3 h. ago Inside the Welsh seaside town where homes regularly sell for more than £1m

It's a location that can easily boast coast, country and city and has a house price way above the Welsh average

Economics

16 h. ago Investigation launched after incident involving ride at popular Welsh seaside resort

A ride at the Llandudno Victorian Extravaganza was involved in an incident on Saturday, with health and safety officials visiting the site to investigate

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16 h. ago Investigation launched after incident involving ride at Welsh seaside resort

A ride at the Llandudno Victorian Extravaganza was involved in an incident on Saturday, with health and safety officials visiting the site to investigate

Events

29 h. ago Anthony Joshua confirms interest in move into football and Premier League ambition

Watford owner Gino Pozzo is looking for investment into the Championship club and Anthony Joshua says he is interested in putting money into his home town team

Sport

2 d. ago Life in the seaside town with a £470m blackhole: How Skegness is battling spiralling debt, drugs, homelessness and a 'snobby' nickname they can't stand

Staycations at Butlins, theme parks and beach days powered by hot sugary donuts and sticks of sickly sweet rock is the image conjured up in most people's minds when they think of Skegness.

Economics

4 d. ago Scotland's Home of the Year: Look inside stunning New Town two

We’re onto episode three of the popular television series Scotland’s Home of the Year

Politics

6 d. ago Beef wellington poison accused 'ate off different coloured plate' as she 'killed family members'

Erin Patterson served meals of beef Wellington, mashed potato and green beans at her home in the rural town of Leongartha on July 29, 2023. All four guests were hospitalised with poisoning

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6 d. ago ‘I don’t date at all now’: one woman’s journey into the darkest corners of the manosphere

When Jess Davies was 15, a boy leaked pictures she’d shared with him. At 18, she was a glamour model. A few years later, another man violated her trust. Then she fought backJess Davies was a 15-year-old schoolgirl, sitting in an art lesson, absorbed in her fairytale project about a princess and a postman, when her Nokia phone began to vibrate with messages. “Nice pictures,” read one. “I didn’t think you were that type of girl,” said another.To this day, she remembers the racing thoughts, the instant nausea, the hairs prickling up on her legs, the sweaty palms. She had shared a photograph of herself in her underwear with a boy she trusted and, very soon, it had been sent around the school and across her small home town, Aberystwyth, Wales. She became a local celebrity for all the wrong reasons. Younger kids would approach her laughing and ask for a hug. Members of the men’s football team saw it – and one showed someone who knew Davies’s nan, so that’s how her family found out. Contin...

Politics

6 d. ago Plans for hundreds of homes officially tabled in huge Greater Manchester town redevelopment

The scheme would be the first of many housing schemes planned for the area

Politics

9 d. ago Beautiful seaside town on a UK island where you can buy a home for £120k

This stunning seaside town is the perfect place to relocate to, with an average house price of just £120,038, it’s been ranked as one of the cheapest places to buy a beachfront home in the UK

Economics

1 week ago Luton Town's Kenilworth Road stadium on fire as club issues EFL fixture update

Luton Town football club's home grounds Kenilworth Road stadium erupted into flames at 8pm today just hours before the Championship side face Coventry in a crunch fixture

Events

1 week ago ‘They excavated a nightclub!’: uncovering Black British history beyond London – podcast

From struggles over miscarriages of justice to groundbreaking music, Lanre Bakare looks at the places and events that shaped Black Britain in the Thatcher yearsWhen Guardian arts and culture correspondent Lanre Bakare was growing up, he learned the same Black British history as many of us did. It was a series of singular events: the docking of the Windrush in 1948, unrest in Notting Hill or Brixton, the murder of Stephen Lawrence. All important, but all firmly focused on the capital.Now Lanre has written a book about the Thatcher years, looking at the stories that are less often told: those that took place outside London, in Liverpool – with the oldest Black community in the UK – or in his home town of Bradford. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago London town halls on edge of bankruptcy after overspending £330m on homelessness services

Boroughs plea for financial lifeline due to ‘growing mismatch’ between temporary accommodation costs and Government funding

Economics

1 week ago Katie Price reveals dramaticly stretched appearance after string of tweakments

Katie Price showcased her ever-changing looks during a day out ahead of returning to her pantomime work as she and her beloved dog enjoyed the Welsh seaside

Events

1 week ago Joe Lycett’s United States of Birmingham review – what a brilliantly daft road trip, bab!

The comic’s love for his home town leads him on this charming and wacky odyssey to find ‘his people’ across the pond. Brummies of the world unite!Joe Lycett is on a mission to visit every one of the 17 Birminghams in the US and the one in Canada too. Why? Because he is a native of the UK’s own Birmingham, and he wants to see if there is any shared identifiable vibe and to foster a sense of togetherness among the scattered Brummies. Also, as he says, he has a pressing need to make a travelogue for Sky “and if anyone can do it, it’s Frank Sk– it’s me”. There is also a Birmingham on the moon (a remnant of an impact crater – save your jokes, please, that’s Joe’s department) and one in Belgium. But “we don’t have a lunar budget and I’m not going to Belgium,” says Lycett, so off he sets round the US in a tour bus suitably decked out in Cat Deeley and Alison Hammond scatter cushions. They both hail from Birmingham in the UK. This is not difficult, people. Do try to keep up.Joe has a sheaf ...

Politics

1 week ago Girl, 14, torn to pieces by hungry lion in front of horrified friend as they walked home

Peace Mwende was heading to her home in Rongai, a shanty town suburb of Nairobi, Kenya, on Saturday with a friend when she was attacked and killed by the big cat

Politics

2 w. ago Is THIS Britain's cheapest seaside town? How homes are selling for £20k right next to the beach... but locals aren't happy

For those who have listened to the tales of the 'Redcar Mafia', even the prospect of snapping up a flat in the faded resort for a mere £20,000 pounds may not appeal.

Society

2 w. ago The kindness of strangers: the petrol station worker paid for my fuel and saved my date

When my card declined, I looked out at my new girlfriend and felt utter panic. Back then, $20 felt like a huge amount of moneyRead more in the kindness of strangers seriesI was temporarily living in my home town of Wangaratta while caring for my grandmother, who had dementia. I got weekends off and on one of those occasions I met a girl called Marie. During that lovely early period of a new relationship where you’re still getting to know each other, I took her camping at Mount Buffalo in Victoria.On the way home we stopped in Myrtleford, a small town at the foot of the mountain, to get petrol. I fuelled up and Marie stayed in the car while I went inside to pay. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago Charming UK market town with no tourists 'perfect for a staycation'

This market town in Northumberland may seem modest but it is home to an abundance of historical monuments - offering a glimpse into the Hadrian era as well as views of the surrounding countryside

Politics

2 w. ago In the Rhododendrons by Heather Christle review – back to the mother land

A poet’s memoir of family, trauma, and Virginia Woolf pulses with feeling and intelligenceLike most kids, Heather Christle was drilled about “stranger danger”. Like some, she had a family codeword designed to show that an adult picking them up from school when her mother was busy could be trusted. But, in her American home town in the 1980s, no other kid’s word was a bygone British sweet. And so “Dolly Mixture” joins the growing list of things learned from her English mother that Christle, looking back, finds out of place. Things such as dining etiquette, cardigans, M&S outfits, margarine. But also bigger stuff: beliefs and behaviours. Assumptions. Silence. Shame.With her mother in her 70s and their relationship strained, Christle, a poet and academic, embarks on a quest for new understanding – of her mother, of “Englishness”, and of herself. In a memoir that pulses with feeling and intelligence, she excavates the past to expose difficult truths. As she proved with her acclaimed...

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