1 hour ago Robbie Williams calls for music industry to create 'support group for young stars struggling with fame' after tragic death of Liam Payne aged 31

The Take That star, 50, said he hoped something would be done in Liam's name to 'protect people' as he opened up about his own difficulties navigating fame at a young age.

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1 hour ago Police chief to be investigated over claims she tried to 'shackle journalists from publishing details of failings over Nottingham stabbings'

The Nottinghamshire Police Chief Kate Meynell is set to face an IOPC probe over allegations she attempted to suppress police failings surrounding last year's horrific Nottingham stabbings.

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4 hours ago David Lammy heeds pleas to aid UK teenager facing 20 years in jail after being charged with sex crime in Dubai

Following criticism from human rights groups, Foreign Secretary David Lammy is set to step in and help aid the release of a British teenager arrested in Dubai on sex offences.

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7 hours ago Pop queen Cher claims she was visited by Jesus who appeared in 'folds of my curtains'

The music icon said she 'saw Christ's face in the folds of my organdie bedroom curtains' but added that she stayed silent and missed her chance to become 'Saint Cher'

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8 hours ago Strictly viewers criticise ‘terrible’ music for Pete Wicks performance

‘Who’s murdering one of my all time favourite songs?’ asked one viewer

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9 hours ago A caring Thomas Cromwell makes good TV, but beware the ‘yes’ men who enable tyrants| Kate Maltby

Mark Rylance’s sensitive portrayal blinds us to the lessons Henry VIII’s righthand man could offer for Donald Trump 2.0 Thomas Cromwell is back, and this time he’s a romantic. In Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, the latest BBC TV adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor novels, we see Henry VIII’s chief facilitator turn 21st-century empath, offering a listening ear to half the young women of the Henrician court.Mark Rylance, former artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe, is an actor with an extraordinary capacity for vulnerability. Here he is at his best and most sympathetic. As Cromwell, we watch him safeguard the victimised adolescent Mary Tudor, coaching her to negotiate her way out of looming execution at the hands of her axe-happy father, Henry. (Cromwell made a promise to Mary’s ...

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10 hours ago We shall satirise him on the beaches Churchill through the eyes of cartoonists – in pictures

In one wartime image, Winston Churchill is portrayed as a dragonslayer; in another, a gun-toting gangster. Later, he appears old and dejected, overdue for retirement. The cartoons, on show in a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum London, show a multitude of Churchills, reflecting how he was seen in different countries and at different times, from 1909 onwards. “There was never a consensus view of him,” says curator Kate Clements. “Some of the depictions were heavily critical and even grotesque”, while others “depict his determined nature and portray him as a British figurehead”. Clements hopes the exhibition will “add another layer to our visitors’ understanding of this complex individual” and show “how satirical cartoons played a part in shaping perceptions of Churchill during hi...

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12 hours 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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13 hours ago Kate Middleton makes generous move for child survivors of horror Southport attack

Princess Kate has invited child survivors of the Southport stabbing to her annual Christmas carol concert, Kensington Palace has confirmed

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