55 minutes ago ‘What’s going on in Bob Dylan’s head’: Mr Tambourine Man lyrics up for auction

Rare drafts of one of Dylan’s best known songs found in journalist’s archive could fetch up to $1 million as part of wider legacy saleIn March 1964, the rock journalist Al Aronowitz awoke to find Bob Dylan asleep on his sofa and the lyrics to Mr Tambourine Man crumpled up in his rubbish bin.The 22-year-old Dylan had spent the night writing and rewriting his new song on a portable typewriter at Aronowitz’s home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, before chucking away the early drafts and stretching out on his friend’s couch. Continue reading...

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21 hours ago Half of people with housing costs ‘starting 2025 worried about home or finances’

Housing charity Shelter and bank HSBC UK are urging those with concerns to seek support.

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21 hours ago Barcelona transfer hiccup points to Manchester United reality Ruben Amorim must solve

Marcus Rashford appears to be in-demand across Europe with AC Milan, Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund among those linked, but there's still a major concern for Man Utd.

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55 minutes ago Medieval Women: In Their Own Words review – a bracing cold shower with Joan of Arc and co

British Library, LondonA letter from the French saint and a lethal shopping list are among the stars of a mind-bending show of the words, mystical visions and everyday lives of women from 1100 to 1500What does hell smell like? At the British Library last week, I opened a small wooden door and inhaled a scent that was bitter and vegetal: a combination of sulphur and something that I didn’t dare to think about for too long so soon after breakfast. Ugh. To spend eternity breathing in this! Happily, though, a counter-stink was on hand. Before the devil had a chance to appear, I closed the door and opened another next to it. This time, my nose filled with the sweetness of honey. It wasn’t precisely heavenly; to be worldly just for a moment, I think you need Chanel or Guerlain for truly celestial perfumes. But it did make me smile. The things museum curators get up to when they’re trying to encourage time travel.The horrible smell was inspired by the saintly Julian of Norwich’s 16th and f...

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9 hours ago How the Left conspired to ban TV film exposing Bradford rapists 20 years ago, reveals DONAL MACINTYRE

DONALD MACINTYRE: More than 20 years ago, I watched the filming of a documentary that followed the work of Bradford Social Services. 

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25 hours ago Medical expert verdict on mandatory face masks in UK over 'mystery' Chinese HMPV virus

EXCLUSIVE: The human metapneumovirus (HMPV) has caused concern as the NHS creaks under the pressure of a 'quad-demic', with shocking footage from Chinese hospitals circulating online

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1 hour ago Britain is a weak link in Donald Trump’s new world order, so it needs to find friends fast | Will Hutton

Amid deepening debt and an onslaught by the president-elect, Labour must calm the markets, then think big economicallyIt’s certainly not 2008, nor even Truss 2022, but the men and women who move the financial markets are suddenly darkly pessimistic. Some of the private emails and WhatsApp messages circulating last week matched any efforts by Cassandra. The mood has turned against Britain.It is not one single thing, but a toxic mix. There is the prospect of a long period of stagflation, the consequence, as even the markets recognise, of 14 years of epic misgovernment. The problem now is partly that Labour does not have a plausible growth story, partly that the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is painted as having an economic tin ear that douses capitalist animal spirits, and partly because Trump’s arrival has exposed just how dependent an indebted, economically wounded Britain is on the kindness of strangers. It’s not yet a crisis – the stock market has held up – but without some skilful e...

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22 hours ago Truth about £4.25m Omaze dream mansion: It's the most spectacular house lottery prize EVER. But don't believe everything you see... we expose the serious catches (including the insane running cost)

In just a few weeks a £4.25million Grade II-listed Queen Anne mansion could be yours if you enter the latest Omaze property prize sweepstake. The Mail visited to see if it's as idyllic as it appears.

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3 hours ago She disappeared with her passport and left behind everything else. Now, key clues point to murder

A 22-year-old Oregon woman never returned from an ill-fated sales call in 1993. Now, over two decades later, her case has been thrust back into the spotlight as key clues now point to her murder.

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12 hours ago ITV Masked Singer fans 'expose' Pufferfish's identity within minutes of show starting

The Masked Singer fans are convinced they know who is behind the Pufferfish costume after making their voices heard online.

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3 hours ago Stephen Flynn accuses UK government of denying Scotland same land borrowing powers as England

The decision not to expand the powers to Scotland has sparked a row

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3 hours ago Liz Truss legal letter to Sir Keir Starmer the latest disaster from joke that keeps on giving

Liz Truss, remember her?

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12 hours ago Letterboxd’s Wrapped 2024: How to find your top movies, actors and directors for 2024

Find out how many movies you logged this year, as well as your most-watched actor and director

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7 hours ago Politicians quibbling as LA burns: Gavin Newsom’s latest beef with Trump

California governor calls president-elect’s claim that water is being withheld from southern California ‘delusional’Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic governor, appeared briefly to put his long-running feud with Donald Trump to one side on Friday, when he invited the president-elect to Los Angeles to survey devastation from the wildfires and meet with first responders, firefighters and the “Americans” affected.“In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread disinformation from the sidelines,” Newsom wrote in a letter to Trump on Friday. “Hundreds of thousands of Americans – displaced from their homes and fearful for the future – deserve to see all of us working in their best interests to ensure a fast recovery and rebuild.” Continue reading...

