | Nesrine Malik

The facts and the numbers are irrelevant: Donald Trump and Nigel Farage just find new excuses and increase the toxicityA few weeks after the Brexit referendum, a leave-voting friend of mine told me what the biggest benefit would be. “We will never hear about immigration again,” he said. If you give the people the control over the border they want, the logic went, then Brexit will finally dissolve immigration as an issue that politicians can exploit, and the country can crack on with all the other important stuff that needs doing. And, well, let’s just say that this prediction did not pan out on such a colossal level that no follow-up conversation has been necessary.Because that’s just not how the whole immigration thing works. The goalposts always move. Nothing clarifies that more than Nigel Farage getting everything he has said he ever wanted, the country heaving itself out of the EU and ending free movement, only for another boil to fester around the issue of immigration – and gue...

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1 week ago Vote Brexit, stop the boats – the goalposts on immigration keep moving, and those who oppose it will never be appeased | Nesrine Malik

The facts and the numbers are irrelevant: Donald Trump and Nigel Farage just find new excuses and increase the toxicityA few weeks after the Brexit referendum, a leave-voting friend of mine told me what the biggest benefit would be. “We will never hear about immigration again,” he said. If you give the people the control over the border they want, the logic went, then Brexit will finally dissolve immigration as an issue that politicians can exploit, and the country can crack on with all the other important stuff that needs doing. And, well, let’s just say that this prediction did not pan out on such a colossal level that no follow-up conversation has been necessary.Because that’s just not how the whole immigration thing works. The goalposts always move. Nothing clarifies that more than Nigel Farage getting everything he has said he ever wanted, the country heaving itself out of the EU and ending free movement, only for another boil to fester around the issue of immigration – and gue...

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2 w. ago Kate Ferdinand details 'a lot of new beginnings' in update after Rio Ferdinand relocation news

The couple told over the Bank Holiday weekend how they had moved their family to Dubai for a 'fresh start'

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3 w. ago Families told 'close windows at 7pm' and keep them shut for four weeks

As the change in seasons starts to come into view, people are being urged to take action

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3 w. ago Our hell as travellers dumped human waste on cricket club fields, did £50k worth of damage and attacked homeowners on their doorsteps... and the council let us down

A group of travellers caused 'absolutely devastating' damage to a community cricket club when they unlawfully parked on their grounds for nearly a week, Daily Mail Sport has been told.

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3 w. ago Terror group Isis threatens new 'real and present danger' to the UK after resurgence in Africa, experts warn

The jihadist organisation, which lost its final stronghold in Syria in 2019, is posing a new challenge to security services, a UN Security Council meeting was told this week.

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