5 h. ago ULEZ camera destroyed by 'powerful bomb' that sent shrapnel into child's bedroom

Kevin Rees has denied manufacturing and then setting off a homemade bomb that destroyed a ULEZ camera in Sidcup, London, and threw shrapnel up to 100 metres away

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5 d. ago The trouble with friendlords: the pitfalls of renting from a mate

Amid an affordable housing crisis, renting a room from a friend can seem like the perfect solution. But without clear rules, it can lead to power imbalances, feuds and even unfair evictions When Rachel needed a place to live, Maya was only too happy to offer her spare room. What are friends for?Rachel had recently returned to her home town to start afresh, having been made redundant. Maya, a childhood friend, owned her three-bedroom home, having been helped to buy it by her parents. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago My weirdest Christmas: on Boxing Day I vomited in the sink – and began to suspect I had a mysterious condition

At first I thought my spinning head and nausea were symptoms of a hangover. But could they be connected to a documentary I had made on Havana syndrome?Waking foggy-headed and with the room spinning on 26 December is surely not an uncommon condition. Who among us hasn’t felt the effects of overindulgence on Christmas Day?These were my immediate thoughts when I rose in such a state in my parents’ house in Dublin two years ago. An hour later, the room continued its relentless swirl, nausea was building and it was becoming hard to stand. So far, so Christmas hangover. I remained in bed and waited for things to blow over. They didn’t. Gradually, family members stuck their heads into my childhood bedroom and wondered if everything was OK. I could only say that I felt quite strange. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Boxing champ Tyson Fury and his family have sensationally quit the UK after Rachel Reeves’ tax

BOXING champ Tyson Fury has quit the UK for the tax-friendly Isle of Man - after Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ knockout financial blows to his wealth. The heavyweight boxer, 37, who shares seven children with wife Paris, 36, is living in a six-bedroom £8million mansion near to the capital of Douglas after Reeves hiked taxes here...

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4 w. ago Rob Reiner's final film release 'paused' after son Nick is charged with his and wife Michele's brutal murders

Reiner and his wife were found stabbed in the bedroom of their Brentwood home with youngest child, son Nick charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

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4 w. ago Which football match were Wham! watching when they wrote Last Christmas? | The Knowledge

Plus: which European champions were top at Christmas, players giving each other presents and other festive triviaMail us with your questions and answers“Just reading a book about Christmas No 1s,” begins Paul Savage. “The section about Wham!’s Last Christmas says Andrew Ridgeley was watching football at George Michael’s parents on a Sunday, when George got the melody and wandered off to record it upstairs. Greatness obviously awaited but I want to know: which match was it? It’s 1984, a Sunday and presumably on terrestrial TV. Was the second half worth Ridgeley not getting involved in the recording?”Last Christmas by Wham! didn’t become a Christmas No 1 until 2023, having been kept off top spot by Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas in 1984. As Paul mentioned, George Michael wrote the song in his childhood bedroom while his parents and Andrew Ridgeley watched football on TV downstairs. Continue reading...

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