10 h. ago Brothers swapping identities, the jogger who caught a BUS mid

Tommy Fury courted controversy last weekend when he was accused of lying about completing a 100km triathlon in France.

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51 h. ago Decorator carried out chilling attack on partner during weekend away

A judge said it was clear than when in drink Jason Beech is a 'violent man who cannot control his temper'

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5 d. ago Macron played with fire by razing the political middle ground. Now France is burning | Jules Darmanin

He promised to break the mould, but with his hubristic disdain for left and right – and for voters – the president has entrenched instabilityIn his 2016 manifesto Revolution, the then-presidential candidate, Emmanuel Macron, accused France’s “fossilised political apparatus” of dangerously paving the way for Marine Le Pen’s rise to power. “The political class and the media are a band of sleepwalkers who refuse to see what is coming their way,” he wrote, “so we see the same faces and we hear the same speeches.” He pledged to throw away the old playbook and gather behind him “progressive reformers who believe that the destiny of France is to embrace modernity.”The fresh face of pro-EU liberalism swept to power the following year on a promise of radical change to bring France into the 21st century.Jules Darmanin is a French journalist Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Gregg Wallace breaks silence after MasterChef's all female line

Gregg Wallace and John Torode fronted MasterChef for 21 years, but now they're being replaced by I'm A Celebrity's Grace Dent and top Irish chef and restauranteur, Anna Haugh

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5 d. ago Gordon Ramsay teams up with Burger King to launch £11 wagyu burger

The celebrity chef appears in TV ads for the burger, made with British wagyu beef

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5 d. ago Gordon Ramsay's got beef with Burger King and he's not letting it drop

The celebrity chef isn't happy with the burger giant

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6 d. ago Gordon Ramsay snubbed by daughter Tilly with career decision in 'big kick in the balls'

In recent months celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has spoken lovingly about his daughter Tilly who has recently started her own cooking show on Amazon in which Gordon features

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6 d. ago French anaesthetist goes on trial accused of poisonings that killed 12 patients

Frédéric Péchier, 53, allegedly targeted 30 children and adults at clinic, some of whom could not be resuscitatedA French anaesthetist accused of intentionally poisoning 30 child and adult patients between the ages of four and 89, 12 of whom died, has gone on trial in the city where he worked.Frédéric Péchier, 53, worked at two clinics in the eastern city of Besançon when patients went into cardiac arrest in suspicious circumstances between 2008 and 2017. Twelve could not be resuscitated. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Gordon Ramsay left with 'a lump in my throat' as he opens up about ‘biggest regret’

Gordon Ramsay has been known to lose his temper in the kitchen, but the celebrity chef also has a softer side - and he's not afraid to show it either

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1 week ago Celebrated Scottish chef to open Parisian restaurant and bar Vinette & Vivien on site of Fhior restaurant

A Scottish chef who was recently awarded a Michelin Star is set to bring a taste of Paris to Edinburgh this autumn.

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1 week ago Heston Blumenthal warns business rates and VAT are killing pubs and must be reformed

Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal has urged Labour to prevent a wave of pub closures at the upcoming Budget.

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1 week ago Heston Blumenthal demands Government action to save the great British boozer

Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal owns the one Michelin star gastropub, The Hinds Head, and said the state of the industry is worse than people realise as he urges the UK Government to step in

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1 week ago Celebrated, imprisoned, reviled, rebuilt: Fernand Pouillon, the lost architect of France

From designing enormous postwar housing projects to escaping from prison using a rope, Pouillon’s life had high drama. A new documentary charts the extraordinary rise, fall – and rise again – of France’s ‘most wanted’ creativeVariously described as an “architect, painter, novelist, communist and convicted fraudster”, Fernand Pouillon’s life was punctuated by abrupt reversals of fortune that might have sprung from the pages of Dickens or Dumas. Throughout an eventful career, he ricocheted from intoxicating success, to financial scandal, prison, exile and eventual rehabilitation.In 1985, when Pouillon was in his early 70s, he was awarded the Légion d’Honneur by President François Mitterrand. Yet just over 20 years earlier, Pouillon found himself in custody awaiting trial on charges of corruption. As a prolific architect-developer who had designed gargantuan housing schemes in France and Algeria, he was accused of funding irregularities and violating laws contrived to keep the processe...

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1 week ago Paul Hollywood admits 'struggling' due to Great British Bake Off in rare personal insight

The hit baking show returns to our screens today, but celebrity chef Paul Hollywood has opened up about the challenges the series has brought to his personal life

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1 week ago Putin accuses Europe of spreading 'hysterical horror stories' about a Russian invasion after France and Germany warned of possible attack

Vladimir Putin has today accused Europe of spreading 'hysteria' and 'horror stories', after France and Germany warned of a possible Russian attack.

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1 week ago France has a massive debt crisis. So why is it spending billions a year subsidising business? | Alexander Hurst

The government is on the brink of collapse over planned austerity. Instead it must face up to the costs of its unnecessarily rigid labour marketAs someone who has always been against austerity, I find France, with a national debt at 114% of GDP and a budget deficit of 5.8% of GDP, a conundrum. Despite years of denunciation from his left and far-right opponents that Macron has engaged in “ultraneoliberalism”, there hasn’t been any. Not on a macro level, anyway, where both French government spending (57.3% of GDP) and tax receipts (51.4% of GDP) are among the highest in the world, including social spending, which outpaces any of its European neighbours.At the same time, it’s impossible to have spent the past decade in France without encountering the widely shared perception and accusation that public services are in decline. Doctors and nurses denounce a labour shortage in public hospitals; people who live in rural areas denounce the closing of rural train lines; students and academic...

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1 week ago Gordon Ramsay undergoes surgery to remove skin cancer as he issues warning to fans

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay took to social media to share the news that he has undergone surgery to remove cancer from the side of his face, urging fans to wear sunscreen

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1 week ago Paul Hollywood makes Great British Bake Off demand as he teases future of Channel 4 show

The 59-year-old celebrity chef has been a judge on the reality TV show since it began in 2010

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2 w. ago Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay undergoes treatment to remove skin cancer

Ramsay, 58, has posted thanks on social media to ‘incredible’ health workers and urged followers to remember their sun protectionThe celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has said he has undergone treatment to remove skin cancer, thanking “incredible” health workers for their efforts and urging fans to remember to wear sun protection.Ramsay, 58, said he had basal cell carcinoma, a non-melanoma form of skin cancer, removed, in a post on Instagram. A picture showed dressings below his ear where the cancer had been removed. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Gordon Ramsay shares shock skin cancer news as he undergoes surgery

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has undergone surgery to remove cancer from his face and has issued a warning to fans about the importance of wearing sunscreen

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