3 h. ago The Gareth Davies interview: I'm not ready to hang up boots yet and my plans for life after rugby

Gareth Davies' business Blackbear Property is thriving but he has no intention of hanging up his boots just yet

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5 h. ago My mother was a famous feminist writer known for her candour and wit. But she was also a fantasist who couldn’t be bothered to spend time raising me

When Fear of Flying, her autobiographical novel about women’s sexual desires, came out in 1973, Erica Jong was suddenly big news. But growing up as her only child, I had a very different experienceIn August 1978, I was born in a hospital in Stamford, Connecticut. I came out with red hair. This was proof to my mother that I was special. The fantasy of my specialness continued my entire life. I was special even though I was dyslexic. I was special even though I got kicked out of college. I was special even though I was a drug addict. I was special despite my fatness. I was special despite all the evidence to the contrary. I was special because I was a piece of her.I read an interview with my mother in which the interviewer described me as a “stout” toddler. “Stout” means “kind of fat”. I never thought of a toddler as being able to be fat, but there it was. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Passenger jet forced to return to London Heathrow after windscreen cracks

The plane was carrying 188 passengers and crew when pilot was forced to take evasive action

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11 h. ago Munroe Bergdorf: ‘If somebody isn’t willing to use my correct pronouns, there’s not any conversation to be had’

A prominent voice in the fight for trans rights, the author, model and activist reflects on the cost of speaking out in a new documentary and calls for deeper allyship in her latest book. In recent years, while working on these projects, she has faced significant personal challenges, which she shares with Olivia Petter

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11 h. ago The Gold’s Charlotte Spencer: ‘I worry that acting is becoming only accessible for the rich’

The actor is fast becoming a familiar face on British television, from ‘Glue’ to ‘Line of Duty’. As she returns as Nicki Jennings in BBC’s heist drama, she talks to Gabriel Tate about rejection, rethinking accessibility in the arts and ‘why she’s not expecting to be famous’

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16 h. ago Trump administration to send national guard to Los Angeles amid Ice protests

Border czar Tom Homan says: ‘We’re already mobilizing’ as immigration crackdown erupts into mass protestsThe Trump administration will deploy the national guard to immigration protests in Los Angeles, border czar Tom Homan said on Saturday, as an immigration crackdown in the area erupted into mass protests with police in riot gear deploying teargas at bystanders.“We’re already mobilizing. We’re gonna bring national guard in tonight and we’re gonna continue doing our job. This is about enforcing the law,” Homan said in an interview with Fox News. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Trump warns Musk of ‘very serious consequences’ if he backs Democrats

US president says he’s ‘too busy doing other things’ to try to reconcile with erstwhile ally and campaign backerDonald Trump warned Elon Musk on Saturday that he faces “very serious consequences” if he funds Democratic candidates following the pair’s epic public bust-up this week.The warning, delivered in an interview with NBC News scheduled to broadcast on Sunday, follows days of feuding and threats after Musk called Republicans’ budget legislation an “abomination”. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Prince William discusses David Attenborough's new documentary for World Oceans Day

The Prince of Wales is marking World Oceans Day this year with an interview with Sir David Attenborough ahead of the release of his new documentary, Ocean with David Attenborough.

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23 h. ago ‘Okay, wow’: JD Vance reacts to Trump and Musk feud after seeing Elon’s Epstein tweet

JD Vance broke his silence on the feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk during an interview with comedian Theo Von.

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24 h. ago Wynne Evans' family's true thoughts on Strictly saga days before show axe

In a recent interview, Welsh opera singer Wynne Evans, best known for his role in the Go.Compare adverts, shared insights into his girlfriend and daughter's reactions following the scandal

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25 h. ago JD Vance says Elon Musk’s attack against Trump is a ‘huge mistake’

Vice-president was interviewed by comedian Theo Von, who also asked him if he ‘got high’ on election nightJD Vance said Elon Musk was making a “huge mistake” going after Donald Trump in a storm of bitter and inflammatory social media posts after a falling-out between the two men.But the vice-president, in an interview released on Friday after the very public blowup between the world’s richest person and arguably the world’s most powerful, also tried to downplay Musk’s blistering attacks as an “emotional guy” who got frustrated. Continue reading...

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25 h. ago JD Vance breaks his silence on Trump and Musk feud after seeing Elon’s Epstein tweet during Theo Von interview

Comedian Theo Von was the first person to show Vice President JD Vance a tweet by Elon Musk accusing President Donald Trump of being in the Epstein files.

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29 h. ago Fuelled by booze and cocaine, remorseless thug made two women's lives miserable

Nathan Hulme has been jailed

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29 h. ago Fuelled by booze and cocaine, remorseless thug made women's lives miserable

'So angry, he was foaming at the mouth'

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31 h. ago BBC The One Show's Alex Jones nods awkwardly as Lulu 'swears' live on air

The One Show host Alex Jones was left mortified on Friday night after singer Lulu appeared to swear during an interview

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32 h. ago Massive earthquake captured on live TV as hosts scramble in fear and interview cut short

Chilean presidential candidate Carolina Toha's live TV interview was cut short as a massive earthquake caused chaos in the studio, causing her and the hosts to flee

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34 h. ago Bombshell truth about why I don't speak to my dad Jeff: In his only interview FREDDY BRAZIER accuses his father of being obsessed with money, controlling his every move and even SPYING on him

As a father and son duo on the much-loved BBC show Celebrity Race Across The World , Jeff Brazier and his youngest boy Freddy won the hearts of millions of viewers.

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35 h. ago Bryce Dallas Howard: ‘I was such a messed up kid – I would walk around the Disney lot reading about euthanasia’

The star of ‘Jurassic World’ and ‘The Village’ plays a struggling improv comic in her very funny new film, ‘Deep Cover’. She speaks to Adam White about her famous father, the hyper-fame that never materialised for her, and why her storytelling mantra is simple: more peril and more dismemberment

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35 h. ago Little Simz on breakthroughs, betrayal and becoming one of the UK’s best

Critics’ favourite and curator of this month’s Meltdown festival, the British artist is flying high. But a nasty legal battle with her closest collaborator and a crisis of confidence left her close to calling it quits. Instead, she put it all on the new albumIt’s an unseasonably warm spring afternoon and sunlight is beaming through the floor-to-ceiling windows of a north London photo studio. When I arrive, Little Simz is out on the balcony. Wearing chunky sunglasses, a skirt and comfy cardigan, she sits on a chair with her back to the sun, eyes on the horizon, and pulls her legs up, wrapping her arms around her knees in a defensive position that’s verging on foetal.It’s curious body language for an artist at the top of her game. At 31, Simz is looking out at a city she can justifiably claim to have conquered since emerging as a teenage rapper more than a decade ago. But that’s not where she’s at right now. “I genuinely felt like I could disappoint everyone,” Simz says when I ask abo...

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35 h. ago Electric Spark by Frances Wilson review: Muriel is as intriguing as her novels

What is so fascinating about Muriel Spark? In the last decade before she died aged 88 in 2006, any interview with the Scottish author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie became an event. The excitement was firstly because she was an artist of the old school, famous not only for her brilliant and complex novels, but also for her unconventional life in Italy, where she lived up a hill with her friend Penelope Jardine, who was also her assistant (and now, in her nineties, her literary executor).

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