29 h. ago Pumpkin Town fun fair promises to be a spooktacular day out this Halloween

Visitors to XSite can enjoy a fun-filled afternoon of Halloween-themed activities at Pumpkin Town with pumpkin-carving, games and photo opportunities.

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35 h. ago The 'disgraceful' Scottish city centre that was named among ugliest in the country

"People used to come here from all over Scotland and northern England..."

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3 d. ago Stunning pic of town left like a 'war zone' after drink driver overturns car at 80mph

One man left a scene of destruction and carnage in his wake as he jumped into his car after taking drugs and drinking before hand, with photos showing an otherwise sleepy town completely overturned

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3 d. ago Two men arrested amid murder probe after death of man in Airdrie

Kevin, 30, died after he was found injured on the North Lanarkshire town's Hamilton Drive at around 12.15am on September 18.

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6 d. ago Drunken pyromaniac who turned rural market town into 'war zone' by torching 18 cars in one night is jailed for nearly five years

David Giddins, 45, went on a drug-fuelled rampage when he began setting parked cars in the rural market town of Wimborne, Dorset on fire.

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6 d. ago Lulu: ‘I had such terrible shame. I never wanted to look at myself and know that I too was an alcoholic.’

The Glasgow-born singer talks to Claire Allfree about growing up in a war zone, living inside the ‘Lulu’ persona, working with Take That, succumbing to alcoholism in her sixties and finding the courage to write about it in her new memoir

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7 d. ago The Scottish area with 'war zone town centre' that is actually great for autumn holiday

Don't let one bad review put you off visiting.

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8 d. ago 'Like a war zone': Homes evacuated and court shuts in Marylebone flood

'Like a war zone': Homes evacuated and court shuts in Marylebone flood  London Evening Standard

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8 d. ago Marylebone flood 'like a war zone' as burst pipe devastates homes and shuts court

Residents and business owners tell of devastation as burst water main sends torrents of water into properties in central London

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8 d. ago England star determined to banish World Cup final demons as Red Roses set sights on history

The centre has established as one of the first names on John Mitchell’s teamsheet for this weekend’s final against Canada at a sold out Allianz Stadium.

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9 d. ago Schoolboy yob, 16, who hurled HUGE 15kg seat over edge of 50ft drop inside busy mall is jailed

A 16-year-old boy has been jailed for eight months after throwing a 15kg sofa from a balcony at a busy shopping centre, narrowly missing shoppers. The teen, who cannot be named, threw the blue chair down a 50ft drop at the Westfield shopping centre in East London on March 1. Both he and a friend...

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9 d. ago Shock as big name fashion store closes down at Trafford Centre

It has been part of the Trafford Centre for the past 15 years but is now completely shuttered

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1 week ago Tourist confused as he discovers village where everything is named after Roy

Gareth Clarke, who stumbled across a village in Norfolk was left baffled after discovering the town's shops, car parks, garden centre and bakery spookily bear the same name.

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1 week ago PSG clean up at the Ballon d’Or while losing to Marseille in Ligue 1

Luis Enrique, Ousmane Dembélé and PSG won awards in Paris but the real action was taking place at the Vélodrome By Get French Football NewsOn a night when Paris Saint-Germain were named the best team in the world, their centre-forward the best player in the world, and their man in the dugout the best manager in the world, they were second best at the Vélodrome, losing a league game in Marseille for the first time in 14 years.The 21st night of September will live long in the memory of the Marseillais. It was the night that an apocalyptic deluge engulfed the city and the wider Var region, bringing the city to a standstill and forcing the postponement of the heavily anticipated classique. The sheer strength of the storm dispelled any notion of a wider anti-PSG conspiracy from the local authorities, who made the decision just hours before kick-off and after Luis Enrique’s side had already arrived in the city. PSG retraced their steps, returning to Paris and then making the trip back dow...

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1 week ago Allders name returns to boost revival of Croydon town centre

Openings come 12 years after the traumatic closure of flagship department store once the third biggest in UK

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1 week ago Ukraine lions saved from hell of war zone and about to head for UK

Yorkshire Wildlife Park are rescuing more of Ukraine's lions after the public helped them raise funds to save them from the shells

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2 w. ago Woman, 84, 'critical' after being hit by van in Lanarkshire town

Emergency services raced to the scene on Blantyre Farm Road at around 2.50pm on Thursday, September 18.

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2 w. ago New name and final designs unveiled for Strathclyde Park Watersports Centre

The name was chosen following a public survey and consultation events with local schools.

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2 w. ago Airdrie Town Hall to welcome back Scots comedian Gary Meikle as part of his new tour

Step into the wonderfully chaotic mind of the award‑winning Glaswegian funnyman on October 19.

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2 w. ago Clown Town by Mick Herron review – more fun and games with the Slow Horses

The ninth novel in the Slough House series, this tale of IRA infiltration is a perfect mix of one-liners, plot twists and real-world-tinged intrigueTrigger warning: the new Slough House novel shares its name, I assume accidentally, with a particularly bleak soft-play centre on London’s North Circular Road in which sticky under-fives circulate through an infernal apparatus wailing and stabbing each other with plastic forks while the grownups sit at plastic tables drinking horrible coffee and waiting for death. Just a glimpse at the dust jacket sent me back a decade to that environment of grubbiness, boredom and mild peril. It’s not that big a leap, mind. There’s something of the knockabout quality of a soft-play centre in Mick Herron’s fictional world: all fun and games until someone loses an eye.That said, as far as I know, none of the injuries in the real-world Clown Town will have been occasioned by the victim being held down so the front wheel of a Land Rover Defender c...

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