5 h. ago Israel’s attack has exposed Iran’s lack of firepower – but conflict could yet turn in Tehran’s favour

Iran has struggled to respond effectively after Israel killed many of its top military commandersIt is a week since Israel began its largest attack ever on Iran, and in conventional military terms it is clear that Tehran is under extreme pressure. Israel has been able to achieve superiority over Iran’s skies at extraordinary speed, within hours of launching its surprise assault. Its military claimed on Monday to have knocked out 120 Iranian air defence systems through a mixture of air and drone strikes, about a third of Tehran’s pre-war total.In response, Iran’s most effective weapon has been its stock of high-speed ballistic missiles, estimated at about 2,000 by Israel’s Defence Force (IDF) at the outset of hostilities last week. But the heavy targeting by Israel of launch sites in western Iran, in underground bases such as at Kermanshah – coupled with Israel’s grimly effective targeted killing of Iran’s top military commanders – have left Iran struggling to respond militarily and ...

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5 h. ago Sir Rod Stewart explains why he's no longer friends with Donald Trump

Sir Rod also said Trump has become ‘another guy’ since becoming President

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6 h. ago Public Health Wales issues update on infection outbreak linked to Welsh attraction

A total of 89 confirmed cases were linked to the outbreak at a farm in the Vale of Glamorgan

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9 h. ago Hark by Alice Vincent audiobook review – a search for silence

A former music journalist’s exploration of how we listen is informed by her life-changing experience of motherhoodWhen did you last experience total silence? In Hark, the author Alice Vincent goes to extreme lengths to eradicate noise as she spends time in an anechoic chamber, a heavily soundproofed space designed to swallow up sound waves. There she becomes aware of the noises of her own body, from involuntary swallowing to the soft, high-pitched ringing in her ears. But rather than feel unease, she is “confronted with a comfort I couldn’t have imagined – and a familiarity with quietude I didn’t realise I was living in”.Hark is a book about listening, being heard and the author’s shifting relationship with sound in the early years of motherhood. While working as a music journalist in her 20s, Vincent had been surrounded by noise. But now, in her 30s and plunged into domesticity, she finds herself craving quiet. She also examines how others experience sound, investiga...

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9 h. ago ‘Death is complicated and kaleidoscopically beautiful’: Jerskin Fendrix on his emotional new album – and life after Oscar success

The British composer broke into Hollywood as Yorgos Lanthimos’s go-to guy on Poor Things and more. But his heart remains in Shropshire – the backdrop to his ambitious, grief-stricken latest recordThe sun is shining, birds are tweeting and a river gently flows just yards away as Jerskin Fendrix tells me about his love of growing up in Shropshire. “It was so gorgeous and majestic,” he says, sitting in the garden of a friend’s house where he spent a lot of time in his youth. “It was nature, forests and hills and then just normal teenage life. The combination of this numinous, big landscape and getting wasted in a cornfield with your mates listening to Kanye West on a Bluetooth speaker while seeing a massive sunset.”Such vivid scenes fill his latest album, Once Upon a Time in Shropshire. The opening track, Beth’s Farm, captures an idyllic scene where animals roam and rural teens party. “I thought it was a really nice symbol of this naive innocence,” he says. “Trying to get across how bu...

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9 h. ago Covid alert: Catchy Nimbus variant DOUBLES in just one month, as total infections reach highest level this year

A highly contagious Covid variant is on the rise in the UK, with official data suggesting rates have doubled in a month.

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10 h. ago Who are the Wimbledon wildcards? Meet the 14 British hopefuls handed SW19 opportunity

A total of 56 home-grown players will compete at Wimbledon this year across both the main draw and qualifying

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10 h. ago 'One of the best drama series' now streaming for free as fans say 'it's a must

All episodes of critically-acclaimed period drama Halt and Catch Fire have just landed on ITVX

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13 h. ago Loyle Carner: Hopefully! review – rap sweetheart faces family, fear and the feels | Album of the week

(Island EMI)The Londoner’s trademark sentimental sweetness is balanced by a new unaffected singing style – his fourth album is his most impressive work yetLoyle Carner raps like he has a lump in his throat and tears in his eyes. Wonder, nostalgia, love, hurt, excitement, hard-won peace: these are the emotions his voice tends to catch on. When combined with his typically blissed-out sonics – feathery breakbeats, dreamy piano figures, delicate synth washes, gently plucked guitars – the results are often very nice. Sometimes a bit too nice. So it is on Feel at Home, the sentimental love song that opens the 30-year-old’s fourth album, Hopefully!Carner – whose moniker is a spoonerism of his real name, Benjamin Coyle-Larner – never makes music that is boring or basic. As well as the slushy lyrics and comfortingly toasty chords, Feel at Home is buttressed by madly skittering percussion and what sounds like a blurry reproduction of young children’s playground chatter. But much like the outp...

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13 h. ago 'I'm old enough to date son or dad just like Bonnie Blue,' jokes Love Island icon

EXCLUSIVE: Love Island legend Anna Vakili has said it's 'annoying' that the guys that try and hit on her are in their 20s, but she has confessed she isn't ready to rule them out just yet

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14 h. ago Thousands of children still living in poverty in Renfrewshire despite fall from previous year

A total of 4,613 children were living in a relative low income household, before housing costs, in 2023/24.

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14 h. ago Imperial College London ranked second best university in world as Oxford and Cambridge lose ground

In total, four British universities featured in the international top 10

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14 h. ago Rob Cross 'can't get head around' Luke Littler and Luke Humphries 'meltdown' at World Cup

Rob Cross has admitted he ‘can’t get his head around’ Luke Littler and Luke Humphries' capitulation at the World Cup of Darts as the England duo were dumped out in their first game

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15 h. ago Race Across The World star breaks down in tears over 'bizarre' situation with ex in heart

The fifth series of the BBC series wrapped up last week (11 June 2025) and fans were over the moon to see the cast back on their screens for a big old catch up.

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15 h. ago Dumped Love Islander breaks silence on furious 'uncalled for' rows between herself and co

Malisha was dumped from the Love Island villa after coming in as a bombshell and making a beeline for Dejon. She quickly ended up going head-to-head with Meg, his original partner

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15 h. ago I lost my car keys on an Avanti train but it told me they were at a VETS: CRANE ON THE CASE

The keys ended up in a dump and cost me £430 to replace - but both Avanti and Network Rail are denying that their staff were responsible.

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16 h. ago Dumped Love Island star breaks silence over exit as she pledges to 'slide into DMs' of coupled

There was one islander she had her eyes on

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17 h. ago 'Granny Ripper' boiled dismembered friend's head in saucepan after 'disagreement'

Tamara Samsonova was arrested in 2015 after CCTV footage showed her carrying bags from her apartment block in the middle of the night – and she was soon dubbed the 'Granny Ripper'

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18 h. ago 'Granny Ripper' hacked off friend’s head with handsaw and boiled it in saucepan 

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Tamara Samsonova once earned a living from catering to foreign tourists at a hotel before she gained notoriety ten years ago when her grisly case came to light

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18 h. ago Holt McCallany on Mindhunter, David Fincher, and masculinity: ‘My mother would’ve berated me for trying to split the bill with a woman’

With the critical success of ‘Mindhunter’, the Irish-born actor graduated from supporting tough guy parts in films like ‘Fight Club’ to leading his own shows. As he prepares for the release of ‘The Waterfront’, he speaks to Annabel Nugent about his traditional parents, how he almost turned down ‘Alien 3’ – and why for him, ‘chivalry is not dead’

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