97 m. ago AC/DC review – a thrilling show stuffed with classics and your eardrums will never be the same

Melbourne Cricket Ground, then touring AustraliaIn the band’s ‘ancestral homeland’, Accadacca’s first Australian concert in a decade shows Angus Young is still a frenzied force to be reckoned withOn Wednesday afternoon, 374 bagpipers gathered in Melbourne’s Federation Square to play AC/DC’s It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock’n’Roll), setting a new world record just up the road from where Bon Scott and the band famously played the song on the back of a flatbed truck riding up Swanston Street 50 years before.It’s the one hit AC/DC no longer plays live, retired out of respect to Scott after his death in 1980. But you barely notice it is missing when their live shows are this stuffed with classics: an audible thrill ripples through the 80,000 punters in Melbourne Cricket Ground when AC/DC opens with If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It) then tears straight into Back in Black. Who else could play such a huge hit so early in a show? But Accadacca can, in what is essentially a great...

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3 h. ago Heartbreak as woman dies in sleep at hotel as tributes paid to 'best friend'

Lydia Williams, 32, tragically died in her sleep at a hotel and now her family and friends have paid tribute saying she was "the best friend anyone could have".

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3 h. ago Pregnant woman who died at home after 'medical incident' named as tributes paid

Emergency services were called to a house on Highsted Road in Kirkby, Merseyside, shortly before 11am on Tuesday, November 11, following reports of an urgent medical incident

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3 h. ago 'Death threat' graffiti directed at Nigel Farage spotted in London

'Death threat' graffiti directed at Nigel Farage spotted in London  GB News

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4 h. ago Glasgow 'grooming gang' victim urges John Swinney to launch child exploitation probe

EXCLUSIVE: The young woman has contacted the First Minister directly about her experience.

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4 h. ago Heartache as 'beautiful and fearless' Brit woman, 32 dies in her sleep at Spanish hotel

Lydia Williams was a bright and ambitious young girl who grew into a beautiful, caring, and loyal young woman who radiated warmth wherever she went, according to her family

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5 h. ago I saved pregnant woman world saw hanging out Bataclan window now we’re like siblings, says survivor on 10th anniversary

TWO rock fans will today mark ten years since the day they met – when one of them saved the other’s life in the most terrifying setting imaginable. As gun-wielding IS terrorists rampaged around them massacring 89 people at Paris’s Bataclan music venue, a pregnant woman identified only as Charlotte clung on for life to...

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5 h. ago Mystery surrounds sudden death of boy, 6 as woman, 37 and girl, 17, arrested

Humberside Police were called to a property on Searby Road in Scunthorpe at about 9am on Monday, where the boy was said to be suffering from a 'medical episode'

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5 h. ago Bournemouth Bonfire Night terror as woman raped after being 'dragged into woods'

Dorset Police have arrested a 24-year-old man who is currently being questioned in connection with the harrowing attack on a woman in her 30s on Bonfire Night (November 5)

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6 h. ago Pregnant woman dies suddenly at home as locals 'can't sleep' after heartbreak

A 41-year-old woman from Kirkby in Merseyside has been named as the tragic pregnant woman who died at her home following an urgent medical incident on Tuesday

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6 h. ago Woman dragged into Bournemouth wooded area on Bonfire night and raped

A 24-year-old man from Bournemouth has been arrested and is being questioned by police after a woman in her 30s was raped in a wooded area of Bournemouth on Bonfire Night

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6 h. ago Top Ukrainian ministers submit their resignations as the country is rocked by a corruption scandal

Ukraine’s justice and energy ministers submitted their resignations amid a major embezzlement and kickbacks scandal involving the state nuclear power company

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6 h. ago Epstein emails thrust Trump back into spotlight over past ties

Newly released emails from Epstein’s estate reignite scrutiny of the US president’s old links to the sex offenderThe release of previously unseen emails sent by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has thrust Donald Trump back into the center of the long-running Epstein controversy that has plagued his administration for months, inflamed parts of his own political base and offered Democrats an ongoing line of political attack.On Wednesday, Democrats on the House oversight and government reform committee released email exchanges from 2011, 2015 and 2019 that they say were provided by the estate of the late Epstein, who died by suicide in federal prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal charges of sex-trafficking minors. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago England: Thomas Tuchel issues verdict on 'crazy' new fashion trend ahead of latest World Cup qualifier

Three Lions players have been spotted sporting strange-looking footwear

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7 h. ago Edinburgh crime: Female robber threatened woman at knifepoint before stealing handbag in city centre attack

CCTV imagery shows the suspect went on to attempt a second robbery nearby.

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8 h. ago CCTV shows white van driving on pavement where 'beautiful' woman, 19, was run over

Lily Whitehouse was struck by a vehicle along Old Park Lane in Oldbury, West Midlands last Wednesday evening.

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8 h. ago Penny Mordaunt's 'creepy stalker' says he is 'harmless' and only wanted to 'congratulate' former Conservative MP

Edward Brandt is accused of stalking the Tory leadership candidate between 2023 and 2024, which left her fearing she would be a victim of 'sexual violence'.

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8 h. ago Mum of murdered Holly Newton, 15, learned of attack from stranger using her phone

Micala Trussler tells a new documentary that the woman called saying: ‘I've got your daughter's phone she's been stabbed.’ And I remember just screaming. We knew straight away who'd done it.'

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8 h. ago I was miserable and negative – until I discovered how to get fit despite 'gymtimidation'

Writer Muminah Koleoso explains the benefits of physical activity, the pitfalls of toxic trends on social media and what it’s like lifting weights in a gym as a Black Muslim woman

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8 h. ago Police search for woman who tried to be Donald Trump’s press secretary after 'racist attack'

Melissa Rein Lively, 40, previously wanted to be the White House press secretary for Donald Trump and was seen in London with her partner Philip Ostermann following an alleged assault

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