9 minutes ago Strictly Come Dancing live: Sarah Hadland’s Rumba divides judges before couples take on Samba

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

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10 minutes ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing fans say the same thing about Craig Revel Horwood as show kicks off

Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood left quite the impression as the live show began.

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54 minutes ago Nottingham attack families back police watchdog's probe into top cop cover

The Chief Constable will face an Independent Office for Police Conduct probe after she allegedly tried to stop journalists revealing knifeman Valdo Calocane had been reported TWICE to cops for stalking

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66 minutes ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing fans distracted by Craig Revel Horwood minutes into show

Strictly Come Dancing fans were thrilled for their glamourous Saturday night fix but were left distracted by the judges' entrance.

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66 minutes ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing fans scream 'help' minutes into latest live show over judges

Following their spectacular trip to Blackpool, it was back to Elstree Studios for week ten of the BBC One dance contest

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71 minutes ago Victoria Beckham reveals the REAL reason for her extreme diet and admits she never cooks due to daughter Harper, 13, joking she can 'burn water'

The 50-year-old said she first give up meat when she was only eight and now continues to abide by a strict set of rules after struggling with acne at the height of her Spice Girls fame.

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71 minutes ago Family gives heartbreaking update on man paralysed in Benidorm 'attack'

Andrew Frazer, 43, was on a birthday trip to Benidorm when he was allegedly punched outside a nightclub

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92 minutes ago The Observer view: ICC’s Israel arrest warrants are a test the world must not fail

International criminal court’s intervention must be supported if global rules-based order is to have a meaningful futureThe decision by the international criminal court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, and Yoav Gallant, Israel’s former defence minister, for alleged war crimes committed in Gaza has huge implications for Israel and Palestine, for international justice and the rules-based global order that the UK and its allies are pledged to uphold. This unprecedented, necessary and impartial supranational attempt to prosecute democratically elected western politicians accused of grievous wrongdoing is a test the international community dare not fail.Netanyahu’s reaction to the charges was to dismiss them as “absurd” and “antisemitic” and the...

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2 hours ago Revealed: Home Office ‘completely lost grip’ at notorious Manston asylum centre

Court documents contain admissions by officials that they were unable to control the situation at the Kent facility where 18,000 asylum seekers were illegally detainedRacial abuse, physical assaults and no beds: life at Manston migrant centreHome Office officials have admitted that “we completely lost our grip” on the situation at a notorious asylum processing centre that led to 18,000 people being unlawfully detained in horrific conditions.Overcrowding at Manston, a former RAF base in Kent, in autumn 2022 led to an outbreak of diphtheria and scabies. Asylum seekers who had crossed the Channel in small boats were forced to sleep on filthy floors or on flattened cardboard boxes, while toilets were overflowing with faeces. Women and children were forced to sleep close to unrelated men and...

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3 hours ago 836lb ‘cursed’ emerald worth $1bn must return to Brazil, US judge rules

The rare Bahia Emerald, which was mined in Brazil in 2001 and smuggled to the US, has long been the subject of competing claims of ownership

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