2 hours ago Kate wishes England rugby team good luck for Six Nations opening match

Kate is a royal patron of the Rugby Football Union while her husband, the Prince of Wales, is patron of the Welsh Rugby Union.

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93 minutes ago Parents of Ellen Greenberg, teacher stabbed to death in 2011, can take Philadelphia city officials to trial for emotional distress, judge rules

The 27-year-old’s 2011 death was first ruled a suicide, then changed to homicide, and then back to suicide

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25 hours ago Silicon Valley billionaires splurge £144m on London Spirit in Hundred auction

Winning bid for 49% stake values London Spirit at £295mWelsh Fire stake sold for reported £35m to tech entrepreneurThe Hundred is set to deliver an eye-watering windfall for English cricket that exceeds all projections after a Silicon Valley consortium featuring the chief executives of Microsoft and Google claimed a 49% share in London Spirit for £144m.It was the first of two sales to take place on Friday afternoon, with a 49% stake in Cardiff-based Welsh Fire later sold for a reported £35m. The England and Wales Cricket Board has now raised around £279m after similar stakes in Oval Invincibles (£60m) and Birmingham Phoenix (£40m) were claimed 24 hours earlier. Continue reading...

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10 hours ago The unseen France v Wales moments as Welsh player overcome in tunnel and team

John Jones was in Paris to keep an eye on things away from the cameras as Wales faced France

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2 hours ago Freed hostages receive emotional hugs from delighted families but there's still no word on whether Hamas' youngest prisoners survived ordeal

Yarden Bibas and French Israeli Ofer Kalderon were handed to Red Cross officials in the southern city of Khan Younis, while American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel was released later on Saturday.

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66 minutes ago ITV Emmerdale 'heartbreaking' first look shows April Windsor's harrowing story

Emmerdale viewers will see a special standalone episode on Tuesday evening that recounts the heartbreaking story of April Windsor (Amelia Flanagan) and her life on the streets

Culture

2 hours ago Is it time to stop bashing Bridget Jones? Hapless everywoman has evolved – and so have we

A fourth film about Helen Fielding’s creation will be released on Valentines’s day, and this time it’s gen Z that has fallen in love with herBridget Jones is back. The fabled diary (probably a Surface Pro now) has snapped back open. The cigarettes are doubtless replaced by a Vaporesso vape.The new film, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, again starring Renée Zellweger, is being released into cine­mas on Valentine’s day, which feels appropriate. One of the most emotionally charged days of the year for the return of one of Britain’s more emotionally charged exports. Continue reading...

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27 hours ago BBC The Traitors' Alexander inspires £60k charity donation after touching ITV appearance

The Traitors star made a rare appearance on Good Morning Britain this week - and fans flocked to donate to his chosen charity after hearing his story

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2 hours ago Mould, money and murder accusations – residents try to oust management on their London housing estate

The organisation managing the Loughborough Estate in Lambeth is beset by complaints of disrepair, damp and vermin – and has made some big claims of its ownWhen it rains, Dionne* can feel water coming through her bedroom wall. “I touch it and I can literally feel the water soaking from outside to inside,” she said.Dionne has lived in a two-bedroom flat on the Loughborough Estate in south London since 2010 and has complained about mould to the organisation which manages the estate since 2018. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago Heartbreaking details of Linda Nolan's funeral service: From tribute to husband Brian to poignant song

Linda passed away on 15th January, aged 65 at Blackpool Victoria Hospital from double pneumonia , where she entered into end-of-life care and then into a coma.

Culture

3 hours ago Emotional moment Israeli hostage is back in mother's arms after 15 months of captivity

Yarden Bibas was one of three Israeli hostages freed by Hamas today but his wife Shiri and sons Ariel, five, and Kfir, two, were not by his side – their captors claim they were killed in an Israeli airstrike

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29 hours ago The £90,000 slab of tarmac going to auction in popular Cardiff suburb that you've probably never noticed

Looks like a bit of scrub land with little value but people with vision will get excited at what it could become

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2 hours ago D Is for Distance review – tender portrait of parents battling for their son’s medication

