1 week ago Doctors sound alarm over link between cancer explosion and crisis Trump calls a hoax

A growing global crisis that President Donald Trump has long branded a hoax could be fueling growing rates and deaths from breast, ovarian, uterine and cervical cancers in 17 Middle Eastern countries.

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1 week ago Death in the Yorkshire Dales: How 32 housewives and driver died when coach plunged off 'Devil's Bridge' after its brakes failed in Britain's worst ever road disaster 50 years ago

Fifty years ago today, a packed coach crashed in the Yorkshire Dales after its brakes failed, killing 32 passengers and the driver. It was the worst road disaster in British history.

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1 week ago Bringing back the birds: the ‘ghost woodlands’ transforming England’s barren sheep fells

A groundbreaking tree-planting programme is uniting farmers and rewilders, as portions of common ground in the Yorkshire Dales national park are being restored to their ancient gloryPhotographs by Rebecca ColeThe Howgill Fells are a smooth, treeless cluster of hills in the Yorkshire Dales national park, so bald and lumpy that they are sometimes described as a herd of sleeping elephants. Their bare appearance – stark even by UK standards – has been shaped by centuries of sheep grazing. Yet beneath the soil lie ancient tree roots: the silent traces of long-lost “ghost woodlands”.Over the past 12 years, 300,000 native trees have been planted by the project Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘Our hearts ache’: the fight for survival in Gaza amid Israel’s new offensive and no aid

Ceasefire rumours of little interest, say the bereaved who face starvation after one of Beit Lahiya’s ‘hardest nights’• Middle East crisis – live updatesAt about 2am on Sunday, Basel al-Barawi was dozing fitfully in his home in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza. For hours, he had listened fearfully to the sound of explosions and shooting.Then there was a massive blast. Barawi ran out to the street and saw that his cousin’s house had been bombed, with 10 people inside. The strikes on Beit Lahiya came days after Israel launched a major new offensive, named Operation Gideon’s Chariots. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Our Yorkshire Farm's Reuben Owen admits Amanda and Clive 'grew apart' as he addresses split

Our Yorkshire Farm and Life in the Dales star Reuben Owen has broken his silence on his parents Amanda and Clive's split, admitting he knows 'how it went'

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3 w. ago Our Yorkshire Farm star Reuben Owen's family wish as he finds perfect match

Amanda and Clive Owen's son, Reuben Owen, has come a long way from his TV debut as a youngster. The Mirror spoke to the 21-year-old about life in the Yorkshire Dales today and his rather unusual ideal date

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3 w. ago Yorkshire Dales residents shaken awake by earthquake that sounded like an 'explosion'

A 2.5-magnitude quake was recorded just after 1.30am near Litton in North Yorkshire - and the tremor, which had a depth of 2.5 miles, was felt an hour away from the village, according to locals

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4 w. ago Are we heading for another world war – or has it already started?

The rules-based world order is in retreat and violence is on the rise, forcing countries to rethink their relationshipsIn a week in which former allies in a redividing globe separately commemorated the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war, the sense of a runaway descent towards a third world war draws ever closer.The implosion of Pax Americana, the interconnectedness of conflicts, the new willingness to resort to unbridled state-sponsored violence and the irrelevance of the institutions of the rules-based order have all been on brutal display this week. From Kashmir to Khan Younis, Hodeidah, Port Sudan and Kursk, the only sound is of explosions, and the only lesson is that the old rules no longer apply. Continue reading...

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