23 h. ago Jeremy Vine looks back: ‘What will I do after Radio 2? I don’t know. Die?’

The broadcaster on radioactive tomatoes, his suburban upbringing and still being a showoffBorn in 1965 in Epsom, Surrey, Jeremy Vine is a journalist and broadcaster. Vine’s media career began at the Coventry Evening Telegraph before he landed a job at the BBC in 1987, where he has worked in a number of roles including as a political reporter, Africa correspondent and Newsnight presenter. As well as his weekday programme on BBC Radio 2, he presents a self-titled weekday morning show on Channel 5. His new novel, Murder on Line One, is out now.My dear old mum would have pulled this costume together. If you dress a boy as a soldier, he will almost certainly crawl around the floor like a sniper, which I did. Shortly after this was taken, I decided to launch a large log over my shoulder as if it were a bazooka. The back of it hit my head on the way past. I did myself a bit of mischief that day. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Moment bungling drug dealer repeatedly falls to the floor as he tries to flee police in an untied dressing gown

A bungling drug dealer has been arrested as part of a major police operation after running away from cops while in his untied dressing gown. 

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5 d. ago David Harbour flashes a huge smile while showing off his thick head of hair amid transplant rumours as he returns to the UK for first time since Lily Allen split for Thunderbolts* premiere

The Stranger Things star, 50, hit the star-studded red carpet and showed off a thick head of hair amid rumours of a transplant as a result of a mid-life crisis.

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5 d. ago Cocaine in a shoe, cash in a crisp packet and a runaway boss in a pink dressing gown

'All of you bombs get out of bed and make some f*****g money'

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5 d. ago The Pope's tradition of being hit on the head with silver hammer after death

The post-mortem practice involves three blows to the head with a special hammer.

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7 d. ago Fan arrested after assistant referee hit on head with object at St

Match against Lyon interrupted for about 40 minutesSt-Étienne say they will impose ‘strictest sanctions’A man has been arrested after an assistant referee was hit by an object thrown from the stands during Saint-Étienne’s 2-1 home win over Lyon in Ligue 1 on Sunday.Lyon were about to take a throw-in in the 44th minute when the official, Mehdi Rahmouni, was shown holding a hand to his head after being hit by what appeared to be a coin, L’Équipe reported. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Revealed: British barrister who once stood for parliament drowned in front of his teenage son while on holiday in Tenerife

Veteran barrister Stephen Howd, 57, hit his head on a rock and died after getting into difficulty while swimming with his teenage son, William, off the coast of Santa Cruz in April 2023.

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2 w. ago Cop killer's final act of defiance before being shot dead by prison firing squad in violent execution

Mikal Mahdi, with a hood over his head, cried out as the three bullets to the heart hit him and his arms flexed. A red bull's-eye that was placed over his heart was pushed into the bullet wound in his chest.

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2 w. ago Jimmy White admits 'wanting to hit rival on head with cue' for annoying snooker act

Jimmy White and Steve Davis had a fierce rivalry on the snooker table, with the Whirlwind admitting there was one habit of the six-time world champion that really got on his nerves

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2 w. ago ‘We’re location scouting’: Where next for White Lotus and who will star?

HBO renewed Mike White’s hit drama before third season aired and rumours abound about luxury settings and return of starsYou’ve only just got home from a holiday when you start planning the next one. So it is with the super-rich spa satire The White Lotus. The gunsmoke is still clearing from the finale of the third season but speculation is rife about where the HBO hit will head next.This week’s climax of Mike White’s drama might have divided critics, but it was still group chat-dominating, column inch-gobbling TV, notching its highest ratings yet. The show was renewed for a fourth trip before the third had even aired, with White reportedly pitching HBO execs his next idea while still filming in Koh Samui. Buzz is now building about the next chapter, expected on our screens in late 2026. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Queen Camilla dons her wedding dress in Italy to celebrate 20th anniversary with King Charles

Queen Camilla stepped out in the Anna Valentine design, which has been repurposed two decades later by the same designer.

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3 w. ago Netflix's Virgin River season seven release date as filming begins

Netflix fans are left wondering when they will get the latest season of the hit show Virgin River as cast and crew head to Vancouver to start filming

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3 w. ago Jennifer Lopez stuns on red carpet with gender neutral child Emme in man's tux as her 'date'

Jennifer Lopez looked dressed for revenge as she wowed in a black gown  with a floor-length cape while attending opening night of Good Night, and Good Luck.

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3 w. ago Jennifer Lopez shows Ben Affleck what he's missing while attending George Clooney's Broadway debut

Jennifer Lopez looked dressed for revenge as she wowed in a black gown  with a floor-length cape while attending opening night of Good Night, and Good Luck.

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3 w. ago MLB star gets hit in the head with his OWN bat in weirdest moment of the season so far

The full-fledged MLB season is less than a week old, so the candidates for 'funniest moment of the year' are slim. But, we appear to have a clubhouse leader so far.

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3 w. ago Coroner says woman who killed herself ‘may have lived’ if full care plan set up

Rosie Fender, died of a serious head injury after being hit by a train near Romsey, Hampshire, on February 3 2022.

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3 w. ago Cowardly act of doctor 'who tried to murder nuclear engineer wife in Hawaii' as he's seen for first time since

Gerhardt Konig, 46, allegedly tried to push his wife Arielle Konig off a cliff before he hit her in the head with a rock and attempted to inject her with an unknown substance

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4 w. ago Inbetweeners star admits people still 'shout in street' and call him Carli 17 years on

His character Simon was obsessed with school crush Carli D’Amato, played by Emily Head, in the hit comedy series The Inbetweeners that took the UK by storm from 2008

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last month Gangster released hostages after his mum in dressing gown hit him over head with her bag

Criminal, Amos Atkinson took 30 people hostage at an Italian restaurant demanding the jail release of notorious ganger, Mark 'Chopper' Read - until his mum - in her dressing gown - gave him what for

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