67 m. ago Met Office issues 'emergency kit' warning for 31 UK areas with 14 hours of rain expected

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for rain covering 31 areas in the South West and parts of Wales, with the alert in place from midnight until 2pm on Wednesday

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80 m. ago BBC dating show set to rival Love Island bags for second series before first has aired

The BBC's latest dating series is set to air but it's thought bosses have been so impressed that they have already signed off a second run

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88 m. ago Channing Tatum reveals he suffered major injury on Avengers: Doomsday set

The actor will reprise his role as X-Men’s Gambit in the upcoming superhero epic

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89 m. ago Jury comes to decision in 'tragic case' of man accused of 85

The couple had been together for over 60 years

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90 m. ago Downton Abbey star admits cast 'got in trouble' after breaking on set rule

Dame Penelope Wilton, who plays Isobel Crawley in Downton Abbey, has opened up about a boozy day on set that saw the cast 'get in trouble'

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1 hour ago YouTube commenter arrested after allegedly posting threat to ‘shoot and skin’ Black preschoolers

Zachary Charles Newell, 25, wrote that he would murder and mutilate 20 young children ‘like the animals they are,’ according to an FBI probable cause affidavit

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1 hour ago Dead Man’s Wire review – Gus Van Sant calls the shots with surreal true

Venice film festivalAl Pacino, Colman Domingo and Myha’la excel in this gripping take on the events of 1977 when an Indianapolis businessman held his mortgage broker hostage With terrific chutzpah, black-comic flair and cool, cruel unsentimentality, screenwriter Austin Kolodney and director Gus Van Sant have made a true-crime suspense thriller set in the 1970s, tapping into the spirit of both Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon and Network. Apart from anything else, it is a reminder that in that post-Kennedy, post-Watergate age, plenty of lawless and febrile things happened that would now be considered phenomena purely attributable to social media.In 1977, an Indianapolis businessman named Tony Kiritsis, with many acquaintances in the police department, kidnapped a mortgage broker named Richard Hall, and tied Hall’s neck with a “dead man’s wire” to his shotgun, which would therefore go off if police sharpshooters tried to kill him. Kiritsis even paraded his victim like this on TV while...

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1 hour ago Dad threatened to burn down Betfred because he kept losing on bets and 'smashed up shop'

Hawest Karimpoori hurled a chair, set fire to a newspaper and began ripping up the carpet during his ill-fated trip to the bookies

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2 h. ago Woman installs camera to keep an eye on her dog and what she finds is hilarious

Ever wondered what your pet does when you're not home? One woman set up a camera in her living room and was stunned by what her dog got up to

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2 h. ago Ten Man United players set for extra Ruben Amorim training during international break

Manchester United have entered their first international break of the 2025/26 campaign with just three Premier League matches under their belt

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2 h. ago Bake Off’s biggest scandals from Prue’s spoiler blunder to Paul Hollywood ‘affair’ drama

The Great British Bake Off may look sweet on the surface, but behind the cakes lies a history of walkouts, betrayals, and on-set scandals that have stirred up just as much drama as the competition itself

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2 h. ago Tube strike set to deliver £230m blow to London economy was backed by just 57% of RMT members

EXCLUSIVE: 6,004 union members voted in favour of action set to shut down the London Underground — but 4,196 did not bother to vote

Economics

2 h. ago Jessica Pegula sweeps past Barbora Krejcikova and into US Open semi

American into last four after 6-3, 6-3 win over world No 62Pegula to face either Sabalenka or VondrousovaJessica Pegula continues to redraw the limits of her career in New York. The 31-year-old American swept into the last four of the US Open on Tuesday with a 6-3, 6-3 dismissal of Barbora Krejcikova, becoming the first woman to reach back-to-back semi-finals here without dropping a set since Serena Williams strung together four straight runs between 2011 and 2014.It was a performance of cool authority, built less on fireworks than on persistence and precision. Pegula needed only 86 minutes to subdue her opponent, whose serve collapsed under pressure with seven double faults and a first-serve percentage barely above 40%. Where Krejcikova unravelled, Pegula stayed the course, drawing energy from a nearly full Arthur Ashe Stadium that sensed they were watching a home contender gather momentum. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Cake shop owner can remain in Britain despite being wanted for murder in his home country of Portugal

Carlos Kassimo Dos Santos, 33, was given in his absence a 14-year prison sentence in Portugal nine years ago, in connection with an alleged gang killing.

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2 h. ago Neighbor realizes he unwittingly helped murderer dispose body after being told it was 'hockey mannequin', police say

Christopher Caron (pictured), 42, was charged with murder after he allegedly tricked his neighbors into helping him move a dead body by telling them it was a 'hockey mannequin'.

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3 h. ago Trump faces new Epstein headache as Congress returns from recess

Lawmakers plan pressure campaign for release of Epstein files as victims meet with speaker and oversight committeeUS politics live – latest updatesCongress returns to session on Tuesday, and with it will come a political headache for Donald Trump in the form of renewed attention on the investigation into the disgraced financier Jeff Epstein and his death, a subject that the president has sought to avoid in recent weeks.While the president got a month-long break from the Epstein issue when lawmakers left town for the annual August recess – with the House of Representatives wrapping up a day early because of the controversy over Epstein – the calm is likely to end quickly. On Tuesday afternoon, representatives from both parties have planned press conferences and legislative maneuvers intended to put pressure on the Trump administration for more transparency over Epstein, whose suicide while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in 2019 has been the subject of conspiracy theories t...

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3 h. ago Farmer left fearing for his life after arsonists target him and his Filipino tenants in 'racist hate campaign'

Sam Carson spoke out after a number of cars were set on fire in the Co Antrim town on Sunday and destroyed, in a racist attack.

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3 h. ago He traveled to 118 countries before turning 20. Here’s how he did it and where he visited

Arjun Malaviya set off from his home in California on his 17th birthday with the aim of ‘seeing the world alone, before turning 20’. He spoke to US Travel Editor Ted Thornhill about his epic odyssey, revealing the country where he rode a scooter on an airport runway, where has the best food... and the places that disappointed

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3 h. ago Southampton flat fall victim named amid murder investigation

Emergency services were called to reports a woman had fallen from the flats in Cuckmere Lane shortly after 2.40pm on Thursday.

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3 h. ago Hamilton and East Kilbride performers set for stage show with Minerva theatre group

The group are getting set for their production of musical 9 to 5 later this month

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