5 hours ago Play On! at the Lyric Hammersmith review: Twelfth Night relocated to Harlem's Cotton Club

This sassy musical sets Shakespeare to the music of Duke Ellington

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26 hours ago Starmer told to be 'bold' and use EU security fears to secure better Brexit reset deal

Exclusive: Lord Ricketts said the prime minster has an opportunity to put Britain back at the ‘heart’ of major decisions in Europe when he meets EU leaders on Monday

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9 hours ago Netflix fans rave over 'masterful' new family drama with 100% Rotten Tomatoes score hailed as 'a rare feat in storytelling'

Japanese limited series Asura made its debut at the beginning of January and was written and directed by Oscar-nominated Hirokazu Kore-eda.

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72 minutes ago Evan Ferguson non negotiable 'named' as Celtic reach Kvistgaarden endgame with striker search going beyond Iheanacho

The Hoops are on the look-out for a new frontman to replace Kyogo and time in the January window is rapidly running out

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3 hours ago Saturday Night review – frenetic if safe comedy dramatisation of the US TV show’s first episode

Reliving the chaotic 90 minutes running up to launch of Saturday Night Live in 1975, Jason Reitman’s film delivers infectious energy minus the requisite edgeThe behind-the-scenes drama, the high-stakes potential for disaster, the tussling egos, the promise of cultural impact or risk of ignominy: it’s not surprising that live television holds an enduring fascination for film-makers. For the most part, however, it has been news events and weighty current affairs programmes that get the big screen treatment, in films such as Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon, George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck, and the excellent forthcoming September 5, by Tim Fehlbaum.Jason Reitman’s latest picture, Saturday Night, argues that comedy can make history too, particularly if, as in the case of the very first edition of Saturday Night Live, the cast are fighting, the green room is awash with cocaine, the studio heads are threatening to pull the plug, and there’s a llama backstage and nobody can remember why...

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4 hours ago Search continues for Japanese driver, 74, not seen since his truck was swallowed up by a sinkhole four days ago

The unnamed 74-year-old male driver plummeted into the hole when the ground suddenly collapsed at an intersection in Yashio City, northeast of Tokyo on Tuesday morning.

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5 hours ago Google launches snake game to celebrate Chinese lunar new year. Here's how to play

Classic game is part of a range of offerings from search engine company

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25 hours ago Kehlani live review: US star's world tour lights up O2 Arena in almost

Kehlani live review: US star's world tour lights up O2 Arena in almost-cancelled show  Richmond and Twickenham Times

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33 hours ago Rashford has heart set on Barcelona but deal rests on exits from La Liga club

Rashford has rejected teams including TottenhamManchester United keen on Mathys Tel as replacementMarcus Rashford has his heart set on a loan move to Barcelona before Monday’s transfer deadline but a deal will go through only if the Catalan club can offload up to two players.Rashford has rejected offers from several other clubs including Tottenham because of his determination to join Barcelona. Under La Liga’s squad cost limit rules Barcelona will have to generate funds to be able to spend the money required to sign Rashford from Manchester United. They are prepared in principle to cover most or all of Rashford’s £375,000-a-week salary. Continue reading...

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25 hours ago Father recalls 'darkest hours of his life' after being told to say final goodbyes to his baby boy during emergency open

Joe Silver, 32, who lives in Harrogate with his wife of five years, Charlotte, also 32, said their first and only child, Billy, was not breathing when he was born four weeks prematurely.

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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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23 hours ago My test drive in a Tesla Cybertruck took a surprising turn – and it’s truly life

Our EV editor has an order in for a Tesla Cybertruck. Will he still want one now he’s taken one for a drive?

Transport

8 hours ago CBBC child star looks unrecognisable as he returns to screens 13 years on from TV debut

The actor kicked off his career as Benny Sherwood in Wizards Vs Aliens which ran from 2012 until 2014.

