27 minutes ago Sergio Perez's 'obvious' next racing project emerges after Red Bull F1 axe

Sergio Perez is figuring out how to reboot his Formula 1 career at the age of 34 after Red Bull axed him following a dismal 2024 season, replacing him with Liam Lawson

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20 hours ago “It couldn’t have happened at a worse time”: Neighbours speak of shock Boxing Day blaze at Hyde family home

"It must have been horrifying"

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3 hours ago SPOT THE DUPE: Gold leather trousers are the ultimate investment this party season, but can you tell which look totals £129 and which costs £4,287?

Gold leather trousers are everywhere right now, but how much do you need to spend? With more than £4,000 separating these, we'll let you decide

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13 hours ago Pereira hopes rejuvenated Wolves can cling on to ‘special player’ Cunha

Head coach has enjoyed an immediate impact but knows the importance of leading attacker staying put in JanuaryAs Wolves were on Friday night breathing a sigh of relief that Matheus Cunha is set to be available to face Tottenham on Sunday, there are plenty of other positives to be drawn from Vítor Pereira’s first week at the helm alongside their star player’s contributions.Cunha has scored in both of their new manager’s opening games as Wolves have climbed out of the relegation zone for the first time this season following the wins over Leicester and Manchester United. An FA misconduct charge is hanging over Cunha, but the governing body’s disciplinary panel is unlikely to meet before next week. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Airport delays live: Gatwick Airport warns of further disruption and London’s two busiest rail stations closed

Fog could limit visibility to just 100 metres with the worst forecast to descend on South East and central England

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21 hours ago ITV Vera season 14 release date, cast and plot as Brenda Blethyn's final series nears

Vera season 14 has been confirmed to be the final outing so here's everything there is to know about the end of the ITV detective drama.

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28 hours ago Hair experts explain frustrating Christmas symptom that has an easy solution

Hair experts have explained how to look after your hair during the Christmas season

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72 minutes ago Voices: I love all dogs – but I just can’t get on board with Britain’s favourite breed

As docile and biddable as these blondes may be, they are no match for my unruly rescue pooches, writes Kate Spicer. And what’s worse is that our raging retriever addiction could lead to unscrupulous breeders cashing in

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30 hours ago Climate crisis exposed people to extra six weeks of dangerous heat in 2024

Analysis shows fossil fuels are supercharging heatwaves, leaving millions prone to deadly temperaturesThe climate crisis caused an additional six weeks of dangerously hot days in 2024 for the average person, supercharging the fatal impact of heatwaves around the world.The effects of human-caused global heating were far worse for some people, an analysis by World Weather Attribution (WWA) and Climate Central has shown. Those in Caribbean and Pacific island states were the hardest hit. Many endured about 150 more days of dangerous heat than they would have done without global heating, almost half the year. Continue reading...

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10 hours ago Liverpool transfer news: Virgil van Dijk deal dismissed as Reds outline sale stance

Virgil van Dijk is one of three leading Liverpool players to have their contracts expire at the end of the season, with little public sign of progress to this point

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16 hours ago 'I left Arsenal and ended up at Chelsea feeling disgusted and lying to club medical staff'

Emmanuel Petit spent just one season at Barcelona after leaving Arsenal for the Nou Camp in 2000, before moving to Chelsea, and he has admitted he regrets the decision

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2 hours ago ITV Emmerdale reveal missing April details as Marlon and Rhona face 'worst nightmare'

Emmerdale viewers have been left fearing the worst for teenager April Windsor after she went missing on Christmas Day

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27 hours ago How Squid Game's costume designer placed hidden meanings in the show's clothes

Netflix's Squid Game has returned to the streaming platform with season 2 and the show's creator reveals the iconic costumes of the characters hold special meanings

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2 hours ago Israeli forces accused of taking Gaza hospital staff to detention centre for interrogation – Middle East crisis live

Gaza health officials said the IDF detained the director of a hospital, which the WHO said was put out of service by an Israeli raidNearly one in five of the world’s children live in areas affected by conflicts, with more than 473 million children suffering from the worst levels of violence since the second world war, according to figures published by the UN.The UN humanitarian aid organisation for children, Unicef, said on Saturday that the percentage of children living in conflict zones around the world has doubled from about 10% in the 1990s to almost 19%, and warned that this dramatic increase in harm to children should not become the “new normal”. Continue reading...

