72 m. ago Wales vs South Africa LIVE: Start time, TV channel and score updates

Wales host the Springboks in Cardiff in the final match of 2025, with both teams missing a number of players

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96 m. ago Wolf Alice spellbinding as they deliver intoxicating Manchester performance at AO Arena

Seminal British band Wolf Alice kick off their headline tour in celebration of their fourth studio album

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2 h. ago Self Esteem: ‘How often do I have sex? Oh, often. That is one thing I don’t compromise on’

The singer on going solo, bringing back George Michael, and why a dog made her rethink motherhoodBorn in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Rebecca Lucy Taylor, 39, was in the duo Slow Club. After 10 years, she went solo as Self Esteem and received Mercury prize, NME and Brit nominations for her second album, 2021’s Prioritise Pleasure. This year, she won the Ivor Novello Visionary award and released a book and album, both called A Complicated Woman. In March, she stars in David Hare’s Teeth ’n’ Smiles at the Duke of York’s theatre, London. She lives in London with her partner.When were you happiest? Five to 10, when I was just playing out and I didn’t realise I was a girl. Before my boobs came in, basically. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Ed Sheeran makes rare admission about marriage woes in emotional new album

Ed Sheeran has shared a candid insight into his marriage to Cherry Seaborn with the release of his new album where he admits that the couple have battled to save their relationship

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6 h. ago ‘It has made me live life more’: Jessie J on cancer, comebacks and cracking China

Endometriosis, miscarriage, failed relationships, suicide and gaslighting they are all laid bare on the singer-writer’s new album. But just as she finished recording it, she got a shock diagnosis. She explains why it’s made her determined to be in the momentYou couldn’t make it up, Jessie J says. There she was preparing for her first album release in eight years, ecstatically in love with her newish partner, and finally the mother of a toddler having struggled to conceive for a decade, on top of the world. Then in March she was diagnosed with breast cancer.The singer-songwriter, real name Jessica Cornish, is famous for telling it as it is. The album, Don’t Tease Me With a Good Time, was supposed to be an open book, dealing with every ounce of devastation she’d experienced since she last recorded music (endometriosis, miscarriage, failed relationships, gaslighting, suicide) with typical candour. The first single, No Secrets, was released in April. But by then...

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6 h. ago Panutche Camara reveals wife asked him what Dundee United score was while she was giving birth

Camara says his wife asked him what the score was against Falkirk – while she was giving birth

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11 h. ago Robbie Williams steps out in chunky white specs after claiming fat jabs are ruining his eyesight

ROBBIE Williams looks specs-tacular in glasses weeks after saying he fears fat jabs are ruining his eyesight.  The Rock DJ singer, 51, wore chunky white frames at a London club on Thursday.   Robbie, whose debut solo album was called Life Thru A Lens, was out with wife Ayda Field, 46, and daughter Teddy, 13. She is...

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17 h. ago Florian Wirtz prediction from Sergio Aguero shows what Liverpool should do after loan claim

Florian Wirtz has failed to score in 16 matches for Liverpool since his £116m transfer from Bayer Leverkusen, but Sergio Aguero believes the German will eventually turn his Anfield career around.

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18 h. ago Crocs shoppers can score bestselling clogs for £25 in 50% off Black Friday Amazon sale

'Best price I could find anywhere', said one happy shopper

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18 h. ago Aerosmith secure first ever UK No 1 album more than 50 years after debut record

Rock legends achieved the feat thanks to their collaboration with YungBlud, who called it the cherry on the top of an ‘emotional rollercoaster of a year’

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18 h. ago Aerosmith score first UK number one album with Yungblud collaboration

The record is the second number one album of the year for Yungblud.

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18 h. ago Yungblud and Aerosmith rock their way to UK No1 thanks to their massive gobs

Yungblud says he and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler get on because they both have massive mouths. Their collaboration has hit No1 in the UK and Tyler says working with the Doncaster singer is like looking in the mirror. The recording also helped the legendary singer overcome vocal surgery.

