7 h. ago Thousands of UK workers feared ‘days’ away from job losses without new US

The deal, hailed as ‘historic’ by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, offers a lifeline to British industries

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22 h. ago Sir David Attenborough's fears over 'becoming helpless' in serious health battle

Sir David Attenborough, who celebrates his 99th birthday today, previously revealed his fears at getting Alzheimer's and how it would affect his day-to-day

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27 h. ago Callous care worker stole thousands from nursing home resident

Zoe Davidson was convicted of theft at Ayr Sheriff Court in November last year - after stealing the money from a service user at Hillcrest Care Home, in McConnell Square, Girvan.

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46 h. ago Massive breakthrough as Amazon develops warehouse robot with key human sense

Mass job losses are feared after Amazon announced its vulcan devices which are ‘capable of grabbing three-quarters of items in warehouses’ and don't need ladders

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47 h. ago When video games journalism eats itself, we all lose out | Keith Stuart

As industry giants trade beloved brands like commodities and AI offers easy content, independent games outlets are rising up. Here’s why they’re sorely neededLast week was a bad one for video games journalism. Two key contributors to the veteran site Giant Bomb, Jeff Grubb and Mike Minotti, have announced their departure after a recent podcast was taken down. The 888th episode of the Giant Bombcast reportedly featured a section lampooning new brand guidelines issued to staff and is no longer available online. Later this week, it was announced that major US site Polygon was being sold to Valnet, owner of the ScreenRant and GameRant brands, resulting in a swathe of job losses. This follows ReedPop’s sale, in 2024, of four high-profile UK-based sites – Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, Rock Paper Shotgun and VG247 – to IGN Entertainment, owned by Ziff Davis, which also resulted in redundancies.It’s sad how these long-standing sites, each with vast audiences and sturdy reputations, have bee...

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48 h. ago Harbour Energy: Keir Starmer confronted by SNP's Stephen Flynn and Kemi Badenoch over 250 North Sea job cuts

Harbour Energy announced job losses on Wednesday morning

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54 h. ago Amazon makes ‘fundamental leap forward in robotics’ with device having sense of touch

Vulcan device ‘capable of grabbing three-quarters of items in warehouses’ fuels fears of mass job lossesAmazon said it has made a “fundamental leap forward in robotics” after developing a robot with a sense of touch that will be capable of grabbing about three-quarters of the items in its vast warehouses.Vulcan – which launches at the US firm’s “Delivering the Future” event in Dortmund, Germany, on Wednesday and is to be deployed around the world in the next few years – is designed to help humans sort items for storage and then prepare them for delivery as the latest in a suite of robots which have an ever-growing role in the online retailer’s extensive operation. Continue reading...

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56 h. ago VE Day: The Nazi attack on Scotland feared by army commanders

Preparations were made in Scotland for the feared Nazi invasion of Operation Sealion.

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62 h. ago ‘They’ll have to go home’: Trump’s World Cup task force touts welcome, warns visitors

Trump convenes first meeting of World Cup task forcePresident hails windfall despite questions over readinessUS president Donald Trump convened the first meeting of his administration’s 2026 World Cup task force on Tuesday in a public event in which he revealed that he did not know Russia had been banned from Fifa competitions and insisted the tournament would go off without a hitch.Boasting repeatedly that the 2026 World Cup, due to be co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico, will be the “biggest, safest and most extraordinary soccer tournament in history”, Trump went on to claim that the tournament would generate “tens of billions of dollars in economic activities for local businesses” and “thousands and thousands of jobs for American workers”. Continue reading...

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62 h. ago ‘They’ll have to go home’: Trump’s World Cup taskforce dismisses fears but warns visitors

Trump convenes first meeting of World Cup taskforcePresident hails windfall despite questions over readinessUS president Donald Trump convened the first meeting of his administration’s 2026 World Cup taskforce on Tuesday in a public event in which he revealed that he did not know Russia had been banned from Fifa competitions and insisted the tournament would go off without a hitch.Boasting repeatedly that the 2026 World Cup, due to be co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico, will be the “biggest, safest and most extraordinary soccer tournament in history”, Trump went on to claim that the tournament would generate “tens of billions of dollars in economic activities for local businesses” and “thousands and thousands of jobs for American workers”. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump’s 100% film tariffs to send ‘shock waves’ through global industry – US politics live