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42 hours ago The Last Days of Budapest by Adam LeBor: I almost hope my family died in an air raid

In Adam LeBor's new book, The Last Days of Budapest, Ysenda Maxtone Graham unearths the tragic plight of Hungary's Jews.

Society

27 hours ago Ollie Watkins to Arsenal: Gunners get update on potential transfer after bid rejected

The Gunners continue to search for reinforcements

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4 hours ago Missing Aberdeen twins tragedy timeline in full as police find second body in river

Police Scotland have confirmed a second body has been found in the search for twin sisters Henrietta and Eliza Huszt, who have been missing since January 7, as we take a look at the timeline

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9 hours ago I watched 90s sitcom I'm Alan Partridge and had to turn off the poor man's Michael Scott after one episode

I’m Alan Partridge may have laid the groundwork for the likes of The Office’s David Brent and Michael Scott but he was certainly more of a prototype than the finished product.

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6 hours ago Jon Lewis remains committed and promises review after England’s Ashes whitewash

Australia completed an historic clean sweep with an innings and 122-run victory in the day/night Test in Melbourne.

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10 hours ago Champneys Forest Mere review: Is it worth booking for Valentine's and Mother's Day?

Our head of beauty Zoe went on a mother-daughter weekend escape to Champneys' Forest Mere spa hotel in search of wellness. But did it live up to expectations?

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7 hours ago Body of second woman is found in river in police search for two sisters who went missing in Aberdeen

The body of a second woman has been found in the search for missing sisters Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, who went missing in Aberdeen last month, Police Scotland has said.

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10 hours ago Daniel Levy, Spurs’ Pelé of debt structuring, may yet be vindicated | Barney Ronay

Under-fire owner has transformed Tottenham into a fully self-sustaining entity. The alternatives are hardly more palatableThere was a tender moment at the end of Tottenham’s win against Elfsborg on Thursday night as Ange Postecoglou walked out on to the pitch looking a little haunted and jittery, a strange kind of light in his eyes. It took a few seconds to work out what was up. The reason for this was he was happy. Here was a man remembering how to smile, willing his face into the right kind of shape, searching for the muscle memory.It was also a nice moment. The recent run of Bad Ange stuff, the Ange who does interviews like a policeman standing too close to you in a tiny lift, has been painful to watch. The Premier League is brutal. It will stretch you thin. And it has been rough with Postecoglou, who came with no comparable experience, who is 59 years old, and has had the air of a man finding the end of his reach, radiating sadness from every rain-sodden panel of his quilted coa...

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7 hours ago Women's Ashes 2025: Australia thrash England to secure historic whitewash win

Visitors collapse with thorough review required

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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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7 hours ago Elvis' heartbreaking final words to daughter Lisa Marie Presley before tragic death

Elvis Presley's daughter Lisa Marie had a heart-wrenching final moment with her famous dad, who died on August 16, 1977 after being found in the bathroom of his Graceland mansion

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12 hours ago How to turn a bag of chicken giblets into a classic Italian sauce | Waste not

A surprisingly luxurious sauce from such humble originsThe bag of giblets inside a good chicken includes the heart, liver, neck and sometimes the lungs, kidneys and crop (the throat muscle chickens use to grind up their food). To prepare the giblets, give them a rinse, then cut away any thick fat or ventricles from the top of the heart and liver. Cibrèo is a traditional Florentine sauce made using chicken offal, and often also includes the cockscomb, wattle and gonads, but I’ve adapted it to turn a more accessible bag of giblets into this remarkably flavourful dish. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago Second body found in search for sisters who disappeared more than three weeks ago

A second body was found on Friday evening, Police Scotland confirmed

Events

12 hours ago Michael Steinwender's Hearts dream may be impossible but new recruit aiming high after big sell from best mate

The Austrian defender could make his debut in Saturday's Premiership clash away to Dundee

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8 hours ago Body of second woman tragically found in search for missing Aberdeen sisters

A second woman's body has been found in the River Dee in Aberdeen following the disappearance of sisters Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, both 32, last month, Police Scotland has confirmed

Events

12 hours ago Stanley fans snag limited edition Valentine's Day cup with surprise romantic addition

Water bottle brand Stanley have welcomed another Quencher into their collection and it's the definition of heart-eyes

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8 hours ago Second body found by police in River Dee during search for missing sisters

"Our thoughts remain with the Huszti family and we are keeping them fully updated following these recoveries.”

