6 h. ago Thomas Frank admits ‘it’s difficult to enjoy’ being Tottenham head coach

Frank likens challenges at Spurs to running a marathonTottenham booed off after goalless draw at BrentfordThomas Frank has admitted he is not enjoying his job at Tottenham. The head coach is dealing with numerous problems as he navigates what always stood to be a transitional season, the most insistent being his team’s lack of creativity.Spurs were booed off after Thursday’s 0-0 draw at Brentford by the travelling support, who also chanted “boring, boring Tottenham”. But Frank is confident he will come to look back on the first half of his debut campaign more fondly once – and not if – his squad emerges on the other side, stronger and wiser for the suffering. Tottenham are 12th in the Premier League – their next game is at home to Sunderland on Sunday and Frank leant into a marathon-running analogy when he was asked whether he was enjoying the challenge to which he has signed up. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Templegate’s Tote Placepot tips with £100,000 GUARANTEED at Sandown on Saturday

THE Placepot is a bet where you select a horse to be placed in the FIRST SIX races of any meeting. You can pick more than one horse in a race – you just multiply the number of selections in each race to calculate your stake. So for staking it’s 1x2x2x2x2x2 which adds up to...

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7 h. ago We Bury the Dead review – Daisy Ridley tackles the undead in solid zombie twist

Star Wars alum gives an impressively modest performance in this slightly smarter-than-average survival taleUnlike some other less resilient horror subgenres, the zombie movie is, fittingly, never going to really die. Neither will film-makers attempting to add their own twist, understandable given how repetitive the die, wake up, lumber, bite and repeat formula has become. Australian director Zak Hilditch’s attempt, the rather buried We Bury the Dead, is therefore not quite as striking as it might have seemed a decade and change ago. Using words such as “contemplative” and “mournful” to describe a film that includes its fair share of gnarly head-smashing has become something of a cliche, so much so that last month’s meta-comedy Anaconda reboot had its characters joke that these days, even a film about a giant snake needs “intergenerational trauma” to work.But Hilditch mercifully avoids drowning his film in drab self-seriousness. Yes, it’s a zombie survival thriller that’s also about ...

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7 h. ago Prince Harry will not be returning to 'tarnished' Sentebale charity he co

Sentebale - a charity co-founded by the prince in Lesotho in 2006 - has been in a funding crisis since he left as a patron in March this year after his public falling out with chair, Sophie Chandauka.

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8 h. ago Scientists connect these six modifiable risk factors to almost half of all cancer deaths

Avoidable cancers are a quieter crisis that has been gathering force for decades

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9 h. ago Drake and Adin Ross accused of fraud in alleged attempt to inflate rapper’s streams

Pair have been accused of promoting sweepstakes casino Stake.us and using the proceeds to ‘fabricate’ Drake’s popularity among listeners

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10 h. ago Online ‘brainrot’ isn’t ruining children’s minds – it’s a new way of navigating the modern internet

Young people aren’t abandoning meaningful play, they’re interacting with an online environment that is dramatically different from the one their parents grew up with.

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13 h. ago Rise and shine! How not to look tired (even when you’re totally knackered)

From facial massage to wearing the right colours, there are plenty of ways to appear well rested, even when you’re anything butAccording to new research, the UK’s sleep crisis is at a peak; the average person in Britain loses the equivalent of 18 days of sleep every year, while one in four of us survive on just one hour’s rest a night. But I’m here to help. As a beauty editor of more than 15 years – with a penchant for a late night – I’ve tried every trick in the book for faking eight hours of sleep. With these smart tweaks, science-backed tips and insider hacks, you can look half-alive – even if you feel as if you’ve been exhumed. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Lily Allen admits her teenage daughters are struggling to adjust to life in the UK following split from David Harbour and reveals they are still in touch with actor

The 40-year-old singer revealed that Ethel, 14, and Marnie, 13 are finding it difficult to navigate changes after moving from New York back to the UK.

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14 h. ago My mother repeated one Cantonese idiom throughout my life: 'you want beauty, you don’t want life' | Michelle Law

Sometimes Michelle Law looks at people who make risky decisions and feels a deep sense of envy. But when that envy materialises, so too does the voice of her motherRead more in the Home Truths seriesIn news that will delight my enemies, I believe there’s a chance I’ll die young and by accidental means. To clarify, I’m currently in excellent health (sorry to my enemies), but I’m sensing a spectacular midlife crisis on the horizon that could spell the end.Maybe it’ll be an overdose in a seedy nightclub. Maybe I’ll drink myself into oblivion. Maybe I’ll get kicked in the head during an orgy. Whatever it is, it’ll be the result of a botched attempt at compensating for a lifetime of being the world’s most risk averse, law-abiding scaredy cat who is terrified of physical danger. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago A grandmother and her grandson burn to death in a Gaza tent as humanitarian crisis deepens

A grandmother and her five year old grandson burned to death in Gaza when their tent caught fire, as thousands of Palestinians battle harrowing winter conditions in flimsy makeshift housing and the humanitarian crisis deepens

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16 h. ago Moment CNN anchors say Meghan's jam is 'something to say goodbye to' in the New Year on US television

Viewers were split over whether the mention of Meghan's jam by Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen on their 'New Year's Eve Live' show in Times Square was high-praise or a huge burn.