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18 h. ago Turner v Constable: Tate Britain exhibition invokes long history of artistic rivalries

From Michelangelo and Leonardo to Picasso and Matisse, bitter feuds have defined art. But are contemporary artists more collaborative than their renaissance predecessors?“He has been here and fired a gun,” John Constable said of JMW Turner. A shootout between these two titans would make a good scene for in a film of their lives, but in reality all Turner did at the 1832 Royal Academy exhibition was add a splash of red to a seascape, to distract from the Constable canvas beside it.That was by far the most heated moment in what seems to us a struggle on land and sea for supremacy in British art. It’s impossible not to see Tate Britain’s new double header of their work this way. For it is a truth universally acknowledged, to paraphrase their contemporary Jane Austen, that when two great artists live at the same time, they must be bitter and remorseless rivals. But is that really so, and does it help or hinder creativity? Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Walsh takes lead role as England face new test in clash of continental champions

Wiegman has had to rejig defence and captaincy for a Wembley friendly with China that should pose new challenges for LionessesWhen England welcome China to a sold-out Wembley Stadium on Saturday afternoon, it will mark the sixth meeting between two nations who have been on different trajectories in recent years. The marketing has focused on the clash of continental champions – England as the holders of the European Championship and China as the winners of the 2022 Asian Cup – but there has since been a change in fortunes between the two.The widening gap was evident the last time they met, at the 2023 Women’s World Cup, when England put six past the Steel Roses to progress to the last 16. It caught the eye not only because of the score but because of a bold tactical change from Sarina Wiegman – a switch from 4-3-3 to 3-5-2 – to deal with the absence of Keira Walsh. It kicked the Lionesses’ campaign into life and they made the final, while China exited, registering their worst finish ...

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23 h. ago Cocktail of the week: Bar Lina’s tiny fragolino – recipe | The good mixer

A festively fizzy, rosy-red aperitif based on a rustic Italian strawberry liqueur Earlier this year, we launched a range of tiny cocktails in collaboration with drinks writer Tyler Zielinski to reimagine Italian classics in miniature form, all designed to serve as light, pre-dinner tipples. This one’s suitably red, to go with the festive season.Matteo Pesce, head of beverage, with Tyler Zielinski for Bar Lina, London and Manchester Continue reading...

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24 h. ago Add to playlist: Storefront Church’s cinematic baroque pop and the week’s best new tracks

Californian singer-songwriter Lukas Frank is picking up rave reviews for his second album’s epic choruses and lush orchestrationsFrom Los AngelesRecommended if you like John Grant, Scott Walker, Father John MistyUp next A cover of Duran Duran’s The Chauffeur is out now, with another single due in FebruaryAfter several years of perseverance, things are happening for Storefront Church. The audience at this month’s sellout gig at St Pancras Old Church in London included Perfume Genius and members of the Last Dinner Party and the Horrors and their self-released second album, Ink & Oil, is picking up rave reviews. One used the term “emotional flood” to describe the album’s epic, baroque pop, big pianos and drums, sweeping choruses and Travis Warner’s lush, cinematic orchestrations. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Singer Tom Grennan on the Hackney street that broke his heart, Elton John and becoming teetotal

He’s top of the charts, he’s pals with Elton John — the future looks bright for Tom Grennan. But the singer-songwriter takes Craig McLean for a trip down memory lane along the Hackney street that inspired his new album

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28 h. ago HTRK: String of Hearts (Songs of HTRK) review – friends from Liars to Kali Malone rework their noisy gems

(Ghostly International)Sharon Van Etten, Stephen O’Malley, Perila and more transform the duo’s gloomy, sensual songs on an album of covers and remixesHTRK have been making their gloomy, sensual brand of music, at the intersection of electronic pop and noise rock, for 22 years. To mark the milestone comes String of Hearts, a collection of covers and remixes featuring an all-star cast of friends and collaborators, from next-gen underground favourites like Coby Sey to fellow old-school experimentalists Liars. This brilliant, genre-agnostic record allows you to trace the breadth of the Melbourne band’s shapeshifting sound, echoes of which can now be found all over underground and commercial music, without leaning too hard on nostalgia.The record spans HTRK’s early hits right up to their most recent album Rhinestones, a period in which they’ve shifted from a darker, industrial palette to warmer territory. Not that you’d be able to tell here: instrumentals are reshaped by Loraine James’s ...

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29 h. ago London Chess Classic: Abdusattorov, Firouzja and Theodorou score

London Chess Classic: Abdusattorov, Firouzja and Theodorou score  Chess News | ChessBase

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30 h. ago The Vatican has given Rosalía its blessing – are the days of finger

The pop star’s experimental, religious new album has found an unlikely fan in the Vatican, writes Fiona Sturges. Could this signal a new era of papal-pop culture diplomacy?

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