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Drink-driver jailed for death of 20-year-old woman

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Matthew McGrath told officers at the scene he had no idea the speed he was driving at.

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A job that changed me: After years of being a marriage celebrant, I became uneasy with the institution

By Jasper Peach

My favourite part was sitting with couples, talking about their lives and why they wanted to marry. But I’m equally happy to have left it behind Read more in this series here I was in my mid-20s in the mid-2000s when I became a professional yapper. I’d had to bow out of a career in Auslan (Australian sign language) interpreting due to injury, but could still talk under wet concrete. Studying to become a civil marriag

British Muslim student with valid visa refused entry to US after 23-hour detention

By Chris Osuh Community affairs correspondent

Laith Alani, who had booked week-long trip to visit theme parks and family, believes US border force profiled him on arrival in Orlando A British student who was detained and deported after flying to the US claims he was profiled for being Muslim. Laith Alani said he felt as if he had been kidnapped when he was interrogated for nine hours and detained in a holding cell for another 14 hours by US Customs and Border Pr

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Top album releases linked to rise in fatal crashes as ‘distracted’ drivers access music

By Nicola Davis Science correspondent

Harvard study finds traffic fatalities increase by 15% on release dates compared with similar days either side The release of a new album by Taylor Swift might be a cause for celebration among her fans, but such events have also been linked to a more sombre phenomenon: an increase in fatal car crashes. The team behind a new study say it sheds light on the impact of distracted driving. “You can’t randomise people into

Enzo Maresca’s Manchester City opener was startlingly bad

By Jonathan Wilson

The Community Shield isn’t always a sign of things to come, but City’s form in their defeat to Arsenal is concerning in the wake of Pep Guardiola’s departure Sign up for our free newsletter here There are caveats. It was only the Community Shield – and no side has gone on to win the league after lifting the Community Shield since 2018. It was against the league champions, whose pre-season has involved far less strenu

The Sinking City 2 review – Ukrainian cosmic horror, come hell or high water

By Nic Rueben

PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S/X, PC; Frogwares Frogwares’ Lovecraftian action-horror is full of grim tenacity and pulp paperback charm, despite a few frayed edges I’m standing in the prosthetics lab of a campy horror hospital, hunting for a preacher’s flayed face to wear so I can trick the world’s grisliest smart doorbell. Pinned to a board in the corner of the room are a dozen X-rays: shattered bones and metal splint

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M9 crash: Minister for Justice condemns ‘outrageously dangerous criminal behaviour’

By Jack Horgan-Jones

Gardaí to get pursuit training, Jim O’Callaghan says

We would like to hear from UK agriculture workers about how the heatwaves have affected their work

By Guardian community team

We would also like to speak to florists, groundskeepers, and professional gardeners about how they are planning for the future The heatwaves and drought conditions across parts of Britain this summer have brought a series of challenges for food producers and those working on the land. According to the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, hot and dry weather has resulted in the earliest UK cereals harvest i

What England can expect from captain Root

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What can England expect from Joe Root's leadership, based on his first full-time spell in charge?

Hayden Panettiere: an actor so magnetic that entire shows were rewritten for her

By Zoe Williams

She starred in her first soap opera at 4 – then the hit show Heroes was totally reworked to allow her character, Claire the regenerating cheerleader, to live on. We celebrate the star, who has died age 36 • Hayden Panettiere – a life in pictures • Hayden Panettiere obituary When Hayden Panettiere arrived as Claire Bennet in Heroes, in 2006, she was 17 but not a newcomer. She’d starred in Tiger Cruise, a Disney Channe

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‘You’ve got to see this girl!’ Tanita Tikaram on making Twist in My Sobriety

By Interviews by Dave Simpson

‘People tell me it helped them with their rehab. I have to explain: Sorry, it’s not about alcohol – I was just a kid singing about injustice’ I wrote the lyrics on the floor of my bedroom in Basingstoke when I was 16 or 17, as a way of decompressing from studying for my A-levels. I had the idea for “Twist in my …” something, but didn’t know what else to put in there. I tried “Twist in my gravity” before ending up wit

Two teenage boys to be tried for man's murder

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Two teenage boys accused of attacking Alex Coughlan, who died after being severely injured in Blanchardstown, are to be tried for murder.

