82 minutes ago Who were the internet's biggest crushes in 2024? From Luigi Mangione to Dua Lipa

Hot rodents? Anyone Irish? Be still, our beating hearts. A broad church formed the pin-ups and poster girls of 2024. Claudia Cockerell catalogues the most memorable of the bunch

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20 hours ago Airbnb couple blasted by neighbours for trying to build TWO 'rabbit hutch' homes in the back garden of their £320k home

Steve and Jill Williams are pushing for planning permission for the bizarre proposal - despite their local authority having refused the development three times since 2019.

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21 hours ago People smugglers offer migrants ‘package deals’ to UK as Channel crossings top 150,000 since 2018

Sir Keir Starmer has put international co-operation with law enforcement agencies in Europe at the heart of his bid to cut the number of arrivals

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2 hours ago Cause of South Korea plane crash that killed 179 revealed after thunderous bangs heard

The passenger plane was engulfed in flames after it veered off the runway at Muan International Airport, with the Boeing aircraft carrying 181 people

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22 hours ago ‘I saw the reflection of his back rolls in the glass door’: Spencer Ostrander’s best phone photo

The American photographer on capturing a moment of intimacy between himself and his baby sonOn a sunny Sunday morning in June, Spencer Ostrander returned from the local hardware store to find his wife, Sophie, gardening in their back yard in Brooklyn, New York. “I handed her the supplies she needed, and a hot coffee, and she handed over our son,” Ostrander says. Their boy, Miles, was six months old at the time.“As I was taking him inside, I saw the reflection of my son’s back rolls in the glass door.” Ostrander grabbed his iPhone 14 Pro and turned the front camera on. “He was teething back then; not crying, but not his usual pleasant self either. I was juggling a wiggling baby and my phone, so I could only take two frames.” Continue reading...

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19 hours ago Dozens of flights cancelled and hundreds delayed at London airports as thick fog sparks travel chaos

More than 400 flights have been delayed at Heathrow and Gatwick

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83 minutes ago Kate Middleton 'left in floods of tears' after Prince William 'broke New Year promise'

Before they married, Prince William and Kate would spend Christmas with their respective families and come together for New Year - but one year changed everything

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2 hours ago South Korea plane crash: all except two are presumed dead on Jeju Air flight carrying 181 people, say authorities – live updates

South Korea facing its worst domestic civil aviation disaster after Boeing 737-800 with 175 passengers and six crews skidded off runway and hit wall at Muan airportReport: South Korea plane with 181 onboard veers off runway and hits fenceDozens are feared dead after a plane skidded off the runway while attempting a landing without landing gear at Muan international airport in South Korea on Sunday morningThe exact casualty figures have not yet been tallied, though authorities are provisionally reporting that 28 people are believed to have died, according to news agency Newsis. Fire officials have warned that given the severe damage to the aircraft, the number of casualties could rise.Jeju Air flight 2216 from Bangkok to Muan was carrying 181 people – 175 passengers and six crew – when it came down, skidded along the runway and hit fencing and a wall around the perimeter before catching fire.Rescues are underway, with two people brought out of the wreckage so far. Emergency services ...

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22 hours ago More than 200 flights delayed at London airports as thick fog sparks travel chaos

More than 200 flights delayed at London airports as thick fog sparks travel chaos  Evening Standard

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2 hours ago Scots girl who nursed a bee back to life with honey named among top viral moments of 2024

Willow McMurray from Midlothian won an army of internet fans as she cared for the poorly creature.

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5 hours ago South Korea plane crash: death toll reaches 47 after Jeju Air flight skids off runway at Muan airport – live updates

Authorities warn that provisional death toll could rise after Boeing 737-800 with 175 passengers and six crews hit airport fenceReport: South Korea plane with 181 onboard veers off runway and hits fenceDozens are feared dead after a plane skidded off the runway while attempting a landing without landing gear at Muan international airport in South Korea on Sunday morningThe exact casualty figures have not yet been tallied, though authorities are provisionally reporting that 28 people are believed to have died, according to news agency Newsis. Fire officials have warned that given the severe damage to the aircraft, the number of casualties could rise.Jeju Air flight 2216 from Bangkok to Muan was carrying 181 people – 175 passengers and six crew – when it came down, skidded along the runway and hit fencing and a wall around the perimeter before catching fire.Rescues are underway, with two people brought out of the wreckage so far. Emergency services are continuing their search operatio...

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22 hours ago More than 400 flights delayed at London airports as thick fog sparks travel chaos

More than 400 flights have been delayed at Heathrow and Gatwick

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2 hours ago Acclaimed Scotch whisky glassmaker launches international legal action over 'imitations'

Family firm has sold over 40 million of its iconic glasses globally

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5 hours ago SAQIB BHATTI: Rachel Reeves' Budget is a greedy assault on Britain's beloved heritage and history

SAQIB BHATTI: As analysis from Historic Houses shows, these great symbols of our countryside are now under threat from Reeves' damaging socialist Budget.

