77 m. ago Emmerdale's Bradley Riches admits it's 'a lot' as he reaches soap milestone

The Lewis Barton actor arrived in the Dales four months ago, and celebrated his first soap debut on social media

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2 h. ago Telling a woman she should know how to clean is discriminatory, tribunal rules

The employment judge said the remark by a former Travelodge hotel manager is offensive due to the association with ‘historic and outdated attitudes’ that women have a domestic role

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2 h. ago Biggest Loser star who shed whopping 120lbs reveals how she looks now, as Netflix controversy grows: 'It was hard to watch'

Hannah Curlee Young, 46, appeared on season 11 of the reality contest in 2011, shedding an astonishing 120lbs and finishing runner-up to her sister Olivia Ward, who took home the $250,000 prize.

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2 h. ago Rossa Ryan overcomes 'character building' moments to reach 1,000 win milestone

The 25-year-old took his worldwide score to four figures, gaining his landmark success on Lopeo in the first race at Goodwood on Tuesday

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4 h. ago It’s another Labour reboot challenge: how many adults do they need ‘in the room’ before they start telling the truth? | Marina Hyde

The PM has brought in Darren Jones, whose superpower is ‘relentless delivery’. If that won’t save the world, what will? “If I hear one more of our people saying that deckchairs are being shuffled on the Titanic,” a government supporter of Keir Starmer confided to the Daily Mail, “I will scream.” No need for shrieks. The prime minister’s No 10 hokey cokey on Monday wasn’t so much shuffling the deckchairs as restructuring the deck crew and announcing that some fresh faces will enable the team to work with new focus towards their ultimate goal of reshuffling. Expect the first strategy whiteboard to be broken out 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.For now, hold on to your aperitifs and continue to dress for dinner, because the erstwhile chief secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, becomes something called chief secretary to the prime minister. To Starmer, Darren is a Mr Fixit; to many of his cabinet colleagues, he is a Mr Fuxit. That’s not the official line Downing Steet is going...

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4 h. ago Now showing: it’s Keir Starmer’s march of the ‘grownups’ – the disaster movie we’re all being forced to watch | Marina Hyde

The PM has brought in Darren Jones, whose superpower is ‘relentless delivery’. If that won’t save the world, what will? “If I hear one more of our people saying that deckchairs are being shuffled on the Titanic,” a government supporter of Keir Starmer confided to the Daily Mail, “I will scream.” No need for shrieks. The prime minister’s No 10 hokey cokey on Monday wasn’t so much shuffling the deckchairs as restructuring the deck crew and announcing that some fresh faces will enable the team to work with new focus towards their ultimate goal of reshuffling. Expect the first strategy whiteboard to be broken out 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.For now, hold on to your aperitifs and continue to dress for dinner, because the erstwhile chief secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, becomes something called chief secretary to the prime minister. To Starmer, Darren is a Mr Fixit; to many of his cabinet colleagues, he is a Mr Fuxit. That’s not the official line Downing Steet is going...

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4 h. ago GBBO legend Mary Berry speaks out on retirement with 'resting in heaven' comment

Former The Great British Bake Off judge Mary Berry said she "doesn't think about how old she is" as she discussed retiring, after marking a special milestone this year

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5 h. ago NASA warns a HUGE asteroid the size of a commercial jet will skim past Earth tomorrow at blistering speeds of over 28,000mph

The 38-metre (124ft) space rock will make an exceptionally close pass of our planet at blistering speeds over 28,000 miles per hour (45,000 km/h).

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5 h. ago Extreme heat said to cause EVs to lose up to 44% of their claimed electric ranges

The results found that the Tesla managed 244 miles, which is 44% down over its claimed 436-mile range

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5 h. ago Straight Circle review – boisterous border guard satire from a director to watch

Venice film festivalOscar Hudson’s feature debut, starring twins Elliott and Luke Tittensor as ritual-performing representatives of fictional warring nations, is an absurdist nightmareBritish documentary and ad director Oscar Hudson makes his feature debut in the Venice critics week sidebar with this high-concept anti-war satire, a through-the-looking-glass absurdist nightmare about realising that the otherness of your enemy is an illusion. There are some bold and ambitious images here, and some interesting split-screen work. Maybe there’s an issue about the style and substance ratio and perhaps the running time is indulgent, but this is a strong piece of work.Twins Elliott and Luke Tittensor play two soldiers of equal rank in opposing armies, called Pte Warne and Pte Arthur. They represent two nations of fictional Ruritanian weirdness, formerly at war but who have evidently concluded a tensely unstable peace treaty. Warne has a resplendent white uniform and, like the rest of his co...

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5 h. ago Miley Cyrus unveils 'new music' to dad Billy Ray as he enjoys holiday in Scotland

The country singing legend enjoyed a break on the Isle of Mull with girlfriend Liz Hurley last week and unveiled a new tune by daughter Miley

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6 h. ago Distillery on Scotland's 'whisky island' launches first ever Jazz Festival edition bottling

The 18-year-old whisky, limited to 948 bottles, is priced at £250 and offers a smoky, spiced character

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7 h. ago Suspect admits killing British woman who was 'having affair with her boyfriend' in Cambodia, say police

Kidikila Nganda Glodie was arrested at a hair salon about 1.5 miles from the scene of the killing, officials said

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7 h. ago Rest and Be Thankful A83: Road reopens after heavy rainfall causes 11 landslips near major road

Drivers faced a 60-mile diversion during a “considerable” clean up operation to clear the debris.

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7 h. ago Inside the bulletproof train that Kim Jong Un uses for international trips

The locomotive travels only 60 kilometres (37 miles) per hour and is expected to take 20 hours to get to Beijing

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8 h. ago Yellowstone star pays 'heartbroken' tribute to Graham Greene as beloved actor dies aged 73

Graham Greene, the Oscar-nominated actor who starred in the likes of Dances With Wolves and The Green Mile, has died at the age of 73

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9 h. ago Art and politics are not the same thing – but the Anna Netrebko case shows what happens when they collide | Martin Kettle

The arts and politics are bound to mix, but they are not the same thing. In the cold war, Soviet artists performed in the west. Should the Russian soprano, who has condemned the Ukraine invasion, be blocked from singing in London?It is one of my very earliest concert memories. In October 1965, my father drove us to Manchester to hear Mstislav Rostropovich play in the Free Trade Hall. Rostropovich played Dvořák’s cello concerto with the Moscow Philharmonic, who began the concert with a symphony by Tikhon Khrennikov and ended it with one by Brahms. I was smitten by Rostropovich’s noble playing. I had never heard a musician like him before.This was, though, a concert taking place slap-bang in the middle of the cold war. The Cuban missile crisis had taken place less than three years earlier. The Berlin Wall was still fairly new. The Vietnam war was deepening. That summer I had read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The movie version of Le Carré’s novel, with Richard Burton, was due out...

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9 h. ago Only The Poets admit 'it's our dream' as they reveal major career milestone

EXCLUSIVE: Only The Poets stars Tommy and Clem have revealed that the band have reached a huge milestone, performing at their 'dream' venue as they make a passionate plea

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9 h. ago Edinburgh book wholesaler hails ‘milestone’ opening for 50% expansion

“We’ve come a long way since the business was founded in a small retail unit in Stockbridge, almost 40 years ago” – Lewis Dawson, MD

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17 h. ago Graham Greene dead: Dances with Wolves and The Green Mile actor passes away at 73

Graham Greene, who was nominated an Oscar for his role in the Western film Dances with Wolves in 1990, had an illustrious Hollywood career, which spanned nearly 50 years

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