18 minutes ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing JB Gill's very talented kids have already started amazing careers

Strictly Come Dancing star JB Gill may be a skilled singer and dancer, but his two young kids are already shaping up to be stars in their own right. Here we take a look at their time in the spotlight

Politics

32 minutes ago Bargain Hunt pair floored over unexpected windfall as £14 item turns into huge profit

One Bargain Hunt couple were left speechless as a £14 item made them a huge profit on the BBC show after their expert Roo Irvine bought the item for them as a bonus buy

Economics

41 minutes ago Harper Beckham reveals dreams to follow in mum Victoria's footsteps with own brand

Victoria Beckham has shared some sweet insight into her daughter Harper's career dreams, and it seems the 13 year old is looking to follow in her famous mother's footsteps

Politics

48 minutes ago ‘Appreciate winter for what it is, without wishing it were something different’: psychologist Kari Leibowitz on beating the seasonal blues

The researcher spent 10 years studying how attitude affects mood and behaviour, and her new book shares ways in which we can learn to value the colder monthsKari Leibowitz holds a PhD in social psychology from Stanford University, where she studied the role of our mindsets on our health and wellbeing. For the past 10 years, Leibowitz has been investigating people’s attitudes to winter and the ways they can powerfully affect our mood and behaviour – research that has culminated in her debut book, How to Winter: Harnessing Your Mindset to Thrive in Cold, Dark Or Difficult Times.As a Fulbright scholar, you moved from Atlanta to the University of Tromsø in Norway. The polar night there lasts for almost two months. How did that experience inform your views of winter?I was looking for a resea...

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48 minutes ago Ken Hom: ‘I was petrified of being in front of the camera. Doing TV was a nightmare’

The chef and broadcaster on peeling prawns by the kilo, his bicultural pride and being ‘addicted’ to fish and chipsDucks don’t like me when they look at me. I’ve cooked countless peking ducks, probably several thousand. On my first TV series [Ken Hom’s Chinese Cookery on BBC Two, first broadcast on 29 October 1984] we did peking duck in the first programme and there was a run on ducks the next day in all the supermarkets. I’m their nemesis.My father died when I was eight months old, he had a heart attack. So I grew up in Chicago with a single mum who, because she came from China, never spoke English. I had to speak Cantonese to her and it’s been a blessing in disguise. Because of that, I became bicultural. I spoke English in a western world, but at the same time...

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48 minutes ago The podcast Kill List doesn’t reflect badly on the internet – it reflects badly on us | John Naughton

A gripping audio series about a killer-for-hire scam on the dark web is a reminder of how technology holds up a mirror to human natureThis column comes to you as a break from listening to a riveting podcast series called Kill List. It’s about a secret website that journalist and author Carl Miller discovered on the dark web, the slimy underbelly of the internet. The site essentially runs what one might call an “assassination market” or a murder-for-hire service. Customers identify and profile someone whom they wish to have killed and pay (in bitcoin, natch) for the service they require. Hence the title of the podcast series.The story starts in 2020 in the early days of the pandemic lockdown when a gifted IT expert and hacker, Chris Monteiro, was browsing the site and found a security vu...

Events

51 minutes ago Macron’s business policies made him ‘president of the rich’. Rachel Reeves, beware | Phillip Inman

The chancellor rightly wants to stimulate the economy by boosting growth. But she would be unwise to do it at the expense of the poorestThere is a danger that Labour will suffer the Macron effect when the budget is unveiled at the end of the month. Emmanuel Macron, who was first elected president of France in 2017, put business investment and building a culture of entrepreneurialism at the top of his to-do list – only to be condemned later as a friend of the rich.Rachel Reeves speaks a similar language when she says economic growth is her priority and that business people should be offered more support than even the Tories were prepared to countenance. Continue reading...

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72 minutes ago BBC Breakfast's Carol Kirkwood looks unrecognisable with dark hair and eighties make

BBC Breakfast star Carol Kirkwood looked worlds away from her current self in an unearthed eighties throwback snap.  

Politics

77 minutes ago Covid XEC symptoms: Coronavirus signs to look out for in new deadly variant hitting UK

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) warned members of the public that the XEC strain of the disease is spreading in the UK with cases increasing at a high rate

Events

83 minutes ago Tycoon with £1.5m property empire revealed as key figure in gang smuggling hundreds of kilos of cocaine and heroin

Richard Baxter was one of the key figures in a gang smuggling hundreds of kilos of cocaine and heroin, before laundering money through various companies

Economics