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A new government campaign will encourage households to keep tinned food, bottled water and basic supplies for cyberattacks, floods, extreme heat and other national emergencies. Britain has reached the emergency cupboard stage.
After reported disorder involving more than 100 young people at Hanley, unaccompanied under-16s now need an adult on 32 services after 6pm. Britain’s wholesome summer scheme has reached the consequences stage.
Britain is buying second-hand clothes, furniture and household goods in enormous quantities. Yet some of the country's biggest charities are shrinking their high-street networks. It looks like a contradiction. Economically, it isn't.
Six years after escaping the Firm, Harry and Meghan are returning to Britain as private citizens. No royal duties, no palace and no half-in, half-out — just the world’s most expensive family disagreement moving back within shouting distance.
Luka the Japanese macaque escaped Highland Wildlife Park, triggered a full search operation, tasted freedom in the Scottish Highlands and then apparently decided captivity wasn't such a bad deal after all.
The all-marble venue’s first deep clean in more than a century is tackling chewing gum, soft-drink stains and history’s longest-running “I’ll do it next weekend.”
After his mum lost her home, treasured possessions and generations of family photographs, Andrew Reynolds delivered Britain’s shortest emergency briefing: “Sort it the hell out.”