2 h. ago The 'once every 100 years' flood that drowned Greater Manchester's pubs and turned streets into rivers

It's been 10 years since the infamous Boxing Day floods of 2015 that submerged towns and cities across Britain

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3 d. ago Wes Streeting admits children cannot consent to taking puberty blockers as opposition mounts to controversial medical trial with MPs joining in protest outside Department of Health

The Health Secretary told MPs that participants in the study can only repeat back to doctors what the risks are and need a parent to agree they can be given the powerful drugs.

Society

4 d. ago AD FEATURE: Cardiff’s Queens Vaults crowned Wales’ best pub for a pint of Guinness

The historic pub on Westgate Street is the only pub in Wales to be featured in the new Guinness Harp Guide 2026

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7 d. ago City street overwhelmed by takeaways where locals are breathing a sigh of relief

The Cardiff street is home to a couple of pharmacies, three barbers, two pubs, two nail salons and a ridiculous amount of takeaways

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8 d. ago Wes Streeting admits he is 'deeply uncomfort­able' with NHS trial of puberty

He revealed he has serious concerns about the NHS-backed trial, which will study the effect of banned puberty-blocking drugs on more than 200 gender-­questioning children.

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8 d. ago London's best street art and graffiti: 7 top locations for seeing murals and public art — according to those who paint them

London's best street art and graffiti: 7 top locations for seeing murals and public art — according to those who paint them  Shortlist

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8 d. ago Wes Streeting says he's 'not comfortable' with puberty blockers trial and claims 'threatening' trans activists have attacked his office three times

The clinical trial is taking place for children as young as ten based on a recommendation by the Cass Review into children's gender care.

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8 d. ago Wes Streeting ‘not comfortable’ with puberty blocker clinical trial

The Health Secretary made a ban on puberty blockers indefinite in December last year.

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9 d. ago Wes Streeting facing fresh calls to scrap puberty blockers trial as it emerges the results will be based on survey of children's happiness

The controversial trial of puberty blockers will be judged by how happy children taking the drugs say they are, prompting fresh calls for it to be scrapped.

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9 d. ago Billionaires' playground Nantucket rocked by unseemly public brawl on its quaint high street as festive lights twinkled

The sudden violence interrupted the island's annual Christmas Stroll, allowing hundreds of witnesses to watch the brawl unfold.

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9 d. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Do you support Wes Streeting's puberty blockers trial on children?

The NHS-backed experiment was branded 'grotesque' by the Tories , with Conservative Equalities spokesperson Claire Coutinho suggesting it was 'chemical castration'.

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1 week ago CLAIRE COUTINHO: The puberty blocker trial is nothing less than the state sanctioned chemical castration of children

The Labour Government, with Streeting's blessing, is pursuing a dystopian experiment to test puberty-blockers on healthy children who think they were 'born in the wrong body'.

Society

1 week ago No 10 publishes list of 34 new political peerages including 25 Labour, five Liberal Democrats and three Conservatives – UK politics live

Downing Street publishes list including ex-Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies and Iceland supermarket chief Richard Walker Reeves is now being asked about the leak to the Financial Times on 13 November saying that Reeves had dropped plans to raise income tax in the budget.Reeves claims some aspects of the story were misleading. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Police issue urgent Morrisons plea after Wellingborough 'rape' arrest

Police are keen to hear from a member of the public who spoke to a teenage girl at Morrisons, in Oxford Street, Wellingborough, after a man was arrested on suspicion of rape

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1 week ago Britain is underwater after Storm Bram brought heavy rain, 82mph winds and road and rail chaos to country will nearly 100 flood alerts and warnings still in place

Britain remains on high alert after Storm Bram battered the country with torrential rain and winds of up to 82mph, triggering widespread flooding and power cuts.

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1 week ago I visited underrated city just two hours from Wales and didn't want to leave

Salisbury has over 150 independent businesses, a stunning cathedral with the UK's tallest spire, medieval streets, and one of Britain's most haunted pubs

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1 week ago Wes Streeting has sanctioned a grotesque experiment in puberty

I use the word 'trial' but, let's be honest, this is an experiment. A state-sanctioned exercise which, no matter how it is dressed up, risks causing profound and lifelong harm.

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1 week ago Princes Street: Calls for public summit on future of Edinburgh's Princes Street

Scotsman columnist Stephen Jardine called walking down the street a ‘fundamentally depressing experience’.

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1 week ago Probation is in perpetual crisis. Can it protect the public from tens of thousands more criminals on the streets?

There is a danger the ailing Probation Service is being ‘set up to fail’, the chief inspector of probation has warned, as the nation prepares for the biggest justice system overhaul in a generation, Amy-Clare Martin reports

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2 w. ago 'Someone visited our pub from Australia because they thought we had the Rovers Return doors'

For Pub of the Week, we visit a city centre pub with more than just a loose connection to Coronation Street

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