3 h. ago Rare Cold War bunker with weird mannequin on sale for tiny fee – as WW3 threat looms

The Cold War-era ROC post in Dersingham, Norfolk was once part of a network of observation posts up and down the country and was built in 1957 as part of an early warning system

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8 h. ago The former Cold War building in a remote Scottish village on sale for offers over £150,000

Remote cluster of buildings was built by Ministry of Defence

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3 d. ago More than 300,000 homes at risk of electricity disruption from start of July

An estimated 150,000 households in Scotland are at risk of higher energy bills due to RTS switch off next month.

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6 d. ago Ancient cloth which lay at bottom of Perthshire loch for thousands of years goes on display

Woven material It is on show for the first time at The Scottish Crannog Centre’s Iron Age village, visitor centre and museum, near Kenmore, Loch Tay.

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8 d. ago How space exploration can improve life on Earth | Leigh Phillips

There is a cynical, ‘anti-space’ ideology emerging, especially on some parts of the left. But this is misguidedJohn F Kennedy once called space-faring “the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which Man has ever embarked”. We go to space because, he said – like George Mallory said of his reason to conquer Everest – “it is there.”While it is truer to say that the race for space between Washington and Moscow was driven as much by cold war competition as by humanity’s pioneering spirit and the imperatives of scientific exploration, billions of ordinary people around the world recognized as much at the time and still were able to marvel at our species’ accomplishments in the heavens regardless of the flag under which they were achieved, from Sputnik to the moon landing. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Cold War bunker on the edge of Sandringham could be yours... for just £20,000

The Dersingham Royal Observer Corps post was once part of a large network of observation posts up and down the country.

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8 d. ago Pope Francis’s funeral to be ‘symbol of humility’ – head of Catholic aid group

Some 150,000 people have passed by Francis’s coffin over the past three days as he lay in state in St Peter’s Basilica.

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8 d. ago Stunned resignation and foreboding: a week in Trump’s shadow at IMF

Few policymakers mention US president by name, but his tariffs dominate IMF-World Bank meetingBusiness live – latest updatesKristalina Georgieva’s favourite film, the International Monetary Fund boss told the audience at a packed panel event in Washington on Thursday, is Tom Hanks’s cold war romp Bridge of Spies.In one of the stranger digressions in a frequently strange week, Georgieva recalled the moment when Hanks’s character, a US lawyer, tells the Soviet spy he has been appointed to defend that he will probably be executed. “You don’t seem alarmed,” Hanks says to him; to which the spy – played by Mark Rylance – replies, “Would it help?” Continue reading...

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8 d. ago World leaders arriving for Pope’s funeral as 150,000 mourners pay respects

The coffin will be closed on Friday evening ahead of Saturday’s requiem mass.

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9 d. ago Top Tech: Sky's best broadband deals as price drops to cheapest ever in flash sale

Sky has launched a surprise Easter sale that's seen its broadband offerings get cheaper and faster, all while beating Virgin Media and BT's prices

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9 d. ago We went hunting for Chinese spies in the park as new Cold War arrives in UK

The Second Cold War is well underway, and while the first was all nukes and Moon landings and massive walls, this one is tiny mics under park benches listening to yuppies talk about what they had for lunch

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1 week ago Boden's 'hard to find' 100% cotton top 'for spring and summer' now 25% off in sale

The Nia Embroidered Top from Boden was £76 but is now £57, offering a £19 save in the 25% off sale

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1 week ago Experts warn Trump’s trade war with China could erupt into a cold war

Earlier this month, Trump temporarily paused most tariffs while ratcheting up rates on China

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1 week ago The serene Scottish seaside property that's on sale for offers over £625,000

This lighthouse-inspired build could be your dream home

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2 w. ago US releases thousands of files related to Robert F Kennedy assassination

Release of files, ordered by Trump, includes notes from killer, who said presidential candidate ‘must be disposed of’About 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Robert F Kennedy, including handwritten notes by the assassin, who said the US senator and Democratic presidential candidate “must be disposed of” and acknowledged an obsession with killing him.The release continued the disclosure of national secrets ordered by Donald Trump after he began his second presidency in January. It comes a month after unredacted files related to the 1963 assassination of president John F Kennedy were disclosed. The earlier documents gave curious readers more details about cold- war era covert US operations in other nations but did not initially lend credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK, RFK’s brother. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Thieves steal £150,000 haul of viral Pop Mart toys after raiding shipment

Criminals raided the lorry carrying some £150,000 worth of the toys in the early hours of April 8 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.

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2 w. ago Charlie Rennie Mackintosh painting of French village fetches £150,000 at auction

The watercolour, titled Bouleternere, was painted in 1925 with sparing use of colour and depicts the hillside town.

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2 w. ago Perthshire castle with royal connections on sale at offers over £1 million

Methven Castle once belonged to Queen of Scotland, from 1503 to 1513, Margaret Tudor

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2 w. ago A building is destroyed in an explosion at Northrop Grumman's rocket test site

An explosion at Northrop Grumman’s remote rocket testing site in northern Utah has destroyed a building

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2 w. ago New hope as surprising Parkinson’s treatment deemed safe in clinical trials

More than 150,000 people in the UK are living with Parkinson’s disease

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