38 minutes ago King's wine supplier Berry Bros. & Rudd to lay off staff following NI hikes

Royal warrant holder in consultations with around 30 staff

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14 hours ago The Apprentice's £17.5m mansion with eyewatering rent and needed 'upgrade'

The Apprentice mansion is a key part of the show, but what is it really like inside the luxury pad? One fired candidate has revealed all, including a desperate need for 'upgrade'

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15 hours ago World champion Russian skaters on American Airlines jet built a new life as coaches in the US

The two Russian figure skating coaches killed in the American Airlines crash were two-time Olympians and former world champions in the pairs event

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2 hours ago A French journalist recounts 711 days of captivity as a hostage of Islamic extremists in Mali

Olivier Dubois, a French journalist, was kidnapped by JNIM, a branch of al-Qaida in Africa's Sahel region, while on his way to interview one of the group's leaders in northern Mali

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87 minutes ago Wales bid to end 482 day wait for win in Six Nations as 'write us off' statement made

Wales are approaching 500 days without a win as they prepare to kick-off the Six Nations against France in Paris with Warren Gatland desperate to snap a record losing run

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5 hours ago Washington DC plane crash live: flight data and cockpit voice recorders recovered, officials say

National Transportation Safety Board announces recorders are now at a lab for evaluation; operation to recover bodies continuesFull report: cockpit voice and flight data recorders recoveredVictims: world champion Russian pair and US skaters were onboard crashed planeVisual guide – how did the DC plane crash unfold?What caused this tragic aviation disaster is not yet known, but the National Transportation Safety Board investigators has said it will have a preliminary report within 30 days.Despite the lack of clarity, newly inaugurated US president Donald Trump has accused his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden of lowering hiring standards and suggested the Federal Aviation Administration’s diversity push could have weakened its capabilities. Continue reading...

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11 hours ago Nigel Farage so desperate to copy Donald Trump that is favourite song is now YMCA

YMCA continues to became increasingly more popular as Reform UK leader Nigel Farage hails the track as his favourite, but it could also be due to one of his stateside pals being a fan too

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8 hours ago Ukraine war briefing: elderly couples among nine killed in Russian drone attack

Thirteen people wounded, including eight-year-old girl, in Sumy apartment block attack. Sweden pledges $1.2bn in Ukraine military aid, its biggest pledge yet. What we know on day 1,073See all our Ukraine war coverageA Russian drone attack on a residential block killed nine people including three elderly couples in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, officials said on Thursday. Images distributed by the emergency services showed a gaping hole in the facade of the long block of flats and rescue workers digging through debris for survivors. “This is a terrible tragedy, a terrible Russian crime. It is very important that the world does not pause in putting pressure on Russia for this terror,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on social media. National Police later said the search operation had been completed after 19 hours, with rescuers finding nine bodies in the ruins, while 13 people were wounded. Among the dead were three couples – men and women between the ages of 61 and 74 – Ukr...

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15 hours ago Real reason Justin Bieber looked stressed in New York as wife Hailey desperately tries to help him

The singer, 30, looked uncomfortable wearing a baggy yellow hoodie and ill-fitting beige trousers during an outing in Manhattan amid reports of marital woes with wife Hailey.

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10 hours ago Victims of Washington DC plane crash include US and Russian figures skaters

US Figure Skating champions and coaches were tragically killed in a plane crash involving an Army helicopter in Washington DC

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16 hours ago Russian honeytrap 'agent' who fell in love with another spy on trip to Spain to find anti

Vanya Gaberova, 30, claims she believed she was being used by her lover to conduct police surveillance on a corrupt journalist and denies being a Russian spy.

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12 hours ago Driver bailed for second time after two schoolgirls killed in Wimbledon school crash

Claire Freemantle said she had no memory of the fatal crash

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18 hours ago Inside the life of Steve Coogan from quiet home life to rock star fling

Comedy icon stars as journalist Brian Walden in Brian and Maggie

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12 hours ago Sweet clip of World Champion ice skater Evgenia Shishkova resurfaces after she is presumed dead in Washington plane crash

A sweet clip of World Champion Russian ice skater Evgenia Shishkova has resurfaced after she is presumed dead in the Washington DC plane crash.

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20 hours ago Mapped: How American Airlines plane collided with Black Hawk army helicopter near Washington DC airport

The death toll from the two aircraft collision is presumed to be 67 as emergency services frantically wade through Potomac River in freezing conditions to desperately search for bodies

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14 hours ago Inside Russian military camp from hell where disabled and elderly 'chained like slaves'

Russian troops with 'no fingers' and hobbling on crutches are being kept in miserable conditions at a military camp in Siberia - before being shipped off to fight again in Ukraine

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20 hours ago What happened when I tried a traditional Russian wellness ritual loved by biohackers

This ritualistic form of contrast therapy is a shock for the senses, finds Emilie Lavinia

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14 hours ago Figure skater issues shock statement over claims he was denied boarding on doomed flight because his dog was too big

A Russian media outlet originally reported that Maravilla was set to be among the passengers on board the fateful American Airlines flight before he was barred due to the size of his dog.

