8 h. ago Military driving examiners deployed to public test centres to cut backlog

Thirty-six defence driving examiners will conduct public tests one day a week for 12 months.

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18 h. ago UK weather: Snow forecast to blast Britain for 10 DAYS as mercury drops to glacial

Snowfall has been forecast over a 10-day spell this month with temperatures set to drop to a frosty -10C in the worst affected areas in several parts of the country

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32 h. ago Woman lost 4st 8lb in nine months but could still end day with a beer

She was 'mortified' when she saw pictures from her New Year's Eve celebrations

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37 h. ago ‘I lost 4st 8lb in nine months and can still end my day with a beer'

Meadow Harrison decided she needed to make a major change to her lifestyle after looking at pictures taken on herself at a New Year's Eve party at the start of this year

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3 d. ago The nut secret: 14 easy, delicious ways to eat more of these life

A handful of nuts a day can help manage obesity and reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and some kinds of cancer. Yet most of us don’t get enough. Here’s a no-fuss guide to getting your 30g a dayHow often do you eat nuts? The planetary health diet, introduced in 2019 and updated last month, recommends that everyone eat a portion every day (unless you have an allergy). Alongside eating more fruit, vegetables, whole grains and legumes, and fewer animal products and sugary foods, this could help prevent 40,000 early deaths a day across the world, as well as slash food-related greenhouse gas emissions.Yet according to Prof Sarah Berry, the chief scientist at Zoe, many don’t eat any nuts at all. In the UK, the average consumption is 6g a day. Romanian researchers found higher levels of nut consumption in Canada, some African countries and some regions of Europe and the Middle East, and lower levels in South America. But overall, they said: “Consumers may not have ...

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3 d. ago 'It's not the 60+ days of Christmas!' Exasperated Brits blast John Lewis, Coca

Scientists say that stretching out the festive season could spark 'festive burnout', as Christmas decorations appear two months ahead of the big day.

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4 d. ago Record number of Britons now enrolled on 800 calorie diabetes

Developed by a team at Newcastle University, the diet involves consuming just 800 calories a day for up to four months in order to lose between 22lb and 33lb (10kg to 15kg).

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4 d. ago Sir Rod Stewart confirmed for huge Rock in Rio Lisbon Legends Day slot

Sir Rod Stewart has been confirmed as the headliner for Rock in Rio Lisbon's Legends Day next month, joining the likes of Katy Perry and Linkin Park across the festival

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5 d. ago Moment fake Madeleine McCann is told by police she's NOT missing toddler on phone call

Recordings of the moment Julia Wandelt, 24, and Karen Spragg, 61, confronted the McCann's and claimed the Polish woman was their lost daughter have emerged.

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6 d. ago Wes Streeting accuses junior doctors of 'holding the country to ransom' in bitter pay dispute after they reject inflation

The Health Secretary hit out at the British Medical Association (BMA) ahead of their planned five-day strikes later this month.

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7 d. ago The ‘pavement vigilante’: why Cameron Roh is naming and shaming bad walking etiquette

He films people breaking his self-created ‘laws’ of street decorum and posts the videos online – with many viewers expressing their gratitude. So watch out if you’re rushing along on your phone or wheeling a small bag that could be carried ...It’s a damp, grey morning in Soho, London, and Cameron Roh is standing a metre or so behind a woman who is speaking loudly into her phone outside Caffè Nero. She is breaking his “laws” of “pavement etiquette” and he holds up his phone and presses record. Lost in conversation, the woman doesn’t see him, but still, watching him from a distance, it’s fist-in-mouth awkward. What if she turns around? Is this allowed? Is this even OK?Suddenly, the woman hangs up and dashes across the road, oblivious to what has just happened. Evidence duly captured, Roh returns to where I am hiding and delivers his verdict, which is marks out of 10 – with 10 being perfect pavement etiquette. “That’s a two,” he says. Her crimes? “On her phone, sudden stop, pretty much...

