45 minutes ago Strictly's Wynne Evans teases Katya Jones during visit to Welsh beauty spot

Wynne branded her shoes 'ridiculous'

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6 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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6 hours ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Wynne Evans and Katya Jones shown 'kind' support amid rumbling 'joke' backlash

The pair are hoping to move on when they return to the ballroom this weekend from the drama, which began during last Saturday

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7 hours ago ‘Unlimited dollars’: how an Indiana hospital chain took over a region and jacked up prices

In the nation’s most affordable metro area, getting hurt or sick is expensiveOn an October evening, Tom Frost was zooming down a dark state road on the northern edge of Indiana. The father of two had just finished his shift at a small town fiberglass factory. Now, he was doing what he loved, riding a Harley Davidson in his typical getup: black gloves, leather chaps, no helmet.As Frost revved past the corn fields and thinning birch trees that led to his girlfriend’s house, a green pickup jerked off a side road and into his path. Frost didn’t have time. He hit the truck and flew backwards, leaving his body and small trails of blood on the asphalt, police photos show. Continue reading...

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8 hours ago Strictly's Wynne Evans says there are ‘kind people’ after discovery following 'misjudged' joke

Wynne Evans has taken to social media following his controversy on Strictly Come Dancing

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12 hours ago Strictly's Wynne Evans keeps his hands to himself after THAT 'live show incident' on glum outing with pro partner Katya Jones in Cardiff

The opera singer and the pro-dancer have been accused of suffering from tension within their partnership as eagle-eyed fans have spotted a couple of awkward moments between the two.

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13 hours ago Does Starmer believe in anything, people ask, and now I can answer: his credo is the rule of law | Martin Kettle

Rwanda, the Chagos Islands, arms to Israel – all fit a pattern. Look to the speech his attorney general made this week; all the clues are therePolitical speeches seem to fall like autumn leaves at this time of year. Speeches at party conferences. Speeches at leadership hustings and to the UN general assembly. And the budget speech itself is still to come. Yet even the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, may struggle to say anything more illuminating than a speech this week by a far less high-profile government member than she.In July, Richard Hermer KC was plucked from a successful bar career by his fellow barrister Keir Starmer, given a peerage and made attorney general. It was a hand-picked appointment by Starmer, who snubbed the shadow attorney general, Emily Thornberry, to make it. As Lord H...

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13 hours ago Does Starmer believe in anything, people ask, and now we know: his credo is the rule of law | Martin Kettle

Rwanda, the Chagos Islands, arms to Israel – all fit a pattern. Look to the speech his attorney general made this week; all the clues are therePolitical speeches seem to fall like autumn leaves at this time of year. Speeches at party conferences. Speeches at leadership hustings and to the UN general assembly. And the budget speech itself is still to come. Yet even the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, may struggle to say anything more illuminating than a speech this week by a far less high-profile government member than she.In July, Richard Hermer KC was plucked from a successful bar career by his fellow barrister Keir Starmer, given a peerage and made attorney general. It was a hand-picked appointment by Starmer, who snubbed the shadow attorney general, Emily Thornberry, to make it. As Lord H...

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17 hours ago Women's Aid slam BBC over Wynne Evans and Katya Jones' hand grope scandal as they insist 'inappropriate behaviour is no laughing matter'

The pair have come under fire this week after defending an awkward exchange during Saturday's show, when Katya moved his hand away from her waist and snubbed a high-five.

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