4 h. ago 'I went to Benidorm and the streets looked much different to how I imagined'

Bride-to-be Lauren Loughney travelled to Benidorm where conditions in the Alicante region left her bewildered as holidaymakers ran for cover during her epic hen-do

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6 h. ago 'I went to Benidorm on holiday and it wasn't people the streets were full of'

Bride-to-be Lauren Loughney visited Benidorm with her friends for her hen-do and was left gobsmacked as the Alicante city's streets flowed with rainwater following a torrential downpour

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7 h. ago Ten Years: has the hit film’s dystopian vision of Hong Kong in 2025 become a reality?

In 2015, a scrappy group of film-makers tapped into the ‘anxiety of what the city would become’ under Beijing’s increasing influence. Now screening at the Hong Kong film festival UK, it resonates in new waysA taxi driver struggles to keep working as his native language of Cantonese is sidelined for Mandarin. Petty gangsters do the work of the authorities amid a violent debate about a national security law. Supporters of Hong Kong independence are jailed.In 2015, a scrappy group of Hong Kong film-makers imagined what their semi-autonomous city could look like under the increasing influence of the Chinese Communist party (CCP). Continue reading...

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57 h. ago Moment man tries to swim through the streets of flooded Benidorm while cars are submerged in Italy as Europe is battered by freak storms with more to come

The clip shows him lying on the road and attempting a front crawl through fast-flowing water as the Spanish resort was hit with heavy downpours.

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57 h. ago Biblical rain in Benidorm as Brits swim down high street while beaches flood

Holidaymakers in Spain have been left stranded and soggy as storms and flash flooding have hit the country marking the end of summer. One person was seen swimming down a high street

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5 d. ago Lewis Hamilton replaced as Max Verstappen quits Red Bull: Future F1 grid predicted

Mirror Sport dusts off the crystal ball to imagine what the 2027 Formula 1 grid might look like if Lewis Hamilton retires and Max Verstappen quits Red Bull for a rival team

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6 d. ago Slow Horses author Mick Herron: ‘I love doing things that are against the rules’

As the hit thriller returns to our screens, its creator talks about false starts, surprise inspirations – and why he never looks inside Jackson Lamb’s headIt is hard to imagine anyone less like the slovenly, has-been MI5 agent Jackson Lamb than his creator, Mick Herron. “He must come deep out of my subconscious,” the 62-year-old thriller writer jokes, sipping mineral water at a rooftop bar in his home city of Oxford, a world away from London’s Aldersgate where his bestselling Slough House series is set. In a “blue shirt, white tee” (fans will get the reference), he is softly spoken with a hint of a Geordie accent. Herron is often described as the heir to John le Carré and “the best spy novelist of his generation”, according to the New Yorker. Unlike le Carré, he’s not, and never has been, a spy. Mysteriously, though, Wikipedia has given him “an entirely fictitious” birthday. “I got cards. I got a cake,” he says.For the uninitiated, the novels and award-winning TV series follow a bun...

Culture

9 d. ago Grotesque model reveals what influencers could look like in 2050 thanks to hours hunched over their smartphones

Fast-forward just 25 years, and social media stars will look very different. That's according to experts, who have imagined what the average influencer will look like in the year 2050.

Technology

1 week ago What Loch Ness Monster would look like as Daily Star makes Nessie a reality

EXCLUSIVE: After a recent sighting that has been described as one of the best in decades, the Daily Star imagines what Nessie might look like using brand new AI

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