34 m. ago How many migrants crossed the Channel yesterday? Groups arrive in UK after busy night of small boat journeys

More than 41,000 people have now made the dangerous small boats journey this year, after a record day of activity for a December on Saturday

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39 m. ago Urgent appeal issued as boy, 15, missing from home for two days

People are being urged to look out for him

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42 m. ago New footage shows Bondi Beach survivors hiding just feet away from gunmen carrying out massacre

The crowd of people could be seen running for their lives on December 14, when one of the suspected shooters, Sajid Akram, 50, appeared at the top of the staircase.

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43 m. ago Tired formats, tight budgets and lazy celeb collabs : is Christmas TV rubbish this year?

The Wheel, The Masked Singer, Mrs Brown’s Boys... these days, Christmas Day can feel a bit of a cultural wasteland

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45 m. ago Don't call immigration a threat, says new equalities watchdog

Mary-Ann Stephenson hit out at the 'demonisation of migrants' and people 'creating this idea' that the level of arrivals was a problem.

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52 m. ago I tried Rick Stein's London restaurant and can sum it up in three words

One of the UK's most renowned chefs, Rick Stein, has a single restaurant in the capital - and I decided to put its cuisine to the test.

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56 m. ago Traitors star Fozia Fazil on representing Muslim women on TV and her tips for future contestants

‘South Asian people are not encouraged to go into showbiz,’ former Faithful tells Shaheena Uddin

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65 m. ago Lush boss says shoppers who oppose his views on Gaza shouldn’t shop at his stores

Mark Constantine OBE led a shutdown of Lush stores earlier this year in solidarity with people in Gaza

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81 m. ago UK leaving European convention on human rights would be a mistake, equalities chief warns

Mary-Ann Stephenson defends convention as ‘really important’ and warns against demonisation of migrantsTaking the UK out of a European human rights treaty to quell rightwing anger over immigration would be a mistake, the new chair of Britain’s equalities watchdog has said, as she warned against the demonisation of people who migrate to the UK.Mary-Ann Stephenson, who became head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission in December, said the European convention on human rights was part of a framework that provides rights most people would agree were fundamental. But she said the tone of public conversation on it was often dangerous. Continue reading...

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86 m. ago Dead Man's Fingers: Scottish dog owners warned as poisonous plant found on beaches

The police have told people in the local area “do not touch”.

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1 hour ago Mum charges £100 per head for Christmas dinner and says she has good reason

Christmas is a time when spending ramps up, and for some people, it can be a source of stress. One woman charges her family for meals and hosting over the festive period

Economics

1 hour ago Christmas movie 'for people who hate Christmas movies' on Film 4 tonight

Despite a star cast, the film has received mixed reviews with some hailing it as 'one of the freshest holiday movies' but others declaring it to be 'appallingly bad'

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2 h. ago Bondi Beach attack suspect 'recorded motivation video,' police claim

Accused gunman Naveed Akram allegedly recorded video with father outlining justification for attack on Jewish celebration that killed 15 people, court documents reveal

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2 h. ago I tried Rick Stein's restaurant and can sum it up in just three words

The culinary legend has just one restaurant in the capital and it's based in Barnes, so I thought I'd try out the festive set menu to see if it's worth the hype

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2 h. ago I ate at legendary chef's restaurant – three words sum it up

Rick Stein's only London restaurant sits on the Thames in Barnes, so I tried the festive menu to see if the Padstow legend's food is worth the fuss

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2 h. ago The hill I will die on: ‘Small plates’ are fiddly and cost a fortune – ban them | Jonny Woo

A saucer of pomegranate seeds and something sprinkled with petals? No thanks: just give me dinnerIt’s lovely going out for dinner in London. It’s a gastro capital with cuisines from all around the world. One night, Indian, French the next, Peruvian, Ethiopian. You can travel the globe without leaving Hackney.This time of year, I’m super busy planning the un-Royal Variety show – a punk pastiche of the royal version – and so I can’t be bothered with meal prep and washing up, and find myself eating out an awful lot. Most food trends I can get behind (with the exception of truffle – yuck!). But one pernicious dining trend that refuses to go away and which I detest is “small plates”.Jonny Woo is a performer, drag artist, writer, and co-owner of The Divine, he will be hosting his Un-Royal Variety at Soho Theatre Walthamstow 26-28 November 2026. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Light Needs review – a blooming lovely meditation on plants and their people

Houseplants appear to make conversation and yearn for lost friends in a witty yet luminous documentary from Jesse McLeanThis experimental documentary by Jesse McLean about houseplants inspired me to go around my house and water all my vegetal housemates and treat the mealybug infections afflicting the jade plants in my office. Now I feel better for it in every way, while also basking in the afterglow of this luminous piece of film-making that is cinematic fertiliser for thought.With a gentle touch that blends wonder and wit, prioritising none of the different voices and viewpoints we hear over any other (and that includes from plants themselves), McLean builds up an audiovisual collage of perspectives on plant-people relations. Some of the humans featured are merely silent subjects, often as still as the potted protagonists themselves. One woman is a bit woo-woo – but persuasively and charmingly so – about how one of her plants seemed to wither away with loneliness after being separ...

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2 h. ago ‘You have to be ready to see it’: Abel Ferrara and Catherine Breillat on why Pasolini’s Salò is a gift that keeps giving

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s notorious film is now 50 years old, and its cavalcade of shocking cruelty and violence still leaves a stark impact on its viewers. Film-makers explain why Pasolini ‘was a saint to us’Abel Ferrara was there at the beginning. In his new memoir, Scene, the cult director describes his experience at the American premiere of Salò, the hugely controversial final film from Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini. At the beginning of the film – at which Ferrara and company arrived with wine and cheese, given its length – there were 15 people in the audience. Once the credits rolled, there were eight. “I was standing with like six people,” Ferrara says now. “And you know, two or three of those people I still see.”When it comes to Salò, it seems that you never forget your first time. The film, which has reached its 50th anniversary in 2025, is known for its seemingly endless cavalcade of cruelty and violence, leaves a stark impact on those who come across it. “We had high ex...

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3 h. ago JOHN MURDOCH'S DRIVE TIME: We take a spin in the Chery Tiggo 7 super hybrid and reveal how Mercedes will soon be offering new GLB seven

The name Chery may not be familiar to you, but it is a giant company that owns the Jaecoo and Omoda brands and has already launched them into our market with some success.

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3 h. ago ‘It’s upset us all’: New Forest residents unnerved by man leaving animal carcasses by churches

Case of man who apparently targeted Christians is latest in series of incidents in Hampshire of animal remains being dumped The people of the New Forest are accustomed to curious goings-on. The woods and heaths of the national park in southern England are the setting for all manner of tales of witches, pixies, cursed souls and rituals, and, even today, are a magnet for those fascinated by the otherworldly.But residents are aghast at the case of a local man who hit the headlines after admitting dumping the carcasses of animals, including black lambs, near churches in and around the forest, apparently targeting Christian worshippers. Continue reading...

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