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• Celebrity Big Brother shock as second star evicted after shock vote - just days after Mickey Rourke’s exit - The Sun

  15-04-2025 23:10 via news.google.com
  Celebrity Big Brother shock as second star evicted after shock vote - just days after Mickey Rourke’s exit  The SunCelebrity Big Brother 2025 LIVE: Second star is evicted in public vote  The IndependentTrisha Goddard's daughter slams 'hateful' booing of mum living with incurable cancer  The MirrorTrisha Goddard fans outraged as presenter is booed during ITV CBB exit amid Michael Fabricant row  GB NewsCelebrity Big Brother: Patsy Palmer receives most
  
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• HMRC sending letters to thousands of households who earn more than £23,000

  15-04-2025 22:48 via express.co.uk
  
  The letters may make difficult reading if you have some underpaid tax.
  
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• Winning Euromillions numbers: Lottery results with Thunderball on Tuesday, April 15

  15-04-2025 22:02 via express.co.uk
  
  Find out if you've bagged tonight's prize in our live blog.
  
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• Full list of UK motorway closures in the run-up to Easter bank holiday weekend

  15-04-2025 21:01 via express.co.uk
  
  The map on the National Highway's website shows the current and the future closures for all the major roads across the country.
  
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• Brexit fishing row as Belgian trawlermen arrested in UK waters - 'Treated like criminals'

  15-04-2025 20:23 via express.co.uk
  
  Five Belgian vessels were made to sail up to 9 hours after arrests were made 'without any reason', it was alleged.
  
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• Easter travel chaos as strikes in popular European countries could disrupt flights

  15-04-2025 20:05 via express.co.uk
  
  A travel expert warns Brits to check their flight status this week as nationwide strikes are planned in three key holiday hotspots.
  
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• Heartbreak in famous UK city as beloved high street shop closes after 59 years

  15-04-2025 19:51 via express.co.uk
  
  The last day of operation for this popular business will be Wednesday, April 30.
  
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• 'UK's most dangerous prisoner' kept in glass box ends hunger strike

  15-04-2025 19:24 via express.co.uk
  
  Robert Maudsley, 71, a quadruple killer once regarded as the most dangerous inmate in prison, was refusing food after guards took away his PlayStation and TV
  
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• Ryanair boss issues new Donald Trump chaos warning

  15-04-2025 19:05 via express.co.uk
  
  The president's tariffs are already having an impact on the aviation industry with an airline boss warning of delivery times.
  
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• ‘It’s sheer terrorism’: Sumy buries dead after Russia’s Palm Sunday attack

  15-04-2025 18:24 via theguardian.com
  Ukrainians grieve and clear away wreckage in north-eastern city after morning attack that killed at least 35Europe live – latest updatesOn a warm spring day relatives gathered to say goodbye to Viktor Boiko and his wife, Olha. Their open coffins were laid out next to one other. Viktor wore his best suit. Olha was in a flowery blouse, with carnations heaped around her slippered feet. A priest sang prayers. Gravediggers lowered the couple into the ground, and shovelled earth on top. It lande
  
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• Revel in the ride of your life with Rocket Rebel on the Thames

  15-04-2025 18:13 via express.co.uk
  
  Take a ride to remember with the UK's first high speed jet sightseeing boat Rocket Rebel
  
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• Hashem Abedi's sick jail attack shows what happens when you treat animals like humans

  15-04-2025 17:33 via express.co.uk
  
  This joke of a government doesn't have anywhere near what it takes to tackle the Islamists running our jails.
  
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• Tell us: have you been inspired to declare your love inspired by a piece of art?

