With more snow than other parts of Britain, the Highlands is the ideal place to head to get into the Christmas spirit. You might be tempted by the famous Edinburgh Christmas Market or Glasgow's reputation for a Christmas night out. It ranked the top 10 places to enjoy Christmas with the Highland 'capital' scoring an impressive 9.86 out of 10. Key to its success was the fact that Inverness experiences almost a month of snow (27.09 days) every year, greatly increasing your chances of experiencing a White Christmas. There are other Christmas markets in Inverness over the coming weeks including another at Eden Court on November 15.

We played really bad against Bournemouth and really good today The only regret is conceding the third and fourth. Today we played really good, Bournemouth they deserved it. "It happened in my first year, we played really good. "I don't know. I don't know if he's going to be better than we are.

Kamala Harris visited a Democratic National Committee phone bank on election day, thanking the supporters working to turn out voters. Harris took some calls herself after telling supporters at the phone bank: 'This truly represents the best of who we are'

A local veteran has been running five miles every day carrying the Royal British Legion flag to raise funds for the charity ahead of Remembrance Day. “I think of the army like a relay race,” says Stephen, who served in the Infantry with the Yorkshire Regiment. Doing a challenge like this is something I have always wanted to do.”If running five miles every day wasn’t a challenge enough, Stephen holds the RBL flag on a pole for the entire run. The flag displays a lone solider, a poppy, a spitfire and a Royal Navy ship,” says Stephen, who prepared for the challenge by running five miles every other day before working up to running the distance daily. “I haven’t been running a lot since I left the army where you have to do a certain amount of fitness.

MORRISONS is selling its strongest ever garlic bread that’s 10 times more powerful than usual – but you’ll have to get your skates on. The Dracula’s Devil version of the supermarket’s garlic bread pizza has a whopping 10 extra whole cloves of garlic. 4 Morrisons Dracula's Devil Garlic Bread Pizza is thought to be the most potent ever sold in the UK4 The limited-edition 10-inch pizza has 10 more gloves of garlic than the regular versionIt’s thought to be the most potent garlic bread pizza ever sold in the UK. Phillip Wall, Buying Manager of Pizza Counter & Salad Bar at Morrisons, said: “After popular demand, our Dracula’s Devil Garlic Bread Pizza is back and more garlicky than ever. Morrisons installs anti-shoplifter buzzer to alert staff when customers buy booze“This pizza is limited edition so customers must be quick to avoid disappointment.”The Dracula’s Devil Garlic Bread Pizza is available now in-store at the Morrisons fresh pizza counter.

I’ve travelled to all 50 states, mostly on Greyhound buses, the cheapest way to get around the country — and the most interesting. I booked a hostel in Santa Monica, decided that San Francisco didn’t look that far away on the map and bought a £23 Greyhound ticket. AdvertisementThe Greyhound bus station in Jackson, Tennessee ALAMYThat bus ride to San Francisco was the start of a Greyhound love affair for me. I stayed in budget motels and Airbnbs, and the more states and cities I notched up the more I wanted to see. When I told him that I’d travelled his country on Greyhounds he grinned at me in disbelief and asked: “Wasn’t it … sketchy?”“It was wonderful,” I said.

“That was nearly a YouTube moment,” Chris Martin said after falling through an open trap door and getting caught by a crew member. Or maybe it was just distraction by a record-breaking crowd that led Chris Martin to take a tumble through a trap door at Coldplay’s Sunday concert in Melbourne. In footage captured by concertgoers and posted on social media , the 47-year-old musician points to several fan posters and flags before stepping backward into an open trap door. From below the Marvel Stadium stage, a crew member extends his arms to cushion Martin’s fall. Peering down through the stage door, Martin thanked the crew members who came to his rescue, joking, “You get a bonus, you get a bonus.”A representative for Martin did not reply immediately Tuesday to The Times’ request for comment.

While Harris spent her weekend prepping for SNL, Donald Trump spent his weekend threatening Liz Cheney and pantomiming fellatio of an inanimate object. But the one appearance that got wrestling fans talking was when Donald Trump appeared on his fellow-WWE Hall of Famer The Undertaker’s podcast, Six Feet Under. It was a big get for the Deadman, who also recently pledged his allegiance to Donald Trump, endorsing him alongside his fake brother, Kane. Donald Trump, commenting on The Undertaker’s ring entrance and skillset, said that ‘Taker was ‘A quick guy! The full interview between Donald Trump and The Undertaker can be seen below:Stay tuned to Bodyslam.net and we’ll be back with Part 2 of Fact Checking Donald Trump’s Interview with The Undertaker.

