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• Why so many people break 20mph speed limits (it's more complicated than you think)

  11-12-2025 01:01 via bbc.com
  After receiving a speeding ticket, Evan Davis explores why so many people have broken 20mph limits across the country.
  
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• I hope Donald Trump gets $10billion from BBC – bad treatment of two stars is astonishing

  18-12-2025 07:00 via express.co.uk
  VIRGINIA BLACKBURN: Two people are personae non gratae at the corporation and it tells you all you need to know.
  
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• 'YNWA' - Liverpool fan Adam Smyth one of 15 killed in Bondi attack as family pay tribute

  18-12-2025 06:51 via express.co.uk
  Adam Smyth, 50, was one of the victims of the horrific Bondi Beach terror attack in Australia and has been described as a "kind person who will be dearly missed"
  
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• The seedy truth behind Bondi Beach terror suspects' Philippines trip speaks volumes

  18-12-2025 06:15 via express.co.uk
  In a dimly lit hotel room in the heart of a bustling red-light district, a father and son plotted a path that would lead to unimaginable tragedy.
  
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• British paratrooper killed in Ukraine penned a powerful final 2-word message

  18-12-2025 03:25 via express.co.uk
  Lance Corporal George Hooley's poignant words echo beyond his tragic passing in Ukraine, as he reminds us of the courage and conviction that defined his life.
  
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• Hero motorcycle cop who died on duty laid to rest as force pays tribute

  18-12-2025 03:05 via express.co.uk
  PC Mathew Parker died in a collision on the A12 near Ingatestone on Wednesday, November 19 while responding to an emergency.
  
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• King Henry VIII and Queen Victoria feature on giant chocolate coins in unique celebration

  18-12-2025 01:01 via express.co.uk
  King Henry VIII and Queen Victoria have been brought to life in chocolate form.
  
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• CCTV footage released as police 'increasingly concerned' for missing girl, 14

  17-12-2025 23:42 via express.co.uk
  Greater Manchester Police said officers are 'becoming increasingly concerned about her'.
  
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• Horror as man 'tries to throw baby in pushchair into traffic'

  17-12-2025 23:27 via express.co.uk
  The young mum claims the man refused to move out of her way and hurled verbal abuse at her before trying to move her buggy into the road.
  
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• Woman and boy 'hit by tram in major' in major UK city as paramedics swarm scene

  17-12-2025 21:55 via express.co.uk
  Pictures show emergency services personnel at the scene.
  
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• Furious shoppers threaten to boycott supermarket for taking down Christmas decorations

  17-12-2025 21:27 via express.co.uk
  Residents claim the move followed complaints that the displays were 'offensive' - although Morrisons has not verified this.
  
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• From ‘odd’ Musk to ‘painful’ tariffs: key takeaways from interviews with Trump’s chief of staff

  17-12-2025 07:11 via theguardian.com
  Susie Wiles has spoken to Vanity Fair magazine in a series of 11 interviews that she has since dismissed as a ‘hit piece’The president’s chief of staff Susie Wiles has given her own, unvarnished thoughts about Donald Trump’s administration, in a series of interviews published by Vanity Fair magazine, revealing details and opinions that presidential aides usually save for memoirs long after they have left power.From calling out attorney general Pam Bondi over her handling
  
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• TV tonight: Mary Berry’s best ever tips for a Christmas feast

  17-12-2025 07:10 via theguardian.com
  Zoe Ball and Alison Steadman help the TV cook in the kitchen. Plus: what happened to Mozart’s musical prodigy sister Maria Anna? Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, BBC OneMary Berry celebrated her 90th birthday this year but she shows no sign of slowing down in the kitchen this Christmas. Pigs in blankets cassoulet, cherry and lemon millefeuille, and a pear and ginger steamed pudding are all on her menu, as she is joined by Alison Steadman, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and Zoe Ball. Ber
  
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• Australia v England: Ashes third Test, day one – live

  17-12-2025 07:07 via theguardian.com
  Updates as the tourists seek to keep series hopes alive
  Ashes top 100 | Get the Spin newsletter | Email JamesRighto, time for the toss…“Morning Daniel, (it’s approaching 7am in Western Australia),” opens Karris Evans. “Fox Cricket noted an hour ago that Smith got a head knock in training this morning, so possible concussion has ruled him out.” Continue reading...
  