  15-04-2025 17:30 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian’s Saturday magazine is looking for people who declared their love after being inspired by a certain song, book, TV show or filmThe Guardian’s Saturday magazine is looking for people who declared their love after being inspired by a certain song, book, TV show or film. Did you confess your feelings for your best friend after watching When Harry Met Sally? Did you propose after seeing Four Weddings and a Funeral? Did you decide to have a baby with your partner after readin
  
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• Rainbow vases, vintage soap dishes and crystal bike bells: 15 colourful pick-me-ups to elevate your everyday

  15-04-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Seek out joy in a turbulent world with these carefully chosen treats (they make great gifts, too)• Say hello to spring! 22 simple ways to refresh your home, wardrobe and routineMuted accessories are all very well and stylish, but as April showers descend – and with the world in turmoil – sometimes you need things that are a little more joyful to elevate your everyday.From a hoodie in a rainbow of colours to a bold, floral enamel tumbler, a bright Birkenstock shoe to a painterly
  
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• Man admits murdering two women on Christmas Day

  15-04-2025 14:57 via bbc.com
  
  The Crown Prosecution Service describes the 49-year-old's attack on the two women as "inexplicable".
  
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• 'Good chance' of US-UK trade deal, says Vance

  15-04-2025 14:32 via bbc.com
  
  The Trump administration's trade policy shakeup has caused global economic turmoil.
  
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• New comet SWAN: How to see the bright green comet in UK skies before it disappears next week - Manchester Evening News

  15-04-2025 14:13 via news.google.com
  New comet SWAN: How to see the bright green comet in UK skies before it disappears next week  Manchester Evening NewsShare your pictures of the Comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN) | Comets  The GuardianComet SWAN25F on 2025 April 6  Sky & TelescopeNewly discovered comet SWAN just 'erupted' with a bright, icy burst. Is it a cold volcano?  Live ScienceHow to spot comet SWAN (C/2025 F2)  The Planetary Society
  
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• Low-deposit mortgage deals highest for 17 years

  15-04-2025 14:11 via bbc.com
  
  Choice of home loans requiring small deposits of 5% or 10% reaches levels last seen in the 2008 financial crisis.
  
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• Betting charges politician removed from committees

  15-04-2025 13:53 via bbc.com
  
  Senedd member Russell George is one of 15 people facing charges over alleged betting offences.
  
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• By-election date set in minister Christina McKelvie's seat

  15-04-2025 13:33 via bbc.com
  
  The ballot in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse will be held on 5 June after the SNP MSP's death last month.
  
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• Minister's X account hacked to promote crypto scam

  15-04-2025 13:26 via bbc.com
  
  The MP's office says "steps were taken quickly to secure the account and remove misleading posts".
  
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• Felling of ancient oak tree probed by police

  15-04-2025 13:25 via bbc.com
  
  The cutting down of the tree in a park in Enfield has been described by locals as "devastating".
  
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• Murder arrest over fatal house explosion in Nottinghamshire

  15-04-2025 13:12 via bbc.com
  
  Police confirm a man has been arrested and bailed following the explosion in John Street, Worksop.
  
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• How much vital UK infrastructure does China own?

  15-04-2025 12:38 via bbc.com
  
  BBC Verify looks at what we know about the extent of Chinese investment in the UK economy.
  
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• British Steel secures supplies to keep furnaces burning

  15-04-2025 12:17 via bbc.com
  
  The government says the Scunthorpe plant will receive raw materials from the US and Australia.
  
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• New Gladiators king hails 'best moment of my life'

  15-04-2025 12:00 via bbc.com
  
  Joe Fishburn, from Scarborough, says winning the show in front of his grandma made it extra special.
  
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• Khartoum before and after: footage shows destruction wreaked by war in Sudan – video

  15-04-2025 11:35 via theguardian.com
  At the end of March, the Sudanese army took full control of Khartoum from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which it had been fighting since April 2023. After seizing several key sites across Sudan's capital, the army forced the RSF to retreat, marking a critical turn in the country’s civil war. Footage from the capital shows a city devastated by two years of fighting, which has left many of Khartoum’s most important landmarks badly damaged. The Guardian has collected before and
  
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• Union prepared to 'bring NI to standstill' in welfare row

  15-04-2025 11:24 via bbc.com
  
  A protest against the changes was held outside the Northern Ireland Office in Belfast.
  
