2 h. ago EastEnders star suspended by BBC after disabled slur on Strictly set

Jamie Borthwick is reported to have made the offensive remark on a phone video while the cast were at Blackpool Tower Ballroom.

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2 h. ago Graduate's life of luxury came crashing down when her mobile phone started pinging

Danielle Stafford is currently serving a jail sentence of more than seven years

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3 h. ago Daily Star's ultimate phone battle as Oppo Reno Pro 5G takes on the Honor 400 Pro

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Star's own 'I will take all the phones you can give me and test them for as long as possible' expert Adam Cailler put the Oppo Reno Pro 5G and Honor 400 Pro through their paces

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7 h. ago 'I could kick myself for falling for it': The online scam stores leaving shoppers trapped and out of pocket

In an unjust and unethical practice, shoppers are being stitched up by China-based fashion websites branded a 'complete scam'. James Holt investigates.

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8 h. ago Truth about Michael Schumacher now emerges as trusted three named and wife 'like a prisoner'

Michael Schumacher was a sporting giant during his Formula One career but his health has becoming the subject of much fascination following a skiing accident in 2013

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8 h. ago Phone box rapist brands himself 'f***ing dog' before crying in court

Married father-of-one Cornel Filipeche, 21, was sentenced to 10 years behind bars after he dragged a woman into a phone box and raped her in Birmingham - before crying in court

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9 h. ago Children could be banned from spending more than two hours on any one phone app and blocked from social media after 10pm in new anti

Technology Secretary Peter Kyle is mulling a move to cap the amount of time per app youngsters can spend on their phone as part of a swathe of measures designed to reduce 'doomscrolling'.

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10 h. ago ‘They’re perfect – until they aren’t’: why are people so interested in the Beckxit beef?

Coverage of the three-year family ‘feud’ has been extraordinary, and nothing seems off the table in the mediaIf the biggest feud of the week belongs to Donald Trump and Elon Musk, then the longest running is arguably “Beckxit”.The name given to the fallout between one of the most famous couples in the world – David and Victoria Beckham – and their less famous eldest son, Brooklyn and his wife, Nicola Anne Peltz, was coined by the Daily Mail this year. But it covers a broader conflict that began in 2022, when Peltz wore Valentino instead of Victoria Beckham to her wedding, and brings us to this week’s lavish cover-shoot for German Glamour magazine in which the junior Beckhams discuss their “occasionally messy, very real love” and whether they might open a restaurant – without a word about her in-laws. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Sarah Jessica Parker makes candid comment about awkward And Just Like That scene: ‘None of this is my idea’

‘I influence no stories, no writing, no lines, no sweeping big ideas about plot,’ said the actor

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12 h. ago Neighbourhoods where people are most likely to be mugged, carjacked or robbed

The neighbourhoods and town centres where people are most likely to be mugged, carjacked or threatened and forced to hand over mobile phones have been revealed by a new crime map.

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13 h. ago Why is your phone signal bad right now? Experts explain the reasons

You aren’t imagining it 📱

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13 h. ago ‘The moon came into view and I searched for the perfect place to stand’: Eric Kogan’s best phone photo

The Brooklyn-based photographer on a chance encounterNew York-based photographer Eric Kogan took this picture on a family day of furniture and thrift-store hunting in Shelton, Connecticut, about a 90-minute drive from their Brooklyn home. En route, they stopped off in New Haven for a pizza. “The city is famous for its top-notch pizza restaurants,” Kogan says. “And the one we chose, Frank Pepe’s, is rumoured to have invented the first-ever pizza box!” After lunch they continued on to Shelton, pulling into the large parking lot of a furniture sample store a little before 4pm.“It was so tucked away that we kept questioning if we were heading in the right direction,” Kogan says. “The moon came into view as we made our way to the entrance. The sun had just set and it was semi-daylight out. I searched for the perfect place to stand. I also had to underexpose the frame a bit, turning it down until the moon felt right: luminous and detailed against its subdued ...

