92 minutes ago Duchess of Edinburgh matches Princess Anne for completing highest number of overseas trips this year as pair fill void left by King Charles and Kate Middleton

Both royals visited nine countries in 2024, yet 74-year-old Anne racked up nearly 42,000 air miles while 59-year-old Sophie did around 28,500. The pair were followed by Prince Edward on eight.

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3 hours ago Zoe Ball's son Woody Cook announces heartbreaking family death as he shares touching tribute

Norman Cook's son Woody has shared the sad news that his grandmother has passed away on Christmas Day, marking the second grandma he has lost in one year

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9 hours ago Barcelona set to finally register Dani Olmo after agreeing VIP seating deal

Sale of boxes at Camp Nou likely to secure player’s futureBarça had to find way to comply with FFP by 31 DecemberFC Barcelona have reportedly closed a last-minute €100m (£82.9m) deal to sell VIP boxes at the newly renovated Camp Nou to Middle Eastern investors, enabling them to meet financial fair play rules and finally extend Dani Olmo’s registration.With the deadline for registration just three days away and Barcelona facing the prospect of Olmo leaving as a free agent just six months after joining on a a €55m (£45.6m) transfer, club president Joan Laporta exercised a sale option on Saturday which the club believe will see the first payment made before 31 December. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Third man arrested on suspicion of murder after 'hero father', 37, was killed when he was 'mown down by a car following an argument' on Christmas Day

A 26-year-old is the third man to be arrested in connection with the death of Kirk Marsden (pictured) who died in the early hours of Boxing Day after he was allegedly hit by a car outside a Blackburn pub.

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23 hours ago Revealed: How doctors struck off in Britain for permanently disfiguring patients, sexual assault and financial dishonesty are allowed to continue practising medicine

Surgeons who have committed serious misconduct, sometimes ending in death and life-changing injuries for patients, are continuing to operate on unsuspecting patients around the world.

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3 hours ago Judi Dench reveals her secret tribute to Maggie Smith in unseen BBC interview

Dame Judi Dench has paid a heartfelt tribute to her late friend and fellow actress, Dame Maggie Smith.

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19 hours ago Christmas leftovers meet Italian flair: Three recipes to reinvent festive staples

Christmas meets Italian flair in these recipes that turn festive leftovers into bold, satisfying dishes. From turkey meatballs to cacciatore-style chicken, here’s how to reinvent your festive staples with ease

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9 hours ago Barcelona hope to finally register Dani Olmo after agreeing VIP seating deal

Sale of boxes at Camp Nou likely to secure player’s futureBarça had to find way to comply with FFP by 31 DecemberFC Barcelona have reportedly closed a last-minute €100m (£82.9m) deal to sell VIP boxes at the newly renovated Camp Nou to Middle Eastern investors. The club are hopeful the sale will allow them to meet financial fair play rules and finally extend Dani Olmo’s registration.With the deadline for registration just three days away and Barcelona facing the prospect of Olmo leaving as a free agent just six months after joining on a a €55m (£45.6m) transfer, club president Joan Laporta exercised a sale option on Saturday which the club believe will see the first payment made before 31 December. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Young girl stuck down 700ft well for five days with rescue mission underway

A rescue operation to save a three-year-old, stuck 150ft down the well, is now in its fifth day as teams struggle to reach the youngster.

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4 hours ago Judi Dench reveals tree in honour of Maggie Smith bore fruit on day of funeral

The Oscar-winning actress died in hospital aged 89 in September.

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17 hours ago ‘The impact has been out of this world’: the stranger who gave away a £100,000 inheritance to his neighbours

When David Clarke’s mother died, it took him 10 years to work out what to do with the money she left him. This year, a panel of locals in Liverpool made the decision for himIt was a quiet act of generosity that briefly captured the news agenda: David Clarke, a researcher in Liverpool, made the extraordinary decision to give away the £100,000 he had inherited from his late mother a decade ago. But instead of donating it to one cause, Clarke did something radical. He wrote to 600 addresses in the L8 postcode, where he lives, inviting people to nominate where the money should go.Clarke lost his mother in a cycling accident. “Her death was a devastating shock to me,” he says. “She had a huge social conscience and was interested in the world and how it worked – a lot of my moral framework comes from her. I don’t believe in holding on to inherited wealth, so I spent a long time thinking about what to do with the money.” Clarke wanted to do something that would speak to his mother’s values...

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2 hours ago Kelsey Parker praises her boyfriend Will Lindsay for 'bringing her back to life' after the death of her late husband Tom Parker following cancer battle

Kelsey Parker has praised her boyfriend Will Lindsay for 'bringing her back to life' following the tragic death of her late husband, Tom Parker.

