23 m. ago Just one in three back doctor strikes, poll shows as Streeting warned he ‘cannot afford to lose’

Former Labour health secretary under Tony Blair warns Wes Streeting he ‘has to win’ war against striking junior doctors

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47 m. ago Lost in the Australian wilderness for 11 days: How a German backpacker survived the outback

Carolina Wilga’s rescue is a rare tale of survival for someone who was missing for so long in difficult and vast terrain, writes Rachel Clun

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48 m. ago Police urge people not to call them about hosepipe rulebreakers as third heatwave of summer set to peak at 34C

Temperatures reached 34.7C on Friday as Britons brace for possibility of even hotter weather on Saturday, with amber heat health alerts in place warning of potential rise in deaths

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59 m. ago Crews continue to tackle wildfire in Perth as 'extreme' weather warning issued across Scotland

Six fire appliances and a specialist wildfire unit were sent to the scene of the blaze near the M90, in the Craigend area of Perth.

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59 m. ago Sir Andrew Strauss has Ashes warning for England after 'Red for Ruth' day at Lord's

The last England captain to conquer Australia in Ashes combat Down Under believes Ben Stokes has the batting firepower to repeat his triumph of 2010-11, but taking 20 wickets regularly remains a concern

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96 m. ago Muir ‘very disappointed’ bonfire was lit despite warnings over asbestos

Hundreds of Eleventh Night bonfires were lit across Northern Ireland on Friday.

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2 h. ago Police warning over Oasis' homecoming Heaton Park gigs as they reveal number of arrests

Greater Manchester Police have said that the first Oasis homecoming gig has passed 'without incident' but have arrested a number of people and warned drone users

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2 h. ago Unite could move to disaffiliate from Labour in future, union boss warns

Unite members have to see that the fee to affiliate with Labour is ‘worth something’, Sharon Graham told the BBC.

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2 h. ago Welsh homeowners with garden decking urged to do 1 task this summer or risk infestation

Experts are warning homeowners to check decking for pests as they seek shelter in decking during the summer months, with rats, ants, foxes and even snakes increasingly seeking shelter under the structure

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2 h. ago BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty issues warning over 'pointless' annoying habit

BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty was left reeling as she aired warning and shared a major pet peeve

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3 h. ago Wimbledon faces calls to close roof amid London weather warnings

Several fans fainted during Thursday’s semi-finals, with temperatures as high as 32C forecast over finals weekend

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3 h. ago Butterbean threatens Jake Paul after he badmouthed him when he was wheelchair

Boxing legend Butterbean has sent a stark warning to Jake Paul as he plots a return to the ring, with the 58-year-old having shed more than 15 stone in a remarkable body transformation

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3 h. ago SJP investment boss warns US risk profile has 'fundamentally changed'

St James's Place has cut exposure to US stocks within its £16.4billion Polaris 4 fund as the wealth manager becomes increasingly wary of the world's biggest market.

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4 h. ago Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters: I’m absolutely hooked by this cheeky, danger

Lenny Henry, Rachel Riley and a tank full of primeval nightmare fuel: everyone’s a winnerI am obsessed with sharks. Fifty years on from Jaws, and for me no film can touch it. I trawl YouTube for unspeakable footage. On a recent holiday to France, I made my nonplussed household watch every shark documentary on National Geographic. I’ll even make time for guff like Jaws 4 or Sharknado 5: Global Swarming. I’m metaphorically chumming the water at every opportunity. Every so often, something shows up.Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters (ITV1, Wednesday 16 July, 9pm) sees seven public figures with a fear of sharks mercilessly pushed into the water to swim with some. Say no more – I’m hooked. The victims – sorry, participants – include Lenny Henry, Lucy Punch, Ross Noble and the bassist from McFly. I like some of these people very much, and hope they don’t mind that I would love them to be ripped in half and devoured in high definition, thrashing about in a vortex of reddening water. It’s not...

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5 h. ago Yes, Israel’s plan for Rafah would be a crime – but international law has never protected Gaza | Raja Shehadeh

Palestinians continue to hold on to the practice we call sumoud – refusing to give up or leave – despite the world turning its back on usOver the past 21 long months of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, voices all over the world have decried the demise of international law and the rule-based order. And indeed, the facade of Israel’s adherence to international law has vanished and policies that constitute war crimes are now brazenly declared.This week, Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, has shared plans to forcibly move Palestinians into a camp in the ruins of Rafah. Once they enter, they cannot leave. In other words, a concentration camp, which by definition is an internment centre for members of a national group (as well as political prisoners or minority groups) on the grounds of security or punishment, usually by military order. Michael Sfard, an Israeli human rights lawyer, was quoted in the Guardian as saying that Katz “laid out an operational plan for a crime against humani...

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5 h. ago Michael Shannon was ‘very reluctant’ to reprise DC role over Zack Snyder treatment

Michael Shannon has said he “very reluctant” to star in The Flash because of the way Zack Snyder was treated after dropping out of Justice League.

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5 h. ago Exact rules on sunbathing naked in your garden in heatwave as police issue warning

If you're looking to get a back garden glow while avoiding tan lines, think twice before stripping off. Police have warned that you could be breaking the law

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6 h. ago ‘It’s a strength’: female business leaders back Reeves’ tearful moment

Displaying emotion is part of ‘our humanity’ says CBI chief

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6 h. ago Young people don’t feel part of the EU – and they’re right | Francesco Grillo

Its remote, top-down structures need a fresh, citizen-led approach fit for the digital age. Let’s start by extending Erasmus to school-goersThe former Italian prime minister Mario Draghi produced his much-awaited prescription for how to reboot Europe’s economy last year. The Draghi report was rightly applauded as a rude awakening for a European Union that is far too complacent about its own obsolescence. Draghi concluded that an €800bn-a-year public spending boost would be needed to end years of stagnation. If Europe did not catch up with its rivals, he warned, it would face a “slow and agonising” decline.And yet, one ingredient was missing from Draghi’s recipe. In his nearly 400-page roadmap for rescuing the EU, the word “democracy” is mentioned only three times (once in the bibliography). By contrast, “integration” is used 96 times and “defence” 391 times. It’s true that Draghi’s report was explicitly devoted to the future of European competitiveness (and not more widely to the Eu...

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7 h. ago Nutritionist warns that extreme 'fibremaxxing' trend isn't as good as it seems

While everyone has become fibre conscious, upping your fibre intake straight away may be doing more harm than good according to an expert - and this is how you can relieve your symptoms

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