31 m. ago Scottish law firm with 200 staff hails ‘real momentum’ as revenue jumps to £15.6 million

“Our people remain at the heart of everything we do, and this year we have strengthened our teams across the firm” – Victoria Leslie, joint managing partner

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31 m. ago Diddy's twin daughters Jessie and D'Lila, 18, stun in matching red dresses as they bag invite to yet another A list bash

The 18-year-old twin sisters, who attended Kylie Jenner's starry cosmetics event in October, stunned in matching red dresses.

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39 m. ago Trans rights should be a private affair. A toxic debate does no one any favours | Simon Jenkins

The courts are a clumsy means to negotiate social relationships. Let organisations make up their own minds about inclusionTowards the end of her life, I was a friend of the writer Jan Morris. I had known her for many years and, much to my regret, had declined an offer to do her “tell all” interview when she transitioned. Jan presented herself as a woman and had undergone an operation. To me she was simply a remarkable woman. She touched, sometimes humorously, on embarrassing incidents in her life. But it never occurred to me that a legal ruling might hover over our restaurant table and block her from going to the ladies.Last April, the supreme court issued a ruling confirming that the word “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex, not a person’s legal gender. This has a wide-reaching impact on how equality law is applied in practice, particularly in providing sex-based rights such as single-sex spaces. Six months later, a draft code on the ruling’s implementation was ...

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39 m. ago Hightailing along high streets and raiding ponds: otters’ revival in Britain

Still rare only 20 years ago, the charismatic animals are in almost every UK river and a conservation success storyOn a quiet Friday evening, an otter and a fox trot through Lincoln city centre. The pair scurry past charity shops and through deserted streets, the encounter lit by the security lamps of shuttered takeaways. Each animal inspects the nooks and crannies of the high street before disappearing into the night, ending the unlikely scene captured by CCTV last month.Unlike the fox, the otter has been a rare visitor in towns and cities across the UK. But after decades of intense conservation work, that is changing. In the past year alone, the aquatic mammal has been spotted on a river-boat dock in London’s Canary Wharf, dragging an enormous fish along a riverbank in Stratford-upon-Avon, and plundering garden ponds near York. One otter was even filmed causing chaos in a Shetland family’s kitchen in March. Continue reading...

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39 m. ago Brits flying over Christmas should take note of airline rules on presents and crackers

Plane passengers travelling over the Christmas period should take note that there are some airline rules that could mean you have to ditch presents

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46 m. ago British backpacker jailed for four years after hitting pedestrian while drunk on e

Judge says incident involving a young tourist in Perth must serve as ‘cautionary tale’

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47 m. ago Skydiver dangles at 15,000 feet after parachute catches on plane's tail in Australia

Australian accident investigators have released dramatic images showing a skydiver's parachute entangled on an airplane's tail, leaving him dangling at 15,000 feet

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56 m. ago Police issue update after woman injured in shooting on Salford street

Three people had been arrested

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87 m. ago Bonnie Blue's dodgy Indonesian 'Bang bus' revealed as she avoids 'hellhole' jail sentence

Officials accused her and her small crew of travelling around the island without proper registration documents and using the truck to film provocative content

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89 m. ago Fired Michigan coach Sherrone Moore faces arraignment amid assault investigation

Fired Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore is expected to be arraigned Friday after spending two nights in jail

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90 m. ago Crypto mogul Do Kwon sentenced to 15 years in prison for fraud

Co-founder of Singapore-based Terraform Labs given more jail time by US judge than prosecutors soughtDo Kwon, the entrepreneur behind two cryptocurrencies that lost $40bn (£29.8bn) three years ago and caused the sector to crash, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for fraud.The South Korean, 34, had pleaded guilty to two counts of US charges of conspiracy to defraud and wire fraud. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Woman, 22, collapsed and died for seven minutes due to work stress

Courtney was at home in the garden when her heart stopped - her dad had to save her life

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2 h. ago Bonnie Blue slapped with £9 fine and dodges 'hellhole' Bali jail after Bang Bus stunt

Bonnie Blue has appeared in court where she was been banned from Bali for 10 years after breaking a series of road rules while touring in her 'Bang Bus'

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3 h. ago 'I was jailed in deadly prison and what I saw left me with PTSD'

Pieter Tritton was banged up abroad after being caught smuggling drugs into Ecuador and was locked up in its most infamous prison, known for its brutal gang violence and death

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3 h. ago Bonnie Blue dodges jail as adult star is slapped with £9 fine and is banned from Bali after shock arrest

BONNIE Blue has been slapped with a £9 fine and banned from Bali for at least 10 years following her bombshell arrest. The pornstar, real name Tia Billinger, was found guilty of breaking a string of road rules while using her "Bangbus" as she appeared in court on Friday. Shocking images showed the influencer, 26,...

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4 h. ago Cops release CCTV in hunt for missing woman, 53, who was last seen five days ago travelling in a car to Stonehenge

COPS have released CCTV in the hunt for a missing woman last seen five days ago travelling in a car to Stonehenge. Gail, 53, from Calne, Wiltshire, was last spotted on December 5 with police "very concerned" for her welfare. Wiltshire Police said Gail had travelled to the Amesbury and Stonehenge area in a silver...

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4 h. ago Police launch murder probe after receiving fresh information over death of woman electrocuted in her bath 25 years ago

An inquest in October 2000 heard Rhonda Anderson, 29, was found in the bath with the radio still switched on and floating beside her at her Northampton home.

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4 h. ago The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction | George Monbiot

Plummeting birth rates mean that without attracting immigration, many countries are sliding towards collapseI know what “civilisational erasure” looks like: I’ve seen the graph. The European Commission published it in March. It’s a chart of total fertility rate: the average number of children born per woman. After a minor bump over the past 20 years, the EU rate appears to be declining once more, and now stands at 1.38. The UK’s is 1.44. A population’s replacement rate is 2.1. You may or may not see this as a disaster, but the maths doesn’t care what you think. We are gliding, as if by gravitational force, towards the ground.Civilisational erasure is the term the Trump administration used in its new national security strategy, published last week. It claimed that immigration, among other factors, will result in the destruction of European civilisation. In reality, without immigration there will be no Europe, no civilisation and no one left to argue about it.George Monbiot is a Guard...

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4 h. ago Defence pathologist in trial of woman accused of murdering husband 'much more in favour' of tragedy being an accident

'We have so many gaps in our knowledge that we cannot know for certain', he told jurors in the trial of Daryl Berman, who denies murdering her husband David Berman

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6 h. ago Woman who finds all of her food from supermarket waste bins says she's 'only ever been sick once'

Sofie says she has barely had to spend any money on feeding herself in 2025 - as she finds it all for free

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