73 minutes ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Shayne Ward flooded with messages over 'sad day' amid love to famous partner

The singer and actor has been in training this week for week five of the BBC One dance contest

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2 hours ago Teen with dreams of becoming pro surfer is attacked by shark off Florida coast

Teddy Wittemann,16, said the predator was ‘thrashing’ his body around but ‘it could have been much worse’

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3 hours ago Florida official warns Hurricane Milton victims about scammers posing as FEMA workers

The emergency management chief of the Florida county where Hurricane Milton made landfall earlier this month is warning about reports of scammers who are posing as Federal Emergency Management Agency officials and trying to get financial information from the storm’s victims

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3 hours ago ‘I drank more in eight years than a normal man drinks in a lifetime,’ admits jockey Oisin Murphy

As he is crowned champion jockey for the fourth time in six years, Oisin Murphy tells Mirror columnist Darren Lewis how he overcame a tough start in life when he wasn't expected to live, to taking the racing world by storm while drinking away his loneliness, before finally proving he is a worthy successor to Dettori

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3 hours ago ‘You can see the money on screen’: why Hollywood is betting on Gladiator II not being another Folie à Deux

From the 1:1 scale Colosseum to the marauding model rhino, Ridley Scott’s forthcoming sequel screams conspicuous spending – but how bullish is Hollywood feeling, and what do we know about the film so far?An actual-scale model of the Colosseum, flooded and filled with longboats. A two-tonne, eight-wheeled, lifesize rhino that can spin, snarl, wag its head and do 40mph. And as much minced beef, sweet potato and personal training as Paul Mescal can stomach. Such were some of the huge costs involved in the production of Gladiator II, which comes to cinemas next month, 24 years after Ridley Scott’s blockbusting original.Such conspicuous spending might be assumed to be making studio executives sweat, but Hollywood is banking on the film being a commercial success – particularly given the cala...

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4 hours ago Eric Trump says his dad was ‘locked in’ for rambling Bloomberg interview. The internet disagrees

Donald Trump ‘absolutely on point’ during midweek economics grilling in Chicago, his son insisted – inviting a storm of disagreement and derision on social media

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5 hours ago Scots brace for Storm Ashley as Met Office amber warning predicts 'danger to life' winds

Storm Ashley is officially the first named storm of the 2024/25 season, with yellow and amber weather warnings in place across much of Scotland this Sunday and Monday.

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5 hours ago Former Strictly Come Dancing star names couple with 'best chemistry' and it's not Pete and Jowita

It has been Pete Wicks and Jowita Pryzstal who have been flooded with comments about the sizzling vibe between the pair

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5 hours ago Lost teenager clinging to kayak rescued after treading water for 12 hours in Pacific

A teenager who had been clinging to a kayak for around 12 hours in the Pacific Ocean was rescued after getting separated from his group on Thursday (17 October).

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