53 m. ago Met Office warns Brits in 64 places to expect three devastating impacts of storm

The Met Office has a yellow weather warning in place for thunderstorms for large swathes of the country, including the Midlands and south Wales, and flooding is possible

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53 m. ago Trump admin accused of ‘attack’ on immigrants after banning voter recruitment drives at naturalization events

A voter advocacy group said the Trump administration is ‘making it harder for new citizens to register to vote, which is yet another intimidation tactic and attack on the immigrant community’

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55 m. ago Emotional Jack Osbourne fights back tears as he reveals how he found out beloved father Ozzy had died

Jack Osbourne broken down in tears as he opened up about receiving the devastating news his dad, Ozzy Osbourne had died.

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6 h. ago The Guardian view on fiscal rules and financial myths: Britain must stop fearing imaginary bond vigilantes | Editorial

Liz Truss fell not for borrowing, but for incompetence. Rachel Reeves mustn’t repeat the mistake with rules markets don’t demandIn 1995, Nick Leeson, a 28-year-old trader for Barings Bank, brought down the City’s oldest finance house by, among other things, betting that the Bank of Japan (BoJ) couldn’t keep rates low forever after its financial crash led to a borrowing spree. The devastating Kobe earthquake was the final blow. The BoJ cut rates, bond prices rose and his losses spiralled to $1.4bn. His bet that markets would beat Japan brought down the bank.Barings’ collapse is perhaps a spectacular example of the “widowmaker” trade, where speculators think they can outsmart Japanese authorities. They’ve ended up with egg on their face as their gamble on Japan losing fiscal control proved misguided. Japan, with its own currency and a central bank working with the government, shows how the state shapes markets, not the other way round.Do you have an opinion on the issue...

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7 h. ago 'Vital' community facility could be rebuilt following devastating fire

A plan is being drawn up

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7 h. ago Two women arrested over ‘racial abuse’ during Sky News interview

The interview in Nuneaton was disrupted as a local businessman was being asked for his view of tensions in the community.

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8 h. ago 'Britain's kindest plumber' who became an internet hero misled his army of fans and donors with photos of vulnerable customers

James Anderson , a plumber from Burnley, Lancashire, founded community interest company (CIC) Depher and earned the nickname 'Britain's kindest plumber'.

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8 h. ago 'Britain's kindest plumber' misled public with photos of vulnerable customers he helped during cost

James Anderson , a plumber from Burnley, Lancashire, founded community interest company (CIC) Depher and earned the nickname 'Britain's kindest plumber'.

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9 h. ago Residents angry over plans to build 'expensive' attraction on empty land

Local residents would prefer other leisure facilities to be brought to the area

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9 h. ago A boy contemplates life from a caravan window: Nik Roche’s best photograph

‘This kid went into the caravan and looked out at me. Does he look reflective? Sad? I think he is staring out of the window and seeing the world at his feet’Having designed and built gardens all my life, I bought my first camera when I was 47. Photography gave me an opportunity to have conversations about myself through questioning others. I don’t just take some snaps and then go, I fully immerse myself in the lives of the friends I make. Who am I to speak on anybody’s behalf if I haven’t experienced what they have, myself?I photograph where I live, in south Wales, because I know it better than anywhere else, but in this case I wanted to document a community I lived near but wasn’t part of. The body of work this picture is part of came about as a result of working with people who have been in and out of prison and become trapped in a cycle of incarceration, freedom then back to incarceration. I was wondering what draws them back to the place where they committed all their crimes. Co...

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9 h. ago Tottenham: Spurs' state of the art training ground inspires 'transformative' NFL renovation project

Franchise executives were impressed with Premier League side’s facilities

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9 h. ago Community council and local residents team up to oppose Ayr short term let proposal

South Ayrshire Council’s Regulatory Panel (Planning) will scrutinise the proposal at their meeting on Thursday, September 11.

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9 h. ago New £30m Sir Bobby Robson Institute a 'gamechanger' for cancer patients

Plans for the centre dedicated to Sir Bobby Robson were unveiled today - the facility will also carry out vital trials testing new treatments.

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10 h. ago Forget Tomb Raider and Uncharted, there’s a new generation of games about archaeology – sort of

In this week’s newsletter: an archaeologist and gamer on why we love to walk around finding objects in-game and in real lifeThe game I’m most looking forward to right now is Big Walk, the latest title from House House, creators of the brilliant Untitled Goose Game. A cooperative multiplayer adventure where players are let loose to explore an open world, I’m interested to see what emergent gameplay comes out of it. Could Big Walk allow for a kind of community archaeology with friends? I certainly hope so.When games use environmental storytelling in their design – from the positioning of objects to audio recordings or graffiti – they invite players to role play as archaeologists. Game designer Ben Esposito infamously joked back in 2016 that environmental storytelling is the “art of placing skulls near a toilet” – which might have been a jab at the tropes of games like the Fallout series, but his quip demonstrates how archaeological gaming narratives can be. After all, the incongruity ...

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10 h. ago Call for 'facts' over controversial staffing changes at Falkirk care complex

Cllr Anne Hannah says there has been "misinformation" and transparency around the decision is vital

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11 h. ago 'I saw Queen Camilla getting tearful before she made a devastating admission to me'

Queen Camilla was the Duchess of Cornwall when she visited a women's refuge in Reading to meet the residents living in the building, and one journalist has spoken about the royal's emotional remark

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11 h. ago Trump’s ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan is an obscenity. Can we really trust Tony Blair to have told him so? | Simon Jenkins

The former PM’s leaked visit to the White House is concerning. This scheme is an outrage that no other Arab – or western – state could backSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreTony Blair’s leaked presence at the recent White House discussion of Donald Trump’s “Gaza Riviera” plan is either good news or outrageous. Good news if he used his influence with Trump to terminate this obscenity. Dreadful news if he were to be party to it.The plan itself was first outlined to an incredulous world by Trump in February. The details have now emerged. It involves the expulsion – the de facto imprisonment – of 2 million Palestinians, while the US administers the exclave for 10 years. Each Palestinian would be paid $5,000 each plus four years’ rent somewhere else and one year’s supply of food. Gaza is then rebuilt as a skyscraper wonderland of artificial intelligence inv...

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11 h. ago Locals 'disturbed' over housing plans that could 'dismantle' community

Councillors spoke during a planning committee meeting in which two houses of multiple occupation were approved

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11 h. ago South Queensferry residents celebrate as community directory is launched in the town

It comes as applications for a £5,000 yearly funding pot from Queensferry and District Community Council and Cala Homes opens for submissions

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12 h. ago Spat between council and Hollywood actor over Hopwood Hall could hit High Court

An exclusivity agreement between the two ended last autumn - sending shockwaves through the community

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