35 h. ago Sixth person leaves The Great British Bake Off in ‘unexpected’ departure

Office assistant Nataliia departed the show after failing to win over the judges during pastry week

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35 h. ago The Great British Bake Off: Nataliia Richardson bursts into tears as she becomes the sixth contestant eliminated

The 32-year-old, from Ukraine, was sent home after she failed to impress the judges with her showstopper during pastry week.

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3 d. ago Strictly's Balvinder Sopal says 'closest I'll get' in heartbreaking admission after first results show

The EastEnders star impressed the judges and viewers over the weekend as she returned for her second live performance of the series

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4 d. ago Judge halts Trump administration from detaining immigrant children after they turn 18

Ruling temporarily prevents transfer to adult detention centers that advocates said were planned for this weekendA federal judge has temporarily halted a Trump administration initiative that would have kept immigrant children in custody after their 18th birthdays, preventing their transfer to adult detention centers that advocates said were planned for this weekend.On Saturday, US district judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington DC issued a temporary restraining order directing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) to stop placing unaccompanied immigrant children into adult detention once they reached legal adulthood, reported the Associated Press. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Strictly 2025 leaderboard: Scores from week two of the BBC dance competition

Look back at what the judges thought of the ‘Strictly’ couples in week two

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5 d. ago Judge dismisses lawsuit claiming UN agency enabled Hamas' deadly attack on Israel

A lawsuit that claimed the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees had provided more than $1 billion that enabled Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel was dismissed this week by a federal judge in New York

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7 d. ago Strictly star 'tearful' as he makes admission after receiving second lowest score in show history

Strictly Come Dancing star Ross King made a 'tearful' admission about his upcoming dance after his low score from the judges last week.

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8 d. ago Family of boy who was sexually abused by his female teacher walk out of sentencing 'in disgust'

Alley Bardfield, 34, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to predatory criminal sexual assault of a child and admitted that she lured the sixth grader to her home for 'play dates'

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1 week ago Strictly Come Dancing 2025 latest: Karen Carney tops week one leaderboard as judges announce major show change

The Class of 2025 are performing live for the first time

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1 week ago Prison staff 'could face criminal charges for accessing Nottingham stabbings case files'

Prison staff could be facing criminal charges after they allegedly illegally accessed records involving the Nottingham Killings in 2023 that struck two teenagers.

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1 week ago Nicolas Sarkozy’s lawyers will try to ensure time in prison is ‘as short as possible’

Former French president sentenced to five years for criminal conspiracy over election campaign funds scheme with Gaddafi regimeLawyers for the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy have said they will try to ensure he serves as little time in prison as possible, after he was sentenced to five years for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to get election campaign funds from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.“We’re going to make sure that his incarceration will be as short as possible,” Sarkozy’s lawyer, Jean-Michel Darrois, told the BFMTV news channel on Friday after he became the first French president to go to jail. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Sarkozy will ‘sleep in jail but with head held high’ after Libya conviction

Former French president receives five-year prison sentence for criminal conspiracy over pact with Gaddafi regimeThe former French president Nicolas Sarkozy said he would “sleep in jail but with my head held high” after receiving a five-year prison sentence for criminal conspiracy – the first time a former head of state has been sent to prison in modern French history.The verdict and sentencing followed a trial in which he and his aides were accused of making a corruption pact with the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to receive funding for the 2007 French presidential election campaign. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Sarkozy says he will ‘sleep in jail but with head held high’ after conviction

Former French president receives five-year prison sentence for criminal conspiracy over pact with Gaddafi regimeThe former French president Nicolas Sarkozy said he would “sleep in jail but with my head held high” after receiving a five-year prison sentence for criminal conspiracy – the first time a former head of state has been sent to prison in modern French history.The verdict and sentencing followed a trial in which he and his aides were accused of making a corruption pact with the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to receive funding for the 2007 French presidential election campaign. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Strictly Come Dancing's Nikita Kuzmin breaks silence as Dani Dyer left 'crying again'

Dani and Nikita were set to be dancing in front of the judges for the first time this weekend

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2 w. ago Criminal was only going to prison for 8 weeks – then she said two words to judge

Prolific offender Angela Shand, who has 60 previous convictions, was told she would be jailed for eight weeks at Nottingham Crown Court before her foul-mouthed outburst

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2 w. ago Shirley Ballas makes 'tough' Strictly Come Dancing admission as she swerves Thomas Skinner 'scandal'

It comes after the dancer was seen back in the ballroom over the weekend as she took her place as head judge on the BBC show

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2 w. ago Mum, 27, who has 22 kids with criminal husband jailed for murder makes shocking promise

Kristina Ozturk shot to fame in 2021 after revealing she had welcomed 22 children via surrogacy with her husband Galip - a convicted criminal who was sentenced to life in prison for murder before going on the run

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2 w. ago Mum almost jailed over notorious criminal boyfriend says she 'can't leave him'

Hayley Cook, 39, almost landed herself in prison after she sent her criminal beau contraband, including pills, phones and drug soaked sheets, while he was locked up

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3 w. ago California judge rejects Menendez brothers’ request for new trial

Claims that brothers were sexually abused didn’t supersede ‘premeditation and deliberation’ of killings, says judgeA California judge has rejected a request for a new trial for Erik and Lyle Menendez, saying the allegations that the brothers were sexually abused did not supersede their “premeditation and deliberation” when they killed their parents more than 35 years ago.The ruling Monday by Los Angeles superior court judge William C Ryan comes just weeks after the brothers were denied parole and shuts down another possible path to freedom for the two who have served nearly 30 years in prison. Ryan denied a May 2023 petition seeking a review of their convictions based on new evidence supporting their claims of sexual abuse by their father. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Starmer ‘angry’ after Mandelson sacking and insists he need not resign as PM

The Prime Minister sacked Lord Mandelson last week but has faced questions about his judgment in appointing the peer as US ambassador.

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