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• UK jobs market weakens as employment costs grow

  15-04-2025 11:18 via bbc.com
  
  The number of job vacancies and people on payrolls fell ahead of changes toNational Insurance and wages.
  
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• What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space | Marina Hyde

  15-04-2025 10:29 via theguardian.com
  The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberishWell, I watched every second of the buildup, flight and aftermath of the first Blue Origin all-female space trip. You’ve heard of one small step for man? This was one giant leap backwards for womankind. I’m kidding, I’m kidding! What could be more empowering or something than watching Lauren Sánchez make going to space sound like brunch with the girrrrrls. Sa
  
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• Faintings, blackouts and violence: Iraq’s scorching emergency – in pictures

  15-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  The country’s average temperature has risen by 0.48C a decade from 2000. Last August, photographer Susan Schulman visited Baghdad and Amarah, to capture the impact of extreme weather on everyday lives Continue reading...
  
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• 25 of the best theatre shows to see in spring and summer 2025

  15-04-2025 07:46 via bbc.com
  
  New shows take inspiration from Banksy, football boss Marcelo Bielsa, and an eccentric aristocrat.
  
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• Parents in Wales 'punished' by highest childcare costs in Britain

  15-04-2025 07:15 via bbc.com
  
  Childcare costs for parents of under-twos in Wales are more expensive than anywhere else in Britain.
  
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• TikTok parking fine videos force council review

  15-04-2025 07:14 via bbc.com
  
  A social media "investigator" prompts a review of parking signs on a Manchester city centre street.
  
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• Chocolate murder attempt case closed by police

  15-04-2025 07:09 via bbc.com
  
  Jody Bunting had been arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder Kimberley Hoskins.
  
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• Vets say they are under pressure to bring in more money per pet

  15-04-2025 07:00 via bbc.com
  
  Some tell the BBC they are encouraged to compete over the number of procedures they carry out on pets.
  
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• 'My eczema makes me feel trapped': Skin patients' agonising wait for NHS treatment

  15-04-2025 07:00 via bbc.com
  
  Patients with diseases such as eczema and acne are waiting up to two years for appointments.
  
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• Inside HS2: Meet London's tunnelling miners

  15-04-2025 06:38 via bbc.com
  
  The Northolt tunnels are part of the HS2 project which is 93% complete, the project managers say.
  
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• Blood test firm blamed for 'catalogue of disasters'

  15-04-2025 06:36 via bbc.com
  
  Synnovis' failure to provide the correct blood-test results amounts to a "scandal", the BBC is told.
  
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• What 40 years as Observer science editor has taught Robin McKie – podcast

  15-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Robin McKie reflects on his 40 years as science editor for the Observer and tells Madeleine Finlay about the game-changing discoveries and scientific controversies that he’s reported on during that time. He describes how the discovery of the structure of DNA revolutionised science, what he learned about misinformation from the HIV/AIDS pandemic and why cold fusion and the millennium bug failed to live up to their hype.What I’ve learned after 40 years as the Observer’s science e
  
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• UK business confidence falls to lowest level in over two years, survey shows

  15-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Accountants’ institute says first quarter of 2025 was ‘harrowing’ for companies amid tax rises and US tariffsUK business confidence has fallen to the lowest level for more than two years amid growing concern over tax rises and Donald Trump’s escalating trade war, according to a survey.Highlighting the risks to the economy, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) said the first quarter of the year had been “harrowing” for companies a
  
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• The mystery of the nameless girl found dead in a Spanish border town

  15-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  On a summer morning in 1990, the body of a young woman appeared in a small town close to the frontier. For those who saw her, finding her identity became an obsession that would last 30 yearsNobody can recall who first phoned the police on the morning of 4 September 1990, but everyone remembers the girl. Her body, hanging from a pine tree on a steep slope above the Spanish frontier town of Portbou, was visible to anyone looking up from the beach or across from the opposite hillside. She was bare
  
