57 m. ago 'I wanted to spend less time on my smartphone so I ditched it for this classic device'

A woman on TikTok has invented a landline phone that connects to her smartphone and landline via Bluetooth in her attempt to minimise her screen time once and for all

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2 h. ago ‘It’s nearly come full circle’: Charlestown proud of Gallagher connection as Oasis come to Ireland

Liam and Noel used to be taken for summer holidays with relatives in Mayo and kept returning after finding fameEmigration ripped the heart out of Charlestown: generations of young people took the boat to England and left behind derelict homes and shuttered shops, a hollowing chronicled in a landmark 1968 book, The Death of an Irish Town.Some returned to this corner of County Mayo for summer holidays – with children who were growing up with English accents and city ways – before vanishing back across the Irish Sea and leaving Charlestown to its decay. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Famous London hotel where both celebs and royalty have stayed named among 'best on Earth'

A top five-star London hotel has been named the third best place to stay in the world - and it's had guests such as the royal family and A-list celebrities come to stay

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3 h. ago Picturesque seaside town boasting 10 fish and chip shops will have direct train to London

Trains from London are planned to stop in this beautiful seaside town in the north of England, marking the destination's first and only direct rail connection to the capital

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14 h. ago 'I accidentally left my tampon in for a month and what happened was mortifying'

Netflix star Savannah Miller, who appeared on the seventh season of The Circle, has opened up about her 'truly humbling experience' of accidentally leaving a tampon in for a month

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15 h. ago Jacob Bethell to become youngest man to captain England in Ireland series

Bethell will lead England in three T20s with regular white-ball skipper Harry Brook rested

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16 h. ago Netflix star accidentally leaves tampon in for month and is mortified by what happens

Savannah Miller, who appeared on the 7th season of Netflix’s The Circle, 'forgot' she put in a tampon and walked around with it inside her for a month. Read on to know her "actually traumatising" experience.

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16 h. ago Oasis fan scatters best friend’s ashes during Edinburgh concert in viral video

The video has gone viral on TikTok with others inspired to do a similar thing

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17 h. ago Planes held and passengers stranded at major UK airport after evacuation

A major UK airport ran into delays after the air traffic control tower was briefly evacuated, according to reports from passengers, with data showing planes circling the sky

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18 h. ago Digital challengers top banking customer satisfaction surveys

The results, which saw providers including Monzo, Starling, Chase and Mettle placed highly, are published by the Competition and Markets Authority.

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18 h. ago UK inflation to rise as summer spending pushes up hotels and airfares

One economist said an ‘Oasis bump’ could have contributed to higher accommodation prices in July.

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19 h. ago Touching moment Edinburgh Oasis fan scatters best pal's ashes at Murrayfield gig

A video on TikTok has gone viral of the man making a touching tribute to his loved one at the Edinburgh Oasis show.

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19 h. ago Heading to Dublin for the Oasis weekender? The best places to eat, drink and stay

Grab a pint at Toner’s, get the Bad Sisters experience in Howth and sing along to Irish folk at O’Donoghues. Maddy Mussen has your guide to spending a weekend in Ireland’s largest city

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21 h. ago UK's most expensive and cheapest seaside spots for beach day out named

New research has compared several of the most popular UK summer destinations, totting up the cost of deckchair hire, a '99' ice cream, and a fish and chips meal

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21 h. ago Hidden gem market town with glorious gardens and charming high street

A little-known market town has been praised for its beautiful gardens, award-winning pubs and quaint high street - and it's not far from Cardiff

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21 h. ago Dad turns tiny garden into 'little oasis' but some slam 'controversial' feature

A family's renovation job has stunned Redditors as he turned a space full of 'dirt and rubble' into a beautiful garden

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22 h. ago Benedicte Maurseth: Mirra review | Jude Rogers' folk album of the month

(Hubro)Rhythmic repetitions and rustling textures evoke the traditional music and ecological harmony of Maurseth’s native NorwayA hardanger fiddle player from the fjord-and-mountain-filled region of Norway, where the instrument comes from, Benedicte Maurseth explores traditional music, nature and landscape influenced by the idea of ecosophy, a philosophy of ecological harmony. From childhood, she studied under master hardanger fiddler Knut Hamre, exploring the tunes, styles and effects associated with her instrument: its sympathetic strings, funnelled under the fingerboard, are particularly hypnotic, vibrating in response to the notes resonating above, as they do on the sitar and sarangi.A follow-up to Maurseth’s 2022 Nordic music prize-winning Hárr, Mirra is named after an old dialect word describing wild reindeer running together in a circling pattern. Norwegian folk’s rhythmic repetitions feed Maurseth’s intricate compositions (as do the influences of minimalism and Krautrock), b...

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22 h. ago Republic of Ireland's best footballers named as Roy and Robbie Keane lead the pack

A poll of 1,000 Irish football fans has named the top 20 Republic of Ireland footballers of all time - with two Keanes and a McGrath making the top three

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22 h. ago Roy Keane tops the list of Republic of Ireland's greatest footballers, Kevin Kilbane notably absent

A poll of 1,000 Republic of Ireland fans has named the best players in the nation's history - and there's a big snub for Kevin Kilbane in the top 20

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23 h. ago Rise Against: Ricochet review – slick shift doesn’t skimp on righteous anger

(Loma Vista)Blood-and-guts emotion with the energy of the punk veterans’ early years meets high-sheen recording craft in a hulking 10th albumRise Against are not the first punk band to embrace the trappings of arena rock, but few of their forerunners can say they moved between those opposing states with the confidence and style displayed here. Having spent two decades retrofitting the breakneck melodic hardcore of their early work with rafter-shaking hooks and gleaming production, the Chicago veterans’ 10th album is a hulking thing, its bombast and righteous anger fed by vocalist Tim McIlrath, who finds the middle ground between Strike Anywhere and Creedence Clearwater Revival more often than you might think possible.Working in tandem with producer Catherine Marks, fresh from Grammy wins for her work on Boygenius’s The Record, and mixer-to-the-stars Alan Moulder, they regularly square the circle between blood-and-guts emotion and high-sheen recording craft. McIlrath’s community-mind...

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