5 h. ago Amy Dowden's statement in full as she takes break from Strictly for major surgery

Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden has announced that she is set to undergo a second mastectomy this week and will be taking a break from the BBC show

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5 h. ago McDonald's set to make major changes to classic Happy Meal box this week

McDonald's fans might notice a massive change to the Happy Meal boxes this month as the fast food giant is scrapping the classic colour

Politics

6 h. ago Squid Game: The Challenge season 2 cast from oldest player to A

Netflix's Squid Game: The Challenge season 2 is set to be released this week and will see 456 new players compete for a chance to win $4.56 million

Sport

6 h. ago The US government shutdown rattles into a new month as Trump dig his heels in

The government shutdown is set to become the longest ever this week

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15 h. ago How to get a £16 MAC Christmas lipstick gift set for free this week

"MAC lipsticks never disappoint but, this shade is so universally flattering. Plus, the Lustreglass range is so moisturising"

Economics

33 h. ago When is Blackpool week on Strictly? Date BBC show will go to Blackpool Tower in Series 23

Strictly Come Dancing has set a date for its Blackpool Week 🗼💃🕺

Culture

34 h. ago Dutch voters have been seduced by positivity – liberals elsewhere, take note | Simon van Teutem

By selling hope alongside progressive patriotism, the centrist D66 party widened its appeal and beat the far rightProgressives often treat patriotism as radioactive. Flags and anthems are left to the populist right. But the centrist D66 party, which almost tripled its seats in this week’s Dutch election and looks set to form the next government in the Netherlands, has shown that another approach is possible.Under the leadership of Rob Jetten, it used what we might call progressive patriotism – and voters responded. Five strategies defined that success. Politicians across Europe could learn a thing or two.Simon van Teutem is a writer for De Correspondent Continue reading...

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69 h. ago Strictly's Karen Hauer hits out at judges with frustrated comment over controversial dance

Karen Hauer has hit back at the judges after her Argentine tango split the panel on last week's heat of Strictly Come Dancing where she set an Argentine tango to an Usher track

Events

3 d. ago Celebrity Traitors star set to make appearance during Strictly Come Dancing’s Halloween week

The Celebrity Traitors star will perform during Halloween week on Strictly Come Dancing

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3 d. ago Kate Garraway pinpoints Celebrity Traitors winner after 'sneaky feeling'

TV fanatics have been loving Celebrity Traitors as it has become the most watched un-scripted show since 2022 and the final is set to take place just next week

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3 d. ago Princes Group valued at £1.16bn as food firm launches London float

It will therefore be valued at the bottom end of a £1.16 billion to £1.24 billion target range set out last week.

Economics

3 d. ago Sports quiz of the week: prizes, punches, persistence and set

Have you been following the big stories in football, cricket, rugby, boxing, darts, baseball and swimming? Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Jude Bellingham stars alongside Dua Lipa's fiance Callum Turner in new Louis Vuitton collection inspired by Pharrell Williams

The brand revealed its Men's Spring Summer 2026 pre-collection this week, with the set inspired by singer Pharrell Williams. Bellingham and Turner are seen in country gardens.

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4 d. ago The Weekend Drop: Florence + the Machine, Cat Burns, The Charlatans, Witch Fever and your other album releases

What’s our pick of the albums set for release on a hauntingly good New Music Friday this week?

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4 d. ago Netflix is removing James Norton and Lesley Manville's forgotten London

Netflix is removing James Norton and Lesley Manville's forgotten London-set drama this week  Yahoo News UK

Politics

5 d. ago Trump is often angry but rarely hurt – yet Canada has managed to pull it off | Emma Brockes

Why has an ad quoting Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs triggered such a reaction from the president?One difficulty of a presidency as volatile as Donald Trump’s is separating what makes him angry (almost everything) from what genuinely, revealingly enrages him – what sends him round the bend at the mineral level. For instance, he hates Letitia James, the New York attorney general who in 2022 successfully brought a civil fraud case against him and whom he has since urged the justice department to pursue for mortgage fraud. But that’s just basic revenge – see also his pursuit of ex-FBI director James Comey. More interesting are the fleeting, trivial things that set Trump off, including his meltdown last week over a TV commercial from Canada.On the surface it didn’t seem like a particularly big deal: a TV ad airing on US television, paid for by the Canadian province of Ontario, in which an audio clip of Ronald Reagan denouncing tariffs ran over inspiring footage of the American wes...

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5 d. ago Gavin Newsom tells supporters of redistricting proposal to ‘stop donating’

California governor launched the effort to counter Texas’s gerrymander and has far out-raised measure’s opponentsWith just one week before California voters are set to head to the polls to decide on the state’s redistricting proposal, Gavin Newsom sent an unexpected message to would-be donors: keep your money.“We have hit our budget goals and raised what we need in order to pass Proposition 50. You can stop donating,” the California governor said in an email. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Gavin Newsom tells Prop 50 supporters to ‘stop donating’ after war chest swells

California governor launched redistricting effort to counter Texas’s gerrymander and has out-raised oppositionWith just one week before California voters are set to head to the polls to decide on the state’s redistricting proposal, Gavin Newsom sent an unexpected message to would-be donors: keep your money.“We have hit our budget goals and raised what we need in order to pass Proposition 50. You can stop donating,” the California governor said in an email. Continue reading...

Events

6 d. ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing 'axe' stars' plans to honour Tess and Claudia

Strictly Come Dancing judges Anton Du Beke and Craig Revel Horwood were set to don some alternative costumes for Icons Week, but ultimately decided against the idea

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6 d. ago Coronation Street spoilers as Ben's son missing, Lisa's wedding bombshell and Carl tricks Debbie

Hope Dobbs' messenger also looks set to be 'revealed' next week

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