38 minutes ago DEAR JANE: I'm so ashamed to admit it, but I only sleep with men who remind me of my aging father

I'm 22 years old and work as a waitress at a high-end restaurant. Last month, a very handsome he was certainly a silver fox.man came in. I couldn't tell exactly how old he was, but he was a silver fox.

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9 hours ago Jr NTR enjoys family time in London, buys toys for children at Hyde Park Wonderland

Jr NTR enjoys family time in London, buys toys for children at Hyde Park Wonderland  India Today

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1 hour ago Deborah James ‘would have been so thrilled’ fund is helping cancer treatment

The fund she set up before her death donated £1 million to the charity of the hospital which treated her before she died in 2022.

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4 hours ago The Holiday fans stunned after discovering it wasn't meant to be a festive film

Fans of hit Christmas film The Holiday have been left shocked after director Nancy Meyers admitted that the movie wasn't initially intended to be a festive film

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34 minutes ago Inside Avicii's final years before his tragic death as 'emotional' documentary lands on Netflix

EDM DJ Avicii died by suicide in 2018, at the age of 28, and now a new Netflix documentary is set to explore his life before his untimely death

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8 hours ago From climate denial to gothic movies to ‘treat culture’ what to expect in 2025

The new US president will almost certainly bring unpredictability but several themes will dominate the year ahead. Observer writers offer their guide on what lies ahead in politics, film, fashion, sport and moreThe only thing that can be predicted with absolute certainty about Donald Trump’s second term as US president is that it will be unpredictable. Trump does not really know what he wants to do on a range of issues. He talks a good game, which is how he got re-elected. But he often seems to decide policy on the basis of what the last person he spoke to told him. Is he serious about mobilising the military to carry out mass deportations of “illegal” migrants? Will he use the justice department to hunt down political enemies and media critics? Will he impose sweeping tariffs on foreign imports and trigger a global trade war? Or will he act with greater circumspection, using these threats as bargaining tools? Who knows? He doesn’t yet. Continue reading...

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21 hours ago Gemma Collins’ heartbreak as fiancé Rami treated by paramedics after sudden illness

Collins shared her concern in an Instagram post

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40 minutes ago JK Rowling says there are 'no trans kids' and says NO child is born in the wrong body in response to online troll who accused her of 'hateful focus'

Rowling has been the focus of controversy over the last few years for her views on women's rights and transgender issues as she repeatedly asserts 'sex cannot be changed'.

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11 hours ago Khloe Kardashian gives update on daughter True's illness that forced them to skip family Christmas party

Khloé Kardashian shared a health update on her daughter True after previously revealing the six-year-old was ill, forcing them to miss the annual Kardashian Christmas Eve party.

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3 hours ago Travel chaos with massive Northern and TransPennine train cancellations after £100,000 theft brings lines to halt

Travel bosses have issued a warning as a host of major services in and around Greater Manchester cannot run

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11 hours ago ITV Wheel of Fortune fans slam Christmas special as they spot same issue during celebrity edition

Wheel of Fortune fans were left underwhelmed with the Christmas special that aired on Saturday night. 

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38 minutes ago South Korea plane crash: air traffic controllers warned of bird strike minutes before accident, as officials confirm 179 dead

Jeju Air flight carrying 181 people burst into flames after plane hit wall at Muan airport, with two crew rescuedAlmost all presumed dead after aircraft veers off runway and hits wallSouth Korea plane crash: what we know so farDozens 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 continu...

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23 hours ago Sir Chris Hoy issues positive health update after terminal cancer diagnosis

Sir Chris Hoy was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer earlier this year and the six-time Olympic gold-medallist has offered an update on his condition as 2024 comes to an end

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58 minutes ago Gavin & Stacey's Neil the baby says 'I'm sorry' to fans as they issue same plea

Gavin & Stacey star Oscar Hartland, who played Neil the Baby in the BBC series, took to social media to issue an apology to fans as he was left with no choice but to respond to a demand

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14 hours ago Fatboy Slim's mother passed away on Christmas Day as his and Zoe Ball's son Woody Cook announces heartbreaking family news

The DJ, real name Norman Cook, who shares Woody with radio presenter ex-wife Zoe Ball, has yet to comment on his mum's passing.

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15 hours ago Owners of rental homes across the country face huge bills to meet Labour's strict new eco targets... meaning even Keir Starmer will be hit with £28,000 home improvements charge

Since moving into his grace-and-favour apartment in Downing Street , the Prime Minister has been letting his £2 million family home on which he no longer pays a mortgage.

