30 minutes ago Strictly Come Dancing week 10: Live updates from the ballroom as Tasha and Aljaz receive first perfect score of the series

MAILONLINE BLOG: Follow live coverage from Strictly Come Dancing week 10 as celebrities return to Elstree after performing in Blackpool with seven pairs remaining in the BBC contest.

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33 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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78 minutes ago Corrie star returns to screen just months after leaving – and she'll be busy

Coronation Street's Alya Nazir is set to return to screens, and she's straightaway involved in an assault case and runs into her former lover, Adam Barlow, in a shock meeting

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93 minutes ago Strictly Come Dancing week 10: Live updates from the ballroom as celebrities compete in samba

MAILONLINE BLOG: Follow live coverage from Strictly Come Dancing week 10 as celebrities return to Elstree after performing in Blackpool with seven pairs remaining in the BBC contest.

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94 minutes ago Strictly Come Dancing fans issue the same complaint as Pete Wicks opens the show

Strictly Come Dancing is back from a bang after Blackpool, with a new set of dances as well as the return of the danceathon

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1 hour ago Mikel Arteta blasts Bukayo Saka injury doubts and makes 'simple' offer to Arsenal critics

Mikel Arteta has lashed out at claims Bukayo Saka wasn't really injured when he withdrew from England duty only to return and score and assist in a 3-0 win over Nottingham Forest

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1 hour ago Rufus Wainwright: ‘I had a great party trick, but it once blew up in my face’

The singer-songwriter on his most memorable fan, his love of Chappell Roan, and his close friend and nemesis Jake ShearsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIf you could have a sandwich named after you, what would be on it?I would have a really gross sandwich named after me that nobody would want to eat. The one time I tried to cook – many, many years ago, when I was in college – I decided to make all the things that I love and put them in one dish. And so it was brussels sprouts, macaroni and cheese, merguez sausages, extra blue cheese and broccoli. And it was literally grey. So yeah, it would be something revolting like that, between two pieces of cardboard. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Mikel Arteta believes Martin Odegaard’s return was key to win over Forest

Stunning strikes from Bukayo Saka, Thomas Partey and a first Premier League goal for Ethan Nwaneri sank Nottingham Forest 3-0.

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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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