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The dark underside of Britain’s most beautiful city: How a decades-long crime family feud has left Edinburgh terrorised by drug gangs
The Daily Mail reports that Edinburgh, recently ranked the world’s second prettiest city, is grappling with a serious surge in drug-related and gang violence beneath its tourist-friendly image. The article argues this matters because the Scottish capital is about to welcome around three million visitors for its Fringe and International Film Festivals next month, even…
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Tens of millions of pounds to be spent revamping nearly 13,000 toilets and 5,000 changing rooms across Britain so they are compliant with new guidance on single-sex spaces
Tens of millions of pounds are to be spent revamping nearly 13,000 toilets and around 5,000 changing rooms across Britain to comply with new guidance on single-sex spaces. The guidance, drawn up by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, requires services to be provided on the basis of biological sex rather than self-identified gender, and…
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Children keep dying in a country that made huge progress on measles
More than 120,000 suspected and confirmed measles cases have been reported in Bangladesh, where hospitals are overwhelmed.
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Google’s deepfake detector system used to debunk McConnell hoax pic
Google’s SynthID watermarking system has been used to expose a high-profile fake image, marking a notable success for anti-deepfake technology. An AI-generated picture purporting to show US Senator Mitch McConnell severely ill in a hospital bed spread widely on Reddit and X earlier this week, but the fact-checking site Snopes debunked it after finding the…
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Health Secretary ‘uneasy’ over puberty blockers experiment on kids as MPs raise alarm over lack of support available to patients who detransition
Health Secretary James Murray has told Parliament that he remains “uneasy” about a controversial NHS trial giving puberty blockers to children, while MPs raised concerns about the limited support available to patients who later choose to detransition. The admission matters because it exposes ministerial discomfort with a policy the Government is nonetheless allowing to proceed,…
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Sheffield family spend life savings during son’s cancer treatment – BBC
The article’s text could not be retrieved: the content provided is not the BBC report itself but a Google cookie-consent and sign-in page, listing privacy options and a long menu of language choices. As a result, no details of the story can be accurately summarised. Based on the headline alone, the piece appears to concern…
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Family’s ‘pockets empty’ after son’s cancer
A family from Sheffield have spoken out about the financial and emotional toll of their son’s cancer treatment, calling for greater support for families in similar situations. Jolanta Otlewska said she had “no choice” but to leave her job to provide round-the-clock care for her 13-year-old son Jakub, who was diagnosed with lymphoma and began…
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Michael J. Fox Lands Emmy Nomination for ‘Shrinking’ Guest Role
The ‘Back to the Future’ actor made an acting return after stepping away in 2020 due to memory and speech issues from Parkinson’s disease.
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Man killed burglar who tried to steal his drugs
Adrian Frost, a 61-year-old man running a cannabis farm at his home in Hemsworth, West Yorkshire, has been found guilty of murdering an intruder who broke in to steal his drugs. Frost used an illegally held sawn-off shotgun to shoot dead 26-year-old Connor Batty during a burglary at his property on Barnsley Road in September,…
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Marvel Officially Announces Major X-Men and Fantastic Four Crossover Ahead of ‘Doomsday’
Marvel has announced DNX, a new five-issue comic book event bringing the X-Men and the Fantastic Four together to confront a shared threat, timed ahead of the wider “Doomsday” storyline. The two teams, whose comic-book relationship has often been fractious, unite to combat the X-Virus, a menace engineered to forcibly transform ordinary humans into mutants,…