43 m. ago 40 amazing photos of the best dressed at Ladies Day at the Grand National

Lots of stylish people have descended on Aintree for Ladies Day 2025

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52 m. ago Linlithgow MSP highlights 4.8 million free bus journeys made by under 22’s in West Lothian

New figures have revealed that over 200 million free bus journeys have been made by young people across Scotland.

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59 m. ago Drug consumption rooms must be opened across Scotland 'to stop people dying'

The Scottish Lib Dems want to see a network of the safe spaces for drug users opened nationwide as "a matter of urgency".

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67 m. ago 'Excellent' asparagus cooking method shows we've all been doing it wrong

Culinary scientist Jessica Gavin has shared her secret to perfectly cooked asparagus, and it's all to do with a simple but effective cooking method that many people have been missing

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68 m. ago Huge update announced on new riverside route between city centre and Salford

The plans could bring major changes to how people get around the city

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72 m. ago Clutter and mess are the main reason people in relationship argue

Organisation experts have explained how to tackle your mess and psychologists say why it is improtant

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73 m. ago People reaching State Pension age this year can no longer claim these benefits

Some people may not be aware of the benefits that can no longer be claimed after reaching retirement age.

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76 m. ago DWP estimates 370,000 people could lose PIP claim under major changes

The DWP has published its latest PIP impact assessment, which includes the UK Government's controversial eligibility rule changes to the daily living component of the benefit

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77 m. ago 'I'm American – one thing left me stunned when trying European fizzy drinks'

An American woman living in Europe to TikTok to share her shock after trying fizzy drinks there.. She shared how they were very different to the fizzy drinks she got back home

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81 m. ago Israeli strikes kill at least 17 in Gaza as ground troops enter Palestinian territory's north

Israeli strikes have killed more than a dozen people in the Gaza Strip as Israel sent more ground troops into the Palestinian territory to ramp up its offensive against Hamas

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84 m. ago Christians protest outside primary school over 'disgraceful' scrapping of Easter service to 'respect' other religions

The faithful gathered outside Norwood Primary School in Eastleigh, Hampshire with banners after the announcement.

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90 m. ago Tell us: have your pension savings been affected by turbulent stockmarkets?

We’re interested to hear how people’s invested pension savings have been faring amid sharp ups and downs in recent months and years, and how this may affect themUS president Donald Trump’s trade war, political elections and societal shifts ushering in dramatic change and dire public finances in multiple countries, the war in Ukraine and the Covid pandemic have been creating tumultous conditions on international markets for the past few years.We’d like to hear how people’s invested pension savings have been affected by this series of economic shocks. Has your invested portfolio sustained big losses, or have you enjoyed staggering stockmarket gains? How may you and your plans be affected by it all? Tell us. Continue reading...

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90 m. ago Labour grandee Harriet Harman calls on Starmer to ban smartphones in schools

The Labour peer called for a top down ban on the devices in schools as pressure grows on the PM to crack down on harmful material

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95 m. ago ‘They didn’t call us for Live Aid’: the stars behind Black Britain’s forgotten charity record

In 1985, a star-studded lineup of Black UK musicians, including Aswad, Dennis Brown and Janet Kay, recorded a charity single to raise funds for famine-stricken Ethiopia. Why are their efforts so little known?The Ethiopian famine of the early 1980s was one of the defining news stories of the decade, an exposure of the stark divide between developed and developing nations, still referred to at the time as the Third World. It is a received wisdom that the general public in Britain learned about the crisis when shocking images of emaciated men, women and children were shown on BBC news reports. This is not entirely true. In fact, plenty of Rastafarians were already aware of the situation.The east African country was their spiritual home – many in the movement viewed its former emperor Haile Selassie as their messiah – and a place free from the iniquities of the west. “A lot of Rastafarians went to Ethiopia [before they] came to London,” says the musician and cam...

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1 hour ago People gobsmacked to discover 'hidden function' of sun visors in their cars

Sun visors are one of the most important parts of a car, and most of us would be completely lost without them. But there's a little trick you may never have known about

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1 hour ago Inside the vile Incel message boards where men fantasise about killing and torturing women

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix 's hit Adolescence has undoubtedly served as a harrowing wake up call as to how easily young people can be consumed with radicalising content online.

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2 h. ago Grand National sweepstake warning issued to anyone taking part in office game

The Grand National is watched by millions of people across the UK each year and many offices take part in a sweepstake - but experts have issued a warning to anyone looking to take part

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2 h. ago Are Trump’s tariffs for real or an AI hallucination? I’m afraid the answer is both | Marina Hyde

Amid claims that a chatbot helped shape the key calculations, the president is now off playing golf. He’ll find the world economy in a bunkerThere’s a scene in the very first episode of Yellowstone where the casino-owning Native American chief explains the basic financial logic of all casinos to an uncomfortable politician: “The gamblers’ money is like a river – flowing one way. Our way.” Oh no, hang on, wait Not all casinos. In fact, it could be that when all is said and done, the historians looking for that one key fact to illustrate the eventual legacy of Donald Trump will not go with his two stunning presidential election wins. Instead, they’ll point out that in the 90s, he literally managed to bankrupt casinos. To repeat: this is a man who somehow contrived to bankrupt multiple casinos. Is he the guy to reshape the entire global economic order of the past century? Let’s find out! Either way, only 45 months of his presidency left to go.Anyway: tariffs. Rather than using actual t...

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2 h. ago ‘If you want dystopia, look out your window!’ Black Mirror is back – and going beyond tech hell

After years of creating dark, disturbing, thought-provoking TV, Charlie Brooker is changing it up. The creator and star-studded cast of Black Mirror talk about why this season is the most moving and vulnerable yetCharlie Brooker has been contemplating the passing of time, and he’s not happy about it. We’re on set at Shepperton for USS Callister: Into Infinity, the sequel to the 2017 space opera from his terrifying tech anthology Black Mirror. “The cast don’t seem to have aged at all,” he grumbles, “whereas I am a wizened old gentleman.”There is a more reflective, almost nostalgic tone to this seventh season. The episode Plaything flashes back to Brooker’s early years as a gaming journalist in a Bandersnatch-adjacent slice of computer-induced madness; Eulogy immerses Paul Giamatti in his memories as he literally enters decades-old photos; gaslighting parable Bête Noire forces Siena Kelly’s chocolatier to reckon with youthful misdemeanours; Hotel Reverie stars Emma Corrin as a 19...

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2 h. ago Killer stabbed neighbour to death then used bank card for spending spree

John Farquhar later used Garry Thomson's bank card to buy alcohol.

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