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• The best theatre, comedy and dance of 2025

  17-12-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  A meet-cute between Humanity and Earth, a mod ballet and Nick Mohammed’s career-best standup set – our critics pick the best stage shows of the year10. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
  Staging a bestselling book that has already been adapted into a film starring bona fide national treasures (Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton) might have been daunting. But, in Chichester, Katy Rudd’s musical of a man’s Bunyanesque journey to visit a dying woman met that challenge with
  
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• The Anti-Sports Personality of the Year awards 2025

  17-12-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  On Thursday night the BBC will honour the heroes. But here are the year’s best dark, devious and downright dumb sporting storiesAnother year, another raft of sporting cheating scandals for our annual anti‑Spoty awards. Where the BBC Sports Personality ceremony this week rewards the cream of athletic endeavour, the Guardian instead shines a light on the darkest corners of sporting skulduggery. Continue reading...
  
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• Putin thinks democracy is the west’s weakness. We have to prove him wrong | Rafael Behr

  17-12-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  The Russian strategy of exporting chaos to provoke extremism only works if liberals succumb to cynicism and despair I once spent an exasperating week showing a Russian friend around London. He insisted on seeing everything and admiring nothing. Museums, monuments, shops – all compared unfavourably with St Petersburg and Moscow. This got tiresome after a few days, so I asked my friend if there was anything at all about Britain that impressed him. “The stability,” he said without
  
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• Promise of seven-week driving test wait in Great Britain ‘unlikely to happen until 2027’

  17-12-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Government efforts to recruit examiners fail again with average test slot wait now at 22 weeks, report saysPlans to cut the wait for a driving test to seven weeks by the end of the year will not be achieved until November 2027, an audit report has found.Only a net 83 more driving test examiners have been hired despite 19 recruitment campaigns since 2021, with the average wait for a practical test now at 22 weeks across Great Britain, according to the National Audit Office (NAO). Continue reading
  
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• Musicians criticise BBC Radio Scotland’s decision to axe specialist late-night shows

  17-12-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Members of Franz Ferdinand, Del Amitri and more call for pause to schedule shake-up aimed at foregrounding ‘mainstream, easy-listening tracks’Musicians including Eddi Reader, Nadine Shah, Hamish Hawk and members of Franz Ferninand, Del Amitri, Idlewild and more have voiced disapproval at planned changes to BBC Radio Scotland’s late-night programming, claiming the changes will harm “career-igniting” opportunities for Scottish artists.The BBC has announced it will rep
  
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• Christmas dinner and festive treats up to 70% more expensive, reports Which?

  17-12-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Price of turkey jumps as much as £15 compared with 2024, while chocolate has steepest mark-upShoppers are paying up to 70% more for Christmas chocolate treats compared with last year, while the price of a turkey has jumped by as much as £15, according to the consumer champion Which?The group analysed a range of ingredients for a typical Christmas dinner, as well as other typical festive treats including mince pies, sparkling wine and chocolates. Continue reading...
  
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• Benjamina Ebuehi’s pistachio and cherry meringue cake recipe | The sweet spot

  17-12-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Have a very chewy yuletide with this sumptuously layered meringue smasherthat pumps pavlova up a levelI’m switching up my usual Christmas pavlova this year for a slightly different but equally delicious meringue-based dessert. Discs of pistachio meringue are baked until crisp, then layered with pistachio cream and cherry compote. The meringue softens a little under the cream as it sits, giving it a pleasingly chewy, cake-like texture. A very good option if you’re after a Christmas de
  
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• 2025 is UK’s sunniest year on record, boosting solar power

  17-12-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Britain has had more than 1,600 recorded hours of sunshine this year after record-breaking springThe UK has already had its sunniest year on record, the Met Office has confirmed, after the country battled droughts and sweltered in heatwaves.Though the country is currently swathed in December gloom, the rest of the year brought vast amounts of sunshine. Continue reading...
  
