50 minutes ago Home Alone could have been very different as legendary actor was set to play villain

Home Alone star Joe Pesci was not first choice for the role, but the Academy Award-winning actor made his first step into comedy with the Christmas classic after two big names dropped out

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57 minutes ago Only people with 'eyes of a sniper' can spot screw on countertop in five seconds

A man who dropped a screw on his granite kitchen work surface and struggled to find it decided to transform his woe into a tricky brainteaser for others to solve

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57 minutes ago East Kilbride ice skaters enjoy one of their most successful British Championshiop showings

The Olympia team saw six members earn a top 10 finish as many took home medals

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72 minutes ago Woman, 81, takes up hobby she enjoyed as a child and said it helped her heal from grief

Sandra Kennell has rediscovered her childhood love of ballet after her late daughter - a former lecturer at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama - gifted her a pair of ballet shoes

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1 hour ago Plane's nose hits runway in 'hard landing' in high winds after flying from Edinburgh Airport

A plane’s nose wheel collapsed as it landed in Belfast due to adverse weather conditions

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1 hour ago ‘If we die, we die together’: 20 years after the Boxing Day tsunami, are we better prepared?

Hundreds of thousands of people were killed in Aceh in 2004. Now warning systems are in place, but some feel more could be doneIt was just before 8am on Sunday 26 December 2004 when the earthquake struck. Abdul Rahem, 47, a fisher, was strolling along the beach, enjoying the morning breeze near to his home in Lam Awe, a sleepy fishing village on the coast of Aceh in Indonesia. He retreated to paddy fields when the violent shaking and swinging stopped. But it wasn’t until he heard the cries of neighbours that he realised something was seriously wrong. People were shouting: “The water is coming.”Rahem raced home to get his elderly father, and supported him as they tried to flee along the broken road, which had been twisted and torn by the quake. His father urged him to go ahead and leave him, but Rahem refused. “I said, ‘No, no, no, if we die, we die together.’” Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Slow Horses star is totally transformed as she lifts lid on major Netflix role away from show

EXCLUSIVE: Rosalind Eleazar is best known for playing Louisa Guy in the series Slow Horses, but she's taken on a brand new role for Netflix's hugely-anticipated upcoming thriller.

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3 hours ago What HAS happened to Blake Lively's face? Top cosmetic doctor's verdict on stars surgical transformation

It's not just Blake Lively's behaviour on her current press tour that's attracted attention - her changing face has sparked the interest of cosmetic 'tweakment' experts too.

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3 hours ago BBC EastEnders fans say 'I'm nervous' as soap issues huge announcement

EastEnders will not be dropping episodes early on BBC iPlayer on Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Year's Day and the news has sent fans of the BBC One soap into meltdown

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5 hours ago UK weather: Britain to be blanketed in snow within days as winter storm moves in

Multiple regions of the UK will be blanketed in snow as temperatures drop around New Year's Day, new forecast maps show - though a White Christmas is looking less likely

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