1 hour ago So many people are visiting a Texas home that went viral for its Christmas decorations that the city had to restrict access

The restrictions will be in place for December 23 through Christmas

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3 h. ago Investigators sift through wreckage after a deadly Pennsylvania nursing home explosion

Crews are using construction equipment and drones to search the rubble of a Pennsylvania nursing home after a powerful explosion killed at least two people

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5 h. ago Shocking footage shows youths throwing bricks at house in attack

The CCTV footage has now been shared in an appeal by police

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17 h. ago At least two people killed and multiple trapped as explosion rips through a Pennsylvania nursing home

An explosion was reported at a Pennsylvania nursing home Tuesday, trapping multiple people.

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18 h. ago At least two people dead in Philadelphia nursing home explosion

Five additional people unaccounted for after partial building collapse at Silver Lake center in Bristol TownshipAn explosion at a nursing home just outside Philadelphia collapsed part of the building and has left at least two people dead, and five others unaccounted for. The exact number of those injured and trapped inside has yet to be announced, authorities said.The electric company Peco said in a statement that crews responded to reports of a gas odor at the site around 2pm. “While crews were on site, an explosion occurred at the facility,” the statement said. “PECO crews shut off natural gas and electric service to the facility to ensure the safety of first responders and local residents.” Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Police call explosion at nursing home near Philadelphia ‘mass casualty incident’

People at Silver Lake healthcare center in Bristol Township injured and trapped inside after partial building collapseAn explosion at a nursing home just outside Philadelphia collapsed part of the building and left people injured and trapped inside, authorities said.A plume of black smoke rose from Silver Lake healthcare center in Bristol Township, as emergency responders across the region gathered there. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Mass casualty incident as explosion rips through Pennsylvania nursing home and traps multiple people

An explosion was reported at a Pennsylvania nursing home Tuesday, trapping multiple people.

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25 h. ago Youths 'throwing eggs at vulnerable peoples' homes' on Welsh estate

Police say they've had reports from vulnerable people on the street that they're being repeatedly targeted

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27 h. ago Last minute Christmas wrapping hack that uses 3 everyday items labelled 'genius'

Claire Lee's Christmas present wrapping technique that uses three items that most people will already have in their home has become a viral social media sensation

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29 h. ago People applying for certain DWP benefits may get 'home visit' update

The service helps people with complex needs or disabilities avoid making mistakes

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33 h. ago Something gnawed your oak tree? Sink hole in your road? How Zurich’s beaver hotline is reassuring residents

As the number of the semi-aquatic creatures soars so can tensions. But the Swiss have a tried and tested system to calm the neighbours and restore harmony“I hate beavers,” a woman tells the beaver hotline. Forty years ago she planted an oak tree in a small town in southern Zurich – now at the frontier of beaver expansion – and it has just been felled: gnawed by the large, semi-aquatic rodents as they enter their seasonal home-improvement mode.The caller is one of 10 new people getting in touch each week at this time of year. Beavers, nature’s great engineers, can unleash mayhem during winter as they renovate their lodges and build up their dams. For people, this can mean flooding, sinkholes appearing in roads and trees being felled. A single incident can clock up 70,000 Swiss francs (£65,000) in damages. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago ‘I feel as though I’m singing to my son’: Inside the choir helping reunite missing people with their families

What began in 2014 as a support group for people with missing loved ones has since taken the Missing People Choir to the O2 Arena, the final of Britain’s Got Talent, and even helped reunite two missing people with their families. Harriette Boucher reports

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51 h. ago 'Gold' Netflix film is 'up there' with Christmas classics Elf and Home Alone

A new Netflix Christmas film has been praised as "gold", holding its own among festive favourites like The Holiday, Elf and Home Alone, with one fan urging people to add it to their annual re-watch

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53 h. ago Barcelona and Madrid have very different ideas on tackling Spain’s housing crisis. Which will succeed? | Jaime Palomera

While the country’s capital is loosening regulations, the Catalan city is strengthening social housing. Their outcomes will affect all our futuresIn Spain, two cities face the same crisis, but are responding in fundamentally different ways. Over the past decade, the cost of housing in Madrid and Barcelona has soared – with rents rising by about 60% and sale prices by 90% – leaving young people, working families and retired people struggling to stay in their homes or even find one.Yet, while one city is betting everything on construction and giving free rein to big investors, the other is cautiously trying to steer the housing market towards the public good, despite political and institutional constraints.Jaime Palomera is a researcher on housing and inequality, author of The Hijacking of Housing, and co-founder of the Barcelona Urban Research Institute (IDRA) and the Tenants’ Union Continue reading...

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62 h. ago Over 100 homeless people died in temporary accommodation in Scotland

EXCLUSIVE: The figures reveal the tragedies of people passing away without a place of their own to call home.

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3 d. ago 'The whole point was to keep moving forward, so that's what I did'

Ex-prisoner Connor Holland ran home from London to Salford for Christmas to prove people deserve a second chance

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3 d. ago The 'less fashionable' and 'less thought about' town set to be transformed

A leading developer believes more people will seek to live in new homes in ‘under invested and overlooked’ areas of Greater Manchester

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3 d. ago UK asylum seekers not widely abusing modern slavery rules, report finds

Exclusive: Thinktank’s findings undermine successive home secretaries’ statements about misuse of system in England and WalesAsylum seekers are not abusing the modern slavery system in a widespread manner, according to a report from a centre-right thinktank that undermines statements from successive home secretaries.The report from Bright Blue finds limited evidence that asylum seekers are falsely claiming to have been the victims of modern slavery to stay in the country, despite several home secretaries blaming the system for stopping them deporting more people. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Flamboyant, furious and full of hope: CMAT is the sound of 2025 | John Harris

The Irish singer-songwriter does what the best musicians do: perfectly crystallising their time while inspirationally taking a stand against itWhat has it felt like to be alive in 2025? The basic answer probably touches on a few aspects of the 21st-century experience. One is the horror and conflict that seem to define the news almost every day. Another centres around the material pressures that increasingly grip supposedly peaceful countries: the never-ending cost of living crisis, and the impossibility for millions of people of a secure job, a dependable home and some halfway viable idea of the future.Something else demands a mention: the all-pervading mixture of absurdity, nastiness and anger fostered by the internet. Bigotry runs rampant. What we still rather laughably call social media now seem to operate on the basis that the ideal story mixes wildly improbable elements with the kicking-up of moral outrage (witness that ghoulish “online content creator” Bonnie Blue, who, having...

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3 d. ago Top economists call for halt to Sri Lanka debt repayments after Cyclone Ditwah

Group of 120 experts including Joseph Stiglitz urge fresh debt restructuring plan given scale of destructionA group of the world’s top economists – including the Nobel prize winner Joseph Stiglitz – have called for Sri Lanka’s debt payments to be suspended as it tackles the devastation caused by Cyclone Ditwah.More than 600 people were killed and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed across the island, in what Sri Lanka’s president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, called the “largest and most challenging natural disaster in our history”. Continue reading...

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