16 m. ago LIVE as Swinton police station taped off after man seriously hurt

An investigation has been launched

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17 m. ago Jamie Oliver's 'easy' vanilla cheesecake recipe uses just five ingredients

Jamie Oliver's Mediterranean vanilla cheesecake is the perfect dessert to serve for a special occasion or simply to enjoy with your family at home - here's how to make it

Society

26 m. ago A step back in time: What London Underground passengers looked like in the Seventies and Eighties

Bob Mazzer spent years roving the Tube network photographing whoever caught his eye

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30 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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1 hour ago 'I used roaming data for £0 on holiday in Spain, Portugal and Denmark

Tech expert Harriet explains how she ditches her day-to-day network for SMARTY each time she goes on holiday, as she can use a chunk of roaming data for free

Economics

2 h. ago Fakeaway pizza salad tastes 'just like' a pizza but with less calories and high protein

Nutritionist Emily English has shared her delicious 'pizza salad' recipe which is easy to make and full of flavour

Politics

2 h. ago Gardeners told to scatter sweetcorn around bird feeders for an important reason

Helping out our feathered friends is easy - and you don't even need to buy bird seed

Politics

2 h. ago Huddersfield murder probe: Boy, 16, dies after being knifed in the neck in town centre

A stretch of Ramsden Street in Huddersfield town centre was covered in blood, with West Yorkshire Police officers taping off a large area of the town centre following the shocking attack on Thursday afternoon

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2 h. ago London school pupils handed detentions for lateness after TfL change bus routes

Deputy head says students panic and push to get onto over-capacity buses at the end of the day

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2 h. ago Horrifying moment rampant cow tramples woman, 20, and kicks her in the face in attack that leaves her needing plastic surgery

Darcie Rowlandson, 20, was bringing dairy cows in from the fields ahead of a storm while working as a farming assistant when one of them refused to follow.

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3 h. ago Gardener's simple 79p Vaseline hack keeps your plants safe from slugs

A woman, who is also known as The Lockdown Gardener, has taken to social media to share her easy five-step method to keep slugs away from plants - and you'll have the product in your bathroom

Politics

3 h. ago ‘People scream in shock’: the US woman with the world’s longest tongue

Chanel Tapper holds Guinness World Records title with her 3.8in tongue that is longer than a medium-sized lightbulbParty tricks are second nature to Chanel Tapper, who has long wielded the Guinness World Records title for woman with the globe’s longest tongue.The California native can easily use the 3.8in (9.75cm) organ to remove Jenga blocks from a stack. She can flip red plastic cups with it; touch the tip of her nose as well as under her chin; and raise a spoon by curling it around the utensil. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Leading the charge: how a drive for electric vehicles is cleaning up Nepal

With air pollution causing a fifth of deaths in Nepal, growing EV use could add nearly three years to Kathmandu residents’ livesIn a rundown hangar in the heart of Kathmandu, the remains of a dozen electric trolley buses stand abandoned and corroding. Caked in dust and bird-droppings and lined with rubbish, they are a reminder of a bold experiment, launched 50 years ago, to electrify the city’s public transport system. Down the side of one is written, “Keep me alive”.Today, that plea is being heard. More than 70% of four-wheeled passenger vehicles – largely cars and minibuses – imported into Nepal last year were electric, one of the highest rates in the world. The figure reflects a remarkable growth in the use of electric vehicles (EVs), which saw the country import more than 13,000 between July 2023 and 2024, up from about 250 in 2020-21. Continue reading...

Politics

6 h. ago ‘Cathedral of crap’: is this the world’s most beautiful sewage treatment plant?

