35 m. ago Major Netflix director slams YouTube as viewers' attention spans are 'assaulted'

Generation Z are increasingly watching YouTube and TikTok instead of traditional entertainment and 'have shorter and shorter attention spans' says The Haunting of Hill House director Mike Flanagan

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44 m. ago EastEnders fans convinced major return set for Kat and Alfie's wedding

An episode this week will serve as the show's Executive Producer's final one

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51 m. ago Ryan Libbey reveals Louise Thompson could only spend five minutes a day with newborn Leo while on 'terrifying' suicide watch after 'mentally checking out'

Louise, 35, nearly died when she welcomed Leo-Hunter in 2021 after a emergency caesarean in which she lost '12 and a half litres of blood.'

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57 m. ago Doctor did 'everything he could' to help baby who died after being given overdose of medication , inquest hears

Two nurses also described how an overdose of atracurium was administered to Polly Ida Lindop while they worked with an unfamiliar piece of apparatus

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63 m. ago Baby dies after getting ten times recommended dose of powerful drug

A leading doctor has told an inquest that a newborn baby was given ten times too much of a powerful drug usually used in surgery - just minutes before she collapsed.

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93 m. ago Jeremy Clarkson spotted making huge move just weeks after 'dreadful' farm decision

Jeremy Clarkson was seen agonising over the decision to buy a new tractor in the final episode of the hit Amazon Prime show - but has now sold the green mega machine

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93 m. ago Manchester City complete signing of Rayan Cherki in final moments before transfer deadline

Cherki signs for Pep Guardiola’s side just in time to feature at the Club World Cup

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1 hour ago BBC's Race Across the World leaders feeling 'confident not cocky' as they enter the final

They've raced 14,000km across Asia now the hit show's loyal audience of 7million will finally find out which of the four teams has clinched victory

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1 hour ago Toddler, two, 'killed by his grandparents' had bleed on the brain caused by 'repeated assaults' and was 'probably going to die', court hears

Dr Jayaratnam Jayamohan said Ethan Ives-Griffiths had been 'desperately ill' when he was rushed to Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, on August 14, 2021.

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2 h. ago England v West Indies: third men’s T20 cricket international – live

T20 updates from Southampton; start 6.30pm BSTWTC final news | Sign up for The Spin | Email James We’ll be underway in less than ten minutes. Just enough time to dig into Don McRae’s wide reaching interview with Pat Cummins on the eve of the WTC Final. Some topics were still off-limits though But the ball-tampering saga remains an awkward topic. He listens quietly while I tell him about my 2021 interview with Cameron Bancroft who, as a callow opening batter trying to find his way in Test cricket, followed instructions to use sandpaper to rough up the ball. His captain, Steve Smith, David Warner and Bancroft were banned and the batter, when pressed on whether any of the bowlers had known of the plan, told me that “it’s probably self-explanatory”.Cummins took seven wickets in that Test, which Australia lost heavily, and I ask if he really had no idea what was being done to the ball. “I don’t want to talk about it,” he says bluntly.” Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Husband wanted to 'do the right thing by terminally ill wife' before they plunged to their death with their two Dachshunds off 300ft cliff, friends claim

John and Lynn King, in their 60s, died instantly alongside their two dogs when their silver Ford Mondeo drove off a cliff close to the Needles on the Isle of Wight on Friday evening.

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2 h. ago Girl, nine and her father, 38, who died in house fire are named by police

Mother Asifa was not at the family home in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, when the blaze took hold as she was on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, in Saudi Arabia.

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2 h. ago Dad and daughter killed in Heckmondwike fire named as sister fights for her life

Cops said 38-year-old Sohaib Ahmed and his nine-year-old daughter Manahal both died at their family home on Sunday morning due to a fire

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2 h. ago Dad of two dies after tragic accident in Turkey after being escorted from plane

Ben Crook was reported missing after travelling to Antalya with his partner Jess Jenkins and their two children.

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2 h. ago ‘Send me some money!’ My unforgettable encounters with the legendary Sly Stone

He went from the towering highs of the 60s and 70s, where he changed the face of music, to the shambolic lows of a decades-long addiction. But interviewing the music genius over the years showed me a man who was awed, revered and strangely shySly Stone, pioneering funk and soul musician, dies aged 82A trailblazer and icon of hope and painSly Stone – a life in picturesIn 2013, there didn’t seem much point in requesting an interview with Sly Stone. It was 31 years since he had released an album of new material, Ain’t But the One Way, which he had abandoned midway through, vanishing completely from the studio and leaving the producer Stewart Levine to patch together what he could. It was longer still since he had produced any music that was even vaguely close to the standard he had set himself in the late 60s and early 70s – a six-year period bookended by the release of the groundbreaking single Dance to the Music in 1967 and his last truly classic album, Fresh, in 1973 – when he could...

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3 h. ago Iván Romeo breaks rivals’ hearts to claim lead at Criterium du Dauphiné

Spanish rider escapes breakaway to win stage threeTime-trial specialist hails his ‘best day of the year’Spain’s Iván Romeo won the third stage of the Criterium du Dauphiné when he streaked clear at the end of a 207km run from Brioude, claiming the overall lead. Romeo surprised his breakaway companions, including the Dutch world champion Mathieu van der Poel, to drop them in the final kilometres and lead the dash into the town of Charantonnay.“I’ve been thinking about this stage for a month now. I can hardly believe it. It was one of the hardest days of my life, I wasn’t feeling well,” said time-trial specialist Romeo. “But I followed my instincts in the final. It’s the best day of the year for me. Hard work pays off.” Continue reading...

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3 h. ago These disabled children died alone in their beds in the same care home. Now police are investigating

Connor, Mia and Raihana, all died in bed at one of Britain’s biggest care homes for disabled children - now police have launched a fresh probe. Health correspondent Rebecca Thomas writes

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3 h. ago Moment actress Diane Morgan discovers shocking family secret about her four times great grandmother

The actress, from Bolton, appeared on Tuesday's episode of the BBC show Who Do You Think You Are to learn more about her ambiguous family history.

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3 h. ago ‘He changed the rules for all of us who came after’: Lee Child remembers Frederick Forsyth

Forsyth did away with the conventions of thriller-writing and still kept readers enthralled. He reset the whole genre, the author of the Jack Reacher novels writes• Frederick Forsyth, Day of the Jackal author and former MI6 agent, dies aged 86I remember two things about the first full week of January 1972. I passed my driving test on the Monday, and on the Friday I made my weekly trip to the library and borrowed The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth. I had no idea I would one day be a writer myself – at that point I was merely an insatiable reader – but in retrospect that Friday marked an important way station on the journey from one to the other.I gobbled up the book and thought it was fantastic – fast, pacy, exciting, suspenseful and laced with detail and intrigue. Then I thought, wait, what? How was this book working? It was a twin-track thriller – an assassin hunts his target while law enforcement hunts the assassin. But the intended victim was Charles de Gaulle, a real per...

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3 h. ago Diego Simeone sends Julian Alvarez transfer message to Liverpool and Arsenal

Diego Simeone has responded to transfer interest in Atletico Madrid star player Julian Alvarez as Arsenal and Liverpool head up a number of parties interested in the former Manchester City ace

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