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Crime and Justice

Are Domestic Abuse Protection Orders the success we need them to be?

North West England businesses urged to consider how they use AI

Green technologies used in China: the West falls behind

Celebrities join The Proud trust for the #DeserveBetter Campaign

ADVENT

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To the world…that’s my pyara Pakistan

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The Harris Museum has a 90% accreditation score, but for what exactly?

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Uncovering child sexual abuse in Ireland

TRUTH IS POWER – NOMINATE AN ORGANISATION FOR SCRUTINY

NEWS

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Holding Light: A dance production by Fallen Angels recovering from addiction

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Self monitoring: Britons embrace DIY health checks

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To the world…that’s my pyara Pakistan

REGIONAL STORIES

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Deadline looms for popular care homes

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Greater Manchester

River Irwell: green and milky contamination

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‘Calendar Girls The Musical’ at Theatre by the Lake

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Stop the sheep, ban them from Pendle Hill?

ENVIRONMENT

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Heat Wave

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Feeding penguins as a reward in a zoo marketing competition

READERS' LETTERS

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Letters to the editor

REGULAR FEATURES

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Reactions to Earth’s Follies: Week 7. Dispatches from Mars: Observing Earth’s Latest Lunacy

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EDUCATION

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Rossendale Rugby Club featured in Year of Sport campaign

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Lifelong nursing dream comes true for mum Emma

HEALTH and CORONAVIRUS

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Why is NHS hospital food so bad?

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Zero alcohol consumption policy in Liverpool University Hospitals

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“Problems will remain” – public pessimism after the COVID-19 inquiry

BUSINESS

Four houses in a row

Greater Manchester

Wigan change of rules: planning permission now needed for small HMOs

Greater Manchester

Andy Burnham is right about buses

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Shutting down the Winter Hill TV transmitter would leave UK ‘vulnerable’

WORLD

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Fly Over Norway at The Mall of America!

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The Hormuz ‘dry run’: life without oil and petrochemicals

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The magic of May Day in Powderhorn Park

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Met Gala 2026: Costume art with a spectacular twist

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HUGO BOSS faces mounting pressure over Pakistan Accord exit

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The day Pakistan surprised everyone

OPINION

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Earth’s Follies – Week 76: Fourth terms, and gold statues

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Earth’s Follies – Week 75: we see tariffs and more football controversy

READERS' LETTERS

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Dear Xylb’tok – letters to Mars

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Are Domestic Abuse Protection Orders the success we need them to be?

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North West England businesses urged to consider how they use AI

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Green technologies used in China: the West falls behind

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Celebrities join The Proud trust for the #DeserveBetter Campaign

Six dancers in casual clothes form a stacked lift on a dark stage, supporting one dancer horizontally amid a synchronized contemporary routine.

Holding Light: A dance production by Fallen Angels recovering from addiction

Little device clipped on a finger tip, that checks pulse and oxygen percentage in the blood

Self monitoring: Britons embrace DIY health checks

Wide building with a private road leading to it, and flowering bushes next to the road

Deadline looms for popular care homes

A stark image of an animal skull on the harsh sands of Algeria's Sahara Desert.

Heat Wave

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Earth’s Follies – Week 78: Greenland, Tay Tay and weaves

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To the world…that’s my pyara Pakistan

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Deva Fest 2026, so much going on …

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River Irwell: green and milky contamination

Group of women on stage all wearing black clothes, and one opens her coat

‘Calendar Girls The Musical’ at Theatre by the Lake

Cyclist riding a muddy rural path between stone fences with a flock of sheep on a grassy hill to the left.

Stop the sheep, ban them from Pendle Hill?

Rugby posts and a ball going inbetween them

Rossendale Rugby Club featured in Year of Sport campaign

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