18 minutes ago Eddie Howe knows Champions League will help keep Newcastle stars happy

The Magpies are five points off the top four.

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See the best images of the day from around the world.

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24 minutes ago Rebekah Vardy goes shopping for last minute Christmas gifts and Jamie may be in luck

Jamie Vardy won't be with wife Rebekah and their family for most of Christmas so she wants to make things special - and that means a Christmas tree bursting with presents

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38 minutes ago Bad Tidings viewers all have the same complaint about Strictly champ Chris McCausland and Lee Mack's new Christmas film

The movie was released on Sky Max and streaming service NOW on Sunday 22 December. Bad Tidings stars Chris, Lee, Sarah Alexander and Rebekah Staton.

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44 minutes ago Jamie Oliver's clever hack makes homemade Christmas gravy with zero stress

Jamie Oliver has been praised for his "banging" cooking hack that makes delicious gravy ahead of Christmas Day, which should save you a lot of hassle on December 25

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2 hours ago Jamie Carragher aims fresh dig at Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham approach

The former Liverpool defender was speaking on Sky Sports following Spurs’ 6-3 loss to the league leaders

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3 hours ago Home Bargains is selling an XL Christmas Cracker filled with 81 bars of Mars, Flake, Fudge and more

Shoppers have been snapping up the festive treat filled with goodies from Cadbury, Nestle and Mars

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4 hours ago Notre Dame rose again from the ashes – so too can France’s battered democracy | Alexander Hurst

With the country in stalemate, people have lost faith in government. But citizens’ assemblies show one way forwardWhen Notre Dame burned, something in the flames seemed to speak to the combustibility of our age. Nothing is for ever, the fire said, even those edifices – stone or institutional – that we assume will always be there. In almost every democracy, there are similar forces of backlash and disaffection. The anger is diffuse and the discontents vary, but there is a general agitation that seems to boil down to the feeling that someone should do something.At the moment, France seems to have crystallised this phenomenon in a way that other democracies might draw both warnings and lessons from. Will François Bayrou last longer as prime minister than Michel Barnier? Perhaps. But the basic impediment remains: the country is politically split roughly into thirds (and the “left” is split among itself), with the end result that creating a majority for anything is almost impossible. Con...

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6 hours ago Russia urged to act lawfully after video purportedly shows Australian man fighting for Ukraine captured

Dfat making inquiries about footage showing man who identifies himself as Oscar Jenkins, PM confirmsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government has urged Russia to adhere to international law obligations regarding prisoners of war, after a video purporting to show the Russian capture of an Australian man fighting for Ukraine on the war’s eastern front circulated online.The man, who identified himself as Oscar Jenkins, is struck several times and questioned roughly in Russian in the video, which was circulating on the messaging service Telegram. Nine newspapers, which broke news of the video, reported that the footage was first shared by the Russian journalist Alexander Sladkov. Continue reading...

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