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• Rail minister reports himself to police after using phone while driving a bus

  12-04-2025 23:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Lord Peter Hendy apologises after being spotted texting behind wheel of vintage Routemaster in LondonThe rail minister, Lord Peter Hendy, has reported himself to the police after he was spotted using a mobile phone while driving a vintage Routemaster bus in London during a charity tour.The former Transport for London commissioner apologised for what has been described as an “error of judgment” after a passenger saw him texting behind the wheel of the double-decker last month. Continu
  
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• Queen Camilla says King's work 'keeps him going'

  12-04-2025 23:00 via bbc.com
  She says her husband, who has been receiving cancer treatment for over a year, wants to do "more and more".
  
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• Katie Boulter and Jodie Burrage doubles act sends Britain to BJK Cup Finals

  12-04-2025 22:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Boulter and Burrage beat Dutch pair in decisive rubberSonay Kartal defeats Eva Vedder in singles in The HagueWith Great Britain’s presence at the Billie Jean King Cup this year hanging in the balance, their pivotal contest with the Netherlands tied at 1-1, Anne Keothavong made a dramatic call. Instead of the doubles specialist, Olivia Nicholls, present in The Hague precisely for these matches and with Harriet Dart positioned as the first-choice doubles team, the British captain chose to re
  
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• Mitchell hails ‘ruthless’ England’s second-half display in Ireland win

  12-04-2025 22:41 via theguardian.com
  
  England score six tries after break in 49-5 victory‘The girls are really good at resolving issues’John Mitchell says his side “put themselves through the washing machine” in a difficult first half against Ireland in the Women’s Six Nations on Saturday. England were held scoreless until the 34th minute and only held a slender 7-5 lead at half-time. In 2024 the Red Roses led Ireland 38-3 at the break.In the second half in Cork England shifted through the gears and the
  
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• 'I'm an oncology expert - here's the breakfast food to avoid bowel cancer' - The Mirror

  12-04-2025 22:26 via news.google.com
  'I'm an oncology expert - here's the breakfast food to avoid bowel cancer'  The MirrorOncology expert says eat this for breakfast every day to stop killer bowel cancer  Surrey LiveHealth expert says eat 1 thing for breakfast every day to slash risks of bowel cancer  Daily ExpressThis Underrated Nutrient Could Help Lower Your Colon Cancer Risk by 30%, New Study Says  EatingWellYoung people should eat more of this one type of food to reduce risk of bowel can
  
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• Worksop gas explosion: Police rush to 'emergency' as locals urged to avoid area

  12-04-2025 22:17 via express.co.uk
  
  Emergency services are responding to reports of an explosion on Worksop's John Street as police urge public to avoid the area.
  
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• Erdoğan lambasts Israel for undermining stability in Syria

  12-04-2025 22:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Turkey’s president lashes out shortly after talks with Netanyahu’s government aimed at defusing tensionsThe Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has lambasted Israel for undermining stability in neighbouring Syria during a diplomatic forum, days after the two countries held talks aimed at defusing an escalating conflict between them on Syrian soil.“Turkey will not allow Syria to be dragged into a new vortex of instability,” Erdoğan told attendees at the Antaly
  
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• ‘It can break you’: life for parents of autistic children can be exhausting. One podcast is offering hope. Is it real?

  12-04-2025 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A podcast claims to show that autistic children with limited speech may be able to communicate via telepathy. What does the science say about the idea?Election 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThere’s a moment, 26 minutes and nine seconds into Disney’s Coco, when the film’s departed souls are trying to clear a customs desk in the afterlife. It’s a moment that Mary* can see clearly without
  
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• Panic in UK city centre hotel as woman found dead - guests 'warned not to leave'

  12-04-2025 21:57 via express.co.uk
  
  A police investigation has been launched after the terrible discovery was made.
  
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• Chaos in UK city with residents evacuated as bomb squad rush to the scene

  12-04-2025 21:56 via express.co.uk
  
  Emergency services rushed to the scene after reports of a suspicious package.
  
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• China's steel decision is 'act of hybrid warfare designed to punish UK and Donald Trump'

  12-04-2025 21:39 via express.co.uk
  
  Whether it's to teach the UK a lesson, pull us further apart form the US or punish us for opposing Russia, Jingye's decision to turn down a repeated request for UK subsidies is a political act, not an economic one, experts say.
  