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20 hours ago Forget Risk, play Fantasy Football for Fascists: grudge matches, foul play and violent conduct guaranteed | Simon Tisdall

Leading FFF teams include Donald Trump’s Mad Angry Geezers Athletic (Maga) and Vladimir Putin’s Greater Russia United (GRU)It’s been a gloomy old year, often reflected in this space – so maybe it’s time to inject some festive cheer with an exciting new Swiftian parlour game: Fantasy Football for Fascists (FFF). Ideal for dictators, autocrats, strongmen, neo-Stalinists, far-right nationalist-populists or just students of geopolitics, it’s fanatical fun for all the family!Under conventional fantasy football rules, imaginary teams are composed of real-life players from the Premier League. In FFF, the principal players are typically politicians and public figures who exhibit extreme totalitarian tendencies. Leading FFF teams include Donald Trump’s Mad Angry Geezers Athletic (Maga) and Vladimir Putin’s Greater Russia United (GRU). China has the Xi XI. Continue reading...

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39 minutes ago Britain's worst prisons: From inmates removing their own cell doors, to 'catastrophic' levels of drug use, violence and vermin infestations, the shocking reports that lay bare state of UK jails

In the last year, four prisons in England have been issued urgent notifications from the Prisons Inspectorate, which calls on the Justice secretary to remedy their declining state.

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30 hours ago The bowel cancer symptoms to look out for as cases in young people rise sharply in England

Diet, obesity, alcohol and smoking could be explanations for the rising cases of early-onset bowel cancer

Science

73 minutes ago Billionaire, 29, has Conor McGregor vs Jake Paul fight plan after snubbing another opponent

Conor McGregor, who hasn't fought since 2021, could make his long-awaited return to the world of combat sports in 2025, should a wealthy Indian family see their endeavours come to fruition

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15 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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16 hours ago Influencer, 21, who does dares for money dies on Boxing Day after being 'paid £700 to down an entire bottle of whisky'

The influencer was paid 30,000 Thai baht, or £700, for downing the 350ml bottle at a birthday party in Thailand on the night after Christmas Day.

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25 hours ago Manchester City’s hearing looms over football in 2025 – and the ramifications will be seismic

As well as the Premier League’s case against Manchester City, Miguel Delaney details the issues hurting a sport bursting at the seams with surprises on the pitch expected

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40 minutes ago New Year's Day travel chaos as blast of snow to hit flights and train services

A warning for snow has been issued by the Met Office

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81 minutes ago Sue Radford slammed for Christmas 'overhill' as she shows off huge present haul for kids

Sue Radford - mum of the UK's biggest family - has been targeted by online trolls after she posted a video of Christmas Day in the Radford's household with 'every inch' of floor covered with gifts

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23 hours ago Family 'lost everything' days after Christmas as two houses on same street go up in flames

Devastating double house fires on Friday morning meant a family in Garston lost 'everything' and were left 'traumatised' as two homes went up in flames over the Christmas period as

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30 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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33 hours ago Man United ‘expected to see six new players signed in 2025’ due to ‘impossible’ issues

Micah Richards believes Manchester United will welcome a whole host of new signings to Old Trafford in 2025, while Alan Shearer has pinpointed an impossible task for Ruben Amorim's current players

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40 minutes ago South Korea plane crash flight attendant's haunting question after surviving fireball smash

The Jeju Air crash is the worst aviation disaster on South Korean soil for several decades with dozens having confirmed to have died after the aircraft smashed into a wall at an airport

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89 minutes ago King Charles joins Princess Anne for Sunday church service in Sandringham after hosting his 'biggest ever' family Christmas

The monarch, 76, and Queen Camilla have spent the Christmas period in Norfolk with members of the Royal Family, who joined them for a Christmas Day walkabout.

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25 hours ago My family's sordid secret lay undiscovered for 70 years... then an old scrap of newspaper changed EVERYTHING

Karen Lawler, 64, was stunned to discover that her mother, Patricia Hagan, was just 14 when she discovered her mother, Mary, had been murdered by her 'lover' and lodger Albert in 1953.

