2 h. ago 'TikTok won't let me see what my son was watching on his phone just before he died'

Ellen Roome, who with other grieving parents has taken TikTok to court, has spoken of her grief following the death of happy-go-lucky teenager Jools Sweeney

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7 d. ago Blackview Xplore X1 review: the 420g rugged phone that refuses to die

Built like a brick and priced to surprise, the Blackview Xplore X1 throws twin batteries, hardcore durability and sheer size at the rugged phone market — with predictable compromises

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1 week ago Russian who fled Putin dies in mystery window fall as cryptic note found on phone

Exiled journalist Evgeny Safronov, 38, fled Russia amid Vladimir Putin's crackdown on press freedom - and has now been found dead after falling from the window of his flat

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2 w. ago RFK Jr’s duck ringtone interrupts White House press conference

Robert F Kennedy Jr's speech on new dietary guidelines for Americans was interrupted by his phone going off with a duck ringtone as he spoke at the White House on Wednesday, 7 January.

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2 w. ago RFK Jr interrupted by duck ringtone from his own phone in middle of ‘MAHA’ announcement

Robert F Kennedy Jr's speech on new dietary guidelines for Americans was interrupted by his phone going off with a duck ringtone as he spoke at the White House on Wednesday, 7 January.

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3 w. ago What happened next: the man who saved the last phone box in his village

When BT earmarked the kiosk for closure in January, Derek Harris began to campaign. The fight gave him purpose at a difficult time in his life‘I don’t want it to die’: one man’s battle to save the last phone box in his villageThe caller display flashes up: “Derek in the K6” it reads. On the line is Derek Harris, ringing from the red phone box he saved for his village. When he saw, on the agenda for the parish council meeting, that BT had earmarked it for closure, Harris knew he had to fight it. “It’s fighting for what is valuable, cherished,” he told me when I went to meet him in February, sitting over coffee in a cafe near Sharrington, the Norfolk village that has been his home for more than 50 years, and the phone box for longer. It’s a K6, for Kiosk No 6, designed in 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.For a few weeks, Harris, then 89, became a media star. One of the criteria for keeping a phone box in use is that at least 52 calls have to be made from it in a year (fewer than 10 had...

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4 w. ago Chris Rea was third of his siblings to die in three months as family share 'gut

The singer’s older sister recalled their poignant last phone conversation before he died aged 74 on Monday

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