44 h. ago The migrant hotel that has turned a quiet country idyll upside down: Locals complain loitering asylum seekers ask for cash and even peer through our windows

The Sandpiper Hotel, just outside historic Chesterfield in rural Derbyshire, has been used to accommodate asylum seekers for around two years.

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46 h. ago The migrant hotel that has turned a quiet country idyll upside down. Locals complaine loitering asylum seekers ask for cash and even peer through our windows

The Sandpiper Hotel, just outside historic Chesterfield in rural Derbyshire, has been used to accommodate asylum seekers for around two years.

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6 d. ago Israel declares national emergency as wildfires force evacuations

Witnesses tell of ‘walls of flame’ surging across woodland, while high winds disrupt Independence Day eventsWildfires continued to threaten swaths of forest and fields in Israel on Thursday, though firefighters successfully reopened the main road linking the country’s two principal cities.Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, declared a national emergency after the fires broke out on Wednesday along the main Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, prompting police to shut the route and evacuate thousands of people from nearby communities. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Biker club founder terrified female motorcyclist from rival group after following her on country road

John Bingham, 59, who once stood trial for murder, confronted the lone rider with what she thought was a knife - but he claimed was a metal shoe horn.

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9 d. ago Cosmic metros, UFO circus tops and a 3,000C sun gun: the mesmerising architecture of Tashkent

From its cavernous domed bazaar to its ravishingly muscular museum, the Uzbek capital has one of the world’s wildest collections of modernist gems. Will its bid for world heritage status succeed?A pair of huge turquoise domes swell up on the skyline of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, perching on the jumbled horizon like two upturned bowls. One gleams with ceramic tiles, glazed in traditional Uzbek patterns. The other catches the light with a pleated canopy of azure metal ribs. Both recall the majestic cupolas that crown the mosques of the country’s ancient Silk Road cities of Samarkand, Khiva and Bukhara. But here, they cover structures of a very different kind.The ribbed metal dome crowns the home of the state circus, its futuristic-looking big top seeming to have been crossed with a UFO. Built in 1976, it’s big enough to hold an audience of 3,000. The ceramic dome, meanwhile, looms over the bustling chaos of the city’s main market, Chorsu Bazaar, built in 1980 as a wonderworl...

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1 week ago 'We had a choice: end the band or share the spotlight' – Black Country, New Road

When Black Country, New Road’s singer quit, they could have called it a day. Instead, they have reinvented themselves as the most exciting indie pioneers since The Last Dinner Party

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2 w. ago Drivers are only just realising what simple petrol station button is used for

A button located on several petrol pumps across the country could be the answer to road users' prayers - but not everyone is convinced it is such a 'game changer'

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2 w. ago Cops launch probe after 'unexplained' death of woman on country road

Emergency services had blocked the road off for several hours on Monday morning.

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2 w. ago Easter break blighted by road, rail & flight chaos as 18million travel across the country to make the most of the long weekend

The AA estimated that more than 18 million people took to the roads, with a similar number expected to make journeys on the remaining days of the Easter weekend.

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last month Man killed in horror motorbike crash on quiet Scottish country road

A man has been killed in the collision near the Scotland-England border

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