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9 hours ago Special Forces secrets exposed... by the Ministry of Defence! Veterans slam officials for printing shadowy force's tests in magazine feature

Veterans have been angered by the disclosing of precise details of the tests applicants must take to apply for the Special Air Service (SAS), the Special Boat Service (SBS) and other secretive units.

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5 hours ago DWP benefit warning for pensioners as payments to stop from April this year

Tax credits are being scrapped, with claimants being sent letters telling them to move over to either Universal Credit or Pension Credit, and countless claimants have already been cut off from their benefits after missing crucial deadlines

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12 hours ago Emmerdale fans stunned as they had no idea this star was in EastEnders until now

Emmerdale's Joe Tate made a huge return to the village on Christmas Day, with actor Ned Porteous back in the role after previously starring in EastEnders

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5 hours ago Bible John author suffers DNA blow in bid to prove her theory on killer's identity

John Templeton was named as the possible killer of third victim Helen Puttock, in a book by Australian Jill Bavin-Mizzi.

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13 hours ago Sir Steve Redgrave ‘hardly able to stand on ice’ when he joined Dancing On Ice

The 62-year-old will be partnered by Vicky Ogden on the ITV skating show.

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8 hours ago I'm sure I was drugged and raped too, says the daughter of the Monster of Avignon

Caroline Darian says photographs of her asleep in bed - among thousands of images stored on a laptop to document the serial rape of her mother, Gisèle - show her in underwear she didn't own.

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14 hours ago The Traitors' Dan on 'eyeopening' moment and who he thinks is show's dark horse

The bank risk manager from Liverpool was banished in the last episode after his lie was exposed

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9 hours ago Alleged Albanian people smuggler claims he shouldn't be deported from the UK due to 'overcrowded Belgian jails'

Adriatik Hysenlika is facing extradition from the UK after being handed a ten-year prison sentence for raking in at least £1million as the head of a trafficking gang.

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15 hours ago ITV Masked Singer's Bush 'exposed' as 90s TV icon with fans completely convinced

The Masked Singer fans are convinced they know who is behind the Bush costume - with one person in particular convinced they know the answer to the question

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14 hours ago ITV Masked Singer fans 'expose' Bush's identity with one 'missing clue'

The Masked Singer fans believe they've rumbled who is behind the Bush costume, with many convinced the celebrity is a TV icon from the 90s

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15 hours ago Inside Hollyoaks' Jorgie Porter's Manchester home as she welcomes baby girl

Hollyoaks and Dancing on Ice star Jorgie Porter has just had her second baby and has invited us into her stunning Greater Manchester home to get a peek at their family life

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15 hours ago Tesco makes huge security change to 50 stores in bid to stop shoplifting

The supermarket chain has implemented keypad-opened cabinets into some stores in alcohol aisles - but some shoppers have concerns about the new security measures.

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15 hours ago Inside Hollyoaks' Jorgie Porter's stunning Manchester home as she welcomes baby girl

EXCLUSIVE: Hollyoaks star Jorgie Porter has just given birth to her second child with fiance Ollie Piotrowski. Here's a look at the stunning home she's bringing her newborn to...

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16 hours ago Police warning letter to farmers over Welsh port blockade dubbed 'scare tactic'

Holyhead port is currently closed following damage from Storm Darragh, in December, but is expected to partially reopen next week

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16 hours ago Hollyoaks star Jorgie Porter shares unique baby name after feeling 'like a hero' during birth

The actress welcomed her second child with fiance Ollie back in December

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17 hours ago Woman ‘suicidal’ after taking same antidepressants as Thomas Kingston issues warning over side effects

Coroner and MPs raise concerns as almost 200 alerts made in decade to regulator over deaths linked to drugs

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17 hours ago Ruben Amorim's first Man Utd signing spotted in airport ahead of announcement

Manchester United are set to make their first new signing under Ruben Amorim, with teenage defender Diego Leon flying to England to finalise his move from Cerro Porteno

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17 hours ago ‘Most of my work is a response to war’: Colombian artist Doris Salcedo on violence, Trump and her crack in Tate Modern’s floor

The artist, famed in the UK for her extraordinary fissure in the turbine hall, has turned her focus to the climate catastrophe and the plight of migrants, but old concerns about her country remainAs the world turns toward another fractured year, Doris Salcedo, the Colombian artist, is at work trying to fathom how to create a house out of human hair. Salcedo, 65, has long made herself a channel of collective trauma, her art expressing profound anger at political crimes and atrocities at home and abroad – as well as creating imaginative spaces for mourning. Her hair project, she says, comes in response to what she has come to think of as “domicide”: the calculated bombing and destruction of places that people call home.“Most of my work is a response of some kind to war,” she says. “And we have all witnessed – of course for decades in Colombia, but also now in Ukraine and Syria and Sudan and in Gaza – this destruction of houses for the sole purpose of escalating human suffering. In Gaz...

