4 h. ago UK's biggest tribute festival featuring more than 30 acts coming to Stockport

Tickets for the two-day music day event start from £15 for adults and £10 for children

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6 h. ago Company behind world’s biggest aircraft aims to smash record with new model

The company is planning on creating the ‘Airlander 50’ to carry more freight

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23 h. ago The biggest game releases in 2025: From GTA 6 to Doom: The Dark Ages

While Rockstar’s ‘GTA 6’ is the big release that literally everyone is waiting for in 2025, there is still much more on the calendar

Politics

25 h. ago ‘Everything has changed’: UK embarks on biggest arms drive since cold war

Decision to plunder the development budget brings end to era of Britain as an ‘aid superpower’

Events

28 h. ago Funeral being held for former senior IRA man Brendan McFarlane

McFarlane, from the Ardoyne area of north Belfast, was known for taking part in the biggest escape in UK prison history.

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28 h. ago Bigfoot 'spotted in UK city' but biggest mystery is what footie team he supports

EXCLUSIVE: After a woman from Salford claimed to see the mythical beast in a park, it was left to the powers of AI to help decide where Bigfoot's footballing allegiances lay

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29 h. ago Manchester’s biggest yoga event with string quartet to be held inside beautiful Grade II

'This is more than yoga'

Sport

29 h. ago Funeral to be held for former senior IRA man Brendan McFarlane

McFarlane, from the Ardoyne area of north Belfast, was known for taking part in the biggest escape in UK prison history.

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42 h. ago Paedophile surgeon who 'raped 300 children including some under anaesthetic' admits he has committed 'hideous acts'

Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, is charged with assaulting or raping 299 boys and girls over three decades.

Events

46 h. ago Stockport woman Sammy Rodgers wins wrestling comeback at 53 after seeing 30

Meet the 53-year-old woman proving it’s never too late to follow your dreams - as she makes a triumphant return to pro-wrestling after 30 years.

Politics

52 h. ago German election shows how far green wave has receded in Europe

Result is further evidence that political conversation around the climate crisis has shiftedGerman election live – latest updatesIn the final days of an election campaign dominated by migration, the likely new chancellor of Europe’s biggest polluter sought to assure voters that its economy ministry would not be occupied by NGOs. Instead, conservative lead candidate Friedrich Merz posted on social media that it would be led by “someone who understands that economic policy is more than being a representative for heat pumps”.Climate action barely featured on the campaign trail before Germany’s federal elections on Sunday – except when right-leaning parties used it to swipe at the Greens. Merz’s jab was at the tamer end of attacks aimed at the Green party candidate, Robert Habeck, the economy and climate minister who pushed through an unpopular law to promote clean heating, but is a sign of how far the political conversation around climate action has shifted. Continue reading...

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54 h. ago The Summer With Carmen review – sexy story of two men and a cute dog

With more than a nod to Charlie Kaufman this fun metafiction centred around Athens’ queer scene has plenty of sun, sea and acres of male fleshTwo men lie on the beach debating how to write a screenplay. One is conventionally hunky: muscular, naturally hirsute but neatly trimmed, with thick dark brows and the kind of lantern jaw that casting directors in the 1940s would have immediately drafted into a pirate adventure opposite Tyrone Power. The other is slender and feline with pink and blue hair, sharp, perceptive eyes, and the sort of eyebrows where it feels like one is permanently arched even when it isn’t.They are Demos and Nikitas, and we quickly learn that they are besties who frequent the various locales of Athens’ queer scene and had dreams at one point of being actors, and in Nikitas’ case, directing too. He asserts, with an equal mixture of admiration and jealousy, that Xavier Dolan acts in his own films and had already released four features by the time he was the same age ...

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64 h. ago Number of £1million homes in Britain increases a third in five years to 700,000, figures reveal

Savills calculated a net gain of 3,127 more properties being worth at least £1 million last year, compared with 2023, taking the total number of homes valued at this level to around 702,580.

Economics

3 d. ago Russia unleashes drone storm on Ukraine with biggest attack of the war

Ukraine says Russia launched 267 strike drones and three ballistic missiles

Events

3 d. ago Starmer reaffirms ‘ironclad’ support for Kyiv ahead of new UK sanctions

UK prepares to unveil its biggest raft of sanctions against Russia next week

Politics

4 d. ago ‘It’s blackmail’: Ukrainians react to Trump demand for $500bn share of minerals

Ukraine’s lithium deposits are among biggest in Europe and the US is looking for ‘payback’ for previous military assistanceDrawing in the snow with his finger, Mykola Hrechukha sketched out how Ukraine’s new lithium mine might look. It would have a deep central shaft, with a series of side tunnels, he said. “The lithium is good everywhere. The biggest concentration is at a depth of 200-500 metres,” he said. “We should be able to extract 4,300 tonnes a day. The potential is terrific.”For now, though, there is little sign of activity. The deposit is buried under a large sloping field, used in communist times to grow beetroot and wheat. The mine’s proposed entrance is in an abandoned former-Soviet village, Liodiane, today a scruffy grove of acacia and maple trees. The only inhabitant is a security guard, who lives on the 150-hectare site in an ancient Gaz-53 truck. Wild boar and even a wolf sometimes wander past. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Army veteran who was given months to live set to play football for Scotland

Barry Roan, who underwent a liver transplant two years ago, is set to feature for the Scotland Transplant Active Football at the European Championships.

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5 d. ago 'I had a secret role in EastEnders' biggest storyline but now have totally different career'

KISS FM star Sam Darlaston was cast to play a Ben Mitchell lookalike back in 2015 and has since become a radio presenter - but admits that's he's 'dined out' on the cameo for year

Society

6 d. ago Six biggest talking points when Keir Starmer meets Donald Trump

Keir Starmer will visit Washington DC next week to meet Donald Trump at a crucial time for UK-US relations as the President cozies up to Putin and threatens his allies with tariffs

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6 d. ago Mindy Kaling reveals the biggest misconception about Meghan Markle

Actress Mindy Kaling is peeling back the curtain on her close friendship with Meghan Markle - and even revealed what the biggest misconception about the mom-of-two is.

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