7 h. ago Barristers win right to go without wigs in court after campaigners branded the hairpieces 'culturally insensitive'

Revised guidance from The Bar Council now allows lawyers to ditch their wigs for criminal cases if it is 'uncomfortable, or impractical'.

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20 h. ago Strictly’s Anton Du Beke breaks silence on Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly exit

Anton Du Beke has broken his silence on Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly’s Strictly Come Dancing exit, revealing he is “devastated” following their announcement that they are leaving the show.

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38 h. ago Strictly confirm details of Tess and Claudia’s final show after presenters’ shock departure

The details of Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman’s final appearance on Strictly Come Dancing have been confirmed, after news of the presenters’ shock exit was addressed on spin-off show It Takes Two.

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44 h. ago Oti Mabuse cries live on Loose Women after learning of Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman Strictly exit

Oti Mabuse cried live on Loose Women after learning of Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman’s Strictly Come Dancing exit.

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46 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing: Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman to leave BBC show at the end of this series

Strictly Come Dancing hosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly will leave the show at the end of this series.

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47 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing: Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman to leave Strictly

The pair will leave at the end of the series.

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47 h. ago Watch: Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman announce Strictly Come Dancing exit in emotional video

Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman have announced they are to leave Strictly Come Dancing at the end of this series.

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8 d. ago Sam Fender reveals how he plans to celebrate Mercury Prize 2025 win

Sam Fender has won the Mercury Prize 2025 for his third album, People Watching on Thursday (16 October).

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8 d. ago After years in the music industry, Jessica Winter is forging her own pop path

The star has just released her first music album in her thirties - and has never felt so liberated

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8 d. ago Who Will Win Strictly Come Dancing 2025? Latest odds as George Clarke becomes red hot favourite

The first two dancers have been voted out and the competition is hotting up.

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9 d. ago ‘We keep wine in caves and cathedrals’: an eating and drinking tour of Burgos, Spain

A Norman Foster-designed ‘wine cathedral’, Hobbit-style cellars and a Petra-lookalike church are drawing attention to this tasty corner of the Ribera del Duero in northern Spain‘We can talk about culture, churches, monasteries, whatever, but the main thing here is eating and drinking.” My guide, Loreto Esteban Guijarro, is keen to ensure I have my priorities straight. I’m with Loreto to discover the food and wine culture of Spain’s Burgos province, a high-altitude area ringed by distant mountains. In summer the days are hot, and at night temperatures plummet. To thrive in these extremes, the food, the wine, and even perhaps the people, are robust and straight-talking.I’m staying deep in wine country at the rural Posada de Pradoray, built as a hunting lodge for the Duke of Lerma in 1601. The thick stone walls, dark polished wood and heavy doors leading to simple rooms with vineyard views suggest little has changed in this landscape for centuries. Burgos is part of the Ribera del Duer...

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1 week ago Louder than Bombs: Joachim Trier’s thorniest film might be his best

The director of Sentimental Value and The Worst Person in the World made his English-language debut with this divisive family drama in 2015. It’s worth watching for Isabelle Huppert aloneGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailLong before Joachim Trier made the Oscar-winning The Worst Person in the World and this year’s festival megahit Sentimental Value, there was 2015’s Louder than Bombs: a far stranger, slipperier film worth watching for Isabelle Huppert’s spectral turn alone. She plays a character also called Isabelle, a renowned war photographer whose secrets haunt her family three years after her sudden death.Her teenage son Conrad (Devin Druid) still daydreams in class about the car crash that claimed her life, imagining her final, panicked moments. His brother Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg) and father Gene (Gabriel Byrne) know (and conceal) the truth: that her fateful, split-second swerve was an act of suicide. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Amy Dowden gives surprising dark horse prediction for Strictly Come Dancing 2025

Amy Dowden has revealed who she thinks might be the dark horse of this year’s Strictly Come Dancing competition.

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2 w. ago Claudia Winkleman issues warning to Celebrity Traitor contestants

Celebrity Traitors host Claudia Winkleman has issued a warning to contestants as the famous faces gather around the roundtable for the first time.

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2 w. ago Finding lobster, wine and spectacular coastlines in the Nova Scotia wilderness

Lawrence Goldsmith drinks in the province of Nova Scotia's atmosphere, culture and its moreish wine, checking out such gems as the Domaine de Grand Pre and Tribute Food Wine Fire Restaurant

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3 w. ago 'Broken' Man Utd have had 'winning culture' stripped away under Ruben Amorim

Rene Meulensteen has echoed Wayne Rooney's comments about Manchester United, claiming the club is 'broken' both on and off the field following their defeat to Brentford

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3 w. ago Alleged stalker sent Myleene Klass air pistol ‘as a joke’, court hears

Peter Windsor, 61, is on trial at Birmingham Crown Court after sending Myleene Klass ‘letters and items including fancy dress costumes’.

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3 w. ago Who will win Big Brother 2025? Here are all 12 housemates chances of winning the £100,000 prize

The lastest series of the original reality television show kicked off at the weekend.

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3 w. ago Europe rise above vile American abuse to win the battle of sporting cultures at Ryder Cup

As partisanship at the Ryder Cup spilled over into ugly scenes on Saturday, Europe proved the best way to win is to beat the USA at their own game

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4 w. ago ‘I’ve never driven a car. I can’t cook. I’m a lost cause’: meet Australia’s top quizzers

They study for hours a day. The competitions have zero prize money. So what keeps quiz champions going for glory – and how do they win?Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIssa Schultz has a daily schedule that not many could compete with.“I get up, I make a coffee, I go on the computer and I do quizzes. I take a break for lunch and then get back on the computer for more quizzes,” he says. “It sounds like an illness, and others may diagnose it as that, but I am that obsessed. It’s not an exaggeration to say I treat it as an eight-hour job – a full-time day.” Schultz is Australia’s #1 ranked quizzer, the name for the people who take trivia very seriously. It’s a hobby he’s structured his entire life around. For about six weeks a year, Schultz films the Channel 7 show The Chase Australia, where he serves as one of the quizshow’s “chasers” – the experts whom contestants must topple if they want to take home the prize money (his nickname on the show, fittingly, is The Supernerd). ...

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