48 h. ago National Guard shooting victim Sarah Backstrom’s father pays heartbreaking tribute: Latest updates

West Virginia Guard member died on Thanksgiving as fellow service member Andrew Wolfe remains in critical condition after DC attack

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3 d. ago 'I partied with Gok Wan all day and you'll never guess what he was doing'

Having long swapped late-night clubbing for more alternative scenes, I finally took the plunge at London’s Ministry of Sound for Gok Wan’s Isolation Nation, where a diverse, multigenerational crowd, bathroom cocktails, and a heartwarming, female-led dancefloor made for an unexpectedly uplifting Saturday

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6 d. ago Giorgia Meloni takes on Italian judges over decision to remove British father's children from 'crumbling ruin' where they live 'off

The family, who gave up the rat race to live a simple life in a woodland cottage found themselves at the heart of a national scandal last week.

Society

6 d. ago Italian government clashes with its own judiciary over decision to remove British father's children from 'crumbling ruin' where they live 'off

The family, who gave up the rat race to live a simple life in a woodland cottage found themselves at the heart of a national scandal last week.

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9 d. ago ‘We start them early’: the small Swedish club that produced Gyökeres, Bergvall and Kulusevski

Brommapojkarna will have a close eye on Arsenal’s clash with Spurs as their talent factory continues to thrive“We’re building Swedish youth.” The sign adorning the main stand at Brommapojkarna is simple, authoritative and accurate. Beneath it, in the lashing rain, the men’s side are training. But while their top-tier status is important, that is far from the primary focus.Twenty-four hours before the men’s game, BP’s 5,000-capacity Grimsta IP stadium hosted a celebration of the under-19s, who secured a first national title since 2008. Youth development is at the heart of the club and on Sunday the fruits of Vällingby, a suburb in west Stockholm, will be consumed 1,100 miles away in north London. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Alan Carr’s Celebrity Traitors win among moments captured in Beano review of 2025

Carr joined by Katy Perry, Taylor Swift in 2025’s Beanofy Unwrapped

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1 week ago I'm A Celeb's Kelly Brook 'fattened up with sausage rolls' ahead of shower scene

I'm A Celebrity star Kelly Brook, who has already won the hearts of the nation, has been eating a rather unconventional diet ahead of her time in the Australian jungle

Culture

2 w. ago Alan Carr's Madame Tussauds waxwork gets a Celebrity Traitors makeover after the comedian's epic victory

Alan Carr's won the hearts of the nation once more after his emotional, epic and albeit surprising victory during the thrilling finale of Celebrity Traitors.

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2 w. ago SARAH VINE: Unless the BBC puts its house in order, future generations will never know how it feels to have a trusted broadcaster at the heart of our national life

Serious as this situation at the BBC is, there is also an unmistakable element of farce to it. If you've ever watched the brilliant W1A, starring Hugh Bonneville, you will know exactly what I mean.

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2 w. ago Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith

The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced prioritiesYou know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little isl...

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3 w. ago Amid squabbles, bombast and competing interests, what can Cop30 achieve?

Climate summit in Brazil needs to find way to stop global heating accelerating amid stark divisions“It broke my heart.” Surangel Whipps, president of the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, was sitting in the front row of the UN’s general assembly in New York when Donald Trump made a long and rambling speech, his first to the UN since his re-election, on 23 September.Whipps was prepared for fury and bombast from the US president, but what followed was shocking. Trump’s rant on the climate crisis – a “green scam”, “the greatest con job ever perpetrated”, “predictions made by stupid people” – was an unprecedented attack on science and global action from a major world leader. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago King Charles appears moved during heartfelt rendition of the national anthem at Festival of Remembrance

More than 5,000 people sang the national anthem in the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday night to mark 80 years since the end of the Second World War. The monarch was then treated to three cheers.

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3 w. ago Celebrity Traitors' Jonathan Ross reveals Alan Carr moment that didn't air saying 'it was horrible'

Jonathan Ross was one of the three Traitors in the first ever cele version of the BBC show alongside winner Alan Carr and singer Cat Burns and has opened up on a moment that didn't air

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3 w. ago Celebrity Traitors star exposes unseen moment that changed the course of the final

The Celebrity Traitors final was nail-biting to the end as millions tuned in to see fantastic Traitor Alan Carr took home the prize pot after fooling David Olusoga and Nick Mohammed

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3 w. ago At last, a great institution filled with trusted public figures. Shame the Traitors don’t run Britainn | Marina Hyde

The Celebrity Traitors drew to a magnificent close this week – and proved that these lying double-crossers are of a far finer calibre than our MPsThis article contains spoilers about the final episode of The Celebrity TraitorsThe Celebrity Traitors final was so good that the TV moment of the year (Nick revealing he’d written Joe’s name on his slate) only held its crown for six minutes before the actual TV moment of the year (Alan revealing he’d been a traitor all along) completely stole it. Epic congratulations to Alan, a full-spectrum entertainment booking, who from the first minutes of this season catapulted himself to the status of high-value national treasure, while Joe Marler also leapfrogged 27 stardom categories in the public imagination and should now be made Duke of York. And look, it wasn’t all bad for historian and Guardian Scott Trust board member David Olusoga. Thanks to the deputy PM and justice secretary, he was only the second most spectacularly wrong David of the we...

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3 w. ago At last, a great institution filled with trusted public figures. Shame the Traitors don’t run Britain | Marina Hyde

The Celebrity Traitors drew to a magnificent close this week – and proved that these lying double-crossers are of a far finer calibre than our MPsThis article contains spoilers about the final episode of The Celebrity TraitorsThe Celebrity Traitors final was so good that the TV moment of the year (Nick revealing he’d written Joe’s name on his slate) only held its crown for six minutes before the actual TV moment of the year (Alan revealing he’d been a traitor all along) completely stole it. Epic congratulations to Alan, a full-spectrum entertainment booking, who from the first minutes of this season catapulted himself to the status of high-value national treasure, while Joe Marler also leapfrogged 27 stardom categories in the public imagination and should now be made Duke of York. And look, it wasn’t all bad for historian and Guardian Scott Trust board member David Olusoga. Thanks to the deputy PM and justice secretary, he was only the second most spectacularly wrong David of the we...

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3 w. ago Celebrity Traitors winner Alan Carr wins the hearts of the nation after moving on from turbulent marriage, controversial Justin Lee Collins friendship and 'awful' past comments

When Alan was crowned the winner of Celebrity Traitors on Thursday night, he worried he'd be dubbed the 'most hated man in Britain'. Yet the opposite is now true.

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3 w. ago Alan Carr's most legendary Celebrity Traitors moments: From murders in plain sight to withering swipes and roundtable trickery, how chatty man captured the nation's hearts all over again

Alan Carr was announced as the winner of the first ever celebrity series of The Traitors on Thursday night after managing to fool the Faithful until the bitter end.

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3 w. ago Alan Carr issued warning after breaking down in tears during Celebrity Traitors final

Comedian Alan Carr was consoled by co-stars Nick Mohammed and David Olusoga during an emotional moment after winning the first series of Celebrity Traitors

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3 w. ago Jonathan Ross reveals the 'horrible' moment that 'took a toll' on Celebrity Traitors champ Alan Carr and left him 'with his head in his hands'

The 64-year-old appeared on the ITV show to chat to former Traitors co-star Kate Garraway , 58, and her co-host Adil Ray , 51, about the epic series which wrapped up on Thursday.

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