34 m. ago James Haskell 'SPLITS from Big Brother star Sara McLean' just days after going public at Cheltenham Festival

The rugby player, 39, was seen holding hands with the glamorous reality starlet, who boasts a string of famous exes, as they attended the sports event just 48 hours ago.

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50 m. ago North Sea collision: Russian container ship captain charged with manslaughter

Vladimir Motin was in charge of the Solong when it hit a tanker off East Yorkshire coast, leaving one man deadThe master of the container ship the Solong, which crashed into another vessel in the North Sea, has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter.Vladimir Motin, 59, a Russian national, was in charge of the ship when it collided with a tanker carrying jet fuel on Monday about 12 miles (19km) off the East Yorkshire coast, leaving one man dead. Continue reading...

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60 m. ago Amanda Holden and Alan Carr's beautifully restored Spanish house from BBC show is now up for sale

The duo transformed the abandoned home for the BBC One programme Amanda and Alan’s Spanish Job - and it's now available to buy for €245,000

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99 m. ago Six Nations judgment day has enough riding on it to be an all

A tournament that has produced tries galore reaches its glorious climax on Super Saturday with England and Ireland hot on the heels of favourites FranceThe best Six Nations campaigns tick two crucial boxes. The first is a consistent sense of jeopardy from start to finish and the second is a level of entertainment that elevates the tournament into the mainstream consciousness. When both occur simultaneously, as they have done this year, the championship’s final round ranks among the most gripping days in modern team sport.This particular “Super Saturday” certainly has all the necessary spicy ingredients, starting with the prospect of France’s second title since 2010 if they can beat Scotland in Paris. A bonus-point win for England over Wales in Cardiff, though, could yet be enough to sneak the trophy in the event of a breathless Scotland win. Which, from a Scottish perspective, looms as the ultimate catch-22 scenario. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago North Sea collision: master of Solong container ship charged with manslaughter

Russian national Vladimir Motin was in charge of ship that collided with tanker carrying jet fuel, leaving one man presumed deadThe master of the container ship the Solong, which crashed into another vessel in the North Sea, has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter.Vladimir Motin, 59, a Russian national, was in charge of the ship when it collided with a tanker carrying jet fuel on Monday about 12 miles (19km) off the East Yorkshire coast, leaving one man presumed dead. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Why does WWE Smackdown have a special start time tonight? UK live stream and confirmed match card

One huge championship match has been announced as Friday Night Smackdown continues on Netflix

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2 h. ago Judge formally sentences Adnan Syed to time served in Serial murder case

Syed, convicted of 1999 murder and jailed for life, maintains innocence in long-running case of legal twists and turnsA Maryland judge has formally sentenced Adnan Syed to the time he has already served in prison, appearing to finally bring to a close a long-running case with numerous legal twists and turns that received worldwide attention from the true-crime podcast Serial.Judge Jennifer Schiffer had already decided that Syed would remain free in a recent written ruling, even though his conviction in the murder of his ex-girlfriend in 1999 when they were in high school still stands. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Blockers, checkers, bats and chainsaws: don’t talk like Musk, Starmer is warned

PM has been urged to ‘get a grip’ on messaging after railing against the ‘flabby’ state and the civil service’s ‘tepid bath’Keir Starmer has been warned against adopting the language of Elon Musk after railing against “blockers and checkers” and the “flabby” civil service this week.Gus O’Donnell, the former cabinet secretary, was one of those urging the prime minister to “get a grip” on his messaging, telling the Institute for Government podcast: “My God, he has mishandled the communications on this terribly.” Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Rory McIlroy relishing tougher test as storms head for Players Championship

Northern Irishman two off lead after improved drivingTommy Fleetwood in contention with second-round 66It looks as if the world’s best golfers should have enjoyed this while it lasted. If forecasted gusts of up to 30mph land at Sawgrass on Saturday, this Players Championship will descend into a war of attrition. Day four carries a 70% chance of storms. The PGA Tour’s marquee event could be about to get grisly.There was a time in the dim and distant past when Rory McIlroy shied away from playing in poor conditions. How things have changed. The Northern Irishman now relishes the battle. McIlroy’s second round of 68 placed him just two off the lead, held by Min Woo Lee and Akshay Bhatia. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Canada ‘will never be part of the US’, says new PM Mark Carney amid trade war

Former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor sworn in and expected to call election soonMark Carney has said Canada will never be part of the US, after being sworn in as the country’s 24th prime minister in a sudden rise to power.“We will never, in any shape or form, be part of the US,” the former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England told a crowd outside Rideau Hall in Ottawa, rejecting Donald Trump’s annexation threats. “We are very fundamentally a different country.” Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Wales v England exact score prediction as torrid run tipped to end

Wales take on England in their final Six Nations match of 2025.

