12 h. ago Prado chief says Madrid art museum doesn’t need ‘single visitor more’

Record 3.5 million visited in 2025 and plans are afoot to ensure gallery does not become overburdened like LouvreThe head of the Prado has said the Madrid art museum does not need “a single visitor more” after it welcomed a record 3.5 million people last year, adding that plans are being drawn up to ensure it does not become a victim of its own success like the Louvre in Paris.In 2025 the Prado, which is home to such masterpieces as Velázquez’s Las Meninas and Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, was visited by 3,513,402 people, an increase of more than 56,000 from the previous year. Visitor numbers have risen by more than 816,000 over the past decade. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Prado cannot be like ‘the Metro at rush hour’, says Madrid museum’s chief

Record 3.5 million visited in 2025 and plans are afoot to ensure gallery does not become overburdened like LouvreThe head of the Prado has said the Madrid art museum does not need “a single visitor more” after it welcomed a record 3.5 million people last year, adding that plans are being drawn up to ensure it does not become a victim of its own success like the Louvre in Paris.In 2025 the Prado, which is home to such masterpieces as Velázquez’s Las Meninas and Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, was visited by 3,513,402 people, an increase of more than 56,000 from the previous year. Visitor numbers have risen by more than 816,000 over the past decade. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago London Underground live updates amid severe delays at rush hour

London Underground live updates amid severe delays at rush hour  MyLondon

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21 h. ago London travel news LIVE: Central line hit by suspensions and severe delays going into morning rush hour

Commuters relying on the Central line to get to work are facing major disruption on Thursday morning

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44 h. ago London travel news LIVE: Delays on Tube and Overground into morning rush

London travel news LIVE: Delays on Tube and Overground into morning rush-hour  London Evening Standard

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45 h. ago Police hunt London Underground sex attacker who pounced during rush hour

Police hunt London Underground sex attacker who pounced during rush hour  My London

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67 h. ago London travel news LIVE: Overground line partly suspended and Tube line delays over morning rush

Most Londoners are enjoying a trouble-free commute over the morning rush hour with few problems currently being reported.

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6 d. ago M8 incident: Severe delays on M8 after rush hour crash near Glasgow Airport

There are delays on the M8 and the A737.

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6 d. ago M8 crash near Glasgow Airport as incident sparks huge rush hour delays

The eastbound section of the busy motorway has been restricted between junctions 28 and 27 after the incident happened at around 8.20am on Friday.

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6 d. ago Live M1 traffic updates as snow closes lanes after lorry crash leading to huge queues

The M1 is facing closures as Storm Goretti continues to cause travel chaos across the country with road closures in place as rush hour commences and snow falls

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2 w. ago Wuthering Heights, Michael Jackson and the ‘Trump effect’ – will 2026 see the end of the ‘woke’ blockbuster?

The president is scrutinising studio deals, and was rewarded with the promise of a Rush Hour reboot. With Supergirl, Hoppers and a live-action Moana on the way, can Hollywood stand up to Trump?It’s fair to say that Hollywood is in crisis, or at least in transition. Studios getting taken over, culture wars all over the place, and gen AI rearing its head. The last thing they need is an interventionist president determined to wage war on the entertainment industry, as well as no doubt extracting what value he can. Donald Trump, as we know, is very interested in the movie business: in his pre-politics days, he made dozens of appearances in films, as well as on TV. It seems very likely that he’s eyeing a place at Hollywood’s top table after he leaves office (presuming he does).Perhaps that’s what is behind his most spectacular recent intervention: demanding, and getting, a fourth Rush Hour movie from the new owners of Paramount Pictures, the studio that was recently taken over by David E...

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2 w. ago London Underground rush hour live updates as whole Tube line suspended

London Underground rush hour live updates as whole Tube line suspended  My London

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2 w. ago Need cheering up after a terrible year? I may have just the story you’re looking for | Martin Kettle

A single act of kindness reminded me that, despite so much evidence to the contrary, the better angels of our nature are not necessarily doomedPerhaps you are searching for reasons to be cheerful at the end of what has been a particularly dispiriting year? In that case, read on. In November, I was on a train travelling into London. When I got off the train and headed for the ticket barrier, I realised I didn’t have my wallet. I knew that I had had it when I boarded. I made an undignified scrabble and search through my coat, jacket and trouser pockets that deserved the comic skills of a Charlie Chaplin or Jacques Tati. There was, though, no mistake. I had somehow managed to leave my wallet on the train.A nice station attendant took the details and said he would pass the message down the line. I left him my mobile number. But it was rush hour, the man pointed out, and the chances of getting the wallet back had probably vanished with the departing train. Meanwhile I rang my bank and ev...

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3 w. ago Teenage driver arrested after two women, 57 and 59, were killed in a rush hour crash this morning

The two women were both pedestrians and suffered fatal injuries and died at the scene in Bolton. The teen driver remains in custody to be interviewed by detectives.

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4 w. ago London Underground LIVE with huge rush hour delays as several Tube lines go down

Commuters are facing major disruption on the London Underground, which is thought to have come from signal failures and faulty trains

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4 w. ago LIVE M60 crash updates as two lanes shut and spark rush hour congestion

Drivers are facing delays

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4 w. ago M74 incident: Drivers facing rush hour delays of over an hour after crash on Glasgow motorway

Drivers are facing delays of over 70 minutes.

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4 w. ago M1 closed in one direction after serious crash as rush hour traffic hit by huge queues

A MAJOR UK motorway has been forced to close after a "serious collision" - as cops launch an investigation into the crash. Motorists have been warned of severe delays on the M1 near Milton Keynes, Northamptonshire, following the horror smash last night. Traffic officers and police were scrambled to the crash just before 11pm. The...

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