96 m. ago Manchester United could miss out on £40m summer transfer due to secret clause

Manchester United are expected to be active in the transfer window this summer as Ruben Amorim plots an overhaul of the team which has struggled in the Premier League

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2 h. ago Little known wild Welsh landscape of castle and forest bike trails where you can escape Eryri crowds

Here, you'll find peaceful forest walks, biking trails and lakes, charming villages and towns - it's a must-visit for adventurers and more

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2 h. ago Vladimir Putin's 'secret lover' makes coded 'tsarina' reference at athletic event

Alina Kabaeva, 41, turned up at the 2025 Rhythmic Gymnastics Championship in Russia with gymnasts from her elite Sky Grace Academy and wearing a noticeable bomber jacket

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2 h. ago Arsenal chief Andrea Berta's secret Nico Williams transfer talks emerge DAYS after taking job

Arsenal sporting director Andrea Berta is already hard at work ahead of what is expected to be a significant summer transfer window for Mikel Arteta and his team

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2 h. ago Achieve ‘crispy’ bacon for breakfast every time with 1 simple step

This trick may be the secret to crispy bacon, and will take less than a minute to complete

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3 h. ago Drones could be stopping us finding alien life as part of UFO 'umbrella'

An expert has suggested that drone tech has advanced so much, it is becoming increasingly difficult to know if UAPs are military weapons or proof of alien life

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3 h. ago Royal Navy training exercise off the Welsh coast sees HMS Dauntless shoot down swarms of drones with awesome accuracy

HMS Dauntless let loose with almost with every weapon system at the ship's disposal to destroy swarms of drones during a high-octane live-fire drill off the Welsh coast.

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3 h. ago Welsh public services face £65m black hole due to tax hike, Senedd hears

Mark Drakeford, the Welsh Finance Secretary, said Rachel Reeves is ‘wrong’ to use the Barnett formula to distribute funding for public services.

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4 h. ago Dark secrets behind Matthew Perry's death as details of his final days revealed

Friends actor Matthew Perry died in October 2023 aged 54 when he was found in his hot tub and following his death his dark hidden battle with addiction became clear

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4 h. ago Study finds strongest evidence yet that shingles vaccine helps cut dementia risk

Older adults in Wales who had the jab were 20% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia that those not vaccinatedResearchers who tracked cases of dementia in Welsh adults have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccination reduces the risk of developing the devastating brain disease.Health records of more than 280,000 older adults revealed that those who received a largely discontinued shingles vaccine called Zostavax were 20% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia over the next seven years than those who went without. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Remote Scottish island with dramatic landscape named among best places to wild camp in Europe

This isolated island has a population of just 40 people.

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5 h. ago The boozy truth about life in Troy: Wine was an 'everyday drink' for almost EVERYONE in the ancient city, study finds

Just about everyone in Turkey's ancient city was a wine drinker - whether or not they belonged to the upper classes or the common masses, report scientists in Germany.

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5 h. ago The ‘office siren’ is over: why gen Z are succumbing to dull workwear

Young people are ditching the corporate cosplay in the office as they try to style it safe in uncertain timesOnly someone who has never truly experienced the existential dread that comes with holding down a soulless 9-to-5 would ever romanticize corporate life. And yet, this time last year, fashion influencers were doing just that. The “office siren” trend was all over TikTok and headlines in Vogue and InStyle. Sirens, we’re told, wore skintight pencil skirts, collared shirts unbuttoned to show ample cleavage, and maybe a pinstripe vest to tie it all together. It was corporate Barbie cosplay, with nods to a submissive Maggie Gyllenhaal in Secretary, or Betty Boop moonlighting as a call center employee.Office sirens were celebrating returning to the office post-pandemic while signaling a secret freakiness (one channeled well by Nicole Kidman in Babygirl, in which she played a Lean In feminist CEO who enters into a kinky office romance with a much younger intern and can’t stop adjusti...

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5 h. ago UK floats plan for joint European fund to ‘stockpile’ weapons

‘Supranational’ vehicle would purchase for participating states at more favourable borrowing rates

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5 h. ago Trump liberation day live: President set to unveil secret tariff plan as world braces for its economic impact

All eyes are on President Trump as he prepares to reveal the next phase of his sweeping tariff agenda, leaving global markets fearing a trade war

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5 h. ago Police issue update after man shot dead by armed officers at train station

Thames Valley Police said a man carrying a knife "moved at speed" towards officers

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7 h. ago Michael Sheen unveils plans for new Welsh National Theatre as he takes on role of a lifetime

The actor revealed the company's first two productions, which will be Owain & Henry and Our Town

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8 h. ago Michael Sheen and Channel 4 embroiled in 'copying' legal row over debt documentary with film

A team of independent TV producers have hit out over 'Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway', which they claim bears a striking resemblance to a rejected documentary they pitched.

Culture

8 h. ago Secrets of Success: the church that served a plantation remains a monument of resistance

Amid the site in rural Jamaica that once belonged to a Guardian financier may lie a treasure trove of artefacts that tell the story of Britain’s history of colonisation and enslavementStanding amid the ruins of Success, a former sugar plantation in Hanover, rural Jamaica, there is a muted silence, interrupted by the occasional rumble of a vehicle passing, overripe cocoa pods falling to the ground and green iguanas scuttling across dying leaves on the estate floor.Hidden from the lively community just outside its boundaries, the overgrown site today is a stark contrast to what would have existed there more than a century ago. One of more than 800 sugar plantations across the island, Success was once co-owned by Sir George Philips, one of the 11 men who financed the launch of the Manchester Guardian in 1821.A brick likely to have been used in the construction of a building on the sprawling estate Continue reading...

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8 h. ago The secret to finding one of the most endangered bumblebees in the US? Dogs

Experts are desperate to analyse rusty patched bumblebee nests for information that might help save them. But they are extremely hard to find – unless you’re a trained conservation canineWords and photographs by Anne Readel in Somers, WisconsinOn a summer day in Somers, Wisconsin, Dave Giordano heard an unexpected buzzing in his back yard. What he found shocked him – a rusty patched bumblebee nest. The discovery was so rare it made the local news.Once widespread across the midwest and eastern US, the rusty patched bumblebee has seen its population plunge by nearly 90%, prompting its listing in 2017 as the first federally endangered bumblebee in the US.Main image: Two rusty patched bumblebee gynes in the nest discovered by Dave Giordano in August 2023. Below: Jay Watson, a conservation biologist, observes a nest (marked with orange flags) found in a rodent burrow Continue reading...

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