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23 hours ago 'Nightmare' fog sparks cancellations at UK's busiest airports to 'maintain safety'

The UK's main air traffic control provider explained the essential cancellations were caused by the country's misty conditions, sparking festive chaos as disruptions continue

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2 hours ago Many happy returns: sustainable startups are turning a profit from your unwanted clothes

Now that half of our clothing purchases are sent back, reverse logistics – or the returns industry – has become big business, with companies finding ways to reduce wasteFor many, the Boxing Day sales are a festive tradition, but last week major retailers from Next to John Lewis announced that their stores would stay closed as they expected customers to do their bargain hunting online.For those who regret their internet purchases – or those who unwrapped yet another hideous Christmas jumper – the prospect of a trip to the post office to send their returns awaits. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago South Korea plane crash sees 28 people killed as aircraft with 175 passengers explodes in fireball

A flight from Thailand crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport on Sunday morning, causing a huge fireball and fears of many fatalities

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2 hours ago How Marks & Spencer shook off its granny pants image and got genuinely cool

Whisper it but you’re allowed to actually like the clothes in Marks and Sparks these days, even if you’re a millennial. Helen Coffey looks at the British brand’s phoenix-like rise from the ashes

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6 hours ago South Korea plane crash leaves 62 dead as aircraft with 175 passengers explodes in fireball

A flight from Thailand crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport on Sunday morning, causing a huge fireball and fears of many fatalities

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2 hours ago 'Prince William and Kate's children say so much about the year they've had,' says royal expert

After a year marked by health struggles and preventative chemotherapy treatment, a royal expert has said that Kate Middleton and her family have "pulled together as a unit"

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6 hours ago South Korea plane crash leaves 179 people dead after fireball explosion on the runway

A flight from Thailand crashed into a wall at Muan International Airport on Sunday morning, causing a huge fireball and mass casualties

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2 hours ago 'Kate Middleton's children show us so much about the year the family's endured' says royal expert

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Middleton and Prince William have had a "brutal" year but have "pulled together as a family unit" alongside their children, a royal expert has told OK!

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6 hours ago South Korea plane crash: dozens feared dead after Jeju Air flight skids off runway at Muan airport – live updates

Authorities provisionally reporting 28 dead after Boeing 737-800 with 175 passengers and six crews hits airport fenceReport: South Korea plane with 181 onboard veers off runway and hits fence Dozens are feared dead after a plane skidded off the runway while attempting a landing without landing gear at Muan international airport in South Korea on Sunday morningThe exact casualty figures have not yet been tallied, though authorities are provisionally reporting that 28 people are believed to have died, according to news agency Newsis. Fire officials have warned that given the severe damage to the aircraft, the number of casualties could rise.Jeju Air flight 2216 from Bangkok to Muan was carrying 181 people – 175 passengers and six crew – when it came down, skidded along the runway and hit fencing and a wall around the perimeter before catching fire.Rescues are underway, with two people brought out of the wreckage so far. Emergency services are continuing their search operation.The Boei...

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6 hours ago SARAH VINE: Sorry, Kemi, but nobbling Naughty Nigel must be your No 1 priority

There's no room for sentimentality in business. It's simple: give people what they want or they'll take their custom elsewhere. This is the problem facing the Tories.

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6 hours ago Plane carrying 175 explodes in huge fireball after smashing into airport wall as multiple killed

A plane carrying 175 passengers has crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in South Korea, with at least 28 people reported to be dead

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6 hours ago Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen quits a tournament in a dispute over jeans

The International Chess Federation says top ranked player Magnus Carlsen has left the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships after refusing to change out of the jeans he wore to the competition

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6 hours ago Plane carrying 181 explodes in airport fireball as all bar two presumed dead after smashing into wall

A plane carrying 181 passengers has crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in South Korea, causing mass fatalities

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9 hours ago Luke Littler overcomes slow start to progress at World Darts Championship

Littler beat Ian White 4-1 to reach the fourth round.

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7 hours ago South Korea plane crash: Aircraft carrying 175 passengers smashes into wall at Muan International Airport

We'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.

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10 hours ago Kate Middleton and Prince William's 'fish finger' beds at Sandringham for royal Christmas revealed

Every year members of the Royal Family celebrate Christmas at Sandringham in Norfolk, but the huge guest list means it's reportedly at tight squeeze at the residence

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7 hours ago South Korea plane crash: 62 killed as aircraft carrying 175 passengers explodes at Muan International Airport

62 people have been confirmed dead so far after what is thought to be a Boeing 737 flying from Bangkok to South Korea crashed at Muan International Airport in another festive horror

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11 hours ago John Legend celebrates his 46th birthday in London with wife Chrissy Teigen

The American model marked the occasion by sharing a photo to Instagram of the singer-songwriter on a day out in the capital.