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51 minutes ago South Korea plane crash latest: Bird strike warning issued minutes before Jeju Air flight killed 179

Jeju Air’s passenger plane rams into a concrete wall in South Korea as landing gear fails to deploy

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2 hours ago Half of Brits admit they 'never get round' to this one New Year's resolution

A survey of 2,000 UK adults shows that more than half of Brits always promise to make a change to their lifestyle and diet in a bid to lose some excess weight - but never get round to it

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27 hours ago Kieran Culkin on pranks, parenting and why his famous family doesn’t need therapy: ‘Us siblings, we’re already cooked’

He’s been on screen since he was seven – but only prepares for a scene 10 minutes before. Yet somehow the mischievous Succession star is now tipped for an Oscar. How did the chaotic, charismatic actor do it?Kieran Culkin tries the upright chair first, the one opposite me, high-backed and leather. But no, that’s no good. He can see his reflection in the wall mirror, he’ll be catching himself all interview, thinking how tired he looks with his hooded eyes and beard, how jet lagged. Sleep is always tricky, but he’s been up with the kids – five and three – who weren’t supposed to join him for this publicity tour but there was a last-minute crisis, the short version of which is that the whole family is over from New York (with Culkin, 42, there’s always a long and short version).So, he flumps on the banquette, where he’ll be facing guests drinking afternoon cocktails in the low-lit, high-ceilinged bar here at the Corinthia hotel in London. He tests the firmness of the upholstery. Pa...

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52 minutes ago Three people die and 48 rescued near Calais attempting to cross Channel

The deaths make 2024 the deadliest year on record for small boat Channel crossingsThree people have died after falling from an overcrowded small boat trying to cross from France to the UK, as 2024 became the deadliest year on record for perilous sea crossings.The boat ran into trouble at about 6am on Sunday near Blériot-Plage, a public beach in Sangatte close to the French Channel port of Calais, emergency services said. Several people fell into the water trying to board the overcrowded vessel. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Some people’s ancestors are kings or poets. I’m proud my family invented the corridor

I always thought genealogy was as dull as looking at other people’s holiday snaps – until I found out about a 16th-century architect who transformed the stately homes of his eraFriends and family, back in the 1970s, would often aggravate each other with a lengthy holiday slideshow, presenting a string of identical beach views and nameless hillside vistas over the course of a dull evening. Today, there is a new phrase that can freeze the heart just as easily as the sight of a slide projector, and it is: “I’ve done some research into my family history and you’ll never guess what I’ve found out!” A scroll bearing a family tree unrolls to reveal a roster of Jacks and Noreens, leading back to some Charleses and Marys, each perching on ever-more-distant branches and ultimately signifying little about the people who are actually living and breathing around you.For me, this became a domestic issue a while ago, because my husband, a history buff, takes genealogy quite seriously. To be fair, ...

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56 minutes ago New business drenched in diesel and set alight causing damage worth thousands

The car wash business only opened in the summer

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2 hours ago Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review – Jim Carrey doubles up in frenetically empty sequel

The star’s relentless gurning adds frenzy but little else to this third spin-off from the video game franchiseThree garrulous alien critters – Sonic, Tails and Knuckles – each with their own distinct skill set and fur colour so lurid that it scorches your optic nerves, are summoned to protect humanity from an evil space hedgehog named Shadow (voiced by Keanu Reeves). Shadow has rage issues, super speed and a gloomy emo-black colour palette. But in this frenetically empty sequel, cluttered with pinballing animated extraterrestrial varmints, the most cartoonish performance comes from a member of the human cast: Jim Carrey reprises his role as the villainous inventor Doctor Robotnik, and takes on a new character, Robotnik’s demented grandfather Gerald.While I had more time than many of my fellow critics for the two previous movie spin-offs from the Sega video game series, it turns out that you can, in fact, have too much of a good thing. Two Jim Carreys, each of them turning every indi...

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73 minutes ago Manchester Airport issues update after UK airports hit by fog restrictions

Delays and cancellations have affected airports in recent days

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2 hours ago How to detox your skin like a royal after Christmas, inspired by Kate Middleton's diet favourites

Christmas is an indulgent time, and your skin may be showing the effects. Skin experts reveal what to eat to get your complexion glowing again like Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle

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81 minutes ago Sue Radford slammed for Christmas 'overkill' as she shows off huge present haul for kids

Sue Radford - mum of the UK's biggest family - has been targeted by online trolls after she posted a video of Christmas Day in the Radford's household with 'every inch' of floor covered with gifts

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2 hours ago King Charles eats the same 'boring' Christmas Day meal each year according to ex

The royals have some very unique festive traditions over the holidays but Christmas dinner is not one of them as the monarch eats the same simple meal every year.

