1 hour ago 'I found out my sister is my mum after stranger told me the shocking truth'

A woman has opened up about the jaw-dropping moment a stranger told her the truth about who her real mum was - and it completely changed her whole life and what she had always believed

Events

2 h. ago Woman who sold her virginity to Hollywood star reveals heartbreaking reason she did it

A student has shared the real reason she decided to sell her virginity to a A-list celebrity for a life-changing amount of money which made her feel like she was in a 'dream'

Politics

3 h. ago Michael Sheen worried 'massive debt was the end of everything' – including his marriage

The Frost/Nixon actor confessed to fearing the worst for his marriage after an act of charity left him out of pocket, and "still paying off debt" to this day

Politics

4 h. ago 'Michael Sheen changed my life with one action – I had no idea he had done it'

The Hollywood actor has paid off the debts of 900 people aged between 25 and 35 who live in the area he grew up in in Wales – and one of them has admitted the action gave her a 'second chance'

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4 h. ago Gavin & Stacey's Joanna Page says 'it's what I want to do now' as she contemplates big life change

Speaking on her BBC One show Wynne & Joanna: All at Sea, Joanna Page has said "it's time" as she considers a huge life change

Politics

5 h. ago Bannatyne Health Clubs in Scotland launch fundraising week for Operation Smile

Bannatyne health clubs across Scotland are gearing up for an exciting week of fundraising activities in support of Operation Smile, a global charity that provides life-changing cleft surgery for children in need.

Society

6 h. ago Athol Fugard was a dreamer, listener and master storyteller – on stage and at home | Barney Norris

The South African writer, who has died aged 92, was grateful for his extraordinary life and wrote out of love rather than angerI feel that Athol Fugard and his wife, Paula Fourie, changed my life in the autumn of 2022 when I visited South Africa to spend time with them and their daughter Halle. We were supposed to be working on a book together, and we did; but our time became so much more than that. There were lunches in the house or the restaurant round the corner; walks in the woods; a braai that went on past midnight.Over coffee in the mornings I’d sit with Athol and we’d use an app on his phone to identify the calls of all the birds in the garden. Then he might tell me a story from his life – the awe he felt when he asked Yvonne Bryceland to smash a chair to bits during rehearsals for Antigone and she proceeded to do so for a full 30 minutes; the journey he made by sea at 18 from Cairo to Japan, when an illiterate Somalian sailor used to watch him every night as he wrote a novel...

Politics

6 h. ago 'Michael Sheen's act of kindness changed my life – I didn't even know he'd done it'

Hollywood actor Michael Sheen established a debt acquisition company and paid off the loans of 900 people from his local are in Newport – and one of those was left gobsmacked after she found out

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6 h. ago Plane passenger who went viral for refusing to give up window seat to crying child details 'nightmare' experience

Jeniffer Castro, 29, went viral after a passenger filmed and berated her for refusing to give up her seat to a crying child... now she details how this 'nightmare' experience changed her life.

Politics

6 h. ago ‘They came across as muppets’: Christo Grozev on being target of Bulgarian spy ring

Investigative journalist called ‘modern-day Sherlock’ by Alexei Navalny on unsettling photos, reprisals and being exiled from ViennaChristo Grozev was sitting in a New York cafe in February 2023, expecting to fly back to his home in Vienna that evening, when US law enforcement officials delivered some news that changed his life.“I was told that it’s not a good idea for me to leave back to Austria, because there’s been some intelligence suggesting there’s a red team waiting for you,” said Grozev, a Bulgarian-born investigative journalist who has infuriated the Kremlin by exposing numerous Russian intelligence operatives in recent years. Continue reading...