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3 h. ago The new laws coming in April 2025 including wage increase and car tax changes

People earning the National Living Wage or National Minimum Wage will see their pay increase from April 2025

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3 h. ago Tell us: are finances shared in your relationship, and if not, why not?

We’d like to hear from people in a relationship how they handle personal finances with their partner, and how their approach is workingFor many couples, shared finances are no longer the default model – even when living together or combining other assets.Coming to a mutual agreement about finances both parties are happy with is however important in a relationship, and with the cost of living rising, many couples report that financial pressures have put a strain on their relationship. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Horrifying moment crocodile emerges from river with woman in its jaws as friends scream

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT - Disturbing footage filmed in Indonesia shows a crocodile holding the body of a woman in its mouth after dragging her underwater and killing her

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3 h. ago Chelsea agree to sign Manchester United target Geovany Quenda from Sporting

Deal for 17-year-old winger worth about £42mChelsea also want Dario Essugo from SportingChelsea have flown under the radar to agree a shock deal worth about €50m (£42.1m) for the Sporting winger Geovany Quenda, who was a target for Manchester United.The 17-year-old attacker played for Ruben Amorim at Sporting and was widely expected to link up with his former manager at Old Trafford. But Chelsea have swooped in, with sources saying Quenda will move to Stamford Bridge in the summer of 2026. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago The England job drives people mad but Thomas Tuchel has shot to make it work

New manager is a supremely bright anglophile and logical choice in the win-things-now world of international footballWell, it didn’t feel like a birthright sale or a betrayal of Albion. Maybe if you squinted a bit, or just heard the vowel sounds. Perhaps if you’ve already performed some kind of ad hoc self-lobotomy using a chisel made from cheddar cheese, pork pie meat and fear. Maybe then, maybe then.But also perhaps not, because Thomas Tuchel’s first squad conference was in the event a highly convincing production, expertly phrased, and hitting just the right note of hope versus realism. So yeah. Good luck with that. How far can we go with this? Because as ever the dynamic remains the same, an appointment to this strange semi-sporting role that will tell us a great deal more about England than the latest smiling man in front of the boards covered in adverts. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Cheltenham festival: Inothewayurthinkin denies Galopin Des Champs in Gold Cup – as it happened

Galopin Des Champs denied hat-trick as big race continues Festival’s pattern of feature races favourites slipping up1.20 Triumph Hurdle oddsOdds via OddscheckerEast India Dock 6/4Lulamba 5/2Hello Neighbour 5/1Lady Vega Allen 16/1Blue Lemons 16/1Mondo Man 22/1Gibbs Island 25/1Sainte Lucie 50/1Larzac 50/1Willy De Houelle 50/1Bar 66/1 – 17 RunnersEast India Dock has taken 39% of all bets placed through our platform this morning with his odds cut from 2/1 to 6/4.Nicky Henderson’s Lulamba has gone the other way, from 2/1 to 5/2.Seven of the past 10 winners of this race have been French-bred horses. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Nancy Pelosi calls Republican funding bill ‘a devastating assault’ on working families as Schumer urges Democratic backing – live

At least eight Senate Democrats need to vote with Republicans to advance bill ahead of midnight deadline to fund governmentDemocrats at odds over Republican bill to fund government operationsDanish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen rejected on Friday president Donald Trump’s latest remarks about annexing Greenland, saying the Danish autonomous island could not be taken over by another country.“If you look at the Nato treaty, the UN charter or international law, Greenland is not open to annexation,” he told reporters, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Inothewayurthinkin claims Gold Cup to deny Galopin Des Champs treble

Hot favourite suffers shock defeat to late entryWinner could be put forward for Grand NationalAs one tilt at racing immortality came up short, another even more elusive achievement suddenly came into sharp focus as ­Inothewayurthinkin, in the famous green and gold colours of JP McManus, powered away from Galopin Des Champs, the defending two-time champion, to win the ­Cheltenham Gold Cup by six lengths.There are still just four horses with three Gold Cup victories to their name, and there is still just one – Golden Miller, who features on both lists – who has won the Gold Cup and the Grand National in the same season, 91 years ago in 1934. Within a month, though, there could be two, if McManus and Gavin Cromwell, Inothewayurthinkin’s trainer, decide that the seven-year-old has come out of Friday’s race well enough to take his place in the 34-strong field at Aintree on 5 April. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Primordial surf: ‘microlightning’ in mist may have sparked life on Earth, study finds

Tiny lightning streaks in fine spray can power chemical reactions that generate molecules for life, scientists sayCharles Darwin thought it started in a warm pond. Others point to comets that ploughed into Earth. And some suspect a bolt from the blue, a lightning strike into the ocean.How life started on Earth may forever be a mystery, but new research proposes a radical idea: that crashing waves and waterfalls may have kicked off the process by throwing up mists of water. Continue reading...

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