Thousands revel in May Morning sunrise celebrations 50 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Ethan Gudge South of England More than 16,000 people gathered in Oxford for May Morning in 2025

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Windermere 'heating up' with 1.5C rise in 80 years 46 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Samantha Jagger North East and Cumbria Paul Adams Photography Windermere's temperatures have bee

Vintage fashion theft hit as shoplifting booms 47 minutes ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Samuel Owers London BBC Organised criminals are targeting vintage fashion shops, like Lovers Lane Lo

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How MI5 foiled a Tesco worker's plan for mass gun attack 2 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Lewis Adams Essex Met Police Alfie Coleman immersed himself in extreme far-right material onl

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There is a particular green that belongs to spring: pale and luminous, it’s softer than the dark foliage of winter, and quieter than the glossy abundance of summer herbs. Spinach, the colour of new gr

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The jewellery and accessories chain Claire’s is expected to return to UK high streets with about 50 stores to be reopened from June onwards by the operator of its shops in France, Austria, Portugal an

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1. Liberation lifts the spirits The single most important thing to come from the first Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels conference, in Santa Marta, has been a change of mood. Whereas the UN’s annu

Fragments of a priory’s medieval tiled floor that spent almost 60 years stashed in a toffee tin after being pocketed by a nine-year-old boy during a family outing have finally been handed back. The t

Women will be massively underrepresented on ballot papers across the UK next week, campaigners say, with research revealing that almost twice as many men as women are standing as candidates across the

Nearly half (47%) of UK job seekers have had an AI interview, research from the hiring platform Greenhouse has found. In its survey of 2,950 active job seekers, including 1,132 UK-based workers, with

Seven o’clock on a Monday night and I am standing in the House of Commons, nursing a glass of vinegary white wine. All around me are people doing the same, though it’s polite sipping rather than gett

Cyhoeddwyd 8 munud yn ôl Mae masnachwyr mewn marchnad yng Nghaerdydd wedi dweud eu bod yn teimlo'n "dorcalonnus" wrth wynebu'r posibilrwydd y gallai'r safle gael ei ddymchwel i wneud lle i dai. Mae Ma

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The car is perhaps the closest thing Germany has to a national symbol. For this reason, the success of the auto industry and the happiness of motorists has long been a barometer for the standing of th

Othello When David Harewood was offered the lead in Othello in a new West End production, he found he still knew his lines from almost 30 years earlier, when he became the first black actor to play t

I chose to die at 44 because ALS (motor neurone disease) left me paralysed. I still loved my life, even to the last day. It all started in December 2023, when I lost strength in my right arm, and my

When Christine Marie and her husband, Tolga Katas, packed up their lives in Las Vegas in 2016 to start from scratch in Short Creek, a remote desert town in the Arizona Strip, the odds of fitting in an

Runway magazine is collapsing. Miranda is eating in the cafeteria and flying economy. Andy is the new features editor. Emily is dating a billionaire. Somebody dies. Amelia Dimoldenberg makes a cameo.

When the sun rises at dawn on Friday, hundreds of St Andrews University students will brave the chilly North Sea for the annual May Dip, an undergraduate ritual said to bring good luck in exams. But t

The Iran war could have “dramatic consequences”, causing food shortages and price rises in some of Africa’s poorest and most vulnerable communities, the head of the world’s largest fertiliser company

The United Nations has warned Denmark that the treatment of a Greenlandic mother whose newborn child was removed by Danish authorities as a result of controversial parenting competency tests “may amou

When the stakes are at their highest, one man possesses the ability to remain ice-cold under pressure like few others can. Phil Parkinson is preparing Wrexham for yet another monumental occasion as h

The interim report of the royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion is in, and offers more questions than answers, as expected. An April report date was always going to produce tentative

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