30 m. ago Brits like to eat whole apple including the core – one city is especially keen

Brits are an apple mad country with some admitting to eating the whole think down to the core, with one UK city in particular eating every last bit of the much-loved fruit

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92 m. ago Ice deported three US citizen children, including a boy with cancer, to Honduras, suit alleges

Suit filed in Louisiana says agency didn’t give parents choice as to whether children should be deported with themA lawsuit filed in Louisiana on behalf of two mothers and their four minor children, including one with cancer, claims the two families were unlawfully denied due process and deported by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) to Honduras in April 2025.The lawsuit, which names attorney general Pam Bondi, Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem and various Ice officials as defendants, alleges Ice violated its own policies, and multiple federal laws, when officers secretly detained the families, denied access to counsel and swiftly deported them to Honduras, ignoring legal filings. Continue reading...

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92 m. ago Ice deported boy with cancer and two other US citizen children to Honduras, suit alleges

Suit filed in Louisiana says agency didn’t give parents choice as to whether children should be deported with themA lawsuit filed in Louisiana on behalf of two mothers and their four minor children, including one with cancer, claims the two families were unlawfully denied due process and deported by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) to Honduras in April 2025.The lawsuit, which names the attorney general, Pam Bondi, Department of Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, and various Ice officials as defendants, alleges Ice violated its own policies, and multiple federal laws, when officers secretly detained the families, denied access to counsel and swiftly deported them to Honduras, ignoring legal filings. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Yorùbá Boy Running by Biyi Bándélé audiobook review – from enslaved teenager to celebrated preacher

The novelist’s final work tells a remarkable tale of resilience, based on the life of Samuel Àjàyí Crowther, who was kidnapped by slavers but won his freedomSet in 19th-century Òsogùn in what is now Nigeria, Yorùbá Boy Running opens with 13-year-old Àjàyí reporting a premonition to his mother about dark days ahead. A week later, the town is surrounded by Malian slave raiders and Àjàyí is kidnapped along with his mother, sister, best friend and neighbours. He is taken to Lagos and sold to Portuguese slavers preparing to ship their human cargo to the Americas. But they are intercepted by the British navy, which releases Àjàyí in Sierra Leone, where he is recruited by missionaries. From there, he is put on a path that leads to him to study at Oxford and become a celebrated preacher, linguist and abolitionist who meets Queen Victoria.A remarkable tale of barbarism and resilience, Yorùbá Boy Running is the final work by the Nigerian novelist and film-maker Biyi Bándélé, who died in 2022 ...

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2 h. ago This Morning star Craig Doyle halts show to provide emotional update on mum in hospital

Craig was presenting the ITV programme with Love Is Bling host Emma Willis

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2 h. ago 'I could hear my dead mum celebrating with me when I opened my A

Gabrielle Morgan, 18, was among the students celebrating - she said she had kept a promise she made to her mum before she died by getting a place at Oxford University

Events

2 h. ago Devastating cloudburst kills 33 and injures 120 as torrent tears through town

Officials expect the death toll to climb after at least 33 people were killed when a cloudburst struck a remote pilgrimage town in India's Jammu and Kashmir region

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2 h. ago Mum, 45, had 'no idea' she was nine months pregnant until she gave birth on the toilet

Helen Green, 45, went to the toilet in the middle of the night with stomach pains and felt the "urge to push"

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2 h. ago Begging ‘birthday boy’ calls his mom after getting his Ferrari towed for speeding

A birthday boy who got his Ferrari towed after he was pulled over for speeding called his mother to ask for a ride home.

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2 h. ago Love Island's Shakira hints at family rift over 'trust issues' with Harry

Love Island runner-up Shakira Khan has revealed why her mum hasn't met her new boyfriend Harry Cooksley yet, even though they left the villa after finding love more than a week ago

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2 h. ago The surprising parts of Braveheart that were ACCURATE: From William Wallace's execution to Robert the Bruce becoming King of Scotland... after Brian Cox brands film 'b******s'

Ever since its release in 1995, Braveheart has been a whipping boy for scholars. All of its historical inaccuracies have been gleefully pointed out. But the film did get some things right.

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3 h. ago Scots mum who spent four months homeless 'regains spark' as city tour guide

"These streets are massively familiar to me, and yet I felt like a stranger. I felt like no-one could see me, no-one could hear me."

Society

3 h. ago Police investigate 'cowardly and vicious attack' on boy in popular seaside town

Footage was shared widely online of an attack in Barry Island

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3 h. ago Mum amazed by £4 mystery Too Good To Go box and shares what's inside

Dayna Cohen, 35, was left in disbelief when she opened the mystery box - and it was more than enough to share. She opened up about it in a post on her TikTok account

Economics

4 h. ago K2 climber killed by rockfall while descending from world’s second tallest mountain

Guan Jing had reached the summit just a day earlier

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4 h. ago 'Three small changes to my weekly routine save me £1,500 each year'

The 'small' lifestyle changes have helped one mum to save upwards of £1,500 per year

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5 h. ago Mum drank two bottles of wine a day after starting home work

Jennie Mccormac is now two years sober and has lost 5st

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5 h. ago The most romantic place on earth? It has to be a sleeper train

The low-key glamour of watching the sunset in the buffet car and being woken with a bowl of porridge just can’t be beatIs there anything more glamorous than an overnight train? Even when you’re climbing aboard wearing your husband’s raincoat, carrying an oat-encrusted car seat, with a six-month-old in a sling and an apple core fermenting gently and secretly in the side pocket of your rucksack?Not that I know of. I love travelling by train – even now, when it’s as comprehensively bad as British rail privatisation has made it for, well, just about everyone save a few shareholders and the CEO of Pumpkin Cafe. But travelling at night? With the whisper of romance in the buffet car, the flash of sunset from the vestibule and a white-sheeted bunk bed to call your own? I love it even more.Nell Frizzell is a journalist and author Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Welsh A level student's study on cannabis sees her land place at Oxford University

Ariana Howells from Barry has a place to study biochemistry at Oxford after becoming interested in how medical cannabis has helped her mum who has Crohn's disease

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6 h. ago Princess Andre takes subtle swipe at mum Katie Price as she reveals line she would NEVER cross during glam 18th birthday photo shoot

As the daughter of singer Peter Andre and former page 3 pin-up girl Katie Price, Princess has had a chaotic upbringing and admitted she 'saw things kids shouldn't' while growing up.

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