27 minutes ago 'I'm a doctor – there's something everyone should know about hot water bottles'

Dr Nomzzy, also known as The Skin Doc, detailed how people can sustain "serious burns" after using hot water bottles incorrectly. Here's what you need to know

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41 minutes ago Oleksandr Usyk knows how fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua would end

Usyk has had the better of both Fury and AJ in recent years and the Ukrainian star has confidently predicted who would win in a clash between the British heavyweights

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47 minutes ago Liverpool thrash Spurs, Villa stun City and Forest go fourth – Football Weekly

Max Rushden is joined by Barney Ronay, Seb Hutchinson and Sanny Rudravajhala to discuss all the weekend’s Premier League gamesRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.On the podcast today, the panel unpacks another wild weekend of Premier League action, including Liverpool’s 6-3 demolition of Spurs in a chaotic game at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Should Ange Postecoglou be more flexible and adapt? Continue reading...

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47 minutes ago The kindness of strangers: on a stressful day, I reversed into another mum’s car – and she told me not to worry

Perhaps she could hear a child’s shrieks over the blasting Baby Shark, but in that moment she chose mercyThis is the first in a series of stories on the kindness of strangersLast year, on a hot afternoon just before Christmas, I was picking my daughter up from childcare. That in itself is usually a pretty stressful situation. But on this day my seasonal anxiety was compounded by a toddler’s sleep regression and a family fight that, after decades of simmering tension, was at last boiling over.Out of respect for involved parties – and fear of setting off round two – I’ll skip the details. But for the sake of this story all you need to know is that I was trying to back out of a very busy car park while a child screamed and I wondered if the people I loved most in the world would ever speak to each other again. Somewhere in that fugue of emotional and auditory anguish I backed right into another mum’s car. Continue reading...

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47 minutes ago Alternative Christmas Films: bored of what's on the box? Try these 13 alternative Christmas features instead

Sick of “sugarplum fairy-tales?” Try these 13 alternative festive films this year instead ❄

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54 minutes ago Social media firms set to use facial recognition to check kids' ages under Ofcom plans

Tech giants are warned they will be punished if they break the new rules to keep children safe online as Ofcom prepares to bring in new guidance for social media firms

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71 minutes ago Schick and Wirtz run wild to show only Leverkusen can live with Bayern | Andy Brassell

Celebrations were dampened by tragedy in Germany but two 5-1 wins left two teams in the Bundesliga title raceThe celebrations were not what they might have been. Bayern Munich had planned a Christmas display after the Friday night game with RB Leipzig, the full stop to their calendar year, which was swiftly cancelled after news filtered through of the awful attacks in Magdeburg, as the club’s CEO, Jan-Christian Dreesen, explained on the pitch at full time. While the mood was understandably dampened, Bayern had said what they wanted to on the field, just as Bayer Leverkusen did later on Saturday. In case you were in any doubt, there are just two to watch in the title race in the second half of the Bundesliga campaign. The team of 2024, and the team that is determined to make 2025 theirs.A 5-1 statement by the leaders answered in kind less than 24 hours later by the champions. Leverkusen needed their equally resounding win over Freiburg to keep pace with Bayern after their demolition ...

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78 minutes ago Ocado shoppers are left without Christmas essentials after delivery centre 'robot' malfunction and Morrisons customers rush out to buy food as online orders are cancelled

Scores of well-off Londoners left without key ingredients for their Christmas dinners due to a malfunction at the upmarket food retailer's £185million delivery centre.

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84 minutes ago 'If woke was a breakfast': Football fan divides opinion after sharing snap of his unusual choice of fry up...would YOU eat it?

The Manchester United supporter posted on X, formerly Twitter, a snap of the meal before heading to their League Cup quarter-final away to Tottenham Hotspur.

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86 minutes ago Bukayo Saka out for ‘many weeks’, Arteta reveals, in Arsenal injury blow

Saka sustained hamstring injury at Crystal Palace‘It is not looking good,’ manager admitsArsenal’s manager, Mikel Arteta, has revealed Bukayo Saka will be sidelined for “many weeks”. Saka sustained a hamstring injury in Arsenal’s 5-1 win against Crystal Palace on Saturday.Asked about the 23-year-old England international’s condition, Arteta said: “It is not looking good. He will be out for many weeks.” Continue reading...

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