2 h. ago Man, 28, banned from owning animals for five years after keeping 18 birds in conditions so appalling a vet was reduced to tears

Brandon Hodge, 28, admitted two charges of animal neglect after police found 18 birds tethered inside tiny cages at a house in Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, in May 2024.

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6 h. ago Man who kept birds of prey in ‘appalling’ conditions banned from owning animals

Scottish SPCA inspectors said the conditions were among the worst they had ever witnessed.

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7 h. ago Gopichand Hinduja, head of Britain’s richest family, dies aged 85

Billionaire businessman’s family owns Hinduja Group, which has interests across oil, banking and real estateBusiness live – latest updatesGopichand Hinduja, the billionaire head of Britain’s richest family, has died aged 85.Hinduja died on Tuesday in London after a long illness, a spokesperson said. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Gopichand Hinduja, head of Britain’s richest family, dies – reports

Billionaire businessman’s family owns Hinduja Group, which has interests across oil, banking and real estateBusiness live – latest updatesGopichand Hinduja, the billionaire head of Britain’s richest family, has died aged 85.Hinduja died on Tuesday in London after a long illness, according to reports. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Barbaric birdman kept owls and birds of prey in tiny cages inside filthy home

Brandon Hodge, 28, kept 18 birds inside tiny cages in the property in Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire.

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24 h. ago US mass murderer George Banks dies in prison 43 years after rampage

Banks was convicted of killing 13 people, including his own children, in 1982 shooting in Wilkes-Barre, PennsylvaniaGeorge Banks, one of the most notorious mass murderers in the US, has died.Banks, 83, died Sunday afternoon at Phoenix state prison in Pennsylvania, the state department of corrections said. Banks died of complications from renal neoplasm, or kidney cancer, said Montgomery county coroner Dr Janine Darby. Continue reading...

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40 h. ago Oakley Meta Vanguard review: fantastic AI running glasses linked to Garmin

Camera-equipped sports shades have secure fit, open-ear speakers, mics and advanced Garmin and Strava integrationThe Oakley Meta Vanguard are new displayless AI glasses designed for running, cycling and action sports with deep Garmin and Strava integration, which may make them the first smart glasses for sport that actually work.They are a replacement for running glasses, open-ear headphones and a head-mounted action cam all in one, and are the latest product of Meta’s partnership with the sunglasses conglomerate EssilorLuxottica, the owner of Ray-Ban, Oakley and many other top brands. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago 'Appalling incident': Ten people stabbed on UK train, nine in critical condition

'Appalling incident': Ten people stabbed on UK train, nine in critical condition  Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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4 d. ago Harry was a Canary Wharf banker who owned two horses and grew up in Paris. Then OLIVIA TYMPSON checked his phone

When I woke up early the morning after our two-year anniversary, I was conflicted to see my boyfriend Harry's phone sitting on the bedside table. Within minutes, my life imploded.

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6 d. ago You could own a stake in a giant 186kg solid GOLD cube after movie tycoon goes bankrupt – but the value is eye

A TYCOON who invested in a giant block of solid gold has gone bankrupt - and punters now have the chance to own a slice of the $23million cube. The Castello Cube, a modern art piece made entirely from 24-carat gold, is up for grabs after real estate mogul Klemens Hallmann went broke. The Austrian...

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6 d. ago Migrant murdered restaurant owner in random stabbing attack because his asylum application was rejected

Somalian national Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur, 47, plunged a knife into the chest of father-of-three Gurvinder Singh Johal, 37 at a Lloyds Bank in Derby, before 'calmly' walking out of the branch.

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6 d. ago Tom Daley banned from wearing own knitwear brand on Celebrity Traitors

Diving champion was prohibited from donning designs from his brand, Made With Love

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8 d. ago ‘You just believe’: why Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers highlighting their mood-lifting watches is a travel back to 1971 for the definitive Roald Dahl adaptationThere are some days when the only thing that can lift your mood is seeing a man in a top hat play the flute to summon a jodhpur-wearing Oompa-Loompa. Luckily, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory has plenty of that and a lot more besides. I don’t care if you’ve just received a terminal diagnosis or found out your wife’s been having an affair with Chris Martin, you stick this film on and you’ll smile.The last time I watched it, before rewatching for this article, was with my wife and infant son in the week after his birth. He was too busy crapping himself to understand what was going on so the film was obviously just for us. Why would two thirtysomethings choose to watch a children’s film from the 1970s? Perhaps we were nostalgic for our own lost childhoods of watching it every Christmas and bank holiday, perhaps we were excited for the near ...

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8 d. ago Annual Halloween walk for sausage dog owners banned by Royal Parks 'killjoys' over fears it would be too popular

The Hyde Park Halloweenie Party event sees hundreds of dachshunds gather at Hyde Park dressed in costume for a social walk.

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8 d. ago JPMorgan offers staff AI chatbot to help write performance reviews

Move allows employees to use bank’s large language model to generate reviews from their own prompts

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9 d. ago Five reasons pet Halloween costumes could see owners banned from keeping animals

Many people like to dress their furry friends in cute outfits - but they could put both the animal and the owner at risk.

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9 d. ago People could be banned from owning pets over 'cruel' October habit

It happens every year - and pet experts are warning against this kind of behaviour

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1 week ago ‘The police weren’t interested’: what’s driving the rise in private prosecutions?

As the police and courts continue to struggle with the legacy of austerity, many people are seeking alternative routes to justice – but it could be making matters worseIn the summer of 2018, the private investigator Simon Davison got a call from a woman who said her ex-boyfriend had stolen £10,000 from her. Carol (not her real name), a traffic manager at a local council, was not a typical client for Davison. As the director of investigations at AnotherDay, a crisis consultancy in London, Davison usually works for wary companies and wealthy individuals. A former police detective, Davison has recovered stolen cryptocurrency, uncovered secret properties owned by bankrupt business people and tracked down fraudsters to Cyprus.Davison’s speciality is private prosecutions, a little-known area of law that allows victims to pay for justice. These cases are heard in the same courts used by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the public prosecutor for England and Wales, and they can carry the...

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2 w. ago Amazon says Web Services are recovering after outage hits millions of users – business live

Fortnite, Roblox, SnapChat, Lloyds Bank, Ring doorbells and Amazon’s own shopping site among services hit by online outageFull story: Amazon Web Services outage hits dozens of websites and appsHeads-up: UBS have upgraded their view on global equities to ‘attractive’, a sign that they think investors should be putting more money into shares.Despite the angst in parts of the market that valuations have risen too high, UBS reckon share prices have further to climb.“We think investors should review current allocations to equities and ensure they are at least consistent with, or modestly higher than, their long-term strategic asset allocation targets. If investors are currently under allocated to equities, we believe they should reallocate excess cash, bond, or high yield credit holdings toward stocks.”“We prefer areas that are exposed to secu­lar growth, like the US, China, (particularly China’s tech sector, which we rate among the Most Attractive sectors globally), as well as global te...

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2 w. ago Green MSPs banned from backing budget until action seen on bus public ownership

A motion has been passed by Scottish Green Party members ahead of talks at Holyrood over the budget for next year.

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