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'My daughter got one and I wanted it too' - M&S shoppers love £30 'perfect fit' dress
Birmingham Live
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August 16, 2025
This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more The retailer calls this cotton dress an 'easy-breezy choice' for warm weather. Marks & Spencer is selling the Pure Cotton Animal Print...
Next shoppers adore £25 'oversized' T-shirt in six colours
Birmingham Live
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August 16, 2025
This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more Shoppers cannot stop raving about the bold pink of this beach T-shirt that 'fits perfectly'. Next is selling the White/Pink 100%...
David Mitchell's "rambunctiously entertaining" British movie with stacked cast is on TV tonight
Digital Spy
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August 15, 2025
A British movie hailed as "darkly witty" is on TV tonight. Greed - starring David Mitchell, Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher, Asa Butterfield and more - follows self-made British billionaire Sir Richard McCreadie (Coogan), whose retail fashion empire is...
Disappointment over UK Government’s response to Elgin ice rink uncertainty
Grampian Online
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August 15, 2025
The UK government is “refusing to acknowledge rampant energy price discrimination” against Moray homes and businesses, a local MP has said, as Elgin ice rink remains in limbo. Following the announcement the ice rink at Moray Leisure Centre was set...
Over 350,000 Baby Boxes delivered to families across Scotland
STV News
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August 15, 2025
Over 350,000 Baby Boxes packed with essential items for newborns have been delivered across Scotland, saving expectant parents around £400. The Scottish Government’s universal Baby Box programme, the only one of its kind in the UK, is offered to...
Over 350,000 baby boxes delivered across Scotland saving new parents around £400
Glasgow Live
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August 15, 2025
Over 350,000 baby boxes packed with essential items for newborns have been delivered across Scotland, saving expectant parents around £400 and giving children the best start in life. The Scottish Government’s universal baby box programme, the only...
Trump vows to help free jailed Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai
The Globe and Mail
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August 15, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:A man in Hong Kong in June calls for the liberation of jailed publisher Jimmy Lai. Mr. Lai has spent four years and eight months in solitary confinement at a maximum-security prison.TOMMY WANG/AFP/Getty Images U.S....
Friday briefing: How Palestine Action arrests expose a new authoritarian edge to UK police
The Guardian
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August 15, 2025
Good morning. An award-winning poet, a decorated army officer, and a retired head teacher are handcuffed together in the back of a police van ... It’s not the start of a terrible joke, but a representation of just some of the eyebrow-raising...
UK plans to use AI to determine ages of child asylum seekers
The National News
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The use of AI facial recognition technology to determine the ages of child asylum seekers in the UK threatens to result in more of them being deemed to be adults, campaigners have warned. The Home Office this month began inviting companies to bid...
Victoria fight legend Stan Peterec is stepping back into the ring, and into the record books
CHEK
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August 15, 2025
Most people at 66 are thinking about retirement. Stan Peterec is thinking about combinations, the punching and kicking kind. The Victoria martial arts legend and former two-time world champion — is lacing up for another professional fight at...
The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending August 15
The Spinoff
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August 15, 2025
The top 10 sales lists recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND 1 The Unlikely Doctor by Dr Timoti Te Moke (Allen & Unwin, $38) Dr Te Moke became a doctor at the age of 56. An...
MAGA made America great again. Could MEGA do the same for Britain?
The European Magazine
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August 14, 2025
With Labour support plummeting and the right fragmented, Britain could be primed for its own “Make America Great Again” moment. Guest writer Daniel Mark Harrison argues that a bold, unifying movement — led by a charismatic figure with economic...
The National Library of Scotland is a national embarrassment
The Critic
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August 15, 2025
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results — so goes the quote falsely attributed to Albert Einstein. To this end, one can only imagine what the board of the National Library of Scotland were...
Britain is broke – and we all need to face it
The Spectator Australia
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August 13, 2025
Sometimes when I go to bed, I think that if I were a young man I would emigrate,’ said James Callaghan, the then foreign secretary, in 1974. He was referring to that decade’s chronic economic dysfunction, with its double-digit inflation, growing...
Historian warns Britain is 'losing sight of its Christian past' despite mocking believers for worshipping ‘dead people’
GB News
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August 15, 2025
An atheist historian who once mocked believers for worshipping "dead people" has warned the UK risks losing sight of its Christian history. Academic Professor Alice Roberts told BBC History Magazine that Christianity forms a "compelling and...
Plug Power, Pure Hydrogen, RENK – The order books are filling up
The Market Herald
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August 14, 2025
Join our daily newsletter At The Bell to receive exclusive market insights The stock markets are celebrating as if there were no tomorrow. But caution is advised! The ambitious valuations of many companies are likely to result in a sharp...
SLIPKNOT Reportedly Nearing $120 Million Deal For Music Royalties And Publishing
Blabbermouth - California
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August 14, 2025
According to Billboard, SLIPKNOT is close to completing a deal to sell its music catalog for approximately $120 million. The deal between members of the long-running metal band and HarbourView Equity Partners includes the rights to SLIPKNOT's...
Georgie, the UK schmoozer-in-chief
The Times
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When word got out that JD Vance was to stay in the Cotswolds this summer, there was a rush across Westminster to secure face-time. The vice-president is a known anglophile with a deep, granular interest in British politics. He’s also the most...
Scotland's top sandwich filling named by Aldi as school meals increase by 20%
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
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August 14, 2025
Families across Scotland will be gearing up for the kids going back to school. With some council areas going back this week, it's time to get all the essentials sorted. With some little ones favouring a packed lunch over something on the school...
Great British Bake Off 2025: everything you need to know
Yours
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It's official, the UK's best baking show is returning to our screens this autumn! If you love The Great British Bake Off as much as we do here at Yours, we've put together everything you need to know about the latest GBBO news, including who the...