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Scammers Hijack Social Media Accounts For Crypto Fraud, $2 Billion Lost — How To Protect Yourself

Social media platforms are being used to promote fake cryptocurrency investments, leading to billions in losses. Learn how to protect yourself.

International Business Times UK · Apr 10

“He would blow in and say, ‘I don’t like the horns. Take them out. We’ll do more later. Okay, bye.’ Then he’d return later. ‘Oh I love it! Do more harmonies!’”: The genius of Giorgio Moroder in an ’80s classic

“Giorgio could have farted and I would have sung it!”

MusicRadar · Apr 6

Fill that Glasto-shaped hole! The 40 best UK festivals you can still book

Who needs Worthy Farm? From woodland raves and psych freakouts to fell walks and barbecue hoedowns, there’s a festival for everyone this summer. And some of them don’t even require a tent

The Guardian - UK · Mar 29

How Trump’s love for crypto threatens US residents’ peace: ‘I just want quiet’

Cryptocurrency mining facilities can blanket towns with ‘constant’ noise. They’re likely to get louder under Trump

The Guardian - US · May 4, 2025

Save live music by taking a tip from Irish folk

Letters: Any live music needs thriving grassroots, writes Ian Stock, while Chris Hodgkins calls for a ‘Marshall plan for the arts’

The Guardian - UK · Mar 6, 2024

Bunting, King Charles masks and plenty of cake as Brits enjoy Coronation street parties

When it comes to celebrating a big event nobody does it quite like the British. The Mirror joined revellers at Coronation Big Lunches and street parties across the country to get in the Coronation spirit

Daily Mirror · May 7, 2023

Broken promises in a Liverpool community that halved in size

After seeing its population plummet by 60% from 1971 to 1991, Everton is no stranger to huge change, but when it comes to politics its not so easy to move the dial

Liverpool Echo · Apr 30, 2023

‘Our children will know who we were by our vinyl’: the magic and mayhem of running a record shop

Record Store Day will have music fans queuing up this weekend – but how do these shops survive, and what do they bring to the high street in 2023? Our writer puts in a shift at Jumbo in Leeds to find out

The Guardian - UK · Apr 21, 2023

Counting the costs on the north Liverpool Streets with no 'heart'

Potential funding has been earmarked for Great Homer Street and Scotland Road, but residents still bear the scars of a development they say ‘ripped the heart’ out of the community

Liverpool Echo · Sep 25, 2022

Sex Pistols drama charts rise and fall of punk band who mocked the Queen at Jubilee

They may have only last two and a half years before self-destructing but decades on the Sex Pistols' punk legacy lives on in an era eerily similar.

Daily Mirror · May 21, 2022