9 h. 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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62 h. ago Inside the high street so bad locals call it 'St Awful': How Cornwall's biggest town has a problem with drugs, homelessness and empty shops

The town's reputation has become so bad that locals have cruelly dubbed it 'St Awful' and this week told MailOnline they now fear to walk down the high street.

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3 d. ago 'I spent a week holidaying in UK seaside town and came home broke'

Journalist Jess Flaherty ventured to a popular seaside resort with her fiancé and family for a week long staycation, naively thinking it would be a cheap getaway while saving for a wedding

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4 d. ago The affordable Greater Manchester town where homes are 'flying off the market'

House sales were up by a staggering 88 percent in the last year in this part of the region, Rightmove says

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4 d. ago Experience: I travelled the world delivering letters to strangers

In Galápagos, travellers leave post in an old barrel in the hope it will be picked up – I decided to help outI have always loved travelling, and have spent most of my adult life either on the move or planning my next adventure. In 2014, I was living in London when my dad, Eric, was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND). I immediately moved back to my home town of New Plymouth in New Zealand, to help and spend time with him.When he passed away in October 2022, I wanted to find a way to process my grief, and I was desperate to get back out into the world. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Tiny Scottish seaside town that's home to two of the UK's best fish and chip shops

Stonehaven, on the Aberdeenshire coast, has a population of 11,000 but boasts four chippies, two of which have been named among the best in the UK by a prestigious industry body

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4 d. ago This stunning seaside town is the home of the battered Mars Bar

Stonehaven is a haven for foodies and day-trippers

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5 d. ago 'People are choking with dust' Calls for action on 'slow Aberfan disaster'

Concerns have been raised by residents living near Craig-yr-Hesg Pontypridd that quarry blasts are impacting their health

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5 d. ago Wrestler stepping into home town ring for first time as part of PBW event

Danny Clarke, from Cairnhill, is "very excited" to perform in front of family and friends at Airdrie Town Hall on June 20.

Sport

6 d. ago Lamb with beans, and rum baba: Claude Bosi’s recipes for a French early summer feast

A slow-cooked masterpiece and a showstopping classic boozy puddingThere’s a reason classic French bistros will never go out of fashion, and that’s because they serve food that, deep down, we really want to eat. Think the comforting familiarity of terrine and steak tartare, of onion soup and moules-frîtes, the sheer pleasure that is a proper Paris-Brest or tarte tatin In my home town of Lyon, we’ve even developed our own local take on the bistro in the form of the bouchon, to showcase and preserve the region’s culinary traditions. Bistro, bouchon, brasserie: whatever you call it, this is, above all else, good, honest cooking, rustic rather than show-offy, and it’s made to share around a noisy table, whether that’s in a restaurant or in the comfort of your own home. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Green light for £13.5m scheme to provide 25 affordable homes in Welsh town

Pembrokeshire Council's cabinet has backed the awarding of a fixed contract to construct 25 flats, one bedsit, a 12-bed reablement facility, and communal areas

Economics

7 d. ago France opens terror case after Tunisian hairdresser shot dead in ‘racist act’

Inquiry is first since anti-terrorism prosecution unit set up to investigate potential links of crime to ultra-rightFrench prosecutors have opened a terrorism investigation after a man in the south of France, who they say posted racist videos online, allegedly shot dead his Tunisian neighbour.Hichem Miraoui, 45, a Tunisian hairdresser who lived in the village of Puget-sur-Argents, near the Mediterranean town of Fréjus, was shot five times near his home late on Saturday and died at the scene. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago ‘Hard for me to understand’: grappling with the Charlottesville tragedy eight years on

Author and Charlottesville native Deborah Baker revisits the devastating events of 2017 and examines how they speak to a difficult pastDeborah Baker’s new book, Charlottesville, is about her home town in Virginia, where in summer 2017 white supremacists marched, violence erupted and a counter-protester was murdered. In dizzying detail, Baker charts and reports the chaos. In interludes, she examines the dark history of a city long linked to racist oppression, from the days of Thomas Jefferson, Robert E Lee and slavery to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and resistance to civil rights reform.Putting it all together was a new challenge for a writer whose books include In Extremis, a biography of the 20th-century poet Laura Riding, and A Blue Hand: The Beats in India. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago UK's cheapest seaside town surrounded by mountains where houses cost £103k

Famed for its whisky distilleries, nearby golden sandy beaches, and rich wildlife - this stunning seaside town is one of the cheapest in the UK, with homes costing as little as £103,000

Economics

8 d. ago Falling Into Place review – earnest romantic drama aims to nail the thirtysomething dilemma

A magical encounter on Skye leads to real life back in London in Aylin Tezel’s honest but difficult-to-care love storyGerman actor Aylin Tezel writes, directs and stars in this strident, fervent, oddly unreal romantic drama set in London and Skye; it is like the world’s longest TV banking ad without the humour that something like this needs. Yet for all its faults it’s an honest, flawed attempt to show how complicated it is to meet someone in your 30s who may be The One when both of you already have entanglements or relationships or ex-relationships.It looks like a very personal work from Tezel, with moments that could be taken from real life. Chris Fulton plays Ian, a guy who has come back to his home town in Skye for difficult family reasons, and in the pub he meets-cute, or meets-intense, with German set-designer Kira, played by Tezel. They have a magical night where they stay up all night talking, but then have to part, both back to London where they pursue their separate imperf...

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8 d. ago Small town home to famous singer that people struggle to pronounce

Witham in Essex is a prominent town in the county with a number of famous faces hailing from the area including singer Olly Murs and former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

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9 d. ago The Brits who left home for a dream life in Spain... but were left penniless and living in a shanty town by the changing facts of life in the sun

A double whammy of Covid lockdowns and a surge in Airbnb-style properties - there are now more than 20,000 on the island - has left many few affordable places to live in Tenerife.

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9 d. ago Underrated UK seaside town is completely 'overlooked' but full of charm

This seaside town in Yorkshire is home to an award-winning beach and newly rebuilt promenade, though it is unfortunately overlooked by flashier resort towns

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1 week ago Locals in picturesque seaside town fighting Airbnb crisis reveal heart

Heartbroken locals have told MailOnline how youngsters on this picturesque island are being priced out by AirBnB landlords who have 'never stepped foot on the island'.

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1 week ago Dark history of abandoned town ‘like Chernobyl’ where 70,000 homes stand frozen in time

The housing estate of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga has become a no-go area, with gang violence a regular feature of an abandoned project that is now crumbling into the ground

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