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London leaver: 'My £400k Glastonbury home cost a third what I sold for in Camberwell"
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (725+ words) Just like many of her fellow creatives Katie Young had long believed that London was the centre of the universe, the best and only place she could pursue her passion for fashion. But then her personal circumstances changed, and somewhat…...
Horoscope today: Your daily guide for Sunday, January 18, 2026
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (766+ words) Aries (March 21 " April 20) You see with the new moon who you have been giving your time to that does not deserve you. Avoid the dramatic confrontation and use Mars to cut ties with what you know is holding you back....
My adult gap year changed my life
1+ hour, 42+ min ago (240+ words) I didn't imagine I'd meet the man I would marry in a queue for the long drop on the side of a mountain in Peru. Locking eyes over a latrine? Pretty romantic, as it turns out. Read also: The 2026 travel…...
Europe's costliest monarchy: the truth about the royal finances
2+ hour, 27+ min ago (867+ words) As for Andrew and Fergie, Andrew paid "1m up-front and spent "7.5m on renovating Royal Lodge but for that he was granted a 75-year lease for a peppercorn or token sum. Unfortunately for the King, while he was purging the royal family…...
Apprentice makers urged to tighten vetting after candidate’s social media storm
3+ hour, 24+ min ago (539+ words) The BBC has demanded the makers of The Apprentice tighten their vetting after a candidate on the upcoming series was found to have made racist and sexist posts on social media. Levi Hodgetts-Hague, who will appear on the BBC business…...
Slowdown in rising cost-of-living set for December pause, say economists
3+ hour, 37+ min ago (526+ words) UK inflation could have ticked higher last month, as Christmas getaways helped fuel price rises at the end of the year, economists have said. Some economists are expecting the rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation to have risen in…...
The philosopher who says big tech has got superintelligence wrong
5+ hour, 37+ min ago (327+ words) OpenAI founder Sam Altman has said we will have created artificial superintelligence by 2030. Elon Musk, owner of xAI, predicts we'll have digital superintelligence this year. "But what is human intelligence?" asks Trumbull. "It goes beyond just puzzle- and problem-solving. "There's…...
Four Lions star says he was asked about terrorism by airport security
7+ hour, 36+ min ago (526+ words) Actor Adeel Akhtar says he was asked if he was linked to terrorist organisations by airport security when he travelled with his girlfriend to an audition in New York. The Four Lions star told BBC Radio 4s Desert Island Discs he…...
Jenrick’s defection strategy calls him ‘new sheriff in town’ – reports
8+ hour, 39+ min ago (867+ words) Robert Jenrick's media plan for his defection to Reform reportedly refers to him as "the new sheriff in town" and "the biggest defection story" Nigel Farage's party has ever had. The leaked plan references the defection of former Tory chancellor…...
Health board accepts probable link between infections and hospital water system
10+ hour, 50+ min ago (492+ words) A health board has accepted that there was probably a "causal connection" between infections suffered by patients and the water system at a flagship hospital. The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry has been examining the design and construction of the Queen Elizabeth…...