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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

16 hours ago Cardiologist warns of 'very dangerous and harmful' mistake over heart palpitations

The cardiologist said it's "very dangerous and harmful" to dismiss this

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20 hours ago Oliver Glasner launches staunch defence of Romain Esse after criticism following first Crystal Palace goal

Teenager scored with first touch on debut in defeat to Brentford

Politics

20 hours ago 'Our heart and soul is in that building': Devastation after fire breaks out at Salford synagogue

Horrified worshippers arriving for the Friday night Sabbath service had to be evacuated after the fire, believed to be caused by electrical issues

Events

21 hours ago Trinny Woodall reveals huge business sacrifice she made after worrying about her daughter's future

The entrepreneur 60, who made her debut on BBC 's Dragon's Den this week, founded her beloved brand Trinny London from her own kitchen back in 2017.

Politics

22 hours ago California officials investigate utilities company in search for cause of fires

Firefighters believe Palisades fire started from small blaze that may have reignited due to hurricane-force windsAs Los Angeles grapples with the aftermath of the devastating fires that killed dozens and laid waste to entire neighborhoods, the potential causes of the disasters are beginning to come into focus.The siege of wildfires, sparked amid powerful Santa Ana winds earlier this month, created chaos around the city for weeks. They scorched around 60 sq miles (155 sq km) of the city, destroying the Pacific Palisades and Altadena neighborhoods, and killed at least 29 people. Preliminary estimates of the economic losses have exceeded $250bn. Firefighters have only recently managed to achieve near containment of the fires, and residents begin returning to what remains of their communities, looking for answers. Continue reading...

Events

23 hours ago Meet the rising star of BBC News: Presenter Leigh Milner earns rave reviews as TV viewers join the army of fans already wowed by her behind

Leigh Milner, 35 (pictured) shared a clip of her presenting debut on the BBC News channel on Friday morning - reporting the latest news on the air crash in Washington DC.

Politics

23 hours ago BBC Death in Paradise star Anthony J Abraham's life from acting career to new role

Anthony J Abraham is set to make his debut on BBC One's Death In Paradise as Officer Benjamin Brice

Events

23 hours ago Rashford may take up Aston Villa interest if Barcelona dream falls through

Rashford has rejected teams including TottenhamManchester United keen on Mathys Tel as replacementMarcus Rashford has his heart set on a loan move to Barcelona before Monday’s transfer deadline but could take up interest from Aston Villa if a deal with the Catalan club does not go through.Barcelona need to offload up to two players to bring in Rashford and Villa also want the Manchester United forward on loan after selling Jhon Durán to the Saudi Arabian club Al-Nassr. They, like Barcelona, can offer Champions League football after qualifying for the last 16. Continue reading...

Politics

24 hours ago Love Island bombshell makes epic villa return after controversial debut and sets sights on star

The latest bombshell to be sent into the Love Island villa is eyeing up a possible rekindling with one Islander

Events

25 hours ago England lose series after India win fourth T20 amid substitution controversy

India 181-9; England 166; India win by 15 runsConcussion replacement Harshit Rana takes key wicketsAn appetising decider at the Wankhede on Sunday seemed likely. The hosts were 12 for three, stunned by a triple-wicket maiden by Saqib Mahmood, Jos Buttler finally on the right end of the toss. Three and a bit hours later the series belonged to India, England 3-1 down with one to play, a tinge of substitute controversy in there, too.The saviours with the bat were Hardik Pandya and Shivam Dube, the pair hitting 53 apiece to set an imposing target of 182. Dube was conked on the helmet during his knock, prompting a concussion replacement, with Harshit Rana coming in for his Twenty20 international debut. With Rana a far more significant bowling threat, this was hardly a like-for-like replacement, as the playing conditions demand. Continue reading...

