1 hour ago Strictly star reveals she took sea sickness tablets to prepare for live show dance

A Strictly Come Dancing contestant has revealed she took sea sickness tablets to prepare for a live show performance.

Culture

2 h. ago Strictly’s Balvinder Sopal reveals big change for next show after dance

Strictly Come Dancing contestant Balvinder Sopel has revealed a big change for her next routine after ending up in the dance-off again.

Culture

2 h. ago Horror moment cars smash into each other at high speed leaving man, 22, dead as driver and passenger ‘flee scene’

THIS is the shocking moment two cars smash into each other killing a man, 22, as the driver and passenger flee. CCTV shows the horror smash on Stratford Road and Ladypool Road, in Birmingham, at just before 11.50pm on Friday, August 1. In an urgent appeal for information, West Midlands Police have now released the shocking...

Events

2 h. ago Lily Allen adds extra London show to 2026 ‘West End Girl’ tour due to phenomenal demand

Lily Allen adds extra London show to 2026 ‘West End Girl’ tour due to phenomenal demand  NME

Politics

2 h. ago MPs demand information from BBC’s chairman on Panorama edit of Trump speech

Dame Caroline Dinenage, chairwoman of the culture committee, said the corporation had ‘serious questions to answer’.

Politics

2 h. ago Teenager loses court bid against his own parents after they sent him to boarding school in Ghana over fears he would fall into gang violence in Britain

The boy's parents feared he was becoming involved with gang culture in the UK and arranged for him to stay with extended family in Ghana without telling him.

Events

3 h. ago Boy George's vile attack on lesbian banned by LA gym for confronting 'transgender patron who stared at her while she was naked in locker room'

Britain's 1980s pop icon Boy George vilely attacked a lesbian who was banned from a Los Angeles gym after she complained about a transitioning man in the women's locker room.

Events

3 h. ago Victim of Epping hotel sex attack migrant broke down in tears and felt 'in danger all over again' after he was mistakenly released and then paid £500 to leave Britain

The victim said she felt like Kebatu had been 'paid for what he had done to me' after he was given £500 to prevent a legal challenge against his removal.

Economics

3 h. ago De Niro to JLaw: should celebrities be expected to speak out against Trump?

Trump’s second term has stars calling out the president – but others choose to remain silent, questioning whether it makes any differenceIf you were hoping Jennifer Lawrence might be able to tell you who to vote for and why, you’re in for some disappointment. “I don’t really know if I should,” the actor told the New York Times recently when asked about speaking up about the second Trump administration – and she’s not the only one. “I’ve always believed that I’m not here to tell people what to think,” Sydney Sweeney recently told GQ, after a year in which she was the subject of controversy over a jeans ad and a possible Republican voter registration. This marks a shift from Donald Trump’s first term, when more celebrities seemed not just comfortable speaking out against the administration, but obligated to do so. Now voters will no longer be able to so easily consult with Notes-app-made posts on Instagram to decide who and what they care about before they head to the polls. The era o...

Politics

3 h. ago Prince William & Princess Kate Middleton's Friend Ben Duncan Dead at 45

Prince William & Princess Kate Middleton's Friend Ben Duncan Dead at 45  TMZ

Politics

4 h. ago Moroccan migrant, 22, who snatched £38k Rolex from tourist's wrist just months after arriving in Britain with a fake birth certificate faces deportation

Moroccan Aylan Snouci, 22, claimed he was just 16 when he arrived in the country in February.

Economics

4 h. ago TV football commentator Lucy Ward tells court social media posts from Joey Barton left her 'intimidated' and 'physically scared'

Soccer pundit Lucy Ward, 51, said she feared attending matches after Joey Barton compared her to serial killers Fred and Rose West, because she was 'murdering' the commentary on a match.

Events

4 h. ago Sadiq Khan revives his feud with Donald Trump as he urges New Yorkers to elect left

The London mayor threw his support behind Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani in the battle to run America's largest city.

Politics

4 h. ago Britain's richest man dies aged 85: Tycoon Gopichand Hinduja, who topped Rich List after creating £35bn business empire with his three brothers passes away after long illness

The tycoon headed the Hinduja family, whose ownership of Indian conglomerate Hinduja Group gave them an estimated fortune of £37.2billion in 2024.

Economics

4 h. ago Niclas Fullkrug: West Ham striker open to January transfer as World Cup hope is revealed

German striker has struggled to settle since arriving from Borussia Dortmund

Events

4 h. ago Obesity levels among Reception and Year 6 children in England, by local area

The figures have been published as part of the Government’s National Child Measurement Programme.

Politics

4 h. ago The number of council homes let in West Lothian dropped by almost 100 in a year

Lower turnover of properties is the principal reason for the drop from 243 between April and June last year to just 150 in the same period this year.

Politics

4 h. ago None of 260 new West Lothian Council vehicles purchased are electric

The council’s Operational Services department is testing some light commercial EVs, a meeting was told, but none have entered full time service with the council.

Politics

4 h. ago Britain's richest man worth more than £35.3billion dies aged 85

The businessman largely kept out of the public eye but was caught up in controversy in 2001, and has now died with an estimated net worth upwards of £35 billion

Economics

5 h. ago Britain's richest man worth more than £35.3billion dies as tributes pour in

Gopichand Hinduja, who is known as 'GP', co-chaired the business with his brother, Srichand, who died in 2023. The pair moved from India to London in the 1970s where they continued to build the Hinduja Group

Economics