88 m. ago Emergency alert test ‘may put domestic abuse survivors at risk’

There are fears the sound may reveal hidden phones

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1 hour ago Hundreds of hungry Brits queue up overnight to get hands on jacket potato

A new store has opened selling jacket potatoes for just 1p, and a whopping 300 people queued outside the shop overnight to get their hands on one of the coveted spuds

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2 h. ago Military sites could be used as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers, minister says – UK politics live

Starmer to ‘go up a gear’ as ministers consider changes to human rights laws in bid to head off Reform UKThe most significant moves in Starmer ’s reshuffle d cabinetConservative party chair Kevin Hollinrake has accused Reform UK of copying the former government’s migration policies.Speaking on Sky News this morning, Hollinrake said:All Reform are doing now – a few weeks ago they were talking about towing the boats back to France and they realised they couldn’t do that.And all their plans now are a copycat – exactly the plans that we had in the last government. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago I thought I was growing up in a racially tolerant Britain. I now realise I was wrong | Rohan Sathyamoorthy

I’ve experienced more racism in the past year than the rest of my life put together – the only answer is for young people to stand up to the far rightSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreWhen my dad went to school in the 1970s, the kids used to pretend he was invisible. Every day he would try to make conversation and play with the other children, and every day he would be ignored. One night it got so bad that my grandma found him crying himself to sleep, unable to process, as an eight-year-old, why no one would want to talk to “the brown kid”. This kind of social exclusion was sadly all too familiar in postwar Britain – my white grandma had endured her own share of abuse ever since she fell in love with my Sri Lankan grandad in 1966, committing the family’s original sin of interracial marriage.When I heard these stories as a child, they felt like terrible...

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2 h. ago Gordon Ramsay wells up with tears in heartbreaking confession about ‘biggest regret’

Gordon Ramsay has spoken emotionally as he prepares to launch a new venture on the site of Le Gavroche – the legendary London restaurant founded by the Roux brothers

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2 h. ago Baby and woman killed during Putin's record 800 drone attack on Ukraine as NATO scramble warplanes

The 32-year-old woman and her two-month-old son died in the Sviatoshynskyi district of the capital, with dozens of people injured in the Russian terror.

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2 h. ago People are only just realising why in tennis it is called love

The origins of the tennis term ‘love’ explained as the US Open draws to a close with another meeting between the world's top two players, Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz

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2 h. ago Tesco shoppers 'run' to stores for £28 bag 'just like' £390 version

Tesco F&F Clothing is selling a handbag that could easily be mistaken for a much more expensive version

Economics

3 h. ago 'I'm a fashion writer and I've scoured the high street to find the best autumn jackets'

I've searched the internet so shoppers don't have to - but hurry, because some of these styles are selling fast

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4 h. ago Antony a rare piece of spending for Spanish clubs unable to match Premier League’s wealth

Real Betis fans were overjoyed at the arrival of the Manchester United outcast but like many La Liga teams, the club were only able to buy by selling some of their starsA goat crossed the Guadalquivir, which was when they knew. They had been made to wait until the last day of summer and on the footage it was a CGI creature scuttling over the Isabel II bridge (no animals were harmed in the making of this announcement) but Real Betis had actually done it. There were four hours left on deadline day and they had signed Antony Matheus dos Santos, or Antonio of Triana as they call him. When they’re not calling him the Goat.Triana is the Betis neighbourhood, Seville’s artistic heart on the west bank of the river, and Antony could not be more popular there. Last season he arrived on a six-month loan and changed everything, leading them to a European place, a derby win that was celebrated like it was the World Cup, and a European final. He had been changed too, happy again, the footballer he...

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4 h. ago American woman could soon prove she's descended from Queen Victoria's 'love child' with DNA test

EXCLUSIVE: Expert from genealogy company Ancestry believes 'it should be possible to definitively confirm it, one way or the other'

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5 h. ago Tanning addict with 'Europe's biggest boobs' wanted move to Africa 'to be black'

Tanning addict Martina Big, who was born white and now identifies as a 'black woman', is unable to tie her own shoelaces or use a seatbelt because of her 32T breasts

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6 h. ago Our daughter is being controlled by a school friend. What can we do?

This is a horrible situation. It would be difficult even for an adult, so your daughter definitely needs actionOur 11-year-old daughter is in a “friendship” with a classmate, which we have come to realise is unhealthy and controlling. She was very shy and self-conscious through the early years of school and struggled to make friends, so we were initially delighted that she had found a close friend. However, we’ve become aware that there is a consistent pattern of control from this girl: demands about when and where they meet, or what our daughter can and can’t wear. If our daughter goes against her, she risks being shunned and ignored or spoken to aggressively.This girl does not let our daughter interact with others without her. There is a barrage of demanding messages and calls at home about arrangements, and we see our daughter being vigilant and tense, having to respond immediately. Sometimes there is unkindness, for example saying our daughter’s clothes are babyish. Around the c...

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6 h. ago Error 50p coin with 'unusual mark' worth 90 times more than face value

Your coin stash could be hiding a little gem without you even realising. This 50p coin features an 'unusual mark' and one collector said it can be very easy to miss

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8 h. ago Martin Lewis says 'check this payslip code' to see if you're owed thousands

You may not realise that you're owed a sizeable tax rebate from HMRC.

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8 h. ago 'Omissions' in mental health care of woman who took her own life

Lynda Tyler, 57, died when she suffered a heart attack after taking toxic levels of prescribed medication

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11 h. ago Retired police officer claims her own force knocked on her door after she referred to a transgender activist by her birth name on social media

 A retired police officer says she was investigated by her former colleagues after she 'dead-named' a transgender woman on the internet. 

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11 h. ago Trump's DOJ refuses to release names of Epstein associates who received $350,000 from billionaire before his arrest

The payments - $100,000 for one and $250,000 for another - came in 2018, when the press began investigating the sweetheart plea deal he got from the state of Florida in 2008.

Economics

11 h. ago Trump's DOJ refuses to release names of Epstein associates who wired him $350,000 before his arrest

The payments - $100,000 for one and $250,000 for another - came in 2018, when the press began investigating the sweetheart plea deal he got from the state of Florida in 2008.

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12 h. ago Russell Brand sued for £100,000 over claims the comic attacked woman at his Hollywood mansion in 2008

The woman - referred to in High Court papers only as AGX - says the comic invited her over to his LA mansion in 2008, when she was 23, and forced himself on her.

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