71 minutes ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special winners revealed as Kai Widdrington and Tayce

The winners of the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special have been announced, with the likes of Josh Widdicombe, Vogue Williams, Tayce, Tamzin Outhwaite, and Billy Monger taking part

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81 minutes ago Sir David Jason reveals the present he wants for Christmas this year from the BBC

Only Fools star Sir David Jason is hoping for an unusual gift from the BBC around this Christmas time which would see him back in front of the cameras in 2025

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1 hour ago I lost my husband but gained the perfect wife: She's an incredible cook and the kids love her... she's the best part of my divorce, SHAPPI KHORSANDI reveals

Having carefully placed the homemade gravy and stuffing on the Christmas table, my 'wife-in-law' headed back into the kitchen to grab a jug of Bisto and a second tray of stuffing.

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1 hour ago Woman’s 'right foot found in a training shoe' still unidentified as police hunt continues

A woman's right foot was found in a sock and a training shoe in Middleton back in August 1987 with the left foot uncovered a few weeks later but her case still remains a mystery

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2 hours ago Family renew £20,000 appeal to find body of woman murdered by her boyfriend who refuses to reveal what he did with her corpse as he rots in jail

Fiona Holm, 48, was last seen alive on June 20 last year with her family now facing their second Christmas without her.

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2 hours ago I won £7.6m on the Lottery but I still check the price of socks: One of Lotto's most generous

After winning a life-changing sum of money in the National Lottery, Ray and Barbara Wragg decided embark of a two-decade spree of philantropy, helping thousands in Sheffield.

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3 hours ago The hottest mugshots of all time revealed... as Luigi Mangione earns viral fame thanks to his looks

Luigi was transformed into an unexpected online star after he became the prime suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. See the other mugshots that sent heart rates soaring.

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3 hours ago The Christmas that went wrong: I ended up in A&E with burns from my mother’s gravy

After two horrendous weeks with chickenpox and norovirus, I thought I was finally better on Christmas Day. But I had reckoned without a jug of scalding BistoThe strangled half-scream I emitted as we all helped ourselves to turkey and trimmings let the entire family know that something was very wrong indeed. The pain was searing, like the heat of a thousand suns concentrated on to a single centimetre of skin. “You need to go to A&E,” said my mum, a retired nurse. My heart sank. The A&E department of Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth hospital was the last place on Earth you would want to find yourself on Christmas Day, of all days.It was 2006 and, as my wife drove me to hospital, I slumped in the passenger seat in hideous pain, feeling ravenously hungry and intensely sorry for myself. It had all started two weeks earlier when my wife had delivered the news I had been dreading since becoming a father. “It’s finally happened,” she said gravely. “Lydia’s got chickenpox.” Continue read...

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3 hours ago ‘It changed my idea of what games can be’ – the 31 games readers couldn’t put down in 2024

From the grisly Space Marine 2 to the glorious Metaphor: ReFantazio, it’s time for Pushing Buttons subscribers to share their games of the yearHappy Christmas, Pushing Buttons readers! My sincere and heartfelt thanks to everyone who’s read the newsletter this year, and to all our new subscribers. Writing this newsletter and reading your correspondence remains my favourite part of my job. It means a lot that so many of you have written in to say that you look forward to Pushing Buttons landing in your inbox every week.Thank you also to the Guardian’s brilliant newsletter team, who have worked hard all year to get these missives to you on time even when I’ve submitted them horribly late. (I’m sorry, team. Relatedly: if games publishers could stop dropping huge news right around my deadline in 2025, that would be amazing.) Continue reading...

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3 hours ago 'I was a resentful mum but quit teaching for risky job so I could buy Christmas gifts'

The 34-year-old mum revealed the holiday season used to be a source of immense stress for her and her husband due to financial limitations, but that's no longer the case...

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