Events

8 h. ago Michael Sheen admits 'it could have gone either way' with wife when he lost all his money

Hollywood star Michael Sheen became a 'not for profit actor' in 2021, 10 years after a pivotal moment in his hometown of Port Talbot

Politics

9 h. ago Plants, animals and insects come to Britain from all over the world. It would be a mistake to welcome them all | Tim Blackburn

Biodiversity is great in theory, but there are reasons to fend off invasive species and the knock-on effect of their presenceBritain would be a wasteland if it weren’t for immigration. Fifteen thousand years ago, most of the country was buried a kilometre deep in ice – not ideal conditions for life. That all changed as we moved out of the last ice age into the current, milder climate phase. The ice sheets retreated, leaving an empty landscape for anything with the wherewithal to seize the opportunity and move in. Tens of thousands of species did, mainly heading north from the European continent to which Britain was then joined. The result was a native biota where almost every species is an immigrant. Our ancestors were among them.Immigration is a natural process, but it’s one that has been fundamentally changed thanks to humanity’s wanderlust. As we’ve moved around the world we have taken many other species along with us – some deliberately, some accidentally – to areas they couldn’...

Events

9 h. ago Michael Sheen’s Secret Million Pound Giveaway: When is it on TV and how to watch it

The documentary about Michael Sheen wiping people's debts has been causing a buzz

Politics

11 h. ago Michael Sheen pays off £1m of neighbours’ debts in his hometown in Wales

‘It couldn’t be more real, how much people are hurting’ said the Welsh actor

Economics

12 h. ago Michael Barrymore abandons plans to start new life in Spain over 'self

Michael Barrymore quit London with his pet dog Lara last November to start house-hunting near Barcelona after making the life-changing decision to emigrate

Politics

13 h. ago Armando Iannucci opens up about what changed his life: best podcasts of the week

The Thick of It creator tells all in a revealing new podcast from actor Rebecca Front. Plus, a smash-hit history show launches a juicy spinoffLewis and The Thick of It star Rebecca Front tries to prise intimate interviews out of celebrity guests by asking about three people who’ve changed their lives. First up, her friend of 40 years Armando Iannucci talks about the person who opened a library near his Glasgow childhood home, and the founder of an NHS unit for higher risk pregnancies that led to all three of Iannucci’s kids being born. His third choice? Alan Partridge. Alexi Duggins Episodes weekly, widely available Continue reading...

Politics

15 h. ago ‘It’s not because I want people to think I’m great’: Michael Sheen on paying off £1m of his neighbours’ debts

The actor grew up poor, got rich, then lost everything backing the 2019 Homeless World Cup. Now he’s giving away more of his money to help 900 total strangers. Doesn’t he think he’s done enough?Michael Sheen walks into a post office in Port Talbot and asks to withdraw £100,000. “That would be nice,” says the young woman behind the till. Then it dawns on her that he’s not joking. “Can I do £100,000?” she asks her colleague. She cannot.“I loved that so much. She was really funny,” says Sheen. Filmed for a new Channel 4 documentary, Michael Sheen’s Secret Million Pound Giveaway, this was part of the actor’s two-year project to use £100,000 of his own money to buy £1m worth of debt, owed by about 900 people in south Wales – and immediately cancel it. Continue reading...

Economics

19 h. ago Michael Sheen says 'I can't walk away' as he uses his own money to write off £1m of people's debts

Michael Sheen appears in a new Channel 4 documentary, where he uses his own money to buy £1m worth of consumer debt and then writes it off to help people in his local community

Economics

20 h. ago ‘People are hurting’, says Michael Sheen in documentary where he writes off debt

The actor writes off £1 million of consumer debt using his own money in a new Channel 4 programme.

Politics

30 h. ago How relearning the tango taught me the steps to recover from trauma

After suffering a violent attack in Buenos Aires, the writer rediscovered her love of danceDance can be life-changing – it’s a lesson we learn every year on Strictly Come Dancing, but it bears repeating. Last year’s winner, comedian Chris McCausland, the show’s first blind celebrity, defied expectations and changed people’s attitude to his disability, while 80-year-old presenter Angela Rippon demonstrated in 2023 that age is no barrier to dancing.Over my two decades as a dance writer, I’ve tried a little of everything – ballet, ballroom, even breaking, but nothing has moved me like the Argentine tango. And I’m not talking about the version you see on Strictly – that’s the choreographed stage tango, with dancers kicking up their legs in performative tricks; few of us ever get to do that – but rather, the social dance style. Continue reading...

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