36 m. ago Alan Shearer agrees VAR used 'wrong angle' as controversial decision saves Man Utd

Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer took to social media to offer his opinion after a late penalty in Everton's draw with Manchester United was overturned following a VAR intervention

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1 hour ago Police 'increasingly concerned' for missing runner as dashcam footage shows abandoned car

The search for missing runner Jenny Hall has entered its fourth day, with a major operation combing the wild countryside of County Durham.

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2 h. ago Specialist drones used on fourth day of search for missing runner Jenny Hall

The 23-year-old was last seen leaving her home in Tow Law, County Durham, just after 3pm on Tuesday.

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2 h. ago The cheeky moment Kate Middleton was caught out by a lip reader at Prince William's passing

It was a day to remember for Prince William - and it was made even better as his then-girlfriend Kate Middleton had been invited to the passing-out parade at Sandhurst on December 15, 2006.

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2 h. ago Joy Crookes review – an enthralling, intimate set from this rising London soul star

Islington Assembly Hall, LondonThe twentysomething singer-songwriter brings classic Motown rhythms with a touch of hip-hop to a resounding set of anti-anxiety anthemsJoy Crookes is only 26, but the south Londoner’s music already feels omnipresent. One song in particular, at least: Feet Don’t Fail Me Now seems to be absolutely everywhere. I hear it in cafes and bars, trendy boutiques and grimy off-licences and, when I forget to turn it off, the autoplay function on my streaming app of choice. The song only came out in 2021, as a single from Crookes’s acclaimed debut album, Skin, and even if it doesn’t yet feel canonical, it has at least thoroughly saturated certain pockets of the city.Which makes it all the more remarkable that, when Crookes plays it at Islington Assembly Hall this evening – an “intimate”, or intimate for her, show at only 890 people – one of the Brits Week for War Child charity shows, it doesn’t even garner the biggest singalong of the evening. That honour might go ...

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2 h. ago ‘The bot asked me four times a day how I was feeling’: is tracking everything actually good for us?

Gathering data used to be a fringe pursuit of Silicon Valley nerds. Now we’re all at it, recording everything from menstrual cycles and mobility to toothbrushing and time spent in daylight. Is this just narcissism redesigned for the big tech age?I first heard about my friend Adam’s curious new habit in a busy pub. He said he’d been doing it for over a year, but had never spoken to anyone about it before. He had a furtive look around, then took out his phone and showed me the product of his burning obsession: a spreadsheet.This was not a record of his annual tax return or numbers he was crunching for work (Adam is a data scientist). Instead, it was a spreadsheet recording the minutiae of his life, with dozens of columns tracking every element of his daily routine. It all started, he told me, because of a recurring argument with his boyfriend. His partner didn’t think they spent enough time together, but Adam thought that they did. There was only one way to settle this, he decided: co...

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3 h. ago Labour pledges to buy 300 care home beds to tackle bed blocking

Labour say they would end bed blocking, but have not set out how to pay for this pledge.

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4 h. ago UK snow storm weather forecast as long range maps reveal 10cm ARCTIC BLAST about to strike

Huge flurries of snow are set to fall in parts of the UK early next month, with one day in March especially under threat with 10cm set to fall across Northern Ireland, England and Scotland

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4 h. ago Mum who was 'addicted to cocaine for 20 years' says she 'loved her kids but neglected them'

Zoey Clarke, 43, used the Class A drug almost every day.

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4 h. ago Jenny Hall: Police 'increasingly concerned' for missing runner as search enters fourth day

Dozens of emergency responders and members of the public have been enlisted to comb the wild moorlands in County Durham following 23-year-old Jenny Hall's disappearance last week

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4 h. ago ‘It’s blackmail’: Ukrainians react to Trump demand for $500bn share of minerals

Ukraine’s lithium deposits are among biggest in Europe and the US is looking for ‘payback’ for previous military assistanceDrawing in the snow with his finger, Mykola Hrechukha sketched out how Ukraine’s new lithium mine might look. It would have a deep central shaft, with a series of side tunnels, he said. “The lithium is good everywhere. The biggest concentration is at a depth of 200-500 metres,” he said. “We should be able to extract 4,300 tonnes a day. The potential is terrific.”For now, though, there is little sign of activity. The deposit is buried under a large sloping field, used in communist times to grow beetroot and wheat. The mine’s proposed entrance is in an abandoned former-Soviet village, Liodiane, today a scruffy grove of acacia and maple trees. The only inhabitant is a security guard, who lives on the 150-hectare site in an ancient Gaz-53 truck. Wild boar and even a wolf sometimes wander past. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Liam Gallagher recalls hilarious moment Sir Paul McCartney invited him for a margarita

To mark National Margarita Day (February 22), we look back on the hilarious misunderstanding between Oasis star Liam Gallagher and The Beatles' Sir Paul McCartney

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5 h. ago Inside harrowing 10 days that turned Vladamir Putin into a cold

Vladimir Putin's most formative event in his rule came 25 years ago when Kursk sank. The most deadliest naval incident of post-Soviet Russia resulted in the death of 118 men

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5 h. ago Inside harrowing 10 days that turned Vladimir Putin into a cold

Vladimir Putin's most formative event in his rule came 25 years ago when Kursk sank. The most deadliest naval incident of post-Soviet Russia resulted in the death of 118 men

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5 h. ago The secret daytime TV tier list revealed: From bitchy feuds, mean comments and cruelty of the daytime sofa clique

Breakfast television shows might try to project an air of bonhomie to propel viewers into the day ahead, but there's evidence to suggest the welcoming sofas can be a dangerous place to perch.

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6 h. ago Billionaire brothers who 'invented Facebook' pay £3.5m to be owners of Non

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who claim to have come up with the idea for Facebook and have made billions in cryptocurrency, have become co-owners of eighth-tier side Real Bedford

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6 h. ago In photos: The first day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine captured in images

The day that changed Ukraine forever

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7 h. ago Tensions escalate as China conducts a SECOND firing exercise in the Tasman Sea

New Zealand's Defence Minister Judith Collins confirmed the second day of warship exercises in the Tasman Sea on Saturday.

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7 h. ago The New York Yankees’ repeal of their facial hair policy is simply business

Ending their decades-long ban on facial hair and bringing beards back to the Bronx had to be done to prop up New York’s declining competitive advantageOne of the last vestiges of George Steinbrenner era is finally over. The in-house (that Ruth built) rule that denied New York Yankees players the right to wear beards on baseball diamonds from the 1970s on is done and dusted, not unlike like The Boss himself, who died at 80 back in 2010. It’s the latest move showing that the new boss, George’s son Hal, who axed the 49-year-old rule on Friday, will do everything he can to differentiate himself from the old Boss, his dad.“In recent weeks I have spoken to a large number of former and current Yankees – spanning several eras – to elicit their perspectives on our longstanding facial hair and grooming policy, and I appreciate their earnest and varied feedback,” Steinbrenner said in a statement. “These most recent conversations are an extension of ongoing internal dialogue that dates back sev...

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7 h. ago Miami Blues director George Armitage dies aged 82 as fans pay tribute

The Grosse Point Blank filmmaker passed away last Saturday surrounded by family.

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