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Getty Images Stornoway is one of the selected communities Fourteen Scottish communities have been named as those sharing £280m of revitalisation funding. The UK government announced in September there would be up to £5bn of investment for 339 “overlooked” communities across the UK to spend on high streets, parks and …

👉 Follow Trump100 on your podcast app 👈  A significant escalation in tensions between the US and Venezuela. On Wednesday, Donald Trump announced that his military had seized an oil tanker off the coast of the South American country. Then, a day later, the president says a land invasion is …

On Thursday evening, with White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks looking over his shoulder, Donald Trump signed an executive order aiming to grab unilateral power over regulating artificial intelligence for the federal government. The order can’t by itself unilaterally override state AI laws, but it directs federal agencies …

👉 Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app 👈 Westminster is restless, and the team are digging into why. Beth, Ruth and Harriet discuss the growing unease inside Labour, as somebody new joins the cabinet table. They also go over the damning findings of Baroness Amos’s …

Joe McFaddenHealth reporter Rose Stokes Rose Stokes is a freelance journalist and mother of two After giving birth to her second child, Rose Stokes was exhausted all the time. “I couldn’t really do anything more than the bare minimum in terms of looking after my kids. I’d put them down …

An inquiry into the role of the UK government’s economic forecaster is being launched by a group of MPs, after the body came under intense scrutiny in the run-up to the Budget. The Treasury Committee will examine the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) first 15 years and consider potential reforms, …

Reddit has launched a challenge in Australia’s highest court against the nation’s landmark social media ban for children. The online forum is among 10 social media platforms which must bar Australians aged under 16 from having accounts, under a new law which began on Wednesday. The ban, which is being …

The US has imposed fresh sanctions on six more ships said to be carrying Venezuelan oil, a day after seizing a tanker off the country’s coast. Sanctions have also been placed on some of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s relatives and businesses associated with what Washington calls his illegitimate regime. White …

Hell is skateboarding, or whatever Jean-Paul Sartre said. Some PlayStation Plus subscribers can now pick up a board and grind across the underworld as a demon in the devilishly unique skateboarding game Skate Story. In addition, Sony plans to add other games to the service on Dec. 16. PlayStation Plus …

PA Media The incident happened in Shaftesbury Avenue in central London A motorist accused of a Christmas Day rampage in London’s West End which left one man dead and others injured has admitted he was driving like a “bat out of hell”, but said he did not intend to hurt …

Van Zyl was quick to praise the potential centurions. “If you think about the last few weeks we’ve had a few debutants and then the ones who’ve walked a mile to get to 100 caps,” he told BBC Sport Wales. “It’s a pleasure to work with those boys, they take …

Magnificent burning skies greeted people across parts of the North East and Cumbria. Photographer Owen Humphreys from the Press Association was one of those early risers who captured the moment in Cullercoats, North Tyneside, as two swimmers entered the sea. BBC weather presenter Paul Mooney said the spectacle had been …

A man has been arrested after police seized 38kg of illegal frozen bushmeat including pangolins, cane rats and porcupines, the food safety watchdog has said. Officers from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the Metropolitan Police found the bushmeat at a site in Deptford, southeast London, on 5 December. Bushmeat …

This year’s HebCelt music festival generated £4.4m for Isle of Lewis’ economy, according to a new report. The four-day event in July was described the “most successful ever“, with more than 18,500 people flocking to Stornoway to watch artists including Lulu, Skerryvore and Eddi Reader. Organisers said their economic impact …

This year’s HebCelt music festival generated £4.4m for Isle of Lewis’ economy, according to a new report. The four-day event in July was described the “most successful ever“, with more than 18,500 people flocking to Stornoway to watch artists including Lulu, Skerryvore and Eddi Reader. Organisers said their economic impact …

Getty Images Murdo Fraser had threatened legal action against the police Conservative MSP Murdo Fraser has received an apology from Police Scotland after the force recorded one of his social media posts as a “hate incident”. Fraser likened identifying as non-binary to identifying “as a cat” in November 2023, in …

Watch: Record-setting floods hit the United States’ Pacific Northwest causing evacuations and rescues. Residents in the Pacific Northwest of the US and Canada are bracing for what could be record setting floods as an atmospheric river dumps heavy rain on already swollen rivers. The US National Weather Service warns that …

BBC The former Tory MP said current and previous governments “promise all sorts and deliver the opposite” A former Conservative MP and ex-council leader has joined Reform UK. Ben Bradley, who has spent the past year out of politics after losing his Mansfield seat in 2024, confirmed he was joining …

Watch: Video shows US military seizing oil tanker off Venezuela coast A US helicopter flies low over a hazy blue sea as it approaches a massive ship. It hovers as camouflaged soldiers holding rifles swing down ropes to the vessel’s deck. The video, released by the US government, shows the …

[ Cuffless devices to measure blood pressure, such as smartwatches, rings, patches and fingertip monitors, show great promise as alternatives to traditional arm-cuff monitors, however, they are not yet proven accurate enough to diagnose high blood pressure or guide treatment decisions, according to a new scientific statement published in Hypertension. …