46 minutes ago 'Splitting the G' is sickening, let's leave it in 2024 — this week's barometer

What’s hot... and what’s not — keep up with Joe Bromley’s weekly barometer

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46 minutes ago I detest Mrs Brown’s Boys – but forced myself to sit through every minute of it

Is the BBC’s critically loathed sitcom really the worst show on TV? Louis Chilton spends a week with Brendan O’Carroll’s ‘Mammy’ and her unbearable boys to find out for himself

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46 minutes ago Stanley Tucci shares recipe for 'perfect' roast potatoes he grew up with

As well as his acting career, 64-year-old US star Stanley Tucci i loves to share his passion for food too – having released a number of cookbooks. And now the film icon has shared his recipe for the 'perfect' roast potatoes

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46 minutes ago Vet warns Christmas food that looks harmless poses serious risk for dogs

Pets at Home shared an urgent warning for dog owners about Christmas dinners ahead of the festive period

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46 minutes ago Die Hard stars 35 years later – 'Strictly' appearance, career change and tragic deaths

Hit movie Die Hard instantly became a fan favourite after its release in 1988, but where are the stars of the film now? Let's take a look into what they've been up to...

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84 minutes ago Magdeburg Christmas Market attack: Organisers break silence after horror attack kills five

At least five people are dead and dozens more injured after a car ploughed through a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany in what is being described as a deliberate attack

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92 minutes ago PHOTO COLLECTION: The iconic and unconventional sides of Christmas in New York

The challenge of photographing Christmastime in New York is that there is so much of it

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1 hour ago ‘She should have a bit of me’: the Dutch mothers fighting for their children to carry their surname

Women are challenging the law that prevents them giving their kids both family names without father’s consentWhen 43-year-old Rebecca Lee took her birth mother’s Korean surname, it was a revelation. “I was adopted and got a Dutch name but I never felt completely Dutch,” she says. “When, a few years ago, I first went to Korea, things fell into place. You don’t just go ‘one, two, three’ and change your name, but now I feel more whole.”The entrepreneur from Groningen split from her husband and wants to give her five-year-old daughter “Lee” as part of a double-barrelled surname – but she cannot, under a Dutch law that some women, a leftwing MP and legal experts believe is unfair. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago The Christmas that went wrong: The day was saved by the new friend I’d made on a drunken night out

I was alone in New York during the pandemic, in the aftermath of a breakup and unable to go home. A Korean family taught me to believe in the kindness of strangersLike many Jewish families, the Wolfsons take Christmas extremely seriously. Latkes and smoked salmon are served before homemade cranberry sauce and brussels sprouts. My dad’s hand-painted menorah, which he made during the ceramics cafe boom of the early 2000s, sits proudly underneath the Christmas tree.As such, I had never missed a Christmas with the family – although there had been some near misses. In 2019, we spent Christmas by my dad’s hospital bed after his stroke – us sipping on hospital canteen gingerbread lattes, him having Christmas dinner in the guise of vanilla-scented protein, fed through a tube. In 2020, I saw my family only from six feet away, double-masked and on the doorstep. I delivered presents, but they were not opened for a few days, to let any stray virus dissipate. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago What is Ritchie Edhouse wearing on his arm? PDC darts star's sleeve explained

Ritchie Edhouse has had a breakthrough year which has propelled him into the seeds at Ally Pally this Christmas - but he adopts a unique look on stage

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