2 h. ago Pontins holiday ruined by 'drunk parents and drugs everywhere' in nightmare Southport stay

Michelle Waddington visited the Pontins Southport holiday camp for three nights with her partner, Ian, and his children, but the summer getaway sooner turned into a nightmare

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3 h. ago The Guardian view on child poverty: free school meals are a help, but not a panacea | Editorial

Giving lunch to more pupils is a good move – but poor nutrition points to deeper problems that ministers must faceIt was Ellen Wilkinson, education minister in the Attlee government, who announced in 1946 that free school dinners would be introduced, along with free school milk, at the same time as child benefit. No doubt Rachel Reeves, who has a picture of Wilkinson on the wall of her office, is aware of this – and also that the Treasury subsequently decided the policy was unaffordable. The meals were subsidised instead.Despite these initial charges, and later price rises, poorer children did gain, and keep, an entitlement to free school meals. The announcement last week that this is being extended in England to all those whose parents or carers claim universal credit – rather than restricted to families with incomes lower than £7,400 – should be welcomed by all objectors to child poverty. Being assured of a hot lunch in the middle of the school day makes pupils’ lives be...

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4 h. ago Nepotism Island! From the daughter of a footballing legend to the son of a boyband star

A Love Island contestant with a famous father and celebrity connections will be entering the villa when the ITV2 series begins next week.

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5 h. ago Mum of missing teen, 13, issues urgent plea as police 'increasingly concerned'

Ruby Wallwork, 13, was last seen on Friday night as her mum Amy Bell issued a desperate plea to the public to come forward with any information on the 'vulnerable' teenager

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5 h. ago Ally Wollaston pips British teenager Cat Ferguson to Tour of Britain title

New Zealander claims overall victory at the lastLorena Wiebes takes the stage win for SD Worx-ProtimeThe teenage prodigy Cat Ferguson came within a hair’s breadth of executing a memorable overall win in her debut Tour of Britain, but was outsprinted by her rival Ally Wollaston at the climax of the final stage in Glasgow.The pair came into the final sprint tied on time, after Wollaston had erased the 19-year-old Ferguson’s overall lead. Bonus seconds for third place in the final sprint, behind the stage winner, Lorena Wiebes, was enough for the New Zealander to snatch the overall win. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Shaquille O'Neal once found David Beckham's wallet, and his reaction was 'surprising'

Beckham got an unexpected call from basketball player Shaquille O'Neal saying he had his wallet

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7 h. ago I'm an ex Liverpool kid who was lost boy at Hibs and banned from every Edinburgh nightclub for peeing against a wall

The former Liverpool kid admits his time in the capital in 2011 was life-changing as he changed his ways

Society

8 h. ago Tottenham will need Thomas Frank's transfer target to repeat Gareth Bale's Man Utd snub

Tottenham want to rival Manchester United for Bryan Mbeumo if they do land Thomas Frank and they'll need the Cameroon international to turn down a switch an Old Trafford switch

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8 h. ago Drug kingpin executed in Costa del Sol bar was 'becoming more powerful than his boss... and rival cartels who viewed him as "top dog" put £250k bounty on his head'

Ross Monaghan, 43, long associated with Glasgow 's violent Lyons crime family, was assassinated alongside fellow mobster Eddie Lyons Jr, 46, in Spain.

Economics

9 h. ago Pope Leo criticises ‘exclusionary mindset’ of nationalist political movements

During Sunday Mass in St Peter’s Square, the pope asked that God ‘open borders, break down walls (and) dispel hatred’Pope Leo has criticised the emergence of nationalist political movements and their “exclusionary mindset”, without naming a specific country or leader.Leo, the first pope from the US, asked during a Mass on Sunday with tens of thousands in St Peter’s Square that God would “open borders, break down walls (and) dispel hatred”. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Drug kingpin gunned down in Costa del Sol bar with Scottish gangster was 'seen as top dog by rival cartels'

Ross Monaghan, 43, long associated with Glasgow 's violent Lyons crime family, was assassinated alongside fellow mobster Eddie Lyons Jr, 46, in Spain.

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10 h. ago Mum of girl, 13, missing for over 24 hours issues urgent plea with police 'increasingly concerned'

Ruby Wallwork has been missing for more than 24 hours

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10 h. ago The Potato Eaters review – a descent from visceral dread into full

Lazzaretto Vecchio, VeniceOn the site of a hospital for leprosy patients, audience members are invited to wander in near darkness among twitching body bags into a choreographed scene of ritualised tyrannyThere are strong Death in Venice vibes to the setting of Romeo Castellucci’s site specific production at the Venice Biennale Teatro. The show, by the Italian writer-director and his company, inhabits its own island – a long, lizard-like colony. The audience boards a shuttle and skims across the water to arrive at a building that was once a lazaretto – a hospital for leprosy patients. Associations with fatal infection and social isolation are chillingly resonance of the Covid pandemic. But as you wander into this disturbing promenade piece, things turn chilly in more ways than one.The building’s interior is stripped of its skin so that its brick and rafters lie bare, and there is a low electronic rumble of sound along its corridors which is as disquieting as the near darkness. Window...

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13 h. ago Coronation Street fans distracted by Lisa Swain star's role on rival soap

Coronation Street star Vicky Myers has become a firm fixture on the cobbles as DS Lisa Swain, but it appears she's got a secret soap past that fans are only just discovering

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13 h. ago Thomas Frank WANTS Tottenham job and has already made first demand

Thomas Frank is keen to become the next Tottenham manager and wants them to rival Manchester United for Brentford star Bryan Mbeumo - who is likely to be on the move

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19 h. ago Business is buzzing for couple behind revival kits that rescue bees in need... while Wimbledon serves up an ace rival to strawberries with its very own honey

A bee revival kit, designed to help tired, floundering insects, is driving a craze that sees the public giving them a helping hand.

Events

21 h. ago US billionaire dubbed 'the most powerful man on Wall Street' denies neighbours' claims he's plundering Wiltshire's underground water to fill his nine

A US billionaire's dream of creating a grand English country estate is facing backlash from neighbours convinced he is tapping into their water supply.

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23 h. ago Dunelm shoppers race to buy £36 wall art after waiting for it 'come back in stock'

'Lovely piece of wall art. Finishes off my bedroom perfectly. Love it.'

Economics

25 h. ago Luke Littler crashes out of Nordic Darts Masters as rival ends 12

Luke Littler was knocked out of the Nordic Darts Masters by Nathan Aspinall in the quarter-finals as the Asp beat the world champion for the first time in 12 matches

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26 h. ago Five perform live for the FIRST time in 25 years as they surprise fans at Robbie Williams' stadium gig in London

Marking the band's first live performance in 25 years, the iconic Noughties boyband brought a vibrant energy to the Emirates Stadium.

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