45 m. ago Scottish Poundland store included on list of retailer's latest closures

The latest announcement means the budget store will have made 24 closures this year.

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45 m. ago BBC The Hit List to award biggest ever jackpot in show's history

The Hit List will see its biggest ever jackpot awarded to one lucky pair on the show as they tackle the final round of the BBC One music competition this weekend

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66 m. ago New York’s mayoral race exposes the deep roots of American Islamophobia | Ahmed Moor

Islamophobic attacks on Zohran Mamdani are a reminder of the difference between individual and structural prejudiceMy only interaction with the FBI came soon after 11 September 2001. A man and woman visited my family’s home in Philadelphia – we had recently moved from Palestine – showed their credentials and asked to enter. My parents invited them in and a conversation about political views followed. They left soon afterwards but I knew we were suspect, and I understood why.At the time, I was in high school. Two or three years later, one of my sisters, who wore the hijab then, was confronted by an elderly white man at a department store. “What’s the significance of the trash you’re wearing on your head?” he asked.Ahmed Moor is a writer and fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace Continue reading...

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66 m. ago ‘The hot tar splashed everywhere’: remembering the dark magic of Derek Jarman

In 1989, the artist was living on the Kentish coast when he created a series of mysterious paintings with a bonfire and tar. A new exhibition brings these so-called Black Paintings to life – and shows why they still resonate todayIn Modern Nature, his journals, published two years before his death in 1994, Derek Jarman described the time his friend David arrived for lunch at Prospect Cottage, Jarman’s home, some time in the summer of 1989. David was carrying an enormous block of pitch.The cottage and its boundless garden sits on the shingle at Dungeness, a place of immeasurable strangeness and beauty on the Kentish coast. “After swimming,” Jarman wrote, “we built a brick hearth, lit a bonfire, and melted the pitch in an old tin can.” The two men then rushed back and forth between the studio and the pot, fetching brushes, gloves, pillows, barbed wire, crucifixes, prayer books, bullets, a model fighter plane and a telephone and set about tarring and feathering objects a...

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68 m. ago Common plant causes burns that last 'for years' and even blindness

It is found across the UK and is easily mistaken for something much less dangerous

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1 hour ago Comedian reveals 'horrendous' side effect of weight loss jab Mounjaro 'no one mentions'

Appearing on the Have A Word podcast, comedian Will Thompson described his experience with the GLP-1 medication, which helps people lose weight by reducing appetite.

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1 hour ago This Morning star announces wedding news in 'unconventional' way on show

ITV This Morning star shares wedding news in "unconventional" way on show as she tells ITV hosts Dermot O'Leary and Sian Welby all about her big day which was planned in four weeks

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2 h. ago Trial date set for alleged Palestine Action members accused of damaging planes at RAF base

The group are accused of causing £7m worth of damage to two Voyager aircraft

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2 h. ago BP agrees to sell US onshore wind business as it shifts back to oil

Company to sell business for undisclosed sum to LS Power as part of plan to offload $20bn in assetsBP has agreed a deal to sell off its onshore wind business in the US as the oil multinational turns its back on renewable energy after a failed attempt to go green.The company said it would sell its share of 10 windfarms, which generate enough clean energy to power more than 500,000 US homes, to the New York-headquartered LS Power. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Add to playlist: Céline Dessberg’s harp evokes Hollywood and home – plus the week’s best new tracks

With a wide-eyed awe at the natural beauty of her Mongolian heritage, the warmth of Dessberg’s voice is irresistibleFrom FranceRecommended if you like Eddie Chacon, the Sweet Enoughs, Chet Baker Up next Full-length album due later this yearPerhaps you are listening to a lot of Mongolian-French harp music featuring hauntingly beautiful Mongolian-language vocals about the natural treasures of the Earth, in which case Céline Dessberg will be old news to you and you can move along. For the rest of us though, she’s a revelation. Taking inspiration from all aspects of her heritage, you’ll find traces of Buddhism, the Mongolian countryside, Chet Baker and David Byrne woven through her songs in a sound that’s classic, old as the hills and refreshingly new all at once. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Liverpool add Diogo Jota to squad list in 'Forever' tribute to Reds star after tragic death

Liverpool have given Diogo Jota a place of his own on their official squad page following the Portuguese forward's tragic death in a car accident earlier this month

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2 h. ago Mounjaro users discover key mistake that's stopping them from losing weight

In a video shared on TikTok, aesthetics practitioner Annabelle Welch, outlined five key warning signs that patients may be undereating on Mounjaro.

