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April 13, 2025
Chess fever spreads from TikTok to the high street
Retailers are cashing in on the growing popularity of the 1,500-year-old game, which has been boosted by TV series and glamorous young influ...
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April 13, 2025
A bird in the hand helps Wingspan boardgame draw young to ornithology
Sales are soaring for a £59.99 strategy game that includes colourful eggs and a bird-feeder that doubles as a dice-roller
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April 13, 2025
Solar panel push still won’t cover as much land as golf courses
A study shows that Ed Miliband’s 2030 green energy targets are set to require up to 0.4 per cent of the UK, compared with 0.06 per cent toda...
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April 13, 2025
The science behind doomscrolling — and how to stop it
Evolution has primed us to pay attention to bad news. Could it be having an effect on our health?
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April 13, 2025
Future of Cambridge May balls in doubt amid row over ticket prices
Several college events have been cancelled this year after some students said tickets, which can cost up to £300, were ‘extortionate, overpr...
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April 13, 2025
Courts without juries ‘could bring swifter justice’
Five former lord chancellors and two former lord chief justices have backed a call for some cases to be fast-tracked to slash a crippling ba...
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April 13, 2025
Rich are (slightly) kinder than the poor, says study of 2m people
The research, which looked at 60 societies, found the haves were more inclined than the have-nots to donate, volunteer or exhibit other form...
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April 13, 2025
Reform candidate called for Chris Whitty to be ‘strung up’
Adele Taggart, who is standing in May’s local election, also praised a golliwog toy as ‘very cute’
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April 13, 2025
Army called in to tackle Birmingham bin strike
Thousands of tonnes of rubbish has piled up while workers from the Unite union campaign against plans to cut a post from the city’s refuse a...
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April 13, 2025
My week with tattooed rebels and earthquake survivors in Myanmar
Posing as a tourist, Kenneth Denby enters the junta-controlled country, crosses the invisible front line and sees evidence of atrocities
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April 13, 2025
Jean Marsh obituary: actress and co-creator of Upstairs, Downstairs
Emmy-award winning actress for her role as a no-nonsense parlour maid in the popular TV drama
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April 13, 2025
President Xi woos China’s neighbours stunned by Trump tariffs
China’s president is aiming to forge closer ties with the emerging nations of southeast Asia on a tour of Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia
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April 13, 2025
Crawley crash: Car hits family, killing woman and injuring two teenagers
Police have arrested a man after a BMW crashed outside Crawley Leisure Park
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April 13, 2025
UK wildfires: 112 and counting leave an area bigger than Liverpool burnt
Weeks of warm weather and dry vegetation left over from winter mean Britain is heading towards its worst year for wildfires on record
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April 13, 2025
David Lammy criticises Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City hospital
The foreign secretary is calling for an end to ‘deplorable attacks’ on medical facilities after bombing partly destroyed al-Ahli Hospital
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April 13, 2025
On the Thames for the most acrimonious Boat Race in recent history
Cambridge claimed a clean sweep but Oxford’s ‘slimy and desperate’ tactics to exclude teachers were the big talking point for spectators
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April 13, 2025
Marine wins libel case against police over false claims by ex-partner
The West Yorkshire force contacted senior officers in the Royal Marines over the allegations about Elliot Kebbie — before charging or even s...
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April 13, 2025
UK’s oldest Indian restaurant could close in row with Crown Estate
Veeraswamy has been a fixture on Regent Street since 1926, but it has been told its lease will not be renewed amid a planned renovation of V...
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April 13, 2025
British Steel tries to reverse ‘sabotage’ of Scunthorpe furnace
The government said the Chinese owners of the site had been attempting to force Britain to become reliant on its steel
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April 13, 2025
Masters 2025 live: round 4 scores, leaderboard and analysis
Rory McIlroy to begin final round with two-shot lead over Bryson DeChambeau in golf major at Augusta. Follow updates from Owen Slot, Rick Br...
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April 13, 2025
Watch: Kylian Mbappé sent off for horror tackle in Real Madrid win
Forward shown red card but will not miss the Champions League quarter-final second leg against Arsenal. Plus:
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April 13, 2025
Oscar Piastri eases to effortless victory at Bahrain Grand Prix
McLaren driver secures second win of the season with calm display in Sakhir, while team-mate finishes third after running out of time to pas...
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April 13, 2025
New keeper, same mistakes: sloppy Man United blown away by Newcastle
Newcastle 4 Man United 1: Ruben Amorim admits ‘our mistakes helped them’ with fourth goal coming after blunder from Andre Onana’s replacemen...
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April 13, 2025
Mathieu Van der Poel survives bottle attack to win third Paris-Roubaix
Proximity of crowd to riders again in question as Dutchman demands legal action against assailant who threw full bottle in his face
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April 13, 2025
Revealed: ‘chaotic’ system leaves freed prisoners untagged for months
An undercover reporter finds staff are repeatedly sent to the wrong address by the monitoring service, which is struggling with a backlog, w...
