59 h. ago Britain is a nation of nosey neighbours with curtain twitchers snooping on WhatsApp

A new study reveals 85% of people follow the latest local dramas on their street in group WhatsApp chats - and the two biggest topics are events in the local area and bin collections

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62 h. ago Britain's Got Talent's Ashleigh and Pudsey star now 13 years after dog act scooped the title

Ashleigh and her talented pup Pudsey won over the nation after winning Britain's Got Talent in 2012, with the pair raking in an impressive fortune after securing the public's vote

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1 week ago Britain's Got Talent fans staggered by Susan Boyle's life since 'remarkable' audition

Susan Boyle captured the nation's heart with her incredible Britain's Got Talent audition in 2009 - and now fans have learnt what she has been up to since then

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2 w. ago Cool Britannia: skeleton stars target Olympic history despite a lack of ice

Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt are favourites for next year’s Winter Games despite the absence of facilitiesPinned to a wall inside the small wooden hut housing Britain’s only skeleton and bobsleigh push-start track is a notice delivering health and safety commands with no hint of irony.Alongside instructions to ensure leaves and other hazards are cleared prior to use is the stipulation that the track must be free of ice. That Britain is the world’s only top sliding nation permanently navigating a lack of frozen facilities betrays the directive’s inadvertent satire. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago BGT child stars who lost to Spellbound leave fans stunned over appearance

The street dancers wowed the nation with their moves on Britain's Got Talent over 15 years ago.

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3 w. ago Britain's Got Talent's Loveable Rogues unrecognisable 13 years later with new jobs

Loveable Rogues won the hearts of the nation when they appeared on Britain's Got Talent in 2012, but their lives went very different ways when they were dropped by Simon Cowell

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3 w. ago I moved to Finland 40 years ago – here’s what life is like in the ‘world’s happiest country’

As Finland is once again branded the cheeriest country, Tim Bird – who swapped Britain for the Nordic nation in the 1980s – shares the reality of life in ‘Happy Land’

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