Local man Matthew Mulhern is currently running from John O’Groats to Lands End in 30 days. He is half way at the moment, having run on average 30 miles a day for 15 days straight.
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MOSCOW, April 2 (Reuters) – Students across Russia are being offered large financial incentives to join drone units fighting in Ukraine as operators and engineers, while companies in Russia’s central Ryazan region have been given quotas to sign up workers for the army, documents show. The recruitment effort, which comes as Russian forces continue to

STOCKHOLM, April 2 (Reuters) – Sweden will buy air defence and anti-drone systems worth 8.7 billion Swedish crowns ($916 million) from among others Saab and BAE Systems, the country’s defence minister said on Thursday. “It is more important than ever to invest in air defence capabilities,” Pal Jonson said, in a statement. “Protection against threats

Jen Shah spent some of her time behind bars with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, but the former reality TV star said they had “limited interactions.” “I worked at recreation, and she would come in to work out,” Shah, 52, said during an interview with People published on Wednesday, April 1. “But her experience there

Russian soldiers at home have been killing, maiming, raping and looting at record rates since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Moscow’s garrison military courts have seen a more than tenfold increase in murder cases involving servicemen in the past few years. They received 729 such cases between 2022 and 2025, compared to

Micron (NASDAQ: MU) stock recorded big gains in Wednesday’s trading thanks to bullish catalysts on two important fronts. The memory-chip company’s share price ended the day’s trading up 8.9% amid the backdrop of a 0.7% jump for the S&P 500 and a 1.1% gain for the Nasdaq Composite. The stock had been up as much

The race for control at Gateshead Council is heating up ahead of polling day, May 7 Gateshead Civc Centre(Image: Gateshead Civc Centre) Liberal Democrats in Gateshead say that control of the town is now a straight fight between themselves and Reform UK. At the opposition party’s local election manifesto launch on Tuesday evening, Lib Dem

Regions across England and Wales are set to receive up to £20 million each in fresh government funding to accelerate innovation and drive local economic growth, as ministers push to strengthen the UK’s regional technology and industrial base. The investment, delivered through the Local Innovation Partnerships Fund, forms part of a wider £500 million programme

Iñaki Godoy as Monkey D. Luffy in Netflix’s hit series “One Piece.” Netflix Netflix turned around and pulled a surprise move after collecting a $2.8 billion breakup fee from Paramount Skydance for stepping aside in the bidding war for Warner Bros Discovery — rolling out price increases across all of its streaming tiers in the

FLEMINGSBURG, Ky. (FOX 56) — A GoFundMe campaign has been set up for one of the four students who were involved in a devastating car crash Saturday. On March 28, officials with Fleming County High School announced on social media that four students—Megan Edmond, Brady Applegate, Alex Womack, and Emma Black—were involved in a serious

ImaWikimedia.ge Credit: Santeri Viinamäki, CC BY-SA 4.0, Russia’s oil story has taken a sharp and unexpected turn. What initially looked like a financial lifeline driven by global tensions is now colliding with a new and costly threat from Ukraine, creating ripple effects that extend far beyond energy markets and into the global automotive ecosystem. When

A van crashed in Medway on Wednesday morning during a pursuit involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, prompting temporary road closures in the area. Officers responded to the area of West Street and Fisher Street after receiving multiple calls reporting unmarked law enforcement vehicles traveling at a high rate of speed, Medway Police Chief

An Allbirds Inc. store in San Francisco. (Bloomberg ) Allbirds, an eco-friendly shoe company that won over Silicon Valley, was sold a fraction of the $4 billion it was once worth. The shoe brand said this week that it is selling all of its assets to American Exchange Group, a brand management company, for $39

The historic East Coast Blizzard of 2026 smashed all-time records in Rhode Island, and was the heaviest snowstorm in at least a decade in several other cities, including New York City. This storm was named Winter Storm Hernando by The Weather Channel. All-Time Records Smashed The heaviest snow totals from Hernando were in a swath

The workers for the company that supplies the hard top roofs for Ford Broncos and roof parts for other Detroit Three vehicles will be joining the UAW. On March 31, the union confirmed that workers at Webasto Detroit in Plymouth Township voted 276 to 133 in a National Labor Relations Board election in favor of

NEED TO KNOW The Bidens recently adopted Boo and Scout, two Lab mix puppies from a Tennessee shelter Humane Animal Partners (HAP) facilitated the adoption, ensuring the puppies were a good match for the Bidens’ home HAP says the Bidens consulted a dog trainer and veterinarian before the adoption Humane Animal Partners (HAP), a Delaware-based

Russia’s armed forces have taken control of the entire Luhansk region of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed Wednesday, but a Kyiv military official denied the claim as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepared for talks with U.S. envoys trying to mediate an end to Moscow’s invasion. “Units of the Group of Forces West have completed

Iran on Wednesday rejected statements made by United States President Donald Trump regarding a ceasefire. Trump said he had replied that he would consider a ceasefire if the Strait of Hormuz was “open, free and clear.” (AFP) Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson said Trump’s remarks claiming Tehran requested for a ceasefire were “false and baseless”, Reuters

I’ve been closely following the oil market for over a decade. Despite my extensive industry knowledge, I have no idea where oil prices will go from here. I can easily see a scenario where oil tops $200 a barrel if the war escalates and there are indefinite closures to the Strait of Hormuz and the

SARAJEVO, April 1 (Reuters) – Bosnians woke with heavy heads and light hearts on Wednesday, buoyed by their soccer team’s dramatic playoff shootout win over Italy that sent them to the World Cup finals for only the second time. Celebrations went late into the night on Tuesday after teenager Esmir Bajraktarevic squeezed his penalty past

MOSCOW, April 1 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy should have taken the difficult decision to withdraw his forces from the Donbas area “yesterday” in order to end what it called the “hot phase” of the war. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the comment a day after Zelenskiy said