26 h. ago Shocking moment police officer going too fast crashed into oncoming car captured on camera

PC Phillip Thomas 'drifted' into the opposite lane while taking a bend at 59mph in his police van - which was faster than he was trained to drive at on that road

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26 h. ago Shocking moment police officer going too fast crashed into oncoming car

PC Phillip Thomas 'drifted' into the opposite lane while taking a bend at 59mph in his police van - which was faster than he was trained to drive at on that road

Events

50 h. ago Teenagers will be allowed to drive trains in bid to beat staff shortages that cause of nine out of 10 night

Lines are often disrupted because operators depend on drivers working overtime to run timetabled services. The Government hopes cutting the qualifying age will reduce reliance on rest-day shifts.

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3 d. ago Sean Duffy scorched online after posting about tacos as another crisis hits a major US airport

Delays and staff shortages at Newark International Airport have become so bad that some workers believe it is ‘not safe’ to fly there

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3 d. ago Britain’s care system is collapsing – immigration rules are making it worse

Editorial: Restricting the flow of overseas care workers might please the anti-immigration brigade – but it risks leaving Britain’s most vulnerable without support

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2 w. ago ‘Aspirational in the silliest sense’: why The Lizzie McGuire Movie is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers calling attention to their comfort watches is a look back at the frothy 2003 comedyThree years ago, my fiance and I were winding through the narrow streets of Seville when he began a sentence with the words: “Imagine if.” Imagine if, he pondered, you went to a foreign country and it turned out that you looked exactly like one of their local celebs. People would approach you for autographs they would scream at you on the street you wouldn’t know what was going on. I stopped still and gawped at him. “That’s the plot of The Lizzie McGuire Movie,” I said. And that’s when I found out that the man I was going to marry had never seen the greatest film of all time.Movies with the word “movie” in the title are not usually considered the world’s best and yes, officially The Lizzie McGuire Movie is a flop, with a 41% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But the coming-of-age comedy was released in 2003, at a time when critics were allowed to hate teenage girls a littl...

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3 w. ago Bid to fill West Lothian shortage of school crossing patrol staff

Despite regular recruitment drives the school crossing patrol service operates at around 75% of capacity, with a quarter of sites across the county difficult to fill with regular patrol staff, a meeting of the council Performance committee heard.

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