1 hour ago Venomous snake bolts into sea from beneath paddleboard at popular Welsh beach

The adder bolted into the sea after being discovered under a paddleboard at a beach in North Wales - and people have been left feeling uneasy after watching the video

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2 h. ago Home Bargains billionaire is officially the richest Scouser who ever lived

The latest Sunday Times rich list has been published and shows how tycoon, Tom Morris holds one of the top spots after rising up from humble beginnings to create the much-loved store

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5 h. ago The unluckiest players in Wales right now and the call that has left people baffled

There are many players unlucky to have missed out on Matt Sherratt's squad

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14 h. ago Barry Island Pleasure Park LIVE: Emergency as air ambulance lands at fairground

A spokesperson for South Wales Police asked people to avoid Barry Island Pleasure Park following reports of an 'incident' at the popular leisure hotspot this evening

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15 h. ago Barry Island Pleasure Park incident live updates as air ambulance lands at scene

South Wales Police have urged people to avoid the area

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16 h. ago The Guardian view on billionaire Britain: tax wealth fairly or face democratic unravelling | Editorial

Without bold reform which makes the rich pull their weight, rising inequality risks eroding public trust and fracturing social stabilityBritain for the last decade has experienced a bleak paradox: rising child poverty alongside a dramatic increase in billionaire wealth. This inequality has been tolerated partly because greed has been rehabilitated as virtue. The Billionaire Britain report, published this week by the Equality Trust, reveals what many instinctively feel but few in parliament will admit: the UK economy has become a machine for the upward redistribution of wealth.Using Sunday Times Rich List data, the report found that the 50 wealthiest UK families now own more than the poorest half of the population combined. Their opulence is no accident. It’s largely built on the labour and consumption of those 34 million other Britons. The gains of society are being hoarded by those least in need. There’s a lexicon that sells it all as “entrepreneurial spirit” and bus...

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22 h. ago People are only just realising what it means if a postbox is black

Postboxes in the UK are typically a vivid shade of red, but every now and again you might stumble across one that's painted black. But do you know what these 'rare' boxes mean?

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52 h. ago NSW floods: second person dead and ‘grave fears’ for two still missing as crisis worsens

With 48,000 already isolated, forecasters say intense rainfall has spread north bringing life-threatening riskNSW floods live updates: latest flooding newsNSW floods map: record-breaking rain in charts and mapsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA second person has died in flood waters on the New South Wales mid-north coast and authorities hold grave fears for two people still missing.NSW police said the body of a man, likely in his 30s and who was missing since Wednesday night, was found near Rosewood on Thursday morningSign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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55 h. ago NSW floods: one dead and ‘grave fears’ held for three missing people as crisis worsens

With 48,000 already isolated, forecasters say ‘heavy, intense rainfall’ has spread north bringing life-threatening riskNSW floods live updates: latest flooding newsNSW floods map: record-breaking rain in charts and mapsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOne man has died and authorities hold grave fears for another three people reported missing in unprecedented flooding on the New South Wales mid-north coast.The premier, Chris Minns, said the region had experienced “a very difficult 48 hours” with more to come as communities braced for 100mm of additional rainfall over the next 24 hours and up to 300mm in some isolated areas. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Doctor warns 5.8 million people about holidaying with common illness

Doctor Ashwin Sharma says there are additional risks and steps you need to take to stay safe

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3 d. ago People face £5,000 fine for breaking '8am to 1pm' rule on Saturdays

New research found that almost half of UK citizens are unaware of the household noise laws designed to prevent excessive disturbances

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3 d. ago Foreign Office warning to people travelling to European country after Brits die

Just a month ago, a British man and his pilot plunged thousands of feet to their deaths

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3 d. ago Child's eczema is so extreme people think it is a 'chemical burn'

Alana Spurgeon's one-year-old son Koen O'Shaughnessy has eczema so bad, other children refuse to play with him

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3 d. ago People say city 'is dead' as huge cost of keeping shopping centre open revealed

Readers have been reacting to the news that Newport's Friars Walk shopping centre has been kept afloat by taxpayer funds for the last eight years, to the tune of £3.5m

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3 d. ago People say there's 'nothing not to love' about these 'very pretty' £20 Amazon garden flower lights

The Snow Lotus solar garden lights from Amazon cost £19.99 and come with two bunches of flowers with 40 'blooms' on each - and they're available in five different colours

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4 d. ago Why hundreds of people wearing orange and blue ran through Cardiff's Bute Park

Lily McGarry was in her third year of medicine when she developed septic shock and had all four limbs amputated

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6 d. ago People are queuing out the door to buy incredibly indulgent milkshakes and cakes at this new shop

Jayde Brown started off selling cakes to friends and family during Covid, now she has her own shop and people lining up to try her bakes and shakes

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6 d. ago Welsh billionaire you've probably never heard of who wasn't on the Sunday Times Rich List

Gren Thomas grew up in Swansea and was working underground in south Wales at the age of 16. He left the country to find his fortune, and ended up finding diamonds....

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6 d. ago WRU defend redundancies as 4,500 people urge them to reconsider

The WRU has come under fire for its decision to cut its hub officers programme

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7 d. ago It’s not a rich list – it’s gone far beyond that. We need to talk about ‘extreme wealth’ | Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

We recognise extreme poverty as ruinous, but this turbo-charged affluence is deeply damaging too. Treat it as suchDhananjayan Sriskandarajah is chief executive of the New Economics Foundation and author of Power to the PeopleOnce again, it’s the Hinduja family. Gopi Hinduja and his family, who run the Hinduja Group, are cited as Britain’s richest family in the latest Sunday Times rich list. The big story so far seems to be that their wealth has dropped to £35.3bn from £37.2bn the year before. But that story, and much of the discussion there will be this weekend, risks missing the real story. “Rich list” is barely the right description for the extreme wealth we should be talking about.In 1989, when the Sunday Times first published its annual rich list, to be included someone would need to have 6,000 times the wealth of the average person in the UK. That’s already a pretty big gap – but this has now tripled to more than 18,000 times the average, according to a study by the University ...

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