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16 h. ago UK supermarkets exploit tax loophole to produce cider at ‘pocket

Campaigners say ‘super-strength subsidy’ puts pressure on the NHS, as some ciders cost same as apple juiceSupermarkets such as Tesco, Aldi and Lidl are exploiting a tax loophole to produce and sell cheap cider that harms health and causes social problems, alcohol campaigners have claimed.Over recent years, ciders – sometimes containing as much as 7.5% alcohol – have become cheaper or barely risen in price, despite the cost of beer, wine and spirits soaring, according to research by Alcohol Change UK. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago ‘I paint extreme emotions’: Rachel Jones on her riotously colourful paintings – and her obsession with mouths

Known for her colourful abstracts, the artist is getting a retrospective at the age of just 34. She talks about her love of karaoke, working on a full-length opera and how to deal with fame at a young ageViewers may find Rachel Jones’s paintings “beautiful”, but they should be warned: the artist herself doesn’t love that word.“In our culture, the idea of beauty sadly isn’t discussed in a critical, rich way – it’s much more reductive as a term,” says the 34 year old. “I hope that when people describe the work as beautiful, it doesn’t just stop there.” Her aim, she says, is to pull viewers in deeper, beyond the surface of the work. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Meet the 2025 Love Island girls including flight attendant Justin Bieber follows

The fresh crop of singles have some fascinating stories to share

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17 h. ago Should you take your dog on holiday? We went on a European road trip with our border terrier to find out

Dogs have a sense of adventure, don’t they? We thought Missy would enjoy exploring France and Spain. She had other ideasPlus tips on travelling with dogsWhen, two years ago now, our dog sitters cancelled on us just 24 hours before we were due to go on our summer holiday, we felt more than a little put out. Aware that we couldn’t leave Missy, our border terrier, home alone with a tin opener, we sent out frantic texts and made urgent phone calls before at last finding someone, a friend of a friend of, I think, another friend, and simply hoped for the best. What else were we to do? The flights were non-refundable.It all turned out fine, but it was not an experience we were keen to repeat. And so, the following year, we took Missy with us. Dogs are portable, after all, and have a nose for adventure. Also, this was to be an extended holiday, away for a full month – working part time in order to fund it – and we couldn’t be apart from her for that long. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Electric Spark by Frances Wilson review: Muriel is as intriguing as her novels

What is so fascinating about Muriel Spark? In the last decade before she died aged 88 in 2006, any interview with the Scottish author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie became an event. The excitement was firstly because she was an artist of the old school, famous not only for her brilliant and complex novels, but also for her unconventional life in Italy, where she lived up a hill with her friend Penelope Jardine, who was also her assistant (and now, in her nineties, her literary executor).

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18 h. ago How one interior designer doubled the size of a tired flat by digging deep

It took over a year to overhaul a tired one-bedroom flat into a bright, stylish two-bed maisonette that’s almost doubled in size

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19 h. ago TV teen who needed French polisher in Yellow Pages ad unrecognisable 34 years on

One of the best-remembered ads for the Yellow Pages phone directory featured a floppy-haired teenager waking up to the aftermath of party he'd thrown while his parents were away

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23 h. ago The Golden Spurtle review – a cosy celebration of porridge and its champions

This Australian documentary about the world porridge championships, held each year in a Scottish village, is as wholesome and nourishing as its oat-stirring subjectsThe word “porridge” to me evokes something modest and satisfying: mouthfuls of reliable pleasantness in a terribly volatile world. How lovely that The Golden Spurtle – Constantine Costi’s charming documentary about the world’s annual porridge-making championship in the Scottish village of Carrbridge – has assumed some of the qualities of the dish. It isn’t flashy (and certainly doesn’t scream “must-watch”) but, like a good ol’ fashioned bowl of well-cooked oats, it’s got it where it counts.This film is a pleasure to watch – with endearing salt-of-the-earth subjects, a lovely ebb and flow, and a tone that feels just right: neither overly serious nor tongue in cheek. Its appeal is not dissimilar to the Australian comedy series Rosehaven: sometimes it’s just nice to escape into a fresh air-filled world with refreshingly low...

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