69 m. ago Leeds Festival: House of Protection forced to drop out of this year’s event due to health issues

The pair were also scheduled to perform at the Heavy Music Awards later this month

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81 m. ago Oasis tipped for Knebworth return as 2026 offers flood in after reunion tour triumph

The band stunned fans last year when they announced they would play their first concerts in 15 years

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81 m. ago Jet off for a Christmas market tour in a mystery country for just £99 per person with this deal

This mystery holiday offer could take you to Lapland, New York or Rome for just £99 per person, hotel included

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3 h. ago Travis Kelce says girlfriend Taylor Swift reminds him of his mum

American footballer also revealed ‘mind-blowing’ physical toll of Swift’s Eras Tour

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4 h. ago ‘Challenger level is about survival’: brutal reality of life below elite tennis

Shared motel rooms, sleeping on floors and making a net loss are among hurdles facing the globetrotters chasing ranking pointsLess than a year after exiting the 2022 Wimbledon quarter-final on the All England Club’s pristine No 1 Court, Cristian Garín found himself 10,000 miles away on a hard court on the Pacific island of Nouméa, New Caledonia.The Chilean, who had a career-high ranking of world No 17, had signed up for an ATP Challenger event, tennis’s second-tier tour, mostly attracting players outside the top 100, after a wrist injury forced him to miss two ATP Masters 1000 events. By January 2023, Garín sat at a precarious No 82. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Australia unfazed by England’s aggression before Ashes, says Scott Boland

Fast bowler hoping for selection after Windies hat-trickHome Ashes series starts with Perth Test on 21 NovemberFast bowler Scott Boland says Australia will ignore any on-field aggression brought down under by England this summer, 100 days from the first Ashes Test in a tour that looks set to break records.England and India completed a thrilling drawn series last week across five Tests marked by tension between the two sides, prompting Indian captain Shubman Gill at one point to describe the hosts’ behaviour as not “what I would think comes in the spirit of the game”. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Inside Prince Harry's 'perilous' Afghanistan tour and how it ended in a 'depressing' way: Young royal 'revelled in the simplicity' of army life until a scandal forced him home

It's a longstanding tradition that members of the Royal Family serve their country by joining the armed forces.

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5 h. ago ‘A tour de force!’: LensCulture Critics’ Choice awards – in pictures

From hazardous trips through the Kurdish mountains to a queer journey into the heart of Americana, these images all wowed the esteemed prize’s judges Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Vietnam wants to be the next Asian tiger and it’s overhauling its economy to make it happen.

Vietnam is launching its biggest economic overhaul in a generation, aiming to become Asia’s next “tiger economy.”

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7 h. ago The Swiss lived in splendid isolation for years. Trump’s tariffs have shattered that complacency | Joseph de Weck

The shockwaves sent by the US president could finally push Switzerland closer to the EUGrowing up in Zurich often felt like being removed from the world. It shouldn’t be that way: after all, Switzerland is at the heart of Europe. Riding on the cosy Zurich trams, one hears all the world’s languages; and the airport offers more direct intercontinental flights than Berlin. And yet, coming of age in Switzerland is like sitting in an aquarium looking at the world through a thick bulletproof window.That glass was shattered last week when Donald Trump announced 39% tariffs on Swiss exports. The US is the most important destination for Swiss products: 18.6% of all its exports go there. If Trump maintains the tariffs, sales to the US “will be effectively annihilated”, said Switzerland’s industry lobbying group. The rightwing Swiss business minister, Guy Parmelin, announced a furlough programme to shield the economy from “mass layoffs”. The tabloid newspaper Blick captured the mood with a sta...

