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Wunmi Mosaku reveals pregnancy on Golden Globes red carpet
Sinners star Wunmi Mosaku has said she hopes the vulnerability and anxiety of pregnancy is “truly honoured” as she revealed she is expecting her second child on the Golden Globes red carpet. The British-Nigerian actress, 39, who stars in the action horror alongside Michael B Jordan, was dressed ...
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Charity shop staff ‘thrilled’ as rare edition of The Hobbit fetches £3,000
Staff at a Stirling charity shop have said they are “thrilled” after an extremely rare edition of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit fetched a record £3,000. The much-loved classic was tucked among a pile of old children’s books that was donated to the Oxfam bookshop on Murray Place. While most were ...
Simon Harris to meet California governor Gavin Newsom during US visit
The Tanaiste is to meet with California governor Gavin Newsom as part of a visit to the US state. Simon Harris flew to California on Sunday for a visit his department is billing as “strengthening Ireland’s economic partnership with the United States”. Mr Harris will meet with IDA and Enterpris...
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Darren Fletcher urges Man Utd players not to waste the season after FA Cup exit
Interim boss Darren Fletcher challenged Manchester United’s players to prove they deserve to be at the club and ensure this is not a wasted season following Sunday’s FA Cup exit to Brighton. A topsy-turvy campaign hit further turbulence at the end of a week that started with Ruben Amorim’s sac...
Darren Fletcher urges Man Utd players not to waste the season after FA Cup exit
Interim boss Darren Fletcher challenged Manchester United’s players to prove they deserve to be at the club and ensure this is not a wasted season following Sunday’s FA Cup exit to Brighton. A topsy-turvy campaign hit further turbulence at the end of a week that started with Ruben Amorim’s sac...
Snow melt and heavy rain could lead to flooding after storm – forecasters
Heavy rain and melting snow and ice could lead to flooding in the wake of Storm Goretti, the Met Office has warned. It comes after the storm brought gusts of almost 100mph and a rare red warning for “dangerous, stormy” winds in the South West was issued by forecasters last week. As temperatures ...
Snow melt and heavy rain could lead to flooding after storm – forecasters
Heavy rain and melting snow and ice could lead to flooding in the wake of Storm Goretti, the Met Office has warned. It comes after the storm brought gusts of almost 100mph and a rare red warning for “dangerous, stormy” winds in the South West was issued by forecasters last week. As temperatures ...
Record-breaking brothers who rowed from Peru to Australia perform gig atop munro
A trio of record-breaking brothers performed a concert atop a mountain peak in the Scottish Highlands ahead of a festival. Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan Maclean, from Edinburgh, carried their accordion, bagpipes and guitar 3,196 feet up Ben Lomond, near Loch Lomond on Thursday. The trio, known for recentl...
Drag Race UK star talks doing drag as The Traitors’ Claudia Winkleman: ‘She said it was magnificent’
A drag queen who starred in RuPaul’s Drag Race UK has achieved viral fame for playing Claudia Winkleman in drag on social media and said “if the call ever came for Traitors, you can guarantee I will be there”. Paige Three, a 29-year-old drag queen from Guildford, Surrey, has been honing her cr...
Average home seller last year ‘gained £91,260 more than they paid’
London has replaced the north-east of England as the region where people selling a home are most likely to get less than they paid for it, analysis by a property firm suggests. Hamptons, whose research included English regions and Wales, estimated that in 2025, 14.8% of London sellers sold their hom...
Newborns with jaundice treated at home in sleeping bag-style garment
Newborn babies with jaundice can now be treated at home in a special sleeping bag-style garment following the launch of a Hospital at Home service by Scotland’s biggest health board. The service enables babies who meet the clinical criteria to receive phototherapy using the garment, which emits th...
39% of adults want to see ultra-processed foods banned – survey
Two thirds of UK adults believe the next generation will suffer poorer health due to ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and 39% would like to see them banned, a survey suggests. Some 59% of adults believe UPFs are “impossible to avoid” when shopping on a budget, the study for retailer Lakeland found. ...
Bird, butterfly and dragonfly numbers soar at flagship rewilding project
A flagship rewilding project has seen an explosion in wildlife since it began, with bird numbers increasing tenfold in the past two decades, monitoring shows. A 20-year ecological review at Knepp in West Sussex shows soaring numbers of red-listed birds such as nightingales, while the variety of butt...
One bad Budget could spell end of high street as we know it, says retail body
One bad Budget could be the end of the high street as we know it, a retail body has claimed, as the Government is set to lay out its spending plans. The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) has called for a permanent relief to business rates for retail businesses, along with a pledge not to levy any new...
Experts use ‘filler’ treatment to restore sight in people with rare condition
People with a rare and untreatable condition that causes blindness have had their sight restored with injections of a low-cost gel used in most eye surgeries. The process, which restores pressure in the eye to improve vision, is “not dissimilar to cosmetic fillers”, specialists said. One patient...
Care sector may become ‘irreparably broken’ without more support, union says
More support is needed for the care sector in the next Budget or it may become “irreparably broken”, a union has warned. Unite the Union says NHS Scotland reportedly spent £440 million on hospital beds, with one in nine occupied by patients who could not leave hospital due to delayed discharge ...
Derry Death Notices - Monday, January 12, 2026
Latest Derry obituaries and death notices The following deaths have occurred:- • Daniel (Danny) Kelly, 9 Tullanee Road, Eglinton • Edith Law, Belfast (Formerly of Coleraine • Joseph (Joe) McElroy, 7 Mount Pleasant, Derry • Rita McGurk (née O’Neill), 20 Golf Terrace, Magherafelt • Pauli...
Simon Harris to meet California governor Gavin Newsom during US visit
The Tanaiste is to meet with California governor Gavin Newsom as part of a visit to the US state. Simon Harris flew to California on Sunday for a visit his department is billing as “strengthening Ireland’s economic partnership with the United States”. Mr Harris will meet with IDA and Enterpris...
Woman who lost vision from rare condition hails ‘phenomenal’ new treatment
A woman who lost her vision due to a rare condition before having her sight restored with injections that pumped up her eye has described the treatment as “phenomenal”. Nicki Guy suffers from hypotony – or low eye pressure – and was the first patient to have her eye injected with a low-cost ...
Two in five people ‘expect finances to worsen in year ahead’
Nearly 100,000 people have visited StepChange’s website since the start of 2026, the charity has reported. On January 5, the first Monday of 2026, StepChange Debt Charity had its busiest day in more than a year. Some 800 clients went through debt advice, which is higher than any day in 2025, the c...