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• Bondi terror attack: Naveed Akram charged with 59 offences after 15 people killed at Hanukah celebration

  17-12-2025 06:54 via theguardian.com
  Sydney man, 24, charged with 15 counts of murder and one count of committing a terrorist act after waking from comaFull report: Bondi terror attack Victims of Bondi beach shootingWhat we know so far about the Bondi terror attack Follow the latest live updatesThe alleged Bondi attacker who survived a shootout with police has been charged with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder, after waking from his coma on Tuesday.New South Wales police charged Naveed Akram, 24, on Wednesday, after he wa
  
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• Worried about winter? 10 ways to thrive – from socialising to Sad lamps to celebrating the new year in April

  17-12-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  The temptation is to sit at home and hibernate, but beating the winter blues can be done. Here’s how to embrace the coldest and arguably most beautiful seasonStephanie Fitzgerald, a chartered clinical psychologist, used to dread winter. Like many, she coped by keeping busy at work and hibernating at home, waiting for the cold, dark days to be over. But this approach wasn’t making her happy. So she sought out the science that would help her embrace the winter months, rather than try t
  
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• This is Europe's secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble | Johnny Ryan

  17-12-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Growth in the US economy – and the president’s political survival – rest on AI. The EU must use its leverage and stand up to him The unthinkable has happened. The US is Europe’s adversary. The stark, profound betrayal contained in the Trump administration’s national security strategy should stop any further denial and dithering in Europe’s capitals. Cultivating “resistance Europe’s current trajectory in European nations” is now Washington&rsq
  
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• ‘Magical’ galaxy frogs disappear after reports of photographers destroying their habitats

  17-12-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Researcher in Kerala rainforest sounds alarm after being told frogs had died after being handled by humansA group of endangered “galaxy frogs” are missing, presumed dead, after trespassing photographers reportedly destroyed their microhabitats for photos.Melanobatrachus indicus, each the size of a fingertip, is the only species in its family, and lives under logs in the lush rainforest in Kerala, India. Their miraculous spots do not indicate poison, as people sometimes assume, but ar
  
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• ‘Lonely, terrifying and scary’: 70% of students in UK university halls feel isolated, poll shows

  17-12-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Students blame reliance on phones plus pressure of accommodation costs for lack of social lifeMore than two-thirds of students in UK university halls feel lonely or isolated, blaming accommodation costs and over-reliance on phones for limiting their social life.One in three students in halls of residence – 33% – are lonely or isolated at university often, with another 37% feeling that way occasionally, according to a poll by Opinium commissioned by the student accommodation provider
  
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• Fallout season two review – this post apocalyptic thriller is absolutely hilarious

  17-12-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  The video game derived thriller series should be terrifying, but it’s often side-splitting. Its second outing adds excellent guest spots from Justin Theroux, Kumail Nanjiani and Macaulay CulkinThe west doesn’t get much wilder than in Fallout. The show takes place 200 years into a post-nuclear apocalypse where most humans are scratching out an existence in a stricken wasteland California of sand dunes, outlaw gangs and mutated monsters. Resources are scarce. Life is cruel. Death is a
  
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• East of Zaporizhzhia Ukraine’s drone crews face endless battle to hold the line

  17-12-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  On a frontline where Russia has made the most gains in recent weeks, drone pilots wonder how long they can keep up the fightIn a warm bunker, lined with wooden logs, it is Dmytro’s job to monitor and help the drone crews on the frontline. Perhaps a dozen video feeds come through to his screen on an increasingly hot section of the front, running roughly from Pokrovske to Huliaipole, 50 miles east of Zaporizhzhia city.Dmytro, 33, is with the 423rd drone battalion, a specialist unit only form
  
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• Adults in England with eating disorders wait up to 700 days for treatment, report finds

  17-12-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Audit finds on average adults wait twice as long as children for assessment and more than 10 times as long to be treatedAdults with eating disorders in England are waiting up to 700 days for vital treatment, according to a report.The stark figures were revealed in the first report of the National Audit of Eating Disorders (NAED), which looked at access to eating disorder services across the country. Continue reading...
  
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