5 h. ago Why the way I booked a May Day train works for me – but not the rail industry

Train Talk: ‘Open access’ is a boon for travellers and should be free to be commercial

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11 h. ago Gen Z most likely to be hit by trains due to phone distraction as shocking CCTV released

Gen Z's phone distraction could cost them their life after experts warned they are the most likely group of people to be hit by a train, as Network Rail release shocking footage

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24 h. ago Starform expert's top tips to help punters batter bookies at Punchestown Festival day one

The Punchestown Festival starts on Tuesday and one horse has been singled out to give the Brits the best chance of prize money on the opening day in Ireland

Culture

4 d. ago Han Kang Nobel prize lecture book sells 10,000 copies in first day online in South Korea

Korean retailers report strong sales for Light and Thread, featuring speeches, essays and poems by novelistA book featuring Han Kang’s Nobel prize lecture sold 10,000 copies in its first day on sale online.Light and Thread, which takes its title from Han’s December lecture, is her first book to be published in South Korea since she was announced as the winner of the Nobel prize in literature last October. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Melinda Gates reveals bizarre new details about divorce conversation she had with Bill after Epstein scandal

The philanthropist, 60, reveals details of her separation from the Microsoft founder on her new book, The Next Day.

Science

6 d. ago Prince William and Kate Middleton's unexpected anniversary plans on remote island

The Prince and Princess of Wales will be spending their 14th wedding anniversary on the Scottish island of Mulll next week on a two day visit - and they've booked unexpected accommodation for the trip

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9 d. ago End of the line feared for steam trains after plans to abolish traditional railway 'traffic lights' signals

Network Rail plans to remove the lineside lights most train drivers currently use to guide their journey and expand in-cab digital signalling across the network instead.

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1 week ago The Literary Fiction to take into the Easter weekend: Parallel Lines by Edward St Aubyn, Small Boat by Vincent Delacroix, Back in the Day by Oliver Lovrenski

Claire Allfree reviews the Literary Fiction out now.

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1 week ago One Day star among actors reading from International Booker Prize shortlist

The 2025 line-up for readings has been announced.

Culture

1 week ago The Next Day by Melinda French Gates review – Melinda on life, before and after Bill

The philanthropist offers sensible advice about moving on and ditching perfectionism, but you get the impression she is struggling to take it herselfMelinda French Gates is a woman who seemingly leaves little to chance. From girlhood she would write down goals for herself to reach, and she was just as driven at college and in her early career at Microsoft, where she famously met and married its billionaire co-founder Bill Gates. The couple divorced in 2021.There is a small, sad moment in her memoir The Next Day where she writes of happily gaining weight in pregnancy because it was the first time she’d felt so free “from perfectionism the crushing relentless societal pressure to look a certain way”. Only well into middle age, when a friend gently questions her constant self-improvement projects, does she wonder whether in her conscientiousness she had “missed opportunities to embrace spontaneity, lean into the unexpected”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Train passengers warned to expect severe delays as Network Rail begins Easter engineering work

The Government-owned company said it will carry out work on more than 300 projects this weekend

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1 week ago Celtic fans EXPECT Trebles every year as Stiliyan Petrov reveals what Scottish football has missed in recent years

Brendan Rodgers' side face St Johnstone in the Scottish Cup semi-final as they bid to book another day out at Hampden

Sport

1 week ago New book looks at the terrible history of the brutal Scottish witch trials

Could women be tried as witches in modern day Scotland? One book sets to find out.

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1 week ago Melinda French Gates has led an extraordinary life. This self

Bill Gates’ ex-wife might have taken the high road, but she’s mistaken what readers really want: gossip

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1 week ago Inbetweeners star Joe Thomas' new video perfectly captures the struggles of using British trains

A new study has found that British rail users are becoming increasingly frustrated with the state of UK train services, and this new video perfectly captures the common frustrations.

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2 w. ago South London train disruption warning due to rail upgrade work

South London train disruption warning due to rail upgrade work  BBC

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2 w. ago Moment bomb explodes at British tourist hotspot after device detonates outside train firm involved in catastrophic rail disaster

Anonymous calls warning of the attack were made to Greek media just moments before the blast on Friday night.

Events

2 w. ago Bomb explodes in British tourist hotspot outside HQ of train firm involved in Greece's deadliest rail disaster

Anonymous calls were made ahead of a bomb exploding in a British tourist hotspot in Athens, Greece on Friday night - just yards away from the headquarters of rail firm Hellenic Train.

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2 w. ago HS2 will mean trains from London to Birmingham Airport in 32 minutes

Exclusive: Link from Old Oak Common in west London will be faster than the Stansted Express

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3 w. ago Teenager who LIVED on a train for two years with an unlimited rail pass and all his belongings in one small backpack reveals his tips for packing light

Lasse Stolley, 18, swapped normal teenage life for an annual season ticket in 2023 after an apprenticeship he had planned to take after leaving school fell through.

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