26 m. ago Football chairman's final moments with wife after horror jet ski crash

Debra Wright, 47, was fatally injured in the crash on Saturday evening at Los Toros beach in Manilva, just west of Estepona, on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain

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42 m. ago Trump claims Israel ready for Gaza peace deal in bid to boost Hamas ceasefire talks

US president says Qatar and Egypt will deliver ‘final proposal’ to Hamas, whom he urged to accept deal ‘because it will not get better’Israel-Gaza war: latest updatesDonald Trump has claimed that Israel is ready to agree to a peace deal with Hamas as he seeks to broker a ceasefire to the war in Gaza that has claimed almost 60,000 lives.In a post on Truth Social, the US president wrote: “Israel has agreed to the necessary conditions to finalize the 60 Day CEASEFIRE, during which time we will work with all parties to end the War.” Continue reading...

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97 m. ago Trump announces Gaza ceasefire with Israeli agreement but has a warning for Hamas

The US President has said that Israel has agreed to the required terms of an internationally negotiated 60-day ceasefire in Gaza

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2 h. ago 'Bank of Wokeness' to ditch historical figures from banknotes in push to reflect modern diversity

The Bank of England has been accused of 'wrongheaded wokery' after revealing it could drop historical figures from banknotes to reflect modern diversity.

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2 h. ago Germany foils 'Iranian spy's plot to attack Israeli and Jewish community leaders'

Federal prosecutor Jens Rommel said a suspect named 'Ali S.' was arrested in Denmark last week after allegedly being commissioned by a unit of Tehran's military to prepare the attacks.

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2 h. ago Trump touts Gaza '60 day ceasefire' after Israel agrees US terms but tells Hamas 'it will only get worse'

A ceasefire in Gaza could be at hand after the US President revealed that Israel had agreed to the 'necessary conditions' to bring about a 60-day pause in hostilities

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2 h. ago Miriam Margolyes, Charles Dance, Mike Leigh and Harry and Meghan's 'dear friend' blast the BBC for reporting on Israel in dramatic open letter

The call to arms condemns BBC for being 'crippled by the fear of being perceived as critical of the Israeli government' as they accuse coverage of being 'defined by anti-Palestinian racism'.

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3 h. ago Bank of England seeks views on theme for next series of banknotes

A consultation will be open until the end of July.

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3 h. ago US won't send some weapons pledged to Ukraine following a Pentagon review of military assistance

The U.S. is halting some shipments of air defense missiles and other munitions to Ukraine amid concerns that its own stockpiles of such supplies have declined too much, officials said Tuesday

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4 h. ago Peter Thiel joins tech billionaires backing new lender to rival Silicon Valley Bank

Start-up named after the dragon’s mountain in ‘Lord of the Rings’

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4 h. ago Men accused of shooting prison officer dead in 'revenge' pictured at Glastonbury

Elias Morgan and co-defendant Anthony Cleary attended Glastonbury Festival in 2023, months before Lenny Scott was fatally injured in a shooting in West Lancashire

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5 h. ago National charity says West Lothian pensioners' café a model for better care

Adam Stachura, the Policy Director at Age Scotland last Thursday’s 11th hour hold was an “opportunity to look to the future.”

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5 h. ago West Lothian schools to get more support teachers thanks to extra £1m funding

It comes amid a ‘spike’ in the numbers of pupils needing additional support in schools and to learn at home.

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5 h. ago West Lothian raids see more than 11,000 illegal cigarettes and tobacco seized

A total of 11,560 cigarettes and 14 pouches of rolling tobacco were removed from sale. A vehicle involved was also seized.

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5 h. ago Man held on suspicion of murder after prison inmate found dead in cell

A 26-year-old man was arrested in connection with the incident after West Mercia Police officers attended HMP Stoke Heath.

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7 h. ago Eerie pictures of abandoned Camelot theme park more than a decade after its closure

The theme park was a favourite among families from across the north west before it shut down

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8 h. ago Justice Department says 2 Chinese nationals charged with spying inside the US for Beijing

Two Chinese nationals have been charged with spying inside the United States on behalf of Beijing, including by taking photographs of a naval base and by participating in efforts to recruit members of the military who they thought might be open to working for Chinese intelligence

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8 h. ago Moment grimacing teenage thug, 18 who targeted Bridgerton star for her phone is arrested by police after trying to flee by jumping out of window when officers arrived at his door

Zacariah Boulares, 18, snuck up behind actress Genevieve Chenneour, 27, and grabbed her iPhone 14 Pro in the upmarket Joe & the Juice coffee shop on Kensington High Street, west London.

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8 h. ago Trump celebrates harsh conditions for detainees on visit to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

President says immigration jail in Florida Everglades is a ‘little controversial, but I couldn’t care less’Donald Trump on Tuesday toured Alligator Alcatraz, a controversial new migrant detention jail in the remote Florida Everglades, and celebrated the harsh conditions that people sent there would experience.The president was chaperoned by Florida’s hard-right governor, Ron DeSantis, who hailed the tented camp on mosquito-infested land 50 miles west of Miami as an example for other states that supported Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Interest rates are still on ‘downward’ path, says Bank of England chief

Governor Andrew Bailey also highlighted weakness in the UK labour market amid increased economic uncertainty.

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