75 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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75 minutes ago Calming pet stickers that 'stop dogs barking' perfect for New Year's Eve fireworks

Pet Zen Calming Stickers are designed to soothe pets during noisy celebrations like fireworks

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2 hours ago Only one in three Scots schools running programme to tackle gender based violence

Labour made the call as it has been revealed only a third of schools have signed up for a programme aimed at stopping gender based violence.

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9 hours ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood 'very sorry' for five

Strictly Come Dancing fans were left in hysterics this evening as they watched a throwback clip of Craig Revel Horwood being left "speechless" after making a blunder.

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9 hours ago Strictly Come Dancing's Craig Revel Horwood apologises to Anton Du Beke for 'embarrassing' blunder five years ago

Strictly Come Dancing fans were left in hysterics as they took a look back at a blunder that Craig Revel Horwood made following a performance from fellow judge Anton Du Beke.

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11 hours ago Jesús Navas: ‘I’m stopping because I have to. I’m happy with what I’ve achieved’

On Sunday, aged 39, Sevilla’s Jesús Navas brings down the curtain on Spanish football’s most glittering careerA little after 9am in Montequinto, Seville, and Jesús Navas walks past the Jesús Navas Stadium and up the little slope in the sunshine, gym to the left, training pitch to the right. The first to arrive and he’s moving OK this morning, which isn’t something he can say every day, but still he comes. Soon, too soon, he won’t. “It’s my life,” he says, “what I’ve always done, who I am.” The stand bearing his name wasn’t here when he first turned up, a quarter of a century ago. Most of this wasn’t; the trophies at the Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, three miles north, certainly weren’t. Everything changes, except him. “I’m the same as the first day,” he says.That day, Navas was 15, a small, skinny, shy boy from Los Palacios, 15 minutes south. It was 2000 and he has been coming almost every morning since, apart from four seasons in Manchester which he enjoyed more even than you migh...

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13 hours ago Kim Woodburn reveals top tips for perfect Christmas Dinner and how to be stress

Kim Woodburn is well known for making everything sparkle, and the TV star described exactly how she approaches Christmas to avoid any mess or drama - from hosting, to cleaning, to her clever roast dinner hacks

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13 hours ago Just Stop Oil protester, 77, is recalled to prison days before Christmas because her wrists are too small for electronic tag

Grandmother Gaie Delap, from Bristol, was sentenced to 20 months in prison in August for her part in disruptive protests on the M25 in November 2022.

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14 hours ago Kudus pegs back misfiring Brighton but West Ham desperate for Christmas lift

On the shortest day of the year, a game that burst only briefly into life. In the space of seven second-half minutes, from nothing and nowhere, things started to happen. Brighton took the lead. West Ham equalised. And then things stopped happening again.There were, to be fair, some rousing moments in the closing stages. Crysencio Summerville, a second-half substitute, robbed the ball off Jan Paul van Hecke and sprinted towards the area, but his shot was blocked; Yankuba Minteh, another, was played through on the right and eventually slid the ball across goal where Vladimir Coufal, a third, running back to defend his goal, deflected it into the foot of the far post. And finally, in the fourth minute of stoppage time and with Brighton finishing strongly, Evan Ferguson, a fourth, set up Yasin Ayari, a fifth, for a shot that was well saved. But the primary impression will be of two teams that started a hectic rush of festive fixtures as if their primary motivation was to preserve energy...

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14 hours ago Parents debate when they can finally stop giving adult children expensive Christmas gifts

Some people argue that 18 years old is the appropriate age to stop while others say the extravagent holiday gifts should always continue

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