41 m. ago Met Office urges Brits in 51 areas to prepare three essential items for 13 hours

The Met Office has urged Brits in 51 areas to stock up on three essential items as a band of snow sweeps in overnight, with a yellow warning for snow and ice issued

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43 m. ago Man United transfer news: £33m deal on the table as club 'give the green light'

Manchester United face several transfer decisions this month in addition to naming a new head coach with Joshua Zirkzee and Kobbie Mainoo's futures speculated upon

Economics

62 m. ago VR headsets are 'hope machines' inside California prisons, offering escape and practical experience

Prisoners are now taking regular trips to far-flung, exotic locales such as Thailand

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67 m. ago Dog 'poisoned' by common household item as owner issues warning

Pet owner issues urgent warning after her dog was poisoned and didn't recognise her

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67 m. ago Dog owners urged to check their pets for serious risk amid Met Office weather warnings

A simple wound treatment claim for a dog averages around £313 in the UK

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98 m. ago M1 closed in ONE direction due to single vehicle crash caused by icy road conditions as drivers warned of delays

A MAJOR motorway has been forced to close after a horror smash caused by icy conditions. Motorists are being warned to avoid the M1 near Loughborough, Leicestershire, after the crash this morning. National Highways confirmed the smash had been caused by adverse weather conditions affecting the road. It said: "The M1 southbound is currently closed...

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1 hour ago Brandi Carlile on collabs, Oasis, football and preparing for biggest ever Manchester gig

The American singing star is heading back to Manchester for her biggest ever gig here this year - Brandi Carlile talks collabs, taking her kids to see a match here, and her thoughts on the Oasis reunion

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1 hour ago My daughter, 19, died in my arms days after taking paracetamol for a ‘typical teenage hangover’ – don’t ignore the signs

WHEN she woke up with a splitting headache after a night out with pals, Áine Rose Hurst blamed a ‘typical teenage’ hangover. When the pain wouldn’t shift, she sought help from her mum who gave her paracetamol, an eye mask and told her to get some sleep. But in a heartbreaking twist, she died just...

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1 hour ago Government urged to make major change to all food packaging labels

It comes as the country faces an obesity crisis, according to Which?

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2 h. ago My cultural awakening: Losing My Religion by REM helped me escape a doomsday cult

I had been a member of the Children of God for two decades, but was growing disillusioned with its controlling behaviour and increasingly worrying sexual practices. Then I heard Michael Stipe’s lyrics and was set on a path to freedomIn 1991, I was living in a commune with 200 other people in Japan, as a member of a cult called the Children of God, which preached that the world was going to end in 1993. Everything I did – from where I slept each night, to who I was allowed to sleep with – was decided by the head of my commune. I was encouraged to keep a diary, and then turn it over to the leaders every night, so they could comb through it for signs of dissent. I was only allowed to listen to cult-sanctioned music, and I was only allowed to watch movies with happy endings, because those were the types of films of which the cult’s supreme leader – David Berg – approved. The Sound of Music was one of Berg’s favourite films, so we watched it on repeat. By the time I was living in Japan, ...

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2 h. ago Our top picks for ‘fun under £5’ across all £9.50 Holiday destinations in the UK

PLANNING a Sun £9.50 holiday this year? Our UK holiday parks are packed full of things to do, from live entertainment and comedy acts to climbing walls and waterparks. But when you're heading away on holiday, you often want to get out and explore what the local area has to offer. Luckily, we've found loads...

Economics

2 h. ago The Sun’s Travel Editor’s top hacks for having the cheapest EVER break with Hols From £9.50

THE Sun’s fabulous Holidays from £9.50 has been providing our army of readers with the best bargain breaks around. And for more than 26 years I have been heading up Travel at The Sun, determined to search out those great value stays across the UK and Europe. In that time I’ve picked up some great...

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3 h. ago The Sun’s Travel Editor has taken her kids all over the world – but these holiday parks are one of her top family breaks

THE Sun's Head Of Travel Lisa Minot has taken thousands of holidays with her children in her 26 years on the job - from top cruises to 5-star hotels. But, here she reveals why the holiday park break is one of the best-loved trips among their family. “But mum, he’s just sleeping!” We're holidaying near...

