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Police are warning rock fans at this weekend’s Download festival about the potential for accidental calls while in the mosh pit. Leicestershire Police issued an alert ahead of the event at Donington Park, which begins on Friday. Posting on Facebook, the force said, in previous years, they received “a rise of nearly 700 extra 999…
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British Palestinians have called on Sir Keir Starmer to take “immediate, concrete” steps on Gaza instead of “focusing on a symbolic gesture” of recognising it as a state ahead of an emergency cabinet meeting. The prime minister has recalled his cabinet ministers from parliamentary recess for a meeting at 2pm, when they will discuss what…
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It was a cold, typically rainy Manchester evening, October 1993, when Michael Spencer Jones set out to meet a new guitar band he had been commissioned to photograph. The weather was miserable, he didn’t know their music, wasn’t totally in the mood. “I had to drag myself from home, thinking: is it going to be…
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Two young bears escaped from their enclosure at a wildlife park in Devon – and devoured a week’s worth of honey. In a tale straight out of Winnie The Pooh, Mish and Lucy immediately dashed for the food store during their hour of freedom at the Wildwood Trust site. Visitors were “promptly escorted to a…
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A 13-year-old girl has died four days after encountering trouble in the North Sea. Edie Smart, from the Monkseaton area, was rescued from the water near the south end of Whitley Bay beach in North Tyneside shortly before 5pm on Thursday, Northumbria Police said. She was taken to hospital, where she died on Monday. “This…
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Donald Trump likes a wall. And now he has his very own 10ft-high metal barrier creating a fortress as he tees off for a weekend of politics, play and precision in Scotland. An almost surreal contrast now exists in the tiny Ayrshire village of Turnberry. On one side, the stunning coastline and luxury hotel that…
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Donald Trump has declared the United States is going to “win” the artificial intelligence race, as his administration unveiled its AI Action Plan. The new blueprint is designed to speed up the building of energy-intensive data centres – which run AI products – by loosening environmental rules, while also vastly expanding the sale of AI…
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Kelly Osbourne has commented on the death of her father Ozzy Osbourne for the first time since he died on Tuesday. The figurehead of heavy metal died aged 76, just a few weeks after performing a huge farewell show with his Black Sabbath bandmates in Birmingham, where the band was formed in 1968. After the…
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Injured dog walkers could be costing the NHS about £23m a year, a study suggests. Hand and wrist injuries from a yanked lead are said to be the most common mishap. Experts from Raigmore Hospital in Inverness and Singapore’s Sengkang Hospital looked at the “understudied topic” by reviewing five US studies of almost 500,000 dog-walking…
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A man has appeared in court over an alleged disturbance on board an easyJet flight from London Luton to Glasgow Airport. Abhay Nayak, 41, was arrested after the plane landed in the Scottish city at about 8.20am on Sunday. Nayak, of Luton, appeared at Paisley Sheriff Court charged with assault and endangering the safety of…