Women’s March Santa Barbara held a final rally and march in the last few days before the election. Here are my photos of the women and men who turned out for this rally and march in Santa Barbara. She wanted to make a clear point: Congress should have exactly nothing to say with regard to regulating women’s bodies. Marian Shapiro is a life long activist for women’s rights and abortion rights since living in Kansas. To keep up with Women’s March Santa Barbara, check out their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/WomensmarchSB– Robert Bernstein

The Democratic party’s vice-presidential candidate, Tim Walz, has said he was ‘feeling good’ about the crucial swing state, Pennsylvania, after making a campaign stop in Harrisburg. Addressing reporters, he said: ‘We're excited about Pennsylvania. I think being here, we started it here – for me, it feels like closing the loop. We're excited about being here, we’re taking that positive message, and you saw the energy in that room’

Hospital consultants are being paid up to £200,000 a year in overtime to help clear the NHS waiting lists, figures have revealed. An investigation by BBC News obtained data from 41 hospital trusts in England, finding that some consultants were being paid £188 an hour to work beyond their contracted hours. More than half of hospitals were found to have paid more than £100,000 to individual consultants in overtime in 2023-24. One consultant at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust earned more than £208,000 in overtime for 128 days’ work. He added: “Every penny that goes into the NHS needs to be well spent.”Latest NHS data shows that the average consultant earned £139,936

High school seniors in various parts of the state will have new pathways to the Cal State system for fall 2025. Cal State East Bay announced partnerships with the San Leandro and Hayward Unified School Districts to provide guaranteed admission to students who have completed A-G coursework and sustained at least a 2.5 GPA. High school students in these districts will be notified by the campus if they are guaranteed admission — and will then have to follow through the normal application process and formally enroll. “This type of personal outreach is about more than eligibility — it’s about belonging, about knowing that there is a place for them in their community,” Sonal Patel, San Leandro Unified School District assistant superintendent of educational services, referring to the personalized nature of the admissions offers. “We want our students to feel welcomed and valued as they take this next important step in their educational journey.”

Donald Trump has won the presidential election with a sweeping set of victories across the battleground states as voters emphatically backed his vision to remake America. The 78-year-old, currently nine votes over the 270 electoral college vote threshold, is also on course to become the first Republican to win the popular vote since George W. Bush in 2004 in a remarkable comeback. He took to the stage in Florida to declare victory in the early hours in the morning, declaring that he had won an “unprecedented and powerful mandate”. Appearing in Palm Beach alongside his family, running mate JD Vance, and UFC head Dana White, Trump told supporters: “This was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time. Trump energised the black and Latino vote, as well as swathes of blue collar workers, with promises on the economy and immigration, clinching victory despite a criminal conviction and outstanding indictments for attempting to overturn the 2020 election results.

Here are the morning’s top stories on Tuesday, November 5, 2024…Millions of Californians are expected to head to the polls Tuesday in the 2024 general election. If you’re one of those people and you’ve got some last minute questions you’re too afraid to ask, we’ve got you covered. Kim Alexander, President of the California Voter Foundation, says if you haven’t voted yet, there’s still time. So if you didn’t, they may not grant it, but it doesn’t hurt to ask,” Alexander said. “And under California law, election officials are required to respect voter intent when voters are voting.

I'd not heard of him before but he's a direct descendant of Francis Bacon and developed the back-up power systems for Apollo 11 whilst working in Cambridge. The fuel cells he developed also created electricity for communications and air conditioning. The efficiency and high energy density of the fuel cells played such an integral role in the success of the Apollo missions that President Richard Nixon told Bacon: “Without you, Tom, we wouldn’t have gotten to the moon.”After they returned to Earth, astronauts Neil Armstong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins met Bacon at Downing Street and presented him with a signed photograph of Armstrong’s famous first “small step” on the moon. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/nov/02/recognition-at-last-for-tom-bacoA brilliant achievement from someone who believed in his ideas enough to start a company and progress from there. SB [Post edited 5 Nov 8:13]