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Age UK Ashira Zaneb and Rick Hartley helped overhaul the charity shop in Northenden Charity shop manager Ashira Zaneb decided to completely abandon the traditional layout of her store in Greater Manchester for something resembling a designer shop. The interior design graduate said she want the shop in Northenden to …

Alice Cullinane & Rebecca WoodsWest Midlands Omelia and Oliver Jewels Omelia & Oliver Jewels is among companies reported to Facebook for misleading and AI generated adverts Facebook owner Meta has been accused of allowing misleading companies to “run rampant” on its platforms, as dozens of people say they have fallen …

Hitchin in Hertfordshire does well in the polls. On the edge of the Chilterns and 30 minutes from central London by train, it’s Britain’s most expensive market town for first-time buyers. It’s also been voted one of the top 10 best, and top 20 happiest, places to live in the …

I’m starting to get questions from friends, family members and strangers about the iPhone 17, iOS 26 and even the new AirPods Pro 3. Maybe I just look like a knowledgeable guy, or they see my bright orange iPhone 17 Pro and are compelled to ask. So now I’m fielding queries such as, “How …

Abhishek Dey Women in Rangpuri Pahari slum fear costly trips home to stay on India’s voter rolls A sense of anxiety grips Rangpuri Pahari, a slum in India’s capital Delhi. The neighbourhood houses thousands of migrant workers who have lived hand-to-mouth for decades, mostly employed in the unorganised sector as …

A charity is giving away blankets and duvets to residents this winter after experiencing a “massive influx” of donations. Diamond Hampers, of Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, said it had accumulated a surplus of supplies despite already distributing goods to local homeless shelters and families. The charity, which provides food aid and …

Steffan Messenger,Wales environment correspondent and Ellie Carter,BBC Wales Postance Poultry Kate Postance is keeping her free-range turkeys inside to protect them from avian flu A poultry farmer fears there would be “no way back” for her business if her birds contracted avian flu. Tens of thousands of turkeys and chickens …

Hawley’s Auctioneers A 1937 Robert “Mouseman” Thompson table has been sold at auction A school facing closure has auctioned off two 1930s “Mouseman” dining tables for a combined total of £78,000. Auctioneers Hawleys said it believed one of the tables, belonging to Moorlands School in Leeds, had sold for a …

A Renaissance painting found underneath a garage workbench has sold for more than half a million pounds at an auction house in Banbury. In a 15-minute bidding battle at JS Fine Art auctioneers, a painting depicting the Madonna and Child went for £685,000. The painting is believed to be by …

8.3/ 10 SCORE Segway E3 Pro Pros Well-designed electric scooter for urban commuters and students Fairly affordable Dual suspension Easy to fold and reasonably light Extra features typical of more premium scooters Cons Not enough power for heavier riders Deck may be a tad short and narrow Kickstand is better …

Apple’s latest “piece of cloth” — the iPhone Pocket woven sling — sure got people riled up online over its high cost when it debuted last week and sold out quickly worldwide. But this isn’t the first time Apple has put some eye-popping price tags on its products. Last week, I had some …

Where’s the Trump Phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. While we wait, we tried to order a Trump Mobile SIM card so we can test the service on a different device. Here’s how that went. Signing up for Trump Mobile’s wireless service felt a little like …

Kevin Shoesmith/BBC Owner Lee Chester says traditional fish and chip shops are under pressure from takeaways Fish and chip shops are fast morphing into general takeaways just to stay afloat due to a perfect storm of changing tastes and spiralling costs, an official trade body has warned. The National Federation …

A surrealist painting from the 1940s by Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m (£41.8m) – shattering the auction record for an artwork by a female artist. The painting went for more than 1,000 times its original auction price in 1980, after a tense bidding battle between two collectors, according to …

Toto Wolff has sold 15% of his shareholding in the Mercedes Formula 1 team to American billionaire George Kurtz. Kurtz, 55, is the founder of the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, which is a sponsor of Mercedes. The deal values Mercedes F1 at $6bn (£4.6bn), a record for an F1 team. McLaren …

Our basement bedroom has a huge desktop computer that we never, ever touch — except to dust. Why are we keeping it? A recent CNET survey found that nearly a third of us are hoarding old electronics, because figuring out how to get rid of them feels like a huge pain. But …

Josh Martin,Business reporter and Sean Farrington,Business presenter Barry Cronin Taxes on electric vehicles may put drivers off buying them at a time when demand has “lost momentum”, Ford’s UK boss has warned. It comes after the BBC reported Chancellor Rachel Reeves could be considering new levies on EVs in the …

M&S has defended the price of a £195 beef wellington made by chef Tom Kerridge. Some online are unhappy with the cost of the Collection Fillet of British Beef Wellington, which serves six people – yet despite the price, it’s nearly sold out. “It’s not just overspending on Christmas, it’s …

This time I’m really going to do it. I am going to put Linux on my gaming PC. Calling it now. 2026 is the year of Linux on the desktop. Or at least on mine. Linux has been a perfectly viable desktop OS for ages. But gaming on Linux is …

A painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust has become the most expensive piece of modern art and the second most expensive painting ever sold at auction. The Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, was bought for $236.4m (£180m) by an …