80 minutes ago The heartbreaking message a distraught little girl gave her grandparents after finding heroin

A young girl was left 'distraught' when she found her heroin-addict parents lying unconscious on the bathroom floor of their Swansea home, a court heard.

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4 hours ago How to dress to boost happiness– 7 colourful and trending wardrobe additions from £26

Looking to beat those January blues? Adding some colour into your wardrobe is a guaranteed way to boost your mood so we've found the best dopamine buys on the high street

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15 hours ago Mikel Arteta sends disgruntled Arsenal fans pointed message before Man Utd match

ARSENAL vs MANCHESTER UNITED: Mikel Arteta believes the Gunners are doing better than they were at this stage of last season and for that reason, he insists everybody around the club must remain positive despite the midweek defeat to Newcastle

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68 minutes ago Kelyan Bokassa's heartbroken mum reveals tragic final message teen wrote on her balcony

Kelyan Bokassa, 14, was tragically killed in front of passengers on the 472 bus in Woolwich, South East London, on Tuesday, just before 2.30pm. A manhunt is underway to find the suspect

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20 hours ago Couldn’t put it down: David Hurn’s photographs of people reading – in pictures

In 1983 David Hurn met one of his photographic heroes, André Kertész , and jokingly suggested that, when he reached Kertész’s age of 89, he would remake his seminal volume, On Reading. True to his word, the Magnum photographer has now done so. Wherever Hurn travelled as a photojournalist, he took images of people reading books, magazines and, lately, on mobile phones. “One of the things that happens in every country in the world is people read,” he says. “It’s lovely to read – the touch of the paper, the ease of being able to check back a few pages. But we’re at a time now where we’re not quite sure whether, in the future, books on paper are going to disappear.”David Hurn’s On Reading is published by RRB Photobooks (£35) Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Gregg Wallace returns to TV for first time since leaving MasterChef amid 'sexual misconduct probe'

The TV presenter, 60, is currently under investigation over a string of allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour and stepped down from hosting the show in November.

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17 hours ago James Rodríguez is a player out of time who brings his best to international stage | Jonathan Wilson

The 2024 Golden Boot winner flopped at Everton and faded away at Real Madrid but is still a maestro for ColombiaOn Monday, Rayo Vallecano released James Rodríguez on a free transfer. It hadn’t been much of a stay. In four and a half months at the club, he managed 136 minutes of league football. Only once did he start in La Liga. Rodríguez is 33 now. Since he left Everton in 2021, he has started just 37 league games and scored only 10 goals. This is the sixth season in a row in which he has been released on a free transfer as he has drifted from Real Madrid to the team currently 12th in the table, via Qatar, Greece and Brazil. The sense is of a waning career nearing its end.And yet in those three and a half years since his last game for Everton, Rodríguez has played 32 times for Colombia. While at Rayo, he has played 374 international minutes. True, he doesn’t often last a full game, but there are few other indications of decline. As Colombia reached the final of last year’s Copa Amé...

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1 hour ago Man City star breaks ranks with true feelings on Kyle Walker after exit bombshell

Manchester City captain Kyle Walker has told manager Pep Guardiola he is looking to leave The Etihad during the January transfer window, with AC Milan leading the race to sign him

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30 hours ago 'Masterpiece' remake of 'classic' movie that won 10 Oscars is on TV tonight

The 2021 film received seven Academy Award nominations but did not live up to its predeccesor's staggering wins

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2 hours ago Maura Higgins reveals true feelings for Curtis Pritchard as he enters Love Island All Stars

Maura Higgins has opened up on her true feelings towards former flame Curtis Pritchard as he gets ready to look for love once more on Love Island All Stars

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2 hours ago SAS Rogue Heroes: What's true and what's false? From Paddy Mayne smashing up a Cairo restaurant to unit's founder trying to flee prison, historian gives his verdict

The new series of BBC drama SAS Rogue Heroes has drawn both praise and criticism for its all-action depiction of the wartime exploits of Britain's most elite troops.

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31 hours ago 'Quintessentially English film' fans call 'a timeless masterpiece' is on TV tonight

Based on Jane Austen's classic novel, the drama is considered a 'cinematic classic' by film fans and critics alike - and it will air on BBC Two today

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3 hours 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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4 hours ago In Attendance: Paying Attention in a Fragile World review – visions of mortality abound

Fitzrovia Chapel, LondonIn a former hospital chapel replete with its own stories, works by Paula Rego, Phyllida Barlow and others resonate in their exquisitely contemplative surroundingsThe Fitzrovia Chapel is a miniature cathedral in the heart of London – a tiny vault of marble, stained glass and gold conceived on the most human of scales. Old photographs show congregations of barely more than 50. It is possible to walk from one end to the other in fewer than a dozen steps, but along the way are glimmering mosaics, glowing stars and some of the most moving words I have ever read in a church.This chapel, where King Charles recorded his recent Christmas message, is all that remains of the old Middlesex hospital in the heart of London. A neo-gothic building of dark red brick, it once nestled inside this venerable teaching hospital, founded in 1745. Now it stands alone, and fully visible, dwarfed instead by the high-rise apartments and luxury shops of the Pearson Square complex that re...

