1 week ago Fire Brigade Union boss speaks out as West Lothian wildfire continues into fourth day

Fire crews worked all weekend to try and contain the fire with 9 fire appliances and a specialist helicopter deployed to drop water on the burning trees and moorland.

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1 week ago Fire crews still battling huge wildfire in West Lothian as helicopter used to drop water

Nine appliances were dispatched to the blaze in a woodland area near Fauldhouse at about midday on Saturday, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said.

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2 w. ago Huma Bhabha review – ‘Giacometti is a foil to her flamboyance. She is today’s Picasso’

Barbican, LondonThe Pakistani-American sculptor’s traumatised patchwork people more than hold their own against the great Swiss artist’s striding, emaciated statues in this thrilling clashAn artist has to ask big questions and have intense thoughts to get away with exhibiting among the profound masterpieces of Alberto Giacometti. I didn’t give much for Huma Bhabha’s chances. But she takes the Barbican’s new daylit art gallery by storm.Grey morning light from windows that look across the brutalist ponds at St Giles Cripplegate pours through big holes in her 2019 sculpture Mask of Dimitrios. This roughly assembled human figure has plastic bags for breasts – not inflated but sagging pieces of dirty polythene – a metal chair for a skeleton enhanced by blackened dog bones, plaster arms and legs, a battered tray for a face, all tacked together over an inner emptiness. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Masked figures drop from helicopters and storm building near Tesco leaving shoppers stunned

The masked abseilers were dressed in black as they descended quickly from the choppers and into the building.

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3 w. ago Shoppers in shock as masked figures drop from helicopters and storm building near Tesco

The abseilers were all masked and clad in black as they descended quickly from the two helicopters and into the building near Baguley in Greater Manchester

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3 w. ago Building close to Tesco stormed by masked figures who drop from helicopters

Residents in the suburb of Baguley were left stunned after witnessing figures abseiling from two helicopters onto a building

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3 w. ago Masked figures drop from helicopters and storm building near Manchester Tesco

Shoppers in the Manchester suburb of Baguley were shocked as they watched the dramatic scenes unfold from the car park of a Tesco superstore

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