60 minutes ago National Lottery issues urgent appeal for players to check tickets for huge £177m win

The EuroMillions jackpot has been won by a single UK ticket-holder scooping a whopping £177m - with the life-changing prize landing them a spot on The National Lottery's Rich List

Economics

69 minutes ago 'Real reason' I'm A Celebrity's Dean McCullough signed up for show Radio 1 co

Dean McCullough's Radio 1 co-star Danni Diston has opened up on her pal's time in the I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here jungle and shared her thoughts on why he entered the camp

Politics

73 minutes ago Middle East crisis live: displaced residents start to return to southern Lebanon after Israel

Ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah takes effect at 02.00GMT; Hundreds of cars defy warning from IDF to stay away from evacuated areasFull report: Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire comes into forceBiden announces ceasefire dealDown to the final half-hour before the ceasefire comes into effect and AFP is reporting strikes on south Beirut after the Israel army’s evacuation warning.“Urgent warning to residents of the Beirut area,” army spokesperson Avichay Adraee had earlier said in a post on X, telling people in the Bachoura area in the city centre to leave, as well as “all residents in the southern suburb area”, specifically in Ghobeiry. Continue reading...

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83 minutes ago ‘Doing it with no partner is easier’: the single women using fertility treatments

A growing number feel single parenthood is liberating and only a sense of ‘shame’ around it is holding women backIt was Covid that gave Amy, 45, the final push to have fertility treatment on her own. “I had been thinking about it for a while, and then with Covid, I thought: ‘I’m never gonna meet anybody.’ And I didn’t really want to be that woman who’s like: ‘Hey, we’ve been on one internet date. Let’s have a baby!”Amy struck lucky with her first embryo transfer and is now the mother of a three-year-old. “I feel very blessed,” she said. Continue reading...

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84 minutes ago 'My husband only bought me cheap gift for Christmas – I'm heartbroken'

A woman was left dumbfounded when her husband bought her an £11.99 gift for Christmas which she certainly hadn't asked for - some branded the man's gift as 'outstandingly weird'

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84 minutes ago Antiques Roadshow guest jokes she’s taking teapot forgotten about in garage straight ‘to the bank’

An Antiques Roadshow guest rediscovered a treasured item in a “crumpled up” bit of newspaper among her children’s football boots in the garage.

Politics

1 hour ago Who are the 2 million people demanding a general election? Crunching the numbers behind the viral petition

Starmer insists he’s ‘not surprised’ by election petition with two million signatures as he rules out another vote

Politics

2 hours ago Eight people including 6 children missing as heavy rains trigger flooding in Sri Lanka

Police in Sri Lanka say eight people, including six children who were returning from school, have gone missing when the farm tractor they were traveling on was swept away by floods triggered by heavy rains

Events

2 hours ago British mother of Egyptian political prisoner to press Lammy to take action

Laila Soueif is to meet the foreign secretary, who in opposition called for the release of Alaa Abd el-FattahThe British-born mother of an Egyptian political prisoner who has been on hunger strike for 58 days is preparing to meet the foreign secretary, David Lammy, to urge him to secure her son’s release.Laila Soueif’s son Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British and Egyptian dual citizen who wrote eloquently about the Arab spring and its aftermath, was jailed for five years for “spreading false news”. He was due to be released in September, but has not been freed. Continue reading...

Events

2 hours ago Why SNP has been told to 'begin changing course' and end tax divergence with UK

John Swinney and Shona Robison have been urged to close the tax gap between Scotland and the rest of the UK.

Politics