65 m. ago Why some people didn't get UK emergency alert test today as 100million smartphones beeped

The second UK emergency alert was triggered across the country on Sunday, with the government sending a message to millions of smartphones across the country

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72 m. ago Mount Fuji eruption AI warning video terrifies locals and tourists

The terrifying new video shows what would happen if Japan's Mount Fuji had a long-overdue eruption, and teaches people what to do in the event ash falls over Tokyo

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78 m. ago Tommy Sheridan warns voting SNP at Holyrood election is a 'Unionist strategy'

Sheridan, the former leader of the Scottish Socialist Party, is now a campaigner for Alba.

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1 hour ago Chineke! Orchestra/Heyward review – kaleidoscopic concert combines energy and complexity

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe ethnically diverse orchestra played with vigour and spirit in a varied programme that included Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Shostakovich and Valerie ColemanThis concert was to have been conducted by Simon Rattle – a mark of the esteem in which leading artists hold Chineke! Orchestra, the trailblazing British ensemble made up of a majority of Black and ethnically diverse musicians. In the event, Charleston-born Jonathon Heyward put his own indelible stamp on a varied yet satisfying program.Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s La Bamboula, a kaleidoscopic dance with roots in the West Indies, played to Chineke!’s strengths. The performed it with vigour and spirit, while Heyward kept its likable blend of late-Victorian tunefulness and proto-Hollywood glitz gossamer-light. You could see why Henry Wood programmed it at the Proms 16 times, making its subsequent 91-year absence inexplicable. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Why didn't I get an emergency alert today? Reason some Brits didn't receive warning

While Brits up and down the country have received a nationwide test alert from the government, some will have been puzzled after seemingly left out of the system. Here's why your phone may have stayed silent this afternoon

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1 hour ago White House's review of Smithsonian content could reach into classrooms nationwide

Some history teachers are concerned about what may come of a White House review of the Smithsonian's public-facing content

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2 h. ago Research warns about the hidden dangers of scrolling your phone on the toilet

Americans spend at least four hours on their phones every day

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2 h. ago California Schemin’ review – James McAvoy’s directorial debut is an unlikely rap tale

Toronto film festival: the actor makes for a hit-and-miss first time film-maker with the undeniably involving true story of Scottish rappers who pretended to be AmericanAt the start of the century, a struggling Scottish rap duo decided to overhaul their image in extreme fashion: they began posing as two Americans from California, and managed to secure themselves a record deal with a label in London. Eventually the hoax was revealed, and one of them released a memoir about the charade. That wild story has now been adapted into a film, California Schemin’, which marks the alternately confident and unsteady directorial debut of actor James McAvoy.McAvoy is a son of Scotland himself, and perhaps feels some kinship with rappers Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd, who found the cultural tastemakers of the south to be indifferent or even hostile to Scottish artists. Though McAvoy has fared just fine as an actor, Bain and Boyd – who would come to be known as Silibil N’ Brains – had a much tougher go...

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2 h. ago London tube users warned to plan for disruption as strike action escalates

London tube users warned to plan for disruption as strike action escalates  The Guardian

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3 h. ago Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review – whodunnit threequel is murderously good fun

Toronto film festival: after Glass Onion underwhelmed, Rian Johnson’s self-aware, star-packed Benoit Blanc series makes a barnstorming return to formIf Glass Onion wasn’t quite the deserving follow-up to Knives Out that many of us had hoped it would be (it was more focused on the bigger rather than better), it was at the very least a deserved victory lap. Writer-director Rian Johnson’s 2019 whodunnit brought us back to the starry, slippery fun of the 70s and 80s, when films like this would be a dime a dozen and it was a surprise hit, making almost eight times its budget at the global box office. While Kenneth Branagh had seen commercial success already with his Poirot revival two years prior, his retreads felt too musty, and the actor-director too miscast, for the genre to truly feel like it was entering an exciting new period.Johnson’s threequel, Wake Up Dead Man, is the second as part of his Netflix deal (one that cost an estimated $450m) and arrives as the whodunnit genre has fou...

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3 h. ago Ruben Amorim warned he 'can't play' Man Utd star again because of big weakness

Ruben Amorim has been dealing with a crisis in goal at Manchester United after seeing poor displays from Andre Onana and Altay Bayindir, but signed young Senne Lammens to provide another option

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3 h. ago 'Our family's pet dog saved my life after docs dismissed years of illness'

Robyn Stonier, 26, from Pontefract, West Yorkshire, has had a 'year from hell' and warns everyone to 'not let doctors fob you off' after her dog was the one to alert her to a tumour

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3 h. ago Scots drivers warned of 'sophisticated' cloning scam as new '75' plates released

Drivers should be aware of the scams con artists are using to target motorists.

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4 h. ago Lewis Capaldi review – an emotional return to the spotlight for pop’s most heart

Utilita Arena, SheffieldThe singer announces he is thrilled to begin his first tour since taking time off for his mental health, but is visibly nervous and at one moment breaks into tearsLewis Capaldi is a pop star known for his patter. But tonight, he warns the crowd he is feeling too overwhelmed to perform his usual funnyman routine. “I probably won’t say lots this evening because I don’t know what to say,” he says. “I’m just genuinely thrilled that this is still a possibility for me.”The 28-year-old being lost for words tonight is understandable. In 2023, Capaldi announced he was taking a hiatus from touring, after sharing his struggles with his mental health and his diagnosis in 2022 of Tourette syndrome. Having disappeared from the spotlight for the better part of two years, he made a triumphant return at Glastonbury earlier this summer for an unannounced and emotional set on the Pyramid stage. Tonight’s Sheffield show, however, marks the Scottish singer’s first headline perfor...

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4 h. ago Google issues major Gmail alert for millions of users after red flag warning

Google has issued an important Gmail update after millions of users were placed on red alert following a major hacking breach

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4 h. ago Gmail account holders issued rare alert after 'broad warning' issued to all users

Google has issued a rare update to Gmail users in a bid to reassure millions of users about the security of the email platform following the recent reports of a mass data leak

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6 h. ago Liverpool star sends 'difficult' warning to Florian Wirtz after slow start to life at Anfield

German midfielder Florian Wirtz has yet to contribute to a goal following his £116m move to Liverpool from Bayer Leverkusen and one of his Reds teammates has now called him out

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6 h. ago Full list of areas affected by yellow weather warning as thunderstorms forecast by Met Office

The Met Office has issued a yellow thunderstorm warning for parts of the UK on Sunday, September 7

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6 h. ago Sherrie Hewson hits back at ITV slapping comedies with trigger warnings in woke crackdown

In recent months a number of shows, such as The Office, Minder and Open All Hours, have had cautions put on them ahead of watching them on ITVX.

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6 h. ago What time Sunday's emergency alert test happens and how to turn it off

The Government has used the system to issue real warnings five times, including in January during Storm Eowyn to warn people in Scotland and Northern Ireland about severe weather

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