51 m. ago CCTV appeal after £7k worth of goods stolen from city centre store

A man is alleged to have stolen goods from the business on Exchange Street in Manchester

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74 m. ago Diogo Jota 'immortalised' by new mural on Liverpool pub near Anfield

The mural was created by local artist John Culshaw

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78 m. ago PEPFAR keeps millions of people with HIV alive and may be spared from Trump spending cuts

The program known as PEPFAR is one of the most effective and popular U.S. foreign aid projects in history, and the government says it has saved the lives of over 25 million people around the world with HIV

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98 m. ago Winners of £216million EuroMillions jackpot break their silence as they reveal plans for their fortune and the surprising part of their life they'll keep the same

The family, who have chosen to remain anonymous, bagged the largest EuroMillions prize in Irish history after purchasing a ticket at Clifford's Centra in Cork City.

Economics

2 h. ago Girls gone bad: Lena Dunham’s Too Much is just not good enough

The creator of the seminal HBO hit has followed up with an underbaked Netflix background watch, a crushing disappointment for her ardent fanbaseThere is one TV show that has been enjoyed most often, and most reliably, among my cohort in New York: Girls, the seminal HBO dramedy about Brooklyn’s downwardly mobile and highly self-important creative class of the 2010s. Though a cultural lightning rod when it aired from 2012 until 2017 – its whiteness, convincing narcissism, frank sexuality and frequent nudity all catnip for the cresting blogosphere and cyclical moral panic – Girls has rightfully settled into its status as one of the best television series of the 21st century, a foundational text for millennials as well as a biting satire of solipsistic, Obama-era striving. (Although viewers too young to remember it as anything other than canon now see the girls’ flailing – their freedom to wear terrible prints, listen to Vampire Weekend and be earnest – as something to be envied rather ...

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2 h. ago Why Newcastle should be your next weekend city break in the UK

Amelia Neath discovers a northern city bursting with artistic communities, folksy pub sessions and well-preserved history

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2 h. ago Oasis fan urges Aldi to keep Heaton Park store name change permanent

'It might have started as a temporary campaign, but it’s come to mean something more'

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3 h. ago Smurfs review – Rihanna is star turn of the new generation of floppy

James Corden and John Goodman join the singer voicing the Belgian creatures in this uninspired, unengaging kids’ animationThe star vocal turn of the very moderate new Smurfs film is Rihanna, phoning in an undemanding audio contribution as the female character named “Smurfette”. But there is little to no music in this laborious slice of content, one of the many frustrating and disconcerting things about it. And for me, this film shows yet again that there is something about the Smurfs, those little Belgian creatures with blue skin and floppy-protuberant hats, which is basically kryptonite to comedy and entertainment.The script by Pam Brady (justly respected for her work on South Park and Team America: World Police) follows the template of being pretty bland for the sweet Smurfs themselves, but is sharpened up with one or two properly funny lines for the all-too-brief scenes featuring the evil wizard characters Razamel and Gargamel (both voiced by JP Karliak) whom the Smurfs are up ag...

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3 h. ago Kids, don’t look to me for career inspiration. Look to your electrician instead | Adrian Chiles

People often assume my job skills are impressive, while their own aren’t worth a mention. What they don’t realise is that I’d swap with them in an instantLife. Work out what you want to do with it, what kind of job you want. And then find that job. Hopefully, it won’t be something that it’s thought AI will do better. And, hopefully, it’s a job with meaning, with a point to it.It must be great to be a doctor. What do you do? Oh, I’m a doctor. And what’s the point of that? Well, I try to keep people alive. And with that the question of the point of your life is answered. Nobody, I suggest, ever expresses doubt about the purpose of doctoring. Just like nobody asks a broadcaster and writer what the point of their work is. They should. We get too much credit for what we do. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Queen Camilla shakes hand of adorable little boy on board HMS Astute after becoming first UK woman to hold top Naval role

The royal, 77, attended the event in Plymouth, which marked the end of HMS Astute's first commission, which is the longest first commission of any Royal Navy submarine in history, at over 15 years.

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3 h. ago Queen Camilla makes history as she's handed yet another prestigious title

While attending a ceremony at Devonport naval base, Queen Camilla has been awarded an esteemed title in a historic move, making her the first royal family member and first woman to hold the designation

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3 h. ago Oasis' Noel Gallagher's secret visit to key part of band's history ahead of reunion gigs

Noel visited the famous Rockfield Studios in Monmouthshire earlier this year, to celebrate 30 years of (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

Culture

3 h. ago Moment thief smashes glass cabinet and steals £80,000 candelabra inside historic castle

Henry Tyson Whilser, 31, travelled 150 miles to Cyfarthfa Castle in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, to steal the 200-year-old antique treasure.

Economics

3 h. ago Will Nigel Farage’s attempt to copy and paste Trump’s policies work in the UK? | Samuel Earle

The Reform leader is trying to import Doge’s cuts to spending and ‘DEI’. It’s clear what he gets out of it – not so much the British voterA popular maxim on the American right is that politics is downstream from culture. In the UK, it increasingly feels like politics is simply downstream from the US. With Reform UK ascendant in the polls, Nigel Farage – officially MP for Clacton, unofficially Donald Trump’s emissary to the UK – is setting the terms of the national conversation, and he is importing them directly from across the pond.Over the past few months, Reform has sought to launch “Doge” initiatives (referencing Elon Musk’s department of government efficiency), waged war on DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) employment schemes, and called for the UK government to embrace crypto and create a bitcoin digital reserve at the Bank of England, following Trump’s lead. It seems the Brexiteers were right: Britain doesn’t make anything any more – not even its own bogeymen.Samuel Earle ...

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3 h. ago Shopper's 'genius technique' will save you money by changing supermarket aisle

A clever shopper has outlined her 'genius supermarket hack' which can save you money, and all it involves is simply changing which aisle you shop for one item in

Economics

3 h. ago Date set for historic Greater Manchester building regeneration 'to be completed'

The building has been closed since 2015

Politics

3 h. ago WeTransfer says user content will not be used to train AI after backlash

Firm revises new terms of service that had suggested uploaded files could be used to ‘improve machine learning models’The popular filesharing service WeTransfer has said user content will not be used to train artificial intelligence after a change in its service terms had triggered a public backlash.The company, which is regularly used by creative professionals to transfer their work online, had suggested in new terms that uploaded files could be used to “improve machine learning models”. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Ice activity on historic Japanese site evokes painful legacy of incarceration

Descendants of Terminal Island’s Japanese community see parallels between the second world war and Ice raids todayJohn Tonai was enraged when he learned that a human-made island in San Pedro Bay was being used as a staging ground for the workplace raids unfolding across Los Angeles.To Tonai, Terminal Island isn’t just one of the country’s busiest container ports. It’s the site of a small fishing village where his parents and thousands of other Japanese immigrants helped establish California’s tuna-canning industry. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Oasis fan 'snuck into Heaton Park gig' with creative disguise and wacky plan

One Oasis fan who failed to nab a ticket to the Gallagher brothers' reunion tour allegedly managed to sneak his way into their Heaton Park gig with a clever trick up his sleeve

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4 h. ago Brits being caught short by a lack of public toilets with some waiting 150 minutes to wee

London is one place where loos are closest to each other but on average visitors still have to walk for 19 minutes before they come across one

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