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22 hours ago Mapped: American Airlines plane collides with army helicopter near DC airport

The death toll from the two aircraft collision is presumed to be 67 as emergency services frantically wade through Potomac River in freezing conditions to desperately search for bodies

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16 hours ago Washington DC plane crash: Trump says US in mourning after no survivors from collision – latest

Officials say 27 bodies recovered from plane and one from helicopter as rescue mission turns into recovery effort after plane carrying 64 people collided with military helicopterWashington plane crash: officials say no survivors expectedCrash near Washington DC: what we know so farWorld champion Russian pair and US skaters were onboard crashed planeMultiple media including the New York Times, Reuters and CNN are saying the Black Hawk helicopter was carrying three soldiers. No senior army officials were onboard, they reported, citing US defence officials.Multiple sources are now saying that about 60 people were onboard the American Airlines plane that collided with the helicopter. Continue reading...

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22 hours ago RFK Jr’s testimony offers a ‘through the looking glass’ moment for Democratic senators

Confirmation hearing was a spectacle as Democrats tried to hold a mirror to nominee, only for him to step right throughRobert F Kennedy Jr’s testimony was a “through the looking glass” moment for some senators, as lawmakers questioned one of the nation’s most influential vaccine critics for a job as the top US health official.The hearing was a testament to how quickly Republicans have integrated “Make America Healthy Again” rhetoric into their own, lauding Kennedy, who was called a “predator” only hours earlier in a letter by his own cousin, as the correct man to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Continue reading...

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17 hours ago Russian spy pretended to be Interpol agent to woo beautician, court told

Bulgarian Vanya Gaberova, 30, told jurors on Thursday that she knew nothing of Biser Dzhambazov’s spy activities as they travelled together.

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23 hours ago Emily Willis is 'permanently disabled' after 'ketamine addiction', reveals family

Former adult star Emily Willis suffered a cardiac arrest at a rehab centre in February 2024. Now a Superior Court lawsuit has revealed the harrowing days in the lead up to her being 'permanently disabled'

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17 hours ago Skater Spencer Lane's mother was also killed in plane crash, as latest victims are named

Figure skater, Spencer Lane, 26, alongside Russian couple Evgenia Shishkova, 53, and Vadim Naumov, 56, have been confirmed dead.

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24 hours ago Don’t look back: after decades of apathy, A Complete Unknown has turned me into a Dylan nut | Laura Snapes

I went into the cinema without expectation, I left feeling like a besotted teenager and have listened to little other music sinceThe bookshop in the town where I used to live had a world-beating second-hand selection. The music section alone was so bounteous that there was a second shelf dedicated solely to books about Bob Dylan. One of them provided an inadvertent punchline to the six-foot display, proclaiming: Why Dylan Matters. Thank god, someone said it!I have cared about music for about 30 years and been a working music journalist for more than half of that time. You can’t avoid the fact that Dylan matters, yet I had always remained Dylan-agnostic. No one in my family is a fan. I saw I’m Not There when it came out, aged 18, and didn’t really get it. On an interminable van journey from Cornwall to Edinburgh, friends played a CD of his greatest hits, but it left no lasting impression. As a teenager I found his music sounded dusty in the way that old records often do when you’re r...

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17 hours ago American figure skater Anton Spiridonov rubbishes Russian report he was on plane that crashed in Washington

An American figure skater who was said to be among the victims of the Washington plane disaster has revealed he was never on board the flight in the first place.

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25 hours ago Greenland is testing Europe's willingness to stand up to Trump. It's failing | Nathalie Tocci

There are rational explanations for the continent’s muted response to US threats – but that’s not how you deal with this presidentDonald Trump’s antics over the past week have put paid to the refrain, often heard in Europe, that the president should be taken “seriously but not literally”. It turns out that Trump literally wants Greenland. He doubled down on his aggressive rhetoric in a raging 45-minute call with the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, a few days ago, threatening crippling tariffs unless she agreed to sell the autonomous territory to the US. In response to Denmark’s sharp increase in military spending for the Arctic, including ships and drones, he derided Copenhagen’s “dog-sled” defences for Greenland, the world’s largest non-continental island, which pale in comparison with the strength of the US military base there.The threat to take over the territory of a European country by force is something that Europeans now know all too well. Russia has repeatedly thre...