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• Rachel Reeves calls for global free trade fightback to protect UK economy

  12-04-2025 20:37 via theguardian.com
  
  New measures announced to help tariff-hit British firms amid ambitious plans to foster closer ties with EUThe chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has set out the case for far-reaching changes to global trade and economic agreements, admitting that Donald Trump’s tariffs will have a “profound” effect on the UK and world economies that require a strong international response.In her first significant intervention since the US president caused chaos on the global financial markets by announ
  
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• Big brands send out barrage of junk food ads before obesity rules bite

  12-04-2025 20:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Advertising on snacks rises 26% compared with last year, months before restrictions on promoting unhealthy food come into forceBig food brands dramatically increased their spending on advertising last year, months before new junk food regulations aiming to curb Britain’s obesity crisis are due to come into force, the Observer can reveal.Food companies spent an extra £420m in 2024, an increase of 26% year on year that coincided with a bumper 12 months for sales of snack foods. Shopper
  
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• Now is not the time to turn our backs on the world but to face forward

  12-04-2025 20:35 via theguardian.com
  
  In uncertain times, the government is seeking to foster the stability that promotes security and growth, the chancellor arguesThis week we witnessed the uncertainty of a changing world. Financial markets and nation states responding to the dawn of a new economic era and the reality of new barriers to trade. I am in no doubt that the imposition of tariffs will have a profound impact on the global economy and the economy at home.This change can be unsettling for families who are worried about
  
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• Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution - season two, episode one recap

  12-04-2025 20:35 via theguardian.com
  This time it looks like we’re in for a spikier relationship between Doctor and companion than we’ve come to expect. These two certainly aren’t acting like best buddies…If you thought Russell T Davies was going to dial down the messaging in his second full season back running Doctor Who, you can forget it, as this run of eight episodes opens with an adventure on a world that new companion Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) literally calls “Planet of the Incels”.Nc
  
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• The Observer view on British Steel: saved for now, but for how long? | Observer editorial

  12-04-2025 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Governments of both colours bear responsibility for the sorry saga, which could have dire economic and defence consequencesThe UK’s last two remaining blast furnaces have hovered on the brink of shutting down over the past week. It has emerged that Jingye, the Chinese owner of Scunthorpe-based British Steel, was poised to refuse to buy further supplies of the coke and iron ore required to keep them running, at which point it would not have been possible to restart them; effectively, a unil
  
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• Iran and US agree to continue nuclear talks after first indirect round

  12-04-2025 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Iranian foreign minister hails ‘calm and respectful environment’ to mediated talks in OmanIran and the US completed a successful opening round of indirect talks in Oman designed to prevent the weaponisation of Iran’s nuclear programme. In a sign the talks over a joint agenda had gone well, they agreed to meet again on 19 April.A breakdown would have come if Donald Trump had demanded the complete dismantling of Iran’s civil nuclear programme, something that Iran is not pre
  
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• Oscar Piastri powers to Bahrain F1 GP pole but Norris and Verstappen flounder

  12-04-2025 20:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Lando Norris to start sixth as McLaren teammate takes P1Russell and Antonelli drop a place for Mercedes mistakeThe expectations that McLaren would be strong for the Bahrain Grand Prix were proved in qualifying as Oscar Piastri claimed a powerful pole but their dominance was far from as complete as had been expected, with his teammate Lando Norris, the champ­ionship leader, managing only sixth.Piastri was pushed hard by the Mercedes of George Russell who took a superb second place, with his t
  
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• Huge BBC secret exposed - and one major UK city will not be impressed

  12-04-2025 20:19 via express.co.uk
  
  A veteran journalist from the corporation revealed the least liked accent.
  
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• Meghan Markle's bold claim about late Queen after sharing 3-word verdict on relationship

  12-04-2025 20:17 via express.co.uk
  
  Meghan Markle accompanied the late Queen on a royal engagement before sensationally quitting the Royal Family alongside Prince Harry.
  
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• Jamaican reggae artist Max Romeo dies aged 80

  12-04-2025 19:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Musician best known for tracks such as Chase the Devil and War Ina Babylon rose to fame in the 1960sMax Romeo, the influential Jamaican reggae artist best known for tracks such as Chase the Devil and War Ina Babylon, has died at the age of 80.The singer, known to his family and friends as Maxie Smith, died after heart complications in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica, on Friday. Continue reading...
  
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• Prison officers in hospital after being attacked by Manchester Arena bomber's brother

  12-04-2025 18:51 via express.co.uk
  
  They are being treated after the incident in a prison in County Durham.
  
