Staff at a Sainsbury's Local in Nottingham frantically called 999 after they saw a pair of legs dangling from a hole in the store ceiling just after 6am yesterday morning.

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Dozens of emergency responders and members of the public have been enlisted to comb the wild moorlands in County Durham following 23-year-old Jenny Hall's disappearance last week

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Ukraine’s lithium deposits are among biggest in Europe and the US is looking for ‘payback’ for previous military assistanceDrawing in the snow with his finger, Mykola Hrechukha sketched out how Ukraine’s new lithium mine might look. It would have a deep central shaft, with a series of side tunnels, he said. “The lithium is good everywhere. The biggest concentration is at a depth of 200-500 metres,” he said. “We should be able to extract 4,300 tonnes a day. The potential is terrific.”For now, though, there is little sign of activity. The deposit is buried under a large sloping field, used in communist times to grow beetroot and wheat. The mine’s proposed entrance is in an abandoned former-Soviet village, Liodiane, today a scruffy grove of acacia and maple trees. The only inhabitant is a security guard, who lives on the 150-hectare site in an ancient Gaz-53 truck. Wild boar and even a wolf sometimes wander past. Continue reading...

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To mark National Margarita Day (February 22), we look back on the hilarious misunderstanding between Oasis star Liam Gallagher and The Beatles' Sir Paul McCartney

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Luxury London restaurants are cracking down on no-shows and social media freeloaders by introducing hefty deposits and minimum spends, as the industry battles rising costs.

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How do you follow up an Oscar winner like Parasite? If you’re the South Korean auteur, you make a sci-fi satire where Robert Pattinson dies over and over again. The director discusses the inspirational Loach and Mike Leigh and why it’s hard being a ‘middle-aged film-maker’We are in the run-up to the release of Bong Joon Ho’s latest, Mickey 17, and Warner Bros has got the Oscar-winning Korean director stashed away in what appears to be some kind of basement storage room, with grey-painted brickwork and exposed wiring. In fact, this room could pass for one of the “gritty and kind of nasty” cargo-container-packed cabins of his film’s spaceship setting.Not that anyone is complaining. Bong, who speaks good English but prefers to conduct interviews via his longtime interpreter Sharon Choi, appears cheerful throughout our conversation, taking occasional sips from a takeaway coffee cup, while dressed in his usual arthouse auteur uniform of a slate-grey blazer over a black T-shirt. He i...

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The Pope remains in hospital where he is battling pneumonia and 'complex respiratory infection'

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The Pope is ‘not out of danger’

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Vladimir Putin's most formative event in his rule came 25 years ago when Kursk sank. The most deadliest naval incident of post-Soviet Russia resulted in the death of 118 men

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Vladimir Putin's most formative event in his rule came 25 years ago when Kursk sank. The most deadliest naval incident of post-Soviet Russia resulted in the death of 118 men

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The Traitors winner Leanne Quigley has revealed that her fiancée Sophie Jones' recent breast cancer battle felt like an 'out of body experience'.

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An action-packed movie branded one of 'the most intriguing crime thrillers made' is set to air on BBC One this weekend

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The cover depicting Lively and Baldoni was branded ‘disturbing’ by outraged critics

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Gone are the days when a traditional pre-wedding shindig would start with a pub crawl and might end in a kebab shop at 4am, with youngsters now packing it all in for a quieter night

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The Genesis singer and drummer has spoken about his health problems

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The controversial event, hosted by BritSlap/Slap Fight UK, was due to be held at Glasgow University Union on Saturday.

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After 35 US caps, three World Cups and hall of fame recognition, the former flanker is still a fighter – but now it’s in the octagon, for moneyPhaidra Knight is already a pioneer, the only African American woman in the World Rugby Hall of Fame. In 2017, when she retired after three World Cups and 35 US caps, she was 43. Now she’s 50 but on Saturday night in Patchogue, New York, she will claim another first: the oldest woman ever to make her pro MMA debut.“All roads lead to where I am,” Knight says, by phone from New York, on her way to training, with a sort of fierce zen sentiment familiar from conversations about rugby, the game she found at law school, through which she found herself, and which she came to see as a prop and a flanker as “violent yet controlled, kind of a form of art”. Continue reading...

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The London photographer always saw odd things going on while cycling at weekends, but nothing quite like this You’d be forgiven for thinking this shot was taken during the pandemic; an inventive, impromptu attempt at masking up, perhaps. Instead, Richard Chambury took it in the spring of 2013, in London’s Victoria Park.“My daughter was 11 and to get her out and about on the weekends we used to go cycling,” Chambury says. “We eventually discovered this was not her favourite pastime; she’s a reader, and likes the warmth. But we always saw odd things going on, people doing the morning walk of shame dolled up from the night before, or wild birds and swans knocking about.” Continue reading...

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Russia's defence minister Andrei Belousov was handing out medals to soldiers when he gave a stirring rallying message on the country's "confrontation with the West."

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Filming for ITV's Britain's Got Talent was halted after the audience hurled abuse at the judges and branded Simon Cowell an 'old fart'

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