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"It is either that or invite the rats in for dinner."

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26 hours ago Health emergency declared across LA as fire ebbs closer to celeb hotspot of Brentwood: Live Updates

The expansion of the Palisades wildfire has thrown Californians into fresh jeopardy as the blazes continue to rage for a fifth day.

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6 hours ago Five sunny destinations for January travel – including hotspot with £17.99 flights

There are plenty of places to visit in January which are hot and perfect for a break away. Now Skyscanner shared its top picks for a last-minute holiday with cheap prices

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3 hours ago 'Doctor realised what my symptoms were and say third baby could kill me'

Rebecca narrowly made it through two pregnancies after her symptoms of serious illness were missed

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26 hours ago GPs defying NHS to prescribe baby formula, shampoo and toothpaste to struggling patients

NHS guidance states over-the-counter products should not be prescribed, doctors can use their discretion to overrule

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7 hours ago ‘I do the best I can’: Robert Zemeckis breaks down criticism of new AI

The Hollywood director behind ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Forrest Gump’ talks to James Mottram about dealing with bad reviews, accusations that his films are too sentimental, and using AI tech to de-age Tom Hanks in new release ‘Here’

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27 hours ago ITV presenter Nicki Shields says ’supportive husband’ is secret to balancing family and travel

EXCLUSIVE: Nicki Shields is the face of ITV and TNT Sports' coverage of Formula E motorsport and is able to travel the world with the series despite having three young children at home

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19 hours ago Michael Sheen praised for using his own money to fund new Welsh national theatre

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4 hours ago Police give major update after woman falls 500ft to her death from rock climbing hotspot

The woman died after falling from the deteriorating Caminito del Rey pathway in Malaga, southern Spain, with her companion surviving but "in shock" when he was found

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7 hours ago From the Beatles to biologics – how Liverpool became a life science hotspot

The city has a long history with tropical medicine and is now home to one of the largest biotech clusters in EuropeTucked away in the village of Leasowe, near Moreton on the Wirral peninsula west of Liverpool, the US pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) is building a new £35m glass-clad laboratory building.It is part of a growing life sciences cluster in and around Liverpool, one of the largest in Europe, and a leader in vaccine development and manufacture, as well as infectious disease research projects in the UK. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago Ultra exclusive hotel for Hollywood's elite opens its doors to firefighters amid LA fires

To support the community amid the ongoing, devastating wildfires ravaging through Los Angeles, the Chateau Marmont is welcoming firefighters.

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13 hours ago Naomi Watts says she was told revealing that she'd hit the menopause at 36 would end her Hollywood career

Now, aged 56, British-born actress Naomi Watts has spoken of her experiences of menopause in a new book aimed at challenging the stigma older women face in Hollywood.

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12 hours ago The tragedy behind a small Welsh village that became a tourist hotspot

There aren't many who haven't heard of the legend

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18 hours ago The Observer view: With Hollywood ablaze, ditching carbon targets would be an act of recklessness | Observer editorial

Legislation aimed at limiting the US’s role in global warming is likely to be an early target of Donald TrumpThe devastating wave of wildfires that has reduced thousands of Hollywood homes to ashes could not have afflicted the US at a more telling moment. Figures released last week revealed that for the first time the world overshot the 1.5C limit in global temperature rises that had been set as a desired upper figure by the Paris climate accord of 2015.It is clear that the floods that engulfed Valencia last year, along with the typhoons that ripped through the Philippines and the drought that afflicted the Amazon were all made more likely by this unwanted temperature rise, say scientists. From this perspective, Hollywood’s misery is just one of many examples of the destruction heaped upon the planet by our burning of fossil fuels and ever-rising emissions of greenhouse gases. Crucially, such disasters are only going to worsen until humanity abandons the widespread combustion of coa...

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12 hours ago Anger over 'wasteful, entitled' Hollywood stars including Kim Kardashian who broke water

Fury against 'wasteful, entitled' celebrities grew as stars including Kim Kardashian, were accused of squandering vital water resources that could have been used to save homes. 

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21 hours ago Ryan Giggs' huge net worth, trial verdict, shock baby at 50 and new job

The former Manchester United and Wales winger will be in the dugout for Man City v Salford City

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14 hours ago Push for new IVF laws after hundreds of couples trying to a baby left devasted by clinic's sudden collapse

MPs have demanded urgent action following the scandal around Apricity Fertility, which was not covered by existing fertility regulation.

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23 hours ago How Nicole Kidman got her revenge, 24 years late: Babygirl actress, 57, has eclipsed ex Tom Cruise's career to become an awards darling

The ex-couple - who met on the set of Days of Thunder in 1989 - were once one of Hollywood's most influential power couples, raking in millions with every project.

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14 hours ago Coronation Street star Rebecca Ryan announces she is pregnant with baby number

Rebecca Ryan played Lydia Chambers on ITV's Coronation Street from 2021 until 2022 and has appeared in a string of other hit shows - including Waterloo Road, Casualty and Shameless

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23 hours ago How Nicole Kidman, Demi Moore, and Pamela Anderson are challenging 'ageist' Hollywood with meaty roles and award show nods

The 2025 Golden Globe Awards suggest the tide is starting to turn -with middle-aged thespians being rewarded for their bold, stigma-defying, and nuanced performances this year.

