5 d. ago Can you drink too much water? GPs answer your heatwave questions

Stay hydrated as temperatures hit record highs in the UK this week

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5 d. ago Jellyfish populations are blooming in warming Welsh waters and that's just the start

Rising sea temperatures mean new marine life will enter Welsh waters and some of it will give you a painful sting if you get too close

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1 week ago Hope: An evening of storytelling in central Glasgow, hosted by MSF

Telling stories is one of our most ancient and powerful forms of expression. Join us for an evening of storytelling on Tuesday, July 15 in ‘The Venue’ at Òran Mór, top of Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8QX. Our storytellers are MSF staff who, reflecting on the theme of ‘hope’ in its many forms, will share a short story about an experience that has made a lasting impact on them whilst working with MSF. We warmly welcome you to register to attend this evening of unique, vivid and ultimately uplifting stories told by the people at the heart of our projects.

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1 week ago He caused 34 deaths in a sickening act of cowardice then vanished. But we've tracked him down

Born into a life on the water, he discovered his passion for diving at just five years old. But all it took was one moment of cowardice to unravel it all.

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1 week ago Glasgow’s Open Water Rescue Charity celebrates donation for life

Open Water Rescue, a charity that provides support to the emergency services in the event of flooding, accidents in waterways, lakes and rivers in the greater Glasgow region, were delighted to receive a donation of £1,000 from the Morrisons Foundation.

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1 week ago Admit it, you’re not actually cleaning your reusable water bottle enough

Most of us are guilty of ignoring that questionable layer of grot building up inside our water bottles. Katie Rosseinsky looks at the consequences of falling behind on your cleaning admin, and why experts say we should be giving these receptacles a proper scrub every day

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2 w. ago Gennaro Gattuso seeks ‘family’ ethos in bid to avoid World Cup unthinkable

Hero of 2006 World Cup was second choice behind Claudio Ranieri and has not had a successful career as managerGennaro Gattuso said all the things he was expected to say at his first appearance as Italy manager. He talked about the need to restore enthusiasm to an Azzurri side whose morale has been dented by recent setbacks, as well as that sense of shared purpose that bonded him to teammates in the World Cup-winning side of 2006.The word he kept coming back to was “family”, insisting: “That’s the most important thing, more than tactics or formations.” His is not a vision of paternalistic authority but of a group close enough to speak hard truths to each other’s faces. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Florida dad dies after helping save his daughter from drowning on Father’s Day

Antwon Wilson was with his two children at a Fort Lauderdale beach when he saw them in distress in the waterA Florida dad has lost his life after helping save his daughter from drowning in the ocean on Father’s Day.That was the tragic story coming out of Fort Lauderdale on Sunday, when 33-year-old Antwon Wilson died while his daughter and another adult were hospitalized, according to authorities. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Why you should think twice before having a hot shower or bath

While really hot showers and baths often feel lovely and can help you relax, there are some potential downsides

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on Gaza’s engineered famine: stop arming the slaughter – or lose the rule of law | Editorial

As Palestinians starve amid the rubble, western governments defend Israel, fund armed aid and dismantle the very rules they claim to upholdGaza’s cries have been drowned out by Israel’s strikes on Iran, and the diplomatic pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu over the suffering has ebbed. Yet as the industrialised world urges de-escalation in the Middle East, the devastation continues. On Tuesday morning, witnesses described Israeli forces firing towards a crowd waiting for trucks loaded with flour, leaving more than 50 dead. These are not stray bullets in wartime chaos, they are the outcome of a system that makes relief deadly.As Médecins Sans Frontières declared this week, what is unfolding in Gaza is “the calculated evisceration of the very systems that sustain life”. That includes homes, markets, water networks and hospitals – with healthcare continually under attack. Last week, a UN commission found that more than 90% of the Gaza Strip’s schools and universities have be...

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2 w. ago Inside eerie waterpark suddenly abandoned after tragic accident

After a terrible accident took the life of a child at a waterpark, the attraction quickly shut, and it has stood abandoned ever since - but the eerie place looks as though everyone visiting simply vanished

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3 w. ago Waters of Life: A story of hope for beavers but misses out some hard truths

Waters of Life envisages a hopeful future for beavers in Scotland, but the book also seems to shy away from some hard truths, writes Katharine Hay

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last month ‘It aches that he is no longer here’: the power of Kalief Browder’s late mother’s poetry

In a new documentary, the words of Venida Browder take us back to a devastating story, even as the film provides hope for the futurePremiering on the 10th anniversary of Kalief Browder’s death, the poetic and thought-provoking documentary For Venida, For Kalief transcends time to tell the story of Kalief through the poems written by his mother, Venida.The film opens with tender scenes of a carnival in New York City during the reading of Venida’s poems by Jasmine Mans. “My heart aches for what he went through, headaches that I couldn’t prevent. It aches that he is no longer here. How often I relive the steps I took to find him hanging out of the back window of the second floor, just lifeless.” Continue reading...

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last month Jazz, Paris and war’s brutality: the radical watercolours of Edward Burra, British art’s great unknown

He called art ‘fart’ and hated talking about his work, but a rare retrospective offers the chance to celebrate the radical visions of the 20th-century British painterOn any objective reading, Edward Burra occupies a distinguished place in the history of 20th-century British art. His work, especially his watercolours of demi-monde life in interwar Paris and New York, is a distinct and vivid record of the times. His paintings are held in major institutions – as is his extensive archive, which is housed at Tate Britain in London.And yet he remains “one of the great known unknowns of modern British art”, according to Thomas Kennedy, the curator of a new retrospective show at Tate Britain. It is being held more than half a century on from Burra’s last show at the Tate in 1973, three years before he died aged 71. There are lots of reasons for Burra’s “unknown” status, explains Kennedy. “He worked alone, and not being part of a defined group doesn’t help to place an artist. But probably mo...

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