33 h. ago German police brand search for Madeleine McCann a 'waste of time' as sources claim three

Rainer Grimm, boss of the BKA, Germany's equivalent of the FBI, is in Portugal overseeing the search which ended yesterday.

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39 h. ago Revealed: The four words a top German detective said before 'last

Rainer Grimm, boss of the BKA, Germany's equivalent of the FBI, is in Portugal overseeing the search which ended yesterday.

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42 h. ago Madeleine McCann search update as £300k police operation comes to an end

Investigators applauded and shook hands after three days of searching.

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46 h. ago Investigators congratulate themselves as Madeleine McCann searches end

Search teams wound down the operation in Atalaia, near Lagos, Portugal, on Thursday, after three days of scouring scrubland and abandoned structures.

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50 h. ago Inside abandoned Madeleine McCann search farmhouse as new 'evidence' found

In what is understood to be the most significant search operation since 2008, German police are scouring the area of Praia da Luz in search of missing Madeleine McCann, with fresh evidence leading them to lonely abandoned farm buildings

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55 h. ago Madeleine McCann cops 'searching wrong area' claims man who knew Christian Brueckner

A man who claims he was close to the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann disappearance says the police are currently looking in the wrong location as the search operation continues

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3 d. ago Madeleine McCann search: Police scour abandoned farmhouse and drain well as major operation in Algarve under way

German police investigating disappearance over 18 years ago to carry out searches ‘for signs of body’

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5 d. ago Edinburgh woman with Autism and ADHD aims for World Record on NC500 Ultra Run

Twenty-nine-year-old Sara Eydmann is preparing to become the first woman to run Scotland’s full North Coast 500 route—a gruelling 516-mile challenge—with the aim of setting a Guinness World Record.

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6 d. ago Inside the terrifying island where only soldiers and scientists are allowed to visit

Ilha de Queimada Grande sits 20 miles (32 km) off the coast of Sao Paolo, Brazil , and is home to the golden lancehead viper.

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7 d. ago Body of missing British hiker is found in Italy after he disappeared on New Year's Day with friend who also died on tragic trip

Londoners Aziz Ziriat, 36, and Samuel Harris, 35, were hiking in the Dolomites when they vanished without a trace - sparking a major search operation.

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8 d. ago Labour and SNP call for Scottish Highlands campervan tax saying roads cannot cope with soaring number of tourists from across the world

Some 36,000 campervans visited the Highlands in 2022 with many encouraged by the development of the North Coast 500, a scenic 500-mile route dubbed 'Scotland's Route 66'.

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8 d. ago Walk on the wild side: Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs on their epic hiking movie The Salt Path

Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir about her and her husband’s 630-mile trek around England’s south coast has become a film. Its stars, makers and Winn talk floods, fog and forgiveness‘I have played a lot of powerful, well-dressed women in my career,” says Gillian Anderson. They flash before your eyes: Margaret Thatcher (The Crown), Eleanor Roosevelt (The First Lady), Emily Maitlis (the Prince Andrew/Newsnight drama Scoop) – as well as the formidable sex therapist in the Netflix hit Sex Education, a role that led to her being inundated with dildos from over-enthusiastic fans. “These are all women in control of themselves and their environment. Any time I have an opportunity to steer against that, particularly lately, it’s of interest to me.”There is steering in another direction, and then there is the screeching handbrake turn represented by her role in The Salt Path, adapted from Raynor Winn’s 2018 memoir of homelessness and hope along the coastline of England’s south-west. Playing W...

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9 d. ago Girl, 13, 'topples into reservoir in front of her dad while taking photo'

A major search and rescue operation is continuing

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9 d. ago Latest images from major search operation after girl 'falls into reservoir' near Greater Manchester

A cordon is in place this morning

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9 d. ago Moment village is buried and homes destroyed as massive glacier crashes down Swiss mountain: Urgent search operation launched

At around 3:30 pm local time, a huge collapse occurred on the Birch Glacier, emergency services in the Wallis region said.

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1 week ago The Breakdown | A flashback to following the 2001 Lions’ enthralling tour of Australia

After a taste of the atmosphere during a post-university year travelling I was hooked and the memories will last a lifetimeJune 2001. I’m on an overnight Greyhound bus from Cairns to Townsville. A typical post-university year travelling in Australia and New Zealand has taken an unwelcome turn after an equally typical relationship breakup.Initially there had been no plans to follow that year’s British & Irish Lions tour, even though I had been enthralled by the classic encounter against the Springboks four years before. With my newfound freedom it seemed logical to head south, a couple of hundred miles down the coast, to see the legendary tourists in action. Continue reading...

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1 week ago This coastal walk has nature trails, pebble beaches and a seaside chippy that’s worth the hike

This pleasant, three-mile coastal walk takes you on the Wales Coast Path and offers sweeping views of the Bristol Channel

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1 week ago Inflatable dinghy blown miles off Welsh coast prompts major air, sea and land search

Teams searched for hours for the three people on the tiny boat

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1 week ago Trio blown miles off UK coast on inflatable dinghy spark major search operation

An inflatable dinghy with three people on quickly got into trouble off the north coast of Wales

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2 w. ago Climate change fuelling spread of deadly fungal infections, study warns

Fungal infections, long neglected by global health policy, could spark major public health crisis in coming decades

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