3 d. ago Inside Rylan Clark's luxurious 1.2m Essex mansion with iconic Gogglebox sofa and swimming pool house

Rylan Clark will return to the BBC this Friday to present Comic Relief 2025 with the charity celebrating its 40th anniversary.

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1 week ago We retired to Greece without a big pension. Now we eat out three times a week, have a house with a pool and two cars

Two years ago, Ron and Marcia Gibbs swapped doing the school run with their grandchildren in Newton Abbot, Devon for a new life on the largest Greek island - Crete.

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2 w. ago Trump is turning the media into a mouthpiece of the regime | Lawrence Douglas

As the White House handpicks members of the press pool, questions for the president amount to fluffy valentinesYou know we’re in trouble when Fox News emerges as the great defender of freedom of the press. But such was the case when Jacqui Heinrich, a senior political correspondent at Fox, responded to the news that Trump’s White House would now handpick the reporters who get to cover the president in small settings, with the post: “This move does not give the power back to the people – it gives power to the White House.” Heinrich was specifically responding to press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s Orwellian claim that letting Donald Trump choose who would cover him was designed to restore power “back to the American people”.The fruits of the new policy were richly on display during the sickening scene that unfolded in the Oval Office last week. If the president and JD Vance’s disgraceful treatment of Volodymyr Zelenskyy wasn’t bad enough, there was the unprecedented role that the “pre...

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2 w. ago AP files amended complaint against White House over press pool ban

White House adviser’s quote included in suit: ‘The AP and the WHCA wanted to f--k around. Now it’s finding out time.’The Associated Press amended its complaint against the Trump administration on Monday, including in its epigraph a punchy quote from an anonymous White House adviser: “The AP and the White House Correspondents Association wanted to f--k around. Now it’s finding out time.”The unnamed White House adviser’s quote came about during an exchange on 25 February 2025 and was first reported by Axios last week. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago We retired to Greece without a big, fat pension and live comfortably on £1,650 a month in a house with a pool

Two years ago, Ron and Marcia Gibbs swapped doing the school run with their grandchildren in Newton Abbot, Devon for a new life on the largest Greek island - Crete.

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3 w. ago White House kicks HuffPost, Reuters and foreign press out of first Trump Cabinet meeting

The White House kicked HuffPost, Reuters and a representative of the foreign press out of the traditional 'pool' Wednesday.

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3 w. ago Outcry as White House starts dictating which journalists can access Trump

Even Fox News correspondent decries move that journalists say will ‘tear at independence of a free press’ in USThe Trump administration announced it will take control of the White House press pool, stripping the independent White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) of its longstanding role in deciding which journalists have access to the president in intimate settings.The move has immediately triggered an impassioned response from members of the media – including a Fox News correspondent who called it a “short-sighted decision”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Fox News correspondent slams Trump administration for new press access rules that ‘gives power to the White House’

Leavitt announced at Tuesday’s press briefing that the White House would now choose the press pool participants going forward

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