68 minutes ago Mark and Elliott Wright set for prostate cancer challenge ‘close to our hearts’

Elliott’s father and Mark’s uncle, Edward, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2013 and died in 2021 after contracting coronavirus.

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45 minutes ago My family call it Old Lady Clubbing, but my giddy ‘nights out’ have lit up a dismal 2024 | Gaby Hinsliff

Dance till you drop, then home by 10pm – daytime events offer a glorious escape for those of us bogged down by responsibilityLast Saturday night, I went clubbing with friends. Once upon a time, this wouldn’t have been a remotely odd sentence to type, because it was what I did pretty much every weekend. But a lot has changed since then – let’s just say that in my peak raving years there was a Labour government in power, only it was actually popular – and like most people whose happy place was once on the dancefloor, inevitably with time comes the feeling that you no longer belong. Deep down, you still come to life when the bassline kicks in. But you morph from hardened raver to the kind of person who’s always up for dancing at parties and weddings, and then finally into the kind of person whose friends aren’t getting married any more and who spends their Saturday nights giving their children lifts to parties. So eventually you tell yourself sadly that those days are over now, and tha...

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52 minutes ago Gavin and Stacey fans all say the same thing about surprise cameo in heartwarming finale

BBC comedy Gavin and Stacey came to an emotional end on Christmas Day with the final episode watched by 12.5 million - and viewers were left delighted by some surprise appearances

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45 minutes ago The Split Barcelona air date, cast and episode count as drama returns to BBC

The Split: Barcelona is to see the return of the Defoe family two years after that heartbreaking finale.

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30 hours ago ‘I get spotted in the M&S knicker department’: Lorraine Ashbourne on her 2024 TV takeover

From Bridgerton to Sherwood and Alma’s Not Normal, the actor has lit up our screens all year – and her ‘victory lap’ is only just starting Lorraine Ashbourne has had a massive year. “I know! People keep saying: oh God, Lorraine, get off the telly, we want somebody else,” she says. “But it has been extraordinary.” She kicked things off in January with ITV’s entertaining disaster thriller After the Flood, playing Sophie Rundle’s tough, grieving mother, Molly. As the year went on, she returned to two of her biggest and most significant roles yet, as the former secret spy cop Daphne Sparrow in Sherwood, and Grandma Joan in the wrenching, hilarious second series of Alma’s Not Normal. Has she ended up in such outstanding shows because she’s picky? “Absolutely not. I’ll do anything! I’m a cheap date. It’s just timing that these things have fallen into place.”Right now, Ashbourne is at home in north London. She grew up in Manchester, where she went to drama school. She met her husband, Andy...

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5 hours ago Coronation Street legend diagnosed with testicular cancer leaving family heartbroken

Coronation Street icon Kevin Webster is set for a heartbreaking new storyline after it was confirmed he will be diagnosed with cancer in scenes due to air in 2025

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1 hour ago Katie Price celebrates Christmas with Kerry Katona amid heartbreaking struggles with son Harvey

Katie Price finds the Christmas period challenging with her eldest child, Harvey.

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46 minutes ago Sweet moment teacher, who travelled from France to meet royal family, tells Kate her work in early years 'means everything to him'

Kate, 42, joined King Charles , Queen Camilla , the Prince of Wales, and other senior members of The Firm for the royal walkabout on their Norfolk estate after the Christmas Day church service.

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2 hours ago Luke Littler apologises to darts fan after 'hearing the TV camera move'

The Nuke missed D12 for what would have been his fifth nine-darter of the year in his World Darts Championship second round clash with Ryan Meikle, denying a fan a £60,000 payout

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51 minutes ago Emmerdale murder as beloved character makes shockingly gruesome discovery

Billy Fletcher has made a discovery that leads him to believe that his father-in-law Will Taylor’s death from a heart attack wasn’t as accidental as it looked

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5 hours ago Coronation Street couple set for uncertain future after testicular cancer diagnosis

Coronation Street icon Kevin Webster is set for a heartbreaking new storyline after it was confirmed he will be diagnosed with cancer in scenes due to air in 2025

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1 hour ago 'We did scavenger hunt every Christmas – I didn't discover sad reason until I grew up'

A woman spent her childhood Christmases hunting for presents in a fun scavenger hunt – but didn't realise the heartbreaking reason until she was an adult herself

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2 hours ago Homes Under the Hammer star Martin Roberts unsure ‘how much time’ he’s got left to live

Roberts was told he had ‘hours to live’ before undergoing emergency heart surgery

