3 h. ago 'Only Dave and I knew how much pain he was hiding as he filmed Hairy Bikers one last time...' Wife LILI MYERS recalls the last weeks of her beloved husband's cancer battle

I have still not watched the final series of The Hairy Bikers. I'm not sure I could bear it. Dave, my beloved husband, was far more poorly than he let on publicly at that point.

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5 h. ago Brit who visited Canada says he 'can't get over' one major difference

A British man who travelled to Canada to see his wife for the first time was left amazed by the size of the houses in the Toronto area - but many locals were quick to tell him 'the truth'

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30 h. ago Celebrated Alasdair Gray artworks go on display for first time at Scottish museum

Artworks by Alasdair Gray are on show for the first time at Kelvingrove, including pieces gifted in memory of his late wife and the original art for Poor Things

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32 h. ago ‘We’d hold hands and cry’: Hairy Bikers star Dave Myers’ wife opens up about his final months for the first time

Myers’ widow is releasing a book that recounts her relationship with the adored BBC star

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49 h. ago BORIS JOHNSON: Starmer's leading the most abject and craven British government of the past 100 years. They are so weak they make Neville Chamberlain look positively robust

As they pounded the Iranian nuclear ­facilities yesterday, the Israelis were finally doing what so many Western leaders had expected they would do for years, if not decades.

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51 h. ago Rant about trans children and Boris Johnson betrays warped mind of radicalised young man who tried to kill police officers

Police station attacker Alexander Dighton gave an insight into his twisted journey to radicalisation as he spoke in the Old Bailey

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52 h. ago Hollywood golden couple who played husband and wife on sitcom are seen for first time in years... who are these screen icons?

A Hollywood golden couple who haven't been pictured in six years looked as loved-up as ever during a very rare public outing to a Pilates class.

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55 h. ago Man who attacked officers outside police station had been referred to Prevent

Andrew Dighton had been referred to the Prevent anti-terrorism programme a year before his attack on officers in Talbot Green in South Wales.

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5 d. ago Jamie Laing admits 'tricky time' as he says trying for baby with wife Sophie Habboo 'wasn't sexy'

The BBC Radio 1 star and wife Sophie announced they are expecting their first child earlier this month

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5 d. ago Jamie Laing thought he'd have to leave Sophie Habboo after pregnancy discovery

The BBC Radio 1 host recently announced the joyous news that he's to become a first-time parent with wife Sophie

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9 d. ago ‘Lots of bumps in the road’: Keir Starmer faces testing month before one

From spending review to China audit to assisted dying vote, June’s events have potential to lift or darken Labour moodAs Keir Starmer approaches his first anniversary in Downing Street, there will be several things he wishes he had done differently. But before he can contemplate that July milestone, he faces a busy month strewn with political bear traps.June has proven a difficult time for successive prime ministers: Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak all had to contend with deeply unhappy parliamentary parties reeling from heavy local and European election losses. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Why is defence such a hard sell? The same reason Starmer is struggling in the polls | Martin Kettle

Decades of failures have left liberal democratic governments unable to command public confidence when it really mattersDefence reviews and foreign policy resets seem to turn up almost as often as the Sussexes’ lifestyle brand relaunches these days. Labour’s strategic defence review this week comes less than two years after the Conservatives’ hardly less detailed defence white paper in July 2023, which in turn was a “refresh” of Boris Johnson’s ambitious integrated review of defence and foreign policy of March 2021. By this measure, it must be doubtful if, come the 2030s, analysts will look back on Keir Starmer and John Healey’s review and say it broke the mould.The Labour government was entitled to try to put its own stamp on defence policy, of course, and its review team of George Robertson, Richard Barrons and Fiona Hill did a good, reasonably independent job. Yet this 2020s pattern of repeated strategic adaptation and refocus feels like the new normal now. It is also true that gr...

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1 week ago The Guardian view on Labour’s investment plans: sugaring the bitter pill of austerity | Editorial

The chancellor is right to be planning for the long term, but voters won’t be patient if change isn’t felt soonInequality between British regions is not a new problem and Rachel Reeves is not the first chancellor to want to close the gap. In 2014, George Osborne promised a “northern powerhouse” to rival the dominance of London and the south-east. He pledged devolution and investment in infrastructure to connect northern cities, to unlock productivity and growth.Since then, Britain’s economy has suffered multiple shocks, some external (the pandemic, inflation stoked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine), others self-inflicted (Brexit, Liz Truss’s mini-budget). Each time, the damage was more severe in places already falling behind. Boris Johnson claimed levelling up as his defining purpose. Rishi Sunak let the ambition slide. Now it is being revived by a Labour chancellor. In a speech announcing transport investments on Wednesday, Ms Reeves promised a “renewal of Britain”, with prosperity ...

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2 w. ago Covid PPE left gathering dust by Tory failings cost taxpayer £762million

Boris Johnson's Government panic ordered mountains of protective kit as the pandemic took hold, which was piled up in shipping containers as storage facilities were overwhelmed

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2 w. ago Rory McIlroy's new UK mansion has footballers, oligarchs and Sultan of Brunei as neighbours

Rory McIlroy is set to move his family from Florida to the UK next month, with the five-time major champion and his wife Erica Stoll having spent millions on renovations to their Surrey mansion

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2 w. ago BORIS JOHNSON: Like an alcoholic reaching for the bottle, Labour are addicted to a greedy gulp of the old tax and spend

Watching the Labour Government trying to manage the UK economy is like watching an alcoholic trying to deal with a lifetime of addiction.

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2 w. ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Time To Say Goodbye? Andrea Bocelli's wife cuts management ties

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Bocelli - who has been garlanded with innumerable awards, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - was managed by Quest for 'many years'.

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2 w. ago Prime Minister Farage? He’s serious about that – it’s time the country was too | Gaby Hinsliff

His tax-and-spending maths may be bonkers, but while Labour dithers, the Reform leader knows just what his voters wantIf Nigel Farage has a secret weapon, it is his seeming refusal to take things seriously.His habit of repairing to the pub at any opportunity – though in private, he’s said to barely drink now – and the cheerfully unabashed amateurishness of his operation have long made other politicians look stuffy by comparison. But the chaos is also, as it was for Boris Johnson, a means of defence.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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2 w. ago It's Nigel Cabbage! Reform's Nigel Farage tipped to become the next Lettuce Liz Truss

Everyone remember Liz Truss, or, the answer to a pub quiz question in a decade's time of 'who was the Prime Minister between Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak'... well, she's got a successor

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2 w. ago Stephen Miller’s wife leaves the White House to work for Elon Musk ‘full time’

Kate Miller was working as an adviser for Elon Musk at the Department of Government Efficiency

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