75 m. ago Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters: I’m absolutely hooked by this cheeky, danger

Lenny Henry, Rachel Riley and a tank full of primeval nightmare fuel: everyone’s a winnerI am obsessed with sharks. Fifty years on from Jaws, and for me no film can touch it. I trawl YouTube for unspeakable footage. On a recent holiday to France, I made my nonplussed household watch every shark documentary on National Geographic. I’ll even make time for guff like Jaws 4 or Sharknado 5: Global Swarming. I’m metaphorically chumming the water at every opportunity. Every so often, something shows up.Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters (ITV1, Wednesday 16 July, 9pm) sees seven public figures with a fear of sharks mercilessly pushed into the water to swim with some. Say no more – I’m hooked. The victims – sorry, participants – include Lenny Henry, Lucy Punch, Ross Noble and the bassist from McFly. I like some of these people very much, and hope they don’t mind that I would love them to be ripped in half and devoured in high definition, thrashing about in a vortex of reddening water. It’s not...

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3 h. ago How to watch Lions vs AUNZ Invitational XV: TV channel and live stream for rugby today

Owen Farrell to make his tour debut in final warm-up fixture ahead of Australia Test series opener

Sport

3 h. ago Young people don’t feel part of the EU – and they’re right | Francesco Grillo

Its remote, top-down structures need a fresh, citizen-led approach fit for the digital age. Let’s start by extending Erasmus to school-goersThe former Italian prime minister Mario Draghi produced his much-awaited prescription for how to reboot Europe’s economy last year. The Draghi report was rightly applauded as a rude awakening for a European Union that is far too complacent about its own obsolescence. Draghi concluded that an €800bn-a-year public spending boost would be needed to end years of stagnation. If Europe did not catch up with its rivals, he warned, it would face a “slow and agonising” decline.And yet, one ingredient was missing from Draghi’s recipe. In his nearly 400-page roadmap for rescuing the EU, the word “democracy” is mentioned only three times (once in the bibliography). By contrast, “integration” is used 96 times and “defence” 391 times. It’s true that Draghi’s report was explicitly devoted to the future of European competitiveness (and not more widely to the Eu...

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6 h. ago Junior doctors planning to strike AGAIN over pay 'are now earning as much as £100,000 a year'

Earlier this week, the British Medical Association (BMA) announced that up to 50,000 resident doctors in England would walk out for five consecutive days from 7am on July 25, in a dispute over pay.

Economics

7 h. ago ANDREW NEIL: It sends a shiver down the spine but I'm not sure Farage and Le Pen would do a worse job than these two puffed

Look behind all the flummery, the exaggerated public gestures of affection and the relentless self-congratulation during President Emmanuel Macron's state visit to Britain this week.

Politics

8 h. ago Leading doctors urge BMA to reconsider strikes amid concerns over public trust

Lord Ara Dazi and Professor Sir Stephen Powis are urging resident doctors to reconsider strikes planned for later this month.

Events

9 h. ago Police issue update on search for boy, 11, who has been reported missing

They have asked the public to go home and let specialist officers continue the search

Events

9 h. ago Melania Trump makes rare public statement with tribute to Camp Mystic girls caught up in catastrophic Texas floods

Melania Trump made a rare public statement on Friday as she paid tribute to the children who died in the terrible Texas floods.

Events

9 h. ago How Donald and Melania Trump are acting like 'newlyweds' following string of 'flirty' public displays

Donald and Melania Trump could be more in love than ever, according to a body language expert, as they put on a 'flirty' display Friday that made them look like 'newlyweds.'

Politics

10 h. ago Miami Archbishop shreds MAGA’s praise of Alligator Alcatraz amid reports of inhumane conditions: ‘Unbecoming of public officials’

Immigrants held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ say they’re given maggot-infested food and don’t have water to take baths

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13 h. ago Meghan Markle faces 'new reputational issue' with 'messy and uncoordinated' reinvention

Ever since the start of Meghan's romance with Prince Harry, she has gone through many different stages of life - but her transitions have not always gone down well with the general public.

Politics

13 h. ago Study: Most zoning decisions in Fairfield, New London counties made by white homeowners

Study: Most zoning decisions in Fairfield, New London counties made by white homeowners  Connecticut Public

Society

15 h. ago Justin Bieber: Swag review – inane lyrics undermine a gorgeously produced R&B passion project

(Def Jam) The surprise seventh album from the former tween idol is musically expansive, abetted by a host of star producers. If only he’d thought about the words a bitIn the mid-2010s, pop music changed. Instead of hounding the listening public with focus-grouped, machine-tooled crowd-pleasers, the biggest stars began releasing expansive, experimental albums that played to their own tastes and interests. These were records that were artistically self-indulgent, mostly in a good way: Rihanna’s sleazy, sultry Anti, Beyoncé’s densely referential Lemonade, Lady Gaga’s soft-rock-heavy Joanne, Miley Cyrus’s psychedelic Wayne Coyne collaboration Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz (I may be the only person who holds that example in such high regard.)With his fourth album Purpose, Justin Bieber was adjacent to this shift. Leaning into the ascendant tropical house genre, collaborating with Skrillex and pursuing a sound you sensed a 21-year-old might actually like, it spelled the end of Bieber’s ...

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16 h. ago MP challenges Keir Starmer over Hillsborough Law as anger grows over delay

Ian Byrne, a survivor of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster which claimed 97 lives, has called on Keir Starmer to back a new law placing a duty of candour on public officials to prevent state cover-ups

Politics

16 h. ago Seb Atkinson urged to seize England centre shirt after impressive debut

The Gloucester centre produced an excellent performance as he earned his first cap against Argentina

Politics

17 h. ago Andy Roddick rips apart billionaire and demands tennis match is investigated

Bill Ackman, a 59-year-old billionaire, made his professional tennis debut at the age of 59 on Thursday, with Andy Roddick branding the match "the biggest joke I've ever watched"

Economics

18 h. ago Hannah Waddingham and Tim Minchin make Celebrity Gogglebox debut

They will commentate on a range of TV shows during Friday’s episode of the Channel 4 reality spin-off series.

Politics

18 h. ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Tasha Ghouri says 'both made mistakes' as Andrew Le Page lashes out

The pair ended up taking to their public platforms with separate statements amid 'noise' around their former relationship

Politics

18 h. ago New £100 fines introduced for dog owners who fail to clean up mess

Councillors agreed to a public spaces protection order across the county which includes a £100 fine for not cleaning up dog mess

Economics

18 h. ago Calls for Welsh Government to open 'cool hubs' in public spaces during heatwave

It comes as the Met Office has said temperatures could climb to 33°C in parts of Wales this weekend

Politics