46 m. ago Welsh homeowners with garden decking urged to do 1 task this summer or risk infestation

Experts are warning homeowners to check decking for pests as they seek shelter in decking during the summer months, with rats, ants, foxes and even snakes increasingly seeking shelter under the structure

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54 m. ago BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty issues warning over 'pointless' annoying habit

BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty was left reeling as she aired warning and shared a major pet peeve

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91 m. ago Wimbledon faces calls to close roof amid London weather warnings

Several fans fainted during Thursday’s semi-finals, with temperatures as high as 32C forecast over finals weekend

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2 h. ago SPOT THE DUPE: Jorts are back, but which of these looks totals £107 and which is nearly £5,800?

The fashion pack has swapped jeans for denim Bermuda shorts. But do you need to go designer to nail the trend?

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2 h. ago Butterbean threatens Jake Paul after he badmouthed him when he was wheelchair

Boxing legend Butterbean has sent a stark warning to Jake Paul as he plots a return to the ring, with the 58-year-old having shed more than 15 stone in a remarkable body transformation

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2 h. ago SJP investment boss warns US risk profile has 'fundamentally changed'

St James's Place has cut exposure to US stocks within its £16.4billion Polaris 4 fund as the wealth manager becomes increasingly wary of the world's biggest market.

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4 h. ago Empire of the Elite by Michael B. Grynbaum: A history of Condé Nast that misses the big story

Having edited British GQ for 22 years, when I left in 2021, as the operation became centralised in New York, my agent at Curtis Brown told me to write a memoir about my time there. Having zero interest in doing so, I said I would rather concentrate on other things (principally, an extremely long holiday with my family). But as he is a very good agent, he pestered me until I said yes, which turned out to be an extremely fortuitous decision.

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4 h. ago Michael Shannon was ‘very reluctant’ to reprise DC role over Zack Snyder treatment

Michael Shannon has said he “very reluctant” to star in The Flash because of the way Zack Snyder was treated after dropping out of Justice League.

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4 h. ago Exact rules on sunbathing naked in your garden in heatwave as police issue warning

If you're looking to get a back garden glow while avoiding tan lines, think twice before stripping off. Police have warned that you could be breaking the law

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5 h. ago Young people don’t feel part of the EU – and they’re right | Francesco Grillo

Its remote, top-down structures need a fresh, citizen-led approach fit for the digital age. Let’s start by extending Erasmus to school-goersThe former Italian prime minister Mario Draghi produced his much-awaited prescription for how to reboot Europe’s economy last year. The Draghi report was rightly applauded as a rude awakening for a European Union that is far too complacent about its own obsolescence. Draghi concluded that an €800bn-a-year public spending boost would be needed to end years of stagnation. If Europe did not catch up with its rivals, he warned, it would face a “slow and agonising” decline.And yet, one ingredient was missing from Draghi’s recipe. In his nearly 400-page roadmap for rescuing the EU, the word “democracy” is mentioned only three times (once in the bibliography). By contrast, “integration” is used 96 times and “defence” 391 times. It’s true that Draghi’s report was explicitly devoted to the future of European competitiveness (and not more widely to the Eu...

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6 h. ago Nutritionist warns that extreme 'fibremaxxing' trend isn't as good as it seems

While everyone has become fibre conscious, upping your fibre intake straight away may be doing more harm than good according to an expert - and this is how you can relieve your symptoms

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6 h. ago Brit tourist issues urgent warning about excursions after horror quad bike crash

Tony Holliday, 57, was left with a fractured right leg, head and shoulder injuries after the crash - which happened after being given a complimentary quadbiking trip while on holiday

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7 h. ago 'Caution needed' as HMRC sends letters to four million taxpayers

A financial expert has issued a warning as people are due to receive correspondence from HMRC

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7 h. ago Reform warns it wouldn't take Liz Truss or Suella Braverman if they decided to leave the Tories amid concerns they would damage the party's image

One well-placed insider claimed Mrs Braverman was 'not a team player', adding: 'Her record shows she is just too disruptive.'

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8 h. ago Oasis Heaton Park: Greater Manchester Police arrest six fans and issue drone warning

Greater Manchester Police said the first of the Oasis homecoming gigs at Heaton Park has passed "without incident" - but there were a number of arrests and drone incidents

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8 h. ago Gardeners must prune these two plants before exact date, expert warns

Dahlias and climbing or rambling roses are two plants that need to be pruned in September so that they can flourish further into the year, according to an expert

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9 h. ago Gregg Wallace 'was warned by the BBC six years ago that he would be sacked if he continued to behave inappropriately'

A BBC executive wrote to Gregg Wallace, 60, in 2019 following complaints and he was told they would cut ties with him if it learnt of further allegations, it was claimed.

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9 h. ago Police release Oasis Heaton Park gig arrest numbers as warning issued

The men, aged between 20 and 55, remain in custody

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9 h. ago Reform warns it wouldn't take Liz Truss or Suella Braverman if they decided to leave the Tories amid concerns they would damage the party's image

One well-placed insider claimed Mrs Braverman was 'not a team player', adding: 'Her record shows she is just too disruptive.'

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9 h. ago Time for an emergency budget? Rachel Reeves facing fresh turmoil after GDP falls again

Sparking further warnings of a tax raid this autumn, the Office for National Statistics ( ONS ) said gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.1 per cent.

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