7 hours ago Proud Prince William and Princess Kate pictured beside all three children at Christmas concert

The royals were joined at Westminster Abbey by 1600 guests including celebrities GMB’s Ben Shephard, actress Giovanna Fletcher, singer Mollie King and cricketer Stuart Broad

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8 hours ago Luke Littler in tears as he reaches third round of World Darts Championship with 3

The Nuke was overcome with emotion after defeating Meikle

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9 hours ago Luke Littler overcomes nervy start to beat Ryan Meikle at World Darts Championship

Luke Littler returned to Alexandra Palace where the teenage darts sensation became a household name last year and reached the World Darts Championship third round with a win over Ryan Meikle

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11 hours ago 'Christmas ruined' after routine building work turns home into a 'nightmare'

Tracy Atkins-Glover says she is on the verge of a nervous breakdown because of the ongoing issues with her home, two years after the initial issue

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12 hours ago Fearne Cotton speaks out on health battle after shock Jesse Wood divorce

Fearne Cotton has revealed that she is 'slightly coming back to myself' after 'taking myself out of some situations' amid her divorce proceedings against Jesse Wood

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13 hours ago Belief in a lottery curse is comforting, but winning lots of money does make you happy | Martha Gill

The notion that vast windfalls inevitably bring misery is based on a handful of sad casesDoes winning the lottery wreck your life? When an anonymous Briton won £177m in the EuroMillions draw last month – making them the third biggest national lottery winner ever – the Mail Online announced it with all the impartiality of a bad fairy at a christening: “Other big winners”, the second half of the headline ran, “have faced ‘lottery curse’ with divorce, disease, family splits and death”.Follow the progress of lottery winners through the newspapers, and you’d be forgiven for thinking they all live out the same morality tale. Headlines such as “The bad luck of winning” and “A treasury of terribly sad stories of Lotto winners” drive home the point. Continue reading...

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14 hours ago Grealish’s maverick parts have been sanded off by Guardiola’s tactical void | Barney Ronay

Pep Guardiola appears to have no fix for Jack Grealish’s slump – or Manchester City’s as a wholePerhaps the most startling aspect of Manchester City’s ongoing, real-time collapse, which continued here with a 2-1 defeat by a vigorous, happy-looking Aston Villa, is the lack of any sense of struggle, desperation, or even any real variation. You lost. Lose again. Lose the same way.Eleven games and eight defeats into that run, nobody outside the players really has any clue how or why City have been reduced to what they looked like here, a team playing Dignitas football, always aware of that spectre in the corner of the room, already hearing the clank of the scythe. Continue reading...

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16 hours ago Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl review – the Aardman duo’s return is an absolute delight

Almost 20 years since their last outing, the cheese-loving inventor and his ever-dependable dog resume battle with a feathered fiend in this precision-tooled caperAfter last year’s slightly lacklustre Chicken Run sequel, Dawn of the Nugget, it seemed as though Aardman’s hitherto peerless standards might be slipping a tad. But those fears, I am happy to report, were unfounded. The latest feature from the Bristol-based animation studio is an absolute delight. Directed by Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham, Vengeance Most Fowl – featuring crackpot inventor Wallace (Ben Whitehead) and his long-suffering canine chum, Gromit – revisits the tried-and-tested Aardman formula: affable absurdity combined with precision-tooled comic timing and a selection of deliciously silly jokes about cheese.It’s just shy of 20 years since Wallace and Gromit’s last feature film outing, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, but the world they inhabit is as cosily familiar as Wallace’s green knitted tank top. No task is...

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17 hours ago Hunt for Scots robber wearing surgical gloves after terrifying shop incident

Officers raced to the scene and searched the area but a probe remains ongoing to identify and trace the suspect.

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