32 m. ago Prince Andrew could refuse to leave Royal Lodge even if the King tries to evict him, says legal expert as public clamour grows

Andrew and Fergie have lived rent-free in the 30-room mansion since 2003 after he paid £1million for the 75-year lease in his name and that of his family, which doesn't run out until 2078.

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38 m. ago Inside Prince Andrew's life behind closed doors: 'humiliating staff, sex demands and pranks'

Under renewed scrutiny, Prince Andrew has voluntarily given up his Duke of York title, though royal sources say his fall from grace has been a long time coming

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58 m. ago Newborn baby spotted on CCTV carried by woman moments before being left abandoned

Police have released images of a woman last seen carrying a newborn baby who was later abandoned at the 34th Street-Penn Station stop in Midtown Manhattan on Monday morning

Culture

81 m. ago #MeToo campus thriller After the Hunt is provocation for provocation’s sake | Adrian Horton

Julia Roberts emerges unscathed but Luca Guadagnino’s tiring and muddled attempt to comment on trending topics doesn’t inspire the debates it so clearly wantsContains mild spoilersIn theory, After the Hunt, director Luca Guadagnino’s would-be psychological thriller tracing the fallout of a sexual-assault accusation at a cosseted Ivy League campus, hinges on a single early scene: Alma, the aloof and alluring philosophy professor made icily incandescent by Julia Roberts, arrives home to find Maggie, her doctoral student protege played by ascendant star Ayo Edebiri, waiting for her in the rain.Crouched together in an apartment stairwell – Guadagnino, a slick and stylish film-maker, frames them facing each other as mirrored negatives in preppy neutrals, a generational yin-yang – Maggie tells Alma in clipped, digressive bits that something bad happened with Hank (Andrew Garfield), a fellow tenure-track professor who serves as Alma’s professional rival, friend and maybe lover. The two had...

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96 m. ago 'Strip Prince Andrew of his dukedom,' say four out of five Brits as pressure mounts on the disgraced royal

Pressure is also mounting on Prince Andrew to give up his 30-bedroom mansion Royal Lodge where he has lived on a peppercorn rent since 2003

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1 hour ago Prince Andrew’s warped world exposed with 'humiliating staff, sex demands and pranks'

Prince Andrew has announced he will be giving up his royal titles and honours, as the Met Police confirmed they are 'actively' looking into the royal after an email emerged

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1 hour ago The Devon town filled with 'Dutch charm' that feels like the Netherlands

What do you think of when you picture the Netherlands? The winding waterways of Amsterdam? The Dutch architecture that lines the streets of Rotterdam? European cobbled streets?

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1 hour ago Gold suffers biggest fall for TWELVE years as rally runs out of steam

The price of bullion tumbled 5% to $4,120 an ounce on Tuesday having hit an all-time peak of $4,381 on Monday.

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2 h. ago ‘Significant exposure’: Amazon Web Services outage exposed UK state’s £1.7bn reliance on tech giant

Cloud computing disruption highlights risk of deepening ties despite warnings from UK’s own regulators, including the TreasuryAmazon chief executive Andy Jassy beamed as he met Keir Starmer in Downing Street’s garden to announce £40bn of UK investments in June. Starmer was equally effusive, gushing: “This deal shows that our plan for change is working –bringing in investment, driving growth, and putting more money in people’s pockets.”Four months later, and the tech company was left scrambling to fix a devastating global outage on Monday that left thousands of businesses in limbo – and shed light on the UK government’s reliance on its cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services (AWS). Continue reading...

Economics

2 h. ago Warner Bros Discovery considers sale as potential buyers show interest

Netflix, Comcast and Paramount Skydance are reportedly among possible bidders in sale that could shake up industryWarner Bros Discovery is considering putting the entire company up for sale, a move that could see huge restructuring in an industry that has seen ripples of changes since Donald Trump took office.The company initially said in June that it would split up Warner Bros and Discovery, after the two companies were merged in 2022. But after receiving “unsolicited interest from multiple parties for both the entire company and Warner Bros”, according to a statement released on Monday, the entire company could be up for a transaction. The company could also split up Warner Bros and Discovery, selling off Discovery while merging Warner Bros with another company, it said. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Magical mushrooms and a peeking peacock – readers’ best photographs

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3 h. ago Real reason Charles evicted Harry and Meghan but let Prince Andrew stay in Royal Lodge

Prince Andrew might be giving up the use of his titles, but he's keeping hold of his mansion, Royal Lodge, even though King Charles previously evicted Harry and Meghan from their royal home

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3 h. ago Gold price suffers biggest fall for five years as rally runs out of steam

The price of bullion tumbled 5% to $4,120 an ounce on Tuesday having hit an all-time peak of $4,381 on Monday.

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3 h. ago RICHARD EDEN: Why Prince Andrew STILL holds his dukedom despite giving up titles

Prince Andrew has had his Duke of York title scrubbed out by Buckingham Palace and Sarah Ferguson has changed her social media handle.

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4 h. ago Prince Andrew faces calls to give up Royal Lodge as 'public are sick of him'

The leasehold agreement Prince Andrew holds for his sprawling 30-room Royal Lodge home in Windsor shows he signed a 75-year lease on the property in 2003 but has since then he has paid "one peppercorn" of rent "if demanded" per year

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4 h. ago Stormont declared ‘crime scene’ over environmental crisis at Lough Neagh

The symbolic arrest of an ‘MLA’ was also staged at the front of Parliament Buildings in Belfast by environmental activists.

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4 h. ago Tony Bloom blocked over giving Hearts a title turbocharge from January super splurge

Chief executive Andrew McKinlay has revealed Bloom himself explained why further investment during winter window can't happen

Politics

4 h. ago Prince Andrew could receive unexpected financial boost after losing titles

In a move that's dominated headlines, Andrew recently declared that he would give up his titles, including the Duke of York, but it's now been claimed that his ability to earn money abroad is "unlikely to be affected"

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4 h. ago Prince Andrew's £30m inheritance blow for Eugenie and Beatrice as expert spots 'issue'

Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice may not be able to inherit the Royal Lodge from their father Prince Andrew, according to a property expert who has shared the reasons why

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4 h. ago Full timeline of King Charles' family feud with Prince Andrew over Royal Lodge after it was revealed that the disgraced duke hasn't paid his £260k

King Charles and Prince Andrew's long-standing row deepens after revelations that the disgraced former duke has not paid rent on the 30-bedroom property in 22 years.

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