6 h. ago The Black Swan review: This astounding BBC documentary about crooked lawyers knocked me for six

Four-part documentary The Black Swan, which (secretly) takes place in one (bent) lawyer's office in Copenhagen, is gripping, astounding television and it knocked me for six.

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50 h. ago Zelenskyy to meet US army secretary after American and Russian officials draft plan to end war – Europe live

The draft plan, reportedly developed by Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Kremlin adviser Kirill Dmitriev, would force draconian measures on UkraineIn the last hour, Ukraine said it had received from Russia the remains of 1,000 people that Moscow said were killed Ukrainian soldiers, in the latest repatriation – a rare area of cooperation between the warring sides, AFP reported.“Today, repatriation measures took place. 1000 bodies, claimed by the Russian side to belong to Ukrainian servicemen, were returned to Ukraine,” Kyiv’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said on social media. Continue reading...

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51 h. ago Ukraine’s PM hosts US army secretary after American and Russian officials draft plan to end war – Europe live

The draft plan, reportedly developed by Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Kremlin adviser Kirill Dmitriev, would force draconian measures on UkraineIn the last hour, Ukraine said it had received from Russia the remains of 1,000 people that Moscow said were killed Ukrainian soldiers, in the latest repatriation – a rare area of cooperation between the warring sides, AFP reported.“Today, repatriation measures took place. 1000 bodies, claimed by the Russian side to belong to Ukrainian servicemen, were returned to Ukraine,” Kyiv’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said on social media. Continue reading...

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62 h. ago Army secretary set to meet with Zelenskyy to help with Ukraine peace talks, officials say

Several high-ranking Army officials, including Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, are in Ukraine to help with peace talks

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3 d. ago Primary school headteacher is struck off after her secret haul of alcohol was found stashed in the cupboards of her office

Leanne Grove, 44, was rumbled when a teaching assistant spotted an empty gin and tonic can in her handbag at Hazeldene School in Bedford.

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3 d. ago Wicked: For Good review – Cynthia Erivo sweeps the field in explosive second chunk of Oz prequel

Bringing her black-belt screen presence to the role of Elphaba, Erivo leads a fine cast in a zingily scored conclusion to the hit origin storyDirector Jon M Chu pulls off quite a trick with this manageably proportioned second half to the epic musical prequel-myth inspired by The Wizard of Oz – and based, of course, on the hit stage show. It keeps the rainbow-coloured dreaminess and the Broadway show tune zinginess from part one, and we still get those periodic, surreal pronouncements given by the city’s notables to the diverse folk of Oz, those non-player characters crowding the streets. But now the focus narrows to the main players and their explosive romantic crises, essentially through two interlocking love triangles: Glinda the Good, Elphaba the Wicked and the Wizard – and Glinda, Elphaba and Prince Fiyero, the handsome young military officer with whom both witches are not so secretly in love, as well as possibly having feelings for each other.Jeff Goldblum is excellent as the W...

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3 d. ago Home Office 'secretly funded boyband to tour Muslim communities singing anti

The British-American pop trio, known as 'Mr Meanor', visited schools across the north of England in 2016.

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4 d. ago Poland suggests Russia is behind railway blast on Ukraine delivery line

Polish officials say Russian secret services appear to have ordered the sabotage of a railway line in Poland

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4 d. ago Will It Snow In London And The UK This Week? Here’s The Full Met Office Forecast For November 2025

Will It Snow In London And The UK This Week? Here’s The Full Met Office Forecast For November 2025  Secret London

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7 d. ago Wes Streeting accused of ‘chaotic and incoherent approach’ to NHS reform

Exclusive: thinktank report finds health secretary has failed to improve productivity, with the health service unlikely to meet its targetsWes Streeting has been accused of taking a “chaotic and incoherent approach” to reforming the NHS which makes it unlikely the government will hit its own targets, according to a damning report by the Institute for Government (IfG).The report praises elements of how the health secretary has managed the health service in his first year in office, including improving performance and staff retention in hospitals. Thepay settlement he reached with resident doctors last year avoided a winter plagued by NHS strikes Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Asylum in UK to be made temporary under Home Secretary’s plans

Shabana Mahmood will lay out reforms modelled on the Danish system on Monday.

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8 d. ago Putin 'regularly cheated on his gymnast lover with calendar girl 17

The school-leaver was secretly smuggled into his official residence or a bolthole once a fortnight when gymnast Alina Kabaeva - now 42 - was away.

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8 d. ago Mahmood to announce ‘sweeping reforms’ to tackle illegal migration

The Home Secretary is expected to set out plans to deter migrants from coming to the UK.

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9 d. ago Wes Streeting says ‘I’m not running a job creation scheme’ as he cuts 18,000 NHS jobs

Major NHS restructure explained as Health Secretary Wes Streeting scraps NHS England and merges back office functions into his government department

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2 w. ago Hungarian autocrat asks Trump if he can hire his blonde attack dog

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán cracked a joke about Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt during a meeting with top officials at the White House on Friday, prompting laughs.

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2 w. ago Man jailed for seven years after sharing Grant Shapps’s details with ‘Russian spies’

Howard Phillips was looking for money when he offered his services to officers who were posing as agents, judge saysA man found guilty of assisting a foreign intelligence service after handing over personal details of the then defence secretary, Grant Shapps, to two undercover officers he believed to be Russian agents has been jailed for seven years.Howard Phillips, 66, was convicted in July after jurors heard he had been seeking “easy money” when he offered his services to the undercover officers, known as Dima and Sasha. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Man jailed for seven years after sharing Grant Shapps’ details with ‘Russian spies’

Howard Phillips was looking for money when he offered his services to officers who were posing as agents, judge saysA man found guilty of assisting a foreign intelligence service after handing over personal details of the then defence secretary, Grant Shapps, to two undercover officers he believed to be Russian agents has been jailed for seven years.Howard Phillips, 66, was convicted in July after jurors heard that he had been seeking “easy money” when he offered his services to the undercover officers, known as Dima and Sasha. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Joint Base Andrews evacuated after multiple people fall ill from suspicious package

The incident happened at Joint Base Andrews, the military base through which VIPs such as the president, vice president, and cabinet secretaries regularly travel on official business

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2 w. ago Unfair to say locals were not consulted on asylum barracks plan – Alexander

The Scottish Secretary hit back at claims the UK Government failed to engage with Inverness officials over proposals to house 300 migrants there.

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3 w. ago Cooper to visit Middle East as UK pledges demining help for Gaza

The UK on Thursday pledged £4 million to help a UN peacekeeping body clear land mines in the enclave.

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