37 m. ago Win £300 Wickes vouchers to start your New Year home makeover

Just in time for a new year refresh, ten lucky winners will each received £300 Wickes vouchers to kick start their home makeover.

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47 m. ago More than 100,000 households warned after cyber attack on Kensington and Chelsea council

Over 100,000 households have been warned to be vigilant after their data was accessed

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48 m. ago England star Harry Brook hit by bouncer during drunken night out says he's 'deeply sorry'

England cricket star Harry Brook has apologised after being fined £30,000 by the ECB following a drunken night out on the eve of The Ashes

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54 m. ago Arsenal receive new 'worried' verdict as £105m worth of transfers sparks panic

Arsenal have opened up a lead atop the Premier League over Manchester City, but a former player fears their title rivals could be bolstered by a smart January window

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65 m. ago US a ‘reliable ally’, minister says, amid Trump’s Greenland threats

Pat McFadden made the claim after Sir Keir Starmer ‘set out his position on Greenland’ in a phone call with Donald Trump on Wednesday.

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82 m. ago Celtic identify priority position, Rangers submit bid, Dundee ‘big offer’ claim

The latest Scottish football transfer rumours on Thursday morning - including Celtic, Rangers, Dundee, and St Johnstone.

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1 hour ago Albanian migrant gang moved to Britain in search of a 'better life'...then carried out £1m UK

The five men targeted wealthy householders during a string of 44 late night burglaries, with officers recovering 13 designer handbags and 14 luxury watches worth almost £17,000.

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1 hour ago Man who received cursed heart from suicidal husband married his widow and met disturbing fate

A man who received the heart of a suicide victim turned his life upside down, ran up debts, married his donor's widow and eventually died of the same fate decades after his life-saving operation.

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1 hour ago Dad received heart transplant, married donor's widow then died in exactly the same way

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Terry Cottle died by suicide aged 33 in 1995, leaving behind his devastated widow Cheryl and young children. His heart was transplanted to Sonny Graham, who later married Cheryl. In a disturbing coincidence, Graham also died by suicide in 2008

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2 h. ago A Long Game by Elizabeth McCracken review – here’s how to really write your novel

The novelist and writing tutor delivers bracing advice that demolishes familiar ‘stick to what you know’ nostrumsTrope, POV, backstory, character arc. In the 30 years since I was a student of that benign, pipe-smoking, elbow-patched man of letters Malcolm Bradbury, the private language of creative writing workshops has taken over the world.What writers used to say to small circles of students in an attempt to help them improve their storytelling technique has become a familiar way, often parodic and self-knowing, of interpreting the grand and not-so‑grand narratives of our time. “Don’t worry about Liz Truss’s YouTube series – she’s just having a main character moment.” Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Meghan Markle's bold request 'about Megxit' to Prince Harry exposed by lip reader

A private conversation between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has been decoded by lip readers - and they claim it gives a telling insight on their plot to quit the Royal Family

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3 h. ago Dogs fed one food have bigger carbon footprint than their owners

Scientists calculated the carbon footprint of almost 1,000 commercially available dog foods

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3 h. ago Met Police 'failed to keep London safe' by not properly vetting up to 22,000 recruits including serial rapists

Damning review reveals thousands of police officers and staff were not properly checked amid recruitment drive

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3 h. ago Brits urged to check their change for £2 error coin in circulation worth over £1,000

A rare version of the coin could sell for more than £1,000 - but only if it has a certain minting error

Economics

3 h. ago UK Government to directly invest £140m in five areas of Scotland

Glasgow will receive £60.9 million of the Local Growth Fund, Edinburgh £37.8 million, the Tay Cities region £19.5, Ayrshire £11.8 million, and Forth Valley £9.8 million.

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3 h. ago Right to protest is under attack in England and Wales, reports warn

Human Rights Watch and Justice say recent legislative changes have had a chilling effect and should be repealedThe right to protest is under attack in England and Wales with laws trampling over human rights protections and more oppressive restrictions in the pipeline, two major reports have warned.Both Human Rights Watch and the cross-party law reform organisation Justice say recent legislative changes have created a chilling effect on lawful protest and should be repealed. Their reports, simultaneously published on Thursday, also say that proposals for more curbs should be halted. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Dog food accounts for 1% of UK greenhouse gas emissions, study finds

Study of 1,000 products finds wet, raw and meat-free foods have substantially higher climate impact than dry kibbleDog food accounts for 1% of the UK’s total greenhouse gas emissions, according to research that finds wet, raw and meat-rich products are associated with substantially higher emissions than dry kibble.The analysis revealed striking differences in the environmental impact of commercial dog foods, with the highest-impact foods being responsible for up to 65 times more emissions than the lowest-rated options. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Chiefs say they are aware of domestic violence allegations involving Rashee Rice

Chiefs say they are aware and in touch with NFLAllegations surfaced in Instagram posts WednesdayNo police reports filed in Overland Park, KansasThe Kansas City Chiefs said in a statement Wednesday night that they were aware of domestic violence allegations made in a series of social media posts by a former girlfriend of wide receiver Rashee Rice and had been in communication with the NFL.The Chiefs did not mention Rice by name in their statement and said they would have “no further comment at this time”. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago EU accused of fuelling Putin’s war by importing Russian liquefied natural gas

Despite Brussels’ pledge to ban Russian LNG by 2027, shipments to European ports increased in the last yearEuropean governments have been accused of fuelling Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine as new data shows the Kremlin earned an estimated €7.2bn (£6.2bn) last year from exporting its liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the EU.Brussels has pledged to ban imports of Russian LNG – natural gas that is supercooled to make it easier to transport – by 2027 but an analysis suggests there is yet to be any letup in the vast quantities being received at European ports from Russia’s LNG complex on the Yamal peninsula in Siberia. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago My favourite family photo: ‘I bucketed 30 years of tears that day – then smiled my smiliest smile’

After more than three decades together, Simon Hattenstone and his partner Diane Taylor decided to have a civil partnership. It was a beautiful celebration before the shock of the pandemicDiane and I had been living together for more than 30 years, and our children were 28 and 26 when we got civilled. We’d never wanted to get married. It seemed a bit too pipe and slippers. It also felt like tempting fate. We were really happy without being married, so why change things? And you can’t have more of a commitment than children. But we always said if they introduced civil partnerships for heterosexual couples, we’d get civilled.I think friends assumed we did it primarily for tax reasons – to ensure that if one of us died, the other wasn’t left in the shit. There was an element of that. But more importantly, we actively wanted to get civilled. It actually felt really romantic – tying the civil knot as an expression of love after all this time together. It was such a beautiful day, in every...

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