7 h. ago Scran Awards 2025: Nominate the best Scottish pub & most sustainable business

The Scotsman’s Scran Awards will take place in June, and with some returning categories in which to celebrate our food and drink industry.

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7 h. ago Plans for enlarged restaurant and bar in grounds of plush Bishopton hotel approved by Renfrewshire Council

Bid for planning permission for the alteration and extension of Il Posto at Mar Hall granted by local authority.

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5 d. ago Woman awarded $15m after alleged slip and fall at The Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas

Deborah Fenton sustained unspecified injuries when she allegedly slipped in a bar at The Comopolitan hotel

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6 d. ago Celebrity Big Brother 2025 LIVE: Mickey Rourke facing eviction as nominations announced

‘Dance Moms’ star broke down in tears after calling out Rourke’s homophobic comments

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6 d. ago My daughter's suicide could have been prevented. Now I fight to save other children like Jen: Sharren Bridges

Nominated in the Mail's 2025 Inspirational Women Awards, Sharren Bridges, who lost her daughter to suicide, set up a charity to guide schools in thinking 'outside the box' to help neurodivergent children.

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8 d. ago Scran Awards 2025: Nominate your favourite cocktail bar and hotel restaurant

The Scotsman’s Scran Awards will take place in June, and there are a few new categories in which to celebrate our wonderful food and drink industry.

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9 d. ago The British Soap Awards 2025 nominations receive backlash over 'disgraceful decision'

The first batch of nominations were released ahead of the May ceremony

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1 week ago Nick Grimshaw's London: drinks at Three Sheets, dinner at Primeur and Soho record

From his favourite cocktail spots to what he’d do if he was Mayor for the day, the broadcaster shares his guide to the capital

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1 week ago The London restaurant nominated for ‘Best Local Restaurant of the Year’ 2025

The London restaurant nominated for ‘Best Local Restaurant of the Year’ 2025  Time Out

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1 week ago ‘Parasites should get more fame’: the nominees for world’s finest invertebrate – podcast

Invertebrates don’t get the attention lavished on cute pets or apex predators, but these unsung heroes are some of the most impressive and resilient creatures on the planet. So when the Guardian opened its poll to find the world’s finest invertebrate, readers got in touch in their droves. A dazzling array of nominations have flown in for insects, arachnids, snails, crustaceans, corals and many more obscure creatures. Patrick Barkham tells Madeleine Finlay why these tiny creatures deserve more recognition, and three readers, Sandy, Nina and Russell, make the case for their favouritesInvertebrate of the year 2025: vote for your favouriteSupport the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod Continue reading...

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2 w. ago More than beautiful: the beloved monarch butterfly is one of the world’s great migrators

The hardy travellers can fly for 3,000 miles from the north-east US and Canada to roost in their millions in MexicoMore invertebrate of the year nominationsImagine your body was the weight of a raisin, supported by just a pair of flimsy, gossamer wings. Now imagine that you had to fly for 3,000 miles, avoiding storms, highways and predators, to ensure your species continued.Could you do it? Unless you’re a monarch butterfly, fortunately you won’t have to face such a challenge.Between 24 March and 2 April, we will be profiling a shortlist of 10 of the invertebrates chosen by readers and selected by our wildlife writers from more than 2,500 nominations. The voting for our 2025 invertebrate of the year will run from midday on Wednesday 2 April until midday on Friday 4 April, and the winner will be announced on Monday 7 April. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘The ultimate circular economy’: how coral holobionts conjure magnificence from nothing

These creatures evolved over millenia to create nature’s finest circular economy, but are now struggling to surviveThere’s no preparing for a first encounter with a thriving coral reef: your attention ricochets between dramas of colour, form and movement. A blaze of fire coral, darting clown fish, crimson sponge, electric blue ray a turtle! Your heart soars, your head spins. Nowhere else will you encounter such density and diversity of life.Corals are the architects of all this splendour. Their immobile forms suggest plants, but they’re animals – solar-powered ones. Each is a colony of thousands, sometimes millions, of tiny coral polyps, each resembling a slimmed-down sea anemone, just millimetres tall.Between 24 March and 2 April, we will be profiling a shortlist of 10 of the invertebrates chosen by readers and selected by our wildlife writers from more than 2,500 nominations. The voting for our 2025 invertebrate of the year will run from midday on Wednesday 2 April until midday on...

