66 minutes ago James Corden rushes to help injured Christmas shopper in medical emergency

James Corden has been hailed a 'hero' after he rushed to the aid of a woman who broke her arm during a nasty fall while Christmas shopping on London's Bond Street

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1 hour ago How The Apprentice creator Mark Burnett went from east London to Donald Trump's inner circle (via the Falklands)

Donald Trump's new choice of special envoy to the UK is making a return of sorts to his roots - having grown up in east London before fighting for Britain in the Falklands.

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2 hours ago Inside Joe Exotic's sad Christmas behind bars as he begs Donald Trump for freedom

Tiger King's Joe Exotic is repeating his plea for freedom five years after his conviction on 17 federal charges and has opened up on the apparent conditions he'll face in jail this Christmas

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3 hours ago Forget the North Pole – there's a fella in Swansea that everyone thinks is Santa

For 30 years, Terry Rees has been Swansea's Santa where children stop him in the street to ask for presents and pull on his beard - 'it's absolutely magical,' he says

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3 hours ago James Corden's heroic act as he rushes to save injured woman during Christmas shopping chaos

Gavin and Stacey star, 46, had been Christmas shopping in London's West End when he saw the woman struggling and went to her aid. After phoning for an ambulance and being told that one wouldn't arrive for an hour, he hailed her a black cab to take her to A&E

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4 hours ago ‘They can’t sleep can’t speak’: the lifeline offered to Gaza’s traumatised children

War Child hopes to provide a million children in the strip with basic aid and educational and mental health support. It’s their biggest emergency appeal yetDonate to our charity appeal here“They have many symptoms,” says Ibrahim, describing how trauma is manifesting daily in children in Gaza. “Being attached to their parents to the point that they don’t want to leave the place they are in – such as a tent. Severe anxiety and fear. Going to the toilet a lot – involuntary urination, basically.“They don’t want to participate in activities. They can’t sleep, they’re having trouble eating. Sometimes it can escalate to the point where a child becomes catatonic. They can’t speak. They can’t connect to family members because of severe trauma. Some have become very angry, defensive, aggressive. Some also have speech impediments – they can’t talk; they stutter.” Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Christmas shopping is rubbish. I found my best gift in the bin | Eva Wiseman

Sometimes the perfect present is a timely reminder that, even when it absolutely seems like it, all is not lostI discovered the perfect Christmas present at work the other day after eating fish and chips too fast. I was wearing too many layers for the office, where heating is pumped from unusual angles bringing with it the smell of lasagne or sewer, and I was sweating. Partly, it was the layers, partly it was the meeting due in five minutes, which was about the future of our jobs, and I was in a rush to get a seat at our possible execution. By the sinks I removed a jumper and washed my hands, and joined my colleagues in a bright glass room. But, as the meeting began and my hands became fists, I realised something awful. I was missing a ring from my little finger. It was small and silver, in the shape of a tiny safety pin – I’d bought it 20 years ago on my first week at work and worn it every day since. Its loss struck me as ominous.I am largely anti-Christmas present. I write this a...

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5 hours ago Faced with Trump and Farage, Britain’s natural ally is Europe | William Keegan

The Labour party’s determination to stick to Brexit simply condemns the UK to fight a lone hand against the far-right forces ranged against itThe sight of other world leaders toadying up to the US president-elect – the criminal Donald Trump – and his henchman Elon Musk is distasteful enough, but in the world of realpolitik they probably feel they have no option.The great American journalist HL Mencken did not live to see the fulfilment of his 1920 prophecy that “one day the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron” but he is no doubt turning in his grave. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago Fox News star quits show after nearly 30 years and as one of the only anchors to criticise Donald Trump

In a statement Fox News said that Neil Cavuto's career was "illustrious" and had been a "master class in journalism"

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6 hours ago My husband left me last Christmas. How do I get closure? | Ask Philippa

Give yourself permission to grieve, not just for the end of your marriage, but also for the man you thought you knewThe question Last Christmas, my husband left me. He’d been on a few festive nights out with work and I noticed a change in his behaviour. When I asked what was wrong, he told me that a conversation we’d had a couple of months previously, whereby I talked about divorce, had been playing on his mind. I didn’t want a divorce, but I was just trying to get him to see that I felt he was neglecting me with his obsession over losing weight (which he didn’t need to lose) and exercising. Before the exercise obsession started he was my best friend and supporter, so this was such a shock.He never grieved for his father – a very difficult man – who died earlier in the year. The day after he left he sent an email saying he couldn’t stop thinking of me talking about divorce and he wanted to separate. I was shattered by this. Where had it come from? No amount of apology from me had an...

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