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A council says national housing targets are “tougher” as it reviews its Local Plan amid fears developments are “swamping” the area.

A domestic abuser who struck the mother of his child and threatened to slit her throat has been given a 19-month suspended sentence.

You would think that nothing terrible ever happens in this village - but that isn't the case

The woman's son died two years ago from suicide at the age of 27 and she had wanted him to be buried near where he grew up in Sussex.

Sam Brenchley, who suffered a blow to the head by his board at Fistral Beach in Newquay, Cornwall, posted a gofundme to raise £350 after his wetsuit was cut from his body.

Robert Cooke, 65, put £900k into a firm that was developing housing, under the trusted advice of the well-known property developer Richard Hayward.

GRAPHIC IMAGE: CCTV footage captured the shocking moment a man bursted into a restaurant and began stabbing another man, before he paused to begin filming the rest of his attack.

A near unanimous 94 per cent agree that the government should rollout the life-saving checks, initially targeted at high-risk men.

Justin Bieber was spotted seeking respite in Palm Springs over the weekend, amid ongoing concerns about his health and 'troubled' marriage rumors with wife Hailey. 

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In the first flush of Beatlemania, the Fab Four were hailed as family-friendly moptops you could welcome home to your parents.

Birmingham has been plagued by ongoing bin strikes, causing streets to pile high with tons of rubbish and the problem could turn deadly as hot weather brings an increased risk of disease.

A woman has been left reeling after discovering a secret her boyfriend has been keeping for over a year.

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Dr Karl pinpoints the exact moment when our bodies undergo inevitable ageing-related changes, including a decline in metabolism and immunity.

Destiny's Child alum Michelle Williams shared a disturbing photo on her Instagram on Saturday night.

The 60-year-old man died in Stanley, County Durham, on Saturday evening in a 'truly shocking incident'.

The vehicle rammed into a crowd of people on the sidewalk, outside of the Santee Alley shopping area in the fashion district in Los Angeles, California.

Hailey Bieber is reportedly considering selling her skincare brand Rhode for $1 billion - after launching the company nearly three years earlier in June 2022.

"U.S. stock market futures plunged on Sunday evening," reports Yahoo Finance, "after the new U.S. tariff policy began collecting duties over the weekend..." The EU will vote on $28 billion in retaliatory tariffs Wednesday, Reuters reports. (And those tariffs will be approved unless "a qualified majority of 15 EU members representing 65% of the EU's population oppose it. They would enter force in two stages, a smaller part on April 15 and the rest a month later.") But France's Economy and Finance Minister has an idea: more strictly regulating how data is used by America's Big Tech companies. Politico EU reports/A>: "We may strengthen certain administrative requirements or regulate the use of data," Lombard said in an interview with Le Journal Du Dimanche. He added that another option could be to "tax certain activities," without being more specific. A French government spokesperson already said last week that the EU's retaliation against U.S. tariffs could include "digital services that are currently not taxed." That suggestion was fiercely rejected by Ireland, which hosts the European headquarters of several U.S. Big Tech firms... Technology is seen as a possible area for Europe to retaliate. The European Union has a €157 billion trade surplus in goods, which means it exports more than it imports, but it runs a deficit of €109 billion in services, including digital services. Big Tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Meta dominate many parts of the market in Europe. Amid the market turmoil, what about cryptocurrencies, often seen as a "proxy" for the level of risk felt by investors? In the 10 weeks after October 6, the price of Bitcoin skyrocketed 67% to $106,490 by December 10th. But by January 30th it had started dropping again, and now sits at $77,831 — still up 22% for the last six months, but down nearly 27% over the last 10 weeks. Yet even after all that volatility, Bitcoin suddenly fell again more than 6% on Sunday, reports Reuters, "as markets plunged amid tariff tensions. Ether, the second largest cryptocurrency, fell more than 10% on Sunday."

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