35 m. ago Paddington crash: Two critical after car crashes following police chase

A driver failed to stop for officers in a marked Met Police vehicle at around 4.20am on Saturday near Westbourne Terrace in Paddington.

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39 m. ago Clever beer trick to stop slugs invading your house this Spring

While slugs are active throughout the year they're particularly a problem in Spring

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58 m. ago The Pitt’s Noah Wyle confirms ‘urban legend’ about surprise connection to Henry Winkler

Wyle recalled growing up good friends with Winkler’s stepson and watching ‘Happy Days’ at their house

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65 m. ago BBC’s biggest series ‘to return’ after final episode left fans ‘deflated’

It’s one of the most talked about British shows of the last 20 years

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87 m. ago Nick Rockett holds off I Am Maximus to win thrilling 2025 Grand National – live reaction

Willie Mullins-trained horse ridden to victory by sonTom Jenkins’s best pictures from AintreeAnd send Simon an email with your thoughtsWilliam Hill Handicap Hurdle (1.20pm)And they’re off Jipcot, always held up in the past, is up there in the very early stages Building Bridges has taken over the lead Dartan and Timmy Tuesday are also prominent Act Of Authority and Double Powerful are at the back no fallers with a circuit to go and not much change in the running order for now but Bill Joyce has gone at the first hurdle in the back straight he’s up and going on riderless Building Bridges has kicked clear with Dartan who is under pressure Timmy Tuesday comes with a challenge Deep Cave comes late and gets there close home.I love that ITV still open up their National day coverage (as the Beeb used to) with the theme music from the 1984 film Champions based on the victory of Bob Champion and Aldaniti in 1981. I still haven’t seen the movie but I found it for a quid last year on DVD. Conti...

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95 m. ago US protests live: Demonstrations planned across US to oppose Trump agenda

More than a thousand events to be held across the country in a show of defiance against Trump’s ‘authoritarian overreach’Several congressional members are expected to make apperances and deliver speeches at the Hands Off protest in Washington DC today.They include Democrats Jamie Raskin and Glenn Ivey of Maryland, Maxwell Frost of Florida, Katherine Clark of Massachussetts and Don Beyer of Virginia, as well as Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.This is a nationwide mobilization to stop the most brazen power grab in modern history. Trump, Musk and their billionaire cronies are orchestrating an all-out assault on our government, our economy and our basic rights – enabled by Congress every step of the way.They want to strip America for parts – shuttering social security offices, firing essential workers, eliminating consumer protections and gutting Medicaid – all to bankroll their billionaire tax scam. They’re handing over our tax dollars, our public services and our democracy to the ultra-rich.I...

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1 hour ago No forgetting my encounter with two giants of the stage | Tim Lewis

Old pals Ewan McGregor and Michael Grandage prepare for their new play, My Master Builder, by chuckling about everything that could go wrong and hasFor today’s Observer New Review I had the not-exactly-onerous assignment of spending an hour with the actor Ewan McGregor and director Michael Grandage, as they prepared to put on a new play, My Master Builder, in London’s West End. The two men go way back, and mostly they were cracking each other up with knockabout old stories – much of which there wasn’t room for in my article. McGregor recalled one of his first roles on stage, as Orlando in As You Like It, and how when Simon Callow – multiple Olivier and Bafta award winner – played the part in 1979, he walked out on stage at the National Theatre only to promptly forget the first line of the play.“If you’re a woman and you’re about to have a baby, everybody tells you nightmare stories about childbirth,” said McGregor. “And when you’re an actor about to do a play, everybody tells you te...

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1 hour ago Floating away: warm tones and vintage details lift the spirits in a grand Parisian apartment

An interior decorator and furniture designer uses colour and fleamarket finds to create an inviting sanctuaryNestled in a classic Haussmannian building in Paris’s 17th Arrondissement, Tiphaine Verdier’s apartment is a feast for the senses. This large duplex, perched on the top two floors, is not just a home but a canvas where colour and creativity collide. With a fearless approach to bold hues, Tiphaine has transformed what was once a blank slate of plain white walls into a theatrical and inviting sanctuary.When Tiphaine first stepped into the apartment, it was a minimalist’s dream – or, as she might put it, a colour enthusiast’s nightmare. “All the walls were just plain white,” she recalls. But Tiphaine, an interior decorator and furniture designer, saw the potential in the apartment’s unique layout. “I was drawn to the fact that it felt like a house in the sky, with a clear separation between the day and night spaces.” Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Pitch Perfect star Adam Devine, 41, was 'told he was dying' a month before his son was born

