54 m. ago BBC Saturday Kitchen chaos after Matt Tebbutt’s knife injury as crew rush in to help

Saturday Kitchen presenter Matt Tebbutt was left bleeding live on air after he cut himself with a knife

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55 m. ago Ukraine cannot win against Russia, warns top British army chief

Field Marshal Lord Richards tells The Independent’s Sam Kiley that Ukraine has been given false hope by its Western allies and cannot triumph against Russia unless Nato forces join fight

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59 m. ago Man seeking asylum in Canada trapped at US Ice facility after he says he crossed border by mistake

Canada isn’t helping to repatriate refugee applicant Mahin Shahriar, a 28-year-old Bangladeshi man, his lawyer saysA refugee applicant living in Canada is trapped at a US immigration detention facility after he says he mistakenly crossed the border, but his lawyer says Canada isn’t helping to bring him back.Mahin Shahriar, 28, who came to Canada from Bangladesh in 2019, told the Canadian Press he accepted an invitation from a “friend” to visit a property near Montreal, which he now suspects was part of a broader human trafficking operation. Continue reading...

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59 m. ago Gaza’s children needed a ceasefire – now they desperately need the aid that will keep them alive | Alison Griffin

The youngest and most vulnerable have suffered extreme mental and physical trauma. We can help – but we must be granted immediate accessAlison Griffin is head of conflict and humanitarian campaigns at Save the Children UKIn the last few days, we have seen celebrations alongside cautious optimism about a future for Gaza without bombs and bullets. This much needed pause in hostilities is providing children with the chance to sleep without the fear of drones above their heads, airstrikes on nearby buildings or fires breaking out in their tents. Families in Gaza are slowly returning to their neighbourhoods and trying to salvage what they can of their lives from the rubble.But crucially, what they are still not currently getting is full and sustainable access to aid supplies and vital services. This is about fundamental basic rights for children in the occupied Palestinian territory, which we have been demanding and advocating for since 1953.Alison Griffin is head of conflict and humanit...

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71 m. ago Stictly's Chris McCausland says he wasn't 'fake' and 'always suffered' from one thing

Comedian Chris McCausland has spoken about the one thing he 'always suffered' from before starring in Stictly Come Dancing and how the show helped unlock something in him

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1 hour ago Afghanistan and Pakistan to hold peace talks in Doha after airstrikes kill cricketers

Kabul and Islamabad seek to defuse border conflict after latest Pakistani strikes kill at least 10 Afghan civilians

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1 hour ago French customs reject British shellfish shipments after UK ‘reset’ deal with EU

One of the largest mussel exporters in Britain lose £150,000 after three lorries were prevented from entering the EU One of Britain’s largest mussel exporters has suffered a £150,000 loss, after three of its shipments to the EU were rejected in recent weeks by French customs.Family-run business Offshore Shellfish, based in Devon, has continued exporting blue mussels to its European customers since Brexit, despite the administrative burden and onerous paperwork requirements. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Netflix fans 'obsessed' with 'both hilarious and devastating' new series

The story is set in the 1990s and adapted from memoir The Pink Marine by a former sergeant, Greg Cope White, who both helped wrote and produce the series.

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3 h. ago US podcaster who helped convict ‘Queen of the Con’ disappointed at short sentence

Johnathan Walton, who was a victim of Marianne ‘Mair’ Smyth, had helped UK authorities track her downA US podcaster and author who helped UK authorities convict a woman derisively known as the “Queen of the Con” of defrauding a group of Northern Irish mortgage advice customers has expressed disappointment in her being sentenced on Friday to only four years in prison.“She scams or tries to scam everyone she meets, and she will never change,” Johnathan Walton said in a statement after Marianne “Mair” Smyth’s sentencing closed the books on a transatlantic case against her. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Best jewellery advent calendars for 2025, as chosen by a shopping expert

From Astrid & Miyu to Bohomoon, there are a number of lovely jewellery advent calendars to help us see in the Christmas season

