59 m. ago Oh baby! Ellie Goulding looks elated as she shows off her bump while leaving the Fashion Awards after shock pregnancy reveal

The Love Me Like You Do singer, 38, stunned fans when she announced her surprise pregnancy on the red carpet.

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83 m. ago Man dies after falling from roof of popular UK shopping centre in broad daylight

Police were called to Westquay shopping centre in Southampton after reports of a man having fallen from a height - he was sadly pronounced dead at the scene

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90 m. ago Athletics intent on joining sport’s Goliaths but knows it has long way to go | Sean Ingle

Jon Ridgeon is overseeing World Athletics’ reach for a younger audience but has to battle it out with football and F1It really is quite the scene. Midnight in Tokyo, Usain Bolt is DJing and the launch party for the World Athletics Ultimate Championships is in full swing. And then the World Athletics chief executive, Jon Ridgeon, walks up to me and says: “I read your recent Guardian column, and I thought it was very unfair.”Imagine Gary Lineker going in two-footed, having never picked up a yellow card in his career. This is the track and field equivalent. Ridgeon, a former world silver medallist over the 110m hurdles, is one of the smartest and most reasonable people in sport. He is saying, in a polite way, that he is really rather annoyed. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Mother of 'miracle baby' calls for gift of donated blood this Christmas

Giving blood was the ultimate gift for little Alexandria Allyson.

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2 h. ago UK terror watchdog warns national security plan ignores escalating online threats

Independent reviewer says need to protect against online threats is now as important as need for robust armed forcesThe UK’s independent reviewer of terrorism laws has criticised the government’s latest national security strategy for failing to take online threats more seriously, despite Keir Starmer claiming it would result in “a hardening and sharpening of our approach” in the face of Russian menace.Jonathan Hall KC said it was “a very surprising omission” that the 2025 national security strategy did not focus more on online risks, including from terrorists and hostile states, which he said were now a “major vector of threat”. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Mum's headless body discovered in forest linked to dismembered hands and baby dumped at monastery

Severed hands found weeks ago, dumped by a motorway, have been confirmed to belong to the dismembered corpse, after her baby was reportedly found in a pram abandoned yet unharmed

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3 h. ago First child victim of Stockton birthday party mass shooting is named by his distraught mother: ‘My baby was loved’

Four people were killed and 11 were injured in a shooting last week at a banquet hall during a two-year-old’s birthday party

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3 h. ago Mum of 'miracle' baby who needed four blood transfusions urges people to donate

Alexandria Allyson was born at 26 weeks weighing just 2.1lbs, received four blood transfusions and spent 102 days in hospital before being allowed home to her family in Fife.

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3 h. ago Dear Coleen: My friend posted my 'bitter divorce' online and refuses to delete it

"I’m the 'bitter divorcée' in her article, whose husband had an affair and can’t get over it! I’m so mad but when I talked to her about it, she couldn’t see why I was angry."

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5 h. ago Fitzroy Crossing dog attack: Woman in her 20s dies as man treated for injuries

Two dogs were 'removed' from the scene following the incident

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6 h. ago Boris Becker shares sweet pictures of baby daughter Zoe as he celebrates his 58th birthday with wife Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro, 34: 'I'm still digesting this emotional past week'

Taking to Instagram on Monday, the tennis player admitted he was 'still digesting this emotional past week' following Zoe's birth.

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7 h. ago Christmas markets flogging 'Temu tat' for seven times the price: How festive fairs are ramping up the prices of cheap knick

Christmas markets in the UK were once a great destination to find unique gifts from independent sellers - but now, they are more likely to sell 'overpriced tat' that can easily be found online.

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7 h. ago How I've weaponised my voluptuous cleavage, by KATIE GLASS. So few will admit it, but men are so entranced they give me perks

The return of this year's I'm A Celebrity brings with it the annual battle of the shower scene, as stars compete to recreate Myleene Klass's iconic white bikini moment.

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7 h. ago How influencers ruined London: Their outrageous behaviour at Claridge's took my breath away

Hotels don't come much classier than Claridge's in London's Mayfair. I'm sorry to say, however, that even this bastion of old-fashioned luxury is beset by a very modern menace.

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7 h. ago MAGA conspiracy theorist and Trump influencer Laura Loomer receives credentials and desk at Pentagon after media purge

Online commentators mocked the new crop of Pentagon reporters for being unable to accurately report which desks they were using

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8 h. ago Children ‘going hungry and having pocket money stolen due to economic abuse’

Abusive parents use tactics to directly target children’s economic security, charity Surviving Economic Abuse said.

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8 h. ago Horror as mum’s headless body found in German forest with hands dumped on motorway – as baby left at monastery

THE tragic discovery of a woman's body butchered and dumped in a forest has police searching for answers as her baby is found alive, abandoned at a monastery. Horrifically, the remains were headless and handless, but police believe they've matched the body to severed hands found on a German motorway two weeks ago. The A45...

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8 h. ago New £70m Mercedes F1 HQ hit by £60,000 tool theft raid leaving dozens of tradespeople ‘devastated’

THE new £70million HQ of F1 giants Mercedes was hit by a £60,000 tool theft raid. Dozens of tradespeople on the site — currently being transformed into a motorsports hub — had equipment stolen from supposedly safe security boxes. Bosses at the 12-time F1 constructors’ champions have passed CCTV footage to police after tools were...

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9 h. ago Faceless baby Jesus that sparked online outrage stolen from Nativity scene

Early reports that the infant Jesus had been beheaded are false

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10 h. ago Donald Trump has MRI results released after sparking health concerns with walk

A video of Donald Trump walking unsteadily caused another wave of concern for the President's health, and now he has undergone an MRI scan to prove that his health was completely fine

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