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8 d. ago I was sold the Dubai dream then left for good after 2 months – I made more cash but it’s so soulless & fake

A British day trader and real estate agent who spent two months living in Dubai has revealed why he couldn’t wait to leave, describing the glitzy hotspot as “soulless” and “fake”. TikToker Charlie Smith, known online as @itscharliesmith, shared with his followers that despite earning record profits while living in the UAE, he packed up...

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9 d. ago Get perfect Christmas roast potatoes by completing 1 task in November

A woman has shared a simple hack for ensuring your Christmas roast potatoes are perfect on the day - and it involves getting a head start this month

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9 d. ago The one change that worked: I struggled with stress after work – until I made a discovery in my attic

When my son was growing up, his school recorder was the bane of my life. Now it’s what I reach for at the end of a hard day, rather than a glass of wineI’m like a coiled spring after work. Shoulders tense, breath fast and shallow. Usually the sound of my laptop lid slamming shut would be followed by the squeak of a cork pulled from a bottle of red, the wine hastily sploshed into a glass, that first mouthful putting a much-needed full stop on the working day.Then, a few months ago, I came across my now-adult son’s old school recorder in the attic. I idly blew into it, immediately transported back to the days it was the bane of my life – his daily practice a violent assault on my eardrums, the piercing shriek still reverberating through my head hours after he had gone to bed. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Wallabies firing again in time for England clash after return to free

Victory over England at Twickenham 12 months ago proved a launchpad for Australia to begin climb back from nadirIf only Henry Slade had managed to stop Ben Donaldson getting that off-load away, if only Ollie Sleightholme had been able to make that wrap-up tackle on Len Ikitau, if only Marcus Smith was able to catch Max Jorgensen. But Slade didn’t, Sleightholme couldn’t, Smith wasn’t, and Jorgensen scored in the corner. This time last year the Wallabies beat England 42-37, their first victory against them at Twickenham in nine years, and it was, the players will tell you themselves, the moment when everything changed. “This game last year was a big turning point for us as a group,” says the Australia captain, Harry Wilson, “it really made us believe that on our day we can beat anybody in the world.”Twelve months ago England weren’t worried about the Wallabies so much as they were worried for the Wallabies. The one thing an Australian team doesn’t want is pity, but that’s what they go...

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1 week ago Major transformation of hugely popular Fife beach and coastal 'jewel' Silver Sands announced

Silver Sands in Aberdour is visited by thousands of people every day during peak summer months

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1 week ago The monthly London Sewing Machine Museum Open Day is happening this Saturday, 1st Nov 2025

The monthly London Sewing Machine Museum Open Day is happening this Saturday, 1st Nov 2025  Brixton Buzz

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2 w. ago Facing War review – cool customer of a Nato secretary general marshals world on the brink

Gripping documentary follows Jens Stoltenberg through his final year as Nato chief – balancing diplomacy, egos and all-out war with unnerving calmJens Stoltenberg is the Norwegian politician and international diplomat whose destiny it was to be secretary general of Nato in the second most fraught period of its postwar history (if we accept that the Cuban missile crisis is in pole position). He was in charge from 2014 to 2024 and this documentary, with remarkable access, shows us his final 12 months – day-by-day, moment-by-moment – after Joe Biden had persuaded him in 2023, when his tenure was technically at an end, to stay on for another year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Perhaps, until that moment, Stoltenberg had been happy to assume that for all the meetings and stress, the secretary-generalship was an agreeable prestigious technocratic position without any real danger. But now he was faced with the possibility of executing Nato’s raison d’être. Ukraine can’t be admitted to ...

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2 w. ago Body found in search for dad who fell from Father's Day ferry four months ago

The body of Mark Federspiel, the 64-year-old US Navy diver who fell from a ferry in Scotland, has now been recovered, more than four months after his devastated wife raised the alarm

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2 w. ago Mollie King enjoys a family day out with daughters Annabella, two, and Lilianna, 10 months, as they go pumpkin picking ahead of Halloween

The Radio One star, 37, adventured to the patch alongside her daughters, Annabella, two, and Lilianna, 10 months, whom she shares with former cricketer fiancé Stuart Broad, 38.

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