63 minutes ago Simon Cowell in the firing line: X Factor's Katie Waissel takes aim at music industry following Liam Payne's death

Waissel, a 38-year-old British singer-songwriter who auditioned alongside Payne on the 2010 series of X Factor, name-checked Cowell in two statements today.

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80 minutes ago Inside Countryfile presenter's luxury farm given spooky Halloween makeover

Steve Hughes and family enjoy a spookily good time gazing at the rolling hills of the Gloucestershire Cotswolds at the Cotswold Farm Park, home and birthplace of Countryfile presenter Adam Henson

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87 minutes ago Andy Murray teases British tennis star over lucrative role in Saudi Arabia

Andy Murray has been a vocal critic of the Six Kings Slam, a new tennis event in Saudi Arabia, and he was quick to call out his mate Liam Broady over his involvement

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1 hour ago British woman, 65, falls to her death from hotel in Crete while on holiday with her husband

The 65-year-old woman had been staying at a hotel in Hersonissos before the tragic fall

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2 hours ago Simon Cowell faces backlash after Liam Payne's death: X Factor's Katie Waissel takes aim at music mogul

Waissel, a 38-year-old British singer-songwriter who auditioned alongside Payne on the 2010 series of X Factor, name-checked Cowell in two statements today.

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2 hours ago UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy to visit China in an attempt to reset frosty relations

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy is making his first trip to China in office this week in an attempt to reset the U.K.’s ties with Beijing and seek “pragmatic engagement” despite human rights and other concerns

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2 hours ago How we met: ‘We got chatting on the plane – and she suggested I move in with her’

Kate, 49, and Abby, 52, struck up a conversation on a flight from New York to London in the 90s. They have been close friends ever sinceAs a friendly student who loved to travel, striking up a conversation on a flight wasn’t unusual for Kate. But when she boarded a plane headed from New York to London in January 1996, she had no idea she would be making a friend for life. “I’d spent the previous summer interning for Rolling Stone magazine and a publishing company in New York, and I was returning for New Year to visit pals,” she says. “I was then going back to university in London.”She introduced herself to Abby, in the neighbouring seat. “I’d studied in Bristol during my junior year in college and fallen in love with a British boy,” says Abby. “After completing my studies in the States ...

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2 hours ago Brit tourists banned from the sea on one of best beaches for winter sun

British tourists have been told to keep away from a popular holiday spot in Tenerife due to health and safety fears over the water quality at Playa Jardín in Puerto de la Cruz

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2 hours ago Sarah Ferguson becomes the first British royal to join TikTok as she posts poignant first video

The Duchess of York , who currently resides in the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park, made her debut on the social media app yesterday under the username sarahtheduchess.

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2 hours ago Soups, salads and cake? 17 delicious and surprising ways with celery, the neglected vegetable

Celery is very versatile, but rarely essential – and too often left to wilt in the fridge. These recipes put it centre stageWhile people who dislike celery tend to have strong feelings about it, the rest of us find it hard to believe such an innocuous vegetable could even inspire opinion, much less divide it. A couple of chopped celery stalks can almost always add something to a dish, even if its subtlety means it sometimes goes unnoticed.In fact, celery’s versatility presents a problem: we buy it because it’s so useful, but we often forget to include it because it tends to be optional. Instead, we leave it to go bendy in the fridge until it’s time to buy more (although you can quickly revive limp celery by standing the cut stalks in cold water, like flowers in a vase). Continue reading...

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