26 h. ago The creepy 'Moss Monster' scaring people in massive Welsh forest

A photographer who snapped images of the 'elusive' figure has endured a torrid few years after suffering family heartbreak

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4 d. ago X down LIVE: Twitter suffers UK blackout as site crashes for users across Britain

A massive outage has hit X with more than 6,000 people reporting to Downdetector that they are unable to connect to the social media site this evening with a spike around 9pm

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6 d. ago Ravneet Gill and Mattie Taiano’s recipes for a Friendmas sharing menu

The husband and wife team cook up a winter storm with lamb shoulder, dauphinoise and brown sugar meringues – just don’t ask them who’s doing the cleaning upWhen I first started seeing Mattie, there was a constant dinner party at his mum’s house,” recalls pastry chef Ravneet Gill. “There were loads of people there all the time, being fed with massive bowls of home-cooked food and a big block of parmesan.” There was an open-door policy, with pastas and roast meats on heavy rotation, confirms her now-husband and fellow chef, Taiano. And it’s this sentiment that has carried through to the couple’s restaurant, Gina, which opened in Chingford, east London, earlier this year, a process they documented in their newsletter, Club Gina.Named after Taiano’s late mother, it is very much a neighbourhood joint, Gill points out, with the food – from pithiviers and vol au vents to Gina’s pasta with tomato sauce, half a roast chicken with little gems and aioli to share on Sundays, and slabs of “Ravi’...

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8 d. ago 50,000 people were expected at massive event but hardly anyone turned up

Nilaqua Pets, based in Clydach, Swansea, were promised 50,000 people would be attending the event, but there the figure was closer to 2,000 people.

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1 week ago Hong Kong firefighters make final search for survivors after apartment tower blaze kills 94

Hong Kong firefighters have been searching a high-rise apartment complex after a massive fire killed at least 94 people

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1 week ago Major fire sees 'massive smoke clouds' engulf UK city as people warned stay away

Major fire sees 'massive smoke clouds' engulf UK city as people warned stay away  Daily Star

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1 week ago Holborn fire sees 'massive smoke clouds' engulf London as people warned stay away

Road closures and a cordon has been put in place in central London with bus routes diverted after a fire broke out in an underground tunnel at Holborn

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2 w. ago ‘We’ve been eating it for more than 100 years’: how one community turns stink bug infestations into lunch

In India’s Mizoram state, people have an intricate system of harvesting and consuming the pungent and nutritious bugsEvery few years when Udonga montana, a bamboo-feeding stink bug, erupts in massive swarms, the people of the Mizo community in northern India don’t reach for pesticides. Instead, they look for baskets.Locally, this small brown stink bug is called thangnang. Outsiders see them as an infestation but in the bamboo forests of Mizoram state this small brown bug has long been woven into the food culture. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'It's on Adam to build bridges': SARAH VINE weighs in on rift between Adam Peaty and his family overshadowing his upcoming marriage to Holly Ramsay

When two people are getting married, the last thing they want is a massive feud between their families.

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2 w. ago There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers | George Monbiot

Climate sceptics tell us that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. What’s the truth?I began by trying to discover whether or not a widespread belief was true. In doing so, I tripped across something even bigger: an index of the world’s indifference. I already knew that by burning fossil fuels, gorging on meat and dairy, and failing to make even simple changes, the rich world imposes a massive burden of disaster, displacement and death on people whose responsibility for the climate crisis is minimal. What I’ve now stumbled into is the vast black hole of our ignorance about these impacts.What I wanted to discover was whether it’s true that nine times as many of the world’s people die of cold than of heat. The figure is often used by people who want to delay climate action: if we do nothing, some maintain, fewer will die. Of course, they gloss over all the other impacts of climate breakdown: the storms, floods, droughts, fires, crop failures, disease and sea level rise. B...

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3 w. ago The murder victim with no name found dumped in a Welsh forest as search for answers goes on

Ten years ago the remains of "Clocaenog Forest Man" were found by brothers camping in the woods - but his identity remains a mystery

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3 w. ago Magical Welsh forest feels like it's straight out of a storybook

'It's one of the most magical landscapes in Britain — a hidden gem where waterfalls sparkle, trees whisper, and steam trains drift through the mist like something from a dream.'

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last month At least six killed as massive inferno engulfs perfume warehouse as horror vid shows blaze rip through depot in Turkey

AT LEAST six people have been killed after a massive inferno tore through a perfume warehouse in Turkey. Emergency services were called to reports of a thrashing fire and "several" explosion at around 9am local time in the country's Kocaeli province. Dramatic footage shows the blaze ripping through the depot as its charred walls cave...

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