5 h. ago TRNSMT 2025: 5 artists tipped to perform secret sets at Glasgow Green

With secret sets promised, what names are being banded about ahead of TRNSMT 2025 next week?

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12 h. ago UK's most divisive seaside town as Brits can't decide if it's beautiful or bleak

Consumer rights magazine Which? has surveyed 3,800 members of the British public to find out what is the overall best seaside town, with Bamburgh in Northumberland hitting the topspot again

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27 h. ago TRNSMT release site food map with dozens of vendors including pizza, burgers, chips and more

TRNSMT has unveiled its Food Map for 2025 and festival-goers are in for a treat - quite literally!

Politics

53 h. ago TRNSMT 2025 travel and public transport options including bus, train and subway

Festival-goers heading to Glasgow Green next month should plan how they are going to get there in advance

Transport

4 d. ago Shocking moment school bus crashes into river 'as brakes fail and accelerator jams'

Five people including the bus driver were taken to hospital for treatment with two of them in 'serious but not life-threatening' condition, police said after the bus came off the road in Eastleigh, Hampshire.

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4 d. ago Driver 'said brakes were not working and accelerator jammed' as two are in serious condition after college bus ploughed into river to injure nearly 20 children

Five people including the bus driver were taken to hospital for treatment with two of them in 'serious but not life-threatening' condition, police said after the bus came off the road in Eastleigh, Hampshire.

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6 d. ago Expert reveals the VERY common travel item that's 58 times dirtier than public toilet seats

Microbiologist Amy-May Pointer has revealed the very common travel accessory that is 58 times dirtier than a public toilet seat - and how you can clean it.

Politics

6 d. ago Full list of items allowed and forbidden to bring into TRNSMT 2025

From chairs to umbrellas to water bottles, here's everything you can and can't bring to TRNSMT.

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7 d. ago TRNSMT Festival 2025: Glasgow road closures and travel disruption around music festival

TRNSMT festival is returning to Glasgow Green. Here are the road closures in place during the event.

Culture

9 d. ago ‘The risk is the lure’: subway surfing in New York City continues to claim young lives

Social media popularizes the deadly activity, and a 1847 law stymies families who try to hold the city to accountJaida Rivera’s 11-year son, Cayden, was supposed to be in school at Brooklyn’s Fort Greene preparatory academy on the morning of 16 September last year. Staff saw him in the cafeteria after his grandmother dropped him off at 7.45am.But 30 minutes later he was marked as absent. Cayden had somehow slipped out, boarded a G subway train traveling south and was riding on top of one of its carriages when he fell on to the tracks at the Fourth Avenue-Ninth Street station just after 10.00am. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Continue reading...

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1 week ago TRNSMT Glasgow 2025 site map revealed ahead of weekend festival

TRNSMT at Glasgow Green is now less than a month away, with some star-studded acts taking to the stage across the weekend for Scotland's biggest music festival of the year.

Politics

3 w. ago New call to give older people free bus travel between all UK nations

The Concessionary Bus Travel Act 2007 includes a power to allow for mutual recognition of bus passes across the UK.

Transport

3 w. ago Single Black women on Covid five years later: ‘The pandemic taught me, no regrets’

Three women share how isolation, instability and loneliness led to creativity, family and communityIt was business as usual for Jordan Madison in early 2020. Her commute included taking a bus from Silver Spring, Maryland, to her job in Bethesda. Madison, 25, was working at the time on her license to become a clinical marriage and family therapist, and worked part-time at Instacart to earn extra money. By March 2020, the world had shut down because of the Covid-19 pandemic.“The first two weeks, I was like: ‘OK, this is nice. I don’t have to leave my house. This is a nice little vacation. We’ll probably go back to work in like a month or so,’” Madison remembered thinking. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Full list of people eligible for free bus pass under new DWP rules

Full list of people eligible for a free bus pass in England - including under the disabled concessionary travel scheme

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3 w. ago What to do if you miss out on Oasis shuttle bus tickets for Heaton Park

Oasis shuttle bus tickets for Heaton Park have now gone on sale but there other transport options for the huge reunion shows

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3 w. ago Samuel L Jackson 'dragged by subway train' in horrific freak accident and thought he 'would die'

The acting legend, 76, shared the heartbreaking thoughts that ran through his mind when he believed he was ‘going to die’

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