1 hour ago Coronation Street legend given 'job for life' as contract extended

Coronation Street has been on the air for over 65 years - and Ken Barlow actor William Roache has been there since the very first episode. He is now due to continue to play the role as long as possible.

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2 h. ago Coronation Street icon William Roache, 93, will 'NEVER  be axed and is promised a job for life' after 65 years of playing Ken Barlow

The 93-year-old TV veteran has played the role since the show's very first episode back in 1960 and holds a Guinness World Record as the longest-serving soap star.

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4 h. ago Coronation Street bosses make surprising agreement over future of Ken Barlow

EXCLUSIVE: Bosses on Coronation Street have made a decision over the future of fan favourite Ken Barlow who has been living on the Cobbles since the very first episode 65 years ago

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4 h. ago College football's surprise: Miami and Indiana meet for a title in a matchup nobody saw coming.

Indiana and Miami are playing for the national title Monday night, and if that has you scratching your head thinking “Who?”

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5 h. ago Proud Rihanna celebrates A$AP Rocky's SNL performance at star

Rihanna proudly celebrated her partner A$AP Rocky after he made his musical guest debut on the latest episode of SNL over the weekend.

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6 h. ago Dragon's Den star Steven Bartlett shares first look at romantic Moroccan proposal to girlfriend Melanie Lopes as he reveals his 'heart was racing' while he surprised her on Christmas Day

The Dragon's Den star, 33, revealed he popped the question to his long-term partner after surprising her while she was on holiday with her family in Morocco.

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7 h. ago Tottenham board hold Thomas Frank talks as Spurs boss fights to save job

Thomas Frank is in serious jeopardy of losing his job as Tottenham boss following Spurs' home defeat by rivals West Ham on Saturday

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7 h. ago Saturday Night Live: big name cameos can’t save weak Stranger Things

A$AP Rocky steals the show during Finn Wolfhard’s first ever go as host with surprise appearances from Sabrina Carpenter, Jason Momoa and moreSaturday Night Live returns from the holiday hiatus to catch us up on all things Trump: the president (James Austin Johnson) addresses the nation from the Oval Office, bragging about his favorite Christmas present: “My very own somebody else’s Nobel prize and in my stocking: Maduro we did a reverse Santa on him.”Joined by cabinet members “Little” Marco Rubio (Marcello Hernández) and JD Vance (Jeremy Culhane, taking over for departed cast member Bowen Yang), who are all trying to “help me do so many legal-ish things to try to get people to stop talking about Epstein.” Said things include an impending invasion of Cuba, “trans in menswear”, new tariffs, and Greenland, only to be interrupted by Trump wandering behind them and looking out the window in a senile fugue state. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago People are only just learning what rude hand gesture means and it's surprising

The middle finger gesture is one of the world's most recognised insults, but few people know where it actually comes from and the answer is rather surprising...

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7 h. ago Dunelm bedding set reduced to £11 has an 'expensive' design that brightens up a room

"I bought this as I wanted a cover to brighten up my bedroom. It has done the job perfectly. I couldn't believe the price."

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8 h. ago Teacher quits after pupil, 8, 'made threesome deepfake vid of her and colleagues'

The primary school teacher was floored when she was targeted by a 'sniggering' pupil who 'made a video' of her having sex with two of her colleagues, prompting her to leave her job

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8 h. ago Finn Wolfhard’s SNL debut mocks Stranger Things finale theories as fans slam ‘unnecessary’ joke

Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb McLaughlin joined Wolfhard in the sketch

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8 h. ago Mikel Arteta confirms Bukayo Saka injury worry ahead of huge week for Arsenal

Bukayo Saka was a surprise absentee from the Arsenal starting line-up for their disappointing 0-0 draw against Nottingham Forest on Saturday and Mikel Arteta later revealed the reason

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9 h. ago AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its rootsI am a science-fiction writer, which means that my job is to make up futuristic parables about our current techno-social arrangements to interrogate not just what a gadget does, but who it does it for, and who it does it to.What I do not do is predict the future. No one can predict the future, which is a good thing, since if the future were predictable, that would mean we couldn’t change it. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Mika looks back: ‘Nowadays you wouldn’t get away with the things journalists said about my sexuality in the noughties’

The superstar singer on his itinerant childhood, brutally honest mother, and the moment of anger that led him to write Grace KellyBorn in Beirut in 1983, Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr, otherwise known as Mika, was raised in Paris and London. He attended the Royal College of Music, before his breakthrough in 2007 with debut album Life in Cartoon Motion and its No 1 single, Grace Kelly. He went on to sell 20m records, and worked as a presenter and judge on TV shows such as Eurovision and The Piano. Mika now lives in Italy and in Hastings, East Sussex, with his partner. His first English-language album in six years, Hyperlove, is out on 23 January.This was taken in our kitchen in Paris. It doesn’t surprise me that I am covered in chocolate. My earliest memories are of being on the floor surrounded by delicious food. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Lauren Harries launches blistering string of attacks on David Dickinson for 'stitching up' contestants on his ITV show with 'disgusting prices'

Antiques dealer and presenter David, 84, has fronted Dickinson's Real Deal on ITV since the programme made its debut back in 2006.

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9 h. ago Emma Raducanu surprised to learn new nickname after winning start to Australian Open

The locals in Melbourne have taken to calling the British No 1 ‘Raddo’ after she opened her campaign with a straight-sets win

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10 h. ago How Sir Alex Ferguson shocked Man Utd players and massaged stars after 'flamboyant' Ron Atkinson

EXCLUSIVE: Sir Alex Ferguson took Manchester United players by surprise with how far ahead of his time he was and his hands-on approach when he replaced ‘flamboyant’ Ron Atkinson

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10 h. ago Anas Sarwar makes Milly's Law vow for child cancer patient who died from hospital

Sarwar vowed to establish Milly's Law which he said "would create an independent public advocate with the authority to investigate incidents and establish the truth".

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10 h. ago Zoe Ball admits she would 'love' to take over Strictly as she reveals the truth about her Radio 2 departure and why she's reassessing her career path aged 55

Zoe Ball, 55,has confessed she would love to take on the most sought-after job in British TV - presenting Strictly Come Dancing .

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