59 m. ago Deadly new coronavirus strain HKU5 found in bats 'can spread to humans,' expert confirms

Experts warn that a new bat coronavirus has the potential to spill into humans, similar to Covid-19, with the virus in the same group at the bugs responsible for the MERS-CoV virus

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75 m. ago House builder supports West Lothian School Bank with bumper donation

Miller Homes’ donation to The School Bank West Lothian will go towards providing schools with “camp clothing packs” to ensure that every child has a chance to fully participate in school camp trips.

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85 m. ago The week in audio: Facing the Music; Tara and George: Last Rights; Why Is Amy in the Bath? and more – review

The lives of Beethoven, Haydn and co enthral; Audrey Gillan updates her award-winning rough sleepers series. Plus, a choir of cicadas and bathtime fun with Amy Adams Facing the Music Radio 3/BBC SoundsTara and George: Last Rights Radio 4/BBC Sounds)Why Is Amy in the Bath? Grab Bag Collab & Because It’s True ProductionsBetween the Ears: A Symphony of Cicadas Radio 3/BBC Sounds“It’s almost midnight,” purrs Dominic West, all honey and velvet, straight after we hear the famously doomy, four-note opening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. The wild-eyed composer is in a cart, West tells us energetically, his latest piano sonata getting ruined by the rain, after throwing some coins at the driver and growling his preferred destination. West relishes every syllable of it: “Vi-ennnn-a!” Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Ludovico Einaudi: ‘The way you blend the elements you eat is similar to composing a piece of music’

The pianist and composer talks about his passion for chillies, teas and saucepans, and cooking for his dad’s remarkable literary dinner partiesI live in Torino [Turin], a town where I grew up, where I was born. There’s a famous dish from there called bagna cauda. It’s a meeting of the garlic from the area of Piedmont, the mountains, with the anchovies coming from the sea in Liguria. It’s a very simple dish, a bit like a broth, perfect in winter, and you eat it with raw vegetables of the season. But there’s so much garlic in it that, when you eat it, you need a couple of days away from other people.There is a connection between how you eat and how you make music: the way you blend the elements that you eat, the colours, it’s similar to composing a piece of music. If I take my solo piano repertoire, I would associate it with a very simple food, with few elements and few colours, not overelaborate. If I think of a piece of mine with more instruments, more orchestral, I would ...

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4 h. ago Styling baggy jeans can be tricky – here’s how to do it at any age

The French tuck is your secret weapon

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4 h. ago NHS warns ‘clothes not fitting well’ could be sign of back condition

It could need treatment, the NHS warns

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7 h. ago Needle drop! The world’s first sewing machine orchestra takes Munich

This weekend, a symphony of Singers (not that kind) will lead an experimental performance that stitches together feminism and fashion – and offers the audience free repairsStepping into the studio of the Brazilian-born artist and performer Lisa Simpson – no relation to the cartoon character – feels like entering a crossover between the Mad Hatter’s workshop and a postindustrial steampunk landscape with a colourful girl-power twist. The ground floor space in Berlin’s southern district of Neukölln is filled with shelves laden with old sewing machines and coat racks brimming with hats, bags and fabric scraps. Even more sewing machines propped on two tables might suggest that this is a tailor’s workshop, were it not for the tangle of cables and synthesisers connected to them. Toy sewing machines in candy colours have a purple phone receiver attached; colourful cables with knitted covers sneak out of household sewing machines and seam overlockers; pins and needles are connected to microp...

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7 h. ago Gogglebox icon admits one show he'd never do as he laughs off suggestion

Gogglebox personality Joe Baggs has shared his future telly plans as he carves out a career in the world of the small screen after leaving the Channel 4 show in 2022

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7 h. ago New bat strain of coronavirus discovered by researchers in Wuhan

The potential for human infection has yet to be explored

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8 h. ago Donald trump mocked as hilariously embarrassing SNL appearance resurfaces

Donald Trump has been mocked over the bizarre and resurfaced Saturday Night Live sketch which sees him donning a vibrant yellow suit and tie, dancing and promoting chicken wings

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8 h. ago The best holidays to go on this year that won’t break the bank

Off the beaten track is the way to go

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9 h. ago Stacey Solomon's £13 packing trick fits two weeks of clothes into one suitcase

Stacey Solomon has revealed her 'best packing hack ever' to fit enough clothes for a two week holiday in just one suitcase - with no unpacking required

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9 h. ago EU bureaucrats spark fury after warning coffee is 'DANGEROUS' to humans and ban caffeine in pesticides

According to scientific evidence, EU bureaucrats said in a report, caffeine - a key component of coffee (pictured, file photo) - 'is harmful to humans if swallowed'.

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10 h. ago I'm a vintage shopping expert and these are my 8 rules for bagging a great bargain, including the one mistake you MUST avoid

Serious savings can be made shopping for previously owned fashion online. Savvy second-hand seller April Salsbury reveals the eight tips every buyer needs

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11 h. ago Plastic bags and chicken bones: the fossils scientists believe will become our eternal legacy

Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientistsAs an eternal testament of humanity, plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones are not a glorious legacy. But two scientists exploring which items from our technological civilisation are most likely to survive for many millions of years as fossils have reached an ironic but instructive conclusion: fast food and fast fashion will be our everlasting geological signature.“Plastic will definitely be a signature ‘technofossil’, because it is incredibly durable, we are making massive amounts of it, and it gets around the entire globe,” says the palaeontologist Prof Sarah Gabbott, a University of Leicester expert on the way that fossils form. “So wherever those future civilisations dig, they are going to find plastic. There will be a plastic signal that will wrap around the globe.” Continue reading...

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11 h. ago ‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones

Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientistsAs an eternal testament of humanity, plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones are not a glorious legacy. But two scientists exploring which items from our technological civilisation are most likely to survive for many millions of years as fossils have reached an ironic but instructive conclusion: fast food and fast fashion will be our everlasting geological signature.“Plastic will definitely be a signature ‘technofossil’, because it is incredibly durable, we are making massive amounts of it, and it gets around the entire globe,” says the palaeontologist Prof Sarah Gabbott, a University of Leicester expert on the way that fossils form. “So wherever those future civilisations dig, they are going to find plastic. There will be a plastic signal that will wrap around the globe.” Continue reading...

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11 h. ago What channel is England vs Scotland Six Nations? Free live stream, TV, ref and team news for Calcutta Cup clash

Gregor Townsend's men will be looking to get one over on their eternal rivals once again

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11 h. ago I bought a £35 mystery box at the new super cheap Trade Outlet and was left bewildered

I was left bewildered and confused

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12 h. ago How to turn leftover cooked pork into a classic Spanish bean stew – recipe | Waste not

Leftover cooked pork and bones are essential ingredients in this hearty Asturian winter stewFabada Asturiana is classic Spanish cooking at its simplest and best. This stew of creamy white beans cooked slowly with pork and cured meat is traditionally made with fabes de la Granja (or judion beans), morcilla (Spanish black pudding), chorizo and lacón (cured pork shoulder, and similar to pancetta); it’s also the perfect dish for using up leftover roast pork. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Unrecognisable 90s football god left fans aghast but all not as it seemed in pic

Italian footballing legend Roberto Baggio uploaded a picture of himself sporting a new look and resembling a Colombian drug lord but his fans were relieved by the truth

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