8 h. ago EastEnders love rat Max Branning gets a split lip during massive Christmas bust

EASTENDERS fans will see love rat Max Branning get a split lip following a fight at a family christening as part of the Christmas Day special. The soap character, played by actor Jake Wood, 53, is seen with blood on his face after an argument with his brother Jack, played by Scott Maslen. In scenes...

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10 h. ago He lost an eye, a hand and part of an ear, escaped a POW camp and survived a plane crash... LORD ASHCROFT pays glowing tribute to Britain's unkillable soldier

LORD ASHCROFT: The word 'legend' is overused. But on Remembrance Sunday, it is worth telling the story of a truly remarkable officer.

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10 h. ago Malo Gusto’s first professional goal sets up Chelsea cruise past winless Wolves

Relegation beckons when all it takes to undo 51 minutes of hard graft is a full-back without a goal in 165 games for club and country popping up to break the deadlock. This is the reality for Wolves now. They are in a miserable state, so much so that it is hard to see why Rob Edwards is prepared to leave Middlesbrough to take the vacancy at Molineux, and they looked utterly bereft of fight as Chelsea handed them their ninth defeat of the season.It turned into a rout once Malo Gusto had set Chelsea on the path to victory by scoring the first senior goal of his career. Further strikes from Pedro Neto and João Pedro added a more realistic look to the scoreline. Chelsea, who are up to second, were dominant. They took a while to get going but sprinted away once Gusto had settled their nerves. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago West Ham edge past Burnley to lift gloom after fans fume at ownership

Despair and rancour stalks the concrete corridors of the place that still feels nothing like home for West Ham. Though hope is not yet extinguished. A second home win in succession for Nuno Espírito Santo’s team, the key goal scored by old faithful Tomas Soucek. The defeat of a fellow relegation contender in Burnley may prove vital in the fight against the London Stadium staging Championship football next season. When Soucek’s shot was spilled into Kyle Walker-Peters path for the Hammers’ third, home fans were singing lustily for their team.They already made it known once again, and in no uncertain terms, what they think of the executives running the club. Following a protest against Crystal Palace, boycotting of the Brentford game, a sit-in against Newcastle, unhappy supporters staged a march. A banner declared “15 years of denying West Ham United”. The service road that surrounds the stadium was filled with thousands of protestors, the entrance for club directors’ luxury cars was ...

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15 h. ago West Ham lift gloom with win over Burnley as fans fume at ownership

Despair and rancour stalk the concrete corridors of the place that still feels nothing like home for West Ham. Though hope is not yet extinguished. A second home win in succession for Nuno Espírito Santo’s team, with old faithful Tomas Soucek key in defeating a fellow relegation contender in Burnley. Three points wrested from a contest low on proficiency may prove vital in the fight against the London Stadium staging Championship football next season. “It means everything,” said Nuno.Once Soucek had scored the Hammers’ second, before his shot was spilled into fellow sub Kyle Walker-Peters’ path for the third, home fans were singing lustily. They had already made it known once again, and in no uncertain terms, what they think of those running the club. Following protests against Crystal Palace, the boycotting of the Brentford game, a sit-in against Newcastle, a pre-match march had been staged. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago England suffer Ashes series whitewash as Reece Wash stars again for Australia

England 8-30 Australia: Walsh scored twice in an all-too-easy victory in the third and final Ashes Test

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16 h. ago Inside Ashley Jensen's life from Shetland role to secret marriage

Actress Ashley Jensen first gained fame for her role as Clare Donnelly in the BBC drama Down Among The Big Boys

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18 h. ago ‘The fear is real’: how Midlands attacks have changed Sikh women’s daily lives

Many women are afraid to go out, particularly on their own, after religiously aggravated rapes and assaultsSikh women in the Midlands have told how a spate of religiously motivated attacks have caused fear in their community, forcing some to “change everything” about their daily routines.Two rapes of Sikh women, both in their 20s, in Walsall and Oldbury, have been reported in recent weeks. John Ashby, 32, has been charged in connection with a religiously aggravated rape in relation to the alleged Walsall attack. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Blackpool v Cardiff City LIVE: Ashley Fletcher opens scoring for hosts

The Bluebirds take on the Seasiders in their League One clash

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24 h. ago Josh Hazlewood brushes off concerns about Australia’s ageing attack for Ashes

Just one Australia player - Cameron Green, 26 - is under 30 years of age in their Ashes squad

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24 h. ago Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?

Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protestsHow would you feel if the owner of the football club you support was implicated, even as those implications are repeatedly denied, in famine, ethnic cleansing and the deaths of 1,500 men, women and children?Compare this with the more familiar list of bad things football club owners do, the real sack‑the‑board stuff. Failure to buy a striker. Inadequate Showing Of Ambition. The hiring and/or firing of David Moyes. Mike Ashley was pretty annoying. He had shops full of quilted coats hung really high up close to the ceiling. Continue reading...