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4 hours ago Raging Hearts fans derail Lawrence Shankland interview as hospitality host calls out swearing punters for 'starting p***'

Shankland was interviewed in hospitality but barely got a word out before things turned sour

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68 minutes ago Reasons why female prison officers have illicit encounters with inmates behind bars

Another female warder has been arrested in recent days after camera footage emerged of her allegedly bonking an inmate - and below we hear from prison experts about the epidemic of staff-lag flirtations

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13 hours ago ITV The Masked Singer's Jennifer Saunders 'wanted to cry' after breast cancer diagnosis

The Masked Singer guest judge Jennifer Saunders shared more than a decade ago that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer after going to a mammogram appointment

Science

2 hours ago Is Eleanor Ekserdjian Britain's newest royal? As Princess Margaret's heartthrob grandson sparks engagement rumours, how he met his stunning muse while studying at University

Samuel Chatto, 28, has since 2021 been seeing fellow Edinburgh University graduate Eleanor Ekserdjian, who is an accomplished painter.

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3 hours ago Homes Under The Hammer host's stark health update saying 'I don't know how much time I've got left'

A much-loved Homes Under The Hammer presenter has revealed to fans that he's not sure 'how long he has left' as he continues to battle with a serious heart condition

Society

6 hours ago Ruben Amorim makes telling Manchester United admission as January transfer update given

The latest Manchester United news as we take a look at some of the stories around Old Trafford following a 2-0 defeat against Wolves on Boxing Day.

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3 hours ago Dad posts heartbreaking Christmas photo with baby after young mum killed in hit

Marguerjsonita Sheridan, 21, died last week in a road tragedy.

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2 hours ago Beyond Paradise's Kris Marshall won't do one thing for fans for heartbreaking reason

Kris Marshall, who plays DI Humphrey Goodman in Beyond Paradise, has spoken about his reluctance to engage in fan selfies, revealing a deeply personal reason behind the decision

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10 hours ago The terrible secret I can never tell my husband: I slept with his brother before I met him... and I still get a rush of desire over the family dinner table even 25 years later

This year's Christmas dinner was the hardest so far; I could barely handle the tension. As the roast potatoes were handed down the table at my in-laws', excitement passed through me.

Society

7 hours ago UFC, boxing and golf: what is Donald Trump’s relationship with sport? – podcast

The US president-elect’s ties with the Ultimate Fighting Championship and boxing, as well as World Wrestling Entertainment, might tell us about the kinds of sport he appreciates. But then there’s golf As the US prepares to host the World Cup and the Olympics during Trump’s presidency, Jonathan Freedland and Karim Zidan walk through his history with sport to see if it explains more about himArchive: BBC, WWE, Fox 9 Minneapolis, NBC 10 Philadelphia, PBS Newshour, TMZ, MSNBC Continue reading...

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4 hours ago 'Vibrant' student, 20, dies of silent killer that can strike anyone regardless of health

Poppy Eagle, 20, died suddenly in August but her family is determined to have her legacy live on by setting up a charity to help prevent other families experience similar heartbreak

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3 hours ago City as big as Austria where some 'never see sun' – but you'll have never heard of it

A gigantic megacity larger than some European countries has sprung up in Southwestern China, so dense that the people living on its lower levels never see sunlight

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26 hours ago Max George shares health update amid recovery and says 'it's so good to be home'

Max George has shared a collection of family photos with his girlfriend Maisie Smith as he said 'it's so good to be home' following his recovery from emergency heart surgery.

Society

4 hours ago You be the judge: should my daughter stop spending so much on beauty products?

Denise says Marsha is obsessed with her appearance and is wasting her money. Marsha says times have changed. You decide whose argument lacks foundationFind out how to get a disagreement settled or become a jurorWhy does a 19-year-old need to use £200 night cream? Plus she already wants ‘baby Botox’Kids now have 10-step skincare routines. Mum doesn’t understand the pressure I’m under Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Lexington, Kentucky: tradition meets trendsetting in the heart of the South

Kick off your Kentucky adventure in Lexington, a vibrant hub of indie bourbon distilleries, street art and bluegrass bars that set the tone for an unforgettable journey

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35 hours ago My wife went to the doctor for a simple cough only to be told she had just 18 months to live. She's suffering from a rare and incurable form of cancer

EXCLUSIVE: This time last year, Tim Davies had never heard of Mesothelioma - a rare and incurable form of cancer that affects the lining of the lungs.