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17 hours ago Emmerdale's Joe Tate actor leaves soap fans 'floored' after they realise he was in EastEnders

Emmerdale fans have been left surprised after realising actor Ned Porteous, who plays Joe Tate on the ITV soap, was also in EastEnders playing a member of the Mitchell family eight years ago

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17 hours ago Khloe Kardashian brands Mayor Bass 'a joke' as stars continue to lose homes in LA wildfires

Khloe Kardashian and Spencer Pratt were among those voiced their concerns alongside Fire Chief Kirstin Crowley, who had hit out at the city's leadership amid LA's dangerous wildfires

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19 hours ago Hollyoaks favourite Jorgie Porter introduces baby girl Peony as she opens up about 'whopper' birth

The TV star recently welcomed her second child with partner Ollie Piotrowski.

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19 hours ago ‘This place instilled constant fear in us’: the man who lived next door to the brutal Homs security unit for 50 years

For 50 years Taha Tadmori had a window to the surveillance complex of the Assad regime. As Syria starts a new chapter, he recalls the horrors he witnessed and the family he lostThe three floors and subterranean prison of the Homs security directorate have loomed over 65-year-old Taha Tadmori’s daily life since he was a teenager. His family often shut their window blinds and doors in an attempt to block out the constant sound of screams and cries of pain from the facility’s basement prison, loud enough to reach their third-floor apartment overlooking it.The moustachioed man with a gentle smile was 15 when he watched the construction of the neighbouring building that would later terrorise him and other people in Homs. Continue reading...

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20 hours ago A 'shipping container' newbuild and mansion with a 'waterslide' roof: Inside the Cornwall village turned into a 'ghost town' by Hollywood A

Residents of Mawgan Porth in Cornwall are complaining that their village has been taken over by celebrities building increasingly bizarre homes.

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22 hours ago Liverpool XI vs Accrington Stanley: Starting lineup, confirmed team news, injury latest for FA Cup today

Reds have very few concerns ahead of the FA Cup third-round tie

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21 hours ago ‘There are a lot of bitter people here, I’m one of them’: rust belt voters on why they backed Trump again despite his broken promises

Many in Youngstown, Ohio, believe the president-elect will tackle the town’s decline this time. Others are worried about his character flaws. Their concerns help explain how he returned to power – and how his second term might play outThe last time Donald Trump was president, he travelled to Youngstown, Ohio, among the most depressed of America’s rust belt cities, and promised voters the impossible.The high-paying steel, railroad and car industry jobs that once made Youngstown a hard-living, hard-drinking blue collar boom town were coming back, he said. “Don’t move. Don’t sell your house,” he crowed to a rapturous crowd in 2017. “We’re going to fill up those factories – or rip ”em down and build brand new ones.” Continue reading...

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22 hours ago Man arrested over Brit's murder in Costa Blanca breaks silence as 'killer still on the loose'

The 32-year-old arrested on suspicion of murder told a judge investigating Mr George's death on the Costa Blanca he was being scapegoated because he was named on social media

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23 hours ago Ruben Amorim singles out 'special' Arsenal star as Mikel Arteta shares concerns

Manchester United travel to Arsenal in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday and Red Devils boss Ruben Amorim believes one Gunners star in particular will cause his side problems

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22 hours ago TOWIE star sparks concern as he is forced to flee Los Angeles pad as wildfires rage on

The Only Way Is Essex star, Liam 'Gatsby' Blackwell, was forced to evacuate his LA home this week as wildfires in California wreak havoc, leaving hundreds of properties destroyed

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23 hours ago Hollyoaks' Jorgie Porter explains unusual baby name after welcoming new arrival

Actress Jorgie Porter, who is best known for playing Hollyoaks' Theresa McQueen, recently gave birth to her third child and has explained the reason behind her unique name choice

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23 hours ago Accrington Stanley milk advert kids now from convicted killer to Coronation Street star

It's been over 40 years since the Accrington Stanley advert aired on TV and young actors Carl Rice and Kevin Spaine had a famous squabble over milk - but where are they now?

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24 hours ago Construction group behind Aberthaw Power Station demolition includes company fined over rigging controversy

Cardiff Capital Region said a procurement matter has been raised after it was reported that an unsuccessful bidder for the Aberthaw contract raised concerns about the victor in light of fines imposed in 2023

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24 hours ago The curse of RuPaul's Drag Race: How queens featured on the hit reality show have been struck by early death, drug abuse and prison sentences

From their impressive lip sync battles to their hilarious Snatch Game impersonations, many Drag Race contestants have left an imprint on viewers' hearts.

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