Most of England is now under amber heat health alerts – here’s what that means

According to the Met Office, highs of 29C in Cardiff, 28C in Manchester and 25C in London are forecast for Tuesday, before the mercury climbs to the mid-30s in some regions on Thursday. It comes as nearly three-quarters…

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BBC Proms review: Salonen conducts 20th-Century Classics in style

What if they combined forces? That would be some team. It will never happen, but at last night’s Prom, it kind of did, as students from NY’s Juilliard School joined students from London’s Royal Academy of Music (RAM) to…

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Australia PM under fire for remarks on Japanese counterpart's melon gifts

During an appearance on the Bush Deep podcast, Albanese gestured near his chest while referring to the crown melons, calling them "pretty strange" gifts that "ended up being quite good". That episode, which aired in…

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Clacton by-election poll tracker: Could Count Binface deliver a huge upset to Nigel Farage?

A survey by Survation for Mandate Research of voters in Clacton suggests Mr Farage would win 73 per cent of the vote , while his main rival Count Binface , could sweep up an estimated 20 per cent of the vote. In an Ipsos…

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Government facing legal action after UN rules prisoners trapped on indefinite jail terms are being unlawfully detained

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention called for Britain to urgently act in a scathing legal opinion, issued last month, which found five men handed Imprisonment for Public Protection ( IPP ) jail terms had been…

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Former Donegal All-Ireland winner dies in crash

McHugh, who was in his 60s, played inter-county football for Donegal from 1990 until 1998 and won two Ulster Championships with the county. He was named an All-Star in 1992 - the year his county lifted Sam Maguire for…

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The unstoppable rise of Britain’s ‘track goddess’

The Team GB sprinter meant four gold medals: in the 100m and 200m along with the 4x100m and 4x400m relays. On the first night of action at Alexander Stadium on Monday, the 24-year-old took her first big step towards that…

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Burnham sets out ‘three options’ that could keep PC Harper killers locked up

There was uproar earlier in the summer when it was revealed Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers would be set free in the early release scheme, which is intended to relieve pressure on the prison system. Burnham pledged to look…

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Recycling waste fire 'looked like a tornado'

The fire spread to shipping containers at a neighbouring business, and four crews worked overnight and into Tuesday to extinguish and contain the blaze, the fire service said. Chris Brooke, 24, from Stanion, could see…

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'This crazy lady from the UK was like..."I wanna be killed"': Unseen bodycam reveals moments after US cops found British woman who flew to America to be murdered by a man she met in a chatroom

Unseen bodycam footage shows the officer making the flippant remark to his mother after she called him to say happy birthday while he was protecting the burial site where Sonia Exelby's body was discovered. Ms Exelby…

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