Only medical cannabis can stop Louis’ epileptic seizures, but the NHS refuses to supply it. Chris Petit and Emma Matthews have turned their fight into a filmThat uniquely valuable British writer and independent film-maker Chris Petit, creator of downbeat classics such as Radio On from 1979 and An Unsuitable Job for a Woman from 1982, may not these days find it easy to get an outlet for his work; this would be appear to be his first feature credit for 15 years. But he and co-director, editor and partner Emma Matthews have emerged with a deeply personal movie: painful, complex, challenging and engaging.Petit and Matthews riff and free-associate on the themes of memory, memory-loss and the moving image on video and celluloid, but at the centre of this is an urgent story from their own lives. In his early teens, their son Louis, now 22, a talented artist and musician, began to have epileptic seizures that wiped out his memories of childhood; some of these were of the type nicknamed “Ali...

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20 hours ago Coronation Street's Claire Sweeney declares love for Welsh pop star after sharing photo

ITV Corrie actress Claire Sweeney has taken to social media to share her love for a Welsh pop star as the pair were reunited under sad circumstances

Culture

3 hours ago I Who Have Never Known Men: the lost dystopia finding new readers after buzz on TikTok

First published in 1995 then virtually forgotten, a bleak tale of women caged by men has been embraced as a gen Z Handmaid’s TaleTwo people a year, or maybe three, used to buy Jacqueline Harpman’s novel I Who Have Never Known Men. Her story of a girl locked in a cage with 39 women in an underground bunker on a nameless world was published in 1995 then slid into obscurity.Something has changed since then, because the novel’s tale of sisterhood and survival has become one of the hottest reads this year, drawing comparisons to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Octavia E Butler’s Parable series of novels. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Dozy missed Rangers transfer target falls foul of furious boss as he’s axed from squad for SLEEPING IN

It could have been a different story for the centre-back had he made the move to Ibrox

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33 hours ago Dancing On Ice star suffered tragic miscarriage at start of training for ITV show

Dancing On Ice star Chelsee Healey reportedly suffered a tragic miscarriage when she first started training for the show and wants to share her story to "help other women"

Culture

5 hours ago Boy forced to grow up alongside a chimpanzee after family carried out bizarre experiment

An experiment went seriously wrong after a mother and father decided to test their new born son by raising him alongside a chimpanzee – which led to devastating results

Politics

3 hours ago The reasons Wales' attack is so bad as fans try to work out what's going on

After being kept off the scoreboard in Paris, clearly things aren't working for the Welsh attack

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6 hours ago Coleen Nolan wipes tears from her eyes in emotional moment as she says goodbye to sister Linda

The star previously paid tribute to her sister calling her a 'beacon of love, kindness and strength'

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6 hours ago Coleen Nolan in tears at beloved sister Linda's funeral as she says goodbye

Loose Women star Coleen Nolan was seen wiping away her tears as she bid an emotional farewell to her dear sister Linda Nolan, who died last month at the age of 65

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4 hours ago 'Calamitous encounter' with brutal wave led to deadly Princess Victoria ferry disaster

It's been 72 years since the Dumbarton-built 'Princess Victoria' capsized in the Irish Sea, making it the worst maritime disaster in UK waters since World War II

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6 hours ago Special way Linda Nolan will be remembered every year by sisters on her birthday

Linda Nolan's sister Denise Nolan-Anderson paid tribute to the late singer with an emotional eulogy, and revealed the birthday tradition they'll remember her by

Politics

5 hours ago Author's story of coping after a wildfire resonates with community affected by latest LA

The timing is uncanny for Pico Iyer’s new book “Aflame: Learning from Silence,” a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire

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6 hours ago Trump ally Peter Marocco behind evisceration of USAid: ‘He’s a destroyer’

Campaign ally sowed trail of enmity during first Trump presidency and allegedly was present at January 6 riotThe Trump administration’s evisceration of US overseas aid has been presided over by a campaign ally who sowed a trail of enmity at multiple agencies during the first Trump presidency and has been publicly identified as allegedly having been present at the January 6 insurrection when rioters stormed the Capitol.Peter Marocco has accumulated power in the office of foreign assistance, informally called “F”, that traditionally has helped coordinate US foreign aid programs. But under Marocco, it has enforced a full-scale freeze on overseas aid and a stop-work order that has in effect halted operations and already led to hundreds of layoffs in the United States and overseas. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago 'Combination of factors' may have led to death of man 'chased and pinned down by Metrolink

