2 h. ago Get a fan and shut curtains: how to keep your home cool in a heatwave

Opening (and shading) your windows is vital to keeping the heat at bay. And turn things off and take a cool showerIt’s tempting to throw the windows open all day in the hope of a breeze, but when it is really hot outside, you only let in hotter air. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Penthouses with a private terrace for sale in England and Scotland – in pictures

From an historic building in the heart of the city to a seaside complex inspired by an ocean liner Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Shop assistant, 24, went on second Tinder date and was chopped into 14 pieces

Sydney Loofe fell prey to a twisted pair of killers who shared dark fantasies and believed they 'gained 'powers' from their sordid and torturous acts, that for Sydney, ended tragically

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3 h. ago Boy, 11, killed in case of mistaken identity as gang open fire on family car

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT A family of four were leaving a sporting event when two gang members opened fire at their car, killing an 11-year-old boy and leaving his cousin paralyzed

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3 h. ago I hope this is the last piece I ever have to write about assisted dying | Polly Toynbee

Today’s vote is on a knife edge. MPs must take their chance to drive forward personal freedoms – and add to Labour’s legacyMPs, read this horror before you vote today. Here’s how some people are slowly dying, right now, in mortal agony untreatable by the best palliative care: “Some will retch at the stench of their own body rotting. Some will vomit their own faeces. Some will suffocate, slowly, inexorably, over several days.” An average of 17 people a day are dying these bad deaths, according to 2019 figures, as reported by palliative care professionals who see it happen.The Inescapable Truth, a report from Dignity in Dying, revealed what is usually kept hidden from us: the shocking last months for the unluckiest. It could happen to you or me. The assisted dying bill’s final Commons vote today is no abstract debate about slippery slopes or what God wants: to do nothing is to inflict torture on many.Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnistIn the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contact...

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4 h. ago ‘You’d never make Slumdog today’: Danny Boyle on risks, regrets and returning to the undead

In 28 Years Later, zombies maraud over a Britain broken by more than Brexit. Its director discusses cultural baggage, catastrophising – and why his kids’ generation is an ‘upgrade’The UK is a wasteland in Danny Boyle’s new film. Towns lie in ruins, trains rot on the rails and the EU has severed all ties with the place. Some residents are stuck in the past and congregate under the tattered flag of St George. The others flail shirtless through the open countryside, raging about nothing, occasionally stopping to eat worms. You wouldn’t want to live in the land that Boyle and the writer Alex Garland show us. Teasingly, on some level, the film suggests that we do.Boyle and Garland first prowled zombie Britain with their 2002 hit 28 Days Later. It was an electrifying piece of speculative fiction, a guerilla-style thriller about an unimaginable world. Since then we’ve had Brexit and Covid, and the looming threat of martial law in the US The story’s extravagant flights of fancy don’t feel s...

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4 h. ago Slain gangster Kevin 'Gerbil' Carroll replaced by new enforcer for "A Team" mob amid gang war

A TikTok page run by the faceless "A Team" claims a new recruit has been brought into the ranks.

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8 h. ago Gianluigi Donnarumma issues update on PSG future as Man Utd lurk after private talks

Manchester United had been eyeing a summer move for Gianluigi Donnarumma, with the Italian keeper entering the final year of his contract at Paris Saint-Germain

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10 h. ago Gang 'mastermind' cracked jokes after torturing Coleen Campbell's ex to death, trial hears

John Belfield denies murdering Thomas Campbell and conspiring to rob him - the victim's body was found dressed in only a pair of socks in his hallway while his legs and buttocks had been burned

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11 h. ago Oasis brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher take to the stage together for the first time since announcing their reunion tour as they recreate their 90s heyday in new Adidas campaign

A brand new image, posted on Adidas' social media on Thursday, showed the duo dressed in specially designed pieces boasting their band's name.

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11 h. ago Liam Gallagher in 'freefall' and fleeing to Spain to retire until key intervention

A new book A Sound So Very Loud reveals how Liam Gallagher was on the verge of moving to Majorca to retire like the gangster played by Ray Winstone in the 2000 movie Sexy Beast - until his partner made him see the light

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11 h. ago Two more winners on Thursday – here's my Friday Royal Ascot tips

Daily Star Chief Tipster Jason Heavey continued his good form with two winners on Thursday and he fancies star Irish filly Babouche to steal the show on Friday

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13 h. ago Fears as 'no medical record exists of examination' that led to fatal discharge of little girl

‘Vital clinical information’ could risk ‘being lost’ in a complicated ‘mixture of various analogue and digital systems’ in use around the country, slammed a coroner

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15 h. ago MP offered private ambulance to parliament amid fears assisted dying bill could come down to one vote

Sorcha Eastwood, a Northern Irish MP, has said she is unable to make it to Westminster for the landmark vote because she has Covid

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15 h. ago Killjoy council tells pensioner Ellie The Elephant must pack her trunk and say goodbye to his garden

Trevor Robinson was left 'heartbroken' when he was forced to ditch the former piece of play-equipment from the front garden of his semi-detached home in Gillingham, Kent.

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16 h. ago £30k for being compared to Darth Vader. £25k for a birthday card. £17k for being called a weirdo. How Britain's employment tribunals became a laughing stock... and have reached breaking point

When Lorna Rooke's NHS colleagues entered her personality traits into a light-hearted online quiz they had no idea this apparently innocent piece of workplace banter would lead to a court hearing.

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16 h. ago Scots biker fury after discovering stolen motorcycle 'torched within hours'

Graeme Kay woke up to find an angle grinder had been used to cut through a chain to steal his bike.

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16 h. ago 'Scotland's dumbest criminal' set fire to himself while torching cars for gang

Sheriff Tim Niven-Smith also imposed an eight-month supervised release period to protect the public from serious harm once Gibb is freed from jail.

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17 h. ago Killjoy council tells pensioner Ellie The Elephant must pack her trunk and say goodbye to his front garden

Trevor Robinson was left 'heartbroken' when he was forced to ditch the former piece of play-equipment from the front garden of his semi-detached home in Gillingham, Kent.

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17 h. ago Love Island first look as explosive game results in secrets being exposed and one girl makes her move

Love Island returns tonight as the drama unfolds from the intense game of beer pong dares and two Islanders head to the Hideaway for a 'private' chat

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