73 minutes ago Boris Johnson brands Vladimir Putin a 'f***ing idiot' as he calls on Western leaders to let Ukraine join Nato

Britain's former Prime Minister told the Russian leader there will be 'no more empire', declaring Ukraine and other eastern European countries would never rejoin the 'Russian imperium'.

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88 minutes ago Rachel Reeves 'making Britain a laughing stock' on China trip as she returns with 'puny' £600m investment deal

The Tories said the Chancellor had 'come back with next to nothing' from her trip to Beijing, which she ploughed ahead with despite fresh alarm at her economic plans.

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25 minutes ago Devastated Simon Cowell makes urgent LA wildfire plea in new video message

Simon Cowell has urged people to help victims of the California wildfires, saying he is devastated by what has happened.

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17 hours ago Britain's gas crisis could lead to higher energy bills if we have to import more from the EU to keep country running, expert says

With Centrica and National Gas at odds over the UK's gas stocks, the Government may be forced to turn to the EU to ensure supply, in a move which could spell disaster for consumers.

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79 minutes ago Is this Britain's most annoying neighbour? Woman who keeps 28 cockerels in her back garden blasted by desperate locals... but she says 'horrendous' racket is THEIR fault

EXCLUSIVE: Lucia Lawrence, 50, was served with a noise abatement order after locals complained that her 28 cockerels crowing from 2am onwards was driving them mad.

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8 hours ago How to protect YOUR money from Rachel Reeves's economic meltdown: Finance guru JEFF PRESTRIDGE talks to Britain's top experts to reveal what you need to do NOW

Are the wheels coming off Rachel Reeves's 'wagon'? Political allegiance may determine your answer to this question, but financial markets are adamant in their opinion.

Economics

81 minutes ago Inside the chilling story of one of Britain's longest serving prisoners... that you've never heard of: How murderer, 72, met grisly end in Scottish jail after 55 years behind bars

One of the UK's longest-serving prisoners has died at the age of 72 after spending more than 50 years behind bars... but you've likely never heard of him.

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2 hours 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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25 hours ago Alicia Douvall's incredible transformation: Glamour model who spent £1m on 400 plastic surgeries and bedded Simon Cowell is now the proud head of a natural beauty empire

Alicia Douvall has had more than 400 cosmetic procedures totalling to a self-estimated £1 million.

Economics

91 minutes ago Rare amber cold health warning alerts in place as Britain hit by ‘freezing fog patches’

The Met Office says it will be a ‘very cold and frosty’ end to the weekend

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3 hours ago At home with Simon Rattle: ‘There are still things I feel are beyond me’

The world-famous conductor, now 70, on family life in Berlin, why music keeps you young and the bleak outlook for the arts in BritainThe instruction was straightforward: “10.30am at home. Coffee and croissants.” Since timing, at least in part, is a conductor’s priority, a visitor feels the pressure – especially with the siren call of coffee – to be prompt. Simon Rattle lives on the edge of Grunewald, the expanse of forest and lakes to the west of Berlin, a haven for the prosperous who built villas there at the end of the 19th century, and a green lung for all Berliners today. I arrive a few minutes early – long enough to take issue with Christopher Isherwood who, in his Berlin Stories, complained about the “expensive ugliness” of the properties here, ranging from “the eccentric-rococo folly to the cubist flat-roofed steel-and-glass box”. Gables and turrets turn suburban houses into small castles, a reminder of Germany’s romantic folklore past. Fairy lights – we meet shortly before C...

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27 hours ago Top destination with ‘340 days of sunshine’ a year is only a £17 flight from Manchester Airport

Escape the January chill with this sunny city break destination, that's been dubbed the 'new Turkey'

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1 hour ago Simon Cowell begs 'those who can help, to help' in message of support to Los Angeles residents after devastating inferno burns 37,000 acres of land and claims 16 lives

Residents have been encouraged to evacuate their homes and strict water saving rules have been imposed as a result of the inferno.

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34 hours ago Britain's Treasury chief is heading to China to revive suspended economic and financial talks

Britain’s Treasury chief is travelling to China this weekend to discuss economic and financial cooperation between the countries, as the U.K.‘s Labour government seeks to reset frayed ties with Beijing

Economics

10 hours ago When Maya Jama dumped Stormzy they claimed they had simply 'grown apart'. But now insiders say the truth could be more humiliating for Britain's 'King of Rap'

When Maya Jama dumped her rapper boyfriend, Stormzy, fans were left heartbroken that music's golden couple had split - but insiders suggest there was another reason than simply 'growing apart'.

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9 hours ago Labour must stop handing millions to Pakistan as country blocks removal of child sex abusers from Britain, former immigration minister claims

Robert Jenrick (left) has called for the financial aid to stop and for a visa ban to be implemented until the country cooperates with the deportation of citizens living in the UK such as Adil Khan (bottom right)

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16 hours ago Kate Garraway 'trying to shift the gloom' after first anniversary of Derek's death

Good Morning Britain star Kate has admitted she is struggling with "a bit of gloom" following the one year anniversary of the death of her husband Derek Draper

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12 hours ago Britain's three more days in the freezer! Country shivers through coldest January night in 15 years

Cold-weather health warnings were extended until Tuesday as much of the country endured below-zero temperatures, with -18.9C (-2F) recorded in Altnaharra, Scotland on Friday night.

