18 h. ago Tim Dowling: let my tortoise’s humiliating mishap be a lesson to him

A freak thunderstorm soaks the middle one on his way to our house (he’s come to raid the fridge), but the real drama is the toppled tortoise After an hour’s work on a hot morning I leave my office shed and return to the kitchen for a coffee. Halfway there I find the tortoise lying on his back on the path. He can’t have been there for more than an hour, as he wasn’t there when I came out.“What happened to you?” I say, setting him on his feet. But it’s pretty obvious what happened: he tried to exit the garden bed by climbing over the border of diagonally laid bricks and overbalanced. It’s an obstacle he surmounts without difficulty between five and 10 times a day in the warmer months, but occasionally – perhaps once every four years – he puts a foot wrong. So far, I have always been there to turn him back over. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Met Office verdict on 'mini heatwave' set to bring 27C temperatures to UK

The Met Office has revealed whether Brits could soon see a return of a 'mini heatwave' in the UK

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54 h. ago Royal London builds infrastructure capability with Dalmore Capital acquisition

Royal London builds infrastructure capability with Dalmore Capital acquisition  Pensions & Investments

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63 h. ago Return to office boosting demand for older London buildings, says British Land

One of UK’s biggest landlords points to lack of construction since pandemic and high rents for shift

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63 h. ago Return to office boosts demand for older London buildings, says British Land

One of UK’s biggest landlords points to lack of construction since pandemic and high rents for shift

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3 d. ago The Bear season 4 official trailer drops teasing the return of familiar famous face

The Bear is getting even more tense in season four with a countdown to bankruptcy.

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4 d. ago Princess Beatrice's stepson builds 'mancave' in London townhouse – see progress video

Princess Beatrice's stepson builds 'mancave' in London townhouse – see progress video  hellomagazine.com

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5 d. ago Met Office say hotter weather will return within days, but it's not great news after that

We’re in for a mix of scattered showers and sunny spells this week as weather patterns make a significant shift in the UK

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5 d. ago Officials warn it's 'a matter of time' before highly contagious virus spreads through the UK

Health officials have warned that a highly contagious virus will inevitably return to the UK if the government does not act quickly to stop it.

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5 d. ago Met Office latest on when rain will finally return to Greater Manchester

The long dry spell looks set to end in days

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8 d. ago The Guardian view on the Moomins at 80: in search of a home | Editorial

Tove Jansson’s magical stories provide a message of tolerance, inclusivity and hope amid today’s refugee crisisAll Moomin fans will recognise the turreted blue house that is home to the family of gentle, upright‑hippo‑like creatures. The stove-shaped tower is a symbol of comfort and welcome throughout the nine Moomin novels by the celebrated Nordic writer and artist Tove Jansson. Now the house is the inspiration for a series of art installations in UK cities, in collaboration with Refugee Week, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the creation of the Moomins.Taking the motto “The door is always open”, building will begin next week on a 12ft blue house outside London’s Southbank Centre, just a stone’s throw from Westminster. All of the installations, by artists from countries including Afghanistan, Syria and Romania, deal with displacement: in Bradford, the Palestinian artist Basel Zaraa has created a refugee tent in which to imagine life after occupation and war; in Gateshead, ...

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9 d. ago Sage sees profits jump but signals more ‘uncertain’ global backdrop

Chief executive Steve Hare said strong demand for AI technology was helping boost business.

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9 d. ago Owner of £3m Mayfair townhouse ordered to destroy 'illegal' basement — featuring gym, sauna and cinema

The Planning Inspectorate has ordered the homeowner to ‘restore’the Grade II-listed building in Central London after an unsuccessful appeal

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1 week ago Net zero to pave way for UK’s tallest building outside London

Net zero to pave way for UK’s tallest building outside London  The Telegraph

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1 week ago Thousands of civil servants to be moved out of London as 11 Government offices in capital set to close

Some 12,000 civil service jobs will be moved out of London and 11 Government office buildings shut

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1 week ago Thousands of civil servants to be moved out of London as 11 Government offices set to close

Some 12,000 civil service jobs will be moved out of London and 11 Government office buildings shut

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1 week ago Trump’s border intimidation is coming for US citizens too – ask streamer Hasan Piker | Owen Jones

The leftwing, pro-Palestine streamer’s interrogation by airport officials on his return to the US shows a chilling escalation of the war on free speechWhere are all the free speech warriors on the right now? Hasan Piker, a popular streamer with 4.5 million followers across YouTube and Twitch, who has been hailed by mainstream publications such as the New Yorker and New York Times as the left’s answer to the deluge of rightwing internet influencers, says he was detained and questioned for hours by border control agents as he re-entered the US (Piker is a US citizen). It is an instructive moment. Countries that behave like this towards political commentators and dissenting voices who are their own citizens are either nakedly authoritarian, or well on the way.Piker was reportedly interrogated at length not just about Hamas, the Houthis and Hezbollah, but his views on Donald Trump. The 33-year-old pundit – an unapologetic champion of the Palestinian cause – stuck to a message of opposin...

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1 week ago Young mum dies on her birthday after TWO TONNES of bricks fall on her from crane

Michaela Boor was killed when a pallet of bricks weighing more than two tonnes fell from a crane on a building site in Bethnal Green, East London as a developer and four men face manslaughter charges

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1 week ago Miliband v Miliband: Energy Secretary's High Court judge wife turns nimby over new flats

Justine Thornton, a High Court judge who is married to the Energy Secretary, wrote to Camden Council in relation to the five-storey building earmarked for land near their north London house.

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1 week ago Liam Delap to Manchester United transfer boost emerges after Ruben Amorim demand

The latest Manchester United transfer news as the Ipswich Town striker is available for £30 million in the summer transfer window.

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