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Aston Villa have threatened to throw any fans out of Villa Park if 'political messages or flags' are displayed during next month's Europa League match against Maccabi Tel Avivi.

This seems to be a common problem at UK airports, where both private parking firms and local authorities are enforcing different parts of the same patch of Tarmac.

The Beaufort Research survey found Nigel Farage's party were backed by 30 per cent of Welsh voters - up five percentage points from a previous poll in June.

Everyone knows a good pair of jeans are hard to find. With a seemingly never-ending pool of brands and styles, it can be overwhelming to even begin the search for the perfect fit.

Amazon's hours-long cloud blackout transformed the future of sleep into a sauna and cat care into chaos

When Amazon's cloud face-planted on Monday, it didn't just take down some of the world's most popular apps – it took down dignity, comfort, and the occasional cat toilet.…

Grey hairs and fine lines are one thing, but a stubborn little strand starting to poke its way out of your chin? That's a symptom of ageing few of us are happy to accept.

What do you think of when you picture the Netherlands? The winding waterways of Amsterdam? The Dutch architecture that lines the streets of Rotterdam? European cobbled streets?

London police finally understand why 80,000 phones disappeared from the city's streets last year. The answer involves budget cuts [non-paywalled source] that hollowed out British policing in the 2010s, the arrival of electric bikes that made theft easy, and a lucrative black market in China where stolen British phones retain full functionality. The Metropolitan Police discovered an industrial-scale operation in December when officers traced a woman's iPhone to a Heathrow warehouse on Christmas Eve. Boxes labeled as batteries and bound for Hong Kong contained almost 1,000 stolen iPhones. The police arrested two men in their thirties in September as suspected ringleaders of a group that sent up to 40,000 stolen phones to China. The epidemic took root after Conservative-led austerity measures reduced police numbers and budgets. In 2017 the Metropolitan Police announced it would stop investigating low-level crimes to focus resources on serious violence and sexual offenses. Thieves on rented electric bikes began mounting sidewalks to snatch phones at high speed while wearing balaclavas and hoods. Police data shows only 495 people were charged out of 106,000 phones reported stolen between March 2024 and February 2025. Thieves earn up to $401 per device. The phones sell for up to $5,000 in China because Chinese network providers do not subscribe to the international blacklist for stolen devices.

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The price of bullion tumbled 5% to $4,120 an ounce on Tuesday having hit an all-time peak of $4,381 on Monday.

The 21-year-old son of Jade and Jeff Brazier announced he was set to become a father last month as his then ex partner Holly Swinburn was pregnant.

Slater Jones, 23, had a two-carat diamond fitted into his custom prosthetic eye, which he says cost around $2 million (£1.45 million) to create.

The 45-year-old, named as businessman Vicente Dominguez, has been described locally as someone who was well-known to police. (Pictured: File photo of bin truck in Palma de Mallorca)

Anglian Water has warned the driest spring and summer since 1976 is putting long-term pressure on water supplies in the East of England.

Anglian Water has warned the driest spring and summer since 1976 is putting long-term pressure on water supplies in the East of England.

Witham MP Priti Patel helped launch the 2025 Poppy Appeal at the annual Poppy Prom.

An application for a memorial plaque to be placed at the scene of a lorry which was carrying chickens and caught on fire has been rejected.

Locals had some great things to say about the new pub

The Met says it will end the practice of investigating non-crime incidents after dropping a case against Graham Linehan over tweets he made about trans activists.

24,500 devs polled, two blog posts, one confusion

JetBrains has released its State of the Developer Ecosystem survey, with more than 24,500 responses, revealing AI's impact on developer tools and programming language trends - including the claim that PHP and Ruby are in "long term decline."…

Over 16,600 people across the UK reached the milestone in 2024, according to the ONS. It means the number of centenarians has more than doubled since 2004.