3 d. ago Locals blast Glasgow’s ‘unbearable’ Christmas event demand it be banned for 2026

FURIOUS locals have demanded council chiefs ban an “unbearable” Christmas event near their homes. The Winter Wonderland in Glasgow Green was rolled out to replace the Christmas markets in George Square - which couldn’t go ahead due to renovation works. But the festive gala could be set to go ahead again this year in the...

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8 d. ago 'Disgusting and violent' moment of madness caught on camera as fans demand footballer 'banned for life'

Furious football fans were left calling for a lifetime ban for one Trearddur Bay player on Saturday, as he was caught on camera seemingly knocking out a CPD Porthmadog talent with a violent elbow

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9 d. ago 'Disgusting' and violent elbow caught on camera as fans demand footballer 'banned for life'

Furious football fans were left calling for a lifetime ban for one Trearddur Bay player on Saturday, as he was caught on camera seemingly knocking out a CPD Porthmadog talent with a violent elbow

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9 d. ago Scots mosque targeted with 'hate graffiti' as locals blast 'sickening' act

Shocked residents have slammed "sickening" graffiti that was plastered on a mosque last night which has left officials "deeply saddened".

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1 week ago I see time as a grid in my mind. I remember the birthdays of friends I haven’t seen for 65 years

Judy Stokes, a retired GP, shares her experience as a spatial-sequence synaestheteRead more stories of synaesthesia in the way I feel seriesDid someone with spatial-sequence synaesthesia design the calendar app on mobile phones? Because that’s how time and dates look in my brain. If you say a date to me, that day appears in a grid diagram in my head, and it shows if that box is already imprinted with a holiday, event or someone’s birthday. Public holidays and special events like Christmas and Easter are already imprinted for the year, and the diagram goes backwards to about 100,000BC and then forwards all the way to about the year 2500 before tapering off.It was only in my 60s that I discovered there was a name for this phenomenon – not just the way time appears in this 3D sort of calendar pattern, but the colours seen when I think of certain words. Two decades previously, I’d mentioned to a friend that Tuesdays were yellow and she’d looked at me in the same strange, befuddled way t...

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1 week ago Bangladesh doubles down on demand to move T20 World Cup matches out of India

Standoff with ICC continues after talks to resolve issue fail to produce breakthrough

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2 w. ago Starmer ally says UK could get 'very close' to rejoining EU single market amid claims Brussels will demand ban on gene

Keir Starmer's biographer Tom Baldwin said the PM had opened 'possibilities' by suggesting he wants closer ties.

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2 w. ago Gang of 'Asian men' who surrounded and sexually assaulted woman struck at a Christmas event for children

A 25-year-old woman was leaving Bazaar Restaurant in Captain Cook Square, Middlesbrough, when five to seven men made comments to her on December 13.

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3 w. ago 'Waiter waving a sparkler while dancing on a colleague's shoulders' started Swiss luxury nightclub fire that killed up to 40 people and injured 100

The blast occurred at around 1.30am local time (12.30am GMT) in the Constellation Bar in the Alpine town of Crans-Montana.

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3 w. ago 'Waiter waving a sparkler while dancing on a colleague's shoulders' started Swiss luxury nightclub fire that killed up to 40 people and injured 100  

The blast occurred at around 1.30am local time (12.30am GMT) in the Constellation Bar in the Alpine town of Crans-Montana.

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3 w. ago Around FORTY feared dead and 100 injured in luxury Swiss ski resort blaze after explosion rips through bar during NYE celebrations, with foreign tourists among victims

The blast occurred at around 1.30am local time (12.30am GMT) in the Constellation Bar in the Alpine town of Crans-Montana.

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3 w. ago 'Around FORTY' feared dead and 100 injured in luxury Swiss ski resort blaze after explosion rips through bar during NYE celebrations

The blast occurred at around 1.30am local time (12.30am GMT) in the Constellation Bar in the Alpine town of Crans-Montana.

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3 w. ago 'At least ten people killed' as explosion rips through bar at Swiss ski resort as they celebrate the New Year

The blast occurred at around 1.30am local time (12.30am GMT) in the Constellation Bar in the Alpine town of Crans-Montana.

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4 w. ago Tommy Robinson says he found Jesus in prison. Churches disagree about how to respond

C of E faces dilemma as far right claims Christianity to push agenda that often clashes with gospel messageGary made sure he got to Whitehall early for the “unite the kingdom” (UTK) outdoor carol service in the run-up to Christmas. After about 150,000 people turned up for the last rally called by Tommy Robinson in September, the leader of the anti-migrant far-right movement, he wanted to be sure of a prime position.He needn’t have worried. About 1,500 people – perhaps 1% of September’s turnout – came to Whitehall to sing carols and hear preachers in the twilight of a mid-December day. Robinson had publicly insisted the event was a non-political celebration of Christmas; maybe that deterred some of movement’s more ardent activists. Continue reading...

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