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19 hours ago Ant and Dec all smiles as Britain's Got Talent auditions resume after Liam Payne's death

Geordie duo Ant and Dec were in fine form as they took to the Britain's Got Talent auditions red carpet in Blackpool. It follows the ITV show pausing auditions after Liam Payne's tragic death in October

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17 hours ago Joe Biden got plenty right at home, but on the world stage he let himself be taken for a fool | Simon Tisdall

In another era, the outgoing president would have made a great cold war leader. Instead, his tenure was dogged by errors, naivety and overcautionIn a week when the US bade a sad farewell to Jimmy Carter, presidential legacies came under particular scrutiny. Yet few presidents are widely remembered beyond their lifetimes, their “historic” achievements even less so. In the 20th century, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D Roosevelt, John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon make the truly memorable list. Most of the rest are mere school-book names and dates.Joe Biden’s standing in this unprepossessing pantheon is now being assessed, as he prepares to depart the White House on 20 January. Like his 44 predecessors, he reportedly frets about his “place in history”. All presidents do this. It smacks of vanity. They give valedictory lectures, endow foundations, build libraries, write memoirs. They confuse fame with continuing relevance. Continue reading...

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21 hours ago How Europe's only private army is based in BRITAIN: Soldiers in tiny regiment carry rifles from the 19th century, wear kilts and are loyal to a duke who lives in South Africa

With their Lee Metford rifles, broadswords and daggers in their socks, they look like men you would not want to get on the wrong side of.

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17 hours ago Amanda Holden braves cold in pink ensemble for Britain’s Got Talent auditions

The judges posed on the red carpet amid the cold weather.

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22 hours ago We're already at war and no one in Britain is safe. This is the appalling truth about the threat we face: A chilling warning from Sir Winston Churchill's grandson NICHOLAS SOAMES

The stormclouds forming over the UK are more dangerous than anything we've seen in our lifetime. And if bombs, drones, missiles or rockets begin to fall out of the sky, we have very little to protect us.

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18 hours ago Guest snowed in at 'off the grid' Britain's highest pub says it was a 'great adventure'

Video shows the moment when snowed-in guests finally got rescued from Britain’s highest pub after two snowploughs managed to reach them.

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23 hours ago Grooming gangs row could spark UK version of New Zealand mosque massacre that killed 51 says Labour's Wes Streeting

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has shared his fears over the vilification of Britain's Muslim community in response to grooming gangs, referencing New Zealand's 2019 mosque shootings.

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21 hours ago Carrie Johnson spends week in hospital with flu and pneumonia as she becomes latest victim of sickness surge sweeping Britain

The wife of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that she spent the first few days of 2025 at John Radcliffe hospital in Oxfordshire after enduring a 'nasty' chest infection for nearly 18 days.

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25 hours ago 'After 24 years reporting on crime this is the horrific case that will always stay with me'

Levi Bellfield, one of the most dangerous serial killers ever seen in Britain, stands out among them - it was the cruel psychological torture that he put victim's families through, says the Mirror's crime correspondent Tom Pettifor

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22 hours ago I was always the 'funny fat friend' in my 20s so I started taking cocaine to lose weight. I just wanted men to like me

'What did I do last night?' Heidi Anderson thought to herself as she squinted her eyes to adjust to the late-morning sunshine now flooding in through the unclosed curtains.

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26 hours ago 'I live on 'Poo Mews' where it's been flooding with sewage and dead rats for 30 years'

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Sewer flooding on Sandcliff Road in Erith, south-east London, a street now known as "poo mews" has become so bad that it was featured in the 2015 documentary Britain’s Horror Homes

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24 hours ago Britain suffers new coldest January night for 15 years as temperature plunges to

It is the coldest January overnight temperature since 2010 with much of the UK enduring below-freezing temperatures overnight as the wintry weather continues.

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26 hours ago Exact time more snow will hit UK today as cold snap set 'last for weeks'

Snow is expected to batter Britain this afternoon as the bitterly cold weather is expected to last throughout the rest of January - but some key FA Cup matches will go ahead

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25 hours ago Nick Frost: ‘I’d like to say sorry to my mum. She was an alcoholic and I spent a lot of time hating her’

The actor and comedian on being a people-pleaser, the benefits of looking after himself, and his celebrity crushBorn in London, Nick Frost, 52, was working in a restaurant when he met Simon Pegg. The pair appeared in the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced from 1999 to 2001, and went on to make films such as Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Paul, which they co-wrote. Frost wrote, produced and stars in the comedy horror Get Away, which is available on Sky Cinema. He lives with his partner in London and has three children.When were you happiest? Now. Five years ago, I started looking after myself a bit more, emotionally and spiritually, and it’s paid dividends. Continue reading...

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34 hours ago Amid rush to net zero, boss of gas giant Centrica reveals shivering Britain has only a week's worth of reserves left, so... are we heading for energy blackouts?

Ed Miliband's 'obsession' with wind and solar power leaves Britain at risk of blackouts, a former energy secretary warned last night as UK gas reserves fell to 'concerningly low' levels.

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