70 minutes ago Ben Fogle's quiet life in pretty village where homes fetch £2.6million

The Countryfile star lives a quiet life in a stunning countryside home with his wife and two children

Economics

74 minutes ago BBC Strictly's Come Dancing's Pete Wicks says 'I'm sorry' after 'horrific' results show

The latest results show of Strictly Come Dancing saw Jamie Borthwick leave the show - with Pete Wicks being saved by the public and sailing through to the next week

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83 minutes ago Band Aid 40 listeners brand revamped charity single a 'hot mess' and claim track is 'absolutely ruined'

Listeners tuning in to hear the revamped Band Aid 40 charity single have branded it a 'hot mess' and claimed the song has been 'absolutely ruined'.

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99 minutes ago Pete Wicks issues heartfelt apology to Strictly fans after public vote backlash

Pete Wicks has broken his silence after finding himself in the bottom two once again on Strictly Come Dancing, leaving fans furious as he was saved over Jamie Borthwick

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1 hour ago The play that changed my life: Janet Suzman on staging Othello in apartheid South Africa

Putting on Shakespeare’s tragedy at Johannesburg’s Market theatre was a risky endeavour and caused an astonishing reactionIt was 1987, three years before Nelson Mandela walked free. None of us knew that secret talks were going on with Mandela in prison. We saw apartheid lasting till the crack of doom. It seemed impregnable. The law had once banned “miscegenation”. And here I was directing Othello, a play about miscegenation, at Johannesburg’s Market theatre.I used to go back there from England regularly. I was closely involved with Barney Simon and Mannie Manim, who co-founded the theatre in the mid-70s on the site of the old Indian fruit market. It was very close to my heart: a place where freedom of thought and freedom of speech could reign.As told to Lindesay Irvine Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Trailblazing students' day 'filled with so many tears' when both their dreams came true

The best friends from Grangetown lost touch but a special dream of going to one the top universities in the world reunited them

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2 hours ago Kelly Brook says she is ‘childless by choice’ and enjoys living without ‘burden’

Former glamour model said couple were ‘all the more happier’ for not having kids

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2 hours ago Extraordinary moment man 'comes back from the dead' in a morgue moments before he was due to be cremated in India

Rohitash showed faint signs of life to prevent his own cremation just moments before he was due to be put on the pyre in Jhunjhunu City, Rajasthan last Thursday

Events

2 hours ago Bride defended for refusing to walk down the aisle with her mother’s boyfriend

‘Your wedding, your rules,’ one person responded on Reddit

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2 hours ago AD FEATURE: How ScotRail is on track to help older people this Christmas

Thanks to ScotRail's partnership with Age Scotland, you can help give support to older people across Scotland when you travel by train

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