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‘Champagne and a KFC’: how Hunt celebrated historic haul at European Championships

By Sean Ingle

British sprinter catapulted herself into the mainstream by winning four golds in Birmingham and celebrated her final golden night in style Long before Amy Hunt catapulted herself into the mainstream by winning an unprecedented four gold medals at the European Championships, she was remarkably upfront about her ambitions. There was no coyness. No equivocation. She wanted the quadruple in Birmingham. And having talked

DUP MP charged with common assault of a woman

By Paul Higgins

Incident alleged to have happened on October 1st, 2023

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Stripe agrees more than $7bn deal to buy AI firm OpenRouter

By Yazhou Sun, Natasha Mascarenhas and Paige Smith

Deal would give Irish-founded Stripe a stronger footing in the fast-growing artificial intelligence sector

Next year’s Eurovision host is Burgas, not Sofia. Some Bulgarians are baffled

By Eden Maclachlan in Sofia

Next year’s competition won’t take place in the country’s capital, an announcement that even surprised Bulgarian winner, Dara Ever since Bulgarian singer Dara was crowned winner of the Eurovision song contest this May, it has been clear that the Balkan nation would for the first time in its history have the opportunity to host Europe’s biggest party. So when Bulgarian officials announced last week that the world’s la

Finland halts deportation of Russian family who ‘risked everything’ to oppose Ukraine invasion

By Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

Mother and son Olga and Nikita Belov say they were facing jail and potential torture after asylum case was rejected A Russian family who were on the brink of being deported from Finland after repeatedly being denied asylum – despite the threat of arrest, imprisonment and torture for their pro-Ukrainian activism – have won a court appeal and will have their case reconsidered. Nikita Belov and his mother, Olga Belov, f

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I thought testing ice-cream makers would be fun – then came the milk-fuelled madness

By Danielle Amato

After three dozen eggs, 30 lemons and a concerning amount of unplanned butter, our tester learned the hard way how to make the perfect ice-cream. Plus, how to buy a bike • Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up here You probably know that song about ice-cream, and it’s been playing in my head non-stop for the past month. But since I tested 13 ice-cream machines at once during the hottest days of the ye

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Glyn Razzell - what next for jailed killer?

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The man convicted and jailed for murdering his wife remains in prison after a High Court ruling.

UK government ‘irresponsible’ for not publishing emergency drought plans

By Pippa Neill Environment reporter

Campaigners demand greater transparency into water companies’ plans not made public due to ‘security reasons’ The UK government has been accused of a lack of transparency and of acting irresponsibly for refusing to publish the emergency drought plans that are produced by water companies. Water firms are required to publish statutory drought plans every five years to detail the actions needed to ensure public water su

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Man Utd will reject any bid for Fernandes

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Manchester United have no intention of selling captain Bruno Fernandes despite Turkish club Galatasaray being prepared to lodge a bid for the 31-year-old later this week.

Donald Trump threatens to bomb Oman if it ‘gets in the way’ of ending Iran war

By Joseph Gedeon and Andrew Roth in Washington

President issues threat to ‘bomb the shit out of them’ after previously threatening Gulf ally in May Donald Trump has again threatened to bomb Oman if it “gets in the way” of his effort to end the US-Israel war on Iran, as the two-month window to negotiate peace with Iran expired on Monday with no end to the conflict in sight. The latest threats against Oman, which is not a party to the war, have illustrated how Trum

'I heard a big bang, like a bomb going off'

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A Pershore resident says he feels sad for the people affected and all the memories they have lost.

Three people seriously injured in multi-vehicle crash in Co Kerry

By Sarah Burns

Man in his 30s and two women in their 30s and 40s taken to University Hospital Kerry

US tourist dies after being struck by lightning on Italy’s Mount Etna

By Associated Press

Italian firefighters say a man, 29, was killed by a lightning strike on the Sicily volcano while hiking in a restricted area A tourist from the US was killed by a lightning strike on Sicily’s Mount Etna while hiking in an area that was closed to visitors due to recent volcanic activity, Italian firefighters said on Monday. The 29-year-old man from Kansas was rescued by helicopter after being struck Sunday evening in

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