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Man in court charged with murder after fire deaths
A young woman and her seven-year-old niece lost their lives in a residential blaze in Grangetown, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of…
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Laundry rooms to be turned into cells to tackle prison overcrowding
With England and Wales' prison estate operating at 97% of its stated capacity, the government has announced a £110m programme to carve…
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Woman killed in Times Square stabbing, suspect shot dead by police
A violent episode unfolded along one of Manhattan's most heavily trafficked pedestrian corridors on Monday afternoon, when a woman armed with two…
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Noughties garage track named TikTok’s UK song of the summer
The summer of 2025 has belonged, in the UK at least, to a song most listeners under thirty had never heard before…
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Liberals sweep three seats in boost for Carney after trade tensions with US
Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal Party captured every one of the three parliamentary seats contested in Monday's special elections across Canada, a…
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We survived the Aberfan disaster as schoolchildren, but were told to never talk about it again
We survived the Aberfan disaster as eight-year-olds who had no idea that morning would end their childhood forever. On 21 October 1966,…
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Baby Tommy’s our ‘light’, says grieving family of newborn whose mum died in childbirth
"Baby Tommy's our light" — those words, spoken by a grieving Scottish family, capture the fragile thread of joy now holding them…
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I climbed the career ladder and got my dream job at 30 – then I hit burnout
In Britain, work-related stress cost employers an estimated 22 million working days in the 2024–25 period, according to recent statistics. Behind that
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Feeling nostalgic for summer? How to beat the back-to-work blues
The jolt of an alarm clock at six-forty, the cold blue glow of a laptop screen, a notification badge showing forty-seven unread…
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