78 m. ago Country pub fills with water as windows smash amid torrential flooding

Parts of the pub are underwater after heavy rainfall battered the area on Monday and Tuesday.

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4 h. ago Soy, oat, almond, rice: which alternative milk is healthiest?

The best choice depends on your needs and preferences, say experts – here’s how to pick the one for your lifestyleThe dairy aisle might need a new name, given the diversity of products on offer. Dana Ellis Hunnes, a senior clinical dietitian at UCLA Health, says her local grocery store often stocks more non-dairy milk options than dairy ones. She’s tried various options, including a brief phase with coconut milk (“It was too creamy and too watery at the same time”). Now, she enjoys oat milk, which adds the right amount of creaminess to her coffee.The best choice depends on individual needs and preferences, says Hunnes. One person might want to add more protein to their diet, while another might be looking to increase their calcium intake. Flavor and mouthfeel are also important considerations. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Hurricane Melissa victims face new threat as death toll rises again

Crews are still trying to reach more than two dozen communities that remain cut off since Melissa made landfall

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5 h. ago Full list of flood warnings and alerts in England as local flooding ‘probable’

The Government has warned "do not" attempt to walk or drive through flood water

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7 h. ago Munich's surfers left stunned after famed river wave vanishes

Eisbach wave in the Bavarian city had been a surfing magnet for decades but disappeared after a cleanupA standing wave in a Munich stream that has been a surfing magnet for more than four decades has vanished, leaving urban surfers high and dry.Water levels in the Eisbach (“ice brook”) dropped last week for annual cleanup work along the streambed. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Crest must face lawsuit for putting too much toothpaste on the box art for children’s products, judge rules

The controversial US Health Secretary has previously weighed in on the debate over concerns about the use of fluoride in drinking water

Society

8 h. ago Windows smashed as torrential flooding fills country pub with water

Heavy rain on Tuesday has seen river levels rise in Carmarthenshire and one well-known riverside pub has borne the brunt once more

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9 h. ago Remove toilet limescale using 1 natural item and it costs less than bleach

Limescale is a natural stain that forms when sitting water evaporates and leaves behind a mineral residue called calcium carbonate, but there is a simple way to remove it

Politics

9 h. ago Government issues update after calls for major water bill change for UK households

Campaigners have been calling on the government to introduce a single social tariff on water bills

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9 h. ago The safer alternatives to supplements that offer better health advantages

Supplements are often misunderstood and frequently oversold

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10 h. ago How Guillermo del Toro, Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi made the horror movie of the year

The Oscar-winning filmmaker behind ‘The Shape of Water’ spent decades attempting to bring Mary Shelley’s masterpiece to the screen. As it arrives on Netflix, he, as well as his stars Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, speak to Clarisse Loughrey about its long gestation, its surprise easter eggs, and its very Freudian subtext

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11 h. ago Gen Z takes aim at older people for the texting habit that 'makes their blood boil'

British texters in their teens and twenties have revealed their biggest gripes, which include writing 'LOL' in every message.

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11 h. ago Football Manager 26 review –a modern sim for the modern game

Sports Interactive; PC (version tested), PS5, Switch, XboxAfter a two-year wait, Football Manager 26 upgrades every aspect of the football sim, but it may take some getting used toYou can imagine what the home fans are singing in the Stadium of Light: “Top of the league, you’re having a laugh!” Your Liverpool team, who until this afternoon were five points clear at the top of the table, trail by two goals in the 82nd minute. You wonder where Mo Salah left his shooting boots, or why Virgil van Dijk seems to have forgotten the whole concept of tackling. But this isn’t on the players, it’s on you – or so you’ll tell the press – as you stare at the tactics screen trying to figure out which of the dozens of potential tweaks will change the tide of this depressing spectacle.Football Manager was always the data-driven alternative to the visually opulent Fifa series (now EA Sports FC), but the latest instalment starts to bridge the graphical gap. The 3D-rendered match highlights have been g...

Sport

11 h. ago Manchester United's next transfer decided after 'direct talks' as £44m alternative emerges

A significant update has emerged in Manchester United's search for a new striker in January, with Ruben Amorim clearly reluctant to use wantaway star Joshua Zirkzee

Economics

13 h. ago The Lost Boys of Mercury review – heartbreaking film on the enduring wounds of church

Clémence Davigo’s uncompromising film gives voice to three survivors of a French correctional school, and the difficult path towards healingGreat courage, physical and moral, is shown by the three principal interviewees in this heartbreaking French documentary. André, Michel and Daniel are former wards of the church-run Belle Étoile correctional school in the Savoie town of Mercury and, now in their 60s and 70s, they recount a barrage of abuse at the hands of Abbot Garin and his lackeys: beatings that inflicted permanent damage, sleep deprivation, cold-water baths, starvation, nocturnal molestation.As director Clémence Davigo sits in on their long reminiscence sessions, the damage is clear. Michel weeps at the memory of his humiliations: deprived of a nurturing education, André became a career criminal, spending decades in prison; the alert-eyed Daniel, sexually abused and trapped in “hell”, speaks of later being emotionally crippled, unable to tell anyone he loves them. Michel and ...

Politics

14 h. ago ‘How did we get here?’: documentary explores how Republicans changed course on the climate

In The White House Effect, now available on Netflix, archival footage is used to show how the US right moved from believing to disputing the climate crisisIn 1988, the United States entered into its worst drought since the Dust Bowl. Crops withered in fields nationwide, part of an estimated $60bn in damage ($160bn in 2025). Dust storms swept the midwest and northern Great Plains. Cities instituted water restrictions. That summer, unrelentingly hot temperatures killed between 5,000 and 10,000 people, and Yellowstone national park suffered the worst wildfire in its history.Amid the disaster, George HW Bush, then Ronald Reagan’s vice-president, met with farmers in Michigan reeling from crop losses. Bush, the Republican candidate for president, consoled them: if elected, he would be the environmental president. He acknowledged the reality of intensifying heatwaves – the “greenhouse effect”, to use the scientific parlance of the day – with blunt clarity: the burning of fossil fuels contr...

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14 h. ago Voices: Income tax rises or fairer reforms? Join The Independent Debate on the Budget choices facing Rachel Reeves

As Rachel Reeves prepares her first Budget and warns of ‘painful decisions’ ahead, debate is growing over whether she should raise taxes to fix the public finances or find fairer, alternative ways to boost revenue. Now it’s time to have your say...

Economics

18 h. ago Guillermo del Toro and his cast on his very intimate new Frankenstein: ‘This is autobiographical for me’

The Oscar-winning filmmaker behind ‘The Shape of Water’ spent decades attempting to bring Mary Shelley’s masterpiece to the screen. As it arrives on Netflix, he, as well as his stars Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, speak to Clarisse Loughrey about its long gestation, its surprise easter eggs, and its very Freudian subtext

Politics

22 h. ago In their darkest moments, too many Australians are being met with lethal force instead of love and care | Lorena Allam

Police are often not equipped to deal with mental health callouts. Alternative first responders are better placed to de-escalate tension and reduce harmWhen police tasered and killed Clare Nowland – a 95-year-old aged care resident with dementia – after her nursing home called triple zero for help managing her behaviour, her family were devastated and the public was shocked.How could a frail and elderly woman on a walking frame, albeit grasping a steak knife, die in such a violent way? Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Albanian drug dealer who 'entered UK illegally' says he can't be extradited to Italy as lack of hot water in its prisons breached his human rights

Maringlen Qefalia, 41, is being pursued by Italian authorities to serve a five-year jail term for supplying 1.5kg of cocaine. But the dealer is now citing he ECHR to make sure he stays in the UK.

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