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A baby has been born on Orkney’s northernmost island for the first time in 34 years. Two midwives were transported to North Ronaldsay by coastguard helicopter to help deliver wee bairn Duncan Wilder Thorstein Traill Suarez Ford, who entered the world at his mother’s centuries-old family home.
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Reform UK would win fewer seats than both Labour and the Conservatives if a general election were held today, according to new seat-by-seat YouGov poll. Labour would be the largest party in a hung parliament, with 241 seats, followed by the Tories with 130. Nigel Farage’s party would drop into third on 123 seats, a fall of 208 compared to the same poll last year.
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Xi Jinping received a rare planeside welcome from Donald Trump, complete with a 100ft-long red carpet and a flyover of B1-bombers, as he landed in Washington last night for a three-day summit. Shortly after the Chinese president’s arrival, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a two month extension to the two countries’ trade truce, which was due to expire in November.
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Screens aren’t windows, put the glass cleaner down. Harsh detergents can damage coatings, and paper towels can scratch. Turn off smudgy TVs, tablets, laptops and phones, and wipe them with a soft, lightly damp microfiber cloth. Super stubborn marks? Use a screen-safe cleaner kit. We’re removing fingerprints, not taking the display with them.
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Andy Burnham has signalled he may lift the ban on drinking alcohol in the stands at football matches, suggesting it is “unfair” for fans to be singled out when it is permitted for other sports.
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People claiming universal credit would have their payments cut by a third if they have not paid enough national insurance, under a Conservative plan condemned by one charity as “a fast track to increased poverty”.
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Teenagers are to be offered a range of new vocational GCSEs under a radical shake-up of the school system in England designed to tackle a crisis that has left nearly a million young people out of work or training.
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A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore White House access to journalists from CNN, MS Now and Politico, saying his ban on the three media outlets was likely unconstitutional.
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The UK has warned that the climate crisis and coming El Niño threaten national security and defence around the world, presenting foreign ministries with the findings of an explosive report suppressed under Keir Starmer.
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“Everything has been said before; but since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
André Gide -
I was carrying my ukulele in its case and somebody asked, "You play an instrument?"
I replied, "Yeah, I play a little guitar." -
Gov: If you're working 40 hours a week you shouldn't be in poverty!
Him: If you quit giving my money to people who work zero hours a week, I wouldn't be in poverty. -
Everyone has a hidden talent they don't know about until they get drunk.
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A new geophysical survey has given fresh weight to the idea that a huge complex lies beneath Tutankhamun’s tomb. Researchers believe the site could house several chambers, including Queen Nefertiti’s tomb, which they say would rank “among the most transformative archaeological discoveries of the modern era”.
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China is rapidly expanding its nuclear weapons programme across at least seven major sites, says The Telegraph. Satellite images show significant construction at nuclear facilities and testing areas across the country, including one production site where an entire support town has been built, complete with apartment blocks, an athletics field and a bus depot.
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Donald Trump praised Andy Burnham as a “natural businessperson” and said that UK-US relations are “more up” now than they were under Keir Starmer, after the pair met for the first time on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York yesterday. Burnham agreed to review Britain’s Chagos Islands deal after Trump described it as “terrible”, and also announced plans for a new UK centre to “stem the poisonous tide” of disinformation, largely coming from Russia.
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Why does 69° never appear on Apple’s Weather app. It calculated temperatures in whole Celsius numbers first, then converted them to Fahrenheit for display.
That meant 20°C showed up as 68°F, while 21°C became 69.8°F and rounded to 70°F. So 69 never had a clean landing spot. Same deal for 65 and 71, but let’s be honest, nobody was launching investigations over those. -
Free up your Android.
Another “storage full” warning? Go to Settings > Storage to find the biggest space hogs. Photos and videos are likely culprits, but the bonus Suggestions menu underneath can flag duplicates, unused apps and files over 25MB. Open each category and delete what you don’t want. That PDF reader you used once? It’s had its moment.