90 m. ago UK homeowners praise Dunelm's £12 'stylish' item that 'traps so much heat indoors'

It is 'great at keeping out the cold', according to the dozens of happy shoppers

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93 m. ago Nursing home where residents went unwashed in dirty clothes has improved, watchdog says

The care home was placed in special measures last year by the care watchdog, but has since made improvements

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2 h. ago Liverpool news: Alexander Isak fears grow as Jamie Carragher says 'I told you so'

Liverpool return to European duties with a Champions League home clash against Real Madrid, spelling the return of Trent Alexander-Arnold to Anfield

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2 h. ago ‘I felt violated’: the Italian women taking on porn sites over doctored images

Giorgia Meloni, Sophia Loren and writer Francesca Barra among prominent figures to have ‘nudified’ photos posted on sexist forumsAs she reeled from the discovery of a pornographic website featuring AI-generated images of herself naked, the prominent Italian journalist and writer Francesca Barra said the question that struck her the most came from her young daughter.“She asked me: ‘how do you feel?’,” Barra, 47, said. “But what I heard was another more subtle question that my pre-adolescent daughter perhaps didn’t have the courage to ask, and that was: ‘If it happened to me, how would I handle it?’.” Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Playing dirty used to be the west’s preserve. Now we’re letting Moscow beat us at our own game | Joseph Pearson

The Berlin airlift was a cold war victory that relied on a persuasive story about starving civilians. But was it true?We in the west used to play dirty – and during the cold war, we were good at it. Nowadays, we leave grey-zone tactics and hybrid warfare to Russia, which is winning the disinformation war. Europe’s pride in playing by the rules might just be democracy’s achilles heel.The Berlin airlift is a good example of what we once did well – and have since forgotten. The cold war arguably began and ended in Berlin, bookended by the 1948-9 airlift and the fall of the wall in 1989. The former was the largest air relief operation in history. It supplied Berlin when Stalin tried to force out the western allies. In parallel, the west used radio (RIAS, or Radio in the American Sector, a precursor to the CIA-funded Radio Free Europe (RFE) and Radio Liberty), and strengthened soft power with cultural missions such as the British-staged Shakespeare in the rubble, and education through Am...

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2 h. ago Out of Nick Clegg’s shadow: Miriam González seeks to shake up Spain

Wife of former UK deputy prime minister plans to launch political party in her home country

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4 h. ago Royal gardener shares clever way he got job with King Charles

King Charles's top gardener shared how he landed the job - and the unusual way he met the King and Queen

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5 h. ago Illinois man charged with threatening to execute Trump during chilling Instagram video

Trent Schneider, 57, was arrested at his home in Winthrop Harbor on Monday by a local SWAT team.

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5 h. ago In their darkest moments, too many Australians are being met with lethal force instead of love and care | Lorena Allam

Police are often not equipped to deal with mental health callouts. Alternative first responders are better placed to de-escalate tension and reduce harmWhen police tasered and killed Clare Nowland – a 95-year-old aged care resident with dementia – after her nursing home called triple zero for help managing her behaviour, her family were devastated and the public was shocked.How could a frail and elderly woman on a walking frame, albeit grasping a steak knife, die in such a violent way? Continue reading...

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5 h. ago It's the trendy new diagnosis for everything from fatigue to brain fog... but here's the truth about your gut problem

Do you often feel bloated? Tired? Gassy? Suffer from brain fog? A quick Google search of your symptoms will soon point to a scary-sounding diagnosis.

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6 h. ago Moment 'ridiculous' caller dials 999 to report his Uber Eats driver has arrived empty

The video has been released by the Metropolitan Police after it was revealed that around one in seven of the 999 calls made to the force are genuine emergencies.

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7 h. ago Blake Lively demands It Ends With Us producer hand over full 'graphic' footage of 'naked' wife giving birth she called 'porn'

Blake Lively filed a motion on October 30, accusing Jamey Heath of 'failing to comply' with an August 27 court order requiring him to produce the full, now-infamous video of his wife Natasha's home-birth.

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7 h. ago Trump threatens to cut funds if ‘communist’ Mamdani wins mayoral election

President backs Cuomo in election eve Truth Social post and says he does not want to send ‘good money after bad’On the eve of New York’s well-watched mayoral election, President Donald Trump issued a threat to its voters: stop Zohran Mamdani or pay.“If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “I don’t want to send, as President, good money after bad.” Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Aspiration to own a ‘forever’ home is ‘losing relevance for younger generations’

Nearly a quarter of homeowners aged 34 and under view homes as financial assets to be leveraged at the right time, according to a survey for Zoopla.

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7 h. ago New David Attenborough docuseries described as ‘almost Shakespearean’ in feel

BBC series has been compared to ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Succession’ and ‘The Lion King’

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7 h. ago The dream of a ‘forever home’ is losing relevance. Here’s why

Traditionally, people sought to buy a property that they could live in for decades

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7 h. ago Deliveroo names its most popular dishes with surprise winner

It was not just takeaway meals that made the top 10 deliveries list

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7 h. ago Millions of Brits forced to make lifestyle changes to afford everyday essentials

Many households have struggled with the rising cost-of-living

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7 h. ago New David Attenborough docuseries ‘almost Shakespearean’ in feel, says producer

Wildlife series Kingdom follows four animal families, a lion pride, a wild dog pack, a hyena clan and a leopard family.

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7 h. ago Britain's retail giants including John Lewis and Aldi release Christmas ads

It's the beginning of November, so naturally it means the start of the festive season as far as advertisers are concerned - get ready to have your heartstrings and wallets pulled

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