30 m. ago How you can help this high school band perform at London's New Year's Day parade

How you can help this high school band perform at London's New Year's Day parade  WPTV

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52 m. ago Ready to give up social media? ‘Advice pollution’ might just get you there | Emma Beddington

I almost admire the confidence it must take to tell people what to do online. But I long for the days when the internet wasn’t just lists of bossy self-optimisation plansI may have found what will finally wean me off social media. It’s this “things I’ve learned” trend. Take, for example, advice that will supposedly “change your brain chemistry”, courtesy of someone who is definitely not a neuroscientist. Or “my nutrition rules”, from a dewy, gen Alpha sylph who doesn’t realise what they actually have is a teenager’s metabolism. Or “45 things you need to understand” about a place from someone who has spent 45 minutes there. Endless lists of the bleeding obvious: eat intuitively, embrace nature, exercise compassion, remain curious, be childlike, contact friends, put down your phone, put your head in a blender.OK, not that last one, but it’s how this stuff makes me feel. I don’t know what to call it – expertise overload? Advice pollution? A bottomless pit of wisdom brain rot? – but aut...

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69 m. ago 'Remarkable' 3,000 year old weapons found in Scotland to go on display next summer

The Bronze Age hoard is regarded as one of the most significant prehistoric discoveries ever made in Scotland

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91 m. ago Queen Camilla showed her mettle as a teenager when she beat back a groper with her shoe

A new book on the UK royal family says Queen Camilla beat off an indecent attack when she was a teenager by taking off her shoe and bashing the assailant in the groin

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1 hour ago Cardiff City announce signing of exciting Chelsea talent Omari Kellyman

Cardiff City have added the Chelsea teenager to their ranks.

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2 h. ago Rutherglen school gets a slice of council's Local Action Fund

Money will also go towards a community defibrillator, among other projects.

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2 h. ago Dumfries school achieves 'very good' rating from Education Scotland inspectors

Georgetown Primary was recognised for its 'strong focus on improving the health and wellbeing of all children' and 'effective leadership.

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2 h. ago Airline agrees to pay $79M lawsuit after plane dumped fuel on schools

Teachers from Park Avenue Elementary School in Cudahy filed a lawsuit against the airline

Society

2 h. ago Davina Perrin tipped to star for England at T20 World Cup next summer

Teenager Perrin sent shockwaves through the sport with an outrageous 101 in Saturday’s Hundred Eliminator.

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2 h. ago AD FEATURE: The Manchester school nurturing future Olympians and business founders

Fred Longworth High School celebrated its 60th anniversary last year and has a list of notable alumni

Sport

4 h. ago Airlines agrees to pay $79M lawsuit after plane dumped fuel on schools

Teachers from Park Avenue Elementary School in Cudahy filed a lawsuit against the airline

Society

5 h. ago North Korea’s Kim Jong Un inspects new weapons factory ahead of China visit

North Korea said on Monday leader Kim Jong Un inspected a new weapons factory that’s key to his plan to accelerate mass production of missiles in a weekend visit before he departs for a major military parade in China.

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5 h. ago AD FEATURE: Back to school in Greater Manchester: expert advice for a stress

Dr Nihara Krause offers her advice to parents of children who may feel less enthusiastic about returning to school

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6 h. ago 'Extremely rare' 50p coin listed for £20,000 with millions in circulation

The 50p coin has been slapped with a huge price tag but one collector issued a major warning ahead of the listing online. So do you have one of these pieces in your stash?

Economics

6 h. ago Teenage clicks: how child photographer Stephen Shore turned everyday New York moments into magic

Before he found fame at 17 photographing Andy Warhol’s Factory, Shore roamed the city with his camera. He talks about the joy of those early 60s pictures – and why they never made him richBlack-and-white street shots of elegant, unimpressed elderly women. Classic cars in shadows cast by New York’s soaring tenement buildings. Street-corner preachers. Imposing wiseguys too busy posturing to notice the camera. Stephen Shore’s new book, Early Work, is full of such everyday New York moments turned into magic. Though he later won acclaim for the photographs he took at Andy Warhol’s studio/hangout the Factory, the previously unseen Early Work may be some of Shore’s most uninhibited and daring pictures – and they were taken in the early 60s, when he was a teenager.Perhaps it’s understandable, then, that the photographer, now 77, can’t really remember taking them – though he does recall that he printed them himself, in a DIY darkroom set up in the bathroom of his parents’ home on Manhattan’s...

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6 h. ago The one change that worked: I got a period cup – and saved £120 a year

Ditching sanitary towels and tampons has made my period much less stressful. Crucially, it’s better for the environment tooI was 18 when I tried a menstrual cup for the first time. I was studying at the University of Edinburgh and Scotland had just become the first country in the world to make period products free to those who need them. The university health service was offering menstrual cups alongside the usual sanitary pads and tampons. I picked one up out of curiosity and because I just couldn’t resist a freebie.I was used to spending £10 to £15 a month on period products, more if I was caught short and had to do a panicked dash to an overpriced off-licence. As an eco-conscious teenager I already bought non-applicator tampons but often wore a security sanitary liner underneath. It was an attempt to keep the endless worry of heavy periods at bay: will I leak, run out of supplies, or find a clean loo in time? Even so, I leaked more often than I cared to admit. Continue reading...

Economics

7 h. ago Virgin River season 7 spoiler speculation and one major hope for Charmaine

Fans of the hit Netflix series have been discussing what they believe is in store for the characters in the upcoming season

Politics

7 h. ago Big tech is a weapon of mass destruction to democracy. Here are three ways Australia can fight back | Maria Ressa

You have time that other countries have squandered. You can be leaders in building the information infrastructure humanity needsI became a journalist because information is power, and right now we are living through an information armaggedon. Facts are under assault. Truth is being murdered. The casualty? Trust making it impossible to govern. Only dictatorships thrive when there’s no trust.And here are the three sentences I’ve said over and over since 2016 when I first said it in Silicon Valley, backed by data and hard-fought experience. Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without trust, we have no shared reality. Continue reading...

Events

9 h. ago Rosie O'Donnell apologizes for calling Minnesota school shooter a MAGA supporter

The comedian, whose longtime hatred and rivalry with Donald Trump led her to flee to Ireland after he won the election , ranted to TikTok about Robin Westman on Friday.

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10 h. ago Tricky maths puzzle has people 'in tears' but the solution is actually simple

A teenager has gone viral on TikTok after sharing a video of herself in tears over a 'complicated' maths question - but it actually has a rather simply solution

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