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4 hours 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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5 hours ago Jonathan Ross singled out for his response to Macy Gray's Masked Singer meltdown

Jonathan Ross has been hailed a 'true professional' for 'rescuing' The Masked Singer after Macy Gray's onstage meltdown

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8 hours ago Grindr serial killer Stephen Port's prison letters 'exposed childish concerns'

Stephen Port, who was convicted of the murders of four men he met on Grindr, thought he was writing letters from his prison cell to a young fan - but he was actually corresponding with author Sebastian Murphy-Bates

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5 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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14 hours ago LA Times owner's stark message to voters as he attacks Democrat incompetence over deadly fires: Live updates

Outrage over the handling of the devastating Los Angeles fires is heating up amid reports that city leaders failed to prepare local reservoirs while power grids struggled hours before the blazes.

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5 hours ago Meghan Markle's revenge as 'she doesn't just want to be Prince Harry's wife'

EXCLUSIVE: As Meghan Markle's new Netflix series drops this week, a source tells OK! that she's determined to send a strong message to all the doubters - and it looks like it's working

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19 hours ago Straw Bear Festival returns in colourful fashion to streets of Whittlesea

The annual tradition saw Morris dancers donning colourful feathered hats and bright green and yellow attire.

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7 hours ago I didn't expect what Man City fans did vs Salford as Gary Neville and Kevin De Bruyne sent message

The moments you might have missed as Manchester City hosted neighbours Salford City in the FA Cup third round for their first ever meeting.

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19 hours ago Joan Didion and Mike Davis understood LA through its fires. Even they didn’t predict this week

Fire is an inextricable part of the region’s identity, as the writers knew. But the way this divided city burns has been transformedTalking about fire and Los Angeles is an exercise in repetition. Southern California does have seasons, Joan Didion once noted in Blue Nights, among them “the season when the fire comes”.Fire in Los Angeles has a singular ability to shock, with its destruction that takes “grimly familiar pathways” down the canyons and into the subdivisions. The phrase comes from Mike Davis’s 1995 essay The Case for Letting Malibu Burn, and it is as true for the fires as for our talk of the fires. Even our reflections take on that grim familiarity: we cite Joan Didion citing Nathanael West. We fall in with the great writers of this great city who are always so ready to judge it. Continue reading...

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15 hours ago Anthony Joshua sends message to Tyson Fury over 2025 showdown: 'Has to happen'

Heavyweight rivals both coming off defeats and arguably needing each other more than ever

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19 hours ago Joan Didion and Mike Davis understood LA through its fires. Even they couldn’t predict this week

Fire is an inextricable part of the region’s identity, as the writers knew. But the way this divided city burns has been transformedTalking about fire and Los Angeles is an exercise in repetition. Southern California does have seasons, Joan Didion once noted in Blue Nights, among them “the season when the fire comes”.Fire in Los Angeles has a singular ability to shock, with its destruction that takes “grimly familiar pathways” down the canyons and into the subdivisions. The phrase comes from the writer and activist Mike Davis’s 1995 essay The Case for Letting Malibu Burn, and it is as true for the fires as for our talk of the fires. Even our reflections take on that grim familiarity: we cite Didion citing Nathanael West. We fall in with the great writers of this great city who are always so ready to judge it. Continue reading...

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16 hours ago Pep Guardiola shows true Man City colours with classy Salford gesture after FA Cup rout

Latest Manchester City news after the 8-0 FA Cup victory over Salford City with Pep Guardiola showing his class in the aftermath

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20 hours ago Friend of British hiker missing in Italy voices ‘acceptance’ as search continues

Joe Stone says authorities ‘trying everything’ to find Aziz Ziriat after body of Sam Harris discovered on WednesdayA close friend of a British hiker who has been missing in the Dolomites since New Year’s Day has said “there is an acceptance that it won’t be good news” as search efforts continued.Sam Harris, 35, and Aziz Ziriat, 36, from London, last sent messages home on 1 January and the pair did not check in to their flight home on 6 January. Friends and relatives have travelled to Italy. Continue reading...

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16 hours ago Greenland leaders say they WILL enter negotiations with Trump as Denmark's private messages come to light

Greenland's leader, Múte Egede, expressed his willingness to engage in negotiations with President-elect Trump.

