37 m. ago Miss Great Britain Glasgow finalist raises dementia awareness after gran's shock diagnosis

Jenna Kinnaird has been named a finalist in the glitzy ceremony which will take place in Larkhall's Radstone Hotel on June 20.

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37 m. ago Air India crash piles fresh turmoil on beleaguered Boeing in devastating new low

The American company is already reeling from years of safety crises, whistleblower scandals, financial haemorrhaging, and regulatory scrutiny that has seen a crisis in passenger confidence

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45 m. ago The Streets, Royal Festival Hall review: Mike Skinner goes high culture

The opening gig of Little Simz’ Meltdown saw Mike Skinner getting to grips with the Southbank stage

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53 m. ago The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup

Awakened by Laura Elliott; Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab; Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang; Esperance by Adam Oyebanji; The Quiet by Barnaby MartinAwakened by Laura Elliott (Angry Robot, £9.99)A debut novel set in an apocalyptic 2055, following the development of a neural chip dispensing with the need for sleep. At first it seemed a blessing: it ramped up people’s metabolisms, made them stronger and more productive workers, but when they ignored the advice to turn it off and sleep for at least a few hours a week, they turned into ravenous monsters. Thea is one of a group of scientists who developed the chip and are now barricaded in the Tower of London, struggling to reverse the damage they have caused, when two survivors turn up seeking shelter: a silent, traumatised woman and her protector, a nameless man who shows signs of having once been Sleepless himself. Thea comes to question her own values and past actions in a dark and gripping gothic tale with e...

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54 m. ago Thunderstorm yellow weather warning issued for much of Scotland, including Edinburgh and Glasgow

A yellow weather warning for thunderstorms will start from midnight for much of Scotland and extend into Saturday.

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84 m. ago BBC ends beloved sitcom Boarders – despite 'perfect' Rotten Tomatoes score

The BBC has announced a popular sitcom with a perfect rating on review site Rotten Tomatoes is coming to an end after three series, despite its rave reviews from viewers

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92 m. ago Police 'won't prioritise phone thefts and shoplifting' with fewer bobbies on the beat as a result of Rachel Reeves' spending review, sources claim

The Chancellor's plans for a 2.3 per cent rise in police spending between 2023-24 and 2028-29 has dismayed police leaders, who insist the funding will leave a £1.2 billion shortfall.

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97 m. ago LCD Soundsystem at Brixton Academy: 'beg, borrow or steal for a ticket'

James Murphy and co have their residency in Brixton underway and it is an LCD love-in

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2 h. ago We Love Green: What London can learn from the Parisian version of All Points East

From location to lineup (and a fabulously French food offering), here’s why you should sack off one of your London day festival for Paris next summer

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2 h. ago British people left baffled by 'UK themed snack box' sold to Americans filled with 'products they've never seen' for an extortionate price

British foodies are reeling over a UK-themed snack box from a US company claiming they have never seen any of the treats on English supermarket shelves.

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2 h. ago Air India plane crash LIVE: 'I saw people dying in front of my eyes' says miracle UK survivor of Gatwick

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits ‘scene of devastation’ as investigation into cause of disaster gathers pace

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2 h. ago Rivals author says she’d be ‘embarrassed’ to act in front of sex scene intimacy coordinators

‘I wouldn’t like it myself – but then no one has any fun any more, do they?’ said the author

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2 h. ago Scottish councils, including Edinburgh and Glasgow, to be given full powers to introduce road charging

A new strategy cover car use charges has been announced after the Scottish Government ditched an ambitious traffic reduction target.

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3 h. ago The Midnight Bell at Sadler’s Wells review: a splendidly seedy dance drama

Matthew Bourne peers into the aching hearts frequenting a seedy 1930s pub in his production’s latest work

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3 h. ago Two women die after being pulled from popular Snowdonia wild swimming pools

North Wales Police are appealing for witnesses after two women were sadly pulled from water by rescuers - but they were sadly both pronounced dead at the scene

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3 h. ago Dâdalus & Bikarus: Off the Shelf review | Safi Bugel's experimental album of the month

(Lío Press)Zurich-based musicians Benedikt Merz and David Hänni meld krautrock, punk and big beat into tripped-out, swampy grooves that reach dizzying heightsAfter almost three decades of friendship, Zurich-based musicians Benedikt Merz and David Hänni moved into a studio together in 2019. They found common ground over their shared love of psychedelic music and spent long, woozy nights jamming together. But while one wanted to focus on live electronics, the other secretly wanted to start a band. The outcome was Dâdalus & Bikarus, a project which sits somewhere between these two worlds, welding elements of krautrock, punk and big beat into tripped-out dancefloor rhythms.Their second album, Off the Shelf, captures the obsessive energy of those early nocturnal experiments, which they’ve since built a reputation for in their live shows. Anchored by drawn-out loops, each track slowly builds tension to dizzying, near-erotic heights. On Erebros, this takes place across a hefty 11 minut...

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3 h. ago North by Northwest at Alexandra Palace Theatre review: bursting with scrappy inventiveness and impish spirit

Emma Rice makes this adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 thriller utterly her own

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4 h. ago Air India plane crash LIVE: Modi meets 'miracle' British survivor of Gatwick

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits ‘scene of devastation’ as investigation into cause of disaster gathers pace

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5 h. ago Air India Plane Crash in Ahmedabad LIVE Updates: After Boeing 787

Air India Plane Crash in Ahmedabad LIVE Updates: After Boeing 787-8 crash site visit, PM Modi holds meeting with ministers, officials to review situation  The Indian Express

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5 h. ago A Trick of the Mind by Daniel Yon review – explaining psychology’s most important theory

An immensely readable dive into the ‘predictive processing’ hypothesis, our best guess as to how the mind really worksThe process of perception feels quite passive. We open our eyes and light floods in; the world is just there, waiting to be seen. But in reality there is an active element that we don’t notice. Our brains are always “filling in” our perceptual experience, supplementing incoming information with existing knowledge. For example, each of us has a spot at the back of our eye where there are no light receptors. We don’t see the resulting hole in our field of vision because our brains ignore it. The phenomenon we call “seeing” is the result of a continuously updated model in your mind, made up partly of incoming sensory information, but partly of pre-existing expectations. This is what is meant by the counter­intuitive slogan of contemporary cognitive science: “perception is a controlled hallucination”.A century ago, someone with an interest in psycholo...

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