Matthew Sellers, Stephen Rowlands, Paul Fogarty and Brian Gartside deny the manslaughter of Jack Barnes

Events

6 hours ago This is how we do it: ‘As I got older, I struggled to have an erection then my wife introduced her alter ego, Miss Fifi’

When Eric’s sex drive started to wane, Violet knew exactly how to increase his desireHow do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymouslyViolet is beautiful, she always has been, and as Miss Fifi she puts on sexy underwear, which really turns me on Continue reading...

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7 hours ago NATO scrambles warplanes as Putin strikes hit across Ukraine hours after Trump says he is talking to Russia about ending war

The wave of attacks by Vladimir Putin - which led to power cuts in multiple regions - came soon after Donald Trump announced in the Oval Office that his administration was actively talking to Moscow.

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7 hours ago Chuckle brother Paul Elliott pays emotional tribute to friend Linda Nolan at her funeral and says the 'world is a darker place without her'

Chuckle brother, Paul Harman Elliott, 77, has paid emotional tribute to his friend Linda Nolan at her funeral.

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8 hours ago Washington DC plane crash: How series of horrific mistakes led to disaster that killed 67

The Federal Aviation Administration is continuing to investigate the crash on Washington DC between an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk helicopter, as some details emerge

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7 hours ago Man Utd raid Arsenal for wonderkid Ayden Heaven as star bids emotional Gunners farewell

Manchester United have completed the signing of Arsenal wonderkid Ayden Heaven, with the 18-year-old having been heavily involved with the Gunners' first-team last summer

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10 hours ago NATO fighter planes scrambled after Putin's newest drone attack risks WW3

Harrowing footage showed residents in Poltava screaming after a Russian missile strike with NATO planes deployed - We'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story

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7 hours ago Linda Nolan's sister Anne wipes away tears as she makes emotional funeral plea

Anne Nolan has made an emotional plea to those who wish to pay their respects

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11 hours ago ITV Emmerdale spoiler with April's heartbreaking story and the 'terrifying' truth behind her disappearance

Fans of Emmerdale will finally find out what happened to April Windsor

Events

8 hours ago Inside forbidden love story that threatened to destroy the Norwegian monarchy

When King Harald of Norway first met his wife Sonja, their love story was totally 'forbidden' and for nearly a decade, their romance threatened to destroy the monarchy itself

Politics

11 hours ago Strange, surreal and sexy: 31 images that changed the way we see our bodies

From dancers to divas, amputees to activists: what images of the human form throughout the decades tell us about who we areThere is no image more compelling to us than to see another human being naked. Thouusands of years of evolution and desire, of empathy and curiosity, hardwire us to stare. The sight is visceral, electrifying, irresistible. It is familiar and forbidden; innocence and sin. The naked body is there in the bathroom mirror every morning, but to see another always feels like stumbling on a secret. A salt-twist of narcissism heightens our emotions, so that looking at a nude feels very different from admiring a watercolour landscape. Ethics come into it. In the history of portraiture, it is the nudes that are the most honest, or the most exploitative – or sometimes both.Photographs are part of the fabric of everyday life for all of us, in a way charcoal sketches or oil paintings are not. So when a nude is not a sketch or a painting but a photograph, the intensity ratchet...

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9 hours ago Linda Nolan's rollercoaster life from naughty nickname to devastating loss

Linda Nolan's funeral will today take place in her 'spiritual home' of Blackpool, with fans lining the streets to mark the final chapter in her extraordinary life story

Politics

11 hours ago Small UK businesses complain of being caught unawares by EU ‘red tape’

New safety regulations have led SMEs to stop sales to bloc and Northern Ireland while they work out how to complySmall businesses are warning they have had to pause selling their products in the European Union and Northern Ireland since mid-December while they work out how to comply with new EU product safety regulations that caught many of them unawares.Skye Weavers, a small family business on the Isle of Skye, says it has missed out on sales of its scarves, shawls and blankets to customers in both markets after halting internet orders from those locations because of the rule change. Continue reading...

