39 m. ago Diane Abbott says she stands by racism comments that led to suspension from Labour

MP says it is ‘silly’ to claim racism over skin colour is the same as other types of racism – but she has spent her life fighting antisemitismDiane Abbott has said she has no regrets about comments on racism that led to her year-long suspension from the Labour party.The veteran Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington was disciplined for writing a letter to the Observer in April 2023 arguing that people of colour experienced racism “all their lives” and in a different way to Jewish people, Irish people and Travellers. Continue reading...

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46 m. ago 'Chinese takeaway rang to check I was still alive after I started weight

Jordan Bateman, 31, weighed 28st in July 2024

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47 m. ago Coronation Street's Toyah Battersby star declared love by co

Georgia Taylor has surprised fans by showing off her latest inking having taken another trip to the tattoo studio

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60 m. ago 'I survived cancer and have miracle son – but now he could die'

Nikki Seymour waited 20 years to finally become a mum after suffering several miscarriages before she was diagnosed with breast cancer – but her miracle child now has a life-threatening illness

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68 m. ago Coronation Street star issues 'nine year' exit message as fans baffled by 'missing' tribute

Paula Lane has marked nine years since she was seen leaving the long-running show in tragic scenes as Kylie Platt

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68 m. ago Mural 'immortalising' Diogo Jota painted on a pub in Liverpool following tragic death

A street mural dedicated to the late Diogo Jota has been painted in the Anfield area after the Liverpool forward's tragic death earlier this month

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68 m. ago University dropout lived a life of luxury, and thought he'd 'gotten away with it'

A National Crime Agency officer stole his ill-gotten gains

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85 m. ago Amazon Prime Day might be over but the John Lewis sale is so good right now

The British high street stalwart is brimming with top quality wardrobe basics, event dresses, outerwear and homegoods, all at newly discounted prices.

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85 m. ago Inside Queen Camilla's remarkable royal journey from the shame of 'tampongate' to the throne at Westminster Abbey, as she celebrates her 78th birthday

Today is Queen Camilla 's 78th birthday, although she is the current Queen Consort, her journey to the upper echelons of the Royal Family was far from straight forward.

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90 m. ago ITV Coronation Street fans say 'she's a star' as they all issue same demand

Coronation Street viewers have been left in awe of the acting skills of one of the soap's youngest cast members, as they called for the character to be given a bigger role

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94 m. ago Famous US sports radio host 'nearly arrested' at Heathrow Airport during meltdown over son's golf clubs

ESPN’s Chris ‘Mad Dog’ Russo said police were called after he got in a row with British Airways staff

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1 hour ago Brit shoppers warned of more high street cyber attacks as ominous trend emerges

New analysis of cyber threat data suggests a clear seasonal pattern is emerging in retail-focused attacks, with the second quarter of the year consistently seeing a spike in malicious activity targeting retailers across the UK.

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1 hour ago The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück by Lynne Olson review – surviving an all

The extraordinary story of the women who fought to bring their Nazi persecutors to justiceShortly after her release from Ravensbrück in 1945, Comtesse Germaine de Renty attended a dinner party in Paris with old friends. One guest complimented her on how well she was looking, concluding that “life in Ravensbrück was not nearly as terrible as we’ve been told”. De Renty stared at the woman for a moment, before explaining icily that a typical day in the camp began by stepping over the corpses of friends who had died in the night. They would probably have no eyes, she added, since the rats had already eaten them. And with that, the comtesse stood up and swept out.Ravensbrück always had a credibility issue, explains Lynne Olson in this consistently thoughtful book. The camp, although only 50 miles north of Berlin, had been liberated late, which gave the SS plenty of time to burn incriminating records. There was limited visual evidence, too, since no cameramen accompanied the Soviet army w...

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2 h. ago DWP Universal Credit warning as claimants 'left without cash for weeks'

An MP said that Universal Credit claimants are 'trapped' waiting for their cash

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2 h. ago ‘Mark Latham is a pig’: NSW MP criticised for allegedly taking covert photos of female colleagues in parliament

Premier Chris Minns says former One Nation MP’s alleged remarks about female MPs in messages to his then partner ‘troubling’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe New South Wales housing minister, Rose Jackson, has labelled the independent MP Mark Latham a “pig” after allegations he took covert photographs of female colleagues in the upper house and shared them.The messages, reportedly sent to his former partner Nathalie Matthews and published in the Daily Telegraph on Thursday, allegedly included disparaging comments about the female politicians’ appearance.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Humble peasants or an odyssey of sex and death? The Millet masterpiece that electrified modern art

Van Gogh saw compassion for the rural worker; Dalí saw phalluses and a child’s grave. As The Angelus comes to the UK, our critic celebrates a painting so deep it could even induce hallucinationsIt was Salvador Dalí who turned a small, intense rural scene called The Angelus, painted by Jean-François Millet in 1857-59 and hugely popular in its day, into a totem of modern art.In the original, a pious peasant couple have heard the Angelus bell from a distant church, the Catholic call to prayer, and paused their work digging potatoes to lower their heads and pray. But from Dalí’s writings, we know he saw far more in the painting, from obscene sex to family tragedy. In one of his many versions of it, Atavism at Twilight, the couple sprout agricultural implements from their bodies. In his surreal drawings these good country people become mouldering, mummified husks, or are transformed into fossils by time and sadness. Now that the original painting is being lent by the Musée d’Orsay to the...

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3 h. ago ‘This is going to be a real hatchet job, isn’t it?’ Janet Street

One of the giants of British media, Street-Porter is a regular on Loose Women, a former TV executive, newspaper editor and author – and about to launch a one-woman stage show. She talks about love, regrets and her fury with her late motherJanet Street-Porter is the straight-talker’s straight talker. Nobody says it how it is quite like her, whether she’s talking about how she “hated” her mother, tried to kill her sister or cheated on her four ex-husbands. The former TV executive, newspaper editor, author and Loose Women regular is now going on the road with a one-woman show called Off the Leash. To be fair, she’s never been on it. Street-Porter’s website heralds her as “the nation’s favourite pissed-off pensioner” and promises that, with the new show, “in the words of her good friend Elton ‘the bitch is back!’”We meet at a restaurant she has booked in west London. When I get there, she’s already perusing the menu and eavesdropping on the couple behind us. “That man behind us is very ...

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5 h. ago Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck's romance ended for this reason... despite her 'love' of their sex life

A new Gwyneth Paltrow biography written by Amy Odell gives a clue about why her romance with Ben Affleck ended in 2000.

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8 h. ago 'Lovely' pensioner couple in ICU after horror early hours arson attack

Emergency services were called to South John Street in St Helens at around 12.40am on Tuesday, July 15, after reports that an elderly couple were trapped inside a house fire

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8 h. ago Families to face rising childcare costs during the summer holidays

The cost of childcare over the six-week summer holiday will rise by at least four per cent across Britain

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