54 m. ago ‘Honest folk are paying for this’: the fight against Britain’s billion

From raids on marijuana farms to illegal bitcoin miners, suppliers are finding new ways to tackle the rise in gas and electricity theftMore British households struggling with bills will resort to energy theft, campaigners sayBy the time a team of police officers and engineers stormed a disused office block in Wigan, Greater Manchester, on a November morning last year, the building had been abandoned.Left behind were rooms filled with thousands of cannabis plants: a nursery on the first floor, the growing crop on the second, and leaves drying out on the third. The criminal gang behind the marijuana farm is thought to have fled after the grid operator cut off the stolen electricity used to power scores of LED lamps. Continue reading...

Economics

1 hour ago Man who didn't cut hair for four years unrecognisable after barber's transformation

A man went to a barber shop to have his hair cut for the first time in four years and received a huge transformation that has left people swooning, commenting on how attractive he looks.

Politics

5 h. ago Keir Starmer sent strong warning on what his child poverty legacy will be

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been warned he must make cutting levels of child poverty a personal priority or risk leaving a dire Labour legacy on the issue

Events

6 h. ago Pope Francis’ approach did not win him friends within the church bureaucracy. But he lit the path for us all | Francis Sullivan

While his legacy in confronting the sex abuse scandal is still incomplete, Francis demonstrated that change is possible and mercy can be realPope Francis, groundbreaking Jesuit pontiff, diesPotential candidates to succeed Pope FrancisEarly in his papacy Pope Francis said the name for God is mercy. He understood the church had become too doctrinaire, divisive and judgmental for too many people. The drift of Catholics from conventional practice in the west said as much. He knew the church had alienated the LGBTQ community, discriminated against women and resisted full participation for divorced and remarried Catholics. He acknowledged that previous popes had not confronted the clerical sex abuse scandal. He wanted to do better and the Catholic world was with him, the institution was not.The Catholic church by its nature is a conservative institution. It uses inertia as a management tool. Change is a slow and drawn-out affair. Francis regularly railed against clericalism because of its...

Politics

7 h. ago Boffins fear Donald Trump's proposed cuts to NASA could stop us from finding aliens

The Orange Manbaby could slash £2.7bn from the space agency budget - a cut of nearly half - making boffins concerned that there may not be enough funding to find aliens

Politics

7 h. ago Harvard sues Trump administration over efforts to ‘gain control of academic decision

University fights back against threats to cut about $9bn in funding for school after it refused to comply with demandsIn a new lawsuit, Harvard University alleged that the Donald Trump administration is trying to “gain control of academic decision-making at Harvard”, several news outlets are reporting.The university is fighting back against the administration’s threat to review about $9bn in federal funding after Harvard officials refused to comply with a list of demands that included appointing an outside overseer to ensure that the viewpoints being taught at the university were “diverse”. Harvard is specifically looking to halt a freeze on $2.2bn in grants. Continue reading...

Politics

7 h. ago Pensioner finds their lump sum has been cut back by thousands of pounds

A pensioner agreed to the lump sum and annual payment terms of their retirement before they found out the real value of both had been cut due to errors calculating the figures

Politics

8 h. ago US stocks and dollar sink as Donald Trump renews attacks on Fed chair Jay Powell

Currency sell-off intensifies after president steps up criticism of central bank head for not cutting rates

Politics

9 h. ago Moment Asda shopper grabs vegan protestor's megaphone and smashes it before running away

The demonstration, held at an Asda store in Kent, suddenly descended into chaos when the furious man yanked the megaphone from a vegan protester and smashed it into the ground before charging off

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9 h. ago WrestleMania fan run over by a golf cart carrying WWE star Dom Mysterio in shocking backstage moment

'Dirty Dom' claimed the WWE Intercontinental Championship Sunday night but the wrestler's celebrations were cut short when his golf cart shockingly hit a member of the audience.

Sport

11 h. ago Death row brothers who spent 23 hours a day in a box over murders are given new sentence

Thinkwell Moyo and Fred Dube brutally murdered a taxi driver by cutting his throat and stabbing him repeatedly before leaving him in a shallow grave with his head 'hanging loosely'

Events

13 h. ago Thousands of trans rights campaigners take to Cardiff streets to protest Supreme Court ruling

The march wound through the city centre, with participants waving flags and holding banners

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13 h. ago Hundreds of Buddies protest against killing of innocent civilians in Palestine

Organised by Paisley For Palestine, a rally was held at County Square earlier this month as part of efforts to highlight the plight of children in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

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13 h. ago Man cut in half by forklift shares which Hollywood actor he wants to play him in biopic

At 18, Loren Schauers was horrifically sliced in two when a forklift he was driving fell off a bridge and landed on him - he's now revealed the Hollywood actor to play him in his biopic

Culture

13 h. ago Simple tweak can cut dementia risk by 15 per cent and prevent mental decline, experts discover

Nearly 34,000 individuals aged 40 and over were studied to see if treating high blood pressure with pills and lifestyle changes had an impact on cognitive impairment over four years.

Events

14 h. ago Trump calls Fed chair Jerome Powell a 'major loser' as he demands interest rate cuts: Live updates

DAILYMAIL.COM LIVE BLOG: Donald Trump and First Lady Melania are kicking off the White House 's annual Easter egg roll on the South Lawn.

Politics

14 h. ago M&S cuts 20% off 'wrinkle correcting' cream that firms turkey neck in 'one week'

The number one bestseller is currently described as "in demand" on the high street retailer's website.

Politics

15 h. ago Trump administration axes key STI lab amid dramatic rise in US syphilis cases

Chaotic cuts to CDC hit expert leadership and programs that surveil, test and research sexually transmitted diseasesThe Trump administration’s cuts to a sexually transmitted infection lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) comes as some states, such as Wisconsin, announce enormous increases in syphilis.Syphilis mitigation is just the latest example of work in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) that will be affected by the lab’s closure, as the Trump administration discards expert leadership and programs that surveil, test and research STIs amid chaotic government cuts. Continue reading...

Politics

15 h. ago What’s missing from Alex Garland’s Iraq movie Warfare? Context, motivation and, for the most part, Iraqis | Peter Beaumont

I was there with US soldiers in 2006 and can see why the film-makers zoomed in on them so closely. But it results in glaring flawsThink back to 2006. Iraq was at the peak of its conflicts. A horrific sectarian war was raging, and al-Qaida in Iraq and other insurgent groups, both Sunni and Shia, held sway in substantial areas of the country.Suicide bombers and IEDs were a daily occurrence targeting both Iraqis and foreign forces, and in cities and towns from Fallujah and Ramadi, to Baqubah and Mosul, US troops were engaged in urban warfare. It was as much about ambush and hit-and-run attacks as about formal battles. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Crocketford SWI members enjoy a pottery master class at their latest meeting

Hannah and Doug Fitch demonstrated their fabulous skills making and decorating pots.

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