6 h. ago Peacock terrorises town: Families living in fear of feathered thug ravaging vegetable patches and waking neighbourhood with mating calls

The bothersome bird first makes itself known at 4.30am each day with a mating call heard for miles. It then moves on to devouring meticulously planted lettuces and courgettes.

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28 h. ago Loose peacock waking neighbours at 5am and destroying vegetable patches: ‘He’s very annoying’

Percy the peacock wakes residents up at 5am before tearing up vegetable patches on a hunt for food

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30 h. ago 'My family lives in fear of neighbours who brandish knives and try to break in'

Jenna Moffat from Dalkeith said the ongoing incidents of violence and drug use cause her sleepless nights and have resulted in her taking antidepressants and anxiety medication

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4 d. ago Inside the underground town where families live in dugouts to escape brutal 55C heat

Families living in the underground community love the peace and quiet of living in secluded dugouts away from the blistering heat, but it does come with challenges

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1 week ago Diddy trial live: Prosecutors say Diddy used ‘power, violence and fear’ to get what he wanted as closing arguments begin

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs did not testify in his New York sex trafficking trial

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1 week ago Harvey Elliott transfer fee rises as Liverpool ace shows true colours – 'fear isn't there'

Harvey Elliott decided not to spend his summer break on a beach weighing up a transfer away from Liverpool but to help fire England to the brink of creating history

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1 week ago Campaigners welcome vaccine cash pledge but fear cut will see fewer lives saved

Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced the funds at Gavi’s global summit in Brussels.

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2 w. ago Transfer news LIVE! Arsenal make Sesko decision; Chelsea fear Gittens hijack; Man Utd £45m deadline; Liverpool

Summer window open again as Premier League’s top clubs push to strengthen

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2 w. ago Transfer news LIVE! Arsenal make Sesko decision, Rodrygo; Chelsea fear Gittens hijack; Kean to Man United

Summer window open again as Premier League’s top clubs push to strengthen

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2 w. ago Transfer news LIVE! Arsenal make Sesko decision; Chelsea fear Gittens hijack; Kean to Man United; Liverpool

Summer window open again as Premier League’s top clubs push to strengthen

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2 w. ago Fear and shock in Iran: ‘I’m constantly afraid a missile might hit my home’

Anahita, a Tehran resident in her 30s, tells of fleeing the city, surging inflation and her hopes for regime changeMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe greatest impact of this war is fear and anxiety. We don’t know whether this situation will last for weeks, months or even years. Our lives have been thrown off routine, I spend most of my time just reading the news. I’m constantly afraid that a missile might hit my home, my city or the homes of my relatives and friends in other places.I get the news from X and Instagram because we don’t have any reliable news networks and broadcasts that are not censored by the regime. We follow the updates through videos shared by people from different parts of the country on social media. The internet in Iran has become very slow and it was completely down yesterday [Wednesday]. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago SNP urges UK Government to speed up smart meter roll out after RTS switch

EXCLUSIVE: Nationalist MP Graham Leadbitter has called for "a cast iron guarantee to Scottish communities that never again will they be left to live in fear of their hot water supply being cut-off and their electricity supply disrupted."

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2 w. ago The racial violence in Ballymena repeats a pattern that’s blighted Britain for years. We must wake up to that | Lanre Bakare

History tells us attacks on migrants are a predictable result of political failings, distorted media coverage and far-right opportunismIn early June, the violence began. Rumours of a foreigner assaulting a local woman resulted in groups roaming through a small British town, breaking windows of homes belonging to “outsiders”. A few days later, the police attempted to stop mobs from reaching another nearby multiracial area. Eventually they broke through, ransacking shops and burning down a house, while local media reported that the violence had developed into “something like a fever”.Sound familiar? This isn’t Ballymena, the County Antrim town in Northern Ireland that has seen several nights of unrest in which immigrant homes were attacked after reports of an alleged sexual assault on a local girl by two teenagers, who had a Romanian interpreter read them the charges. These incidents actually took place more than a century ago, during the summer of 1919, as racial violence spread thro...

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3 w. ago Markets stabilise as investors fear ‘adverse shock’ from higher oil prices – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsOver at the Paris Air Show, a row has broken out after four Israeli company stands at the trade fair were shut down.According to Reuters, French authorities ordered that the four stands should be closed for “displaying offensive weapons”, after not complying with an order from a French security agency to remove offensive or kinetic weapons from the stands.“This outrageous and unprecedented decision reeks of policy-driven and commercial considerations.“The French are hiding behind supposedly political considerations to exclude Israeli offensive weapons from an international exhibition - weapons that compete with French industries.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago How a peaceful protest erupted into nights of violence and rocked a Northern Irish community

A demonstration organised on social media called for a ‘peaceful protest to show our anger at what cannot and will not be tolerated in this town’. But after three nights of violence, terrified families are fleeing Ballymena and displaying their nationalities on their front door

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4 w. ago ‘It’s just daily life’: Kyiv residents get used to overnight Russian drone attacks

Bars and restaurants are full but every night brings fear for those who live near factories and industrial estatesIt only occurred to Iryna Yakymehuk to make use of the local bomb shelter after the Shaheed kamikaze drone struck her nextdoor neighbour’s fifth-floor flat at 2am on Tuesday, taking a messy bite out of the bedroom.The 22-year-old had returned to her home in Kyiv’s Obolon district from the underwear shop where she works as an assistant at about 9pm. She ate macaroni while swiping through some funny TikTok videos before getting into bed at 11pm. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Fifteen police injured amid suspected racially motivated attacks in Ballymena

Northern Irish politicians condemn violence that erupted after vigil for girl who was allegedly sexually assaultedFifteen police officers were injured and several homes attacked during what has been called a “mob fury” of racially motivated disturbances in the Northern Irish town of Ballymena.Members of a crowd threw petrol bombs, fireworks, heavy masonry and bricks at police and tried to burn the homes of a handful of foreign families in the County Antrim town on Monday night. Continue reading...

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