38 minutes ago 'Suburban' BBC chief Tim Davie fights homes plan near his £4m farmhouse

Mr Davie said in a Royal Television Society lecture in 2015: 'My base wiring is Blue Peter, suburban Britain. The BBC was absolutely part of what I was.'

Society

43 minutes ago King Charles and Queen Camilla to begin tour of Australia with Sunday church service

The visit to Commonwealth nation marks first tour by a reigning monarch in more than a decade

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55 minutes ago Storm Ashley mapped: Where and when are ‘danger to life’ weather warnings in force across UK?

Met Office is warning of possible damage to homes, power cuts and disruption to travel by air, road, rail and ferry

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58 minutes ago BBC Homes Under The Hammer star Jacqui Joseph has famous Hollywood brother

Jacqui Joseph is best known as the property expert on TV's Homes Under The Hammer, but the star also has a famous brother

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1 hour ago Polish funeral home apologises after dead body falls out of its hearse into traffic

Hades Funeral Service, in Stalowa Wola, southeastern Poland , was transporting the body when a 'technical failure' on the vehicle's lock caused a body to fall out unexpectedly.

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2 hours ago Bedford house explosion leaves one dead and a house in flames as locals report hearing 'loud bang'

Neighbours reported hearing a loud 'bang' and a shock wave at around 7.30am this morning as a fireball erupted at a house in Bedford.

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2 hours ago Strictly's Sarah Hadland had a surprising opinion about Miranda before they became best pals

Sarah Hadland is currently wowing fans on Strictly Come Dancing, but the actress admitted she had doubts about her co-star Miranda Hart before they met in person

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2 hours ago Strictly Come Dancing week 5 leaderboard as stars fight to avoid dance

Strictly Come Dancing has reached week five and once again, two celebrities will face the dreaded dance off as one will be sent home

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2 hours ago School district employee accused of killing her sister, 62, and dumping remains in river

Jamie J. Busch, 53, is charged in the death of her older sister Penny Busch

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2 hours ago Thomas Tuchel’s arrival highlights English football’s failure to produce top managers | Jonathan Wilson

Junior-level success cannot mask the fact that the Premier League stifles the development of home-grown coachesThe good news for the battered pride of English coaching is that, even leaving Lee Carsley and his complicated status aside, England still provides the manager for 11 national teams. Although France and Italy also supply 11, only Spain, with 14, offer more. The less positive news is that, according to the Fifa world rankings, the best of those sides are Jamaica (61st), New Zealand (95th) and Puerto Rico (154th).It’s not to demean the work of Steve McClaren, Darren Bazeley or Charlie Trout to suggest that that does not sound like the record of a major football nation. It’s true that Spain’s tally includes the coaches of Brunei and Belize, but Spaniards also manage Portugal and, ...

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