The Sentinel
Pupils' art turned into mural to smarten up community centre!
A COMMUNITY mural created from artwork by schoolchildren has been unveiled at Whitfield Valley Centre as part of celebrations of Stoke-on-Trent's centenary.
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January 12, 2026
The Sentinel
CISSE'S SIZZLER SENDS STOKE THROUGH IN CUP TIE
A LATE Lamine Cisse long-range stunner helped Stoke City knock Coventry out of the FA Cup and book a place in the fourth round.
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January 12, 2026
The Sentinel
'Our future depends on tackling child poverty'
KEY ISSUE: Eliminating child poverty will generate more savings than costs says Charlotte Atkins.
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January 12, 2026
The Sentinel
Sabalenka keeps hold of her title in Brisbane
WORLD NO.1 DROPS NO SETS ON WAY TO VICTORY
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January 12, 2026
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner
'I need an ambulance, I'm dying' - victim of stabbing told attacker
COURT TOLD HOW ROW OVER DEBT LED TO VIOLENCE
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January 12, 2026
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Explore shining gems of our Pennine crown
TOWN AND ITS SURROUNDINGS HAVE SO MUCH TO OFFER VISITORS
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January 12, 2026
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Rare classic books in for record £3k sale
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.
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January 12, 2026
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner
TV's Lorraine mourns after death of father
TV PRESENTER Lorraine Kelly has said she is “mourning” the death of her father and has asked for privacy during the “distressing” time.
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January 12, 2026
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Developers wait to build area's future
DECISIONS HAVE NOT BEEN MADE ON DOZENS OF PLANNING APPLICATIONS
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
Wegovy to launch stronger dose weight-loss jabs in UK
The UK's medicines regulator has approved a stronger dose of the weight loss jab Wegovy as demand for the drug is set to soar.
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
Defence spending lost to MoD overdraft, warns chief
The former head of the RAF has warned that increased defence spending in the UK is being “eaten up by the Ministry of Defence (MoD)’s overdraft” with the UK’s military footprint shrinking at a critical moment.
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
Embattled regime faces its gravest existential threat
Tehran has resorted to brutal violence to crush an uprising that is only going to get even more bloody
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
Hope for justice as court hears case for genocide against Rohingya people
Nearly 750,000 people fled Myanmar in 2017 as government forces tore through Rohingya villages, killing thousands of civilians, leaving a trail of alleged abuses and sexual violence.
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
Big Pharma bloodsuckers get rich from nit merry-go-round
Whenever I drop into a local pharmacy in Notting Hill, the staff look at me with huge sympathy. “Not again?”
4 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
Reeves has already 'spent £3bn of £22bn headroom'
Fears have been raised that Rachel Reeves may have already spent up to £3bn of the £22bn headroom she gave herself in the Budget in just six weeks.
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
A baby ruined our business flight - were we mis-sold?
Q For an overnight flight from Orlando in April, we treated ourselves to a business class flight.
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
That's what friends are for
Despite myths that marriage and motherhood divide women, many friendships deepen in our thirties, becoming steadier and more intentional through life's trials
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
ON THIS DAY
1628: Charles Perrault, French writer and collector of fairy tales, was born in Paris.
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
Three teenagers among four killed in serious car crash
Three teenagers and a taxi driver are believed to have been killed in a head-on crash in Greater Manchester.
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
Message to the Met: sexual predators are still on your force, they're just lying low
London’s Metropolitan Police has admitted serious historical errors in vetting after a damning internal review exposed systemic failures in recruitment and background checks over the past decade - lapses that saw thousands of officers and staff join or remain in the force without proper scrutiny and, in some cases, later engage in criminal behaviour or misconduct.
4 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
Inside the UK's only arts centre dedicated to children
In a maze made of giant playing cards and filled with enormous chess pieces, half a dozen children are laughing and trying to find a way out.
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
Odds-defying world title win flew under the radar
Sheffield's Dalton Smith became just the fifth current British male world champion with little fanfare, writes Steve Bunce, but the fallout from his New York victory could be substantial
3 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
THE X FACTOR
With six different cohorts now in the workplace, it's now the supposed slacker generation that's quietly running the show – and they're well suited to the task
6 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
Tehran threatens retaliatory strikes on US military bases
Iran has threatened to attack US military targets if Donald Trump launches strikes over the country’s growing protests.
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
Nobel committee blocks peace prize transfer before Machado-Trump meeting
The organisers of the Nobel Peace Prize have told winner María Corina Machado it “cannot be revoked, shared or transferred” after she suggested giving Donald Trump her 2025 award. The institute said in a statement the decision to award a Nobel Prize is \"final and stands for all time\", citing the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, which do not allow appeals.
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
‘Some things have gone all around Europe and back’
More than two years have passed since the British Museum revealed it was missing many hundreds of precious artefacts. Alex Ross spoke to the team tasked with tracking them down
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
Denmark's dark Greenland legacy still scars islanders
Donald Trump has his sights on Greenland but the residents are wary of swapping one foreign influence for another one. Katie Rosseinsky explores its relationship with Denmark
7 min |
January 12, 2026
The Independent
Mandelson refuses apology for friendship with Epstein
Peter Mandelson has refused to apologise to victims of Jeffrey Epstein for his friendship with the convicted paedophile and financier.
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
Trump promised to end America's wars, instead it's acting like rogue superpower
Albeit for the wrong reasons, no one could deny that Donald Trump is an extraordinary US president. His disregard for the US Constitution and due process, the multi-billion-dollar grift, the vulgar, petty insults, and the abuse of longstanding allies are clearly not normal.
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January 12, 2026
The Independent
Fake videos shared by Musk received millions of views
Within hours of Donald Trump's announcement that Venezuela's president had been captured, social media was flooded with AI-generated media.
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