Politics

26 hours ago The Ordinary’s new serum ‘works magic’ on signs of ageing with this secret ingredient

The formula’s hero ingredient is set to make a big buzz in the skincare world in 2025

Events

25 hours ago BBC Escape to the Country's host leaves buyer 'lost for words' over home's 'bonus' feature

During the latest episode of BBC Escape to the Country, Steve Brown was on hand to help a couple search for their perfect property in Bedfordshire and they were left speechless over one home

Politics

27 hours ago As Long As We Are Breathing review – unblocking the horrors of the Holocaust

As Long As We Are Breathing review – unblocking the horrors of the Holocaust  The Guardian

Events

26 hours ago The Weeknd: Hurry Up Tomorrow review – a record that will floor you and drive you up the wall

(XO Music/Republic)On a somewhat exhausting sixth album, Abel Tesfaye uses Brazilian funk, punishing house and lush 70s soul to press great songs into the service of rotten lyricsIt takes precisely 20 seconds for the Weeknd’s sixth album to imply that it might also be his last. “All I have is my legacy I’m all alone when it fades to black,” Abel Tesfaye sings over a lush bed of synthesisers that quickly takes on the influence of 80s boogie. It’s a line that feels very on brand. Hurry Up Tomorrow’s release has been promoted with billboards declaring “THE END IS NEAR”, social media posts in which Tesfaye has inferred the album is the final “beautiful chapter” in his story and interviews during which he’s suggested that a 2022 incident in which he lost his voice on stage was some kind of cosmic message: “You can end it now when is the right time to leave if not at your peak?”It is perhaps worth noting that the same was true of his last album more-or-less: 2022’s Dawn FM was rich with e...

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27 hours ago Noughties Indie favourites The Kooks announce huge new album 19 years after debut

Beloved Noughties band The Kooks spoke to The Mirror after wowing fans at an exclusive London club night ahead of their release of their new album

Events

27 hours ago Nicole Kidman's daughter lands major campaign despite 'nepo baby' criticism

Teen's Miu Miu deal follows controversial runway debut at Paris Fashion Week

Politics

28 hours ago Motherwell vs Celtic injury news: 7 out as Brendan Rodgers handed fresh blow and mulls over debut

Here is the latest team news ahead of Motherwell v Celtic in the Scottish Premiership at Fir Park on Sunday.

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27 hours ago Oh, I’m sorry, tech bros – did DeepSeek copy your work? I can hardly imagine your distress | Marina Hyde

If China has done to Sam Altman what his OpenAI has been accused of doing to creatives, it would take a heart of stone not to laughI once saw an episode of America’s Dumbest Criminals where a man called the cops to report his car stolen, only for it to turn out he’d stolen it from someone else in the first place. I couldn’t help thinking of him this week while watching OpenAI’s Sam Altman wet his pants about the fact that a Chinese hedge fund might have made unauthorised use of his own chatbot models, including ChatGPT, to train their new little side project. This is the cheaper, more open, extremely share-price-slashing DeepSeek.As news of DeepSeek played havoc with the tech stock market, OpenAI pressed its hanky to its nose and released a statement: “We are aware of and reviewing indications that DeepSeek may have inappropriately distilled our models, and will share information as we know more,” this ran. “We take aggressive, proactive countermeasures to protect our technology.” O...

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28 hours ago Motherwell vs Celtic injury news: 7 out as Brendan Rodgers and mulls over debut amid reports of fresh blow

Here is the latest team news ahead of Motherwell v Celtic in the Scottish Premiership at Fir Park on Sunday.

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