50 minutes ago Strictly Come Dancing live: Only seven couples remain as competition enters week 10

The competition is heating up as dancers return after tense Blackpool week

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50 minutes ago In Pictures: Storm Bert batters Scotland as snow, wind and rain take hold

Storm Bert has gripped Scotland with every corner of the country feeling its wintry hold.

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55 minutes ago The Ukraine missile crisis: Putin’s shadow war against the west finally breaks cover

After Kyiv used Storm Shadow missiles, Russia’s leader asserted his ‘right’ to attack the UK and US. In truth, he has been doing exactly that for two years nowThe unprecedented firing by Ukrainian forces of British-made long-range Storm Shadow missiles at military targets inside Russia last week means the UK, along with the US, is now viewed by Moscow as a legitimate target for punitive, possibly violent retaliation.In a significant escalation in response to the missile launches, Vladimir Putin confirmed that, for the first time in the war, Russia had fired an intermediate-range ­ballistic missile, targeting the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Putin also said Russia now believed it had the “right” to attack “military facilities” in countries that supply Kyiv with long-range weapons. Though he...

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61 minutes ago World War 3 has 'already started', claims top Ukraine commander in chilling warning

This is a breaking news story and is being constantly updated by our reporters as the breaking news story develops

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62 minutes ago From David Bowie to Amy Winehouse: PR trailblazer to talk about 40 years of working with music's biggest stars

Alan Edwards will discuss an extraordinary career that started in the punk scene of Seventies London

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71 minutes ago World's first forensic jeweller graduates for fifth time from Scots university

Dr Maria Maclennan can now reconstruct the face of a deceased person, from minor injuries to skeletal remains.

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74 minutes ago Strictly Come Dancing stars who've died since appearing on show – full tragic list

A tribute to the Strictly stars no longer with us, from host Sir Bruce Forsyth and 2014 winner Caroline Flack to BBC Breakfast host Bill Turnbull, who spent his last years as a bee keeper

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74 minutes ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Janette Manrara and Aljaz Skorjanec's huge rows and baby confession

Strictly Come Dancing married couple Janette Manrara and Aljaz Skorjanec confessed they argue and said any couple who says they don't are telling an 'absolute lie'

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74 minutes ago Westlife star Kian Egan opens up on bandmate's brutal exit after 'years of tension'

Westlife star Kian Egan opened up about the 'hard feelings' he had after bandmate Brian McFadden quit in 2011 which is being revisited in a new boyband based documentary

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74 minutes ago Strictly star Chris McCausland reveals biggest misconception about his blindness

Comedian Chris McCausland is blind due to a hereditary condition. Here, the star explains why his family was determined not to treat him with kid gloves when it came to his disability

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