11 h. ago Fury as Britain's most dangerous criminals are recorded under FIFTY

The list of genders includes 'pangender', ' transgender person' and bizarre, largely unknown terms like 'androgyne' and 'neutrois'.

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50 h. ago Elton John 'had a lot of fear' as he makes sad career admission 'wasn't feeling well'

Elton John has opened up about his health as he appeared in a pre-recorded segment on Good Morning Britain to discuss his upcoming ITV special

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5 d. ago House prices: record high asking prices in April despite stamp duty changes

At £377,182, the average asking price for a home in Britain surpassed a previous record set in May 2024

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5 d. ago Record high average price tag on a home in April after £5,000 monthly jump

At £377,182, the average asking price for a home in Britain surpassed a previous record set in May 2024, Rightmove said.

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8 d. ago 'Alarming' decline of common garden bird: Starling numbers in Britain have DROPPED to their lowest number ever recorded, RSPB warns

The RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch has shown that while house sparrows are still our most common bird, followed by the blue tit, starlings have been bumped down to fourth place by the woodpigeon.

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2 w. ago ‘They didn’t call us for Live Aid’: the stars behind Black Britain’s forgotten charity record

In 1985, a star-studded lineup of Black UK musicians, including Aswad, Dennis Brown and Janet Kay, recorded a charity single to raise funds for famine-stricken Ethiopia. Why are their efforts so little known?The Ethiopian famine of the early 1980s was one of the defining news stories of the decade, an exposure of the stark divide between developed and developing nations, still referred to at the time as the Third World. It is a received wisdom that the general public in Britain learned about the crisis when shocking images of emaciated men, women and children were shown on BBC news reports. This is not entirely true. In fact, plenty of Rastafarians were already aware of the situation.The east African country was their spiritual home – many in the movement viewed its former emperor Haile Selassie as their messiah – and a place free from the iniquities of the west. “A lot of Rastafarians went to Ethiopia [before they] came to London,” says the musician and cam...

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2 w. ago Last summer was second worst for common UK butterflies since 1976

More than half of Britain’s 59 native species are in long-term decline, UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme findsLast summer was the fifth worst in nearly half a century for butterflies in Britain, according to the biggest scientific survey of insect populations in the world.For the first time since scientific recording began in 1976, more than half of Britain’s 59 native species are in long-term decline. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago NHS could offer this simple DNA test to predict drug reactions and save thousands of lives

A landmark study looking at all adverse drug reactions ever recorded in Britain since 1964 reveals just three genes could be responsible for many of them - and a simple test could save lives

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3 w. ago Britain's wealth squashed under Reeves... and it could get WORSE: Brits face an extra YEAR of flatlining wealth, a record tax burden with fears of more to come

In its latest outlook, the OBR said it does not expect real GDP per person to return to 2022 levels - before the energy crisis hit - until 2026.

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3 w. ago Britain's wealth gets squashed under Reeves: Brits face an extra YEAR of flatlining wealth, a record tax burden... and the only thing propping up GDP is mass immigration

In its latest outlook, the OBR said it does not expect real GDP per person to return to 2022 levels - before the energy crisis hit - until 2026.

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4 w. ago Nearly 9,000 died on migration routes around the world in 2024 in deadliest year on record, UN reveals as two more perish in the Channel trying to reach Britain

'At least 8,938 people died on migration routes worldwide in 2024,' the fifth year that numbers have reached record highs, the UN's migration agency said on Friday.

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4 w. ago We're the Songs of Praise superfans, we travel thousands of miles around Britain to get to EVERY recording

Trevor and Christine Ransome, a couple in their 80s, have travelled as far and wide as Glasgow and Penzance to appear in dozens of recordings of Songs of Praise.

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