13 minutes ago Five people rushed to hospital as fires engulf takeaway in Holloway and block of flats in plush West Hampstead

Five people were hospitalised in north London this morning after a takeaway went up in flames - as in the northwest homes were evacuated when a block of flats (pictured) caught fire.

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17 minutes ago Jason Manford asked BBC to change storyline in Waterloo Road because age

Jason Manford appeared in series 14 of the hit show this year playing the new headteacher, Steve Savage, who has an affair with a lunch ladies played by Kym Marsh who is also in her 40s.

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19 minutes ago The picture that proves all is forgiven: Nicole Appleton supports her ex Robbie Williams at the premiere of his new biopic which features their turbulent nineties relationship

Nicole Appleton and Robbie Williams proved their friendship for one another on Wednesday night as the All Saints star attended her ex boyfriend's biopic premiere.

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30 minutes ago Conor Bradley praised by Thierry Henry after what he did to Kylian Mbappe

Right-back Conor Bradley caught the eye for Liverpool in their 2-0 win over Real Madrid in the Champions League after setting the tone with a brilliant tackle on Kylian Mbappe

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47 minutes ago 'I've never been one to quit, I just caught the wrong bus at the wrong time'

Nicky Newbon was just 14 years old when the bus he was getting off was hit by a lorry driven by a man under the influence of drugs

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53 minutes ago Mum's four words for social workers as her secret baby found hidden in drawer

The child had been hid away from the world at the family home in Cheshire

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95 minutes ago ‘In the distance I see tiny glowing silhouettes sprinkled like salt’: birdwatching on Devon’s Exe estuary

The spectacular estuary is a haven for thousands of migrant birds each winter, and perfect to explore on foot and by boatThe Christmas market doesn’t know what’s hit it. At 8.30 on a mid-November morning Exeter is a whirl of white, a city half-blinded by tumbling flakes. Four market workers, caught out by this overly authentic addition to the festive decor, are busy shovelling the ground in front of the bao stalls and craft gin chalets. Above them, the cathedral’s medieval towers stand tall and cold in the heaven-filling flurry. Winter has arrived in Devon with bells on.I’m here to catch a train to see some birdlife. A breakfast blizzard wasn’t part of the plan, but sometimes these things don’t go as expected. The city’s Queen Street has turned into a real-life snow globe – Narnia with ...

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95 minutes ago Devon sent: a short, epic train ride into the wintry wonders of the Exe estuary

The spectacular estuary is a haven for thousands of migrant birds each winter, and perfect to explore on foot and by boatThe Christmas market doesn’t know what’s hit it. At 8.30 on a mid-November morning Exeter is a whirl of white, a city half-blinded by tumbling flakes. Four market workers, caught out by this overly authentic addition to the festive decor, are busy shovelling the ground in front of the bao stalls and craft gin chalets. Above them, the cathedral’s medieval towers stand tall and cold in the heaven-filling flurry. Winter has arrived in Devon with bells on.I’m here to catch a train to see some birdlife. A breakfast blizzard wasn’t part of the plan, but sometimes these things don’t go as expected. The city’s Queen Street has turned into a real-life snow globe – Narnia with ...

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95 minutes ago Conclave review – Ralph Fiennes shines as papal election results in high

Fiennes is broodingly compelling as a potential English pope caught up in murky Vatican intrigue around choosing the next pontiffWho knew that the laborious process of democracy, of simply voting over and over again, could be so exciting and so amusing? Edward Berger’s drama is adapted with masterly flair by screenwriter Peter Straughan from the Robert Harris pageturner; Ralph Fiennes is on sumptuous form as the deeply troubled Cardinal Lawrence at the centre of a murky Vatican plot. The result is a high-camp gripper, like the world’s most serious Carry On film.Fiennes’ character is Italian in Harris’s book, but Straughan makes him an Englishman: an unquiet soul who is theoretically on the verge of becoming the first English pope since Adrian IV, although no one is so vulgar or national...

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1 hour ago Vladimir Putin's secret daughter 'lives under pseudonym while hiding in West'

Ekaterina Krivonogikh - aka Luiza Rozova - reportedly vanished shortly before the start of the war in Ukraine, but earlier had a visible social media footprint in Russia

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