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11 hours ago What drove Jane Austen's sister to become one of literature’s most notorious vandals

A new BBC drama explores one of the most vexing acts of sabotage in literary history: the decision by Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra to burn nearly all the writer’s letters after her death. Keeley Hawes and the cast, as well as the series director, talk to Katie Rosseinsky about what might have motivated Cassandra, the perils of being unmarried and female in Regency England and the extraordinary love that existed between the two sisters

Politics

13 hours ago Hamas to release 3 male hostages, Israel to release dozens of Palestinian prisoners under ceasefire

Hamas-led militants are set to release three male hostages from the Gaza Strip on Saturday, in return for the release of dozens of Palestinian prisoners as part of a fragile ceasefire with Israel that has halted more than a year of intense fighting and has so far seen 15 hostages and hundreds of prisoners freed

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11 hours ago Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte review – ‘like being inside the internet’

A questionable male feminist, a closet sadist and a disaffected Twitter addict populate this acerbic story collection that captures the spirit of our doomscrolling ageIn 2019, the Brooklyn-based literary magazine n+1 published a short story that went viral. Titled The Feminist, it follows the life of a man who turns from a bell hooks-reading Supporter of Women into a bitter moderator in an online forum about how feminism is a cancer. Rejection has hardened him over the years. In university, he always supported his friends – predominantly women – throughout their emotional crises, and was surprised to discover that his attentiveness was not rewarded with love or sex. After university, his online dates ghost him. He fears the nerves of his penis have been dulled by vigorous masturbation. The Feminist satirised in witty and lurid detail a familiar type in the online zeitgeist: the staunch male ally, emerging out of the political currents of #MeToo and the movement against Trump. The mo...

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14 hours ago Moms whose children were raped and murdered by illegal migrants slam Selena Gomez for weeping over deportations

The White House has posted a video featuring grieving parents who lost children to undocumented migrants as a response to Selena Gomez's emotional social media post earlier this week.

Events

12 hours ago What drove Jane Austen's sister to become one of literature's most notorious vandals

A new BBC drama explores one of the most vexing acts of sabotage in literary history: the decision by Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra to burn nearly all the writer’s letters after her death. Keeley Hawes and the cast, as well as the series director, talk to Katie Rosseinsky about what might have motivated Cassandra, the perils of being unmarried and female in Regency England and the extraordinary love that existed between the two sisters

Politics

16 hours ago DC crash: Army's 'extraordinary step' over female pilot in Washington disaster

Chief Warrant Office 2 Andrew Eaves and crew chief Staff Sergeant Ryan O'Hara were named as victims of the Washington DC plane crash but a third soldier was aboard the chopper

Events

14 hours ago Gigi Gao's Review: I ate at the Welsh Chinese restaurant loved by Jay Rayner and it was like stepping into another world

This Chinese restaurant has been praised highly by food critic Jay Rayner and it is like stepping out of Swansea into a different world

Politics

18 hours ago Warren Gatland admits Italy showdown now ‘pretty important’ for wounded Wales

Wales were thrashed 43-0 by France in their Six Nations opener as they suffered a 13th successive Test defeat.

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20 hours ago Arne Slot credits Liverpool’s sporting director for emergence of Bournemouth

Richard Hughes switched from Cherries last summer‘It’s no surprise to me that they are able to compete’Arne Slot has credited Liverpool’s sporting director, Richard Hughes, with turning Bournemouth into one of the toughest assignments in the Premier League.Hughes joined Liverpool last summer from Bournemouth, where he had been technical director during the club’s rise from the Championship and led the appointment of Andoni Iraola as manager. The former Bournemouth and Portsmouth midfielder was also responsible for players such as Justin Kluivert to the Vitality Stadium. He was appointed Liverpool’s sporting director by Michael Edwards, a friend from their time together at Fratton Park. Continue reading...

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20 hours ago Dozens who died over Washington shared a flight but each had their own story

Mourners are grasping to make sense of the random circumstances that put their friends and loved ones in harm's way when an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter collided over Washington, D

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