72 m. ago Stacey Solomon breaks silence on Britain's Got Talent 'dream' job with one

Former X Factor star Stacey Solomon has shared a backstage glimpse of the iconic Britain's Got Talent set as she confirms her place on the judging panel after Simon Cowell fell ill

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85 m. ago Coronation Street favourite Vicky Myers says 'bear with me' as she sends 'quick note' to fans

It comes after the DS Lisa Swain actress was overwhelmed by the response to her latest success

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90 m. ago England: Thomas Tuchel sends Cole Palmer message after Chelsea star omitted from latest squad

Chelsea No10 has been struggling with a groin injury

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97 m. ago Met Office tells EVERYONE in Britain to prepare three essential items

As Storm Amy is expected to bring heavy rain and wind to all of Britain this weekend, the Met Office has urged people to prepare ahead due to the risk of power cuts

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2 h. ago Stacey Solomon says 'what is going on' as Britain Got Talent role confirmed

The singer teased earlier in the day that she landed her 'dream job'

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2 h. ago The Guardian view on Tilly Norwood: she’s not art, she’s data | Editorial

The first 100% AI actor is a cause for alarm. But the human connection of great acting can never be replacedThe threat to human creativity from technology took another step closer this week with the appearance of Tilly Norwood, the first 100% AI-generated actor. Unsurprisingly, her unveiling at the Zurich film festival in a comic sketch called AI Commissioner caused an outcry. Emily Blunt described the film as “terrifying” and the actors’ union Sag-Aftra condemned it as “jeopardising performer livelihoods and devaluing human artistry”.There is much that is problematic about Norwood, not least the message her “girl-next-door vibe” sends to young women. But the more serious point is that her face has been made from those of real actors without their knowledge or consent. Her lighthearted debut masks the fact that she is part of a new model of media production that rides roughshod over longstanding norms and laws governing artists and their work. Hollywood has been anticipating Norwood...

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2 h. ago I'm a scam hunter who's foiled more than 500 fraudsters. Then I fell victim to an HMRC con so pernicious I almost lost everything. This is the mistake I made that you MUST be aware of: JULIE

My phone lights up with a message. It's from a man I don't know, the third to message me today. 'Hey you,' it reads. 'Are you able to send over that money that you owe me?'

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3 h. ago Sonay Kartal response speaks volumes after being left 'in a dark place'

Sonay Kartal may have suffered elimination from the China Open but the British tennis star displayed her tenacity after admitting she was "helpless" following her US Open exit

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3 h. ago Storm Amy WATCH LIVE as UK weather webcams capture terrifying 100mph winds across Britain

Storm Amy is forecast to bring up to 100mph winds to the UK tonight, as the Met Office issues an array of yellow and amber weather warnings - and you can watch the action on live webcams across Britain

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4 h. ago Chatsworth art exhibition warnings trigger wokery row at estate visited by Queen and inspiration for Mr Darcy's Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice

Trigger warnings have been placed around an exhibition about flowers at one of Britain's grandest stately homes - recently visited by the Queen.

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4 h. ago ‘Starting to be very afraid’: Italy’s Gaza protests raise pressure on Meloni

With strikes and demonstrations, intensifying Italian opposition to Israel’s war is challenging the PM’s stanceA piercing chorus of tooting horns and dockers shouting “we don’t want you” greeted an Israeli-owned container ship when it arrived in Livorno, a port city on the coast of Tuscany this week.For two days, the striking dockworkers stood their ground, refusing to unload and reload the ship’s cargo in a display of defiant solidarity for Palestinians and the Global Sumud flotilla attempting to bring aid to Gaza. The protest was a triumph and the ship, bound for the US and Canada, left. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Zack Polanski warns Keir Starmer’s Britain is descending into authoritarianism

The politician is pitching the Green Party as a left-wing alternative for disgruntled Labour voters

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5 h. ago Jannik Sinner admits increasing problem after moving possessions into parents' home

Jannik Sinner won his third trophy of the year defeating Learner Tien in the China Open final on Wednesday, with the Italian tennis ace admitting he's running out of space for silverware

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5 h. ago Trump sends dark bloodbath warning as millions of jobs hang in balance and hatchet man slashes billions in blue states

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought - the architect of Project 2025 - has taken center stage since the shutdown began on Wednesday.

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5 h. ago Michelle Mone told us ‘business isn’t easy’ during Covid. How are things now, your ladyship? | Marina Hyde

After a company she was linked to was ordered to repay £122m it made from pandemic deals, the baroness has embarked on a masterclass in victimhoodBy their own accounts, there have been two Westminster-adjacent victims of inflammatory language this week. One is the Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, hurt to the point of requiring smelling salts by some politically commonplace words spoken by the prime minister. And the other is legally besieged bra baroness Michelle Mone, who has always been performatively sensitive, with chaos as her rising sign.Alas, far from their shared victimhood drawing our two snowflakes closer together, in Michelle, we may have finally found the Tory from whom Nigel would not accept a defection to Reform. Which really means something, considering Britain’s would-be next prime minister currently has precisely zero peers in the House of Lords. Like the PPE she provided during the pandemic, Michelle would be deemed incredibly expensive and absolutely unusable.Marin...

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5 h. ago Asad Rehman’s journey from antiracism campaigner in Burnley to head of Friends of the Earth

Climate crisis is ‘interconnected crisis of inequality’, says Rehman, who began organising at his school in the 1970s Each weekday morning, every child in the south Asian community in Burnley would gather before making the journey to school. It was the 1970s, the National Front were mobilising, and they were the children of south Asian workers invited to Britain a decade earlier to fill labour shortages.Among them was Asad Rehman, who had moved to the Lancashire town with his family from Pakistan at the age of four. “We would all walk together, because it was dangerous to walk alone,” he remembers. “Younger children in the middle, older children around the edge, because we’d be attacked on the way.” Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Manchester United to hold minute's silence for terror attack victims as Ruben Amorim sends message

Red Devils face Sunderland on Saturday

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6 h. ago Voices: ‘We have more in common than divides us:’ Independent readers back our call for unity in wake of Manchester attack

Our community says Britain must stand together by confronting antisemitism directly, strengthening protections for Jewish people, and tackling the online platforms and political divisions that fuel hatred

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6 h. ago Thomas Tuchel's decision to axe Bellingham is full of holes, writes IAN LADYMAN

IAN LADYMAN: Tuchel's decision to leave him out has not been made on medical advice - it is a football decision - and has therefore sent a clear message to him in terms of what he expects.

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7 h. ago Loose Women's GK Barry loses it over TikTok lookalikes in hilarious meltdown

Loose Women star GK Barry begs fans to stop tagging her doppelgangers on TikTok after waking up to hundreds of lookalikes, calling it a “mental health crisis"

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