38 m. ago Love Island star reveals he is running for Reform in shock career change

Controversial Love Island contestant Ollie Williams has revealed he is running to be a Reform UK councillor in the May elections in a shock new career move

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55 m. ago Date set for every home in England to get up to 5 recycling bins in new plan

The Govermnent today said the recycling scheme will collect food waste weekly, plastics, paper, green waste and 'plastic film'

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60 m. ago Social media is awash with ‘heteropessimism’. Do young women really think so poorly of men? | Rachel Connolly

The cliche of the loutish, emotionally inadequate boyfriend is everywhere. The truth is more complicatedHow is the ideal heterosexual girlfriend supposed to behave? This played on my mind after I watched Companion, a film about a loutish millennial man named Josh with a robot girlfriend named Iris. Iris was designed to be the perfect girlfriend, and so she regards Josh with total devotion and admiration, and prioritises their relationship above all else. She has a head full of fake memories, such as the one of the day they met, when they were both in the same supermarket and he clumsily upended a display of oranges, sending them rolling across the floor. This caught her attention. She has been programmed to regard this as the best day of her life.Like so many things you watch and read now, Companion is intended to reflect a familiar trope back at the viewer in an exaggerated but unchallenging fashion. It’s a pantomimed version of a wildly imbalanced heterosexual relationship, a port...

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75 m. ago Today's rugby news as shock World Cup plan emerges that would see Six Nations moved

The latest headlines from Wales and around the world

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87 m. ago Erling Haaland injury update as Man City star leaves stadium on crutches

Manchester City striker Erling Haaland was forced off in Sunday's FA Cup quarter-final triumph after Bournemouth and was seen wearing a protective boot later in the evening

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2 h. ago Living Together review – how Austrians teach immigrants to find their place in society

New arrivals sit in drab spaces and are learn how to fit in, in a film that quietly addresses the costs of integration to minority groupsThomas Fürhapter’s documentary sheds light on the challenges of adjusting to a new culture as it follows a series of “integration classes” offered to immigrants in Vienna. The film opens in the nondescript corridors of an administrative building, which lead into sun-filled but impersonal meeting rooms where these sessions take place. As the participants discuss their worries and uncertainties, these colourless spaces transform into sites of passion and community.Conducted in multiple languages, the seminars grapple with culturally specific issues faced by different minority groups. Topics of discussion range from Austrian ways of greeting, to more serious concerns such as racism and domestic abuse. In talking about the present and the future, people also reveal pieces of their past: some moved to Austria for love, others fled the horrors of war. De...

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2 h. ago Tottenham injury update: Lucas Bergvall, Dejan Kulusevski and Kevin Danso latest return dates

Spurs return to action against Chelsea as massive Europa League quarter-final tie against Eintracht Frankfurt looms large

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2 h. ago A new start after 60: I was never a great swimmer – but I took up diving and now somersault into the pool

After moving to a new city, Antonia Murphy was captivated by the local diving facilities. Now 68, she can launch herself off a 7.5-metre platformAntonia Murphy has always loved water. It can be warm or icy, wild or maintained in a municipal facility. Although “not a great swimmer”, she is a confident one. So when she moved to Edinburgh two years ago, she promptly checked out the public leisure centre. She was captivated by the alluring, deep blue of the diving pool. “I thought: ‘This is unbelievable.’ I felt seduced,” she says.She had “larked around” as a child, but never learned to dive, so she went along to the Royal Commonwealth’s public session. “This bloke was standing there. We got chatting.” He told her about coaching sessions – and Murphy, then 66, booked a taster class. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Apocalypse constantly: The perverse reasons we love to watch ourselves die on screen

From ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ and ‘Planet of the Apes’ to ‘Deep Impact’ and ‘Don’t Look Up’, nothing seems to bring audiences together faster than a glimpse at the end of the world. As Tilda Swinton sings through the apocalypse in her new film, Xan Brooks dives into cinema’s most curious lineage

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3 h. ago Andy Halliday baffled as Aberdeen 'scissor motion' dodges red card to leave Motherwell star fuming at VAR

The midfielder insisted he was lucky because he was caught with a scissor movement which could have been a sore one if leg planted

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4 h. ago Manchester United have Sekou Kone dilemma after a stunning goal for the academy

Man Utd signed Sekou Kone last summer and the young midfielder has spent this season playing for the Under-21s.

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4 h. ago Forgotten Jason Statham action film with Robert De Niro is airing on TV tonight as new movie wins box

The UK action star is one of the nation's most successful actors

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5 h. ago Karoline Leavitt set to make major change to White House press briefings that will leave liberal media furious

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is at the center of the move which critics say targets legacy media in favor of pro-Trump or digital-first outlets.

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5 h. ago Snow White suffers steep fall at the box office as A Working Man clinches the top spot with $15M opening

The controversial Disney film, which is a live-animated remaking of the original 1937 cartoon classic, grossed just $14.2M at the box office - a 66% decline from it's previous weekend.

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6 h. ago Greenland skewers Donald Trump with brutal rebuke at his plans for US to take control

Donald Trump has long asserted the US will take control of Greenland and, on Saturday, insisted the move would help boost international security - but the island territory is furious

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7 h. ago Oliver Glasner shuts down FA Cup theory after guiding Crystal Palace to semi

Goals from Eberechi Eze, Ismaila Sarr and Eddie Nketiah fired Crystal Palace to a 3-0 victory in the FA Cup quarter-finals over Fulham at Craven Cottage

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7 h. ago Viola Davis admits she's still haunted by big regret over Chadwick Boseman five years after his death

Viola Davis plays an ass kicking President of the United States in her new film G20. During an interview with The Times promoting the film she took a walk down memory lane.

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7 h. ago Mother claims she was 'treated like a US school shooter' after blazer row sends classrooms into lockdown

Police stormed Harris Academy in Wimbledon, southwest London, after a pupil called her mother after being 'aggressively screamed at' and 'forced' into her undersized jacket by a teacher.

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7 h. ago James Bond should not be a woman due to franchise’s ‘profound sexism’, says Helen Mirren

Actor says she is opposed to the possibility of a female 007 and that cinema should focus on telling stories of ‘extraordinary’ real female spiesHelen Mirren has said that James Bond should never be played by a woman, as the spy franchise is “born out of profound sexism”.The future of 007 is currently up in the air, after Amazon MGM Studios struck a $1bn (£770m) deal for creative control over the character with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, the British-American heirs to the film producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli and longtime stewards of the Bond films. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Sean Ono Lennon hits out at Rachel Zegler with scathing take down amid Snow White controversy

Sean Ono Lennon publicly criticized Snow White star Rachel Zegler amid backlash over the film. The Disney remake has faced controversy over it casting and political tensions.

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