6 h. ago Boy with ‘death sentence’ disease living a normal life after breakthrough gene therapy

Four-year-old Eisa can now play football and go to school – things his family feared he may never do

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7 h. ago Channel 4 star is 'charged with rape and sexual assault' of woman in hotel

A Channel 4 star has been "charged with rape and sexual assault" after allegedly attacking a woman at a pub and hotel in Oxfordshire back in September 2022

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8 h. ago Breakthrough gene therapy gives boy with ‘death sentence’ disease a normal life

Eisa Hussein took part in a clinical trial testing the new gene therapy.

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8 h. ago Huge wildfire seen from Greater Manchester as Cat and Fiddle pub forced to shut

A major wildfire is raging on moorland near Buxton

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10 h. ago Channel 4 star, 32, charged with rape and sexual assault after alleged attack on woman at posh pub

The star who appeared on an episode of Channel 4's Amazing Spaces appeared at Oxford Magistrates' Court charged with one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault.

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11 h. ago Landmark Cat and Fiddle pub closes as huge wildfire rages on nearby moors

The fire service warned smoke is affecting the centre of Buxton, around four miles away

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12 h. ago Michelle Obama says keeping daughters’ teenage smoking and drinking out of tabloids was a ‘nightmare’

The former First Lady revealed the struggles of letting her daughters be normal teenagers while their father was president

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13 h. ago Will the run club replace the pub? Why choose when both can help fight a deeper issue?

Could run clubs replace pubs? And does it really matter when they serve the same noble purpose? Asks Harry Bullmore

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13 h. ago Leeds crossbow attacker's chilling 'manifesto' as he 'targeted students on pub crawl'

Two women were severely injured on Saturday when shot by a crossbow in Headingley, Leeds, days before the attacker died on Tuesday, as his manifesto was discovered

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16 h. ago The tiny hidden gem Scottish island home to 'excellent pub and café'

Its restaurant has been described as "friendly and welcoming".

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17 h. ago Pub group Young’s toasts bumper sales year despite rising costs and poor weather

Young’s boss Simon Dodd hailed rising sales despite ‘turbulence’ throughout the year affecting the wider pub industry.

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18 h. ago Historic Ye Olde Swiss Cottage saved from demolition as pub given protected status

Ye Olde Swiss Cottage closed its doors on February 1

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19 h. ago The biggest and best pub and beer gardens in London for this week's mini heatwave

It’s time to take this outside

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21 h. ago Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata review – a future without sex

The Convenience Store Woman author imagines the creep of a new worldview, in a novel that highlights the weirdness of normal lifeIn Japanese writer Sayaka Murata’s fiction, characters do perverse things in order to “play the part of the fictitious creature called ‘an ordinary person’”. This description comes from Keiko, the 36-year-old narrator of Convenience Store Woman. Keiko’s conformist family and friends can’t believe she can be happy being single and working a dead-end job at a convenience store. Keiko finds an unexpected way to make it look as though she is normal: she keeps a man in her bathtub, hoping that everyone will simply assume they are a couple. A similar idea appears in Murata’s short story Poochie, from the collection Life Ceremony. A young girl takes a friend to a shed in the mountains to meet her pet; the friend is surprised to discover that the pet is a middle-aged man. Murata is interested in the lengths humans will go to in order to domesticate ...

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25 h. ago India and Pakistan already sweltering in ‘new normal’ heatwave conditions

Temperatures south Asians dread each year arrive early as experts talk of ever shorter transition to summer-like heatThe summer conditions south Asian countries dread each year have arrived alarmingly early, and it’s only April. Much of India and Pakistan is already sweltering in heatwave conditions, in what scientists say is fast becoming the “new normal”.Temperatures in the region typically climb through May, peaking in June before the monsoon brings relief. But this year, the heat has come early. “As far as Asia and the Indian subcontinent are concerned, there was a quick transition from a short window of spring conditions to summer-like heat,” said GP Sharma, the meteorology president of Skymet, India’s leading private forecaster. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago SUVs like Range Rovers cause more pedestrian deaths than standard cars, study finds

The danger of SUVs to children is over 80 per cent higher than normal cars

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35 h. ago Britain's biggest pub chain hikes prices of drinks by 4% with could add up to 20p onto the cost of a pint

Stonegate Group, which owns bars including Slug & Lettuce, Walkabout, Be At One and Popworld, is set to increase prices for its leased and tenanted pubs to get booze from May 2.

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39 h. ago Jacob Fearnley loses to Grigor Dimitrov as Madrid Open resumes after power

The Caja Magica returned to normal after the widespread power outage.

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39 h. ago Moment football yobs attack rival fans outside pub after FA Cup clash

Samuel Grant, 24, Wayne Thomas, 18, and Joseph Friel, 22, were all involved in a 50-strong mass brawl in Newport city centre in January last year.

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40 h. ago Place in the Sun Laura Hamilton's emotional life from Womble dad to killer disease and tragedy

Laura Hamilton turned down her uni offer to enter the world of TV, and has since juggled being a pub landlady with A Place in the Sun alongside facing divorce and a heartbreaking family death

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