17 h. ago Strictly star 'forced to flee house after teenage stalker turns up at front door'

Gymnastics star Claudia Fragapane forced to relocate after alleged repeated harassment from a teenage stalker, despite a prior restraining order

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19 h. ago Olympian Strictly star is forced to flee her home after she was stalked by obsessed schoolgirl, 15, who caused her 'fear and anxiety' when she turned up on her doorstep

The 4ft 7in star, 27, described feeling 'fear and anxiety' when the 15-year-old schoolgirl knocked at her door.

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20 h. ago £20m Raskin claim seems fanciful as Rangers star must cut down the off days to be driving force of new era

The Rangers support are expecting sizable bids to come flooding in this summer but perhaps a pinch of realism is required

Economics

61 h. ago EastEnders star was forced to get two normal day jobs and was 'job shamed' after leaving BBC soap

The actress, who played Hayley Slater on EastEnders, was forced to get a day job at B&M after leaving the BBC soap and was 'job-shamed', before later working in a garage

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3 d. ago Pathemata by Maggie Nelson review – a writer’s attempt to describe chronic pain

Woolf said language ‘runs dry’ when it comes to convey the reality of illness. Here is an impressive effort to do just thatIn her landmark 1985 work, The Body in Pain, American essayist Elaine Scarry makes a case for the “unsharability” of pain and its resistance to language. “Physical pain,” she writes, “does not simply resist language but actively destroys it.” Sixty years earlier in On Being Ill, Virginia Woolf made her famous claim about how language “runs dry” when it comes to articulating illness. Both theories grapple with inexpressibility. Experiencing serious, persistent pain invokes many feelings: irritation, curiosity (what’s causing it?), fear (of something sinister) and ultimately the desire to eradicate it. The search for a diagnosis can be as debilitating as the condition itself. In Pathemata: Or, the Story of My Mouth, Maggie Nelson tries to solve the mystery of a longstanding health issue. “Each morning, it is as if my mouth has survived a war – it has pro...

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4 d. ago Star Wars Day: Force is strong at Drax's Cruachan Power Station

May the 4th be with you!

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4 d. ago Celtic told clear Gustav Isaksen transfer stance after Jota injury as wonderkid a 'safe bet' amid rocketing £11m payday

The Scottish champions could be forced into the market with their Portuguese star facing a lengthy layoff

Economics

4 d. ago Man Utd star set for massive Cristiano Ronaldo level pay rise if club win Europa League

Cash-strapped Manchester United will be forced to give one star a colossal 25% pay rise if Ruben Amorim's side get back into the Champions League

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4 d. ago Sam Heughan makes urgent plea to Outlander fans as he warns 'be careful'

Outlander star Sam Heughan has been forced to issue a warning to fans once more.

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5 d. ago The force is strong with this holiday: Why 'Star Wars' fans say 'May the 4th be with you'

May the 4th be with you

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6 d. ago Star Wars Day 2025: the 15 most popular filming locations from the franchise

The force is strong with these 15 filming locations from the Star Wars universe

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7 d. ago Loose Women's Coleen Nolan left 'limping' and in 'constant pain' after horror injury

Loose Women star Coleen Nolan has been forced to wear a leg brace and even speak to a physiotherapist after suffering an injury while out with her beloved dogs

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9 d. ago Spain power outage: British star forced off court at Madrid Open at crucial moment

The huge power outage in Spain and Portugal has caused massive problems at the Madrid Open, where fans were forced to leave in pitch darkness, while Jacob Fearnley's match was paused

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1 week ago Strictly Come Dancing star Sam Quek reveals 'tough' challenge she faced on BBC series

Although she is known for her sports career, Olympian Sam Quek has revealed that while on Strictly Come Dancing she discovered a lot about herself behind the scenes

Culture

1 week ago World Snooker Championship star was forced to give up half of prize money after 147

Kyren Wilson became only the 13th player in history to make a 147 break at the Crucible in 2023, but was left gutted when Mark Selby repeated the feat in the final

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1 week ago Big Brother star 'terrified' as she feels forced to leave the UK

Big Brother winner Nadia Almada has revealed that she now feels unsafe as as a transgender woman after the Supreme Court's ruling on the Equality Act in an interview on GMB

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1 week ago In Andor, the real world political parallels are impossible to ignore

In its second season, what happens in the acclaimed Star Wars thriller is hard to separate from what’s happening in Gaza nowIn the new and final season of Andor, an occupied civilian population is massacred; their cries for help ignored by the Empire-run media, which instead paint the victims as terrorist threats to public safety. Meanwhile, the politicians who have enough backbone to speak out, and use the word “genocide” to describe these aggressions, are met with violent suppression.Andor goes there. And when it does, Star Wars fans will be forced to reckon with how this story isn’t about what happens “a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away”. It’s about what’s unfolding right now in Gaza. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The tragic past of the Harry Potter star 'standing by JK Rowling': Afshan Azad was forced to flee from family after her brother assaulted her for 'having a Hindu boyfriend'

Afshan, now 37, shot to fame after she was cast as teenage witch Padma Patil in the Harry Potter film adaptations based on controversial author JK Rowling's bestselling books.

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2 w. ago BBC Breakfast star shares important announcement ahead of Pope Francis' funeral

BBC Breakfast star Sally Nugent was forced to halt Wednesday's live show as she shared a breaking news update on Pope Francis

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2 w. ago The UK supreme court and the definition of a woman – podcast

A ruling on equality law has caused relief, fear – and confusion. Libby Brooks reportsOn paper it does not sound like something that would spark nationwide interest. Last week the UK supreme court gave its judgment on a case brought by a women’s group against the Scottish government over the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018.But its judgment – that the word “woman” in equality law refers only to biological sex – has upended years of legal interpretation. And the news of the ruling led to celebrations, protest and an outpouring of emotion. Continue reading...

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