30 h. ago The rural towns fighting for survival as New Zealand grapples with a growing exodus

Ruapehu is emblematic of question facing New Zealand: how to prevent rural regions – and the country at large - from hollowing outFor generations, two centres of gravity in New Zealand’s central Ruapehu region had enough pull to entice people to the area and keep them there: the mountains and the mills.Mount Ruapehu, the country’s largest active volcano, lured people to its snowy slopes for work and play, while the local mills – run by the region’s largest employer, Winstone Pulp International – kept generations of families in employment. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Readers' Letters: It's right EV drivers should pay new mileage tax

Rural EV drivers hit by new tax can just move to town, says reader

Economics

7 d. ago Hamilton Accies set for administration as club fights for survival

The embattled League One club has contacted administrators

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1 week ago UK Championship: Mark Selby survives Judd Trump fightback to claim title

World No1 was defeated in York

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1 week ago UK troops join Nato exercise as Finland prepares for potential Russian invasion

Soldiers learned the challenges of a sub-zero immersion in water, surviving in minus 28C and fighting alongside motivated volunteer troops.

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1 week ago Johnny Fisher survives early knockdown to win rollercoaster comeback fight against Ivan Balaz

The ‘Romford Bull’ was floored in round one but secured a stoppage in the fourth frame to avoid a seismic upset

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1 week ago Happiest place to live in Britain 2025 is market town in 'beautiful setting'

A study by Rightmove found living in rural areas makes people happier than in towns, while people tend to be more satisfied with where they live the older they are

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2 w. ago Oleksandr Usyk wants Jake Paul to survive Anthony Joshua fight for good reason

The Ukrainian heavyweight star will be watching closely later this month amid talks of a potential future showdown with the YouTuber-turned-boxer

Sport

2 w. ago No soap, no tents, no food: Rohingya families fight for survival as aid plummets

In Bangladesh, over a million people in the world’s largest refugee camp depend on aid – and cuts mean new arrivals are not even given shelterThe light of a single lightbulb powered by a backup generator lasts just long enough for Noor and Sowkat to see the faces of their newborn babies for the first time. The two children were born on the same night on a crumbling foam mattress, its corners ripped to shreds by the thousands of women who have gone into labour here in Camp 22’s makeshift delivery room.The newborns have just become the youngest residents of the world’s largest refugee camp, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, which is struggling to operate in the face of a 63% deficit in humanitarian aid funding. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Reeves fights for political survival amid claims she misled public on Budget

The Chancellor insisted she was ‘honest and frank’ about the public finances after opposition figures accused her of exaggerating the scale of the Budget’s black hole

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2 w. ago 'Masterpiece' film based on harrowing true story leaves fans sobbing on BBC tonight

The film is based on the Spanish family of Enrique Álvarez and María Belón and their three sons and their fight for survival in 2004 after the Indian Ocean tsunami

Culture

3 w. ago 'I live with mole people underneath Las Vegas and every day is a fight for survival'

Ruhi Çenet, a Turkish YouTuber who explores some of the world's most difficult-to-reach places, has shed light on the chaotic existence of the so-called Las Vegas "mole people"

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3 w. ago Epstein survivor condemns Trump for calling file release fight a ‘hoax’

Danielle Bensky, who was abused by Jeffrey Epstein, says president was ‘incredibly disrespectful’ in recent commentsA survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse has condemned Donald Trump for dismissing the victims’ fight for transparency as a “hoax”.Shortly after signing a bill to release the Epstein files, the US president posted a lengthy social media rant accusing Democrats of weaponising the scandal against him. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago A fight for survival – the reality of life in the Amazon in the shadow of Cop30

A short boat ride from Cop30 lies the home of Seu Ladi, who tells Nick Ferris how deforestation and climate change has changed life in Belém – while others warn of a potentially devastating risks to future of the forest

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4 w. ago My ex shot me 10 times – and after the coma, I became an undercover cop

When Katrina Brownlee tried to leave her fiance, he aimed a gun at her pregnant stomach. The 22-year-old wasn’t expected to survive, let alone walk again. But she soon began her fight for other victims of crimeA month before she was shot, Katrina Brownlee had a premonition. It came to her in a dream: the 22-year-old saw her former fiance, a law enforcement officer who had been abusing her for years, try to kill her, but she survived. She had experienced premonitions from a young age – she later came to see them as guidance from God. On the way to the house she had shared with him, she could hear a voice in her head pleading with her: don’t go back there.It was a freezing January morning in 1993. Brownlee was five months pregnant and had taken a cab with her two-year-old daughter through the snow to the house she had shared with her ex in Long Island, New York state. Her elder daughter, then seven, was at a playdate. A few weeks earlier, Brownlee had left her fiance for good and she ...

Politics

4 w. ago Record number of Britons are moving abroad under Labour: 257,000 emigrated last year as Starmer exodus grows

Last year the number of UK citizens going to live abroad was 257,000 - far more than the 77,000 previously estimated by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

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4 w. ago Popular Scottish cafe in charming rural town up for sale just months after closing

The business was a favourite amongst locals and tourists alike.

Politics

4 w. ago Marjorie Taylor Greene shreds Trump after bad breakup over Epstein files: ‘Let me tell you what a traitor is’

MAGA firebrand praises Epstein survivors for ‘fighting’ against ‘the most powerful people in the world’

Politics

4 w. ago Trial begins in archdiocese of New Orleans’ $230m settlement for abuse survivors

US bankruptcy judge will decide whether plan is fair to 650 survivors and dozens of other creditorsThe archdiocese of New Orleans has begun a three-week confirmation trial that will determine whether a federal bankruptcy judge signs off on a $230m settlement meant to compensate 650 clergy abuse survivors and resolve one of the US’s longest-running and costliest church bankruptcies.US bankruptcy judge Meredith Grabill will decide whether the plan – five and a half years in the making – is fair to the survivors and dozens of other creditors who have waited through repeated delays, contentious negotiations and a protracted legal fight over a 2021 state law giving survivors of decades-old child sexual abuse the right to sue. Continue reading...

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