2 h. ago ‘A gaming success story’: how Warhammer became one of Britain’s biggest companies

Worth £6bn and with revenues recently rising by 10.9%, the niche interest game has become a global businessYou don’t need to spend your weekends organising a face-off between bloodthirsty orcs and elves to have heard of the game Warhammer.So popular is the fantasy game that its parent company Games Workshop is valued at a staggering £6bn and is almost ever-present on British high streets. Continue reading...

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65 h. ago AI as a life coach: experts share what works, what doesn’t and what to look out for

It’s becoming more common for people to use AI chatbots for personal guidance – but this doesn’t come without risksIf you’re like a lot of people, you’ve probably ditched your new year resolutions by now. Setting goals is hard; keeping them is harder – and failure can bring about icky feelings about yourself.This year, in an effort to game the system and tilt the scales toward success, some people used AI for their 2026 resolutions. It’s the latest step in an ongoing trend: in September 2025, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released findings showing that using the AI chatbot for personal guidance is very common. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago Britain's 'biggest fare dodger' admits riding for free 112 times and not paying for more than £18,000 of train tickets

Charles Brohiri, 29, freeloaded from train company Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) for almost two years, riding on railways across the south and east of England without paying his way.

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3 d. ago Major lender to cut fixed mortgage rates to as low as 3.5 per cent

A mortgage expert said the reductions from Britain’s biggest building society ‘will turn heads’

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3 d. ago Café creates 'Britain's biggest breakfast sandwich' and fans can't believe how much is in it

One café has created what it's calling "Britain's biggest breakfast sandwich", and viewers have been amazed by what's in it. One said: "I would die with a big smile trying to eat all that."

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4 d. ago 28 Years Later’s Alfie Williams: ‘You don’t want to make a fool of yourself in front of Ralph Fiennes’

The Newcastle-born actor carried last year’s ‘28 Years Later’ on his shoulders, all while going toe-to-toe with some of Britain’s biggest stars. As he returns for the sequel ‘The Bone Temple’, he speaks to Adam White about early fame, his rock band aspirations, and the annoying law that meant he missed meeting Cillian Murphy

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5 d. ago Heated Rivalry books sell out amid Australian fans’ infatuation with gay ice hockey TV show

Wild success of television series drives huge demand for Game Changers novels, with Australian booksellers reporting significant customer ordersA seventh book in Rachel Reid’s gay romance series that inspired the TV drama Heated Rivalry will be out later this year but Australian fans are still struggling to get their hands on a physical copy of any of the preceding six books.Unrivalled, the next instalment in the Canadian author’s Game Changers series, will be released internationally on 29 September, the publisher HarperCollins announced on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Nationwide fights back against scammers with a checker tool to highlight dodgy phone calls

Britain's biggest mutual has launched a scam checking tool which will tell customers if they are on the phone to a genuine Nationwide employee or a scammer.

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8 d. ago Britain's biggest police forces hired tens of thousands of officers without doing full employment checks

Some of the UK's largest forces secretly abandoned pre-employment checks on new recruits for six years after the last Government announced a £3 billion programme to recruit 20,000 officers nationwide.

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9 d. ago Abandoned medieval village lay forgotten for centuries now loved by walkers

One of Britain's biggest and most famous deserted medieval villages, Wharram Percy in North Yorkshire has remnants of century-old houses, a church and ancient ruins for visitors to explore

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9 d. ago How shoppers can save hundreds of pounds per year on groceries by switching to Britain's 'cheapest' supermarket

The German-owned discounter which is now Britain's fourth biggest grocery chain was the cheapest in ten out of the 12 months, according to consumer group Which?.

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1 week ago Beast Games season two review – this mindless, vibeless reality show is like Squid Game meets Love Island

Is this big-money challenge cruel? Yes. But it’s mainly just tedious to watch these immature players and their teenage machinations as they battle for cashThe first season of Beast Games – the big-money reality challenge masterminded and hosted by internet personality Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast – prompted a lawsuit. Five anonymous contestants sued both the production companies behind the series and Donaldson himself, claiming that they had been kept “underfed and overtired”, and alleging an unsafe environment on the set of the Gladiators-ish, Squid Game-esque series (claims, of course, firmly denied by all parties). While the participants claimed they had been “shamelessly exploited” in the name of entertainment, this did little to impede the success of Beast Games, which went on to become Amazon’s most-watched unscripted series ever, garnering 50 million viewers in the month after its release.You may well come to Beast Games with a sense that this is a slightly murky,...

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1 week ago Tesco brings back blue and white stripe 'value' range to help cash

Britain's biggest supermarket has announced it will prioritise keeping prices low on 3,000 household staples, including Weetabix and Fairy Liquid. Its blue and white stripes will return.

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1 week ago ‘I’ve got a fearlessness to being laid bare’: how Yungblud became Britain’s biggest rock star

In 2025 the Doncaster-born singer-songwriter has earned two UK No 1s, three Grammy nominations and the respect of rock’s greats – and he says it’s all down to putting fans firstIn November, Dominic Harrison, better known as Yungblud, received three Grammy nominations. The news that he had become the first British artist in history to be nominated that many times in the awards’ rock categories came as a suitably striking finale to what, by any metric, was an extraordinary year for the 28-year-old singer-songwriter.In June, his fourth studio album, Idols, entered the UK charts at No 1, outselling its nearest competitor by 50%. The same month, the annual festival he curates and headlines, Bludfest, drew an audience of 30,000 to The National Bowl in Milton Keynes. In July, he played at Back to the Beginning, the farewell performance by Black Sabbath, whose frontman Ozzy Osbourne died 17 days after the gig. On a bill almost comically overstuffed with heavy metal superstars paying tribute...

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2 w. ago Bulgarian gang behind Britain's biggest ever £53million benefits fraud only have to pay back £2million after hiding cash abroad

Galina Nikolova, Tsvetka Todorova, Gyunesh Ali, Patritsia Paneva and Stoyan Stoyanov were jailed for a total 25 years at Wood Green Crown Court in London in May 2024.

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2 w. ago ITV stars Susanna Reid and Kate Garraway hold back tears as GMB and This Morning’s sets are torn down amid budget cuts

GOOD Morning Britain's biggest stars fought back tears yesterday as ITV Daytime tore down its famous sets at Television Centre as it moves to a new home. The broadcaster's new look schedule comes into effect on Monday with GMB extended by half an hour, Lorraine slashed by 30 minutes and This Morning and Loose Women...

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2 w. ago Is this Britain's biggest ever fly tip? The huge illegal waste dump that's been spewing toxic burning plastic fumes across a family countryside adventure park for SEVEN years

Tens of thousands of tonnes of rubbish have been deposited at the illegal tip, which is situated between the adventure park and the River Leadon, a tributary of the River Severn.

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3 w. ago Mum with Britain's biggest boobs says 'women are lovely but men just want one thing'

EXCLUSIVE Melissa Ashcroft, 30, has a 36M chest and says she's among those with the biggest boobs in Britain.... but is constantly harassed by creepy men wanting to buy her used underwear

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3 w. ago Mum with Britain's biggest boobs says creepy men 'want to buy her bras'

EXCLUSIVE Melissa Ashcroft, 30, has a 36M chest and says she's among those with the biggest boobs in Britain.... but is constantly harassed by creepy men wanting to buy her used underwear

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3 w. ago Britain will be fifth biggest economy in the world by 2040, report says

New research published by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) predicts the UK's total GDP will rise from just under $4trillion in 2025 to $6.8tn over the next 15 years.

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