72 m. ago Teen killed by lorry after 'lying in road after night out drinking'

Leo Mountain was hit by a lorry in the early hours of April 20, with an inquest hearing the driver was travelling at the speed limit and did not have enough time to swerve out of the way

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77 m. ago Graham Linehan shares recording of arrest after cops hauled him away for 'joke' tweets

Father Ted creator Graham Linehan shared a lengthy audio recording of his arrest, which saw five armed police officers approach him after he landed at Heathrow Airport this week

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87 m. ago Major supermarkets using futuristic AI to record you in pushback on shoplifting

Sainsbury's is to trial the use of facial recognition technology in two stores with the aim of combating shoplifting – and it could be rolled out nationwide if successful

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90 m. ago Forget Tomb Raider and Uncharted, there’s a new generation of games about archaeology – sort of

In this week’s newsletter: an archaeologist and gamer on why we love to walk around finding objects in-game and in real lifeThe game I’m most looking forward to right now is Big Walk, the latest title from House House, creators of the brilliant Untitled Goose Game. A cooperative multiplayer adventure where players are let loose to explore an open world, I’m interested to see what emergent gameplay comes out of it. Could Big Walk allow for a kind of community archaeology with friends? I certainly hope so.When games use environmental storytelling in their design – from the positioning of objects to audio recordings or graffiti – they invite players to role play as archaeologists. Game designer Ben Esposito infamously joked back in 2016 that environmental storytelling is the “art of placing skulls near a toilet” – which might have been a jab at the tropes of games like the Fallout series, but his quip demonstrates how archaeological gaming narratives can be. After all, the incongruity ...

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1 hour ago Sweden manager provides Alexander Isak fitness update after record Liverpool move

The Sweden manager also said the former Newcastle striker was ‘so happy to be here, so I think that tells us a lot’

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2 h. ago Liverpool immediately hold Alexander Isak talks with doctors after record transfer

Alexander Isak is on international duty for Sweden and club and country doctors have been in contact over his condition as he bids to reach full fitness after his transfer to Liverpool

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3 h. ago Burning Rangers questions answered as transfer window rated as timeframe put on Nico Raskin resolution

The burning issues at Ibrox are discussed by the team on the latest issue of the Record Rangers podcast

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3 h. ago Burning Rangers questions answered as transfer window rated and timeframe put on Nico Raskin resolution

The burning issues at Ibrox are discussed by the team on the latest issue of the Record Rangers podcast

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3 h. ago 'Entitled neighbour steals part of my garden every day and thinks I haven't noticed'

A man has blasted his neighbour for slowly stealing his garden to make his yard more spacious - and now he is waiting for a house surveyor to set the record straight

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3 h. ago Taylor Swift and Charli XCX tours help drive record year for UK live music

Total consumer spending on the sector reached £6.7 billion in 2024, industry body Live said.

Society

4 h. ago How to protect US students from heat in schools – and is it time to rethink summer break?

US schools were built for a cooler climate that no longer exists. Now they face record-high temperaturesAs schools are returning to session following one of the hottest summers ever recorded, districts are faced with a new problem: how to handle increasingly extreme heatwaves, both in and outside the classroom.Unbearably hot days are no longer just a summer problem. In the US districts from the north-east to the mountain west to the deep south are shortening days, delaying openings, and reworking calendars as temperatures spike during August and September, the typical back-to-school months. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Architect who drove into police officer at Creamfields festival while high on drugs in front of niece and nephew is suspended

Alan Green, 45, was still over the drug-drive limit when he tried to leave Creamfields Festival with his adult niece and nephew in the car, a disciplinary panel heard.

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4 h. ago Gold hits record high as London bullion market confirm digital trial

Gold hits record high as London bullion market confirm digital trial  uk.finance.yahoo.com

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4 h. ago Gold hits record high as London bullion market confirms digital trial

Gold hits record high as London bullion market confirms digital trial  uk.finance.yahoo.com

Economics

5 h. ago Taylor Swift’s Eras tour helps fuel UK consumer spending on live music to record £6.7bn high

Report from Live shows spending £2bn higher than before Covid-19 shutdowns, although grassroots venues are still closing at an increasing rateUK consumer spending on live music events reached a record-breaking total of £6.68bn in 2024, up 9.5% on the previous year, fuelled in part by Taylor Swift’s blockbuster Eras tour.The report from Live (Live music Industry Venues and Entertainment), the recently formed body advocating for the British music industry’s interests before government, signals a full-bodied return from the effects of Covid-19. The figures are 28.2% higher than in 2022, when live music more or less resumed after the pandemic, and more than £2bn more than in 2019, the last fully functioning year for live music prior to the shutdown. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Trump cannot use Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan gang members, appeals court rules – US politics live

2-1 decision from fifth circuit is the first federal appeals court ruling on presidential proclamation invoking 1798 lawHello and welcome to the US politics live blog for today. I am Tom Ambrose and I’ll be bringing you the latest news lines over the next few hours.We start with the news that a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that president Donald Trump unlawfully invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans he alleged were part of a criminal gang.A judge has found the Trump administration’s use of national guard troops during southern California immigration enforcement protests was illegal. Judge Charles Breyer ruled on Tuesday that the administration violated federal law by sending troops to accompany federal agents on immigration raids. The judge did not require the remaining troops withdrawn, however.The US House of Representatives oversight committee released thousands of pages of records related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein from the justice departme...

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5 h. ago Back to school season ushers in hunger for broadening musical horizons with 82 per cent of Scottish children interested in learning a musical instrument

New research from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) reveals that the public’s appetite to discover orchestral music has hit a record high - and, among school children in Scotland, the new academic year starts with a record number of children wanting to learn a musical instrument.

Culture

5 h. ago iPhone 16 Pro Max price slashed to lowest ever as iPhone 17 launch nears

Apple’s top-end iPhone 16 Pro Max is now available for just £35 a month in a Sky Mobile deal that undercuts even last year’s Black Friday offers.

Politics

6 h. ago FTSE 100 Live 03 September: Bond market pressure continues, date set for autumn Budget

Financial markets are on edge after yesterday’s global bonds sell-off pushed the UK’s 30-year gilt yield to its highest level since May 1998.

Economics

6 h. ago ‘I felt doomed’: social media guessed I was pregnant – and my feed soon grew horrifying

The algorithm knew I was expecting before I had had a chance to tell my family, friends or GP. At first, I was served up joyful videos. Then the tone became much darker ...I don’t remember where I was when my TikTok feed showed me a video of a woman holding her stillborn baby, but I remember how I felt. At first, it appeared like any other video of a woman holding a newborn. It was tightly wrapped in blankets while she cradled it in her arms. She was crying, but so are most of the women in these post-birth videos. It wasn’t until I read the caption that I realised what I was looking at. Her baby had been delivered at 23 weeks. I was 22 weeks pregnant. I felt doomed.My social media algorithms knew I was pregnant before family, friends or my GP. Within 24-hours, they were transforming my feeds. On Instagram and TikTok, I would scroll through videos of women recording themselves as they took pregnancy tests, just as I had done. I “liked”, “saved”, and “shared” the content, feeding the ...

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