Its lab buildings have a rusticated air while its sleek, paper-thin louvre windows are reminiscent of a luxury ocean-liner. More importantly, the people of Arklow in Ireland can finally go swimming without fear of floatersIt is not often that the arts section of a newspaper finds itself concerned with the aesthetic merits of a sewage works. But then there are few facilities designed with the finesse of the new €139m (£117m) wastewater treatment plant in Arklow, which stands like a pair of minty green pagodas on the edge of the Irish Sea. Nor are there many architectural firms who have thought so deeply about the poetics of effluent as Clancy Moore.“There’s a wonderful passage in Ulysses,” says practice co-founder, Andrew Clancy, summoning James Joyce as we tiptoe along a metal gantry above a gigantic vat of bubbling brown sludge. “The narrator turns on the tap to fill a kettle, sparking a lengthy rumination on where the water comes from, how it flows from reservoirs, through aqueduc...

Economics

6 h. ago RIP hoop earrings – fun, quirky, colourful styles are the way to go now | Jess Cartner

Minimalist modern is giving way to a more individualistic, vintage-inspired look. Time to layer bead-style necklaces and add some colourJermaine Stewart was right, you know. We don’t have to take our clothes off to have a good time. I’m talking about fashion, naturally. If you want to tap into the most fun update happening in style right now, you can do so without changing a single item of clothing. Because the party is happening in your jewellery box, not your wardrobe.Fun jewellery is back, and I am thrilled. I love a hoop earring as much as anyone, but I think it is time to admit to ourselves that the hoop has got a little tired at this point. For several months last year, the biggest thing that was happening in earrings was that the precise shape of the hoop had changed a tiny bit. Instead of being shaped like car tyres, they had a melted quality, heavier at the bottom. Before that, they had shrunk slightly, into huggie hoops that tightly clasped the lobes. T...

Politics

8 h. ago There was almost a crash a week involving cars and trams in Greater Manchester last year

'We're in the hands of other road users'

Events

15 h. ago Delivered to a Predator: Al Fayed’s Fixer review – this startling tale urgently needed telling

Dispatches, presented by Cathy Newman, talks to 16 survivors or witnesses of the ex-Harrods boss’s abuse, as well as tracking down his alleged enabler. The result is a raw, horrifying and invaluable watchIt is disturbingly easy to respond with little more than fatigue to reports of powerful men sexually exploiting women, because there have been so many. The part of us that should emit shock, disgust and righteous outrage becomes dulled through overuse. And so, when Mohamed Al Fayed, the billionaire former owner of Harrods, died in 2023 and was then credibly accused of being one of Britain’s worst sex offenders, the collective reaction felt like a shrug.The new Dispatches investigation, Delivered to a Predator: Al Fayed’s Fixer, however, ought to sharpen our revulsion and our resolve to fight for change. Building on the 2017 Dispatches documentary Behind Closed Doors and the 2024 BBC programme Predator at Harrods, it outlines the scale of the tycoon’s wrongdoing: last year, the Metro...

Politics

20 h. ago TV station forced to fire glamorous 'fact checker' after her shocking past was exposed

Rachel Gilmore, 30, had only aired a single segment when she was suddenly ousted by the network earlier this week - a development first reported by the PressProgress.

Events

21 h. ago Labour MP on Trump Tariffs: Britain needs to "keep calm and carry on"

Veteran and MP Mike Tapp commended Keir Starmer’s “statesman-like approach” to handling Trump’s tariffs

Politics

22 h. ago ‘Dead white men are what I’m legitimately interested in’: film’s foremost podcaster on resurrecting the classics

Karina Longworth, the host of You Must Remember This, on why people patronise Scorsese and Coppola, and her new season of late-career curios by the likes of Minnelli, Wilder and Hitchcock‘When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” So runs the most famous line from John Ford’s elegiac 1962 western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The 44-year-old historian Karina Longworth has other ideas. The former LA Weekly film critic launched her podcast, You Must Remember This, in 2014, setting out to tell “the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century”, as she puts it in the show’s introduction. Its title is lifted from the jazz standard As Time Goes By (“You must remember this / A kiss is still a kiss ”) as featured in Casablanca. Hearing that wistful, timeworn lyric, it is easy to overlook the imperative hiding in plain sight. With each fastidiously researched and gloriously entertaining episode, Longworth seems to be telling us: you must remember this. To not do s...

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