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• Blood test could detect Parkinson’s disease before symptoms emerge

  12-04-2025 18:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Researchers behind test using biomarkers say it could ‘revolutionise’ early diagnosis of diseaseResearchers have developed a simple and “cost-effective” blood test capable of detecting Parkinson’s disease long before symptoms emerge, according to a study.About 153,000 people live with Parkinson’s in the UK, and scientists who undertook the research said the test could “revolutionise” an early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, “paving th
  
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• ‘People were burned alive in their cars’: As peace talks falter, Ukrainians resign themselves to fighting on

  12-04-2025 18:30 via theguardian.com
  
  At a medical stabilisation point on the frontline, medics work unrelentingly as scores of badly wounded soldiers are brought in every nightIt is 11.20pm, and in an instant the emergency centre comes alive. Doctors and medics are conjured up from somewhere nearby to treat two wounded Ukrainian soldiers who have arrived together – one with serious shrapnel injuries to his right eye, the other who had a pile of bricks fall on his chest after a drone strike.Yet it is the third, who arrives on
  
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• Eddie Howe in hospital but conscious and talking with family, Newcastle say

  12-04-2025 18:17 via theguardian.com
  
  47-year-old had been feeling unwell ‘for a number of days’Howe admitted on Friday and is receiving expert careEddie Howe will miss Newcastle’s match with Manchester United on Sunday after being admitted to hospital for tests late on Friday night.The 47-year-old has been told he will not be discharged until Sunday at the earliest as medical staff assess an unspecified condition that kept him at home in bed during the latter part of last week. He was understood to still have been
  
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• Isle of Wight plane crash horror as aircraft bursts into flames on UK holiday park

  12-04-2025 18:14 via express.co.uk
  
  Shocking pictures have emerged showing the wreckage of the aircraft in flames at the scene.
  
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• The only way is up: a celebration of Bolivia’s Indigenous female climbers – in pictures

  12-04-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The word cholita has in the past been used as a pejorative term for the Indigenous Aymara women of Bolivia. But the women in these photographs are reclaiming the word: they are “Cholitas Escaladoras”, or climbing cholitas. In 2019, they summited the 6,961 metre (22,841ft) peak of Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, the highest mountain outside Asia, while wearing traditional dresses and shawls. After reading about them in an article, photographer Todd Antony flew out to feature them in a s
  
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• Inside the fight to save California’s dying sea lions from toxic algae: ‘We’re like 911 operators’

  12-04-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  An animal’s chance of survival after domoic acid poisoning is 50-50, and this year an outbreak has sickened hundredsIt was just after 8am on Tuesday, a thick morning fog still clinging to the California coastline, and SeaWorld’s animal rescue team had already made their first save of the day: a hefty, sick-looking sea lion that had been waddling dangerously close to a four-lane highway in downtown San Diego.Now, in a private area of SeaWorld that few of the theme park’s thousan
  
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• US ‘demands control’ from Ukraine of key pipeline carrying Russian gas

  12-04-2025 17:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Senior Kyiv economist describes latest postion of Trump administration in talks as ‘colonial-type’ bullyingThe US has demanded control of a crucial pipeline in Ukraine used to send Russian gas to Europe, according to reports, in a move described as a colonial shakedown.US and Ukrainian officials met on Friday to discuss White House proposals for a minerals deal. Donald Trump wants Kyiv to hand over its natural resources as “payback” in return for weapons delivered by the
  
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• Davina McCall says her brain tumour is ‘not coming back’

  12-04-2025 17:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Presenter given the all-clear after doctors found a benign colloid cyst during a health checkup last yearDavina McCall announced that her benign brain tumour “is not coming back” after recent MRI scans.The former Big Brother presenter had surgery in November 2024 after doctors found a colloid cyst during a health checkup as part of her advocacy work for menopause. Continue reading...
  
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• Travellers arriving in Great Britain face import ban on EU meat and dairy

  12-04-2025 17:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Government introduces measure to prevent spread of foot-and-mouth disease after rise in cases across EuropeTourists from Great Britain who travel to the continent to satisfy their epicurean desires for cured meats and fragrant cheeses will be frustrated in their attempts to bring home some of their favourite foods after a ban on meat and dairy imports from EU countries came into force this weekend.From Saturday, holidaymakers will no longer be able to bring meat from cattle, sheep, goats or pigs
  
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• Cambridge University accused of bullying ‘cover-up’ as internal survey revealed

  12-04-2025 17:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Only a quarter of staff are satisfied with how their department tackles bullying and harassment, FoI requests revealOnly a quarter of staff at Cambridge University are satisfied with how their department tackles bullying and harassment, according to an internal survey seen by the Observer.Cambridge undertook its staff culture survey in January 2024 and is now facing accusations from academics that it tried to cover up the “grim” results, which have been released through freedom of in
  
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• Japan’s World Expo: a positive vision of the future for our divided world?

