64 m. ago Major high street bank closes 4 more branches this week – see full list of locations

NatWest is set to close four more branches this week as part of its plan to axe 106 branches by the end of 2025. The bank has already closed 53 branches in January 2025

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88 m. ago Philadelphia mass transit agency gets OK to use project money to avoid bus, trolley and rail cuts

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration is approving the use of hundreds of millions of dollars in capital project funding for Philadelphia’s public transit agency to help it restore bus, trolley and rail services that it had eliminated to shore up its deficit-riddled finances

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93 m. ago Major high street bank closing four branches in these locations this week

NatWest announced in June that it would be closing a further 53 branches, with four set to close in September. Here's the full list of branches that will be closing this month

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2 h. ago ‘Most of the time I was only wearing tiny shorts’: how Devendra Banhart made I Feel Just Like a Child

‘I wanted something more interesting than a key change. So when someone walked by the studio with a husky, I said, “Do you want to howl with your dog?”’I wrote I Feel Just Like a Child when I was 18, but it wasn’t until I was 23 or 24 and making the Cripple Crow album that it made sense to record it properly. As a teenager I’d thought of myself as an old blues guy and demoed it on an unplugged electric guitar as a slow blues. When we recorded it for Cripple Crow I’d found my musical family, people like [producer-musicians] Andy Cabic from Vetiver, Noah Georgeson and Thom Monahan. Along with the likes of Joanna Newsom and Adam Green from Moldy Peaches, we were doing a sort of anti-folk that was labelled “freak-folk”. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Katie Price plans 'lots more babies' as she makes bold admission

Katie Price, 47, may already have five kids - and be heading towards the menopause - but the reality TV star is determined to defy Mother Nature and welcome more babies into the world

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2 h. ago Mum of missing kids who vanished in wilderness speaks out after dad is shot dead

The mum asks for privacy while her kids 're-integrate into a stable environment' after years living off-grid with their bushman bank robber dad who took them on burglaries instead of school

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2 h. ago Daniel Craig called ‘electric’ as new Knives Out film earns rave reviews

Rian Johnson’s latest film has been praised for finding its footing again

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2 h. ago Trump’s strongman image got boos at the US Open, and perhaps that was the point | Andrew Lawrence

The president’s appearance at the men’s final was met with pushback. But his visit was always about distraction, even if it exposed his flawsIt was just the authoritarian image Donald Trump hoped to project at the US Open: the president himself, looming from Arthur Ashe Stadium’s giant screens like Chairman Mao at Tiananmen Gate, as he stood at attention for the national anthem. But there was no denying that, while the picture was there, the sound clashed. The burst of cheers that went up for his stiff salute on Sunday was quickly drowned out by a chorus of boos made louder from the Ashe roof being closed for rain – perhaps fitting given that many fans had been left to stand in the wet and endure the long security lines that resulted from his attendance. In that awkward five-second moment, as the Stars and Stripes was unfurled on center court, the president smirked at the negative reaction. It surely rang so familiar.Trump’s presence at the US Open men’s final wasn’t just intended a...

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2 h. ago 'I feel ready': Arsenal star offers injury boost in new update

Welcome news for Mikel Arteta ahead of Nottingham Forest clash

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3 h. ago Queen Charlotte's Ball 2025 debutantes revealed: Glamorous invitees include a cheerleader pageant queen from Hertfordshire

The ball welcomed some of the world's most well-to-do women over the weekend, including a UK pageant winner, an award-winning American rower, and a Belgian wakeboarder.

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4 h. ago Poetic License review – Apatow family affair ends up as warm and funny comedy

Toronto film festival: Judd Apatow’s actor daughter Maude directs her mother Leslie Mann in a smart, charming film about a woman adrift finding unlikely younger friendsOne could cynically look at the credits for the film Poetic License and dismiss it outright. It was directed by Maude Apatow, daughter of Judd, and stars, among others, Apatow’s mother, Leslie Mann, Cooper Hoffman (son of Philip Seymour Hoffman), and Nico Parker (daughter of Thandiwe Newton and film-maker Ol Parker). On paper it all looks like a make-work project to keep the well-connected busy and creatively fulfilled. But the film itself – Apatow’s debut – is rich and lively enough to make none of the nepo stuff really matter.Written by Raffi Donatich, Poetic License concerns a family who have moved from Chicago to a sleepy university town where economist James (Cliff “Method Man” Smith), has secured a plum professorship. He’s busy getting started, which leaves his wife Liz (Mann) a bit lonely and unmoored in her ne...

Society

4 h. ago Netanyahu vows harsh response after six killed in Jerusalem shooting

PM threatens retaliation over deadliest such incident in nearly a year amid growing violence in occupied West Bank and Gaza

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4 h. ago Israel vows ‘severe’ response after six killed in Jerusalem shooting

PM threatens retaliation over deadliest incident in almost a year amid growing violence in occupied West Bank and Gaza

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5 h. ago I've suffered painful electric shocks in my big toe for years

For years I have suffered with electric shock sensations in my left big toe. I can go for months without it happening, then suddenly I'll experience these terrible painful episodes.

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6 h. ago Justin Bieber: Swag II review – more filler with an occasional pop killer

(Def Jam)Part two of Bieber’s seventh album adds very little: it’s largely bland pop with glimpses of quality thanks to a buzzy supporting cast including Dijon and BakarJustin Bieber’s Swag II adds 23 tracks to his already over-stuffed Swag project, and it’s not just the title that lacks imagination. Like its predecessor, released just two months ago, Swag II unites a buzzy team of producers and writers known for freshening up R’n’B and hands them a precisely curated Pinterest board: Dangerous-era Michael Jackson, D’Angelo’s lush arrangements, Jai Paul’s glitchy, retro-futurist sonics and the sun-bleached textures of current collaborators Mk.gee and Dijon. But with unadventurous songwriting, the result is (another) album that’s all vibe and voguish production, and very little substance.Opener Speed Demon reheats Bieber’s “is it clocking to you” meme for the second time across both albums, albeit with a bright, funky bravado and a memorably bonkers chorus about “checking these chicke...

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6 h. ago Indonesian leader fires the ministers of finance and security after deadly protests

Indonesia's president has announced a Cabinet reshuffle, replacing key economic and security ministers after deadly protests erupted across the country

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7 h. ago Vernon Kay makes 'life' plea over observation while 'overstaying welcome' at BBC Radio 2 gig

Radio 2 in the Park took place over the weekend and saw the stations plethora of DJs descend on Chelmsford

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7 h. ago Dumfries and Galloway to receive share of £6.3 million to boost electrical vehicle charging points

Eight council areas will share the cash from the Scottish Government’s Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Fund.

Economics

8 h. ago Ryanair passengers warned over new rules for boarding from November

Travellers will be expected to present electronic versions of their boarding passes.

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8 h. ago M8 delays: Drivers hit by rush hour delays on first day of works on M8 at Hillington

Delays and disruption are expected as the nine month project kicks off.

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