10 h. ago Man dead and girl, 8, injured after fire tears through building

Another man is in hospital and around 40 people were evacuated

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25 h. ago Man dies after huge blaze tears through building in Perth city centre

Emergency crews raced to Scott Street in the city at around 1.50am this morning, Saturday, June 14 after officers patrolling the area discovered the fire.

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33 h. ago Homes evacuated as huge blaze tears through building in Perth

"The fire has been extinguished however a multi-agency response is ongoing and a number of properties have been evacuated."

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8 d. ago Five dead and girl, 2, injured as gunmen open fire on group watching football match

A crowd had gathered at the Nueva Buena Fe cooperative in Buena Fe in Ecuador to watch the national football team play when armed attackers stepped out of a car and began shooting

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9 d. ago CMAT, pop’s gobbiest, gaudiest star: ‘Everyone else in music needs a kick up the hole!’

Playing stadiums and causing dance crazes, the Irish singer-songwriter is going supernova – and whether opining on trans rights, body shaming or capitalism, she’s more forthright than everCiara Mary-Anne Thompson, or CMAT as she’s professionally known, says she can clearly remember writing the song that changed her life. She was 22 and having moved from Ireland to Manchester, was working in TK Maxx and, at the weekends, as what she’s fond of calling a “sexy shots girl”: “Cash in hand, £8 an hour, 11pm to 3am, teetering up and down the stairs of a nightclub in the building where Joy Division shot the video for Love Will Tear Us Apart with a tray of Jägermeister shots they’d put a bit of dry ice in – burned your skin if you got it on your hands – selling them for three pound each. Terrible job. And just getting absolutely stoned out of my bin all the time, doing whatever drugs anyone would give me for free. I had absolutely no friends.”An attempt to get her musical career off the grou...

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1 week ago Will we ever see another pot of Meghan's jam again? Now Duchess 'pauses' production after selling only a limited number of pots in first release

Meghan told of the difficulties of building her firm and 'how many tears' she has shed behind the scenes, on a bonus episode of her podcast featuring Beyonce's mother Tina Knowles.

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1 week ago Meghan to ‘pause’ restocking her jam and herbal teas until completely ready

The duchess also spoke of the ‘many tears’ she has shed behind the scenes while building her As Ever brand.

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1 week ago Man dead and girl injured following shooting incident at Carlow shopping centre

Ireland’s Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan has described it as a ‘really shocking incident’.

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2 w. ago Four people killed after starving Palestinians burst into UN food warehouse in Gaza

Deaths from crushing and gunshot wounds come a day after Israeli forces opened fire at a food distribution pointFour people have died as hundreds of Palestinians burst into a United Nations warehouse in Gaza, tearing away sections of the building’s metal walls in an desperate attempt to find food.Two people were fatally crushed and two others died of gunshot wounds after the crowd forced its way into the World Food Programme warehouse in central Gaza on Wednesday afternoon, health officials said. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Building firm posts viral TikTok of them tearing up client's driveway in 'row over £3,800 unsettled bill'

Kendall Contractors Ltd, based in Leeds, posted footage of builders demolishing the homeowners driveway with the caption: 'Can't pay? We'll take it away.'

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4 w. ago Bulldozers tear down venue with 'more lives than any other building in town'

Time has finally run out for Oldham's 120-year-old Grand Theatre building which has been a cinema, bowling alley, snooker hall, roller derby venue and several nightclubs

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