Society

21 hours ago Hearts v Hibs player ratings: The revelation, three 8/10s and plenty 5s as fans' figure of fun has last laugh

Marks out of ten for the players involved in gripping Hearts v Hibs derby

Sport

5 hours ago Can Europe switch to a ‘wartime mindset’? Take it from us in Ukraine: here is what that means | Oleksandr Mykhed

Nato’s warning reached me as I braced for a missile attack in Kyiv – where we’ve learned how to survive in the era of Russian hybrid warfareDay 1,024 of the invasion. Kyiv, 7am. Friday the 13th. In a former life, someone would have observed that this is a day that portends bad luck. But in a country where shelling is a daily occurrence, it has become irrelevant. I wake up to the sound of an app on my phone warning me of an increased missile threat. While my partner and I are hiding in the corridor, I read the news that the Nato chief, Mark Rutte, has called on members of the US-led transatlantic alliance to “shift to a wartime mindset”.With the first bang of the air defence system, a thought strikes me: for those who have not already been living with it for nearly three years, how would you explain this mindset? What is this wartime thinking? Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Meet the Party Jean – the answer to your New Year’s Eve prayers | Jess Cartner

If you can’t be bothered with an LBD, opt for a classic that’s casual but shouts party pizzazzThere is a moment about halfway through Christmas dinner when the cracker hats have slipped askew, shoes been kicked off under the table and belts un-notched, that marks the official end of the season of Making An Effort. A frenzied month of putting on mascara in the work loos and shivering on the way home because you are wearing your fancy coat instead of your warm one is over, up in flames along with the Christmas pudding brandy. Time to breathe out, shift into a lower gear, adjust to the sacred interlude of cheese and telly, half-eaten chocolate reindeers and gap-toothed jigsaws that is Twixmas.So it can feel a little tricky, a few days later, to go full jazz-hands for New Year’s Eve. But that’s what we are doing. Continue reading...

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25 hours ago BBC Gavin and Stacey star films family's shocked reaction to appearing in finale after 'taking NDA very seriously'

Laura Aikman didn't even tell her nearest and dearest she was appearing in the finale

Sport

6 hours ago Emmerdale icon faced with disgusting online abuse as he searches for missing daughter

Emmerdale spoilers have confirmed what's next for the heartbroken Marlon Dingle as he continues looking for his missing daughter April Windsor after she vanished on Christmas Day

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4 hours ago ‘I had to make the vampire as scary as possible’: Nosferatu’s Robert Eggers on how folklore fuelled his film

The director of the latest movie in the bloodsucker tradition explains why he went back to the Transylvanian source for his version of one of cinema’s enduring adaptationsWe are all drawn to archetypal stories. Fairytales, folktales, fables, myths: we tell them over and over again because they always have meaning in our lives. We can always see reflections of ourselves in Hansel and Gretel, Oedipus and King Lear. They can mean different things at different stages of our lives and be interpreted in different ways by individuals sitting in the same audience.Bram Stoker’s Dracula is among them. It one of the most influential novels of the turn of the last century and, along with the stories of Sherlock Holmes and Jesus Christ, among the most adapted works in cinema history. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago Court hearing set for man accused of fatally burning woman on New York City subway

A court hearing is scheduled for the man accused of setting a woman on fire on a New York City subway train and fanning the flames with a shirt as she burned to death

Events

4 hours ago Princess Diana's heartbreaking last Christmas 'spent alone with reheated meal'

Much loved icon Princess Diana was just 36 when she was killed in a car crash during the early hours of August 31, 1997, alongside her close friend Dodi Fayed, 42

Politics

10 hours ago Yoon Suk Yeol impeachment: court hearings to begin in South Korea over president’s martial law crisis

Yoon’s legal team will attend the first hearing in impeachment review on Friday, the same day that the acting president also faces an impeachment voteSouth Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol’s legal team are set to attend court on Friday as the constitutional court begins hearings into his impeachment by parliament over his short-lived imposition of martial law,The court has 180 days to decide whether to reinstate Yoon or remove him. In the latter scenario, a new presidential election would be held within 60 days. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Gavin & Stacey: The Finale review: We’ll miss these characters – Oh my Christ, they were lush

This Christmas special is about half an hour too long and the script recycles the least interesting elements of what’s gone before, but it still makes for lovely festive telly

Politics

10 hours ago Maya Jama wows in bold silver jumpsuit as she replaces Rita Ora as a judge on The Masked Singer with fiery Love Island

The pop star, 34, stepped down from the judging panel of the ITV game show and was replaced by the Love Island host, 30, in a fiery announcement teaser.