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11 h. ago China’s crackdown on lavish civil servant perks will ‘harm’ the economy, experts warn

Updated regulations ban the country’s 40 million civil servants from lavish banquets, and restrict them from overseas travel for ‘personal leisure’Adjacent to a municipal government building in Beijing, a normally bustling restaurant is now eerily quiet, at lunchtime most of its seats are empty.The recent crackdown on civil servants frequenting restaurants – part of a government austerity drive intended to crack down on corruption – has likely affected business and caused liquor sales to plummet, admits one waitress who works in the opulent establishment. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago ANDREW GRIFFITH: Almost four million people are signed off with no requirement to find a job. That's not fair on all the hard

If you ever wanted to know what the warning lights flashing red on the economy look like: this is it. Unemployment up for the tenth month in a row.

Society

15 h. ago Taylor Swift new album latest with exact time fans will hear more

Fans are buzzing as the Eras Tour singer is returning to her glitter gel pens once again

Politics

19 h. ago Fresh blow to Starmer as Labour's approval rating slumps to its lowest EVER level

Labour's net approval rating under Keir Starmer slipped to -55, according to YouGov polling. It comes amid concerns about the number of small boats arrivals, the economy and justice.

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20 h. ago World’s swankiest manhole covers? A thrilling tour of the new embankments concealing London’s £4.6bn super sewer

Built to tackle 18m tonnes of rising excrement, the Tideway project has also generated dramatic new public spaces dotted with giant artworks. Our writer takes the ‘stink tower’ tour of the capitalA group of colossal black tombstones has landed on the north bank of the Thames in London, looking like mysterious monoliths from another civilisation. They stand near Blackfriars Bridge as imposing bookends, rising almost 10 metres, folded in places to form platforms and benches, slipping down in others to become one with the pavement. Water trickles from the summit of one huge slab, running down ridges and splashing into a sunken pool. Another pair rise straight out of the river wall, hoisting wooden fenders with them from the swirling brown waters below.“I wanted to make something that comes from nowhere,” says Scottish artist Nathan Coley, as he clambers on to one of his concrete blocks, which form part of the most prominent new public artwork in Britain’s capital, set to be unveiled ne...

Economics

20 h. ago Rory McIlroy’s true colours clear as PGA Tour rival reveals conversation with security guard

Rory McIlroy and Chris Gotterup were paired together in the final round of the Genesis Scottish Open earlier this month, with the latter ultimately claiming the second PGA Tour win of his career

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23 h. ago Don't lash Trump in anger: Oasis are being warned to keep their views of Donald Trump to themselves to avoid a US tour ban

Liam and Noel Gallagher are being warned to keep their views of Donald Trump to themselves to avoid jeopardizing Oasis's US tour.

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24 h. ago Oasis's UK tour will inject at least £1.1BILLION into the UK economy

Oasis's 17-gig sell-out tour is set to net Britain more than a £1billion. But the mania has prompted a massive surge in hotel prices, which could lead to an inflation heachache for the Bank of England.

Economics

25 h. ago The Breakdown | Jac Morgan’s pivotal Lions moment reignites jackling debate in rugby

Some people consider it sacrosanct but has World Rugby extended too much latitude to the jackler or ‘stealer’?Another Lions tour added to the annals, and everyone is more or less happy. The British & Irish Lions take a series win, just about, and Australia have a pivotal moment at the end of the second Test to whinge about, or console themselves over, depending on your viewpoint.Certainly, these days, it is difficult to know what disciplinary outcome may pertain to each incident in the cut and thrust of elite rugby. Most people with eyes can appreciate there was no head contact when Jac Morgan tried to clear out the jackling Carlo Tizzano in the buildup to Hugo Keenan’s winning try, but there is no doubt, either, that Tizzano was in an exposed position, just as that particular split-second represented an impossible situation for Morgan. Had he gone any lower he would have made contact with the head, higher and he would have missed the clearout altogether. Continue read...

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26 h. ago Loose Women's Coleen Nolan admits she 'lost her mojo' after loss as she shares personal update

The presenter opened up about the loss of her sister Linda Nolan as she prepares to go on an intimate tour

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