34 h. ago Grizzly with checkered past swims miles to Canadian island – and prompts a row

Residents on British Columbia island fiercely divided over whether to relocate, euthanize or ignore ‘Tex’ the bearMost visitors to Texada Island, a 30-mile sliver of land off the west coast of British Columbia, choose one of two main methods of arrival: a provincial ferry service with 10 daily sailings or a 3,000 foot air strip which welcomes the occasional chartered plane.But a four-year-old grizzly bear recently took a far more challenging route, braving strong currents and frigid water to swim nearly three miles across the Malaspina Strait. Continue reading...

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34 h. ago Grizzly with checkered past swims miles to Canadian island – and into hot water

Residents on British Columbia island fiercely divided over whether to relocate, euthanize or ignore ‘Tex’ the bearMost visitors to Texada Island, a 30-mile sliver of land off the west coast of British Columbia, choose one of two main methods of arrival: a provincial ferry service with 10 daily sailings or a 3,000 foot air strip which welcomes the occasional chartered plane.But a four-year-old grizzly bear recently took a far more challenging route, braving strong currents and frigid water to swim nearly three miles across the Malaspina Strait. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago British woman, 37, is 'sexually assaulted during a massage' at her hotel on Greek island

The employee touched her with their fingernail six times in a disputed area but the holidaymaker said there was no need or context as to why the masseuse touched her there.

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4 d. ago British tourist dies on Greek island sun lounger after resort lifeguard alerted

The 73-year-old was discovered by fellow stunned holidaymakers at Agia Paraskevi in Skiathos, Greece.

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6 d. ago From a punishing void to a chance to observe: how we can learn to wait in life | Gill Straker and Jacqui Winship

In a world of impatience, to live slowly is an act of quiet rebellion – a refusal to see time as a thiefThe modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their workWaiting is an inevitable part of life. From the slow shuffle at the supermarket checkout to the more profound waiting between a medical test and its result, wait we must. Yet in a society hellbent on speed and efficiency waiting has become the enemy.Historically, the act of waiting had spiritual meaning: waiting for the Messiah or the second coming, waiting for sacred rain, or the return of the Sun God. But in today’s world, where time is money and productivity is a virtue, we’ve developed a pervasive impatience. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago British woman missing after hiring a boat on the paradise island of Formentera on Tuesday found ALIVE four days later adrift at sea

It has emerged the woman, named locally as Mary Gavin, has been rescued adrift by a ferry covering the Ibiza to Valencia route.

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6 d. ago Tourists on Greek island issued '£68 fine' warning for doing simple task

British tourists flying over to one of the popular Greek island of Santorini this summer have been issued a stark driving rule, as experts reveal a simple mistake could leave you with a 'hefty fine'

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8 d. ago Formentera search: Brit woman missing on holiday island boat ride pictured

British woman Mary Gavin, 39, has vanished on the Spanish island of Formentera after she hired a motorboat but never returned

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8 d. ago Hundreds of jobs at risk as River Island plans store closures

The high street fashion chain is proposing to close 33 of its 230 stores, while it is in talks with landlords over the future of 71 further stores.

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8 d. ago Pope Leo XIV flags AI impact on kids' intellectual and spiritual development

Pope Leo XIV is warning that artificial intelligence could negatively impact the intellectual, neurological and spiritual development of young people

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8 d. ago I was pressured into calling myself a lesbian. This is the truth about me and Chris Hughes: In her only interview JOJO SIWA reveals what REALLY happened after Celebrity Big Brother

She was a US child dance sensation who'd made millions by her teens - but now JOJO SIWA is making headlines for her unlikely romance with a British Love Island star.

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8 d. ago I was pressured into calling myself a lesbian. This is the truth about me and Chris Hughes: In her only interview JO JO SIWA reveals what REALLY happened after Celebrity Big Brother

She was a US child dance sensation who'd made millions by her teens - but now JOJO SIWA is making headlines for her unlikely romance with a British Love Island star.

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2 w. ago Reality TV star Georgia Harrison ‘blown away’ at MBE for campaigning efforts

Harrison has advocated for online safety and the prevention of violence against women and girls.

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2 w. ago British tourist, 68, is found dead on beach at famous Greek island resort town

A British tourist has been found dead on a beach in a famous Greek island resort town. 

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2 w. ago Massive power cut hits British holiday hotspot with 'entire Spanish island left without electricity'

Spain's national grid has confirmed that power had been fully restored to the Canary Islands hotspot within three hours, after the blackout affected some 82,000 people.

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2 w. ago In limbo: families hoping for change to UK income rules for spousal visas

The migration advisory committee is due to release a review of the UK’s minimum income requirement for family visas – currently set at £29,000. Many British families are in a state of enforced separation. Family visas represent just 5% of total UK visa applications, yet are a key focus of a migration crackdown. Working with Reunite Families, photographer Frankie Mills documents the lives of nine families whose stories illustrate the human cost of this policy thresholdThree weeks ago, Keir Starmer said the UK was at risk of becoming an “island of strangers”. But for countless British citizens across the country, that isolation is already a lived reality by design of immigration rules that force them to choose between their homeland and family.The minimum income requirement dictates how much a person needs to earn in order to bring their non-British partner here. Set at £18,600 for a decade, the Conservatives announced plans to raise it dramatically to £38,700 before backtracking afte...

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2 w. ago Muckle Flugga by Michael Pedersen review – anything can happen on this remote Scottish island

Life is turned upside-down by a new arrival, in this weird and charming tale of nature and family – with a guest appearance from the ghost of Robert Louis StevensonOften thought of as the northernmost point of the British Isles, the Scottish island Muckle Flugga lies on the outer reaches of the Shetland archipelago. Norse legend has it that this craggy and almost uninhabitable place was created by two warring giants, obsessed with the same mermaid. While throwing boulders at each other, one of the rivalrous giants’ missiles accidentally plopped into the sea: and so the island was born.A version of this mythic tussle is central to Michael Pedersen’s debut novel. When the narrative opens, delivered in a lively present tense sprinkled with Scots, The Father and his 19-year-old son Ouse are the only residents on the island. The Father mans Muckle’s lighthouse, and is as volatile as the waves he illuminates. A gossip from a neighbouring island describes him as irascible, with “a&nbs...

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2 w. ago Ibiza's 'hidden gem' overlooked by tourists despite its crowd

Ibiza draws in millions of British visitors every year but there's one part of the island that often gets overlooked, despite boasting some ridiculously pretty villages and beaches

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3 w. ago What is Britain's elusive 'national character'? The Ballad of Wallis Island might just tell us | Gaby Hinsliff

Rain, cardigans and puns: a melancholic new romcom set on a windswept island hints at a relatable British identityIt is, according to no less an authority than the romcom king Richard Curtis, destined to be “one of the greatest British films of all time”. But don’t let that put you off. For The Ballad of Wallis Island – the unlikely new tale of a socially awkward millionaire who inveigles two estranged former halves of a folk-singing duo into playing a private gig on his windswept private island – isn’t some floppy-haired Hugh Grant vehicle, but a reflection on our national character that is altogether more of its times.It’s a lovely, melancholic comedy about the acceptance of failure, loss and the slow understanding that what’s gone is not coming back: an ode to rain and cardigans, lousy plumbing and worse puns, shot in Wales on a shoestring budget in a summer so unforgiving that a doctor was apparently required on set to check for hypothermia. Its main characters have not only all...

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3 w. ago Canary holidaymakers blow as another island warns of new tourist taxes

The Canary Island of Fuerteventura will start charging British holidaymakers a tourist tax if they want to visit its most beautiful locations, officials on the Spanish holiday hotspot have announced

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