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2 h. ago Listen up, weaklings: there’s no Epstein client list – and definitely no cover

It’s the bonfire of the Maga hats. The real mystery is where their wearers got the idea of a paedophile conspiracy from in the first placeYou have to feel for Donald Trump’s Maga base. The one huge secret they didn’t want disclosed was that he actually really hates them. All populists despise their people, obviously – but please, Mr President, respect the playbook! You’re supposed to do it quietly. Regrettably, no one could accuse Trump of hiding his spite under a bushel after a week in which he described those of his supporters who want him to simply do what he repeatedly promised, and release the so-called Epstein files, as “weaklings” and “stupid people”. This is quite the (public) volte face from the guy who originally swept to office declaring “I love the poorly educated”.Most of you are unlikely to need a recap at this stage, but Jeffrey Epstein is the sex-trafficking financier and socialite, who conveniently died in jail while awaiting trial, apparently by suicide. A woman, G...

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2 h. ago Listen up, weaklings: there’s no Epstein client list. Why are you so obsessed? Yours, Donald J Trump | Marina Hyde

It’s the bonfire of the Maga hats. The real mystery is where their wearers got the idea of a paedophile conspiracy from in the first placeYou have to feel for Donald Trump’s Maga base. The one huge secret they didn’t want disclosed was that he actually really hates them. All populists despise their people, obviously – but please, Mr President, respect the playbook! You’re supposed to do it quietly. Regrettably, no one could accuse Trump of hiding his spite under a bushel after a week in which he described those of his supporters who want him to simply do what he repeatedly promised, and release the so-called Epstein files, as “weaklings” and “stupid people”. This is quite the (public) volte face from the guy who originally swept to office declaring “I love the poorly educated”.Most of you are unlikely to need a recap at this stage, but Jeffrey Epstein is the sex-trafficking financier and socialite, who conveniently died in jail while awaiting trial, apparently by suicide. A woman, G...

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2 h. ago Four accused of Palestine Action attack on RAF planes face 2027 trial

The defendants face a year-and-a-half wait for their trial over £7million alleged criminal damage at RAF Brize Norton

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2 h. ago Travellers lose battle to settle in National Park despite 'token' promise to install e

Michael Chalk and Tom Butler were accused of including 'token sustainability features' in their planning application for the site in the New Forest

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2 h. ago Quarry near prison agrees to limit hours so inmates can have a weekend lie

The prison had originally objected to the plans

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3 h. ago You may not know it, but the Democratic primaries for 2028 are already under way | Osita Nwanevu

Every American presidential campaign is many years in the making. So, what’s the state of the 2028 primary race now?Every American presidential campaign is many years in the making. So, what’s the state of the 2028 Democratic primary race now? The Democratic party’s most eligible candidates for the next election have been scheming, climbing, wheeling and dealing for their shot at the ticket for years. Plans were being hatched for the cycles ahead well before Biden garnered the nomination for himself in 2020.Like that race, 2028 promises another crowded and wide-open field of contenders – polls have taken the Democratic electorate’s temperature on as many as 20 potential candidates, from Kamala Harris, who is reportedly considering a run for California’s governor instead, to the sports pundit Stephen A Smith.Osita Nwanevu is a Guardian US columnist. He is the author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding Continue reading...

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3 h. ago UK's grimmest STI hotspots revealed and one area should be given a wide berth

Islington in London tops the list as the riskiest place in England for catching an STI, with a staggering risk score of 94 out of 100 - nearly double the national average of 50

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3 h. ago BP offloads US onshore wind business as it pivots back to oil

Sale to LS Power is part of plan to generate $20bn from divestments

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