67 m. ago Inside festive village that Phil Foden booked out that families love

The former farm has been transformed into a shopping village with fairground, play area and a magical woodland light trail, and it hit the headlines this month after Phil Foden booked the entire place out for a Christmas party

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71 m. ago Music festival founded by Genesis frontman four decades ago to be held in Scotland for first time

Event due to feature global music including pop, dance, folk, jazz and hip-hop

Culture

71 m. ago Save Scotland's high streets: Why SNP can't ignore this urgent plea for help

Finance Secretary Shona Robison needs to realise that the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors are not crying wolf about their problems

Politics

72 m. ago Baker recreates 'awesome' cupcakes which haven't been on UK shelves for 11 years

The pre-packed treat made of light sponge topped with a thin milk chocolate were the perfect size for including in a packed lunch, but abruptly disappeared from UK shelves in the mid 2010s

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1 hour ago Brown University shooting leaves students, community frustrated with official response

The effort to find a man who walked onto Brown University’s campus and shot nearly a dozen students in a crowded lecture hall has raised serious questions about the school’s security systems and the urgency of the investigation itself

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1 hour ago Police confirm the Bondi terror attack was inspired by Islamic State

New South Wales Health confirmed on Tuesday afternoon 25 people remained in hospital as of Tuesday afternoon with six in a critical condition following the Bondi Beach attack

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2 h. ago US Capitol statue of teen civil rights leader Barbara Rose Johns to fill Robert E. Lee’s place

The U.S. Capitol will soon display a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school

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2 h. ago When Secret Santa goes disastrously wrong: ‘It was the most awful thing – I just wanted to cry’

A game of solitaire accompanied by a nasty note, dog food for someone who just lost a puppy Secret Santa is supposed to be fun, but when it’s not, it can lead to all kinds of troubleSusanna Beves was a young teacher working at an international school in Germany when she opened a gift that would put her off Secret Santas for ever. The present itself, a solitaire game, “would have been quite nice in the normal circumstances,” she says. But it was accompanied by a note: “It told me that it had been chosen for me because I was single and lonely and likely to remain so, as I had no friends.”“It was the most awful thing,” Beves, now 57, remembers. When she opened the gift, in a room full of 60 staff members, “I just wanted to cry,” she says. “Everybody was there and everybody was opening their gifts. So I knew that the person who’d written that note was in the room with me.” Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Scots influencer caught up in Bondi beach terror 'heard screaming' after narrowly missing shooting

Lily Anderson described the "terrifying" moment she heard "screaming" coming from Bondi Beach, where 16 people were killed, including one gunman, and 40 others injured.

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3 h. ago Demi Moore's 'unfathomable devastation' over Rob Reiner's murder as star shares details of how their kids 'grew up together'

The actress - who starred in Reiner's 1992 thriller A Few Good Men - recalled how 'intertwined' their lives were and how their children 'grew up together.'

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3 h. ago Shane Warne's kids hope mother Simone finds her 'happily ever after' with Coldplay's Chris Martin: 'Her eyes light up when she's around him'

It seems that Brooke and Jackson Warne could be playing matchmaker for their mother Simone Callahan - and they have a very famous suitor in their sights.

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4 h. ago Aussies hit back at 'insane' comments from Americans about Bondi Beach attack as controversial US commentator unleashes

US locals, including a controversial commentator, have sparked outrage over the suggestion.

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4 h. ago Revealed: How disgraced Huw Edwards has formed a close bond with a 70

Huw Edwards, 64, has been seen out and about with Meinir Loader, 70, a former head of religious studies at a secondary school.

Events

4 h. ago Seven dead after Mexico plane crash following attempted landing on football pitch

At least seven people died in a small plane crash in central Mexico while trying to make an emergency landing on a football pitch on Monday, authorities have confirmed

Events

5 h. ago Taylor Swift proves she's the most generous person in showbusiness: Star donates millions to charity, visits children's hospitals and even gave to UK food banks

Perhaps the most memorable scene from Taylor Swift's new Disney+ documentary is when she gives out the tour bonuses to her team of dedicated dancers.

Economics

5 h. ago DR RENEE HOEDERKAMP: As the British Medical Journal publishes an article defending female genital mutilation... I've seen the reality of this barbaric practice

Many years ago, I worked in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology department of a busy east ­London hospital, which served a large Muslim ­population.

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6 h. ago Bump: A Christmas Film review – the most masochistic holiday ever?

Oly and Santi take their newborn on a hellish cruise halfway around the world. But amid the torture there are beautiful moments to treasure in this much-loved Aussie drama As a teenager, Oly Chalmers-Davis weathered her fair share of motherhood-related horrors. For a start, the high-achieving 16-year-old went into labour in the school toilets, having not even realised she was pregnant. Not long afterwards, she was forced to tell her boyfriend he wasn’t the father – the baby was the product of a fling with another classmate. Then, unable to entertain the prospect of her perfect grades slipping, she decided to juggle studying with looking after a newborn, all the while navigating mastitis, mockery from her classmates (including some inventively mean-spirited memes) and a rocky on-off romance with her child’s dad, Santi.After five series following Oly (Nathalie Morris) and Santi (Carlos Sanson Jr) as they struggled to adjust to parenthood, hit Australian comedy-drama Bump wrapped thing...

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6 h. ago UK floods: Urgent Met Office warning 'homes will be destroyed' as downpours hit

The Met Office now has a weather warning in place for several areas, including south Wales, on Wednesday, as up to 60mm of rain is expected to lash across the UK

Events

7 h. ago England and Australia players to wear black armbands in Ashes tribute to Bondi shooting victims

England and Australia players will wear black armbands and flags at Adelaide Oval will be flown at half-staff on Wednesday in an Ashes tribute to the victims of the Bondi beach shootings

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7 h. ago Allied defence ministers to meet after US offers Kyiv security guarantees

A meeting in Berlin on Monday night saw European leaders including Sir Keir Starmer set out conditions for any peace deal with Russia.

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