77 m. ago A decade of missed opportunities: Texas couldn't find $1M for flood warning system near camps

Over the last decade, an array of local and state agencies have missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert the type of disaster that swept away dozens of youth campers and others in Kerr County, Texas

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2 h. ago Joe Locke to Star in Samuel D. Hunter’s Clarkston in London’s West End

Joe Locke to Star in Samuel D. Hunter’s Clarkston in London’s West End  TheaterMania

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2 h. ago Till the Stars Come Down at the Haymarket: uproariously fun and profoundly moving

Bijan Sheibani’s production of Beth Steel’s play has lost none of its power as it returns to the West End

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2 h. ago ‘Historic moment’ as reintroduced pine martens produce young on Dartmoor

Kits scampering through woodlands caught on camera traps after 15 pine martens were released last September.

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2 h. ago ‘Heartstopper’ Star Joe Locke to Make London West End Debut With Samuel D. Hunter’s ‘Clarkston’

‘Heartstopper’ Star Joe Locke to Make London West End Debut With Samuel D. Hunter’s ‘Clarkston’  Variety

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2 h. ago Starmer and Macron will join forces on nuclear deterrents in cases of ‘extreme threats’ to Europe

Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron also agreed to ramp up orders of deadly Storm Shadow missiles

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2 h. ago Former West Virginia officers sentenced to decades in prison for their role in deadly inmate assault

Two former West Virginia correctional officers have been sentenced to decades in prison for their roles in an assault that resulted in the death of an inmate

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3 h. ago Plane cleaning staff branded 'thieving b*******' after stealing booze, cigs and Pringles

Secret cameras were brought in to catch the thieves after eyebrows were raised over suspicious activity found while planes were being cleaned at Manchester Airport

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3 h. ago US issues sanctions against UN official investigating abuses in Gaza

Trump administration targets Francesca Albanese, a special rapporteur, in latest action against critics of Israel’s warThe Trump administration announced on Wednesday it was issuing sanctions against an independent official tasked with investigating human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories, the latest effort by the United States to punish critics of Israel’s 21-month war in Gaza.The state department’s decision to sanction Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, comes after a recent US pressure campaign to force the international body to remove her from her post failed. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Putin's pal furious at Trump as he warns US 's*** dome' can't stop Russian superweapon

Russian political commentators have warned that plans for a US defence system to stop foreign attacks won't work after Trump threatened to bomb Moscow in leaked recordings

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3 h. ago UK and France could launch nukes together in face of 'extreme threats'

The Ministry of Defence warned 'any adversary threatening the vital interests of Britain or France could be confronted by the strength of the nuclear forces of both nations'

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3 h. ago A deadly 1987 flood scarred the same Texas county that is reeling through another disaster

The Guadalupe River has a history of terrible, fatal floods

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4 h. ago BMW driver smashes into front of takeaway on first day of opening as police swarm area

The car mounted the pavement and struck the wall outside the fast food restaurant

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4 h. ago MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk claims Texas flood death toll ‘would not have been as high if it wasn’t for DEI’

‘It’s not just incompetence. This is DEI working to undermine meritocratic institutions,’ Kirk says

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5 h. ago Loose Women star Andrea Mclean is 'leaving the UK for Spain' after a torrid few months during which she dissolved her business and had a terrifying brush with death

The former Loose Women star, 55, left the show in 2020 to pursue other endeavours, including starting her female empowerment brand, This Girl On Fire.

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5 h. ago Fresh flooding hell as Oklahoma boys and girls club race to escape biblical torrent a week after Texas storm

The Boys & Girls Club in Sallisaw, Oklahoma - near the Arkansas border - was forced to evacuate as heavy rain fell and flooded the River Valley.

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5 h. ago A Texas firefighter pleaded for an alert amid rising flood waters. It took an hour to go out

Leaked audio provides new alert timeline as officials face scrutiny over when residents first learned of rising flood waters

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5 h. ago TACO returns to Wall Street: Investors shrug off Trump’s latest tariff threat as nickname sets the investor’s mood

Experts weigh in on whether Trump will carry out his latest threat – and the consensus is that the uncertainty looming over the U.S. economy can’t continue, Rhian Lubin reports

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5 h. ago 'Russian spy', 65, planned to tell Moscow about former defence secretary Sir Grant Shapps' private plane, home address, and phone number, court hears

Howard Phillips, 65, from Harlow in Essex, is on trial over allegedly intending to assist the spy network by helping people he believed were agents working for Moscow .

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5 h. ago The Salt Path author defends memoir against fabrication allegations

Raynor Winn describes enduring ‘hardest days’ and publishes clinic letters saying her husband, Moth, has been treated for CBD/S for many yearsRaynor Winn, the author of The Salt Path, has described enduring some of the “hardest days” of her life as she defended her memoir against allegations that parts of it were fabricated.The bestselling 2018 book, which was adapted into a film starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, tells how she and her husband, Moth, walked the 630-mile trek along the south-west coast path after losing their home. Continue reading...

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