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How did Banksy put up a statue in central London? 32 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Harry Low London PA Media The statue appeared on a plinth in Waterloo Place on Wednesday A low-lo

Reform's Zia Yusuf clashed with Fiona Bruce as he failed to answer a question about potholes five times on Thursday’s (30 April) episode. The BBC Question Time host pressed Mr Yusuf on whether pothol

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Dragons are looking forward to flying the flag for Wales in Europe when they travel to face Montpellier in the Challenge Cup semi-final on Sunday (12:30 BST). Filo Tiatia's side are the only Welsh te

Loganair to end flights from Dundee Airport to Heathrow 19 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Getty Images The Dundee to London Heathrow service currently operates six days a week Logan

Body of teenager recovered from Dumfries river Just now Share Save Add as preferred on Google BBC A body was recovered from the River Nith near Dumfries on Thursday evening The body of a teenager has

From Dublin Recommended if you like Lankum, the Mary Wallopers, the Pogues Up next Debut EP It’s a Hell of an Age out now, playing festivals this summer and touring the UK in autumn Madra Salach me

“Community organizing” is a phrase that’s taken on an almost elastic quality in this fraught political moment. When it isn’t being wielded by right-leaning ideologues to slight grassroots politics (se

With the US roster scheduled to drop on 26 May, it is crunch time for Mauricio Pochettino to finalize his World Cup squad. There were few glowing segments of footage for him to clip from the team’s f

There is no one quite like Ayao Komatsu in Formula One. Haas’s Japanese team principal, a rugby-playing Coventry City fan who left his home country to escape the constraints of conformity, is F1’s reb

Hegseth says clock paused on deadline to seek approval for Iran war 18 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google James FitzGerald Reuters The defence secretary was responding to senators' ques

Ugandan opposition figures, human rights organisations and legal experts have condemned a sweeping bill that proposes up to 20 years in prison for promoting “foreign interests”, and imposes restrictio

This month’s splashdown of Artemis II was rightly celebrated as a technical achievement. Four astronauts traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and returned safely. It is an extraordin

Stroll through the Devon town of Ashburton, or pop into the Old Exeter Inn on West Street, and you’re almost bound to bump into a storyteller, a mythologist, a pagan – perhaps even a friendly witch.

The driver of a 4×4 that crashed into a south-east London primary school has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving after two eight-year-old girls were killed. Claire Freemantle, 49, is

Your pictures of Scotland: 24 April - 1 May 12 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Rosie McGeachan Rosie McGeachan spotted this new colourful mural in Glasgow. A selection of your pictur

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James Holder, a co-founder of the clothing firm Superdry, has been found guilty of raping a woman after a night out in the Gloucestershire town of Cheltenham. Gloucester crown court heard Holder, 54,

Pakistan is passing proposals between Iran and the US to keep talks alive behind the scenes and inch towards a peace agreement, officials and experts say. Pakistani officials say that they are consci

Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw US troops from Italy and Spain a day after saying he was looking at reducing the number deployed in Germany. The US president’s threat to Germany came after th

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Two more arrested after suspected gangland stabbing Just now Share Save Add as preferred on Google PA Media More arrests have been made Two more men have been arrested after a stabbing in East Lothian

Glasgow's Burrell Collection to hold first ever fashion show 9 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Burrell Collection Model Danae Crawford shows off one of the designs to be spotlighted

Superdry co-founder found guilty of rape Just now Share Save Add as preferred on Google BBC Superdry co-founder James Holder has been found guilty of raping a woman after a night out. Holder, of Chelt

Woman charged over fatal London school crash 9 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Lucy Manning Special correspondent Selana Lau's family Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau The driver of the ca

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Man admits hiding woman's body in freezer 30 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Jonny Humphries North West Merseyside Police Human remains found in a St Helens flat were later identifie

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Monday We don’t often get to see senior civil servants out and about in the wild. They are kept away from the public gaze, sat behind a desk trying to persuade their ministers not to do something too