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5 hours ago Tributes pour in for legendary film director as family issues heartbreaking statement

Charles Shyer, the director of iconic films like Father of the Bride and The Parent Trap, has died at the age of 83. His family have issued a statement following his sad passing

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2 hours ago Kelsey Parker says boyfriend has 'brought her back to life' after Tom's death

The mum-of-two has said that partner Will Lindsay has brought her "back to life" after the devastation of losing The Wanted's Tom in 2022.

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7 hours ago Coronation Street legend opens up on his 'wild nights out' with Katie Price

Corrie legend Charlie Lawson, who played Big Jim McDonald on the ITV soap, has opened up about his wild nights out with Katie Price and how his partying led to him taking 'most drugs'

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3 hours ago Norman Cook's mum dies as son Woody grieves losing two grandmothers in one year

Fatboy Slim - Norman Cook - is mourning the death of his mum as his son Woody announced the sad news on his Instagram profile

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7 hours ago Corrie icon's 'wild nights' with Katie Price 'taking anything they could get'

Charlie Lawson has opened up about his wild party days, saying he and Katie Price would often be "three sheets to the wind" and "under the influence of anything"

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4 hours ago Rescuers race to save Indian girl, 3, stuck 150ft down 700ft well for five days

A rescue operation to save Chetna, a three-year-old who is stuck 150ft down a 700ft well in the village of Kotputli in Rajasthan., India, is now in its fifth day as teams struggle to reach the youngster who has gone 90 hours without food or water

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8 hours ago Corrie legend Charlie Lawson aka Jim McDonald boasts of wild nights out with Katie Price

Writing in his autobiography That’s Life, So It Is, the actor says he drank over a bottle of whiskey a night and took cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, LSD, speed and cannabis

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4 hours ago Two mums decide to go public after one donates dead daughter's heart to save other's little girl

Amy Anderson and husband Carl made the selfless decision to donate their daughter Mia's heart, liver, pancreas and kidneys after her death to save the lives of four people who needed urgent transplants

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9 hours ago Queen Victoria was furious with Prime Minister for failing to catch Jack the Ripper, says TV historian Lucy Worsley after finding bombshell telegram

TV historian Lucy Worsley made the bombshell discovery whilst filming for her new BBC series that Queen Victoria was furious with her government over its failure to bring Jack the Ripper to justice.

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4 hours ago Woman spots late dad sitting in favourite spot on Google Street View 11 years after death

Katie Scott, from Salford, Greater Manchester, discovered her father Arthur Scott, who died from complications of kidney failure, has been immortalised on Google Street View

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10 hours ago ‘They’re stuck’: Cape Cod seeing more whale, turtle and dolphin strandings

Changing tides have led to an increase of beached marine life, whom rescuers scramble to save before they dieWhile Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is known as a popular vacation destination in the north-east US, it has built a reputation for an entirely different reason this year: animal strandings.Dolphins, whales, sea lions and turtles are turning up in large numbers on the beaches of the famous peninsula in a phenomenon that has experts scrambling to execute more rescue operations than ever before. The cause? Changing tides. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Robert Brooks: Shocking footage reveals moment prison officers beat handcuffed man before his death

New York Governor ‘outraged and horrified’ by footage

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11 hours ago ‘All people could do was hope the nerds would fix it’: the global panic over the millennium bug, 25 years on

Planes were going to drop out of the sky, nuclear reactors would explode. But then nothing. What really happened with Y2K? People still disagree Just before midnight on New Year’s Eve, 25 years ago, Queen Elizabeth II stepped off a private barge to arrive at London’s Millennium Dome for its grand opening ceremony. Dressed in a pumpkin-orange coat, she entered the venue with Prince Philip, taking her place alongside Tony and Cherie Blair and 12,000 guests to celebrate the dawn of a new millennium. At the stroke of midnight, Big Ben began to chime and 40 tonnes of fireworks were launched from 16 barges lined along the river. The crowd joined hands, preparing to sing Auld Lang Syne. For a few long moments, the Queen was neglected – she flapped her arms out like a toddler wanting to be lifted up, before Blair and Philip noticed her, took a hand each, and the singing began. A new century was born.One politician who wasn’t in attendance at the glitzy celebration was Paddy Tipping, a Labou...

