34 minutes ago Davina McCall supported after revealing scar from brain tumour surgery

McCall lost some of her hair after undergoing urgent surgery for a brain tumour

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35 minutes ago Slow Horses star lifts lid on ‘completely different’ role in huge Netflix show she ‘hopes fans will watch’

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s latest team-up with author Harlan Coben sees one of Slow Horses’ biggest stars take on a lead role.

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46 minutes ago Housebuilders should put solar panels on every roof to lower buyers' bills, ministers urged

The Sunshine Bill would mean newbuild homes across the UK would come with solar panels on their roofs

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53 minutes ago DWP warning ahead of huge state pension change which could see your payments cut

The deadline to fill in the gaps in your National Insurance record is April 5 next year, and both the DWP and HMRC are preparing for a tidal wave of demand for their services in the lead-up

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73 minutes ago Tottenham: Asking Ange Postecoglou to change is futile but this one vital tweak is essential at Spurs

Postecoglou’s side could benefit from making a change, without the need to abandon his approach

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76 minutes ago Middle East crisis live: Israel orders closure of one of last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza

Head of Kamal Adwan hospital says it is ‘next to impossible’ to obey shut down order due to lack of ambulances to evacuate patientsThe UN agency for Palestinian Refugees, Unrwa, has been planning all year for winter in Gaza, but the aid it was able to get into the territory is “not even close to being enough for people,” Louise Wateridge, an agency spokesperson, said as many of the near 2 million Palestinians displaced by Israel’s war struggle to protect themselves from the wind, cold and rain.Unrwa distributed 6,000 tents over the past four weeks in northern Gaza but was unable to get them to other parts of the Strip, including areas where there has been fighting. About 22,000 tents have been stuck in Jordan and 600,000 blankets and 33 truckloads of mattresses have been sitting in Egypt since the summer because the agency doesn’t have Israeli approval or a safe route to bring them into Gaza and because it had to prioritise desperately needed food aid, Wateridge said.In the early ho...

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77 minutes ago Kemi Badenoch: I will earn voter trust and release policy as 'thought through'

Mrs Badenoch told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that ‘these things will come’, in an interview due to be broadcast on Monday morning

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2 hours ago Key Christmas decision meant Meghan Markle spent Christmas with royals after Kate snub

Meghan Markle was welcomed with open arms by Her Majesty the Queen when she first started dating Prince Harry, so much so that the monarch broke a long-standing tradition

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2 hours ago Ghosts of the landscape: how folklore and songs are key to rewilding Finland’s reindeer

For ecologists restoring the vast bogs of remote Karelia, wild reindeer are not just part of the environment but entwined with the ancient culture of the boreal forestsThe Finnish folk musician Liisa Matveinen lives in a mustard-coloured house in Ilomantsi, 12 miles (20km) from the Russian border. Large books of folk songs line her walls. Sitting in her kitchen, Matveinen sings a about a humble hunter going into the woods to find reindeer.The song tells us how they were “honoured” providers of food, clothing and a sense of place, says Matveinen, who is recognised as a doyenne of Finnish folk music. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago The heartbreaking mystery of Baby A, one month on: "Our determination to get answers is unrelenting"

Findings of scientists and huge support from two neighbouring commuities could be key to finding baby's mother

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