Dancing on Ice contestant Anton Ferdinand has been unveiled as the bookies' favourite to be eliminated from the skating competition

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Although it's now one of the UK's best-known seaside towns, Skegness was just a small village with fewer than 400 residents in 1850. Find out how it's changed over the years...

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Renee Bailey has become a firm favourite with Call The Midwife viewers, but the actress has also taken on a very different role away from the BBC show

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Expert Peter Planes was presented with a Rolex X Tiffany watch to evaluate on the American PBS show.

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‘I think we put together some creators and some character ideas ’ confirmed Marvel’s editor-in-chief

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Vladimir Putin’s aggression has led to the death of thousands of civilians and laid waste to a country. On the eve of the third anniversary of the invasion, Ukrainians tell the Standard they are bruised but not beaten.

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Emboldened and exultant, speakers put less emphasis on baiting liberals and more on spreading the Maga gospelWhat do you give the man who has everything? A ballroom full of cheering conservative activists found out this week when Elon Musk was presented with a chainsaw by Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, who has used the power tool as a symbol of his push to impose fiscal discipline.Wearing sunglasses, a black Maga baseball cap and a gold necklace, Musk giddily wielded the chainsaw up and down the stage. “This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy!” he declared. Members of the audience shouted: “We love you!” Musk replied: “I love you guys, too!” And he quipped: “I am become meme.” Continue reading...

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Call The Midwife favourite Renee Bailey - who plays Joyce Highland - had a rather racy role before joining the BBC show

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Pope Francis is understood to have had a 'tranquil' night after major concerns were raised over his health – and doctors in the Vatican still have one significant concern

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The Premier League legend, 41, has managed Heerenveen since the start of the season but has left the club to immediately to take up the new role in the Eredivisie.

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For the US president’s cheerleaders, the whitewashing of the deaths of ten of thousands of Ukrainians is a small price to pay for sticking it to the wokeratiWas it really only a month ago that the pole-dancer patron, fridge explorer, Brexit get-doer, model bus maker, sofa-strainer, wall-spaffer, current Daily Mail columnist and former British prime minister Boris Johnson eulogised the inauguration of Donald Trump in the Mail, recounting how, as the “invisible pulse of power surged” from the battered bible into the hand of Trump: “I saw the moment the world’s wokerati had worked so hard to prevent.”I hope Johnson is pleased with the way things have worked out. Because now the foolish wokerati have been schooled beyond Johnson’s wettest dreams. It’s the Trump-Putin-bin Salman party! An adjudicated sex offender and convicted fraudster, and a man who sanctioned a chemical warfare hit, killing a British citizen on British soil, have met at the luxury Saudia Arabian hotel of another man, ...

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As the US upends decades of foreign policy, those watching the war unfold from miles away resolve to stand strongMembers of New York’s large Ukrainian community expressed a mix of disillusionment, betrayal, defiance and acute uncertainty about what the future holds for Ukraine after tensions escalated this week between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Geopolitical events in the last week have shocked Ukrainians at home and overseas as well as US lawmakers and allies, as the US president appeared to heavily favor the Russian president Vladimir Putin to dictate peace terms on the eve of the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading...

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The Steelmen's new gaffer made a losing start in the dug-out

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A suspected gas leak was reported, with homes evacuated in the area

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Over 100 people were evacuated from their homes after fire gripped the premises on March 14, 2024.

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China's defence Ministry spokesman Wu Qian hit back on Sunday to say that its fleet's training and exercise area is far away from the Australian coastline.

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Residents reported hearing 'explosions' earlier this morning

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Residents reported hearing 'explosions' earlier this morning

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Wales put in a much-improved performance against Ireland at the Principality Stadium

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Avid explorer John Edward Jones, 26, died in Utah on November 24 2009 after becoming trapped for more than 24 hours in a hydrothermal cave, dubbed the 'Nutty Putty cave'.

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