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17 hours ago ITV Emmerdale's Ruby star Beth Cordingly issues desperate warning to fans

The actress took to social media to warn her followers to 'stop and think'

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25 hours ago Scotsman Obituaries: Allan McLean, Scottish journalist who became a respected voice in defence of Britain’s rail network

Allan Paterson McLean FCILT, journalist. Born: 22 December 1946 in Edinburgh. Died: 23 January 2025 in Edinburgh, aged 78

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18 hours ago Figure skating community in shock after D.C. plane crash claims lives of coaches, athletes

Two highly-regarded Russian figure skating coaches whose son recently finished fourth at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships were among those feared dead after an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River Wednesday night

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26 hours ago ‘No hope’: wife’s fears for Ugandan opposition leader facing trial for treason

Kizza Besigye, veteran opponent of President Yoweri Museveni, may face death penalty but will not get justice in military court, warns Winnie Byanyima, UNAids chiefIt was a message from her sister-in-law asking where he was that made Winnie Byanyima start worrying about her husband, Dr Kizza Besigye, a prominent Ugandan opposition leader. Byanyima, head of UNAids, had just returned from Malawi to Geneva, where the UN programme on HIV/Aids is based, in November. She rang Besigye’s phone – it was off.She made some calls and learned that he had gone from Uganda to neighbouring Kenya to attend a book launch. Then a journalist told her he believed Besigye was now being held in a military prison in Kampala, Uganda’s capital. Continue reading...

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19 hours ago Washington DC officials believe there are no survivors after jet carrying 64 people collided with military helicopter – latest

Officials say 27 bodies recovered from plane and one from helicopter as rescue mission turns into recovery effortAmerican Airlines jet crashes after midair collisionWorld champion Russian figure skaters reported on boardCrash near Washington DC: what we know so farMultiple media including the New York Times, Reuters and CNN are saying the Black Hawk helicopter was carrying three soldiers. No senior army officials were onboard, they reported, citing US defence officials.Multiple sources are now saying that about 60 people were onboard the American Airlines plane that collided with the helicopter. Continue reading...

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26 hours ago ‘No hope’: wife’s fears for Ugandan opposition leader facing trial for treachery

Kizza Besigye, veteran opponent of President Yoweri Museveni, may face death penalty but will not get justice in military court, warns Winnie Byanyima, UNAids chiefIt was a message from her sister-in-law asking where he was that made Winnie Byanyima start worrying about her husband, Dr Kizza Besigye, a prominent Ugandan opposition leader. Byanyima, head of UNAids, had just returned from Malawi to Geneva, where the UN programme on HIV/Aids is based, in November. She rang Besigye’s phone – it was off.She made some calls and learned that he had gone from Uganda to neighbouring Kenya to attend a book launch. Then a journalist told her he believed Besigye was now being held in a military prison in Kampala, Uganda’s capital. Continue reading...

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30 hours ago Louisiana environmental activist loses freedom of speech lawsuit against parish officials

A civil jury has ruled that Louisiana parish officials who threatened to arrest and imprison an environmental activist while she attempted to speak during a public meeting did not violate the First Amendment

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19 hours ago World champion Russian pair and US skaters were on board crashed plane

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on American Airlines plane that crashed near Washington DC as US Figure Skating says athletes and coaches among passengersOfficials believe there are no survivors – latest updatesThe Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were among at least 13 senior skaters and coaches on board the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac river in Washington DC on Wednesday night, according to the Kremlin and multiple Russian news outlets.Shishkova and Naumov, who were married to each other, won the world championships in pairs figure skating in 1994 and had reportedly lived in the United States since at least 1998, where they trained young ice skaters. The couple were reported to have been returning from the competition and travelling with a group of young skaters. Continue reading...

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20 hours ago Russian figure skaters' 'final words to their son' before American Airlines plane crash with BlackHawk revealed

Married couple Evgenia Shishkova, 53, and Vadim Naumov, 56, were travelling back to DC on Flight 5342 after attending the US Figure Skating Championships in Kansas.

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20 hours ago Washington DC: at least 30 bodies recovered from Potomac River, local media reports, after passenger jet collides with military helicopter – live

Passenger jet with 64 onboard collides midair with military Black Hawk helicopter; world champion Russian skaters on board, Kremlin saysAmerican Airlines jet crashes after midair collisionWorld champion Russian figure skaters reported on boardCrash near Washington DC: what we know so farMultiple media including the New York Times, Reuters and CNN are saying the Black Hawk helicopter was carrying three soldiers. No senior army officials were onboard, they reported, citing US defence officials.Multiple sources are now saying that about 60 people were onboard the American Airlines plane that collided with the helicopter. Continue reading...

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21 hours ago Washington DC crash: World champion Russian figure skaters confirmed on board doomed American Airlines flight

The married couple had lived in the United States since at least 1998

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