1 week ago Residents don't want Domino's to open in Welsh town after what happened with Greggs

Vale of Glamorgan Council has approved plans for the pizza chain to open a new branch in the county, but some residents and business owners are not happy

Politics

1 week ago Leona Lewis' secret health issue triggered major decision about her hairstyle

X Factor star Leona Lewis is best known for dominating the charts with her vocal ability, but she opened up on health discovery that meant her curly hair was under threat

Society

2 w. ago Aryna Sabalenka dominates Jessica Pegula to cruise to Miami Open title

Sabalenka consolidates status as women’s world No 1‘I’m just speechless right now and super-happy’Aryna Sabalenka further cemented her status as the best player in the world as she closed out a dominant fortnight with an imperious performance to win the Miami Open for the first time in her career with a 7-5, 6-2 win over the fourth seed Jessica Pegula.With another formidable victory, Sabalenka has now won 19 WTA titles, including eight at WTA 1000 level alongside her three grand slam titles. A reflection of her consistency, Sabalenka is the third WTA No 1 in history to reach the finals of the Australian Open, Indian Wells and the Miami Open in the same year. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Why bloated budgets mean open world games are starting to think small – but mighty

After years of soaring costs and ever-expanding maps, open world games are getting smaller, and developers are creating richer landscapes in the processFor more than 20 years the action adventure genre has been dominated by open-world games. They started in quite a constrained way, with titles such as Shenmue and Driver offering miniature cities to wander about, but during the 21st century, they grew to encompass whole kingdoms. Now we have titles such as Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Elden Ring and Death Stranding that contain vast and highly varied environments; Minecraft worlds are reportedly 60,000km wide. And let’s not forget space sims such as Elite Dangerous and No Man’s Sky, which effectively contain whole galaxies.This whole design model, however, is starting to seem a teeny bit unsustainable. Not only is it astonishingly expensive to build giant worlds (it’s rumoured that the forthcoming Grand Theft Auto 6 will cost in the region of $2bn), but the market is also sat...

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3 w. ago Emma Raducanu says she has ‘come a long way’ after reaching last eight in Miami

The former US Open winner produced a dominant display to march on.

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3 w. ago Rivals in dark as Lando Norris strikes gold with McLaren’s tyre alchemy

Muttering in pit lane over how F1 team have found such a sweet spot between aerodynamics and tyre wearOne race into the new Formula One season and the sport has been transfixed by how smartly McLaren have emerged from the blocks. A quick car is a surprise to no one but what fascinated about Lando Norris’s and Oscar Piastri’s ride is that their single greatest advantage apparently lay not in the science of aerodynamics but rather in the tyres and the dark art of mechanical grip. In which algorithms and alchemy, McLaren appear to have struck gold.Norris’s win at the season opener in Australia caught the eye, not only with how much pace they showed but in how they achieved it, and it has the other teams worried. Continue reading...

Events

3 w. ago ‘Watch closely and you see the camera operator’: seven things you didn’t know about Adolescence

From cinematography nightmares to its young star’s surprising response to emotional trauma, the hit Netflix drama’s team open up about behind-the-scenes secretsAdolescence has dominated the UK’s national conversation over the last few days – the prime minister even referenced it in parliament – and this week it is the most-streamed Netflix show in the US. However, as well as its content, there is also widespread fascination about its technical mastery. Each of its four hour-long episodes was captured in a single take, which required meticulous planning and endless innovations on the part of its crew.Many of the details are already out there, in a series of social media threads that went viral this week. However, last month I interviewed the key creatives of Adolescence, and they provided me with several backstage stories that I had to leave out because of a lack of space or because I didn’t want to spoil their head-spinning impact. With that in mind, here are a few leftover secrets ...

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4 w. ago McLaren surprised by dominance in F1 opener but warn there is more to come

Lando Norris easily outpaced rivals to win Australia GPMcLaren chief Stella believes tyre advantage is keyMcLaren’s superiority over the rest of the field after the opening race of the 2025 Formula One season came as a surprise to team principal Andrea Stella, he admitted after their performance in Australia on Sunday and he now believes their car may have an advantage that will make them hard to beat this season.Lando Norris won in Melbourne with a strong run from pole to flag, beating Red Bull’s Max Verstappen into second and the Mercedes of George Russell into third. During the race, interrupted by repeated safety cars as the tricky, wet conditions took their toll, Norris and his teammate Oscar Piastri were at times able to open a huge gap on their rivals, at some points up to over one and half seconds a lap. Continue reading...

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