98 m. ago Delight as 'Bambi' baby deer spotted behind Manchester city centre nightclub

The fawn was seen on a riverside path, behind Hidden nightclub off the A56 Bury New Road, at about 8.30pm on Friday evening

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2 h. ago When does the Fortnite live even start? Countdown and when Death Star Sabotage goes live for you

The Fortnite Galactic Battle mini season is almost over, with the five-week long narrative coming to a climactic finale in today's Death Star Sabotage live event

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3 h. ago Voices: Rachel Reeves is undermined by a ‘spend now, pay later’ prime minister

John Rentoul says Keir Starmer is guilty of Trussonomics, albeit on a smaller scale, making promises without knowing how to pay for them – hoping that the chancellor can sort it out later

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3 h. ago The 1% Club viewers 'driven crazy' by baffling question that 'makes no sense'

The 1% Club has proven to be a huge hit since launching on ITV in 2022, but one question has left viewers scratching their heads, with some even admitting it's 'driving them crazy'

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4 h. ago ‘A wonderful mystery to be solved’: Search begins in Dorset for ‘the Mother of all tanks’

Lost for over a century, discovery of wartime letter has rekindled interest in unlocking the secret of the world’s first prototype tankAt the height of the second world war, while British authorities were calling on citizens to donate metal to be recycled into weapons and warships, attention at the army base of Bovington Camp in Dorset turned to a collection of historic vehicles dating from the first war – among them a legendary tank that had been nicknamed “Mother”.Mother was the prototype for the world’s first battlefield tank, the Mark 1, which had been developed by Britain in 1915-6 to break the deadlock of the trenches. The vehicles were a huge technological leap forward that caused a sensation when rolled out on the battlefields (“astonishing our soldiers no less than they frightened the enemy”, as the Manchester Guardian put it) and helped tip the scales in favour of the allies’ eventual victory. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Pensions report cuts Reeves’ planned growth funds from £160bn to £11bn

Chancellor had anticipated surpluses from final salary schemes would boost investment in UK economyPlans to invest £160bn of surplus funds from final salary pension schemes to boost the UK economy over the next 10 years have been dealt a blow by a Whitehall assessment that found there was likely to be little more than £11bn available to spend.In a knock to Rachel Reeves’s growth agenda, a report by civil servants at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) found that the expected surpluses in occupational schemes would be used by businesses to offload their pension liabilities to insurance companies. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Children could be banned from spending more than two hours on any one phone app and blocked from social media after 10pm in new anti

Technology Secretary Peter Kyle is mulling a move to cap the amount of time per app youngsters can spend on their phone as part of a swathe of measures designed to reduce 'doomscrolling'.

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4 h. ago Home Office plans to spend £2.2bn of foreign aid on asylum support this year

International rules allow countries to count first-year costs of supporting refugees as overseas development assistance.

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5 h. ago 190,000 warned they could fall ill on Sunday following multiple outbreaks

Mass events on Sunday could see people fall ill unless they take precautions, the UKHSA has warned

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6 h. ago Why Tottenham and Ange Postecoglou split was right, even if it feels awfully wrong to most and borderline obscene

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: An incidental detail about that statement is there was no name attached to it. It wasn't signed by Levy, nor was he quoted, but his fingerprints were on each of the 368 words.

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7 h. ago Male friendship isn’t easy. Just ask Trump and Musk | Dave Schilling

The older I get, the harder it is to maintain ties – and a series of unhinged social media posts probably wouldn’t helpI have a hard time maintaining male friendships these days. The older I get, the less time I have for the sorts of activities stereotypical American males enjoy: sporting events, competitive binge drinking and collecting rare coins in a dark basement. OK, maybe that last thing isn’t nearly as common anymore, but what is common (if you believe various trend pieces in newspapers and magazines) is the increasing rarity of long-lasting male friendships. Most of my guy friends keep in touch with me through group chats or the occasional solo check-in text. I have, by my count, at least 10 group chats with different circles of friends. All of them are organized around a unifying theme – Star Trek, movie industry gossip, the Los Angeles Dodgers, hating that one guy who wore flip-flops to my wedding. My whole social life revolves around screens now. I watch a show or a baseb...

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7 h. ago My best friend of 50 years knew me better than anyone. But when she died, no one seemed to take my grief seriously

Friends know you differently from family, but where do you sit in the pecking order after they die? Below immediate relatives, ahead of a cousin, behind a workmate?I don’t remember a time in my life when Chrissy wasn’t in it. We were born 11 days apart and were both one when our families moved on to the same street in Geelong, a port city an hour south-west of Melbourne. We had a very Australian childhood; summers spent in our bathers, running through sprinklers; swimming in back yard pools; eating sausages in bread on New Year’s Eve, when we were allowed to stay up late while our parents drank cask riesling with the neighbours, and we’d lie on the cool evening grass listening to crickets.During those blisteringly hot summer days of our childhood, we lived at the beach, where shark alarms were constant and the waves dangerous. Occasionally, Chrissy would paddle out on her inflatable red and blue raft to the big waves out the back where the serious surfers were. Sometimes, I’d panic ...

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7 h. ago BEL MOONEY: Why can't I let go of heartache even years down the line?

Dear Bel, I've thought about this problem a lot. It's a very old issue (and I don't expect you to have an answer) but I find it very hard to get over being hurt by friends, relatives and others.

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7 h. ago More ScotRail services for TRNSMT demanded after chaotic travel scenes last year

Tens of thousands of revellers are expected to attend the three-day music event in July.

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7 h. ago Exact time thunderstorms end as UK faces more rain in 9 hours than all of April

Millions of Brits will be blighted by thunderstorms ruining their Saturday until this evening, with as much as 40mm of rain expected to fall in some parts of the country

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7 h. ago Man arrested for 'trying to unplug sound system' at Bolton Ironman event

He is currently in custody

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8 h. ago Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's attendance at family wedding sends fans wild

Singer Taylor Swift and sports star Travis Kelce have been spotted on a string of public dates recently, with the pair also attending family events hand in hand

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10 h. ago Meghan Markle's awkward joke to Kate Middleton met with 'yawning silence' at huge event

In his memoir Spare, Prince Harry recalled how his sister-in-law the Princess of Wales asked his new wife Meghan Markle what she thought of her first Trooping the Colour in 2018 - and it seems the response was awkward

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10 h. ago 'I still always visit Sir Alex Ferguson's house – even though he branded me a Big Time Charlie'

Sir Alex Ferguson made many comments throughout his football career, but there was one particular quip the Govan-born manager made which is still repeated today

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11 h. ago It's Bath time! Roman ruins, ginormous bunns and a Jane Austen tour: How to spend a day in the historical city

Thanks to its Roman ruins, ginormous bunns and this year marking the 250th birthday of Jane Austen, the city was the perfect choice for Team YOU's latest day out

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