7 h. ago Meet the British shot put champion doubling up as a bobsleigh pilot with an eye on Milan 2026

Having won her third British shot put title in four seasons in the summer, Adele Nicoll also has a Winter Olympic dream – and admits she’s ‘terrible for wanting to do everything’Walking through the University of Bath’s vast sports complex to Britain’s only bobsleigh push-start track, a momentary silence is broken by the thwack of a ball and hearty cheers from excited adolescent spectators.It is the first Wednesday afternoon – when inter-university sport takes centre stage – of the academic year, and Adele Nicoll is reflecting on how her own undergraduate days inadvertently led her to this point. Nicoll, then a sport and exercise science student at Cardiff University, had an eye on making it as an international shot putter, but not to the detriment of enjoying all aspects of university life; she played as hard as she worked. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Celebrity Traitors’ Cat Burns: How the stealthy singer’s quiet confidence got her to the final

In a show populated by big personalities, the singer-songwriter has flown so far under the radar you’d need some kind of Nasa-grade equipment to spot her

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35 h. ago The big Celtic vs Rangers questions answered by the Jury as ref and VAR analysed and Martin O'Neill warned

It was an action packed weekend at Hampden as the Premier Sports Cup semi finals took centre stage

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46 h. ago New Celtic dugout dynamic in full view as Shaun Maloney takes centre stage to show aura alone won't cut it

Maloney is by Martin O'Neill's side and Hampden onlookers saw exactly why during half-time in extra-time against Rangers

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68 h. ago Travel Tech Takes Centre Stage at WTM London 2025 to Drive Business Growth

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3 d. ago Lily Allen and David Harbour's 'insecurities' caught on video years before split

EXCLUSIVE: Lily Allen and David Harbour's now infamous house tour video shows the singer "self-soothing" and "hiding" while her husband takes centre stage

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3 d. ago Lewis Moody's heartbreak over cruel MND diagnosis as friends and family left in tears

England great Lewis Moody recently revealed his motor neurone disease (MND) diagnosis and will take centre stage on Saturday before England's autumn clash with Australia

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3 d. ago Coronation Street's new family set for huge storyline fans 'won't see coming'

Coronation Street newcomer Aaron McCusker has revealed his character Ben Driscoll will take centre stage in a massive new storyline on the ITV soap that is long running

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4 d. ago Renowned Scots singer songwriter to take centre stage in Ayrshire as new album launches

Still Friends – the eighth solo album from Arcari – is released on Buzz Records on the same day.

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5 d. ago Celtic fans hail return of Messiah but different story outside stadium as unexpected hero takes centre stage

Mini Martin O’Neill era off to winning start as small inroad made into Hearts lead

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6 d. ago Stella Donnelly on the painful friend breakup that inspired her new album: ‘I’m trying to protect them – but I’ve written this record’

On her third album, Love and Fortune, the Australian singer has captured the dull ache of being rejected by a friend – and how she fell in love with music againGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailStella Donnelly didn’t want to write songs about a friend who broke her heart. But any time the Welsh-Australian singer-songwriter tried to channel anything else into her lyrics, the hurt was always there on the surface.We have a language for coping with romantic heartbreak, learned from movies and songs – but there are fewer mirrors in art for coping with the end of platonic bonds. On her third album, Love and Fortune, Donnelly has captured the dull ache of being rejected by a friend who once knew her best of all. It might become the record ghosted friends turn to when they find a person they knew intimately for years no longer wants to hear from them. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago New details of Birmingham City's 62,000 'chimney' stadium plan

MIKE KEEGAN: The hope is for the Blues to be in their new home in 2030. They have promised it will be football-centric but also hope to stage NFL matches.

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1 week ago Celebrity Traitors' Paloma Faith announces 'surprise' pregnancy with third child at 44

Singer-songwriter Paloma Faith has announced she is pregnant with her third child, sharing two photos of her baby bump on social media

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1 week ago Where’s her Pulitzer already? Joanna Newsom’s 20 best songs – ranked!

Ten years on from the release of her rococo masterpiece, Divers, we count down the singer-songwriter-harpist’s most beautiful and devastating tracks“And in an infinite regress / Tell me, why is the pain of birth / Lighter borne than the pain of death?” Joanna Newsom sings on the elegant, kaleidoscopic title track to 2015’s time-obsessed Divers, its nesting cascades of strings and piano echoing the album’s premise, that life contains death, which contains life, and on and on to ∞ Continue reading...

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1 week ago Inside Lazarus filming locations as Manchester takes centre stage in Prime Video thriller

Prime Video’s Lazarus stars big names like Peaky Blinders’ Sam Claflin and Pirates of the Caribbean icon Bill Nighy.

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1 week ago ‘A reaction to injustice’: The story behind Bob Dylan’s ‘The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll’

A new bootleg series of the revered singer-songwriter’s work between 1956 to 1963 contains two early recordings of his masterpiece of a protest song, ‘The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll’. Roisin O’Connor speaks with historian and Dylan expert Sean Wilentz about the true event that inspired the track, and what makes it so powerful all these years later

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2 w. ago Tom Odell Glasgow Hydro Stage Times: Gigs, set times, support, tickets, age restrictions, setlist

One of Britain’s most popular singer-songwriters is on his way to Glasgow.

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2 w. ago The ‘enormous conflict of interest’ at centre of Jared Kushner’s Gaza ceasefire deal

US president’s son-in-law was instrumental in getting deal – which could bring him huge windfall if plan to redevelop Gaza ever comes to fruitionFor a man with no formal role in the White House, Jared Kushner last week literally took centre-stage as Donald Trump’s emissary to the Middle East.As the administration took a victory lap for hammering out a Gaza ceasefire last week, Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, stood in Tel Aviv’s ‘hostages square’, addressing a feverish crowd that had booed the mention of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and later broke into chants of: “Thank You Trump!” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Mohamed Salah in need of centre stage return for Anfield’s grand show | Andy Hunter

Arne Slot will hope forward builds on encouraging signs for Egypt when Manchester United visit Liverpool on SundayIt has been a while, but Mohamed Salah was back playing the starring role last week with two goals in Casablanca that sealed Egypt’s place at the 2026 World Cup. The main man stepping on to centre stage yet again. Liverpool need him to stay there.There are numerous reasons why inconsistent, unconvincing performances have been the common thread running through Liverpool’s start to their title defence, whether they produced seven straight victories or, before Manchester United’s visit to Anfield on Sunday, three consecutive defeats. The upheaval from so many summer changes, Arne Slot’s search for his best XI, Diogo Jota’s death; Salah has felt the effect of them all during his uncharacteristically subdued opening to the campaign. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Sam Fender releases new song with Elton John, one day after Mercury prize win

John plays twinkling piano part in new song Talk to You, and says he ‘truly loves’ the Geordie singer-songwriterSam Fender has released a new song with Elton John entitled Talk to You, the day after winning the 2025 Mercury prize for his album People Watching.It features a twinkling piano line laid out by John, amid Fender’s full-bodied guitar-led songwriting. Fender sings on the chorus “Just wanna talk to you / Wanna talk with my best friend / Wanna let go of everything that I carry”, and has said the song is about: “the end of a long relationship – about the regret, the mistakes and the lessons that come with it. It’s that feeling of losing your best friend, and coming to terms with that. I was playing around with the riff and thought, ‘What I need is a really good pianist’, and then, ‘Hmmm, I wonder who I can call?’ And of course, who better than Elton John?” Continue reading...

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