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82 minutes ago Three arrested in murder investigation after man hit by car on Christmas Day following bar row

Kirk Marsden, 37, was struck outside The Gate Street Bar and Grill in Blackburn and later died

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3 hours ago In Pictures: Carol service brings some joy at end of difficult year for royals

The King and Princess of Wales revealed they had been diagnosed with cancer during a difficult year for the royal family.

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88 minutes ago Jeju Air passenger's heartbreaking final text before plane crashed killing 177 souls

At least 177 people died in the disaster at Muan International Airport on Sunday.

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3 hours ago Manchester City’s Kerstin Casparij: ‘When you think it can’t get any more detailed, it can’

Dutch right-back on why she feels at home in Manchester, the workings of Gareth Taylor and excitement for Euro 2025The Manchester City full-back Kerstin Casparij grins when her girlfriend, Ruth Brown, is asked whether she can keep up with the elite athlete when they go on runs together in the off-season: “Yes, I can slow down for her,” quips Brown, remarkably straight-faced.Life is good for Casparij and Brown. They have bought a house in Manchester which, bar the new sofa hunt, they have nearly finished decorating; their cats, Kiwi and Mango, have got to grips with the stairs after moving from their flat and have picked out their favourite window sills for lounging on; and they recently completed the cooperative video game It Takes Two. When we sit down over coffee in London, they’re arguing over who has to deal with the giblets when they cook for Casparij’s family on Christmas Day and are getting ready to host their families together, for the first time, on Boxing Day. Continue rea...

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1 hour ago New Year's Day snow warning hits Greater Manchester as Met Office issues NINE alerts

January will begin with wintry conditions

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4 hours ago Cristiano Ronaldo points blame for Man City struggles after transfer disagreement

Manchester City have endured an awful season, winning just one of their last 13 games in all competitions, with Cristiano Ronaldo now issuing a blunt diagnosis of their problems

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2 hours ago Witnesses describe horror moment Jeju plane crashed with sickening 'scraping metal' sound

People in the surrounding area of the fatal Jeju plane crash have spoken out about what they saw, as emergency services recovered two survivors and said at least 177 had died

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4 hours ago Families 'must stay indoors for 48 hours' as highly contagious virus spreads

There are steps you can take to protect yourself and other family members if someone has the virus

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2 hours ago Snow warning as Met Office warns of 'heavy and persistent' snowfall up to 10 inches over New Year

The Met Office has today issued several weather warnings, including for snow, rain and wind as it assess the forecast for New Year's Eve, New Year's Day and into 2025

Events

4 hours ago Michael Schumacher's heartbreaking words to wife on day of devastating skiing accident

Formula One legend Michael Schumacher suffered a near-fatal brain injury in a skiing accident in 2013, with his wife Corinna offering a glimpse into their last-known conversation

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2 hours ago South Korea plane crash latest: Bird strike warning issued minutes before Jeju Air flight killed at least 177

Jeju Air’s passenger plane rams into a concrete wall in South Korea as landing gear fails to deploy

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4 hours ago Zoe Ball and Fatboy Slim’s son shares sad news as tough year for family continues

‘She was an amazing woman,’ Woody Cook said after second loved one dies in 2024

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2 hours ago Urgent appeal issued to find woman who was 'dragged back into car and assaulted'

Police say they want to make sure she is safe

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5 hours ago Kyle Walker's two children with Lauryn Goodman 'did not receive Christmas presents from their father'

Kyle Walker did not send the two children he shares with Lauryn Goodman Christmas gifts this year, according to The Sun.

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2 hours ago Over half of UK adults struggle with diet changes amid busy lifestyles

More than half of Brits are trying to lose weight but 'never get around to it' a recent survey shows

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6 hours ago Jr NTR enjoys vacation with family at Hyde Park's Winter Wonderland in London; Watch pics

Jr NTR enjoys vacation with family at Hyde Park's Winter Wonderland in London; Watch pics  TOI Etimes

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2 hours ago ISIS bride Shamima Begum's return home from Syria 'could see 100 extremists flood UK'

Government insiders have supposedly reported renewed interest from Shamima Begum's lawyers regarding her potential return to the UK, but they warn of other dangers

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6 hours ago Inside Sarah Beeny's sad family loss that changed her perspective on life

EXCLUSIVE: Property guru Sarah Beeny has opened up about her battle with breast cancer and how she became more sentimental after losing her mum to the same disease

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3 hours ago At least three die attempting to cross Channel from France amid rescue operation

A large-scale rescue operation was launched from a beach in Sangatte, in northern France, on Sunday morning

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