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Artwork by Banksy set to go on public display in Margate will hopefully spark conversations among thousands of people on domestic abuse, organisers said. The street mural titled Valentine’s Day Mascara was first discovered on the side of a house in the Kent seaside town, 200 metres (more than 650ft) down the road from its new home at Dreamland amusement park. The piece was unveiled on Friday ahead of its

The Prince of Wales met with cancer patients on Thursday as he attended the opening of a £70 million centre to combat the disease. William’s visit to the Royal Marsden’s Sutton hospital marked the official opening of the Oak Cancer Centre, a research and treatment facility. He followed in the footsteps of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, who opened a children’s cancer unit at the hospital in 1993. In

New Liverpool signing Alexis Mac Allister admits playing his part in Argentina’s World Cup victory gave him a taste for more trophies and he believes he will be able to fulfil that aim at Anfield. The 24-year-old’s arrival on a five-year contract signals the start of manager Jurgen Klopp’s much-vaunted midfield rebuild which will likely see further additions made this summer. A fee has not been disclosed but it is

Divers removed plastic from the Cornish seabed and joined teams from all over in a global clean up for World Oceans Day. They removed beach litter, including a vape and plastic water bottles, as well as debris from fishing nets under the water at tourist hotspot Mullion Cove. They were part of a 40-strong global crew who took to the world’s seven oceans, across seven time zones, to pull plastic pollution

Pink’s daughter Willow Hart joined her rock star mother on stage during the UK opening night of her 2023 European tour Summer Carnival. Wearing a pink striped dress with a rainbow belt, the 12-year-old sang their duet Cover Me In Sunshine, a song she released with Pink in 2021, for the special performance in Bolton. Her proud father Carey Hart shared a clip of her performance on Instagram, captioning it: “So proud of Willz to

All Uber Eats couriers will use zero emission vehicles by 2040, the company has announced. Deliveries are currently made by people using cars, motorbikes and bicycles. Uber Eats also plans for all restaurants providing food for the service to use sustainable packaging by 2030. At an event in central London, Uber chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi said: “Driving emissions to zero, I believe, is the defining challenge of our generation.” He added that London is “the

Three people on a giant inflatable duck had to be rescued after it drifted out to sea. Eyewitnesses reported how the men pumped up the duck, nicknamed Quackers, at Westward Ho! beach in Devon and took it out to sea along with a friend on an inflatable kayak. After five minutes, they had drifted out about 75 metres from the beach and the friend in the kayak was unsuccessfully trying

A former executive at ByteDance, the Chinese company which owns the popular video app TikTok, has said in legal papers that some members of the ruling Communist Party used data held by the company to identify and locate protesters in Hong Kong. Yintao Yu, formerly head of engineering for ByteDance in the US, says those same people had access to US user data – an accusation that the company denies.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s foundation has donated £10,000 to a fundraiser aiming to get a book of “raw” and “inspirational” stories from ethnic minorities into every state secondary school in the UK. A Colourful View From The Top is a novel which features entrepreneurs, executives and “thought leaders” from ethnic minority backgrounds, and aims to help “change the narrative” for their communities. The book’s curator, Jonathan Mildenhall, co-founder