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12 hours ago London flights continue to face disruption as thick fog sparks travel chaos

More than 400 flights have been delayed at Heathrow and Gatwick

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11 hours ago Heidi Klum braves the cold as she strips down to just a thong and bra for snowball fight

Heidi Klum is having a very merry time up the American Rocky Mountains with her husband Tom Kaulitz - and she's refusing to let a recent toe injury dampen her spirits

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13 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 Sam Thompson says he's 'coming clean' after sparking comments before 'different' Christmas without Zara McDermott

It comes after the presenter previously sparked comments about his appearance

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15 hours ago PETER HITCHENS: A British video blogger has lost his human rights for criticising Ukraine. Will I be next?

I do not ask you to like Graham Phillips, or even to sympathise with him. But you shouldn't approve of what our Government is doing to him. He is living in a bombed-out, unheated block of flats in Mariupol.

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15 hours ago I’m tough to beat: Nathan Aspinall through to last 16 at World Championships

Aspinall will face Ricardo Pietreczko in the next round.

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16 hours ago River Plate women’s players released from prison after arrest for alleged racism

Four players were detained after game in São PauloMatch was called off after apparent monkey gestureA Brazilian judge has ordered the release from prison of four players from River Plate’s women’s football team, all of whom were arrested over an alleged racial slur during a match against Grêmio.Judge Fernando Oliveira Camargo decided to free the Argentinian club’s quartet of Candela Díaz, Camila Duarte, Juana Cángaro and Milagros Díaz, on condition they remain in Brazil and show up at court in São Paulo every month until the case is concluded. Continue reading...

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15 hours ago Robbie Williams' chimp biopic sparks debate as Americans left asking same thing

Robbie Williams' new film Better Man has been well-received by critics, but social media has been awash with debate after it was revealed he would be portrayed as a performing monkey

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18 hours ago Scots man who vanished on Christmas Eve sparks desperate police search

Duncan McGregor, 55, was last seen at 2.50pm on Tuesday, December 24.

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19 hours ago Hearts striker target named as Hibs eye shock Tynecastle raid for Scotland international

Hearts and Hibs transfer news as January window looms

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17 hours ago Better Man review – Robbie Williams monkeys around in a raw and emotional biopic

Replacing Williams with a CGI ape in an otherwise human cast pays off enormously in Michael Gracey’s warts-and-all tale of the pop phenomenonIt was a throwaway comment: Robbie Williams, Take That’s cheeky chappie-turned-tabloid fodder solo phenomenon, described himself as a performing monkey, prancing and preening in front of the cameras and seeking the approval of the audience (or at least a banana or two). But for director Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman), it was the key to unlocking Williams’s conflicted relationship with his celebrity and his compulsion to perform. In a creative gamble to rival Piece by Piece director Morgan Neville’s decision to tell the Pharell Williams story with Lego animation recently, Gracey replaces Williams in this warts-and-all biopic with a CGI chimpanzee in an otherwise human cast. It’s a gamble that not only pays off – it’s arguably the main reason the film works as well as it does.Narrated by Williams (Jonno Davies delivers a motion-captured pe...

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20 hours ago Zander Clark targeted as Hibs launch transfer raid on rivals Hearts just days after Edinburgh derby win

The Easter Road club have listed the Scotland international as one of several players they are monitoring

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17 hours ago Prince Harry 'no closer to mending royal rift' – but Kate Middleton 'could change everything'

While Prince William and his family have happily greeted crowds of well wishers over the Christmas period, there is no sign that fences are being mended between him and his brother Harry

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22 hours ago The battle of Cable Street is entwined in my family’s history – and its message of hope still resonates | Tracy

On that day in 1936, members of my Jewish family stood up to the Blackshirts. Their fight against racism inspired our adaptation of The Merchant of VeniceIn the weeks leading up to the battle of Cable Street, Oswald Mosley, inspired by his friend Hitler, sent his Blackshirt militia into the East End of London to whip up hatred against Jewish people. Jewish buildings were daubed, synagogues smashed and posters calling for patriotism and national pride in the face of the “untrustworthy international Jewish Entity” were nailed on walls and doorways.Then, on Sunday 4 October 1936, the fourth birthday of Mosley’s fascist party, he sent more than 3,000 uniformed Blackshirts in four marching columns through London’s East End and its predominantly Jewish community, promising a “Greater Britain” and blaming all society’s ills on these immigrant Jews. He fully expected to be supported by the working-class population of the area and assumed it would be delighted by his rousing speeches of hate...

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