5 h. ago Britain's carmakers to get £2.5billion boost to help transition to electric

The cash will be distributed through competitions over 10 years, where companies can bid for support for a range of projects from start up prototypes to huge gigafactories

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57 h. ago ‘She’s one of us!’ The dizzying rise of Hannah Laing, Scottish dental nurse turned superstar doof

The Dundee producer’s hard dance has won her millions of listeners and an Ibiza residency. But for Laing, nothing beats giving back to her community – starting with a huge hometown festivalIn the centre of a dancefloor in a Dundee park, a group of athleisure-clad teens are dancing to a Crazy Frog remix with a middle-aged couple wearing head-to-toe smiley face print. They’re in a re-creation of the Highlander, a Scottish bar in Ibiza, complete with Saltire flags and Buckfast cocktails. Across the park, a crowd of thousands are hanging on for the drop in Ultrabeat’s Pretty Green Eyes as played by trance icon Judge Jules. It may be late afternoon in Dundee, but the vibe is pure late-night riviera hedonism.This is last weekend’s Doof in the Park festival, curated by Hannah Laing in her home town. From Manchester to Ibiza, Amsterdam to Tokyo, the Scottish DJ and producer has brought her sets of hard house, trance and techno to every big club scene in the world, but the festival “had to b...

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4 d. ago Chelsea XI vs Fluminense: Starting lineup, confirmed team news, injury latest for Club World Cup semi

Enzo Maresca hands a start to Joao Pedro for first time in huge last-four showdown

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4 d. ago Chelsea XI vs Fluminense: Predicted lineup, confirmed team news, injury latest for Club World Cup semi

Enzo Maresca could start Joao Pedro for first time in huge last-four showdown

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6 d. ago From swim schools to eye clinics: how families of 7/7 victims used heartbreak to help others

Relatives tell of their determination to see good come from the killing of their loved ones in 2005 London bombingsIn the city of Bhubaneswar, the capital of the north-east Indian state of Odisha, there is an eye clinic that has transformed the lives of thousands of children.Before the unit was established in 2008, according to its vice-chair, there was no dedicated children’s eye care centre in the entire eastern part of India, a country home to 20% of the world’s blind children. The clinic now sees about 3,000 children a month and performs 350 eye surgeries – a significant proportion of them at no cost to the often very poor families who need them. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago 'I'm sick of partner's dirty talk about ravaging the hunky bloke who lives next door'

JUST JANE: Today our agony aunt Jane O'Gorman is dealing with a new issue from a Daily Star reader who is forced to listen while his girl sleep talks about other men

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1 week ago He brutally beat his neighbour while other people on the street turned a blind eye

Mathew Jones has shown no remorse for the attach which left his victim with a broken nose and eye socket and a gash on his face which needed 17 stitches

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2 w. ago Alexia Putellas: ‘The cruciate, the meniscus: you’ve closed that cycle. Done. I felt free’

Spain’s icon, the world’s best female player, discusses her journey back from injury and going to the Euros to compete for ‘the trophy we are missing’‘It wasn’t my knee that hurt, it was my soul,” the Queen says, but now she is back. There is a look in Alexia Putellas’s eye, a light. “You know that feeling, that sense of security when it’s like you’re capable of anything?” the double Ballon d’Or winner says, leaning forward on a sofa at Spain’s Las Rozas HQ.“At that moment, I felt it. And now I’ve got that feeling once again. I’m happy; the desire for these Euros is huge. I can’t wait to start, to go and give my everything.” And Alexia Putellas’s everything is everything. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Couple who went £150k over budget renovating dream home set up GoFundMe as they 'can't afford' to finish it

Mary and Sean Davis started the huge water tower conversion in 2021, armed with a £350,000 budget and dreams to turn it into a seven-bedroom home

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2 w. ago Huge summer of women's cricket sees England Women hosting India and the return of The Hundred

Cricket fans across England and Wales are set for a huge summer of sporting action, starting later this month with a refreshed England Women side, following a whitewash of the West Indies, taking on India in a series destined for unlimited drama. New Head Coach Charlotte Edwards and new Captain Nat Sciver-Brunt will lead their team in three Metro Bank ODIs and five Vitality IT20s across June and July, with the rivalry between the two nations running deeper than ever before as – for the first time – England Men and England Men’s Mixed Disability sides will also host India.

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2 w. ago Steam Summer Sale 2025 start time: Here's when huge PC games go on sale as first discounts arrive

We hope your payday has been and gone, because you're bound to find something tempting in the Steam Summer Sale - here's what to expect, including that all important start time

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2 w. ago Summer Sessions 2025 Bar Prices: Here's how much a pint or a cocktail will cost you at the Scottish concerts

The series of huge gigs have now started - and the price of a pint has been announced. Strap in...

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3 w. ago Beautiful 31C country loved by Brits named among world's most dangerous

Even tourist-riddled areas in this country are starting to be impacted by crime and violence, in a huge blow to UK tourists desperate for guaranteed sunshine and pristine beaches

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3 w. ago BREAKING Oasis fans in frenzy at huge announcement days before tour starts

It's expected Noel and Liam Gallagher will be seen together for the first time in years this evening ahead of a huge collaboration announcement

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3 w. ago Chelsea fans demand immediate Premier League change after Club World Cup trial

The Club World Cup over in the USA has had a slow start despite huge spending from FIFA but some fans were left impressed at one aspect of Chelsea’s opening win against LAFC

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3 w. ago Sick bloke squirted petrol in victim's eyes before starting huge fire over £140 debt

Adam Glover, 33, gave his victim until September 9 last year to pay back him and came banging on the door when it wasn't, leaving the victim and his mum terrified

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3 w. ago Man sat outside takeaway was punched, kneed to the head and then beaten on the floor by stranger

The defenceless 19-year-old victim suffered a broken nose, black eyes, migraines, and concussion and said the attack had changed him as a person

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