15 m. ago Paul Scholes pinpoints Manchester United advantage over Athletic Bilbao in Europa League

Man Utd will play Athletic Bilbao in the Europa League semi-finals on Thursday and the first leg is away from home.

Sport

18 m. ago Moment flames ravage home in Bristol after huge 'gas explosion'

Terrifying images show the inferno tearing through the property on Lancaster Road, Yate, at around 06:50am today. Three people were rushed to hospital and are receiving treatment for burn injuries.

Society

23 m. ago Over 200 lawsuits, 142 executive orders, and 24 days golfing: Trump’s first 100 days by the numbers

From a crashing stock market to mass deportations, purges of the federal workforce and the occasional Melania Trump spotting, Alicja Hagopian and Alex Woodward explore the numbers behind the beginning of Trump’s second term

Politics

27 m. ago UK’s first trans judge appeals to European court over supreme court ruling

Victoria McCloud brings action against UK for infringement of her human rights after ruling on biological sexBritain’s first transgender judge is taking the UK to the European court of human rights over the supreme court’s ruling on biological sex.The UK supreme court ruled earlier this month that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act referred only to a biological woman and to biological sex, with subsequent guidance from the equalities watchdog amounting to a blanket ban on trans people using toilets and other services of the gender they identify as. Continue reading...

Events

37 m. ago Three taken to hospital and homes evacuated after ‘gas explosion’ near Bristol

The house in Yate was burnt almost completely to the ground during the blaze, which followed the explosion on Tuesday morning.

Society

42 m. ago Three in hospital as house destroyed in suspected gas explosion in Bristol

Videos and pictures of the fire shows thick black smoke and flames coming from the property in Yate

Society

45 m. ago The stadium myth: new grounds won’t rescue your club – or your city

From the Premier League to MLS and the NFL, huge stadiums with gargantuan costs are a symptom of elite sport’s unrealistic promises“Nil satis nisi optimum,” boasts the motto of Everton FC: “Nothing but the best is good enough.” Performances on the pitch over the past few seasons have suggested otherwise (what’s Latin for “Anything to stay up will do?”) but in the form of the sparkling new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock, which will replace Goodison Park as Everton’s permanent home from the start of next season, the club now has tangible proof that its historic aspiration to excellence is at last being met.Based on the renderings and early footage of its interior, Everton Stadium (it will be a while before that bland placeholder is draped in the capitalist rococo of the “TeslaDome” or “Open AI’s ChatGPT Arena” or “Palantir Presents Bramley-Moore Dock”) appears to be a pleasingly raked and compact arena that should retain at least some of the raucousness of Everton’s old home. The stand...

Events

47 m. ago Albyn Housing Society expands into Skye with new key worker housing

One of the largest social housing providers in the Highlands is expanding into the Isle of Skye for the first time, providing seven new affordable homes for key workers for mid-market rent.

Politics

53 m. ago London substation fire latest: 100 firefighters tackle huge blaze as dozens evacuated from flats

People urged to avoid area and 80 evacuated as huge fire breaks out at electrical substation in Maida Vale

Events

56 m. ago Towel tycoon leaves son 'facing bankruptcy' after dragging him to court for second time months after winning bitter battle over £2.2m mansion

Michael Parker, 62, has dragged son Thomas Parker-Bowyer, 32, to court a second time, claiming around £600,000 relating to fallout from their first legal battle over their £2.2m Bourne End home.

Economics

58 m. ago EU's top court rules against Malta's 'golden passport' program

The European Court of Justice ordered Malta to close its “golden passport” program, the one of the last of its kind in Europe that allows wealthy people to buy EU citizenship, even after the small island country suspended the program for citizens of Russia and Belarus

Events

82 m. ago Malta ‘golden passport’ scheme breaks law, EU’s top court rules

Paid-for citizenship offer must be scrapped under European Court of Justice ruling

Events

83 m. ago Homeowner shocked at standby cost of 2 common appliances after conducting test

The social media user decided to find out which appliances were costing the most while not being used

Events

83 m. ago London fire LIVE: Homes evacuated as firefighters tackle huge electrical substation blaze in St John's Wood

Reports of power blackouts among nearby properties have started to emerge

Society

88 m. ago India and Pakistan on edge as terror attack in Kashmir leads to exchange of border gunfire

Indian authorities arrest over 500 people and demolish homes in security crackdown sweeping Kashmir

Events

89 m. ago London substation fire latest: Dozens evacuated from flats as 100 firefighters tackle huge blaze

People urged to avoid area and 80 evacuated as huge fire breaks out at electrical substation in Maida Vale

Events

97 m. ago Questions begin as Spain and Portugal recover from largest power cut in recent European history – Europe live

Spain and Portugal report power supplies almost back to normal after day of chaos across the Iberian PeninsulaThe Spanish self-employed could have lost up to €1.3bn as a result of yesterday’s power cut, the Asociación de Trabajadores Autónomos estimated.In a report carried by the Spanish news agency EFE, the group said that “today is still a difficult day” with some reporting connectivity and transport issues. Continue reading...

Politics

1 hour ago Do Ho Suh: Walk the House at Tate Modern: 'like a holy man big on interiors'

The work of this Korean artist is full of obsessive recreations of his former homes is a jaw-dropping attempt to hold onto memories

Politics

1 hour ago Consider Yourself Kissed by Jessica Stanley review – a delightfully grounded romance

This irresistible love story braids the personal and the political – from Brexit to who gets to use the spare room as an officeThere are not many romantic novels that include Brexit, Boris Johnson’s ICU stay and the “Edstone”. Then again, not many political novels begin with a classic meet-cute. Jessica Stanley’s UK debut, Consider Yourself Kissed, is – to misquote Dorothy L Sayers – either a political story with romantic interludes, or a romance novel with political interludes. It is also the kind of book that, for a certain kind of reader, will immediately become a treasure.That meet-cute, then: Coralie, a young Australian copywriter, and Adam, a single dad, swap homes for a single night. Adam looks like a shorter, younger Colin Firth; Coralie waits in vain for him to tell her that she looks “like Lizzy Bennet, a known fact at school”. Coralie considers Adam’s neat bookcase of political biographies, including – to her joy – those of Australian politicians. Adam cons...

Politics

1 hour ago Where Dragons Live review – reflections on family life in an extraordinary setting

In this warm documentary, three siblings clear out their enormously grand childhood home in Oxfordshire where among the happy memories are those of crueltyThis warm, gentle documentary from Suzanne Raes is about a family – and a family home – that might have interested Nancy Mitford or Wes Anderson. Maybe it takes a non-British film-maker to appreciate such intense and unfashionable Englishness; not eccentric exactly, but wayward and romantic. It is about a trio of middle-aged siblings’ from the Impey family who take on the overpoweringly sad duty of clearing out their enormously grand childhood home in Oxfordshire. The huge medieval manor house Cumnor Place, with its dozens of chimneys, mysterious rooms and staircases was bought by their late mother, the neuroscientist Jane Impey (née Mellanby), with the proceeds of the sale in 1966 of a postcard-sized but hugely valuable painting, Rogier van der Weyden’s Saint George and the Dragon.Impey died in 2021 and her husband, author and an...

Society