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17 h. ago Emma Raducanu finds rhythm for new season with stability and ‘stacking good days’

Briton to make United Cup debut against Naomi OsakaBilly Harris replaces Jack Draper in Great Britain teamEmma Raducanu believes she is on the right path towards greater success in 2026 as she prepares to begin the new tennis season as Great Britain’s leading player at the United Cup in Australia.Raducanu, the British women’s No 1, will make her debut in the mixed-gender team competition on Sunday against Japan’s Naomi Osaka. “I think for me it’s just about stacking the good days,” said Raducanu on her hopes for 2026. “I’ve been putting in some good practices. Even if each practice isn’t as perfect as you want it to be, I think just the consistency of it is the most important thing. That’s what really helped me last year. So I just hope to carry that on and enjoy the tennis, enjoy the process of what I’m doing, which right now I am.” Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Costa living crisis: Coffee firm's losses double as rivals are said to offer 'better experience, ambience, food' and 'less corporate'

The high street brand, owned by Coca-Cola, saw its operating loss widen from £5.8m in 2023 to £13.5m in the year to December 2024.

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18 h. ago History of Sound review: Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor's romance doesn't sing

This folk music drama has a compelling affair between Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor but falls into monotony

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19 h. ago Chelsea manager latest, transfer updates and more: football news – live

⚽ Read Jacob Steinberg on Maresca’s Chelsea departure⚽ Fixtures | Tables | Follow us on Bluesky | Email TahaSo Enzo Maresca has left the building. It was a very decent stint on paper, one with two trophies, including a Club World Cup victory which may grow in significance if the tournament becomes a properly serious thing in the future. But it was pretty turbulent, too; Jacob Steinberg has the inside story on what went wrong.Hello, hello, hello and welcome to the first Friday blog of 2026. We’ve already had some drama at Stamford Bridge with the departure of Enzo Maresca, and there’s plenty of Premier League action to review/preview. But let’s just ease up before going full throttle and take in this excellent interview with Jess Carter, the Guardian Footballer of the Year.A lot of people don’t like the way I play football and that’s absolutely fine, but then attacking someone because of what they look like? I can’t do anything about that one, and I wouldn’t want to. I could never ...

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19 h. ago Iain Ballamy: Riversphere Vol 1 review | John Fordham's jazz album of the month

(Babel Label)The 80s sax star leads an A-list quartet, plus a shared trumpet role for Laura Jurd and Ballamy’s son CharlieOpening 2026’s jazz reviews with a story from the mid-1980s might be risking audience restiveness, but that was the decade in which a far-sighted young saxophonist on the UK jazz scene called Iain Ballamy first appeared on this writer’s radar. The cross-generational lineup and captivating ideas of Riversphere, his first solo release in years, testify to exactly why he has stayed there for 40 years.In their 20s, Ballamy and pianist/composer Django Bates frequently joined forces as two mavericks, skilfully respectful of the classic jazz tradition while adventurously and often mischievously transforming it. They were key figures in a gifted UK generation that created some of the sparkiest European jazz of the 1980s and 90s, most influentially in the revolutionary orchestra Loose Tubes, which brought together genres from old-school swing to vaudeville, improv and ava...

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20 h. ago Liverpool news: First January transfer sealed for Reds as Arne Slot gets big boost

Liverpool could be active in the January transfer window, with Arne Slot's side facing an injury crisis and way off the pace in the Premier League

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20 h. ago Blue: Reflections review – a clunky rehash of their Y2K boyband heyday

(Blue Blood International/Cooking Vinyl)The four-piece try to tap into modern pop’s deep well of nostalgia but come off like Westlife on a bad day‘Blue’s in the house / Oh it’s party time!” muse the fortysomething man-band on Souls of the Underground, the penultimate song on this seventh album, and the fourth since their 2011 reunion. The British four-piece are keen to take us back to their early 00s heyday, a time of Met bar table service, where the ladies have “a little prosecco” and the guys have a “nice cold beer”. Musically, it’s a clunkier approximation of their (comparatively) harder-edged hybrid of pop, hip-hop and R&B; think 2002 “low ride” anthem Fly By II but on a Megabus budget.It makes sense that they would want to tap into modern pop’s deep well of nostalgia, but rather than recalling what made Blue originally stand out, Reflections often feels like a tribute to other evergreen boybands. For most of the album’s 13 tracks, the tempo is mid, with the dreary, Westlife...

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20 h. ago NFL playoff race: Seahawks and 49ers meet with NFC’s No 1 seed at stake

The final week of the regular season delivers a winner-take-all clash in the NFC West, while Houston surge, the Rams slide and the race for the No 1 draft pick tips toward farceSeattle Seahawks (13-3) v San Francisco 49ers (12-4) Continue reading...

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