35 m. ago EastEnders welcomes back Vicki Fowler after 20 years – with Holby City star as her new boyfriend

The character of Martin’s niece will no longer be played by Scarlett Alice Johnson

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35 m. ago Inside 1923's Brandon Sklenar's life after he left without saying goodbye to pursue career

Brandon Sklenar plays Spencer Dutton in the Yellowstone prequel 1923 and fans are keen to know more about the actor, who has also starred in It Ends with Us and Vice

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47 m. ago Alan Shearer perfectly sums up Everton vs Man Utd controversy with seven words

Manchester United escaped Goodison Park with a point after a stirring comeback against Everton and following a controversial VAR decision in the final seconds of the clash

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95 m. ago Julen Lopetegui: ‘Of course we could have played better. It was our fault’

Spaniard on the ‘pain and anger’ of his sacking at West Ham and rejecting an immediate return to management“And then suddenly they sacked me.” Julen Lopetegui is running through the reasons to be cheerful – safety secure, 17 shots at the Etihad and the physical stats, an identity emerging, a winter window and a kinder calendar coming – when he uses one of only two English lines in as many hours, delivered as if the final page of a story. The other, not entirely incidentally, is “no comment”, and a smile accompanies both. Five weeks from his sacking at West Ham, the anger and hurt has subsided, on the surface at least. The period of mourning, as he puts it, is over.“My father died and, although you can’t compare them, personal and professional mourning came together,” Lopetegui says. Offers arrived, but it was too soon. Instead he headed to Mexico, where he is building a hotel with his brother Joxean, a former pelota player, and as he arrives at another hotel, this time in Madrid, it...

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95 m. ago Can a brown Hindu be English? English people say yes. Why do so many on the right say no? | Kenan Malik

An argument about Rishi Sunak’s identity reveals how ideas of ethnicity and race have become conflated‘They think they’re English because they’re born here. That means if a dog’s born in a stable it’s a horse.” That was a staple of the comedian Bernard Manning’s routine back in the 1970s. Enoch Powell had, a decade earlier, expressed the same sentiment in more refined language: “The West Indian or Asian does not, by being born in England, become an Englishman. In law he becomes a United Kingdom citizen by birth; in fact he is a West Indian or an Asian still.”Few today would laugh along with Manning or take seriously the claim that only white people can be English. Britain has transformed over the past half-century and most English people now embrace Ian Wright and Idris Elba as being as English as David Beckham or Joanna Lumley. Continue reading...

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95 m. ago Michael Ball 'felt like a freak' after accident that meant he'd never have kids

Musical theatre legend Michael Ball has been with his partner, Cathy McGowan, for more than 30 years - but the BBC Radio 2 star revealed the sad reason why he's never had children

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1 hour ago Today's rugby news as Irish stars blown away by Wales players and Sherratt gives job verdict

The latest rugby news from Wales and beyond.

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1 hour ago Britain's Got Talent's Will Burns says he can 'die happy' after wowing Simon Cowell

The comedian received the first golden buzzer of the series from Ant and Dec after his impressionist comedy routine wowed the judges including Simon Cowell

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2 h. ago What can Keir Starmer say at the White House that Donald Trump might listen to? | Andrew Rawnsley

The stakes couldn’t be higher and the risks couldn’t be greater when the prime minister visits Washington this weekFor British prime ministers, with their ideas about the world shaped by the histories of Churchill and Roosevelt, Maggie and Ronnie, and the rest of the folklore about the transatlantic alliance, the prospect of a visit to the White House usually causes tingles of excitement. One of our senior diplomats once offered me an explanation of the allure: “The red carpet is laid out, the national anthems are played, all that stuff is very seductive.” This will be customarily accompanied by ritualistic words about the importance and invincibility of the “special relationship”.Number 10 lobbied hard to get Sir Keir Starmer across the Atlantic early in the second term of Donald Trump and, until recently, Downing Street people were telling themselves that an encounter between the two men needn’t be a disaster and might even turn out to be a success. In the weeks since Trump’s re-e...

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2 h. ago EastEnders’ Vicki Fowler actress unrecognisable 20 years after the soap

EastEnders actress Scarlett Johnson who played the opinionated teenager Vicki Fowler looks unrecognisable nearly two decades after she left the BBC soap's iconic Albert Square as it's confirmed the character is making a dramatic comeback

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2 h. ago ‘Photography is therapy for me’: Martin Parr on humour, holidaying and life behind the lens

He has a prolific career and extensive portfolio, with his images of British life especially iconic. At 72, he tells Miranda Sawyer, he’s still thinking about what to shoot nextAbout 20 years ago, I was on a judging panel for a photography competition, and one of the other judges was Martin Parr. He was charming and affable, almost teddy bear-ish. He was also utterly ruthless. When it came to deciding which photographs were worthy of a prize, he went through the selection swiftly – no, no, yes, no – without hesitation or doubt. His eye was impeccable. Has he always known what makes a good photograph? “Oh yes,” says Parr. “Right from the beginning. Total conviction. I knew I would be a photographer from the age of 13, 14, and I knew what was good even then. I was obsessive about photography. All artists are obsessive, I think.” We are in his agent’s office, a small upstairs flat on a market street in east London. Parr owns the building, and this room used to be packed with his work a...

Culture

2 h. ago Billie Shepherd's surprising TOWIE confession as she eyes up TV comeback

TOWIE OG Billie Shepherd admits that, nine years after her departure from the drama-filled reality show that made her a star, she will be 'forever' grateful for the opportunities it gave her

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3 h. ago Trump pays heartfelt tribute to Melania at Governors' dinner as he drops playful hint about next president

Trump delivered a speech to a room full of Governors and their partners in which he promised to unite them all beyond party lines - offering a cheeky hint at his predicted next president too .

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3 h. ago Home and Away's Lynne McGranger announces exit after 32 years playing Irene Roberts

Home and Away's Lynne McGranger, best known for playing Irene Roberts, has announced that she's leaving Australian soap after over three decades and says she's "forever grateful" to be part of the show

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3 h. ago Scot leading DP World Tour's work helping players with mental health

Hero Dubai Desert Classic Player Wellness Centre hailed as ‘best in class’ by Dr Andrew Murray

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3 h. ago Why world needs Keir Starmer to play role of 'Trump whisperer', however distasteful it is

The challenge for Keir Starmer and other democratic world leaders is to keep the US within the global family of liberal democracies until Donald Trump leaves office

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3 h. ago ‘Was this a big mistake?’: How Vera Drew defied Warner Bros and turned the Batman universe trans

‘The People’s Joker’ reframes the iconic DC Comics villain as a young trans comedian. After years of legal uncertainty, the film is finally out in UK cinemas. Louis Chilton speaks to its inimitable director and star

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3 h. ago Tate McRae: ‘I find the Britney Spears comparisons so flattering and scary’

As the 21-year-old Canadian pop star releases her third album ‘So Close To What’, she speaks to Ellie Muir about fame, toxic relationships and making music with her rapper boyfriend Kid Laroi

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3 h. ago Dame Helen Mirren on death, guns and Yellowstone: 1923’s fraught second season

Taylor Sheridan’s sprawling ‘Yellowstone’ prequel returns with a darker, more brutal second season. Tom Murray speaks to Helen Mirren, who plays the Dutton family’s fierce matriarch, and her co-star about the trials that lie ahead for Montana’s most sought-after ranch

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3 h. ago 'I went undercover at UK's Turkey cosmetic surgery expo and what I found shocked me'

The Mirror went undercover at a major health tourism event and found several Turkish firms with chequered pasts offering deals to prospective British clients

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