30 m. ago NHS gives deadline ending this week ahead of May Day bank holiday amid 'serious consequences' warning

Each bank holiday, the NHS 111 phone service sees huge increases in calls from people who need urgent help because they haven't met the deadline, said the health service

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32 m. ago Armed with a megaphone and hiding his face, he cheered as they pelted a police station with eggs

"This was a threat to people who had done absolutely nothing wrong"

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34 m. ago Nurse, 37, is struck off for stalking victim using fitness app Strava

Hayley Clarke (pictured), of Hereford, Herefordshire, started bombarding her victim with messages on various social media platforms - and later the cycling and running tracker app - in June 2022.

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37 m. ago Drivers warned to look for one small issue as thousands slapped with £170 parking fines

A campaigner is running a Facebook group of nearly 50,000 people, many of which have been caught out by machines that are letting them pay without completing their plates

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54 m. ago Croatia commemorates victims of WWII concentration camp where tens of thousands perished

Croatia has commemorated the victims of a World War II concentration camp where tens of thousands of people perished in the hands of the pro-Nazi puppet regime at the time

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66 m. ago Pope Francis' nine last words before waving at Easter mass crowds hours before death

Pope Francis waved at adoring crowds and wished them a Happy Easter just hours before he died at the age of 88 - his final words to a nurse who helped care for him have now been revealed

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68 m. ago New North Lanarkshire Council's business grants programmes open for applications

The Business Start Up Fund can provide funding of up to £3000 to businesses about to start or those that have been operating for less than 12 months.

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82 m. ago Hundreds mourn Spanish family killed in New York City helicopter crash

Hundreds of people packed into a Barcelona church to mourn the deaths of a Spanish family of five who died earlier this month in a sightseeing helicopter crash in New York City

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1 hour ago Three warning signs of gout as NHS sees rise in return of Victorian disease

TV presenter Josie Gibson recently revealed she has been diagnosed with the illness that affects around 1.5million Brits - working out to be approximately one in 40 people

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1 hour ago Strange history of teacher who hijacked plane and stabbed three in rampage

Akinyela Sawa Taylor, who stabbed three people on a Belize flight, is rumoured to be a US veteran and teacher, and less than two years ago published a book with a troubling message about a 'vision'

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1 hour ago Arsenal outcast could hand Liverpool title as Crystal Palace boss admits he's 'sad' for him

Arsenal face Crystal Palace on Wednesday night in a crucial game that will see Liverpool named Premier League champions if the Eagles pull off a victory at the Emirates - and ex-Gunner Eddie Nketiah will hope to start against his old side

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2 h. ago Nationwide to cut mortgage rates as low as 3.89% as banks boost borrowing power

HSBC UK and First Direct announced changes to their mortgage affordability calculations which could help some people to get a deal with them.

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2 h. ago Sinners: vampires, racial politics and a surprise cameo – discuss with spoilers

Ryan Coogler’s ambitious box office hit combines genres to come up with something wholly original and fascinatingly complexThis article contains spoilers for SinnersRyan Coogler’s Sinners just notched the biggest opening weekend for an original movie since the start of the pandemic, which means the Michael B Jordan-starring, period-set vampire movie will be seen and talked about for weeks (and more) to come. Here are some absolutely spoiler-packed discussion points (seriously, multiple endings are spoiled!) for the film’s variety of layers, genres and readings. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Arne Slot could cost Liverpool millions if he names Reds star in team again this season

Liverpool are on the cusp of winning the Premier League but one of their senior stars has struggled for minutes of late and could yet be on the move in the summer

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2 h. ago Paddleboard instructor 'not remotely qualified' to lead tour which ended with deaths of four people

A court heard that the group of paddleboarders were taken out despite recent heavy rain and weather warnings in place

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2 h. ago Where is Pope Francis being laid to Rest? Burial plans and funeral traditions explained

Pope Francis’ funeral will not follow traditional protocols, marking a break from the past as the world mourns the loss of the ‘people’s pope’.

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2 h. ago Israel shark attack victim was married dad who was 'warned not to go in water'

A swimmer is missing and feared dead after being mauled by a shark in the sea in a rare attack off the Israeli coast on Monday, with horrified people watching the diver struggling in the water off Hadera

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2 h. ago The Pope in Scotland: Here are 26 amazing pictures of Pope John Paul II's visit to Edinburgh, Rosewell and Glasgow in 1982

It’s been more than four decades since tens of thousands of people took part in events at Murrayfield and Bellahouston Park to welcome Pope John Paul II to Scotland.

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2 h. ago Nintendo backtracks on Switch 2 feature leaving some players worried

This feature would have been a game changer for people playing Nintendo Switch 2 in docked mode.

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2 h. ago ‘He felt our pain’: Catholic church in Gaza grieves Pope Francis’s death

Pope made nightly phone calls to the Holy Family Catholic church from the start of the war in October 2023Latest updates after death of Pope FrancisThe first time he spoke to Pope Francis during the pontiff’s nightly calls to the Holy Family Catholic church in Gaza City, the congregant George Antone, 44, found himself at a loss for words.It was October 2023, a few weeks after Hamas ignited a devastating war in the Gaza Strip by attacking Israel. The Palestinian territory’s tiny Christian community had taken shelter in the strip’s three churches, but that didn’t mean they were safe. An Israeli airstrike had just hit the Greek Orthodox church, killing 18 people; soon, snipers and bombs would also kill civilians at the Holy Family. Continue reading...

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