36 m. ago BBC EastEnders icon quits job after being 'humiliated' and has already landed another

An EastEnders legend has had enough of her job

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98 m. ago Pregnant care home worker lost her unborn baby boy when she was 'thrown into the air' in hit

Renju Joseph, 31, was struck by a car driven at high speed by Ashir Shahid, 20, as she walked on a pedestrian crossing in the village of Bamber Bridge, near Preston, Lancashire.

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2 h. ago Anchorman superstar Will Ferrell wows staff at Scots attraction

The Anchorman and Elf legend had been on a tour of Braemar Castle with family and friends. The 58-year-old kindly posed for pictures with starstruck staff during his visit.

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3 h. ago Michaela Coel, 37, reveals she has frozen her eggs because she 'would love a family' as she opens up about romance with boyfriend Spencer Hewett while posing for British Vogue

Michaela Coel has revealed she has undergone the process of freezing her eggs because she 'would love to have a family'. 

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3 h. ago TV meteorologist details extraordinary sexualized pressure she was subjected to by boss who was regarded an industry legend in bombshell lawsuit

Minnesota meteorologist Wren Clair says she was subjected to years of sexual harassment including lewd remarks about her body while on the air with KSTP-TV in a blistering new lawsuit.

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3 h. ago John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’

Gender-critical novelist urges writers to re-enter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novellaThe gender-critical Irish novelist John Boyne has said he has been brought “very close to the edge” by the backlash to his inclusion on the longlist for a literary prize for LGBTQ+ authors.Ten authors and two judges withdrew from the Polari prize and more than 800 writers and publishing industry workers signed a petition calling on Polari to remove Boyne’s novella Earth from its longlist. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago 'We never knew why our little girl struggled so much, then Manchester scientists made a world

Doctors suspected Rose might have a rare condition at her mum's 20-week scan - and it wasn't long before she started experiencing horrible seizures

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4 h. ago Wallabies and Springboks in identity swap for clash amid thin air of Highveld | Daniel Gallan

The frenemies meet in this year’s Rugby Championship opener at Ellis Park where they are expected to rip pages out of the other’s playbookOne team boasts some of the most menacing forwards found anywhere in the world. The other is developing a scintillating backline capable of tearing apart any defence. Business as usual, then, for a Wallabies versus Springboks clash. Except this time, like the characters of Freaky Friday, the two sides have switched identities ahead of the first round of the Rugby Championship.Australia might have lost the British & Irish Lions series but they were one referee’s decision at the breakdown away from causing a seismic upset. That the margin was so small was thanks largely to the thundering cameos of Will Skelton, Rob Valetini, Taniela Tupou and a handful of other meaty men who provided the front-foot grunt that was absent in the first Test in Brisbane. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Hit horror Weapons doesn’t have a deeper meaning but that’s OK | Jesse Hassenger

A frenzied search for answers in the wake of the box office smash has some assuming there’s a weightier allegory but its power is in something simpler and more primalMajor spoilers aheadFor years now, horror fans and critics have grown increasingly and understandably impatient with the tendency of genre films to orient their scares toward a clearly conveyed central metaphor.The real monster in these movies is parenthood, personal trauma or that old horror-movie standby, grief. Writer-director Zach Cregger is no stranger to this line of thinking; his 2022 horror movie Barbarian is very much a spooky-creature-in-the-basement movie for the #MeToo era. Now Cregger has returned with a movie that may well stymie anyone who has been trained by the last decade to search for an easy-to-track allegory within their viscerally depicted fears. His new movie Weapons has received mostly rave reviews and positive audience response. But at least a few critics and fans are pivoting from complaining a...

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4 h. ago Celebrity SAS star says she lost 'dignity' as she details horrifying injury

Lucy Spraggan has opened up about the moment she suffered a gruesome injury while filming the extreme Channel 4 series.

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4 h. ago Lou Teasdale ‘ended Andy Carroll romance’ as reports claim he is trying to win her back

Lou Teasdale is said to have ended her relationship with Andy Carroll – despite the former footballer reportedly making a “desperate” bid to reconcile by flying to Ibiza to find her.

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5 h. ago How the capture of a serial killer father led to a breakthrough in his own daughter’s separate murder case

Melissa Wolfenbarger, a 21-year-old married mother-of-two, had been missing for four years before her remains were finally identified. But decades passed and the identity of her killer remained a mystery – until now. Crime Scene Investigator Sheryl ‘Mac’ McCollum tells Andrea Cavallier how her podcast, with help from experts, the media and the victim’s serial killer dad helped crack the case wide open

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5 h. ago Bargain hunt: the best value signings in the Premier League this summer

Chelsea, Sunderland, Nottingham Forest and Brentford have spent some smart money in the transfer windowBy WhoScoredThe young English striker began his career at Derby before moving to Manchester City as a 16-year-old in 2019. After loan spells at Stoke, Preston and Hull, Liam Delap made a £20m move to Ipswich last summer and proceeded to make a name for himself in the Premier League. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Lou Teasdale breaks silence on Andy Carroll split rumours after his very public gesture

Lou Teasdale has broken her silence on the rumours she has split from footballer Andy Carroll, after it was claimed the pair had called time on their romance following a series of toxic rows

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5 h. ago This is the shameful reason why Britain is being invaded by monster rats

It started with the sinister sound of something scuttling about within the walls of the neatly kept house. Then there were two floods in the kitchen after the uninvited guest gnawed through a pipe.

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5 h. ago Wayne Rooney starts new 800k BBC job with a bang and opens up on fall

Birmingham City minority owner Tom Brady expressed worries about Wayne Rooney's work ethic while the Manchester United legend was manager of the Championship club

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5 h. ago Moment dog walker filmed carrying 'lifeless' body of pet before owner finds it dead

The English Bulldog is believed to have died from heat stroke, although the pooch's dog walker initially tried to cover up the unfortunate incident, only to be foiled by the gran's doorbell

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6 h. ago Teenage asylum seeker who came to London unable to speak English celebrates top exam results

Rony Salazar was forced to flee his home country four years ago aged just 14

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6 h. ago Football Daily | Wayne Rooney, Tom Brady and a serving of ultra

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Today’s Football Daily would like to start with the topical events of 15 February 1983. That was the day Manchester United outplayed and outviolenced Arsenal in the first leg of their Milk Cup semi-final at Highbury. United won 4-2; they were 4-0 up after 80 minutes before taking their foot off Arsenal’s throat, and shinbone, and head. “Perhaps we’ve been concentrating too much on passing and technique,” lamented Don Howe, Arsenal’s head coach and assistant to the manager, Terry Neill. “Against United we went out to strike the ball about instead of putting some meat into the game.” In 1980s English football, there was no place for veganism. Things have changed since the days when ABH was a bookable offence, and only then after the first 10 minutes, but English football still has a pretty noxious meat footprint. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing announces River City star as 12th contestant to join line up

Neighbours legend and former River City star Stefan Dennis is the latest name to be added to the star-studded BBC Strictly line up

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