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• ‘The last thread connecting people to services’: why vets are risking all to care for Gaza’s donkeys

  15-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Amid the ruins and with fuel scarce, the animals provide vital transport for the injured as well as goods and belongingsIt felt like an “earthquake from the sky” when an Israeli airstrike hit the clinic Dr Saif Alden had left just minutes earlier. Alden had been treating animals hurt and abandoned amid Gaza’s destruction. They survived but the equipment and medication the mobile clinic needed to function was destroyed.Still, the team saw it as a setback, not a defeat. Alden has
  
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• ‘Ozempic arrived and everything changed’: plus-size models on the body positivity backlash

  15-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The fashion industry seemed to be inching towards a new era of inclusivity. Then came a wave of weight-loss drugs and the demonisation of ‘wokeness’ …In 2021, Skye Standley was considered one of modelling’s rising stars. With her beautiful face, curves and distinctive red hair, she was in demand: she appeared in advertising campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana, the Danish label Ganni and Rihanna’s brand Savage X Fenty. Last year, she was appearing in roundups of ones
  
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• Iran expected to resist US plan to move uranium stockpile to third country

  15-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Issue is seen as a key stumbling block in talks with US as Washington seeks to scale back Iran’s nuclear programmeIran is expected to resist a US proposal to transfer its stockpile of highly enriched uranium to a third country – such as Russia – as part of Washington’s effort to scale back Tehran’s civil nuclear programme and prevent it from being used to develop a nuclear weapon.The issue, seen as one of the key stumbling blocks to a future agreement, was raised in
  
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• From the archive: The great betrayal: how the Hillsborough families were failed by the justice system – podcast

  15-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.This week, from 2021: After 32 years of establishment lies, media smears, inquests, trials and retrials, the families of the Hillsborough dead have yet to see anyone held accountableBy David Conn. Read by Gavin Skelhorn Continue reading...
  
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• Europe's race to rearm is pointless if its adversaries are waging war online | Johnny Ryan

  15-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Ireland holds the algorithm off-switch. Ursula von der Leyen must force Dublin to use itEurope is scrambling to remilitarise. The European Commission is raising a €150bn (£129bn) defence fund and is calling on EU countries to invest €650bn (£561bn) more. Germany has cast aside its government debt limit to invest hundreds of billions of euros in defence. Poland will train every male of fighting age for battle, and envisages an army 500,000 strong. Latvia’s president ha
  
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• EU will struggle to fill gap left by USAID as European countries cut their budgets

  15-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  NGOs warn of ‘some difficult years’ ahead as increasing humanitarian needs meet shrinking financesThe dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has captured headlines, but “very regrettable” reductions in European aid budgets are also contributing to a void in support for some of the poorest people in the world’s most fragile states, according to MEPs and NGOs.Isabella Lövin, a deputy chair of the European parliament’s development
  
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• The scramble to save British Steel – podcast

  15-04-2025 04:00 via theguardian.com
  
  What does the British Steel crisis reveal about the UK’s critical infrastructure? Jasper Jolly reportsOn Saturday, when MPs were supposed to be on their Easter holidays, a rare emergency sitting was called. Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, told the House of Commons that they were meeting “in exceptional circumstances to take exceptional action in what are exceptional times”.MPs passed a bill to save the Scunthorpe steelworks, a vital part of the UK’s critical in
  
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• Sudan in ‘world’s largest humanitarian crisis’ after two years of civil war

  15-04-2025 04:00 via theguardian.com
  
  NGOs and UN say country is ‘worse off than ever before’ with wide-scale displacement, hunger and attacks on refugee campsTimeline: Sudan’s two years of war and its devastating tollSudan is suffering from the largest humanitarian crisis globally and its civilians are continuing to pay the price for inaction by the international community, NGOs and the UN have said, as the country’s civil war enters its third year.Two years to the day since fighting erupted in Khartoum betw
  
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