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3 h. ago What does your car say about you? A global portrait of people and their rides, from Shanghai to Santa Monica

You can tell a lot about someone from the vehicle they drive, as Martin Roemers’ collection of photographs show. Introduction by author William BoydIn my novels I find that I very rarely write “a car” or “a van” or “a lorry” – I always tend to specify the marque and the model, often with some pedantic precision. Why should this be so? After all, I am a non-driver, someone who claims to be able to drive (I did learn), but who never passed his driving test. And yet, paradoxically, I’m something of a car enthusiast – a sort-of petrol-head, I confess – perhaps a consequence of spending many hours, or maybe that should be years,  in the back of minicabs that conveyed me here and there around London. In my long experience of minicab use I’ve found that most conversations with minicab drivers often end up being about cars. I’ve learned a lot.There is another reason why I like to specify. I have a conviction that the type of car, or vehicle, that you drive is as much an expression...

Politics

3 h. ago No, private schools aren’t victims of ‘reverse discrimination’ – and Cambridge should know better | Lee Elliot Major

Trinity Hall’s plan to target elite schools sends the message that privilege equals talent, when the reality is that poorer students are already on the back footA Cambridge college’s plan to target students from some of the country’s most elite private schools has struck a nerve. As reported by the Guardian, Trinity Hall justified the move by claiming that a focus only on “greater fairness in admissions” could “unintentionally result in reverse discrimination”. Alumni LinkedIn feeds and social media threads quickly filled with outrage, as many Cambridge graduates interpreted the move as class prejudice rearing its ugly head once again. One angry fellow at the college said it amounted to a “slap in the face” for their state-educated undergraduates.It brought back memories of the sneering snobbery at Oxford when the former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, then principal of Lady Margaret Hall, introduced a new foundation year. “We don’t do hard luck stories,” sniffed one academic. “Oxf...

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3 h. ago BBCNOW/Bancroft/Gerhardt review – intriguing connections, magic and melancholy beauty

Hoddinott Hall, CardiffAn imaginatively programmed concert featured Anders Hillborg alongside Sibelius and Shostakovich – with Alban Gerhardt the impeccable soloist in the latter’s second cello concertoCadavre Exquis was the game – akin to Consequences – in which surrealist artists such as Yves Tanguy and Joan Miró made separate contributions to a single piece of work without sight of what anyone else had done, to see how a picture might evolve, or just for the hell of it. Anders Hillborg took the principle as inspiration for his composition Exquisite Corpse but, where the surrealists hoped for signs of an unconscious collective sensibility, the emerging components of Hillborg’s piece bear his consciously singular imprint while also incorporating references to composers as disparate as Stravinsky, Ligeti and Sibelius.In the performance given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under their chief conductor Ryan Bancroft, the unfolding layers of sound were never less than brilliantl...

Politics

3 h. ago 2026 already belongs to the celebrity ‘odd couple’. Why are we so obsessed with them?

From ‘Kylithée’ to Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau, nothing captures the collective imagination like a seemingly mismatched celebrity couple. Jessica Burrell digs into the obsession

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3 h. ago Tim Dowling: I have a new mystery ailment but sympathy is in short supply

I can’t tell the GP ghosts are pulling my hair. That’s even more embarrassing than my previous ailments – ‘hot hand’ and ‘phantom phone’I wake up with a headache. Not a headache, really – more of a head pain, and not exactly that either. I am sitting in the kitchen opposite the middle one, who is staring at his computer. My wife is wandering in and out, not really listening to the symptoms I’m trying to describe.“It’s like I walked through a low doorway and cracked my skull on the frame,” I say. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Liam Rosenior embracing Chelsea chance after large promotion as FA Cup tie kick

New Chelsea head coach is unproven at this level but is relishing the opportunity to prove doubters wrong

Politics

3 h. ago Malachi Kirby: ‘Forest Whitaker held me. The cameras were off but I was shaking’

After roles in everything from ‘EastEnders’ to ‘Black Mirror’, the actor is now going head-to-head with Stephen Graham in the second round of ‘A Thousand Blows’. He speaks to Annabel Nugent about channelling trauma, on-set therapists, and his funny side

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