US president announces move, citing ‘national security threat’ to US film sectorMeanwhile, Germany has said it “strongly rejects” criticism by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio of its domestic spy agency’s decision to label the far-right AfD party as an extremist group.“I reiterate that the insinuations contained (in his comments) are certainly unfounded,” foreign ministry spokesman Sebastian Fischer said.This is democracy. This decision is the result of a thorough & independent investigation to protect our Constitution & the rule of law. It is independent courts that will have the final say. We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped.”The UK is a world leader in film and TV production, employing thousands of talented workers, and this is a key growth sector in the government’s industrial strategy,” she said.“These tariffs, coming after Covid and the recent slowdown, could deal a knock-out blow to an industry that is only just recovering and...

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5 d. ago Trump feels tug of political gravity as economy falters and polls plunge

The president started his second term fast and furious with a flurry of activity – much of it legally dubious – but analysts say the honeymoon is over“Not just courageous” but “actually fearless” said Doug Burgum. The “first 100 days has far exceeded that of any other presidency in this country ever,” said Pam Bondi. “Most” of the presidents whose portraits adorn the Oval Office – which include George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan – were mere “placeholders” who were not “men of action”, mused JD Vance.Before the TV cameras on Wednesday, top cabinet officials took turns drenching Donald Trump with praise that some critics found evocative of politics in North Korea. Yet beyond the walls of the White House, the mood was shifting. New data showed the economy is shrinking. The national security adviser was about to be ousted. Opinion polls told of a president whose unpopularity is historic. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Peggy lived in fear nightly as German bombers roared overhead. Then, on the day she turned ten in 1945, peace in Europe was declared, giving her the best birthday EVER

Celebrations and parties were almost unheard of for the youngster, born in 1935, who had little memory of anything other than the daily trials of living through the Second World War.

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6 d. ago This Morning star admits she hid her pregnancy from ITV bosses amid 'job loss fears' as she confesses she felt she had 'something to prove'

A star has admitted she was scared she would lose her job at This Morning if she told them she was pregnant before she started. 

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6 d. ago This Morning star admits 'job loss fears' caused her to hide pregnancy from ITV bosses

The This Morning star has admitted that she kept her pregnancy a secret from ITV bosses.

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6 d. ago Sian Welby reveals she hid pregnancy from This Morning bosses over 'job loss' fears

Sian began presenting on This Morning weeks before announcing her pregnancy

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8 d. ago Onlookers 'petrified' as man swings machete in street and threatens to 'stab' people

The terrifying incident was witnessed by a couple who were coming back from a day at the beach and locked their car doors in fear

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8 d. ago Move fast and destroy things: 100 chaotic days of Elon Musk in the White House

From mass firings to unprecedented influence, Musk has left little of the federal government untouched in Doge roleOne hundred days after Elon Musk entered the White House as Donald Trump’s senior adviser and the de facto leader of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), the Tesla CEO has left little of the federal government unscathed. Over the course of just a few months, he has gutted agencies and public services that took decades to build while accumulating immense political power.Musk’s role in the Trump administration is without modern precedent. Never before has the world’s richest person been deputized by the US president to cull the very agencies that oversee his businesses. Musk’s attempts to radically dismantle government bureaus have won him sprawling influence. His team has embedded its members in key roles across federal agencies, gained access to personal data on millions of Americans and fired tens of thousands of workers. SpaceX, where he is CEO,...

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9 d. ago What is May Day? Exploring its history and how it’s celebrated

From a celebration that’s thousands of years old to a workers’ day of protest, here’s everything to know about May Day in 2025

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1 week ago Trump 100 days: Trump’s whirlwind start to his second presidency

The president has begun his second term at a whirlwind pace, slashing the government, upending international alliances, challenging the rule of law and ordering mass deportationsLaw-abiding migrants sent to foreign prisons. Sweeping tariffs disrupting global markets. Students detained for protest. Violent insurrectionists pardoned. Tens of thousands of federal workers fired. The supreme court ignored.The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term have shocked the United States and the world. On the eve of his inauguration, Trump promised the “most extraordinary first 100 days of any presidency in American history”, and what followed has been a whirlwind pace of extreme policies and actions that have reshaped the federal government and the US’s role in the world. Continue reading...

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