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20 hours ago Andreas Pereira must force Fulham transfer as Marco Silva speaks out after £14m offer

Brazilian giants Palmeiras are eyeing a January deal for Fulham playmaker Andreas Pereira but Cottagers boss Marco Silva has little interest in losing the 28-year-old mid-season

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17 hours ago Netflix Squid Game fans left 'fuming' at season two ending and when is season three

Squid Game fans waited three years for season 2 to be released

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10 hours ago Scottie Scheffler undergoes surgery on injury suffered while preparing Christmas dinner

Reigning world No1 will miss the start of the 2025 PGA Tour season in Hawaii after hand wound caused by broken glass

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2 hours ago Mohamed Salah message from fans to Liverpool owners FSG is 'nonsense statement'

MAC OF THE NET COLUMN: Mohamed Salah is still producing inspired form for Liverpool as they take charge of the Premier League title race in what could be his final season at Anfield

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21 hours ago Brentford January transfer window guide: Chelsea exile could be ideal signing with transfer need clear

Bees had no plans to enter the market mid-season, but injury problems may now alter that approach

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24 hours ago Netflix fans left 'disappointed' by Squid Game 2 as they brand the long

Fans unanimously branded it 'boring' and 'predictable' - while also lacking its trademark nail-biting plot, and also raised it barely had any new game.

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13 hours ago World No 1 Scottie Scheffler has surgery after freak Christmas dinner injury

American cuts hand on broken glass during festive periodGolfer will now miss the first tournament of seasonThe men’s world No 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler has had surgery on a hand injury he sustained while cooking Christmas dinner. The 28-year-old American has been forced to withdraw from the first tournament of the season, next week’s The Sentry in Hawaii, after cutting his right hand on broken glass.The PGA Tour said: “World No 1 and 2024 FedEx Cup Champion Scottie Scheffler has withdrawn from the PGA Tour’s 2025 season-opening tournament, The Sentry, which will take place next week, 2-5 January at The Plantation Course at Kapalua in Maui, Hawaii.” Continue reading...

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3 hours ago From cashmere sets to tracksuits, the YOU team reveal their loungewear favourites

It's the season to get snuggly. From cashmere sets to tracksuits, the YOU team reveal their feel-cosy favourites

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26 hours ago Raheem Sterling stance on terminating Arsenal loan deal comes to light

Raheem Sterling has struggled for game time at Arsenal so far this season, having joined the Gunners on loan from their Premier League rivals Chelsea over the summer

Economics

24 hours ago Full round up of the best and worst Wigan Boxing Night fancy dress costumes

From Star Wars and superheroes to groups of pirates or a wide-mouthed frog - Wigan's big Boxing Day fancy dress night out had it all

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17 hours ago Outnumbered bosses hit back at Christmas special 'depressing' backlash

Outnumbered's creator has hit back after the Christmas special was branded "depressing" by some disgruntled viewers after the Brockman family returned to the BBC

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3 hours ago Are modern sports stars still cut out for pantomime season? Oh yes they are | Emma John

Strictly Come Dancing has hit participation but the gymnast Louis Smith is still flying the flag for sporting heroes on stageMerry Betwixtmas, everybody! I’ve a great fondness for this final stretch of December, the weird dead time when Boxing Day obligations to extended family have been fulfilled, and the new year’s party still seems impossibly far in the future. It’s a truly philosophical period, raising questions of mortality, renewal and resolution, and of how long trifle can be left open before it goes off. It’s good for a couple more days, right?You don’t want to go back to work, but you’re also not exactly sure what to do with yourself. Which is, doubtless, why panto exists. This is no slight on the genre, for which I have great respect – the best money my sister ever earned from her acting career was in Aladdin, singing A Whole New World while desperately clinging to a shonky hand-operated flying carpet. Still, there must be a reason people don’t pay to shout “He’s behind yo...

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25 hours ago Manchester United: How many games will Bruno Fernandes miss after third red card of the season?

Midfielder facing another suspension after being sent off against Wolves

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17 hours ago Bruno Fernandes and the problem of being captain if you keep getting sent off | Simon Burnton

Manchester United midfielder has been more disciplined this term but unique demands of his job keep him in the firing lineAgainst Leicester on Boxing Day Virgil van Dijk took to 50 the number of successive league games he has played every minute of. This alone does not explain why the Dutchman is such an effective leader, nor why his Liverpool side are currently so successful, but it certainly helps. There are many kinds of captain, many ways of leading, but above all the one unarguably necessary thing is to be present. You cannot lead a team from the stands.At which point it is tempting to go in two-footed on Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes, as many newspaper headlines did on Friday morning. The Portuguese is, for a couple more days at least, one of only four other captains to have played in every game of this Premier League season but that run ends with the visit of Newcastle on Monday, for which he will be suspended after Tony Harrington, just after half-time in the Boxing Da...

