16 h. ago Parklife 2025 in pictures so far as heavy rain fails to dampen spirits and good vibes

The festival is set to host close to 80,000 people at Heaton Park today

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65 h. ago Scots villagers left baffled by mystery peacock spotted roaming streets

The large bird has been spotted numerous times in and around the Moor Road area between Strathblane and Mugdock with locals their scratching their head over where the peacock came from.

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4 d. ago Rain doesn't dampen spirits of Stonehouse locals as village celebrates gala day

Crowds lined the streets as a colourful procession made its way through the village.

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4 d. ago The most beautiful pubs in Britain: From street corner locals to attractive village beer houses, Camra reveals the UK's best

From an 'industrial chic' refurbishment to a stunning 17th century timber-framed building, these are the winners of the Pub Design Awards 2025 run by the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra).

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7 d. ago Gala de Danza, celebrating dance and all the arts comes to London

Gala de Danza, celebrating dance and all the arts comes to London  SeeingDance

Culture

8 d. ago Residents of tiny Dumfries and Galloway village fear 'catastrophic' impact of children's care home

CareTec are aiming to turn a home in Milton near Crocketford into a children’s residential care home.

Society

9 d. ago Village divided over Downton Abbey tourism boom: Locals where hit show is filmed hit out at visitors with 'brash American accents'

Residents in Bampton, Oxfordshire, hit out at Downtown Abbey fans with 'brash American accents' for invading their idyll, while conceding the show brought a 'small fortune' into the town.

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1 week ago Village water supply hit with outage as Scottish Water investigates issue

Homes and businesses in Killearn have reported no water or low water pressure.

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1 week ago Body of Brit woman found naked on Thailand's notorious Full Moon Party island

The woman's naked body was discovered by a local villager washed ashore on a beach in Koh Phangan, southern Thailand, this morning

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1 week ago BREAKING: Brit woman's naked body found on notorious Full Moon Party island in Thailand

Police raced to the scene and found a 54-year-old British woman washed ashore on a beach in Koh Phangan, southern Thailand - she had been discovered by a local villager

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2 w. ago Drone wars break out in England's prettiest village: Locals call in police as tourists' eyes

Villagers living in scenic Castle Combe, Wiltshire, say their privacy has been disturbed by increasing numbers of tourists using drones to take aerial footage of the houses and streets.

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2 w. ago SpaceX Starship breaks up over Indian Ocean in latest bumpy test

Ship flew farther than on two previous attempts but sprang leaks and began spinning before re-entering the atmosphere out of controlAnother SpaceX Starship prototype broke up over the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, capping the latest bumpy test flight for the rocket central to billionaire Elon Musk’s dream of colonising Mars.The biggest and most powerful launch vehicle ever built lifted off at 6.36pm local time from the company’s facility near a southern Texas village that earlier this month voted to become a city also named Starbase. Continue reading...

Technology

2 w. ago Village which was 'deliberately drowned' to supply water to Manchester has re

The picturesque village was submerged in water during the 1930s

Events

3 w. ago Jeremy Clarkson wanted to avoid making local villagers go ‘berserk’ when he opened his pub

Local residents weren’t happy about the amount of traffic generated by Clarkson’s Diddly Squat farm shop

Politics

3 w. ago 'A village without a pub is just some houses': Jeremy Clarkson says villages are 'losing their soul' as he condemns lack of public services in UK countryside

Jeremy Clarkson has said countryside villages are 'losing their soul' as he criticised the loss of local schools, police officers and shops in some of the most rural areas of the UK.

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3 w. ago The villages on the doorstep of Britain's new 'super prisons': Fuming locals warn house prices will plunge because of new 1,700

UK Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is spending 4.7billion to build a total of three new jails near existing ones in a bid to create 14,000 new places by 2031.

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4 w. ago Girl, 13, is killed after javelin thrown during PE lesson goes through her eye

The freak incident occurred on May 3 in the village of Priblizhnaya, a rural locality in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.

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4 w. ago Yorkshire Dales residents shaken awake by earthquake that sounded like an 'explosion'

A 2.5-magnitude quake was recorded just after 1.30am near Litton in North Yorkshire - and the tremor, which had a depth of 2.5 miles, was felt an hour away from the village, according to locals

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