7 h. ago Met Office says Northern Lights could be visible in UK tonight

A Met Office video shows where and when the Northern Lights could be visible in the UK tonight.

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10 h. ago Teaching the deaf to survive in a silent war zone: How Gaza is even more dangerous when you can’t hear Israel’s missiles coming

When bombs fall on the Gaza Strip, members of the deaf community are particularly vulnerable, Ezz Al Din Abu Eisha reports

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11 h. ago From a new Thomas Pynchon novel to a memoir by Margaret Atwood: the biggest books of the autumn

Essays from Zadie Smith; Wiki founder Jimmy Wales on how to save the internet; a future-set novel by Ian McEwan; a new case for the Slow Horses - plus memoirs from Kamala Harris and Paul McCartney all among this season’s highlightsHelm by Sarah HallFaber, out now Hall is best known for her glittering short stories: this is the novel she’s been working on for two decades. Set in Cumbria’s Eden valley, it tells the story of the Helm – the only wind in the UK to be given a name – from its creation at the dawn of time up to the current degradation of the climate. It’s a huge, millennia-spanning achievement, spotlighting characters from neolithic shamans to Victorian meteorologists to present-day pilots. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Four people who died in Whitby Cliffs fall tragedies identified

Tributes have poured in for four people who tragically died over a three-day period after falling from the same cliffs in Whitby, North Yorkshire, with inquests opened

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12 h. ago The astonishing story of the aristocrat who hid her Jewish lover in a sofa bed – and other German rebels who defied the Nazis

From a diplomat who embraced the exiled Albert Einstein to a schoolteacher who helped ‘non-Aryan’ students flee, these remarkable individuals refused to bend the knee to Hitler – only to be dramatically betrayed. What made them risk it all?I grew up in a house where nothing German was allowed. No Siemens dishwasher or Krups coffee machine in the kitchen, no Volkswagen, Audi or Mercedes in the driveway. The edict came from my mother. She was not a Holocaust survivor, though she had felt the breath of the Shoah on her neck. She was just eight years old on 27 March 1945, when her own mother was killed by the last German V-2 rocket of the war to fall on London, a bomb that flattened a corner of the East End, killing 134 people, almost all of them Jews. One way or another, the blast radius of that explosion would encompass the rest of my mother’s life and much of mine.Of course, she knew that the bomb that fell on Hughes Mansions had not picked out that particular building deliberat...

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13 h. ago Tom Grennan suffers 'greatest onstage fall in history' during live concert

The singer slipped and fell hard off a platform during his live show in Birmingham as he attempted a jump while belting out the words to his hit song Lionheart

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17 h. ago Tim Dowling: that pained expression is my resting beach face | Tim Dowling

The dog watches anxiously as my wife swims out to sea. At least someone can relate to my holiday state of mindI am on holiday, standing on a coastal headland under a bright blue dome of sky, the wind light and warm, looking at the weather app on my phone. The forecast and the scene are in agreement: it’s a nice day.I scroll through all the locations where I’ve previously felt the need to check the weather – Exeter, Marseille, York – until I get to London, where, it turns out, it’s also pretty nice. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Medik8's new collagen cream is 'one of the best' moisturisers for 'smoothing lines'

The Advanced Pro-Collagen+ Peptide Cream has been designed to reduce the visible signs of ageing in just seven days - and it's already proving popular with shoppers

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18 h. ago Baby loungers sold on Amazon recalled over risk of serious injury or death

Federal regulators warned of suffocation and fall hazards, calling the lounger an ‘unsafe sleeping environment’

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21 h. ago Three flowers that love 'cooler weather' for a colourful garden well into autumn

A gardening expert has shared the flowers that love cooler weather, so you can keep your garden vibrant well into the fall

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22 h. ago World's biggest wind farm developer sees profits plunge... because summer wasn't windy

Danish firm Orsted, which has 12 wind farms in Britain which generate 7 per cent of the country's electricity, became the latest to bemoan slowing speeds amid worries over the UK's energy strategy.

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25 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing's Nadiya Bychkova 'paralysed' fears after horror rehearsal fall

Strictly star Nadiya Bychkova has opened up about her horrifying fall during rehearsals that left her thinking her career was over

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26 h. ago Cyclist has close encounter with mountain lion in Malibu park

This is the dramatic moment a mountain lion walks past a man on a bike in a California park.

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26 h. ago Horse dies and jockey is hospitalised after rough fall at Ascot as stewards postpone enquiry into tragic incident

Excellent Echo, ridden by Oisin Murphy, fell on Friday. The horse suffered a broken leg and carried own down the track before being caught by his handler at the winning post.

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26 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing's Nadiya Bychkova feared she was paralysed after horror fall in rehearsals saw her rushed to hospital

The professional dancer, 35, was training in north London when she injured her back so badly that crew members were forced to call an ambulance.

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26 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing's Nadiya Bychkova feared 'paralysis' and 'end' of career in show rehearsal fall

The professional dancer has also shared how her co-star tried to keep her spirits high during the scary incident ahead of the BBC show

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27 h. ago Rome review: indulging in hotel luxury and seeing the sights during 24 hours in The Eternal City

When in Rome... as they say! But what do you do if you only have 24 hours to spare? Is it enough time to see all of The Eternal City? Probably not. But for the cultural romantics among us, it's certainly long enough to fall hopelessly in love.

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27 h. ago Strictly's Nadiya Bychkova feared she was paralysed after horror fall in training

Strictly Come Dancing pro Nadiya Bychkova couldn't feel her leg and worried it was the end of her dancing career after the nightmare fall that left her in hospital

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27 h. ago Strictly star Nadiya Bychkova in 'paralysed' fears after horror fall in rehearsals

Strictly star Nadiya Bychkova opens up to the Mirror about being rushed to hospital by ambulance and fears that her career might be over

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27 h. ago Hiker trampled to death by cows in front of horrified wife while walking dog

The pensioner's 82-year-old wife was also attacked.

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