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25 h. ago ‘There is bounty almost everywhere’: why you’ll always find me in the flea market on my travels

Forget sightseeing, secondhand shopping is now a major draw for tourists. A seasoned bargain-hunter shares her tips on picking up the best vintage finds when travelling abroadMarburg, Germany. It’s a fairytale city, not only because of the hilltop castle that overlooks its cobbled streets and half-timbered houses, but also because this is where the Grimm brothers once lived and studied, starting the collection of folklore stories that would eventually become their famous anthology of fairytales. Throughout the city, sculptures – some perched in improbable places – pay homage to this past, forming a mile-long route known as the Grimm Path. It’s very much like a treasure hunt.But on my visit to Marburg, I had a different type of treasure hunt in mind and, once done with enchanted mirrors and kissy-lipped frogs, headed straight for the SecondHand by DRK (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz – the German Red Cross) to scout for pre-owned items. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Jake Paul urged to replace Gervonta Davis with former friend

JAKE PAUL has been warned there is only one man fitting to replace Gervonta Davis on Netlflix. The YouTuber-turned-boxer was due to face WBA lightweight world champion Davis next Saturday in an exhibition in Miami. But the spectacle fight was axed with less than two weeks to go after Davis was accused of domestic abuse...

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32 h. ago ‘I didn’t want to make it all about me’: Jake Weatherald on his path to an Ashes call

The opener is in line for an Australia debut after twice taking time away from cricket to protect his mental health and piling on the runs for TasmaniaJake Weatherald and Justin Galeotti travelled separately on the short journey from the coffee shop to the nets for their scheduled hit. They trained as usual and with Galeotti oblivious to the fact Weatherald had just fielded a life-altering phone call from Australia’s chair of selectors, George Bailey, telling him his baggy green dream had almost arrived. The uncapped Weatherald was in the 15-player Ashes squad for the first Test.“It lasted about two minutes,” Weatherald says about the call with Bailey. “I didn’t want to bring it up [with Galeotti] because I felt like it would distract from the net session. I didn’t want to make it all about me. We’d have been talking about it the whole time and not training.” Continue reading...

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36 h. ago Aussies already rattled by war of words with Daily Star as we take aim at 'Dad's Army'

Your Daily Star drafted in cricket fan, Daily Star icon and Radio X DJ Toby Tarrant to have a pop at the Aussies' old and injury-prone Ashes squad - and they've not taken it too well

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37 h. ago As his debut film Once Were Warriors showed, Lee Tamahori was a director of guts and flair

Tamahori was the outstanding director of Along Came a Spider and Die Another Day – but his first film was his greatest workIn 1994, the New Zealand film-maker Lee Tamahori made one of the biggest debuts of the decade, firing on all six cylinders with his gut-wrenching social-realist melodrama Once Were Warriors. The Mekes are a working-class Maori family in South Auckland: Temuera Morrison is the boozing, brawling, bragging alpha-male welfare claimant Jake, who comes home from drinking in the pub with his pathetic sycophant mates to terrorise and assault his wife Beth, played by Rena Owen, and their five children. He is entirely indifferent to the fate of his two elder sons who have drifted into gangland culture and crime, as well as his sensitive daughter Grace, who has talent as a writer. One son gets gang tattoos; the other is taken to a juvenile reformatory where he is at least tutored in the ways of Maori culture – the haka and the taiaha warrior spear – and learns dignity and ...

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39 h. ago Suspected thief arrested after running into path of chief constable

Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Sir Stephen Watson spotted the pursuit and got ahead of the suspect.

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40 h. ago Jon Bon Jovi reads Paul McCartney's Hey Grandude! as he is the latest star  to take on CBeebies Bedtime Stories in a bid to embrace his granddad role

The rock legend, 63, became a grandfather for the first time over the summer when his son Jake Bongiovi, 23, and his wife Millie Bobby Brown, 21, adopted a baby girl.

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41 h. ago ‘Musk is Tesla and Tesla is Musk’ – why investors are happy to pay him $1tn

Making Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire appears to fit a US investment culture of backing high-flying innovatorsFor all the headlines about an on-off relationship with Donald Trump, baiting liberals and erratic behaviour, Tesla shareholders are loath to part with Elon Musk.Investors in the electric vehicle maker voted on Thursday to put the world’s richest person on the path to become the world’s first trillionaire, despite the controversy that is now seemingly intrinsic to his public profile. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago I'm an American who moved to Manchester and there's one thing I absolutely love

Ashley Jackson was left "baffled" by one difference between the UK and US when she moved to Greater Manchester from Texas

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