49 minutes ago Inside I'm a Celebrity star Reverend Richard Coles' 'dark' past: From being 'obliged to lie' about secrets to the mental health 'crisis' that saw him attempt suicide

The musician-turned-vicar, 63, made his arrival on the ITV show alongside Maura Higgins , with the pair immediately winning over viewers after being assigned a hilarious secret mission.

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52 minutes ago Premier League vote through new APT rules and Amorim’s first press conference: football news – live

News and features as the Premier League returnsListen to Football Weekly | And you can mail TahaArne Slot has been offering some injury updates ahead of Liverpool’s meet with Southampton.Virgil [van Dijk] is all good, he’s training with us today. Trent [Alexander-Arnold] isn’t training with us yet but he’s getting there so we expect him to be back with us soon. Harvey [Elliott] is training with us again so that’s the positive thing. He’s been out for many weeks but he’s on a training ground again with the team so that’s a positive thing for him.[Diogo] Jota is still apart from the group, same as Federico [Chiesa] who’s coming back into the session, maybe in one exercise today, so they’re all expected to be back within now and a few weeks. The last part of recovery is always the most dif...

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70 minutes ago Tracy Chevalier: ‘Woolf’s The Waves will be like medicine – I won’t like it, but it will do me good’

The novelist on the comfort of Dodie Smith, how Anne Tyler made her want to be a writer – and why she doesn’t reread booksMy earliest reading memoryMy parents read me most of the Dr Seuss books. My favourite was Ten Apples Up on Top, about a lion, a tiger and a dog counting apples. I can still conjure up the illustrations, including the last one where there’s an explosion of apples all over the page.My favourite book growing upThe Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I was riveted by her descriptions of pioneer life and all the how-to information: how to build a log cabin, plough a field, make a ball out of a pig’s bladder. I suspect those books affected my approach to my own writing of historical fiction. Also I related to Laura’s bad-tempered rebelliousness compared with her p...

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90 minutes ago The real reason Ellen DeGeneres quit the US for the UK with wife Portia de Rossi

The couple shocked fans when they were spotted exploring their new stomping ground in rural England - amid reports that they have put their Montecito mansion on the market.

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1 hour ago Voices: WhatsApp’s new rules on voice notes will only make them more annoying

As a new feature that transcribes audio messages into text is rolled out, Lucie Tobin says it’s an admission of failure. Anyone who leaves podcast-length ramblings on other people’s phones is self-indulgent, invasive – and rude

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1 hour ago Max Verstappen's Las Vegas GP title dream in doubt as Red Bull admit issue can't be fixed

Lewis Hamilton set the pace in practice ahead of the Las Vegas Grand Prix as Mercedes hit the ground running, while Max Verstappen struggled to cause panic at Red Bull

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1 hour ago Specific group of women on State Pension due back payments of up to £11,905 before New Year

Nearly 40,000 women have received an average of £11,905 for historical State Pension errors.

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2 hours ago Witches review – impressive study of postpartum psychosis recovery equated to witchcraft

Director Elizabeth Sankey’s free-ranging film uses interviews with actors and support groups alongside clips of cinematic covens to draw parallels with her own experiencesThis deeply personal, essayistic film by Elizabeth Sankey impressively manages to be very moving but never mawkish, raw but also surgically precise. It is quite free-ranging in its scope, but is essentially about how witches and their history overlaps with postpartum depression on the one hand and psychosis on the other, all told through the filter of Sankey’s own experience. Looking straight into the camera, she explains how she was engulfed by anxiety and depression after the birth of her son in 2020 during the Covid pandemic; after several trips to A&E and crisis moments, she ended up in a special psychiatric wa...

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2 hours ago Met Office reveals how long snow will last on ground as Storm Bert hits UK

Storm Bert could bring as much as 40cm of snow to some parts of the country over the weekend, according to the Met Office, but how long will the snow last on the ground?

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3 hours ago Barrowbeck by Andrew Michael Hurley review – folk horror spans the centuries

The chill of the supernatural pervades these unsettling tales, following a settlement’s history from the deep past to the near futureThe quintessential “bad place” is one of the staples of horror fiction. For Stephen King, the bad place – think the peculiar little town of Castle Rock or the Overlook Hotel in The Shining – most usually acts as a repository for a long-forgotten evil or injustice to resurface (often literally, like the dead cat from the desecrated Native American burial ground in Pet Sematary). For writers such as Robert Aickman, the nature of the bad place is more elusive, so deeply immured in time that its effects are felt more often than seen: a prickling at the back of the neck, a chilly intimation of doom that, when spoken aloud, is ignored or ridiculed...

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