2 hours ago Ruben Amorim points finger at Man Utd fans as flops booed off after Bournemouth thrashing

Manchester United's supporters let their voices be heard after the final whistle in Sunday's humiliating 3-0 loss at home to Bournemouth, leaving the Red Devils 13th at Christmas

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2 hours ago Fireman Sam star David Carling dies aged 55 just days before Christmas

Actor David Carling, who was best known for being the voice of Station Officer Steele in Fireman Sam, has died at the age of 55

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6 hours ago Peter Mandelson denies interest in US ambassador role in resurfaced interview

Lord Peter Mandelson denied any interest in becoming the UK’s ambassador to the US in a Newsnight interview in July - just four months before he was appointed to the role.

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7 hours ago Man City mood as they left Aston Villa speaks volumes as Grealish jokes and new voice speaks up

Rico Lewis and Erling Haaland sent honest messages after Manchester City lost at Aston Villa, while Kyle Walker and Jack Grealish reacted differently.

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11 hours ago Death is at the heart of Christmas. That’s why we love to tell festive ghost stories | Kate Maltby

It’s a creepy time of year from The Archers to Nosferatu to Mark Gatiss’ Woman of StoneThis Christmas, find some pity for Lynda Snell MBE. Fans of the BBC radio soap The Archers know Lynda as the stalwart organiser of every Christmas panto in the fictional village of Ambridge. This year, she found herself tasked with something more arduous: voice-coaching the hard-living Mick, who had volunteered to play Father Christmas at the local pub, only for the landlords to discover that Mick had a performance voice so rasping and gravelly it was guaranteed to terrify the children.Readers who, like me, are incurable listeners of The Archers will know the solution: Lynda sparkily announced that this year, Ambridge would host a “creepy Christmas” event, allowing Mick to snarl to his heart’s content as Krampus, not Santa, and a range of other Christmas bogeymen. Hilarity, by Ambridge standards, ensued when Lynda found herself scrambling to hide Mick and his demonic horns from the vicar. Continue...

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14 hours ago We didn’t make it to the Paralympics, but we still have hope: the Gazan paracyclist

As part of the Guardian’s Gaza Voices series this year, Hazem Suleiman told of how the roads he trained on had been destroyed. Now, he’s raising money for other amputeesHazem Suleiman is a member of the Gaza Sunbirds, a paracycling team based in Gaza. A former footballer, he lost a leg as a result of being shot in protests at the Rafah border in 2018. We first spoke to him five months ago as part of our Gaza Voices series on everyday Palestinian life. At that time, Suleiman, who also photographs and documents life in Gaza, was dealing with the toll of displacement from his home in Rafah to the town of Khan Younis.He and the other Sunbirds had been training hard, hoping to represent Palestine in the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, but after the Israeli assault on Gaza following Hamas’s attack on 7 October 2023, they were unable to realise this dream. They did at least achieve their goal – to compete in an international competition for the first time – in May this year: the Para-Cycling Ro...

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25 hours ago Chris Riddell on how Peter Mandelson’s meeting with Donald ‘Jabba the Hut’ Trump might go – cartoon

The Labour peer, who has been appointed Britain’s US ambassador, greets Trump as Elon Musk and Nigel Farage look on Continue reading...

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25 hours ago Voices: The hidden message in Lilly Jay’s essay about Ethan Slater we all need to learn

The world expected Dr Jay to attack Ariana Grande over the pop star’s new romance, but that’s the oldest trick in the misogyny rulebook, writes Olivia Petter

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26 hours ago BBC Outnumbered fans voice 'concern' for star ahead of Christmas special

BBC Outnumbered viewers have taken to Twitter to share their concerns for one of the stars of the show, Tyger Drew Honey, ahead of the Christmas special

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