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‘She never forgot where she came from’: Bonnie Tyler mourners turn out for Swansea service

By Bethan McKernan Wales correspondent

Many in the crowd watching on screen outside minster have stories of meeting or knowing singer, who died in July Bonnie Tyler’s songs have echoed through her home town of Swansea in recent days in memory of the late singer, but on Monday the church bells stopped and wellwishers lining the streets fell silent as her coffin arrived for a service celebrating her life. As the white coffin, covered in bouquets of white ro

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Scottish FA the latest to withdraw Infantino support

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The Scottish Football Association has officially withdrawn its support for FIFA president Gianni Infantino, citing the "lack of transparency" shown over the plan to sell stakes in a World Cup company to private investors.

Lara Ricote: Inkling review – this fizzy standup’s smart new set is her best yet

By Brian Logan

Monkey Barrel Comedy, Edinburgh A show about maturing and learning to listen to life’s signals doesn’t stint on tomfoolery and has some great gags What a rich and enjoyable show this is from Lara Ricote, a leap forwards from her already-excellent first two shows. It finds the Mexican-American comic in as endearing fettle as ever, her urge to communicate bubbling over in a show about divining the messages life puts yo

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Driver dies in M6 crash between lorries and a car

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A man is dead and two others are in hospital after the crash in Staffordshire, on Monday.

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What is Ebola and why is the outbreak in DRC causing so much concern?

By Denis Campbell and Rachel Savage

Strain of virus with no vaccine has potential to overrun response impeded by conflict and misinformation Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are losing their battle to contain the country’s deadliest Ebola outbreak. DRC’s health ministry declared an outbreak in Ituri province on 15 May, though sequencing shows it had begun in February. It has since spread to five other provinces and is on track

Nicola Jennings on the UK water industry and the drought – cartoon

By Nicola Jennings

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Over 500 apply to scheme to compensate Stardust survivors

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More than 500 people have applied for the Stardust payment scheme set up for survivors of the fire, according to the latest figures from the Department of Justice.

What will be the consequence for us this winter of higher oil prices?

By Conor Pope

Many Irish households are likely to be worse off by well over €300 a year

Former FAI director of football Marc Canham lands new role with Saudi Arabian FA

By Gavin Cooney

The 43-year-old worked for the FAI for just under three years, departing in April 2025

Mrs Brown’s Boys Christmas TV specials cancelled as Brendan O’Carroll ‘breaks jaw’

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Comedian also postpones his Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Panto shows in Dublin and Killarney

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