Pitch Perfect and Isn't It Romantic star Adam Devine has recalled the horrifying moment doctors told him he was dying - but luckily they got it wrong

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2 h. ago ‘We’re not a third world country, we’re England’: anger rises as Birmingham’s bin strike takes toll on locals

With the city’s refuse collectors still on the picket line after four weeks, residents are pointing the finger of blame at the council Suhail Sadiq’s car repair business is thriving and he’s furious about it.The rats are responsible. “The amount of cars we’ve got coming in now with wiring chewed up by rats is unbelievable,” he says. Staff at Heartlands Auto Centre in Birmingham have repaired about 15 cars with chewed battery cables in the past week. The rats are drawn to the warmer cars at night, he says – rats gnaw to keep their teeth a manageable length. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Louise Redknapp 'begged' to leave Strictly Come Dancing and even considered faking injury

Louise Redknapp was runner-up on the 2016 series of Strictly Come Dancing, but just two weeks into the competition she suffered a debilitating crisis of confidence which almost led to her quitting the BBC competition altogether

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2 h. ago Son of Rangers fan Christopher Potter killed in Istanbul leads team out with hero Jack Butland

Rangers stopper Jack Butland was joined by the young son of Rangers fan Christopher Potter who was killed in Istanbul as the teams walked out today.

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2 h. ago Mark Wright in fits of laughter as Olly Murs risks missing radio show for embarrassing reason

Olly Murs was forced to run to the loo moments before his new radio show with best pal Mark Wright went on air - leaving Mark in stitches

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2 h. ago Best sex toys for couples including vibrators, rings, gels and restraints

Because two is a party

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2 h. ago A Minecraft Movie review – Jack Black and Jason Momoa star in seriously cobbled

Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess’s adventure based on the world’s favourite video game feels like one big cash-inIt’s a curious choice of title. A Minecraft Movie implies that this cynical intellectual property-rinsing exercise is one of numerous film adaptations of the enduringly popular sandbox video game. Perhaps there’s an alternative out there, a sharper, smarter, funnier version of a Minecraft movie. One with actual jokes. Or, God forbid, there may even be a worse iteration, although that’s hard to imagine. What becomes clear is that one of the key elements in the game’s popularity – the latitude it affords gamers to create their own experience – is a big stumbling block for any film adaptation of Minecraft.In the absence of a single fixed storyline the screenplay can follow, A Minecraft Movie has a cobbled-together feel, borrowing a device from Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle – and, in Jack Black, a star – and superimposing an all-purpose quest-for-an-artefact structure o...

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2 h. ago BBC’s biggest drama series ‘to return’ after leaving fans ‘deflated’

It’s one of the most talked about British shows of the last 20 years

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2 h. ago Cheapest UK supermarket to do your food shop – and it's not Lidl or Asda

A supermarket has come out on top in the latest weekly basket price comparison, taking it off Lidl, but it's not the only retailer that's seen a price hike this week

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2 h. ago Cheapest UK supermarket to do your food shop – and it's not Lidl or Aldi

A supermarket has come out on top in the latest weekly basket price comparison, taking it off Lidl, but it's not the only retailer that's seen a price hike this week

Economics

3 h. ago 23 brilliant movies that bombed at the box office, from Shawshank Redemption to Children of men

Jacob Stolworthy runs through the films that didn’t get the attention they deserved

Society

3 h. ago Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza medics

Israel says soldiers fired on ‘terrorists’ in ‘suspicious vehicles’ but footage shows clearly marked ambulancesMobile phone footage of the last moments of some of the 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers killed by Israeli forces in an incident in Gaza last month appears to contradict the version of events put forward by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).The almost seven-minute video, which the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said on Saturday was recovered from the phone of Rifat Radwan, one of the men killed, appears to have been filmed from inside a moving vehicle. It shows a red fire engine and clearly marked ambulances driving at night, using headlights and flashing emergency lights. Continue reading...

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