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4 hours ago Emmerdale fans 'solve who really killed' Will Taylor after Joe Tate scene

Emmerdale fans think Will Taylor's death was murder after his fatal heart attack on Christmas Day, amid the return of former villain Joe Tate on the ITV soap

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11 hours ago Britain's Got Talent's Jonathan And Charlotte star sheds 5st in incredible transformation

Jonathan Antoine appeared on Britain's Got Talent in 2012 alongside his singing partner Charlotte Jaconell – the pair made it all the way to the final but he's quite different now

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5 hours ago Man rescues brother from avalanche after finding his fingers sticking out of snow

The brothers were out for a ride on snowmobiles in Utah when one of them triggered the avalanche

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14 hours ago Charlotte Dawson all smiles with family after taking back sexting scandal fiancé Matt Sarsfield

Charlotte Dawson, 29, has taken back her 'love cheat' fiance Matt Sarsfield, 33, and the couple looked loved-up as they posed for family photos with their two children

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5 hours ago 'Gift of life you could offer others after your death by donating organs is priceless'

There are 7,900 people waiting for transplants, the highest number in a decade, and 280 of them are children. Last year 400 people died before organs were available.

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14 hours ago Tiger Woods' son Charlie has already made US Open thoughts perfectly clear

Charlie Woods - the son of golf icon Tiger Woods - is already making waves in the sport and has set his sights on matching one of his father's achievements in the future

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5 hours ago Family of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji demand FBI investigate death

Parents believe San Francisco police lack ability to conduct thorough investigation into multifaceted casePoornima Ramarao greeted everyone with a smile as they offered condolences for the death of her son, Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower who was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on 26 November.“I am not grieving,” she told a small group of friends at a vigil held for Balaji in Milpitas, California, a city about 50 miles (80km) south-east of San Francisco. “I have become numb.” Continue reading...

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14 hours ago Millions of homeowners could be set to receive cheap loans and grants for solar panels

Ministers are drawing up plans to subsidise the cost of fitting solar panels and batteries in homes across the country in a bid to meet one of Sir Keir Starmer’s key election pledges

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5 hours ago Moment WHO boss is dramatically rushed to safety and 'narrowly escapes death' as Israeli strike hits an airport in Yemen

In the footage from the airport in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, Mr Ghebreyesus can be seen relaxing in what appears to be a waiting room before all of a sudden he is rushed to his feet.

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15 hours 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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5 hours ago Countryfile's Julia Bradbury says 'death looked me in the eyes' before huge life change

TV presenter and Countryfile host Julia Bradbury made a huge life change after revealing 'death looked her in the eyes' following her breast cancer diagnosis in 2021

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15 hours ago London Driver Sent Flowers, Bracelet To Qatari Princess. Then This Happened

London Driver Sent Flowers, Bracelet To Qatari Princess. Then This Happened  NDTV

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6 hours ago Father of the Bride director Charles Shyer dies as family issues heartbreaking statement

The director of hit films Father of the Bride and Baby Boom, Charles Shyer, has died at the age of 83

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15 hours ago Princess Diana's sad last Christmas alone 'with reheated meal' and no family around

The late Princess of Wales is said to have spent her final Christmas alone, without her sons Prince William and Prince Harry.

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6 hours ago Pub chain opens mock boozers at two jails to get convicts pulling pints and cooking roasts

EXCLUSIVE: Greene King pubs have put training pubs inside two UK jails under a scheme that helps cons increase their employability on the outside and decrease the likelihood of reoffending

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15 hours ago India bids goodbye to former prime minister Manmohan Singh in state funeral

India announced a seven-day mourning period and cancelled all cultural and entertainment events in the coming week

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6 hours ago Emmerdale whodunnit 'sealed' as fans 'work out' brutal Anthony death twist

Emmerdale viewers are convinced recent and upcoming scenes with Anthony Fox may tease a dramatic whodunnit on the ITV soap, amid his horrifying secret and a new plot

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16 hours ago Royal expert reveals the real reason Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are disliked by Americans 

Prince Harry was once one of the most popular members of the Royal Family , but following his decision to leave and publicly criticise the institution, his reputation has plummeted.

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8 hours ago Father of the Bride director Charles Shyer dead at 83: 'His loss leaves an unfillable hole in our lives'

Father of the Bride director Charles Shyer, best known for penning the Oscar-nominated Private Benjamin alongside Nancy Meyers, died at age 82 on Friday.

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16 hours ago Happy birthday, Lady Kitty Spencer! Princess Diana's glamorous niece, who is an ambassador for Dolce & Gabbana, turns 34

Princess Diana's niece, Lady Kitty Spencer, first appeared publicly at Prince William and Kate Middleton's 2011 wedding and has since gained recognition as a model and social figure.

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9 hours ago The killer drivers who have claimed the lives of others on Welsh roads

Here is a round up of the defendants who have been convicted of causing death by dangerous and careless driving in 2024.

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