  12-04-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Fifty-five years since Osaka last hosted, rocks from Mars, domestic androids and artificial hearts are part of showcase on ‘unloved’ islandAs clunky as it sounds, “designing a future society for our lives” isn’t a bad ambition for the world in these troubled times. From this Sunday, organisers of the 2025 Exposition in Osaka will be hoping that appeal will put the event’s unsettled preparations in the shade for a six-month celebration of our common humanity.Th
  
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• Lady Gaga at Coachella review – a thrilling all-timer of a performance

  12-04-2025 16:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Empire Polo Club, Indio, CaliforniaThe pop superstar made an electrifying return to the desert for a career-spanning two-hour show, one of the best the desert has ever seenIn 2017, Lady Gaga took on an unenviable task: filling in for Beyoncé, who dropped out of a Coachella headliner slot due to pregnancy. Gaga’s replacement performance, in her country-tinged Joanne era – as usual, she was years ahead of the pop curve – more than sufficed; perhaps only Beyoncé can
  
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• Police searching for man who allegedly sexually abused corpse on New York subway

  12-04-2025 16:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Video captured one person robbing corpse on idling train before another person robbed and sexually assaulted itA man sexually violated a corpse on a New York City subway train after stealing from the body, becoming the second of two people to rob that particular dead person, authorities said recently.One of the more grotesque US crime stories of late unfolded on a southbound R train near the Whitehall Street station in Manhattan at about 12.20am on Wednesday, when “an unidentified individu
  
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• What happens when love tips over into the infatuated state of ‘limerence’?

  12-04-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A neuroscientist decided to study the addiction-like obsession of limerence, while overcoming it himselfI never really gave much thought to the nature of love until it became a problem.Throughout adolescence I suffered through a series of intense, mostly unrequited crushes, but just assumed this was the exquisite agony of desire that poets and lyricists work so hard to capture in words. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘It’s going to be messy’: Americans on how Trump’s tariffs are shaping their spending

  12-04-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Fallout from Trump’s trade war is forcing some Guardian readers to cut back or stock up on items from food to carsA few weeks ago, Dane began stocking up on “paper products”, “cases of paper towels, toilet paper”, “piddle-pads” for their shih-tzu, and his wife upgraded from an iPhone 8 to 14.The 73-year-old in South Carolina said the purchases – which were made to get ahead of Donald Trump’s trade policies – reminded him of the early we
  
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• Abandoned lynx, roaming wild boar, ‘beaver bombing’ – has rewilding got out of hand?

  12-04-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From unauthorised species releases to small groups buying up land, ‘guerrilla rewilding’ is going mainstream. But experts worry that these rogue efforts could do more harm than goodVisions of habitats teeming with nature are powerful, particularly so in an age of extinction. Rewilding, which offers the promise of such transformations, was once something most would have imagined happening far away, carried out by people unlike them, but times are changing. The wilderness is getting cl
  
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• The Determined Spy: Frank Wisner, the CIA and a covert career cut short

  12-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  New biography tells story of operative who directed coups in Iran and Guatemala and grappled with mental illnessFrank Wisner was a leading light of the early CIA, a director of clandestine operations who came of age in the second world war then fought the cold war by fair means or foul, from funding American cultural outreach to orchestrating coups in Iran and Guatemala.Before becoming a biographer, Douglas Waller reported for Newsweek and Time. His new book, The Determined Spy, is about Wisner,
  
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• Pro-Palestinian protester’s lawyer stopped and searched at US border: ‘They were going to take my device’

  12-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Amir Makled says immigration officials questioned him about his phone’s contents. Experts warn fourth amendment rights have been weakened at the borderAmir Makled thought he was being racially profiled. A Lebanese American who was born and raised in Detroit, the attorney was returning home from a family vacation in the Dominican Republic when he said an immigration official at the Detroit Metro airport asked for a “TTRT” agent after scanning his passport on Sunday. Makled said
  
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• Bonkers for Britishisms: the UK terms Americans have embraced

  12-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Researchers have catalogued the British words and phrases most used in US conversation, sparking delight and frustrationThe Americani(s)zation of British English is often described as a linguistic disaster – frustrations over imported words or usages, from “awesome” to “ATM”, are well-documented.But in recent years, there’s been growing interest in the opposite phenomenon: Britishisms that have made their way into American English. These days, it’s not u
  
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• Perfume brands fighting a ‘lost cause’ against cheap dupes, say lawyers