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22 hours ago Sir Rod Stewart's heartbreaking request to wife Penny during devastating split

Rod Stewart has been married three times and has eight children, but it was his relationship with Penny Lancaster that finally showed him what true love is

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18 hours ago Arne Slot shows his true colours as Accrington Stanley boss reveals chat

Liverpool defeated Accrington Stanley 4-0 at Anfield in the FA Cup but the Lancashire side were able to take away positives from the clash with boss John Doolan paying tribute to Arne Slot

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23 hours ago 'Living Nostradamus' issues chilling 2025 warning as LA wildfires prediction comes true

Self-professed psychic Athos Salomé, dubbed Living Nostradamus, has issued a chilling warning for 2025 as it emerges he predicted the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles back in 2023

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18 hours ago Man City fans send Gary Neville message as Man Utd legend wisely skips FA Cup thumping

Gary Neville was not in attendance as his club Salford City clashed with Manchester City in the third round of the FA Cup at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday and the home fans were not exactly complimentary

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23 hours ago In utterly unsurprising news, Maga blames diversity for the Los Angeles wildfires

Elon Musk, one of the brightest minds of his generation, is saying it, so it must be trueWomen, eh? They’re simply not to be trusted. Eve ate that apple; Pandora opened that horrible little box; and now women are to blame for the devastating wildfires in California. I know that sounds like a ridiculous thing to say, but it’s what Elon Musk, one of the brightest minds of his generation – and one of the most powerful people on Earth – is saying, so it must be true. Continue reading...

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19 hours ago Uncertain Man United message sent after Ruben Amorim surprise Arsenal selection decision

Manchester United are in action in the FA Cup third round on Sunday

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28 hours ago Anthony Hopkins issues poignant message after losing home in devastating LA wildfires

The Welsh Oscar-winning actor took to social media to share a poignant message of support to those who have been impacted by the ongoing blazes in Los Angeles

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21 hours ago As resolutions go, Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘nothing in moderation’ is a stinker | Alison Phillips

Between Elon Musk, a free-for-all Facebook and Donald Trump, truth and decency are likely to have a hard time of it in 2025How did we get to a week in which the world’s richest man could label our safeguarding minister and women’s rights campaigner Jess Phillips a “rape genocide apologist”, and the boss of the world’s biggest social platforms could abandon moderating even the most despicable content in the US?Let’s go back 30 years. It’s 1995, cargo pants were slung low, Oasis were riding high. We were all going to Live Forever. And then the New York supreme court ruled against a long-forgotten company called Prodigy, which hosted online message boards. An unknown user had posted a message that the brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont (which had inspired The Wolf of Wall Street) had committed fraud. Stratton Oakmont sued for defamation and a crucial question was asked: was the site that hosted the comment responsible for it, in the way a traditional publisher would be for a comment on it...

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22 hours ago Liverpool's forgotten man sends timely message to Arne Slot with FA Cup show

LIVERPOOL 4-0 ACCRINGTON STANLEY: Federico Chiesa has had a difficult start to life on Merseyside but in his 45-minute FA Cup cameo, the Italian suggested he could still come good at Anfield

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25 hours ago ‘It’s the moment when genius comes into the universe’: the film recreating SNL’s chaotic first night

A new drama recalls the wild first broadcast of Saturday Night Live in 1975. Making it was as much of a high-wire act as the show itself, the film’s director Jason Reitman and stars revealThere is no show in history more obsessed with its own lore than Saturday Night Live. Almost every week the long-running sketch show is sprinkled with returning alumni and jokes that reference the show’s illustrious and controversial past: its social club status for the great and good of New York; the drug-fuelled deaths of its brightest lights such as John Belushi and Chris Farley; the superstars it created in Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell and Tina Fey, to name but five of hundreds.SNL is so fabled that it’s already inspired scores of documentaries and numerous scripted TV shows based on it, including 30 Rock and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. In February, there will be a three-hour primetime special celebrating the show’s 50th anniversary, an event likely to be more starry...

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26 hours ago ‘I think there is life there. Today’: the race to put a human on Mars – in pictures

Ever since the first fuzzy images of its surface were captured in 1964, Mars has sparked imaginations worldwide. As Nasa publishes its photographic archives of the red planet, will Elon Musk’s wild predictions of a crewed flight in four years come true?Last September, Elon Musk used the social media platform he had bought for £35bn to remind the world that he had bigger things on his mind than the forthcoming US presidential election. “The first Starships to Mars will launch in two years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens,” he posted on X. “These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in four years.”Then came a grand restatement of even more impressive intentions. “[The] flight rate will grow exponentially from there,” he wrote, “with the goal of building a self-sustaining city in about 20 years.” For those who still doubt whether this plan ought to be quite the priority...

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27 hours ago David Moyes' first words as returning Everton manager sends fans key message

The ex-West Ham boss has returned to Goodison Park as he replaces sacked Sean Dyche

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