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14 hours ago Coronation Street star Rebecca Ryan announces she is pregnant with second baby

Rebecca Ryan played Lydia Chambers on ITV's Coronation Street from 2021 until 2022 and has appeared in a string of other hit shows - including Waterloo Road, Casualty and Shameless

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25 hours ago Russell Howard looks back: ‘Am I peculiar? You’d struggle to find anyone who does standup who isn’t a bit weird’

The comedian on mining his very large family for material, avoiding the celebrity circus, and being an unashamed standup fanboyBorn in Bath in 1980, Russell Howard is one of the UK’s most successful comedians. He started his career on the standup circuit while studying economics at the University of the West of England in Bristol. Television beckoned; he was headhunted for TV show Mock the Week in 2006, and from 2009 to 2015 had his own show on BBC Three. Howard now has a podcast, Five Brilliant Things, and his new standup special, Russell Howard Live, will be available to stream on his website from 15 January. He lives in London with his wife and their baby son.This photo was a happy memory: I was two and outside my nan and grandad’s house in Midsomer Norton – a place filled with magic. I was playing with my grandad’s cigarettes, and afterwards I’d go and play football with him. He’d probably make his amazing toast later – he used really thick slices of bread and we named it Granda...

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18 hours ago Bonnie Tyler reveals heartbreaking miscarriage at 39 and says she feels 'blessed' to 'have known I could be pregnant'

The Total Eclipse Of The Heart singer, 73, told the Mirror that when she fell pregnant aged 39 with her partner Robert, she felt it was the right time to have a baby.

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26 hours ago Brit woman, 20, dies in 500ft fall at holiday hotspot as pal clings to rock

A British woman plunged to her death after taking a wrong turn while mountain climbing near the Camino de Rey path, which was once considered the most dangerous walk in the world

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19 hours ago Richard Price: ‘I don’t like to write, I just don’t – it’s too much anxiety’

The US novelist and co-writer of The Wire on why his new book isn’t about cops and robbers, his 80s drug addiction and the authors who have inspired himRichard Price, 75, is a screenwriter and author whose books include the 600-page drug-war epic Clockers (1992), which was filmed by Spike Lee and inspired the HBO crime drama The Wire, co-written by Price. Michael Chabon has called him “one of the best writers of dialogue in the history of American literature”. Born and raised in the Bronx, he lives in Harlem – the setting for his new novel, Lazarus Man, in which four strangers cross paths amid the collapse of a tenement block.The book’s acknowledgments mention its “incredibly long gestation”... I signed the contract to write this 17 years ago; if it was a baby, it’d now be applying to college. I’d just written Lush Life, a sort of panorama of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and I wanted to try to do the same for Harlem, but I’d only just moved there. New York City is 1,000 cities ...

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27 hours ago What happened to The Sixth Sense's Haley Joel Osment? Child star and brother of Hannah Montana alum disappeared from Hollywood for 15 years after he was charged with drink driving and drug possession

Instead of perusing a career in acting like his famous sister, Haley decided to step back from Hollywood after often finding it 'aggressive, predatory and relentless'.

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19 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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28 hours ago Fresh woe for LA as fire roars towards celeb hotspot of Brentwood and 405 freeway partially closes: Live Updates

The expansion of the Palisades wildfire has thrown Californians into fresh jeopardy as the blazes continue to rage for a fifth day.

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19 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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29 hours ago 'Devastated' Aussie Hollywood star Mel Gibson reveals the personal items he lost when his $23million Malibu mansion burned down in LA fires

Gibson, 69, opened up to Fox host Laura Ingraham and took a philosophical view of the tragedy.

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19 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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32 hours ago 200 most popular baby names for 2025 as classics die out and replaced by Margot, Hudson and Logan

The top 100 most popular baby names for both boys and girls have been revealed and there are a few unexpected entries

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21 hours ago Jake Quickenden reveals birth of baby boy and says name is nod to late father

A host of famous faces congratulated Quickenden and his wife Sophie Church.

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36 hours ago Steven Gerrard's stance on his daughter, 20, expecting baby with son of jailed gangster

Steven Gerrard's daughter, Lilly-Ella, announced she is expecting her first child with her boyfriend Lee Byrne, the son of notorious Dubliner Liam who was jailed last year

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21 hours ago When Michelle Keegan will REALLY give birth to her first child and why it is such a special milestone for her and husband Mark Wright

Michelle Keegan and her husband, Mark Wright are expecting a spring baby as MailOnline can reveal the star is due to give birth in May.

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22 hours ago 'I was in size 6 clothes but had no idea I was pregnant until the baby came out'

Kayleigh was still wearing her normal size 4-6 clothes, including her Christmas party dress, two weeks before the birth.

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22 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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23 hours ago The Jesus Lizard review – US rockers relive past glories, with added phlegm

Manchester Academy 2Force of nature David Yow and band tour their superb first album in 26 years with a growling, spit-flecked fusion of pummelling songs and acerbic witThe Jesus Lizard singer David Yow is not naked – which is probably for the best. It’s a cold night. But the frontman’s lack of nudity is pretty much the only key element missing from tonight’s ear-ringing encounter with the reunited US band, touring their late-career album Rack (2024). Clad in a black shirt and jeans, Yow prowls the stage, spitting, hollering inchoate insights into the microphone, clamping the cord between his teeth, darkly exhorting the crowd not to stop clapping. He mocks security handing out “little shot glasses of water” – Yow says it in a baby voice – “because someone might be thirsty”.Every few songs, Yow launches himself into the audience, crowd-surfing all the way to the mixing desk. Less of a singer than a sui generis declaimer, he smears misanthropic lyrics across the grain of Duane Denison...

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23 hours ago I was awake during my BBL... here's what the experience is really like, from recovery to results

BBLs - or Brazilian Butt Lifts - are all the rage, especially in Hollywood, as A-listers aplenty alter their backsides surgically - here's what an 'Awake BBL' is really like.

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