  12-04-2025 13:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Luxury companies need greater protection from imitators gaining the approval of social media influencers, as trademarking scent is almost impossible, experts sayOne perfume smells suspiciously like a £355 bottle of Baccarat Rouge 540 eau de parfum. Another, which has notes of grapefruit, rose and Levantine spice, is reminiscent of a £215 bottle of Penhaligon’s Halfeti. But unlike those luxury brands, these “dupe scents” can cost as little as a fiver.As many as half
  
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• National Trust bans coaches from East Sussex beauty spot to cut visitor numbers

  12-04-2025 13:27 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 600,000 people a year visit Birling Gap, part of Seven Sisters cliffs,which are vulnerable to coastal erosionThe National Trust has banned coaches from one of Britain’s most popular beauty spots in an attempt to reduce the growing numbers of people visiting the site.Up to 600,000 people a year visit Birling Gap which is part of the Seven Sisters cliffs in East Sussex on England’s south coast. Continue reading...
  
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• This is how we do it: ‘If one of us is on a business trip and meets someone, we’re free to pursue it’

  12-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  For Lise and Patrick, the possibility of sex with other people has allowed their own love life to blossom – providing it’s within limits
  How do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymouslyOnce, Patrick had really nice oral sex with someone and told me what she did, and suggested we try that Continue reading...
  
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• Rogue doctors stole one woman’s eggs to get another patient pregnant. What happened next is an unlikely tale of friendship against the odds

  12-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  When it emerged that a fertility clinic had made one woman pregnant with another’s baby, Renée Ballou and Carole LieberWilkins were advised to ‘lawyer up’. Instead they did something extraordinary – even as one raised the other’s biological childRenée Ballou thought she was a lucky person. In the 1980s, she was living in a beautiful home an hour’s drive from Los Angeles, with a job she loved, a happy marriage and a young son. Everything had
  
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• ‘Completely out of touch’: golf and dinners for ‘king’ Trump as economy melts down

  12-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Casual attitude as markets fall suggests man detached from anxieties of ordinary voters – and surrounded by yes menAfter lighting a fuse under global financial markets, Donald Trump stepped back – all the way to a Florida golf course. A week later, having just caved to pressure to ease his trade tariffs, the US president defended the retreat while hosting racing car champions at the White House.Trump had spent the time in between golfing, dining with donors and making insouciant decl
  
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• A Dartmoor village is paying Prince William £1.5m-a-year for an abandoned prison - and former inmates say it gave them cancer

  12-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As ex-prisoners sue over claims that high levels of radon gas have led to serious illnesses, taxpayers continue to foot the rental billThe village of Princetown sits surrounded by the desolate beauty of Dartmoor national park. It should, in theory, be a hub for the more than 2 million people a year who come to explore the bogs, granite tors and windswept moorland that in part inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write The Hound of the Baskervilles.Today it more closely resembles a mining comm
  
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• ‘Very pale and oddly wrinkly’: the best (and worst) supermarket hot cross buns for Easter, tested | The food filter

  12-04-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Supermarkets love calling these seasonal treats ‘luxury’, but are they? Time for an Easter bake-off … • Everything you need to make great sourdoughI’m a big fan of seasonal bakes – there’s something special about a treat reserved for a short window of time. Their rare appearance makes them something to look forward to, and to relish. Supermarkets like to push the limits of these seasons, though, and these days hot cross buns are available for a surprisin
  
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• ‘As an environmental scientist, I’m horrified’: Should supersonic passenger travel be making a comeback?

  12-04-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Twenty years after Concorde was grounded, a new wave of ‘quiet’ supersonic aircraft are in development – but not everyone welcomes the return of this costly, carbon-intensive technologyWhen I call Blake Scholl from New York, he says it’s a shame we couldn’t have met at his office in Colorado. If only there were a supersonic jet that could cruise at 1.7 times the speed of sound, and get me there two hours quicker than the typical JFK-to-Denver route.There soon might
  
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• Here's when you'll will be able to spot the stunning Pink Moon this week - Bournemouth Echo

  12-04-2025 10:16 via news.google.com
  Here's when you'll will be able to spot the stunning Pink Moon this week  Bournemouth EchoPink Moon: April's micromoon will be visible this weekend  BBCTonight the Pink 'micro' Moon rises, and it's joined by one of the brightest stars in the springtime sky  BBC Sky at Night MagazineIn Photos: April’s Pink ‘Micro Moon’ Lights Up Spring Skies Worldwide  ForbesHow and when to see the pink moon and blue giant star in the UK night sky this wee
  
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