80 m. ago Furious neighbours forced to fit PADLOCKs to their bins to stop looters in Newcastle from rifling through their rubbish

Locals in upmarket Jesmond, Newcastle, resorted to the extreme measures after looters started rifling through their waste, leaving a trail of litter in their wake.

Politics

1 hour ago Manchester United’s crazy comeback was inspirational – and a reality check

Overcoming Lyon with an emergency duo up front was electrifying but also showed deep flaws in Amorim’s squadBedlam, pandemonium, ecstasy and simply wow: Manchester United’s three-goal, six-minute (and 34 seconds) blockbuster extra-time comeback from 4-2 down is one for the ages, and a thrilling advertisement for the heart-stopping drama football can generate.Yet if the Harry Maguire header that KO-ed Lyon was a last, heroic act of a pell-mell, childhood-like jumpers-for-goalposts victory, it should also clang alarm bells for the fragile unit Ruben Amorim oversees, and cause a serious reality check. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Arsenal v Lyon: five key factors in the Women’s Champions League semi

Joe Montemurro and Renée Slegers are reunited but can they find a way to stop each other’s array of attacking talent?The former Arsenal manager Joe Montemurro, who left the club at the end of the 2020-21 season, returns to the Emirates Stadium when Arsenal host the eight-time European champions Lyon on Saturday in their Champions League semi-final first leg. Montemurro, who led Arsenal to a first Women’s Super League title in seven years in 2019, was previously back in N5 in 2023, where his Juventus team lost 1-0 in the Champions League. Arsenal look very different, on and off the pitch, to the club he left. They upped their investment in and commitment to the women’s side after a review towards the end of Montemurro’s tenure, but a face familiar to him sits in the home dugout. While with Arsenal Montemurro was paired with Renée Slegers on the Uefa coach mentor programme in the early stages of the former Netherlands international’s coaching journey. Montemurro describes her as “a pe...

Sport

2 h. ago Mini Egg and Creme Egg fans have one day to get free Easter treat at One Stop shops

Cadbury lovers, listen up – One Stop is giving away free chocolate bars just in time for Easter – but you’ll need to move faster than the Easter Bunny to get your hands on one

Politics

2 h. ago Fall asleep in 'minutes' with doctor's tracing technique that 'stops overthinking'

One doctor has shared a simple technique to help people calm their racing thoughts and overthinking in order to aid sleep, and the best thing is that you can do it from the comfort of your bed

Science

3 h. ago Shoppers have one day left to get free Mini Egg or Creme Egg chocolate bar at One Stop

Chocolate lovers, rejoice – you can now grab a FREE Cadbury Mini Egg Bar or Creme Egg Bar at One Stop shops, but you’ll need to act fast

Politics

3 h. ago Coronation Street fans 'can't stop looking' at Jack P Shepherd after co

It came as the actor swapped the cobbles for the Big Brother house after marking 25 years in the ITV soap in the role of David Platt

Politics

3 h. ago Mary Berry's 'ultra crispy' roast potato hack will make 'fluffy' Easter spuds

The cuisine queen uses this technique for show stopping roasties and it couldn't be simpler.

Science

3 h. ago Doctor shares would happen if you stopped eating sugar for two weeks including improved mental health

What happens to our bodies when we completely cut out sugar for a fortnight? You may be surprised at the answer.

Society

6 h. ago Boden's 'flattering' £45 jacket in the sale 'perfect' for chilly spring days

"This is a great cardigan for all body types. The holly knit is very flattering and doesn't add bulk to your body, as a lot of knits do"

Economics

7 h. ago Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz review – a sparkling solo debut

(Sub Pop)The TV on the Radio frontman’s sharp pop instincts kick in on a multifaceted synth-punk-funk set born out of deep personal lossYou would not know, on first listen, that this effervescent debut solo album by the sometime frontman of TV on the Radio was steeped in grief. Tunde Adebimpe’s sister died during the pandemic when these songs were taking hesitant shape in an LA studio that Adebimpe, now a successful actor, shares with multi-instrumentalist and co-producer Wilder Zoby.Those difficult feelings – and others, about living in “a time of tenderness and rage” – became snaggle-toothed synth-punk cuts and bouncy synth-pop sounds. On Drop, there’s beat-boxing; on The Most, a Sleng Teng reggae riddim ambush; while on Somebody New, you can hear a punk-funk echo of New Order. Only ILY, a finger-picked folk song addressed to his sister, breaks character, adding “balladeer” to Adebimpe’s varied CV (former stop-motion animator, illustrator). “How’d you get so low?” asks God Knows, ...

Politics

8 h. ago ‘Something playful’: celebrating the art of endpapers in children’s books

New exhibition in Amherst, Massachusetts, looks at the unsung art that exists on the pages that bookend much-loved kids booksOnce upon a time, endpapers – those little bits of real estate connecting the inside covers of hardcover books to the pages within – were a site of pure decoration, or maybe, as in the case of The Chronicles of Narnia, a map of a fantasy realm. More recently, illustrators have been reimagining just what endpapers can be – far from decorations or maps, they are now used to bookend and compliment the stories told in books in fascinating ways.“The illustrator Shaun Tan described them as like quotation marks or parentheses around the story,” said Bruce Handy, a journalist and children’s book author. “In his mind it’s a way of setting the story off. Kind of like an anteroom to the story, or like a transition into the story.” Continue reading...

Culture

10 h. ago 'It should have...': Rangers VAR controversy questioned as ex

Rangers were left aggrieved after the failure to award a penalty for a shirt pull on Cyriel Dessers in the Europa League clash against Athletic Bilbao.

Politics

12 h. ago Child Benefit payments will stop for some this summer parents are told

Child Benefit is worth £26.05 a week for your first child, and £17.25 a week for any additional children - but for some parents they could soon stop.

Society

12 h. ago If Britain is now resetting the clock on trans rights, where will that leave us? | Gaby Hinsliff

There is both joy and dismay after the supreme court judgment. Compassion and leadership are really needed nowSo this is how a clock turns backwards. With the hands still spinning even now, it’s hard to know yet exactly how far back in time we will land. But Wednesday’s supreme court ruling that for the purposes of equality law, “woman” means “biological woman” – basically the chromosomes you were born with, regardless of what legal hoops you have since jumped through – is nonetheless a watershed moment.We are going back to a time before “trans women are women”, full stop, no debate: and if it’s handled well, accepting that sometimes life genuinely is more complicated than that could ultimately be healthy. But if handled badly, we could be heading back to a far darker time, when trans existence was shrouded in fear and shame and bigots had carte blanche.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Politics

14 h. ago Cops struggling to stop gang war escalating as union warn "more lives at risk"

David Kennedy, General Secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, has called for investment in frontline policing as staffing shortages make it hard for officers to respond.

Events

14 h. ago What may stop you going so red while exercising explained by GP

It's a common phenomenon which can leave people feeling self-conscious, but it's completely natural

Politics

18 h. ago Cincinnati officials plead for parents to stop betting on kids sports and causing fights at games

The betting has allegedly led to violence and an increase in security fees

Sport

18 h. ago JOHN HEALEY: 'We'll stop the rot in armed forces housing with new charter'

Under the Charter families will be able to count on basic consumer rights, property standards and a robust complaints system

Events

18 h. ago Healey pledges to ‘stop the rot’ in military housing with new consumer charter

A defence housing strategy, to be published later this year, will set out further plans aimed at improving the standard of service family housing.

Events