27 m. ago Mark Williams left in the shade as former professional snooker star banks over £500,000

Mark WIlliams came second best to Zhao Xintong at the World Snooker Championship this year, but his earnings from the tournament pale compared to one ex-pro's recent payday

Economics

71 m. ago UK urged to bring hundreds of Afghan heroes to safety after major blunder saw them wrongly rejected

Afghan commandos who fought side-by-side with UK special forces had been denied help and left to the mercy of the Taliban before ministers announced re-think of cases

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79 m. ago Witness 'tried CPR' seconds after horror smash that left two teenagers dead

Tributes have been paid to Kailem Robinson and Kaine Darby

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79 m. ago Witness tells of desperate CPR attempts seconds after horror smash that left two teenagers dead

Tributes have been paid to Kailem Robinson and Kaine Darby

Events

2 h. ago Jeremy Clarkson's pub The Farmer's Dog baffles customers over strict menu policy

The Farmer's Dog, which opened last year, has been widely praised but some diners were left unimpressed after noticing that certain items were missing from the menu

Economics

2 h. ago Trump’s Russia sanctions refusal leaves Europe with few options but to wait

Frustration is growing amid increasing signs US could wash its hands of Ukraine, but some observers counsel patienceGen Keith Kellogg, Donald Trump’s somewhat estranged special envoy on Ukraine, is said by some US diplomats to like to joke that the president did indeed say he would solve the Ukraine crisis in 24 hours, he just never specified which 24 hours.Dark humour may be all that is left to Europeans as they absorb not just Trump’s refusal to impose the promised “bone-crushing sanctions” over Russia’s rejection of a 30-day ceasefire but also the increasing signs that the administration will wash its hands of Ukraine and instead focus on forging a new economic partnership with Russia. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Venomous snake bolts into sea from beneath paddleboard at popular Welsh beach

The adder bolted into the sea after being discovered under a paddleboard at a beach in North Wales - and people have been left feeling uneasy after watching the video

Events

3 h. ago Couple renovating their £175k Victorian home made VERY eerie discovery that made them 'jump'

Millie Molloy, 24, and Brad Worth, 23, from Plymouth, bought what they thought was an ordinary two-bedroom Victorian property in July 2023 but what they found left them shocked.

Economics

3 h. ago I left my London job for Spain – I don’t need a high salary for a great life here

I left my London job for Spain – I don’t need a high salary for a great life here  MSN

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4 h. ago Inside the London tower block where broken lifts have left residents with ‘crippling anxiety’

Residents say the building’s two lifts have had problems at least twice a month since last September

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4 h. ago Those who object to music events shutting off parks are branded nimbys. But this time, I’m on their side | Moya Lothian

A high court dispute over a south London park shows the limits of private interests encroaching on public spaceA grassy south London oasis erupted into a turf war this week. From Monday, visitors to Brockwell Park would have seen calling cards left by both sides. The provocation? A sturdy 3-metre-high boundary fence, encircling large swathes of the 50-hectare (125-acre) stretch that has been designated for music festivals this summer. Daubed on the structure were signs of discord: graffitied messages in stark white lettering. “You fucked our park,” read one. “We fucked your wall.”Brockwell is now the hottest front in a conflict that has started to rear its head in the capital every summer. A week ago, it made the front pages in the form of a bombshell high court ruling against Lambeth council. The authority responsible for the park lost a case brought by Protect Brockwell Park (PBP), a group of local residents and park users who argued that the council had not obtained the proper pl...

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4 h. ago Football agents slam Man Utd transfer team as INEOS negotiations leave them 'stunned'

MAC OF THE NET: Manchester United have been left behind by their rivals and the new football operations unit set up by Sir Jim Ratcliffe at Old Trafford has struggled to make an impact

Sport

5 h. ago My cultural awakening: a punk band told me quit drinking. So I did

As a teen, I was surrounded by binge culture. But then a band called Minor Threat taught me it was radical to be sober – and it changed my lifeI started drinking when I was 14. It was how we’d have fun as kids in Aberdeen – I didn’t come across any youth clubs or anything particularly productive. You drank beer or alcopops in some shady lane, and you drank so quickly that you’d get drunk but then be sober enough to get home at 11pm so your parents wouldn’t notice anything. It wasn’t drinking for pleasure: binge drinking was just what everyone – regardless of social groups – seemed to be doing.During my teenage years I worked at a newsagent and I would read Kerrang! every week, which was extremely formative for me in discovering music. It’s incredible how many new bands I was introduced to, and just how my music taste evolved – from nu-metal bands such as Korn to Rage Against the Machine and, most influentially, Fugazi. Continue reading...

Culture

5 h. ago ‘Something has gone very wrong’: how the carers scandal was exposed

A Guardian investigation revealed how hundreds of thousands of people were plunged into debt – and some criminalised – for looking after their loved onesOne February afternoon in 2016, Sir Robert Devereux, at the time the most powerful official in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), was stopped by a junior colleague as he walked through the car park of a civil service office in Preston, Lancashire. Was he aware, the worker asked, about the problems with carer’s allowance?Devereux, on a flying visit to the DWP outpost, asked for details and promised to look into it. A few days later, Devereux’s office received a long and detailed note, complete with 80 anonymised case studies, setting out how years of shortcomings in the administration of the carer’s allowance benefit had wasted millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money and inflicted untold hardship and misery on thousands of unpaid carers. Continue reading...

Politics

5 h. ago Tragic soap characters who should never have been killed off as Craig brutally axed

A number of soap icons in Emmerdale, Coronation Street and EastEnders have died in the most tragic circumstances - with fans left devastated by their loss

Events

5 h. ago Lizzie McGuire cast now from joining the army to new career in law

The Lizzie McGuire Movie was released on May 2, 2003, and served as the finale to the hugely popular Disney series, but since the reboot was cancelled, fans have been left wondering what the cast have been up to

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6 h. ago Six great reads: Sam Altman’s spectacular comeback, British preppers, and fear and loathing in Starbase, Texas

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Disabled campaigners watching ‘in horror’ as trans people face toilet segregation

Disabled activists say supreme court ruling has left trans community at similar risk of exclusion from public spacesDisabled rights campaigners say they are watching “in horror” as the UK’s trans community faces similar toilet segregation and exclusion from public spaces that they do.The aftermath of the supreme court ruling on biological sex has led to organisations banning trans people from using the toilets of the gender they live as, with accessible facilities frequently promoted as a solution. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago The unluckiest players in Wales right now and the call that has left people baffled

There are many players unlucky to have missed out on Matt Sherratt's squad

Sport

8 h. ago Can you spot the hidden letter in this brain teaser? Only high IQs can in under 13 seconds

People with a high IQ can spot the hidden letter in this puzzling brainteaser with just a 13-second time limit - but it's really quite tricky, and has left plenty of people stumped

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