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Oct 16, 2025 - World

Premium charge aims to combat steep rise in SUVs and other larger vehicles which are ‘a danger to other road users’Cardiff council will force drivers with larger vehicles to pay more for parking, becoming the first local authority in the UK to impose a parking premium to combat the dangers of larger vehicles.Councillors voted on Thursday to approve a new parking plan for the city whereby owners of larger vehicles will be charged more for parking permits because their cars “take up more parking space and are a danger to other road users”. Continue reading...

Oct 16, 2025 - World

Kanchha Sherpa was the last surviving member of the 1953 expedition that saw Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa become the first to summit the world's highest mountain.

Oct 16, 2025 - World

Trustees working with legal and financial advisers as artists claim repeated emails have been ignoredManchester Pride has said it is “determining the best way forward” with legal and financial advisers after allegations that its performers have not been paid.One of Europe’s biggest LGBTQ+ Pride events issued a statement after performers who took part in this year’s three-day festival claimed they are owed thousands in unpaid fees. Continue reading...

Oct 16, 2025 - World

Rishi Samaroo and Chad ‘Charpo’ Joseph believed to have been on boat Trump alleged was carrying drugs to USFamily members and neighbours have identified two men from Trinidad and Tobago who are believed to be among six people killed in a US airstrike on a boat allegedly transporting drugs from Venezuela.Without providing evidence, Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the strike in international waters had killed six “narcoterrorists” and claimed that “intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics” and said that it was “associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks”. Continue reading...

Oct 16, 2025 - World

Presiding bishop Olav Fykse Tveit says discrimination and harassment should ‘never have happened’Against a backdrop of red stage curtains at one of Oslo’s most prominent LGBTQ+ spaces, the Church of Norway apologised for the discrimination and harm it had inflicted.“The church in Norway has caused LGBTQ+ people shame, great harm and pain,” the presiding bishop, Olav Fykse Tveit, said on Thursday. “This should never have happened and that is why I apologise today.” Continue reading...