14 h. ago Inside the street in a seaside town where homes sell six weeks quicker than the national average

Buyers are flocking to a trendy coastal town where it takes just 102 days to sell a home - which is nearly one and a half times the national average of 147 days, according to estate agent Upstix.

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67 h. ago Scotland's 'Balamory town' where homes are affordable as iconic series returns

Property prices are actually lower than the national average.

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3 d. ago Ayr nursing home is praised for "significant strengths" in its care provision

Creggan Bahn Court Care Home Service, in the town’s Seafield Road, was graded ‘very good’ across two quality indicators.

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4 d. ago Historic Scottish town with 'charming' streets with some of UK's cheapest houses

Homes in town sold for an average of £154,688 last year, with prices rising from the previous year.

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4 d. ago ‘Death always feels imminent’: a moving Netflix documentary on prison, music and forgiveness

In Songs from the Hole, a man convicted of murder when he was a teenager finds healing in music during his sentenceIn 2014, a sergeant at a California state prison sent James “JJ’88” Jacobs, who was 25 at the time, to “the hole” – solitary confinement in a 6-by-6 cell. One bunk, one strip of a window. Jacobs had already been incarcerated for a decade by then; at 15, he was given a double life sentence for second-degree murder. Alone in the hole, Jacobs thought, as he always did, about the most devastating month of his life, April 2004: on the 16th, he shot and killed a fellow teenager outside a nightclub in his home town of Long Beach, California. Three days later, another young man shot and killed his beloved older brother Victor. For years, Jacobs was caught in a terrible cycle of grief – for what he had done, for what had been done to him.In the hole, Jacobs would lie on the floor, eyes closed, and imagine his life outside prison. He’d make beats by pounding on his bunk or chest....

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5 d. ago Listed office building in Welsh town now being sold as £400,000 house

Planning permission to change the use of the historic building was granted last year

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5 d. ago Swansea City v Crawley Town LIVE: Ronald gives hosts early lead

Follow all the latest as Swansea City begin their Carabao Cup campaign at home to Crawley Town

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6 d. ago Noel Gallagher's daughter in fresh Celtic FC tribute as she thanks Scotland for 'great weekend'

Anais Gallagher has shared a special tribute to Scotland and her dad Noel after attending Oasis' sell out gigs at Murrayfield Stadium at the weekend.

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6 d. ago The loneliest continent: epidemic of social isolation hits Africans as western culture spreads

A World Health Organization study challenges traditional views of African society. Some blame technology, others urbanisation and living costs, but what is the solution?Loneliness has been a constant feature of Macyleen’s life since she was nine years old and her mother died in their home town in Zimbabwe. She was sent to live with her father, but he worked away from home a lot. His new wife resented his other children and was emotionally abusive.Macyleen lived with three half-siblings, but they were much older. “We were there to survive and just get to the next day. I knew I was alone,” she recalls. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Seizure of £3.5 million of illegal tobacco in Scots town was part of Home Office operation

The raids in Dumfries by police and trading standards offers were part of Operation Equalize, which aimed to crack down on riders working illegally for delivery firms.

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7 d. ago 'Legend' Oasis fan's viral Murrayfield performance branded 'biblical' by Liam Gallagher

Oasis played two sell out gigs at Murrayfield this weekend with one passionate fan going viral on TikTok for his sing-a-long performance on the pitch.

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7 d. ago Tim Minchin looks back: ‘Entertainers say we want to change the world, but really we just enjoy being clapped’

The comedian on his sickly childhood, what made him leave his home town and his Matilda-induced anxietyBorn in 1975 in Northampton and raised in Perth, Australia, Tim Minchin is a musician, comedian, actor, writer and director. Starting out in musical theatre, he turned to comedy in 2003, winning the 2005 Perrier best newcomer at the fringe. In 2008, the Royal Shakespeare Company commissioned him to write music and lyrics for a stage adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Matilda – it has since won seven Olivier awards and four Tonys. He is married with two children and lives in Sydney. His new album, Tim Minchin Time Machine, is out now. Matilda the Musical is playing in the UK and Ireland.As photos were so rare in the 80s, compared with now, there’s a formality to my physicality here. I look proud, but as I didn’t like primary school, I would have been unhappy that it was time to go to class. I found the whole school experience very scary. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago The sad reason people don't want to buy £200,000 homes in this cheap seaside town

One thing puts many people off buying properties here

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9 d. ago Police 'sat on information' that could have stopped dog walker, 80, from being beaten to death by racist teenage thugs, daughter says

Bhim Kohli, 80, was walking his dog Rocky in Franklin Park in Braunstone Town, Leicestershire, just yards from his home when he was attacked on September 1 last year.

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1 week ago Popular seaside town home to the UK's 'most beautiful harbour'

A charming fishing town in Cornwall has become a favourite among tourists with its beautiful harbour, sandy beaches and culinary scene, making it an ideal holiday escape

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1 week ago ‘Commodifying themselves’: the ordinary people posting Instagram sponcon to profit off friends

Users can make thousands a year by sharing links to their favorite items online – and they only need about 1,000 followers to qualifyShelbi Howell, a 32-year-old stay-at-home mom, lives in a small town outside of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area. She is not, in any traditional sense, an influencer. Like millions of other women around the world, she posts her daily outfits to TikTok, where she has a frankly paltry 1,624 followers, and Instagram, where she has 1,251. Yet despite being in every sense an ordinary woman on the internet, Howell estimates that she has made more than $500 just from posting to social media.She does this by posting a video of her outfit or her makeup and reminding viewers – many of whom are people she knows personally – that they can buy the same item via a link in her bio. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Residents in 'dismay' about plans for 3am restaurant on Cardiff street

Residents and local councillors have raised concerns about restaurant plans which propose to sell 'late night refreshments' to people until 3am during the week

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1 week ago Edinburgh festivals diary: Edinburgh, I am ashamed of you after experiencing anti

An experience of anti-English prejudice results in our diarist Jane Bradley feeling unwelcome in her own home town.

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1 week ago Wandsworth unveils 'growth plan' which could see 14,000 new homes in next decade

The scheme includes plans for 8,400 new homes in Nine Elms, 3,000 more homes in Clapham Junction and 3,000 extra homes in Wandsworth Town

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2 w. ago ‘We have to clear our names’: Venezuelan makeup artist who survived Ice detention tries to rebuild his life

Andry José Hernández Romero was one of 251 men flown from Texas to the Cecot prison in El Salvador. Now he’s seeking justiceAndry José Hernández Romero has already picked out the color of the suit he’ll wear to the next celebration of the Three Kings festival in his home town in the Venezuelan Andes. The carnivalesque celebration of Epiphany inspired the tattoos that landed him behind bars in El Salvador, accused of belonging to Venezuela’s most feared criminal gang, Tren de Aragua.The suit will be green, “like hope”, he said. Continue reading...

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