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April 13, 2025
Tagged drug dealer ran county line while under curfew
Oskar Zegel was already facing charges but ignored his bail conditions to continue his illegal business
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April 13, 2025
Amsterdam mayor to apologise for persecution of Jews during Holocaust
Femke Halsema will recognise the capital’s complicity in Nazi crimes during the Second World War and its ill-treatment of survivors who retu...
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April 13, 2025
Elon Musk’s private jet rules: no chit-chat, no help with gadgets
The Tesla billionaire has a set of guidelines for those who serve him onboard his aircraft, covering everything from temperature to fuel use
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April 13, 2025
Maurizio Cattelan: the man behind the stolen gold toilet and a £4.8m banana
The artist talks about the infamous theft of the loo he installed at Blenheim Palace — and insists his work is no joke
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April 13, 2025
Enzo Maresca criticises atmosphere as Chelsea lose ground with Ipswich draw
Chelsea 2 Ipswich Town 2: Hosts suffer Champions League blow and are booed off at half time before Jadon Sancho salvages draw from 2-0 down
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April 13, 2025
Comical own goal helps Wolves inflict 17th defeat of season on Spurs
Wolves 4 Tottenham Hotspur 2: Guglielmo Vicario and Djed Spence get in a tangle as league campaign hits new low for Ange Postecoglou’s side
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April 13, 2025
Cambridge clinch double as controversy stalks Boat Race to finish
After turbulent build-up, Oxford cox is penalised by umpire Matthew Pinsent for aggressive manoeuvre in women’s race while men triumph by 16...
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April 13, 2025
Lanzarote floods: houses inundated after rain hits tourist island
Torrential rainfall submerged roads, wrecked cars and prompted a state of emergency
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April 13, 2025
Britain’s exporters at a loss over US tariff turmoil
Donald Trump has hit pause and the UK may have got off lightly, but many products rely on multinational supply chains. Now their pricing is...
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April 13, 2025
Worksop explosion: man dies after blast destroys house
Paramedics were unable to save the man, who was found in the rubble of the terraced home in Nottinghamshire — where a major incident was dec...
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April 13, 2025
Arrest warrant issued for Tulip Siddiq in Bangladesh
The Labour MP is accused of receiving a plot of land illegally, according to the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission
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April 13, 2025
Russian missile strike kills at least 21 in Ukraine’s Sumy
President Zelensky condemns Palm Sunday attack on ‘ordinary life’ that left dozens injured and children among the dead
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April 12, 2025
How Trump’s team of rivals pulled him back from the brink
The US president’s trade war has brought into focus some important differences between his coterie of billionaire advisers
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April 12, 2025
We are in our thirties living at home — just like everyone else apparently
Chain-free status didn’t end up being the unique selling point we expected, but quality time with the family has been priceless
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April 12, 2025
I inherited my parents’ house, now I’m classed as a second-home owner
Kath Nugent’s surprise £4,900 council tax bill highlights how new rules are forcing people to sell homes they’d prefer to keep
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April 12, 2025
The clock is ticking to grab the best Isa rates
With Isa season ending and a base rate cut on the cards, the best deals are disappearing fast, writes George Nixon
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April 12, 2025
Universities call in consultants to stave off collapse
Some institutions are scrapping jobs and courses and selling off land to tackle their budget deficits, while the government looks at ways to...
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April 12, 2025
Chaos at European ports as trade war leaves ships in limbo
Queues are building across UK and Europe amid tit-for-tat tariffs and plan to impose $1m fee on Chinese-made vessels docking in the US
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April 12, 2025
Emergency action may be needed to ensure Thames Water’s survival
Ofwat could end up having to decide if Thames, with its 16 million customers, should be run by the vulture funds or the barbarians at the ga...
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April 12, 2025
UK businesses plan £6.5bn project to raise hydrogen production
Project HySpeed consortium wants to build one gigawatt of green hydrogen production capacity in the UK by 2030
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April 12, 2025
Loch Lomond Seaplanes grounded by lack of spare parts
Founder David West plans to bring in financial advisers during disruption he fears could result in his business going into administration.
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April 12, 2025
Why do Brits love ‘boring’ Volvos? Its UK boss knows
Nicole Melillo Shaw, who is celebrating record sales, discusses the company’s ‘humble and understated’ cars and explains why it did a U-turn...
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April 12, 2025
Google tells CMA to act faster to stop Microsoft ruling the cloud
Already under government pressure to promote growth, Competition and Markets Authority faces call from Google to ensure a level playing fiel...
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April 12, 2025
By refusing to see that ethnicity matters we fail grooming victims again
A wide-angle inquiry will not bring this appalling scandal into focus
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April 12, 2025