12 h. ago What VE Day 2025 celebrations are happening across the UK this week?

What VE Day 2025 celebrations are happening across the UK this week?  Metro.co.uk

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27 h. ago VE Day celebrations and a duck in St Peter’s Square: photos of the day – Monday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...

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34 h. ago VE Day 2025 flypast and parade LIVE: 80th anniversary celebrations start with Red Arrows display and Churchill speech

Britain today begins its celebrations to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day

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35 h. ago VE Day 2025 celebrations LIVE as street parties, military procession and flypast held to mark 80th anniversary

Events will held across the nation over the next four days making 80 years since Victory in Europe (VE) Day

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56 h. ago From Royals to Red Arrows – What to look out for during VE Day celebrations

Sir Winston Churchill’s victory speech, a military procession, a flypast and street parties are part of the build-up to 8 May

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3 d. ago OLIVER COPPARD: 'Reform winning in South Yorkshire is the canary in the coalmine'

Oliver Coppard, South Yorkshire's metro mayor writes for the Mirror: "If this government does not deliver for communities like mine, what happened here this week will be the story we see repeated across the country."

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4 d. ago Why is election day a cause for celebration? | Fiona Katauskas

After Saturday, things will be a lot less campaignfulSee more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading...

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5 d. ago I once felt so ashamed of my fantasies of sex. That's why I'm jealous of porn star Lily Phillips: BRYONY GORDON

The strangest thing happened to me this week, as I read the news with my morning bowl of Weetabix.

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5 d. ago Royal Mint releases special new coin to commemorate 80 years since VE Day

VE Day will be celebrated on May 8, 2025

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7 d. ago Woman thrown onto railway track seconds before announcement that train was approaching

The terrifying incident happened at Shotts station, Hamilton Sheriff Court heard this week.

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1 week ago What happened on Emmerdale this week? John truth exposed, couple split and favourite injured

Emmerdale aired some big scenes this week. Here's a recap of what you missed this week on the ITV soap as John Sugden nears closer to being exposed

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1 week ago VE Day 2025 guide: Ideas and events in London to commemorate the 80th anniversary

The allies saw victory in Europe 80 years ago

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1 week ago London Marathon 2025: race day timings, where to watch, celebrities and everything you need to know

From the hottest support spots and celebrities to watch for, to free drink finishers, here’s everything you need to know about the travel, racecourse and timings

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2 w. ago What is Earth Day? History, when do we celebrate, what is the 2025 theme, what's happening in Scotland?

This year will see the 55th annual Earth Day shine a spotlight on environmental issues.

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2 w. ago Parents will be £450 better off thanks to big change happening this week

It's being billed as a lifeline for working parents across the country

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2 w. ago It’s not too late to stop Trump and the Silicon Valley broligarchy from controlling our lives, but we must act now | Carole Cadwalladr

In her final piece for the Observer, Carole Cadwalladr reveals what happened when she returned last week to give the opening speech at technology conference Ted, where she gave her first – life-changing – talk six years agoTo walk into the lion’s den once might be considered foolhardy. To do so again after being mauled by the lion? It’s what ill-advised? Reckless? Suicidal? Six years ago I gave a talk at Ted, the world’s leading technology and ideas conference. It led to a gruelling lawsuit and a series of consequences that reverberate through my life to this day.And last week I returned. To give another talk that would incorporate some of my experience: a Ted Talk about being sued for giving a Ted Talk, and how the lessons I’d learned from surviving all that were a model for surviving “broligarchy” – a concept I first wrote about in the Observer in July last year: the alignment of Silicon Valley and autocracy, and a kind of power the world has never seen before. The key point I wan...

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2 w. ago Teen scarred for life after fellow Coatbridge nightclub reveller smashed bottle in his face

Unprovoked attack by Jakub Puchala, 24, happened as the victim was dancing, Airdrie Sheriff Court heard this week.

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3 w. ago It could take weeks for flood waters to leave part of the Ohio Valley after ‘1,000

Additional evacuations could happen in western Kentucky this week

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4 w. ago Record Store Day Scotland Events 2025: Here's what's happening in Scotland for the celebration of vinyl

It’s one of the biggest days of the year for independent music retailers.

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4 w. ago Blair Castle's Atholl Highlanders celebrate their march in New York Tartan Day Parade 2025

Currently in the midst of an 11-day tour of the United States, Britain's only private Regiment, The Atholl Highlanders, raised and commanded by the Dukes of Atholl, and based at their ancestral home of Blair Castle in Highland Perthshire, have taken part in New York’s Tartan Day Parade at the weekend.

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