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2 w. ago 2025 Scran Awards: Nominate your favourite local restaurant and newcomer of the year

The 2025 Scran Award categories have been announced - and there is a new award up for grabs

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2 w. ago Vote for the beast that may be as ruthlessly predatory as us – the fen raft spider

With a leg-span the size of your hand, the UK’s biggest spider, ultra-rare and known for its extraordinary hunting skills, has many admirersMore amazing nominations here!Meet an Olympian among Britain’s 660 spider species: a palm-of-the-hand-sized arachnid that hunts in three dimensions and can even devour fish.The fen raft spider (Dolomedes plantarius) is a magnificent ambush predator: harmless to humans but lethal if you’re a pond skater, tadpole or even adult dragonfly.Araneae have been feared and discriminated against throughout historyBetween 24 March and 2 April, we will be profiling a shortlist of 10 of the invertebrates chosen by readers and selected by our wildlife writers from more than 2,500 nominations. The voting for our 2025 invertebrate of the year will run from midday on Wednesday, 2 April until midday on Friday, 4 April, and the winner will be announced on Monday, 7 April. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ella Langley leads 2025 ACM Awards nominations. Beyoncé and Miranda Lambert are shut out

Ella Langley leads the nominees for the 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards with eight nods to her name

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2 w. ago Nothing for Gavin & Stacey? The sheer number of omissions in the TV Baftas is ridiculous

From the Barry-Billericay finale to Wolf Hall, Pachinko and Nobody Wants This, there are far too many cruelly overlooked shows this year. But the even bigger problem? Bafta’s Adolescence issue• Stalking saga Baby Reindeer leads 2025 TV Bafta nominationsThe latest Bafta TV awards again show the range of talent across UK television. Though drama characteristically dominates, the shows with most nominations – Rivals, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, Slow Horses and Baby Reindeer – represent a range of genres and source material (from real events via a 36-year-old Jilly Cooper bonkbuster to a solo theatre show) suggesting that the 2025 voters have largely avoided historical snobbery, long a problem in these prizes.The awards also continue a belated honouring of overlooked talent. After improbably having to wait until last year for his first main Bafta nomination, David Tennant gets a rapid second, for his thrilling turn as a Richard III of the TV industry in the raunchy Cooper adaptation Ri...

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2 w. ago Small but feisty: the clever cuttlefish that changes colour to bedazzle predators

The flamboyant cuttlefish flashes patterns and psychedelic colours and waves its arms in a hypnotic displayMore fantastic invertebrate nominations hereIf you love a feisty rebel, look no further than the flamboyant cuttlefish, on the 10-strong shortlist for the Guardian’s invertebrate of the year 2025. It is small, smart, capable of spectacular displays and has fought against the odds to become the deadliest of its kind.This creative creature is small for its class of cephalopods, which includes octopus, squid and nautilus, at just 6-8cm. Due to the relatively reduced size of its air-filled cuttlebone, a unique internal shell used for buoyancy that lends these molluscs their unique, rather alien-spaceship way of swimming, it cannot float or hover as well as its cousins.Between 24 March and 2 April, we will be profiling a shortlist of 10 of the invertebrates chosen by readers and selected by our wildlife writers from more than 2,500 nominations. The voting for our 2025 invertebrate o...

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2 w. ago BAFTA TV Nominations 2025 in Full: Here's who's shortlisted as Baby Reindeer leads the way with 8 nods

It’s the biggest night of the year for British television.

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2 w. ago Controversial Netflix hit Baby Reindeer dominates Bafta TV Award nominations – full list

‘Mr Bates vc the Post Office’, ‘Rivals’, and ‘Slow Horses’ have also been recognised

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2 w. ago TV Baftas 2025 nominations in full as Baby Reindeer leads the way ahead of three other huge hits

Big spread of awards across 134 programmes with Stacey Solomon and Danny Dyer both up for first time Bafta gongs

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