Noora Mykkanen Published April 2, 2026 9:11pm Updated April 3, 2026 11:17am
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Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that took over the world and would eventually lead to us. And it happened millions of years earlier than researchers thought. More than 700 fossils found in southwestern […]
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The pesky wait for a bus could be a little less uncertain after Google Maps launched a new tracking feature. If you have ever relied on a bus outside a city or town, you know how grinding the wait can be, with buses often being cancelled seemingly without a reason, one after another. In London, […]
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New Spurs coach Roberto De Zerbi has apologised for past comments in which he described Mason Greenwood as a “good guy”. The new Tottenham boss said he was “sorry if I offended” anybody and always defended the “more fragile” in society, in his first interview since joining the club. Greenwood joined Marseille from Manchester United […]
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Reports on April Fools’ Day of the death of the world’s oldest living land animal — a 193-year-old tortoise called Jonathan — were greatly exaggerated. Jonathan is still kicking — albeit slowly — on the island of St. Helena. “It was a hoax,” Anne Dillon, head of communications on the island, told The Associated Press […]
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Noora Mykkanen Published April 2, 2026 5:10pm Updated April 2, 2026 9:27pm Travel on the London Underground has ground to a halt after a smorgasbord of issues on the network this afternoon. Commuters hoping for a smooth and painless journey home were sorely disappointed after a variety of disruptions on Tube and Overground lines. Over […]
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A young girl and a man riding in a pony and trap have died in a collision with a truck in Kent. The truck collided with the horse-drawn carriage while travelling in the same direction on the A228 Boyle Way in East Peckham at 6.25pm on Wednesday. A 29-year-old man from Kent who was driving […]
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Two new cycle routes have been proposed as alternative ways to ride across central London after Oxford Street is pedestrianised. Cyclists will be banned from the traffic-free section of Oxford Street once its western section – between Ikea and Selfridges – is pedestrianised by the end of the summer. Westminster City Council has drawn up […]
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Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay, right, made the comments during a campaign stop with his party’s education spokesperson Miles Briggs (Nick Forbes/PA) The Scottish Conservatives would return the country’s education system to its “world-leading status”, the party’s leader has pledged. Speaking at a campaign event near Edinburgh on Thursday, Russell Findlay said the SNP had […]
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More than 300 small boat migrants arrived in the UK on Wednesday, after two people died attempting the deadly journey. French authorities rescued 111 people across several different incidents, as migrants successfully crossed the English Channel for the first time since March 23. Rescuers pulled eight people on to a boat at Gravelines, near Calais, […]
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