2 h. ago Do this garden job in the morning or risk a slug invasion, say experts

There are ways to keep slugs away from your garden and one is a simple job which has to be done at a certain time of day

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5 h. ago World Snooker Championship star's referee wife speaks out after Mark Selby gesture

Mark Selby, one of the pre-tournament favourites, showed his class after suffering a surprise first-round defeat to fellow Leicester player Ben Woollaston at the World Championship

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29 h. ago Snooker star's wife is refereeing at the Crucible in very different role to her day job

Tatiana Woollaston is one of the top snooker referees in the sport, but she also has a full-time job away from the baize and away from husband Ben Woollaston

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55 h. ago St Andrew’s stardust: Birmingham eye records and Premier League push

Chris Davies’s dominant side have secured League One promotion but the club hope that is just the startOn day one in the job, as Chris Davies surveyed St Andrew’s for the first time last summer, the Birmingham City manager was struck by a damning statistic courtesy of the club historian, Malcolm McHenry: no league side had lost more matches across the previous five seasons. Birmingham were relegated to League One a month earlier after circling the drain for a while. “When you hear something like that, it’s powerful because you think: ‘Wow, there are 92 teams,’” Davies says. “Everyone has suffered so much I suppose I saw an opportunity to change that and this season we’ve won more games than any other team in the country.”Talk about a turnaround. Birmingham, runaway champions, have returned to the Championship at the first attempt and it is now 30 league wins and counting. Only Leeds have scored more goals than Birmingham this season across the top four tiers and only Arsenal, Leeds ...

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1 week ago Workman ‘lucky to be alive’ after being run over by truck at waste site on first day

A worker is “lucky to be alive” after he was hit from behind by a moving shovel loader at a waste site on the first day of his new job.

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1 week ago Shocking moment a heavy duty shovel loader runs over an unsuspecting workman on his first day on the job at a waste recycling site

The 40-year-old is seen collecting waste before the truck unexpectedly rams into him from behind.

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2 w. ago Mum dies being dragged under the bus she was running for on way to work at Boots

Helaleh Cheraghmakani had moved to the UK from Iran with her family for a better life. They settled in Nottingham and she landed a new job at Boots HQ but tragedy struck on her first day

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2 w. ago Birmingham bin strikes: Locals earn extra cash with waste collections as rubbish piles up on streets

Local Reece Ticer, 29, is juggling his day job as an electrical engineer with collecting bins from homes and local businesses, as negotiations to end the Birmingham bin strikes continue

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2 w. ago Top snooker star’s referee wife made no bones about it with message after losing

Ben Woollaston raced against the clock to compete at the World Grand Prix last month and was sent a brutal message from his wife immediately after being dumped out of the tournament

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2 w. ago Mum dies after being dragged under bus she was running for to get to new job

Helaleh Cheraghmakani had narrowly missed the bus by seconds on the day she was due to start a new job at Boots

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2 w. ago Mum killed after being dragged under bus she was running to catch

An inquest has heard that she had missed the bus on her first day of a new job.

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2 w. ago Mum dies after being dragged under bus she was running to catch on first day of new job

Helaleh Cheraghmakani, known as Hailey, tragically died while trying to catch a bus in Nottingham city centre as she was running late on the first day of her new job

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2 w. ago Meet Britain's most prolific reality TV star who is appearing in his eighth different show

Tomasz Wisniewski has swapped the heat of his day job for the scorching temperatures of the Malaysian rainforest in Channel 4's Tempting Fortune – but you may have seen him before

Culture

3 w. ago Trump tariffs latest: City braces for ‘Liberation Day’ trade war chaos amid fears over 25,000 UK job losses

Donald Trump to unveil sweeping tariffs on any country that ‘treats the US unfairly’ today

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3 w. ago 'Britain's most hated mum' who blagged NHS nose job now wants wild Mother's Day gift

Carla Bellucci, who shot to fame after faking depression for a free nose job on the NHS, says her children will be spending lots of money on her this Mother's Day as she "deserves it"

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