Economics

4 h. ago Aldi brings back £9.99 item that helps keep your home warm all winter

Aldi's new range of home and heating essential are back in stock and are available in stores from October 23

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4 h. ago Gordon Ramsay savages James Martin in expletive rant about Strictly Come Dancing

James Martin's fellow chef Gordon Ramsay couldn't help make a cheeky comment about him, as he admitted to turning down Strictly Come Dancing on multiple occasions

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4 h. ago Doctor says adding key foods to your diet can help relieve menopause symptoms

Dr Martin Kinsella is known as the Hormone Doctor as he works to improve the quality of life for men and women. He says adding some foods to your diet could relieve menopause symptoms

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4 h. ago The exact products you need to take ten years off your face: You's beauty editor ROSIE GREEN reveals the secrets behind this 90

Rosie Green helps YOU readers rediscover their hair and make-up mojo

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4 h. ago Microplastics are linked to falling sperm counts and fertility issues

They're in everything, from our water to our curtains to our kitchen utensils. But, says Lucy Siegle, while microplastics are impossible to avoid, we can limit our exposure

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4 h. ago Premier League’s search for young talent has left the market overheated and failing

Brexit and PSR are contributing to a spike in the fees and wages offered by big clubs for teenagers, but is this stockpiling really raising standards?The discussion during a meeting of Premier League sporting directors this year turned to academies and the amount of money spent on homegrown teenagers. The market for players as young as 14 has turned wild, according to industry figures.“Some wages are astronomical,” one agent says. A sporting director at a top-flight club struggling to keep their best youngsters away from the richest teams in England says: “It’s a nightmare. We have to offer 14-year-olds scholarship contracts just to protect ourselves.” Continue reading...

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5 h. ago My cultural awakening: ‘The Specials helped me to stop fixating on death’

After several people close to me died I became obsessed with fitness and gripped by panic attacks. But then a ska cover taught me life doesn’t have to be serious all the timeMy anxious disposition means I think about death a lot. But a cluster of people I loved dying in 2023, and most of them unexpectedly and within a few months of each other, was enough to shake my nervous system up pretty significantly. Five funerals is too many. The first was my nan: she was the family matriarch. The oldest person in the family, so there was a level of acceptance among the sadness. But soon after it was her son, and then her granddaughter (my cousin). The latter two were shocks, completely upending my nervous system, one compounding the other. From there, two more followed. Death was all around. It wasn’t just a part of life by that point – it was something to expect soon and often.At first I seemed fine. Despite concerned friends and partners asking if I was hiding anything, ...

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5 h. ago Nobody Wants This: we can’t get enough of Kristen Bell and Adam Brody’s heartstopping treat of a show

The millennial crowd-pleasers return with a second helping of their sizzling romcom and it’s just as much of a pleasure. We already know exactly which spin-off we want too!For a while, it seemed as if the romcom as an art form died and had been replaced by Marvel sequels and issue-led dramedies. Rachel and Ross were a distant memory (and not just because it was 20 years ago). Luckily, the genre – and our collective broken hearts – has been given CPR by a flurry of new releases. Few have been more affecting than Nobody Wants This (Netflix, from Thursday 23 October), the stomach-flipping story of rabbi Noah and relationship podcaster Joanne. When the first series appeared on Netflix last year, the success was somewhat unexpected. With the streaming giant focused on content viewers could watch after a lobotomy, few expected a mega hit that would create a genuine emotional connection. Then we met Noah (millennial nostalgia-fix Adam Brody) and Joanne (Kristen Bell) and the combination of...

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5 h. ago Government shares major update on pubs and breweries as thousands complain of closures

A petition urged the Government to 'review ways' it could help support the hospitality industry and prevent pub closures

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6 h. ago 'I wanted to leave Arsenal after just three months – I begged my agent to help me move'

Willian has enjoyed several Premier League stints across the years, most notably swapping Chelsea for Arsenal in a controversial transfer he quickly came to regret

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