3 minutes ago M&S Food fans go wild for Christmas dessert selection as they race to buy them

Marks & Spencer have certainly had shoppers rushing to their stores after sharing their tasty list of festive desserts on offer this year. The brand took to its M&S Food Instagram account to post about the tasty selection. And people couldn't get enough

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4 minutes ago Thousands of Brits' Christmas flights cancelled as pilots strike at European airline

Finnair has had to cancel hundreds of flights due to pilot strikes taking place ahead of Christmas, with festive travel impacted for more than 30,000 passengers

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6 minutes ago Andy Whyment brands I'm A Celeb's Dean McCullough 'disrespectful' after speaking to his Corrie co

The Coronation Street actor, 43, said he felt Dean spoke to his Corrie co-star Alan Halsall 'like a child' during Saturday night's episode.

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11 minutes ago UK politics live: safeguarding minister Jess Phillips urges people to intervene if women are being harassed in public

Phillips says people have to be mindful of their own safety but ‘you can definitely ask if someone is alright’Asked what his experience of government has been like, Starmer says he is taking the hard decisions first.I think anybody who’s turned around an organisation or a business will tell you, and they’re right, if you’re really going to turn something around, you have to do the hard yards upfront. Don’t look at a tough decision and then leave it for a year or two.So we’re doing the tough stuff. But in the budget, which is probably the toughest, I’m really pleased that we were able to put so much money into the National Health Service Anybody watching this who uses the NHS will know we absolutely had to make that a priority. Continue reading...

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14 minutes ago 'We shouldn't criticise' – Luca Brecel gets message as snooker icon shows true colours

Snooker legend Steve Davis has spoken about Luca Brecel ahead of the former world champion's return to action at the UK Snooker Championship in York

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16 minutes ago Danish parenting tests under fire after baby removed from Greenlandic mother

Campaigners say psychometric tests are discriminatory amid protests over case of Keira Alexandra KronvoldDenmark is under pressure to stop subjecting Greenlandic people to “parenting competency” tests that campaigners say discriminate against them, amid uproar over the case of a mother whose baby was removed two hours after she gave birth.The psychometric tests are widely used in Denmark as part of child protection investigations into new parents, and have long been criticised by human rights bodies as culturally unsuitable for Greenlandic people and other minorities. Continue reading...

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22 minutes ago Inside Adele's early 'retirement' plans: Singer, 36, sets aside time to have another baby and tie the knot with Rich Paul as she prepares to focus on family after ending Vegas residency

The singer, 36, announced in September that she would be taking a break from performing, telling fans they wouldn't see her for 'an incredibly long time'.

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22 minutes ago Worrying parallels between Ariana Grande and her idol Audrey Hepburn: Wicked star is turning into a clone of the actress

Among the hectic Wicked press tour it has been Ariana Grande's increasingly slender frame that has become a big conversation among some of her fans.

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25 minutes ago Inside Conor McGregor and Vladimir Putin's friendship – World Cup and gift checked for poison

There have been some bonkers bromances over the years from Kim Jong-un and Dennis Rodman to Paul Gascoigne and Mike Tyson - but another head scratcher is Conor McGregor and Vladimir Putin

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33 minutes ago RFK Jr will cut prescription drugs and increase weed and psychedelics access

Trump’s health department pick has expressed distrust of pharmaceuticals and attacked ‘suppression of psychedelics’Public health experts are concerned that, if confirmed, Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – Robert F Kennedy Jr – could upend access to pharmaceutical drugs in favor of more experimental treatments.Kennedy, who the president-elect picked earlier this month, has repeatedly expressed distrust for pharmaceuticals, and criticized the FDA for its “aggressive suppression of psychedelics”. On his podcast, he called the US “the sickest country in the world”, blaming its healthcare system for devoting billions to “the pills and the potions and the powders rather than on actually getting people healthy, building their immune syst...

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