Events

5 hours ago Michelle Heaton's fresh fears over alcohol addiction with horrifying realisation

EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Heaton has opened up about her fears of falling back into old habits, as she tells OK! the 'old demons' of her alcohol addiction are never too far away

Politics

14 hours ago Heartbroken tributes as dad 'murdered on Christmas Day' named and pictured

Louis Price was described as a "beautiful guy"

Events

10 hours ago Kym Marsh's moving tribute to son Archie and dad David as she endures first Christmas without him

Morning Live presenter and Coronation Street and Hear'Say veteran Kym Marsh has faced up to her first Christmas without her dad - and paid tribute to him and her baby son Archie

Politics

14 hours ago Judge tells court to respect pronouns of rapist who now wants to be known as a woman

Madera County Judge Katherine Rigby ruled last week that prosecutors must refer to transgender prisoner Tremaine Carroll, 52, by female pronouns.

Events

10 hours ago TOM UTLEY: My resolutions for 2025? A hearing aid and perhaps dentures after my first visit to the dentist in 30 years!

As the alcoholic haze of Christmas begins to clear, and yet another New Year looms, I fear it may be time for me to confront one or two uncomfortable truths about the indignities of growing older.

Politics

15 hours ago The Masked Singer judge deceives panellists with Christmas special performance

The TV star performed Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and This Christmas to unwitting fellow judges.

Events

14 hours ago Philippe Clement's Rangers 'consistency' claim blown apart as form guide tells a very different story

The Belgian's assessment of the last two months is at odds with actual results in all competitions across 12 games

Politics

16 hours ago Emmerdale airs huge death as villager collapses and dies in tragic soap twist

The Emmerdale star, who has been on the ITV soap since 2019, has been pronounced dead after suffering a heart attack on Christmas Day and collapsing to the floor

Events

14 hours ago Call the Midwife season 14 release date, cast and episodes with 'very emotional' twists teased

Call the Midwife is returning to BBC One with another season of heartwarming and heartbreaking stories from the nuns and nurses of Nonnatus House

Politics

16 hours ago Victim of horror Christmas Day stabbing heard screaming 'I can't breathe'

Two women died at the scene, while a man and a teenage boy are in a stable condition in hospital. Shocked neighbours heard screams of "I can't breathe".

Events

15 hours ago I'm a psychologist, here's how you can tell if someone is a psychopath just by the way they stand

Susan Krauss Whitbourne (left), a former professor of psychological and brain sciences, revealed how you can determine if someone is a manipulator just based on their posture (stock image right).

Politics

17 hours ago Haiti’s health minister loses his job after a deadly gang attack on a hospital in the capital

Government officials tell The Associated Press that Haiti’s health minister has been removed from his post after a deadly gang attack on the largest public hospital in the capital, Port-au-Prince

Events

17 hours ago Martin Roberts 'unsure how long he has left' in emotional update after heart surgery

Homes Under the Hammer presenter Martin Roberts has shared an emotional health update after being hospitalised and told he probably had "maybe two or three hours to live"

Politics

17 hours ago Emmerdale's Will Taylor 'not really dead' as fans 'expose' true identity of body

Emmerdale viewers are convinced that Will Taylor isn't actually dead after he suffered a heart attack on Christmas Day

Events

18 hours ago Coronation Street's Catherine Tyldesley praised for 'beautiful' message as she admits feeling 'gutted' on Christmas Day

The actress shared a heartfelt message with her followers after spending Christmas with her family

Politics

17 hours ago Baby Driver star Hudson Joseph Meek's family share heartbreaking tribute after his death

Meek died on Saturday after being critically injured two days earlier when he was ejected from a moving vehicle in his hometown in Alabama .

Events

18 hours ago Trump tells 37 people on death row with commuted sentences to ‘go to hell’

On Truth Social, president-elect also lashes out at Chinese troops in Panama Canal and Canadian PM Justin TrudeauDonald Trump has told 37 people on death row who had their sentences commuted by Joe Biden to “go to hell” in a lacerating Christmas Day social media post.The president-elect – long a vocal advocate of capital punishment – lashed out at Biden’s decision on his Truth Social platform, after wishing a merry Christmas to political opponents he addressed as “Radical Left Lunatics”. Continue reading...

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17 hours ago The Masked Singer: Christmas Special costumes in full as Maya Jama joins as new judge

The Masked Singer is returning for the Christmas Special, featuring a host of mystery stars in festive-themed costumes

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