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5 hours ago Tim Dowling: my year in numbers (yes, most of them involve the new dog)

I’ve had a topsy-turvy year, but the statistics prove beyond doubt that my chief distraction of 2024 was the acquisition of a small furry menaceAs the year barrels toward its end, I feel in many ways as if I have survived a difficult and challenging period, worse than the year before, and the year before that, if possibly better than anything one dares expect from 2025. But impressions can be deceiving, and I find that when I’m reviewing the year gone it helps to rely on nothing but the latest and most verifiable statistics. Here, then, is my look at 2024 in cold, hard numbers.1 New dogs acquired in 2024. Have I mentioned this at all? I’m sorry, I never wanted to become the sort of person who has a very long answer to the question, “So, how’s your dog?”, but that’s what I am. I also have 250 pictures of the dog on my phone, and I am willing to show you all of them. My only defence is that having a puppy is so time-consuming, the havoc it wreaks so comprehensive, ...

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31 hours ago Arsenal transfer news: Star's agent arrives to negotiate amid Benjamin Sesko update

Arsenal could be tempted to increase their firepower in front of goal in the January transfer window as they consider how to contend with Bukayo Saka's injury in the second half of the season

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17 hours ago Why Ruben Amorim is concentrating on 'surviving' amid Man United relegation fears

Manchester United have lost considerably more matches than they have won in the Premier League this season and the dreaded 'R' word has been mentioned

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6 hours ago Man Utd ‘poised for six signings in 2025’ as Ruben Amorim has learned what’s ‘impossible’

Manchester United have struggled in the 2024/25 Premier League season, and Ruben Amorim's Red Devils may look to bolster their squad in next year's summer transfer window as a result

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17 hours ago Barcelona’s Dani Olmo set to miss rest of season after court rejects appeal to play

The 26-year-old joined Barca from RB Leipzig in August but is only registered for the first half of the season

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7 hours ago Festive sausage rolls recipe that will ‘fill you with Christmas cheer’

One TikToker has shared their festive take on the classic sausage roll which will definitely 'fill you with Christmas cheer'

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19 hours ago 'Living Nostradamus' makes chilling prediction that World War III is 'imminent' and 'the worst is yet to come'

A Brazilian man known as 'Living Nostradamus' after making a number of accurate predictions now claims World War III could be 'imminent' and 'the worst is yet to come'.

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12 hours ago Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker match outfits at family lunch with Reign, 10, and Rocky, 13 months

A couple of days after Christmas, the couple kept the festive cheer alive in coordinated sets of red clothing as they went to a seaside eatery.

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19 hours ago Opta Supercomputer tips shocking final position for Man Utd amid wretched season

Ruben Amorim has struggled since replacing Erik ten Hag as Manchester United manager, with his side now just eight points away from the Premier League's relegation zone

Events

13 hours ago Kai Havertz guides Arsenal past Ipswich to show there is life without Saka

The Premier League season has not reached its halfway point and yet Arsenal knew this was a game they had to win. Liverpool’s stunning form at the top of the table had seen to that. It was scrappy for long spells, Ipswich digging deep, determined to show a response to the 4-0 home drubbing against Newcastle from last Saturday – the only time they have taken a real battering this season.Arsenal were restricted. They found chances difficult to come by. But in the end, one goal was enough – together with another clean sheet for David Raya, his 23rd in 50 league appearances for the club. Kai Havertz was the scorer, turning home a Leandro Trossard cross midway through the first half; he made it look simple. Continue reading...

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24 hours ago Weather tracker: storm brings well over a metre of snow to peaks in Alps

Several days of snow brought avalanche risk at Christmas, as wintry weather also caused four deaths in IndiaA snowstorm developed across the Alps on Saturday 21 December due to a low-pressure system situated over the Adriatic Sea. This depression allowed relatively warm and moist air to push into the Alps, condensing and falling as snow as it met the much colder alpine air mass. Snowfall continued for several days, allowing some of the peaks to see well over 1 metre of snow, with significant snowfall also seen across many ski villages. Consequently, there was a significant avalanche risk over the Christmas period.Ski resorts in Bulgaria also experienced significant snow starting on Christmas Day, which caused disruption in the mountainous west, where ski resorts had to temporarily shut down due to road closures. Towns such as Troyan, Samokov and Teteven were particularly badly affected with snowdrifts and power failures. Continue reading...

