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Oxfordshire's new cycling champion has been named and tasked with making the county better for cyclists.
The musician, nicknamed "Fletch", founded the band in Basildon, Essex, in 1980. Depeche Mode have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and have had international chart success with songs including Personal Jesus and Just Can't Get Enough. Fletcher's cause of death has not yet been reported.
One of the government's most loyal ministers has warned that a windfall tax on oil and gas companies will not be "economically cost-free". The tax was announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak as part of a £21bn support package aimed at helping people cope with the rising cost of living.
Emergency works in Shore Road originally planned for two days will now last for two weeks.
A one-off emergency food voucher scheme has been announced today
Britain has declared war on space junk with a litter-picking spacecraft designed to retrieve dead satellites.
Study finds pacific rattlesnakes, which can’t control their own temperature, prefer places where the climate averages 80F
Lawyers hope to appeal against decision to block access to documents about Timor-Leste espionage operation
Camley’s Cartoon: Cost of living cash
What better way to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee than with a terribly British afternoon tea - here are the best places to get one according to Tripadvisor reviews.
Senegal's President Macky Sall fired his health minister on Thursday as his country mourned the death of 11 newborn babies in a hospital fire blamed on an electrical short circuit.
Severe storms produced at least one tornado in North Carolina on Thursday, May 26, the National Weather Service (NWS) reported.This footage of storm clouds was posted by Kelly Meade, who said he shot it between Kingstown and Polkville in Cleveland County on Thursday evening.The NWS said Meade’s footage of Thursday’s “scary-looking storm” shows a “low-hanging wall cloud with evidence of rotation.”On Friday, the service confirmed that an EF-2 tornado hit Iredell County around 7 pm the previous evening with estimated peak winds of 115 mph.Over the course of Thursday’s weather event, the NWS station servicing the greater Greenville-Spartanburg area issued a total of 11 tornado warnings, nine flash flood warnings, and eight severe thunderstorm warnings. Credit: Kelly Meade via Storyful
Councillor Anthony Okereke took charge yesterday as leader of Greenwich Council.
A Ukrainian coal miner, completely starved of information, thought he might be able to reason with Russian forces blocking the last good road running out of his war-scarred city on the eastern front.
KYIV/POPASNA, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Friday its forces may need to retreat from their last pocket of resistance in Luhansk to avoid being captured by Russian troops pressing an advance in the east that has shifted the momentum of the three-month-old war. A withdrawal could bring Russian President Vladimir Putin closer to his goal of capturing Ukraine's Luhansk and Donetsk regions in full. Luhansk's governor, Serhiy Gaidai, said Russian troops had entered Sievierodonetsk, the largest Donbas city still held by Ukraine, after trying to trap Ukrainian forces there for days.
Families grieving from the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas will be getting a visit from comfort dogs from Central Florida.
The Chancellor set out a £15 billion emergency package to help ease the cost-of-living crisis.
Children evacuated from severely flooded school in Ghana
YORK RUFC head coach Lee Denham has emphasised that his team “need to make sure people are worried when they come to Clifton Park.”
People are missing out on immigration status they are entitled to because of shortfall, says report’s author