47 m. ago Dogs at risk of rabies as owners shun vaccine over fears it will give them autism

The anti-vax movement has gained ground in the US in recent years, largely fuelled by the increasing power of vaccine critics like Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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63 m. ago Bake Off's Prue Leith left floored after The Beatles legend issued brutal criticism

The Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith has served some of the most famous faces in the world, including The Beatles, but one of the band members had some harsh words for her

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67 m. ago Wicked star Cynthia Erivo, 38, shows off her tattoos as she poses topless for the cover of Harper's Bazaar and reveals how Jada Pinkett Smith has been helping her navigate the pressures of fame

The Wicked star, 38, looked nothing short of sensational in an array of snaps as she covered the magazine for the first time.

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68 m. ago Foreign Office issues Hurricane Melissa update for UK tourists urged to take action as storm hits Jamaica

Winds of up to 170 miles per hour are set to batter the holiday hotspot

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79 m. ago ‘I spoke complete twaddle for four minutes’: Meera Syal, Larry Lamb and more on the terror of stage fright

Forget Halloween! Real scares can happen to actors any night of the year. Big name actors, including Zachary Hart and Harmony Rose-Bremner, recall their worst moments – and how they overcame their fearsDerek Jacobi had a bout of it during a world tour of Hamlet. Bill Nighy wrestled with it in the run-up to The Vertical Hour opening on Broadway. Juliet Stevenson has likened it to “a disease”. It has even caused some to take flight: Stephen Fry disappeared from Cell Mates, while Lenny Henry left the stage during Educating Rita. “I’ve completely gone,” he said – although he did return to finish the show.Stage fright can cause the shakes but it can also trigger a complete physical freeze-up, to say nothing of a total verbal drying up – all right under the spotlight. So how and why does it take grip? Can it be overcome? And what does it feel like to be seized by the actor’s nightmare? Continue reading...

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80 m. ago Kerry Katona reveals kiss with Robbie Williams in latest tour bombshell

Kerry Katona has admitted to sharing an intimate moment with famous singer Robbie Williams years ago, before he got married to Ayda Field and Kerry tied the knot with Brian McFadden

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89 m. ago Emma Louise Jones shocked as hot holiday interrupted by loud trimming of bush

Emma Louise Jones was left with an almighty shock as her hot holiday was interrupted by a loud trimming of bush as she attempted to relax

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1 hour ago Fernando Alonso slams FIA stewards and hints at future change of approach

While numerous drivers cut the corner at turn two in Sunday’s Mexico GP, the moves went unpunished

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1 hour ago Reform’s Kruger vows to change civil service code to ban ‘woke agenda’

The Tory convert said Nigel Farage’s party would cut civil service headcount and close five government buildings if it won the next general election.

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2 h. ago UK Government urged to protect State Pension and cut National Insurance for older workers

The Later Life Ambitions campaign presented Chancellor Rachel Reeves with a list of proposals to boost growth and the workforce.

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2 h. ago 'It's not dangerous' to talk about Brexit and undoing economic harm of quitting EU, says Rachel Reeves

Labour had shied away from mentioning the B-word before the 2024 general election for fear of alienating voters in the so-called ‘Red Wall’

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2 h. ago I tried out a virtual Halloween festival – and got more than I bargained for

Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival began as a lockdown project and has now become an annual gaming tradition. My children and I paid it a visitIn an attempt to avoid spending £80 to walk around a local park with my children to see some underwhelming spooky decorations, and having failed for the fifth year in a row to secure a ticket to a Scottish farm to tramp damply around looking at pumpkins, I tried something different with my kids this Halloween: a virtual pumpkin festival.Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival was first created in the depths of the 2020 pandemic, when game developer Adam Robinson-Yu’s real-life neighbourhood pumpkin festival was cancelled. (Yu also made the excellent and equally autumnal A Short Hike.) Since then, it has returned for a few weeks every year, letting players come together as adorable ghosts to explore a creepy little micro-world filled with player-created pumpkins. It has improved slightly every year: 2024’s big addition was a haunted house escape room, which took...

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2 h. ago US agent’s daring plot to coax Nicolas Maduro’s pilot into turning on the Venezuelan leader and delivering him into custody

There was even a final machination aimed at rattling the Venezuelan president about the pilot’s true loyalties

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2 h. ago Family's desperate plea for Scots granddad 'trapped' in Tenerife hospital

Colin McLeish and his wife Anne had been on holiday celebrating his 70th birthday when the dad-of-four fell ill as they prepared to fly home from their break in Playa de las Américas.

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2 h. ago Reform plans to ‘dramatically’ cut civil service numbers if elected despite lack of government experience

Danny Kruger, who defected from the Tories, laid out Reform’s plans for the civil service

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2 h. ago Huge online candy retailer files for bankruptcy just ahead of Halloween and the holiday season

Soaring cocoa and sugar costs were a factor driving Texas-based CandyWarehouse.com, Inc. to seek bankruptcy protection

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2 h. ago Man plotting mass murder took undercover agent on tour of Manchester targets, jury told

Alleged IS fanatic Walid Saadaoui is accused of plotting the mass murder of Jewish people in Manchester

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3 h. ago Celebrity Traitors star Jonathan Ross let slip he was a Traitor in unaired moment

Jonathan Ross has confessed he nearly let slip he was a Traitor in an unaired moment on Celebrity Traitors, that was later cut from the BBC show's broadcast

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3 h. ago 'Light but sturdy' multicooker branded 'best kitchen appliance' cut to £49 in limited time deal

Shoppers can save £40 on the Russell Hobbs mulitcooker that is 'perfect for one pot cooking' in the colder weather.

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3 h. ago Takeaways from AP's report on a U.S. plot to recruit Maduro's pilot to betray Venezuelan leader

A veteran U.S. law enforcement agent secretly tried to recruit Nicolas Maduro’s personal pilot to join a plot to capture the Venezuelan leader and deliver him into U.S. custody to face drug trafficking charges

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