2 h. ago M60 traffic LIVE: Oasis warning after huge crash closes motorway sparking major delays

There are delays on the M60 following a crash, sparking huge delays across both directions, which is particularly concerning for anyone seeing Oasis at Heaton Park tonight

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2 h. ago M60 traffic LIVE: Oasis warning after fatal crash closes motorway sparking major delays

There are delays on the M60 following a crash, sparking huge delays across both directions, which is particularly concerning for anyone seeing Oasis at Heaton Park tonight

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13 h. ago Huge victory for Brits as Spanish hotel bosses hit back at anti

Brit tourists should not be used as a 'punching bag' for the worsening housing crisis impacting Spain, hotel bosses have warned in a major clap-back at protesting locals

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25 h. ago ‘The Lions built this club’: watching the first Test at Ballymena RFC, home of Lions legends

The Northern Irish club that produced Willie John McBride and Syd Millar is steeped in the history of the Lions even if it has no players in the 2025 squadAn hour before kick-off, and I’m beginning to wonder if watching the first Test at Ballymena RFC was such a bright idea. It’s only me and the girl working the bar, and she doesn’t have a strong opinion on whether or not Tom Curry should be playing No 7. “Which paper did you say you were with, the Ballymena Guardian?” No, it’s the other Guardian, I say. “Oh, the Antrim one.”Just about the time I was beginning to think that all of Ballymena’s thousand-or-so members must have been among the tens of thousands going the other way into Portrush for the Open, they began to trickle in, one, two, three, four dozen, and more. Continue reading...

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59 h. ago Hundreds of kinky swingers descend on sleepy village for annual 'Swingathon'

A quiet village has been taken over by Britain’s biggest adult lifestyle festival this weekend, as more than a thousand revellers arrive for three days of foam parties, play tents and pole dancing.

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59 h. ago Coldplay's roving 'kiss cam' spots tech tycoon with HR boss as they duck for cover

The couple appeared distinctly uncomfortable when they spotted themselves live on the big screen in front of tens of thousands

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61 h. ago Coldplay's roving 'kiss cam' spots boss with colleague as they duck for cover

The couple appeared distinctly uncomfortable when they spotted themselves live on the big screen in front of tens of thousands

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3 d. ago Fun on the fairways as tens of thousands descend on Portrush for The Open

Almost 280,000 fans have snapped up tickets for the event at the Royal Portrush across the week.

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3 d. ago EasyJet boss hits out at ‘unacceptable’ French air traffic control strikes

Tens of thousands of passengers were disrupted when French ATC staff walked out on July 3 and 4 in a dispute over working conditions.

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3 d. ago Tomorrowland: Huge fire engulfs main stage two days before festival opens

The annual festival in Belgium draws tens of thousands of visitors from around Europe

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3 d. ago Syrian president condemns Israel’s attacks on Damascus and vows to protect Druze community

Ahmed al-Sharaa thanks American, Arab and Turkish mediators as efforts to restore order in city of Sweida continueSyria’s interim president has condemned Israel for “wide-scale targeting of civilian and government facilities” after the Israeli military struck Damascus on Wednesday as it sought to intervene in clashes between the Syrian army and Druze fighters.Israel’s strikes would have pushed “matters to a large-scale escalation, except for the effective intervention of American, Arab, and Turkish mediation, which saved the region from an unknown fate”, Ahmed al-Sharaa said in his first televised statement since the attacks. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Tsunami warning for thousands of Americans as major 7.3 earthquake hits off US coast

Thousands of Americans are bracing for a tsunami after a major 7.3 magnitude earthquake hit off the US coast.

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4 d. ago The Guardian view on the Afghan leak superinjunction: a dangerous precedent is set | Editorial

In an era of mistrust in politics, the government now has a duty to bring maximum transparency to a very opaque scandalOne of many extraordinary features of the data breach that put tens of thousands of Afghan lives in jeopardy is the length of time between the original leak and the government taking action. The email containing a highly sensitive dataset was sent from a Ministry of Defence computer in February 2022. Ministers were not aware of the problem until August 2023.The fact that the MoD’s systems were lax enough for the error to have been made is worrying enough. The delayed response is more alarming still. And then there is the disturbing mechanism by which the whole scandal was kept from the public eye.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago 20 amazing photos show thousands of Oasis fans heading to Heaton Park show for night three

Tens of thousands are heading to Heaton Park this evening amid warnings about travelling early to avoid 'severe' delays

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4 d. ago Voices: ‘We failed those who protected us’: Independent readers react to UK’s ‘shameful’ MoD data breach

Our community has reacted with anger, disbelief and deep concern to revelations that a catastrophic Ministry of Defence data breach, which put tens of thousands of Afghans at risk, was kept hidden under a superinjunction for nearly two years, as the government quietly launched a covert evacuation programme

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4 d. ago Major warning as tomatoes linked to outbreak of 'deadly' bacteria usually found in meat

A new report from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has found that a potentially deadly bacteria was transmitted through tomatoes and other common grocery products

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4 d. ago Major travel warning issued to Oasis fans heading to Heaton Park amid 'severe' delays

Oasis fans and commuters are being asked to consider re-routing and re-time their journeys on public transport today

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4 d. ago Nato 'may launch retaliatory strikes on Russia' over WW3 fear if plane crashes

Russian jamming of GPS across Europe's eastern flank is becoming an increasingly dangerous daily occurrence, with experts warning a major air disaster could be on the cards

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4 d. ago No automatic right to resettlement for Afghans in data leak, says Healey

Defence secretary says it was ‘never the plan to bring everyone’ on dataset to UK, while Ben Wallace denies Tories sought superinjunctionUK politics live – latest updatesThe defence secretary, John Healey, has said there is no automatic right to resettlement for Afghans named in a leaked Ministry of Defence database, as the former Conservative ministers Ben Wallace and Johnny Mercer clashed over whether “thousands of people with little or tenuous links” had been admitted to Britain.The controversy revolves around a dataset containing the personal information of nearly 19,000 people who applied for the Afghan relocations and assistance policy (Arap) that was released “in error” in February 2022 by a British defence official. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Oasis Heaton Park LIVE: Traffic advice issued as tens of thousands of fans head to Manchester show

Nearly 80,000 fans will be heading to Heaton Park today for Oasis

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