32 minutes ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing fans stunned as Coronation Street star 'spotted' in ballroom

Week ten of the BBC One dance contest arrived and saw the seven remaining couples return to the usual Strictly ballroom at Elstree Studios

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32 minutes ago BREAKING: Storm Bert forces London’s Winter Wonderland to close along with 8 major parks in safety ’emergency’

Winter Wonderland has been closed due to Storm Bert - we'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.

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44 minutes ago Victim of terrifying daylight robbery says attacker shouldn't have been jailed

Damian Slowik was punched and choked by 21-year-old Bailey Hanlon in a broad daylight robbery in Cardiff's Bute Park. Hanlon was this week locked up but his victim feels it won't help him

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55 minutes ago The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by William Saroyan review – vividly crafted Depression

The US author’s debut collection from 1934 focuses on impoverished individuals in precarious times using language that is punchy and full of compassionMany of the 26 stories in William Saroyan’s 1934 debut collection – reissued this month with an introduction by Stephen Fry – take place in Depression-era San Francisco and explore the experiences of ordinary people trying to get by. California-born, the son of Armenians who fled the genocidal Ottoman empire, Saroyan draws on his own heritage. His narrators are often struggling young writers, such as the protagonist of the title story, who lives on a diet of “bread and coffee and cigarettes” and laments the lack of “weeds in the park that could be cooked”.Despite the focus on poverty, there is an ebullience to Saroyan’s punchy prose. Take...

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96 minutes ago Ridley Scott explains why emperors in his films are all ‘crazy’ – the answer is in their water

‘Your choice is water or wine. When you drink water, it’s through a lead system that by then could be 200 years old,’ he says

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1 hour ago Top Army officer arrested and charged after trying to take grenade through security at packed British airport

Lt Col Hugo Clark, who has served in Afghanistan and received an MBE honour in 2006, faces court action following an incident at Edinburgh Airport.

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1 hour ago 'I always do one thing before getting on plane – it gets me the best seat'

A travel influencer has shared a 'flight hack' that she claims sometimes allows her to choose the best seat on the plane - it doesn't always work, but could be worth a try

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2 hours ago 'Doesn't happen very often': Celtic's Euro rivals fire ominous warning as striker completes rare 48

Belgians will arrive in Glasgow in rude health after crushing win

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2 hours ago Bedtimes at our place are more dramatic than Australian soap operas | Seamas O'Reilly

Two young people with two very different approaches to bedtime sharing one room No wonder no one can get to sleep round hereFor the past few months, my wife and I haven’t had much time to ourselves. Right now, at the end of a day’s parenting, there’s often so little time left over that watching 35 minutes of a buzzy TV show – traditionally our favourite pastime – seems a bit pointless. Especially since several times this year, we’ve managed to time it right as a show gets cancelled.Bedtime is the real time-suck. Since our kids now share a room, our project for the last few months has been putting them down at the same time, to consolidate these parallel chores into one. But this process is fraught. At six, our son insists that he should get to stay up later than a two-year-old. The prob...

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2 hours ago Assisted dying split as Justice Secretary sounds 'death on demand' warning

Shabana Mahmood has hit out at a controversial Bill that would legalise assisted dying - saying the state should 'never offer death as a service', but colleague Liz Kendall said she'd support it

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