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13 hours ago João Pedro escapes red as Brighton’s winless run continues against Brentford

When Brighton produced a stirring comeback to defeat Manchester City here at the start of November and move into the top four, Fabian Hürzeler could have been forgiven for thinking that being a Premier League manager is a pretty straightforward business. But after another disappointing performance from his side that made it six matches without a victory and allowed Brentford to pick up only their second away point of the season, the 31-year-old may have a different opinion now.Despite creating a plethora of chances, Brighton could not find a way past Thomas Frank’s battling side, who lost their goalkeeper Mark Flekken to injury in the first half and handed a Premier League debut to Hákon Valdimarsson. In the absence of their top scorer, Danny Welbeck, who has been sidelined with an ankle injury, and for all their positivity and possession under Hürzeler, Brighton lack a cutting edge in attack that was exposed again by Brentford. They have not won at home since beating City and it wa...

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24 hours ago Weather tracker: Storm brings well over a metre of snow to peaks in Alps

Several days of snow brought avalanche risk at Christmas, as wintry weather also caused four deaths in IndiaA snowstorm developed across the Alps on Saturday 21 December due to a low-pressure system situated over the Adriatic Sea. This depression allowed relatively warm and moist air to push into the Alps, condensing and falling as snow as it met the much colder alpine air mass. Snowfall continued for several days, with well over 1 metre of snow on some peaks and significant snowfall across many ski villages. Consequently, there was a significant avalanche risk over the Christmas period.Ski resorts in Bulgaria also experienced significant snow starting on Christmas Day, which caused disruption in the mountainous west, where ski resorts had to temporarily shut down due to road closures. Towns such as Troyan, Samokov and Teteven were particularly badly affected with snowdrifts and power failures. Continue reading...

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14 hours ago Scottie Scheffler undergoes surgery after freak accident preparing Christmas dinner

Scheffler was scheduled to compete in the 2025 season-opener, The Sentry, from January 2-5 over in Hawaii. Yet following the freak accident he will no longer be taking part.

Politics

27 hours ago White British people aren’t under threat from multicultural Britain – they are part of it | Kieran Connell

Reform would have you believe that multiculturalism is an act of exclusion. In fact, the opposite is the caseAs the dust settled on last summer’s English riots, I found myself taking part in a radio discussion on the question: has multiculturalism failed? It was a depressing response to events that were themselves deeply depressing: an all-too-vivid reminder of how acute Britain’s problems with racism and Islamophobia continue to be. Yet the radio discussion also showed how multiculturalism acts as a scapegoat when it comes to concerns about issues such as immigration and community cohesion. For decades now, multiculturalism has functioned as Britain’s bogeyman.There was opposition to the term almost as soon as it began to gain traction in the late 1970s and 80s. Initially, multiculturalism was associated with policies that some local councils introduced to address inequalities in education. What this meant in practice was things such as an expanded religious education curriculum, t...

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15 hours ago Outnumbered loses half its viewers after fans slammed depressing special but show bosses defend it

In the latest instalment, Dad Pete, played by Hugh Dennis, revealed to his children that he was battling prostate cancer.

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31 hours ago Squid Game season 2 is nowhere near as shocking as the first – but isn’t that the point?

It is impossible to replicate the shock of the first season, and writer Hwang Dong Hyuk does well not to try

Events

17 hours ago Outnumbered creator defends Christmas special as fans fume it's 'depressing'

The Christmas special of the BBC show Outnumbered aired yesterday, but some fans have branded it 'depressing'

Politics

31 hours ago Scots warned spending festive season around open fire could damage their health

Asthma and Lung UK Scotland is calling on Holyrood ministers to raise awareness of the dangerous pollutants that come from burning wood in our homes.

Events

17 hours ago Study reveals single people are more depressed and 'less satisfied' than couples

In a study of more than 77,000 adults over 50, researchers in Germany found that single people are less satisfied and extraverted than those in serious long-term relationships.

Politics

18 hours ago Top couples therapist reveals the 8 behaviours that are guaranteed to DESTROY a relationship

Dr Nicole LePera, a clinical psychologist from Philadelphia, listed the patterns of behaviour that she has seen destroy relationships in a post on X.

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18 hours ago ‘Tantrums, toffs, Taylor and turds – the best, worst and dirtiest of 2024’

Mirror columnist Brian Reade sees out the year with his glorious round-up of its winners and losers, and the big talents we bid a fond farewell to

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19 hours ago Gardeners urged to take action if they spot robins this winter, say experts

They may symbolise the festive season for many but red-breasted robins face a struggle for food in the coldest months and we can help them out, advises The Woodland Trust.

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