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'Are you going to call her Dolly?' - Family recall icon's maternity ward visit

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Dolly Parton met baby Emma in Rotherham in 2007, with her family recalling the superstar's visit.

Former Antrim council chief convicted of deleting email subject to FOI Act

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Email to former first minister related to security concerns over operation of Northern Ireland Protocol

‘Pack of lies’: Robert Jenrick launches personal attack on Kemi Badenoch

By Ben Quinn and Amelia Casey-Rerhaye

Reform MP seeks to heap pressure on Tory leader amid confusion around details of meeting with Giorgia Meloni Robert Jenrick has accused Kemi Badenoch of telling “a pack of lies” about her meeting with the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, as he launched a deeply personal attack on his former boss. The Reform UK MP sought to heap pressure on the Conservative leader amid confusion about whether Meloni urged Baden

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Stuck bundts? You need ‘cake goop’: Natalie Paull’s lime and yoghurt bundt – recipe

By Natalie Paull

The cookbook author and owner of Melbourne’s Beatrix Bakes shares a her ‘100% reliable’ formula for freeing bundts from tins When all the layer cakes are baked and iced, I will always love a slice of pretty patterned bundt. Especially one that is lightened with the perfect amount of baking powder (overly dense bundts are stodgy sadness) and brightened with limes and yoghurt. Cake goop – a mix of flour, oil and butter

Andy Burnham should rip up our undemocratic first past the post system – even if some in Labour disagree | Neal Lawson

By Neal Lawson

Rearguard reactionaries may try to block the idea of a national commission into proportional representation, but we should want more not less democracy A poll in the Mail on Sunday at the end of June was remarkable. It had not just Reform as low as 21%, but also Labour and the Tories. It was remarkable because it starkly demonstrated the fragmented landscape of the UK’s electoral terrain, as well as the electoral wea

The Irish Times view on Dolly Parton: no better American life

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A hugely-loved entertainer, she also had an extraordinary record of philanthropy

Four charged over mosque replica placed on July bonfire in Co Tyrone

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Charges brought by PSNI relate to ‘hate display’ following incident

Ireland’s hoverfly, crucial to food production, faces significant threats

By Tim O'Brien

Queen’s University Belfast study underscores the role the insects play in supporting food security

Call with couple in Iran prison 'enormous relief'

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Joe Bennett says he has spoken to his mother properly for the first time in three months.

Trump claims CIA director’s surprise visit to Russia is ‘semi-routine’ despite mounting speculation – live

By Shrai Popat (now) and Tom Ambrose (earlier)

Trump administration had not formally announced John Ratcliffe’s trip, but various outlets captured the flight tracking data of the US jet and the Kremlin confirmed the meeting Darline Graham wins Republican primary for US Senate Sign up for the US Breaking News email A US military strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean on Tuesday killed four people, officials said. US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)

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Boy, 15, arrested over stabbing at Brent Council HQ

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The victim, believed to be a 17-year-old, was found fatally injured at Brent Council's headquarters.

Janie Bradford obituary

By Richard Williams

Songwriter who contributed to the first record made at Motown’s Detroit studio and co-wrote many of the label’s hits Janie Bradford was a poetry-loving receptionist, not yet out of her teens, when she provided her boss, Berry Gordy Jr, with the lines that helped him complete a song called Money (That’s What I Want). Gordy, then in the early stages of establishing Motown Records and searching for what would become the

Rupert Grint to reprise role of Ron Weasley in Harry Potter stage show

By Benjamin Lee

Like co-star Tom Felton, Grint will once again play the role that made him famous, in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Rupert Grint is set to reprise the role of Ron Weasley in the Broadway hit Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The actor will join the long-running stage show for 17 weeks starting in February 2027. Continue reading...

CAO round one offers bring delight, surprise and disappointment

By Niamh Towey

Applications for veterinary medicine, physiotherapy and medicine all increased this year

​W​hy are European leaders staying silent after our summer of climate shock?

By Jon Henley

Lethal temperatures ​and wildfires have exposed a widening gulf between voters demanding ​action and politicians unwilling to confront the long-term choices global heating requires • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The climate crisis means “we’re going to have to change everything – the way we live, the way we produce, the way we trade,” France’s veteran radical-left firebrand, Jean-Luc

Flight attendant’s breast cancer was occupational disease, court rules

By Agence France-Presse in Paris

Sophie Lainault, who worked for Air France, wins legal case linking illness to more than 12,600 hours on flights A flight attendant in France has succeeded in having her breast cancer recognised as an occupational disease, a first for the country’s aviation industry, her lawyer and a trade union said. The ruling, which recognised that Sophie Lainault, a former flight attendant for Air France, had frequently worked at

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Pubs, bars and hotels report ‘Burnham bounce’ in optimism but call for further tax relief

By Rob Davies

Sentiment in hospitality and brewing sectors more positive since business rates action, trade bodies’ survey finds Pubs, bars and hotels have reported a “Burnham bounce” in optimism as a result of the prime minister’s overtures to the sector, polling suggests, but they warn that the goodwill could evaporate without further tax relief. Andy Burnham has positioned himself as a staunch ally of the UK’s hospitality indus

Dolly Parton was a rare singer who proved herself to be an electric movie star

By Jesse Hassenger

From 9 to 5 to Steel Magnolias to Joyful Noise, the late star had real big screen presence that was impossible to imitate ‘I just give from my heart’: how Dolly Parton’s philanthropy focused most on helping children Celebrity tributes pour in for Dolly Parton: ‘a gift to the world’ There are an awful lot of singers who take a shot at movie stardom. Most of them start out playing singing ingenues and trail off a few m

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Serena and Venus Williams will play doubles together at the US Open

By Associated Press

Sisters to appear in New York for first time since 2022 Serena played mixed doubles with Alcaraz on Tuesday Serena and Venus Williams are teaming up again at the US Open. The sisters will play doubles at the tournament after receiving a wild card on Wednesday into the event they have won twice. Continue reading...

CUH consultants seek independent staffing assessment over patient safety fears

By Martin Wall

Minister warned of threat to patient safety following ‘years of underfunding’

Sami Abu Wardeh Hates You review – a clown strides into the mainstream with style

By Brian Logan

Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh The comedian delivers a tour of his peripatetic childhood, with stops for risque gags and to ponder his resemblance to a ‘porn Super Mario’ Comedy fans have seen Sami Abu Wardeh in several guises, from a capering clown catching cherry tomatoes in his mouth, to teller (on last year’s fringe) of the historical stories behind the Gaza crisis. But we’ve never seen him deliver straight autob

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Bill Gates warns world unprepared for AI upheaval

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Bill Gates warned today that the world is dangerously unprepared for the upheaval brought by artificial intelligence, with the technology destroying jobs and threatening human connection, especially for young people.

What triggered the flood on the Nepal-Tibet border?

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At least 157 people have been killed in massive floods that struck the Himalayan border region of Nepal and China's Tibet.

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Drone footage shows devastation after Nepal floods

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A devastating flash flood swept through parts of Nepal's Nuwakot district, leaving a trail of destruction along the banks of the Bhote Koshi river.

RTÉ redundancy window too tight to achieve target for staff cuts

By Ken Foxe

Just over 40 of 134 applicants were successful in being offered exits and only 60% of those took up offer