37 h. ago Gemma Atkinson leaves fans with same observation as she says what 'wouldn't have been possible' without mum

The Hits Radio host made the comments in an Instagram post as she hailed her mum, Sandra, on Mothering Sunday

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38 h. ago Swansea City legend Lee Trundle offers to pull out of Cardiff City charity match amid backlash

The Swans legend has enjoyed something of a frosty relationship with Bluebirds fans over the years

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38 h. ago Adolescence: drama schools hit out at ‘stars from nowhere’ narrative

The drama teachers behind the young actors in the Netflix smash say their lack of recognition ‘has caused wide upset’Adolescence’s stratospheric success has catapulted its young cast of unknown actors into the limelight. Reams of headlines have suggested that they have come from nowhere – yet the grassroots regional drama schools that trained them say this overlooks their hard work.To find undiscovered talent for the show, Adolescence’s casting director, Shaheen Baig, visited two northern drama schools that work with children from underrepresented and deprived communities. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Cynthia Ozick: ‘Alice in Wonderland seems calculatedly cruel’

The American author on the wonder of Little Women, re-evaluating Lolita and her belated discovery of ThoreauMy earliest reading memory Andrew Lang’s Fairy books – the blue, yellow and violet ones. And the unadulteratedly grim Brothers Grimm, evocative phrases like “avenue of trees”, the now and then alluring English archaisms, the always expected three sisters or sons, the youngest first despised and then victorious.The book that changed me as a teenager A late teenager, at 17, and it was two books nearly simultaneously, both histories. One was Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in dazzling prose. The other was Heinrich Graetz’s 19th-century History of the Jews, translated from the German, far out of date but distinctly not dated. (It was revelatory to learn much later that Kafka was immersed in this multivolume work.) Together they gave me a sense of the long and intertwined corridors of the past, and a conviction that a mind shorn of history is vacuous. Continue...

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4 d. ago Gemma Atkinson reveals she had to turn down show she 'loved' as fans stunned by ITV jungle appearance

The Hits Radio host revealed all as she asked her followers to ask some questions this week

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5 d. ago Gemma Atkinson says she 'feels married' in big wedding update amid second home plans

The Hits Radio host and professional dancer Gorka Marques fell in love in the Strictly Come Dancing ballroom back in 2017

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5 d. ago Why BBC Radio 2 has removed lyrics from Spice Girls' classic hit

Listeners notice Spice Up Your Life is not so... spicy

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7 d. ago Gemma Atkinson says daughter 'burst into tears' as she shares grief update after heartbreaking double loss

The Hits Radio host has been open and honest with her followers about the sadness she and her family has faced

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7 d. ago Adolescence, the backlash: the nightmare of making hit TV in terrifying times

From online hate to being mobbed in public, having a televisual smash is becoming increasingly fraught. Should Netflix have hidden its stars away in a safe house?Strangers turning up at your house, a vehicle vandalised, violent commentary online, eyes tracking you as you shop – the last episode of Adolescence chillingly shows the modern consequences of sudden public attention.But the creators of the Netflix show – already seeming certain to sweep the prizes in next year’s TV awards – have, in an upsetting case of life imitating drama, experienced something of this attention (although without, we hope, the criminal elements). Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Hits Radio to pull out of Swansea ending half a century of history

Popular breakfast hosts, Leigh and Claire will leave the station on June 6 as the network will broadcast a single breakfast show across England and Wales instead

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8 d. ago Devastated radio DJ learns show has been axed after 22 years on air in brutal fashion

Leanne Campbell, who fronts the breakfast show on Hits Radio in Liverpool, has helmed the programme for two decades but will now be replaced by a national show

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8 d. ago Radio presenter Leanne Campbell learns show is axed after 22 years as she slams bosses

Hits Radio DJ Leanne Campbell has revealed that her show has been axed after 22 years on air and will now be replaced by a national show instead

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1 week ago Landmark report imagines remarkable future for Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium

With a century of rich history behind it, the report considers how Murrayfield Stadium will evolve over the next 100 years

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1 week ago The sickening views of wannabe school shooter Nicholas Prosper that were so twisted he was banned from website where people watch others die

Nicholas Prosper trawled the internet for sickening images of mass murder, asked if gunshot wounds to the neck were 'lethal' and if 'sex with a corpse feels good' hours before he slaughtered his family.

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1 week ago The twisted internet history of triple killer Nicholas Prosper who murdered his family and planned 'massacre of the century'

Nicholas Prosper trawled the internet for sickening images of mass murder, asked if gunshot wounds to the neck were 'lethal' and if 'sex with a corpse feels good' hours before he slaughtered his family.

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1 week ago Edinburgh and Yorkshire set to host Tour de France Grand Départs in 2027

Men’s and women’s races will both visit UK for three days‘The biggest free spectator event ever hosted in the UK’The men’s Tour de France will return to Britain in July 2027 with a spectacular city-centre Grand Départ in Edinburgh and three stages that trace a route from Scotland through England and into Wales.It will be the third Tour race start in Britain in the last 20 years, after London in 2007 and Yorkshire in 2014, and the most logistically demanding Grand Départ in the century-long history of the race. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Edinburgh and Yorkshire to host Tour de France Grand Départs in 2027

Men’s and women’s races will both visit UK for three days‘The biggest free spectator event ever hosted in the UK’The men’s Tour de France will return to Britain in July 2027 with a spectacular city-centre Grand Départ in Edinburgh and three stages that trace a route from Scotland through England and into Wales.It will be the third Tour race start in Britain in the past 20 years, after London in 2007 and Yorkshire in 2014, and the most logistically demanding Grand Départ in the century-long history of the race. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Gemma Atkinson claps back at being told it's 'easy' for her as she lays out fitness message after 'manly' comments

Those who follow the Hits Radio host on social media will know that she is very much into her health and fitness

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2 w. ago Martin Kemp raises eyebrows with shock confession about son Roman Kemp

Spandau Ballet icon Martin Kemp and radio host son Roman Kemp have a hit on their hands in the form of their podcast - but the singer has made a surprising confession about their working relationship

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2 w. ago Met Office warns 'unprecedented changes' to winds could bring devastating weather to UK

The UK could face some of the wildest weather in recorded history by the end of the century, a new study warns

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