3 h. ago Mum pays £110 for Sky Glass mounting service that 'doesn't include mounting'

Beverley says she felt 'assaulted' after the men left the huge TV in the middle of her floor and she couldn't watch Strictly

Economics

26 h. ago Klarna issues update for millions of customers as it tries to rival UK banks

The buy now, pay later service has launched instant peer-to-peer payments in 13 countries, including in the UK

Economics

3 d. ago Arsenal and Man Utd suffer transfer blow as £87m target teases Liverpool move

RB Leipzig star Yan Diomande already has host of Premier League giants chasing his services including Arsenal and Manchester United but the teenager has revealed he is a Liverpool fan

Economics

5 d. ago Swiss fire survivors recall 'unbearable burning smell' after 'night of ashes' kills 40

The trio spoke out at an official memorial service, nine days after 40 people, including 20 children, were killed and 116 injured in the blaze at Le Constellation bar in the ski resort of Crans-Montana

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6 d. ago Grok is undressing women and children. Don’t expect the US to take action | Moira Donegan

Elon Musk’s reckless and degrading AI could be built differently. But Americans will have to speak upOver the past year, Elon Musk has made a series of protocol changes to Grok, the proprietary AI chatbot of his company xAI, which runs prominently on his social media site X, formerly Twitter. Many of these changes have been geared to make the bot more amenable to producing pornography. In August 2025, Grok launched an image generator, branded as Grok Imagine, which featured a service geared toward creating nude, suggestive, or sexually explicit content, including computer-generated pornographic images of real women. The feature, which was quickly used to create naked images of celebrities like Taylor Swift, also allowed users to create brief videos, complete with animations and sounds.Musk also rolled out AI girlfriends on the platform: animated personas – including female characters with exaggerated breasts and hips – that interacted in sexually explicit ways with users. One of the...

Politics

7 d. ago Three children seriously hurt after falling from window of double decker bus

Emergency services including the air ambulance responded

Politics

8 d. ago Brigitte Bardot laid to rest in funeral ceremony broadcast across Saint

Service attended by singers, animal rights activists, and public figures including Marine Le PenBrigitte Bardot, the film star turned animal rights activist, will be laid to rest in her home town of Saint-Tropez on Wednesday during a funeral attended by her favourite politician, the far-right leader Marine Le Pen.Bardot died at her La Madrague villa on 28 December aged 91. Her funeral is being held at the Notre-Dame de l’Assomption church and broadcast on large screens across the town. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Manchester Arena bomb families say MI5 failed them and must face tougher scrutiny

MANCHESTER Arena bomb families have said MI5 failed them and must be more open to scrutiny in future.  In a letter to Sir Keir Starmer, they demanded the security service be fully included in a new law designed to prevent cover-ups in public life.  They said MI5 had shown it could not be trusted. "How...

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8 d. ago Secret Cold War spy school in Scotland where famous writers trained as Russian linguists

The fishing village was home to the Joint Services School for Linguistics, where servicemen including Alan Bennett, Dennis Potter and Michael Frayn were trained in Russian language and culture during the Cold War

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9 d. ago Families affected by Manchester Arena attack say MI5 must be more open to scrutiny

In a letter to the PM Keir Starmer families affected by the horror bombing say MI5 failed them and the Security Service must be included in a new law to stop cover-ups

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9 d. ago MI5 'advanced false narrative' after Manchester Arena bombing to 'protect themselves after the fact', claims barrister

Pete Weatherby KC, who is representing some of the families affected by the attack, is calling for the security service to be included in the so-called Hillsborough Law to stop future cover-ups

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9 d. ago Tim Walz says he will not run for third term as Minnesota governor

Announcement comes after ongoing fraud of social services cases became focus of ire for Republicans and TrumpUS politics live – latest updatesTim Walz, the Democratic governor of Minnesota who ran for vice-president in 2024, announced on Monday that he is abandoning his quest for a third term in office. The move comes after ongoing fraud of social services cases caught the attention of US Republicans, including Donald Trump, who then used the cases as a pretext to go after Somali residents.Walz said in a statement that he wasn’t able to “give a political campaign my all”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago End of the line for diesel fumes at London St Pancras as new trains arrive

East Midlands Railway will switch to bi-mode Aurora fleet to cut emissions and noise but elsewhere electrification is delayedRailway fossil fuels once helped to turn King’s Cross and St Pancras into a seamy, smoke-choked area of London. Now, in the two grandly redeveloped stations with their swanky plazas, even a dropped paper ticket would look out of place.One last corner of St Pancras station is polluted by the fug of diesel trains – but not for much longer. East Midlands Railway, which runs services to cities including Derby and Sheffield, will fire up its diesel units in London for the final time by the end of 2026. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago Desperate rescue mission launched after a 'number of people' go missing in freezing water off Yorkshire coast

Emergency crews were called to the area off the East Yorkshire coast just after 3pm on Friday afternoon, including HM Coastguard, the RNLI, and ambulance, police and fire services.

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1 week ago Major rescue mission launched after a 'number of people in difficulty' in sea off Withernsea

Emergency crews were called to the area off the East Yorkshire coast just after 3pm on Friday afternoon, including HM Coastguard, the RNLI, and ambulance, police and fire services.

Events

2 w. ago UK universities extend careers advice to graduates in their 40s and 50s

Growing numbers of institutions now offering lifelong careers support as older alumni seek help to change jobsUniversity careers advisers are used to steering fresh-faced students towards the labour market – but they are now increasingly seeing graduates in their 40s and 50s looking for help to revive their careers.More UK universities are now giving their graduates lifelong access to campus careers services, including advice with job applications and interview preparation as well as helping to find new opportunities for those who feel stuck. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago Woman dies after being found unconscious at Solihull Resorts World

Emergency services, including police and ambulances, rushed to Resorts World in Solihull over reports of an unresponsive person who has now been confirmed to have died

Events

2 w. ago Olympic swimmer Adam Peaty and Holly Ramsay tie the knot at star

Holly's father Gordon Ramsay, 59, was seen thanking star-studded guests including the Beckhams as they left the service

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2 w. ago Adam Peaty wedding: Olympic swimmer and Holly Ramsay beam as newlyweds leave Bath Abbey

Holly's father Gordon Ramsay, 59, was seen thanking star-studded guests including the Beckhams as they left the service

Politics

2 w. ago Woman in hospital after Christmas Day house fire in Scots town

Emergency services, including three fire engines, raced to the blaze on Christmas Day.

Events