13 h. ago US Open golf 2025: big names toiling at Oakmont during second round – live

Latest updates from day two’s play at OakmontOfficial live leaderboard | Drop Matt an emailBrooks Koepka finds the par-five 12th in two big bloots, then nearly makes the eagle putt from 26 feet. Not quite, but that’s back-to-back birdies for Brooks, a fine response to that opening bogey. He closes in on the lead at -3. But not such good news for his playing partner Justin Thomas, who three-putts from three feet and chalks up a double bogey. JT shot 76 yesterday, and surviving the cut is already looking like a pipe dream. He’s +9.Jordan Spieth can’t make his par putt on 2. He slips back to +1. Also heading in the wrong direction is his playing partner, the 2021 champion Jon Rahm. The 30-year-old Spaniard is busy rediscovering his major-championship form after some mixed experiences of late, and opened with a fine 69 yesterday. But his first shot this morning found a fairway bunker and led to bogey. He’s level par now, and has just hit another wild tee shot, this time so far left at 3...

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17 h. ago Ruth Jones is up for playing the lead character in her fourth novel on screen

The 58-year-old actress released By Your Side in May, which tells the story of a divorced, plus-sized Scottish woman called Linda

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35 h. ago Ruth Jones teases new TV project that could be love letter to hometown

While promoting show From Merthyr With Love, Ruth Jones and Steve Speirs teased a new programme.

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3 d. ago Edinburgh book festival to make case for hope with Hanif Kureishi and Palestinian poet

Brazilian tribal leader among other guests at event with theme of repair, along with Ruth Jones and Nicola SturgeonThe Edinburgh book festival is to champion the positive power of hope later this summer with events involving Hanif Kureishi, the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish and an exiled Brazilian tribal leader.The core theme for this year’s festival will be the “expansive” concept of repair, and offering solutions and optimism at a time of crisis and conflict, said Jenny Niven, the event’s director.The Edinburgh international book festival runs from 9 to 24 August. Tickets go on sale on 21 June. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Stanley Cup final: Panthers score six in Game 3 demolition of Oilers to take series lead

Edmonton Oilers 1-6 Florida PanthersChampions take 2-1 lead in best-of-seven seriesBrad Marchand and Sam Bennett scored again, Sam Reinhart and Carter Verhaeghe each got their first goal in the Stanley Cup final and the defending champion Florida Panthers capitalized on the Edmonton Oilers’ worst performance in weeks to win Game 3 in a 6-1 rout Monday night and take a 2-1 series lead.The 37-year-old Marchand became the oldest player to score in each of the first three games of a final and the first to open the scoring the next time out after notching an overtime winner. His 11 goals in the final are the most among active players, one more than similarly ageless Corey Perry. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Cristiano Ronaldo confirms injury nightmare as he makes Roberto Martinez thoughts clear

Cristiano Ronaldo played through the pain barrier to lead Portugal to winning the Nations League final against bitter rivals Spain, with the skipper breaking down in tears after the game

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5 d. ago Gavin & Stacey icon Ruth Jones' secret life in one of Britain's most remote corners

Ruth Jones enjoys a tranquil 'second' life in one of Britain's remotest corners, a thousand miles away from her home in Wales.

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9 d. ago Gavin & Stacey's Jo Page announces exciting next move and it'll involve her iconic sitcom role

For the first time the Swansea-born star will take fans behind the scenes of her most iconic roles and introduces them to a colourful cast including Ruth Jones, James Corden, Richard E. Grant, Johnny Depp, Liam Neeson and Emma Thompson.

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1 week ago Florian Wirtz transfer twist as two Liverpool bids REJECTED and two Reds stars eyed for swap

Liverpool have seen two bids rejected for Florian Wirtz as Bayer Leverkusen demand their hefty asking price - which could lead the Reds to tabled a player-plus-cash offer

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1 week ago Edinburgh Rugby fail to make history as season ends sharply amid emotional farewells on Highveld

Everitt’s men lead at break - but South Africans roar back in play-off

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1 week ago Stephanie Beacham: ‘The worst thing anyone’s said to me? Loved you in Dallas’

The actor on the terror of working in Boots aged 15, her Liam Neeson obsession and Zooming in her knickersBorn in London, Stephanie Beacham, 78, studied mime in Paris and went to Rada. In 1971, she appeared opposite Marlon Brando in The Nightcomers and then made Hammer horror films. During the 80s she starred as Sable Colby in Dynasty and The Colbys. She has appeared on stage at the National Theatre and for the RSC; her other TV work includes Tenko, Sister Kate – for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination – and Coronation Street. She plays the lead in the film Grey Matter, which is streaming now. She has two daughters and lives with her partner in Cornwall and London.What is your greatest fear? Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘All of us felt like we had touched gold’: What It Feels Like for a Girl, the BBC’s electric coming

Paris Lees has turned her hit memoir of growing up as a working-class trans kid into a vivid, joyful drama. Its team talks teenage sex work, nostalgia for Tony Blair, and why TV drama is so posh it’s like Jane AustenWhen the BBC was casting its adaptation of Paris Lees’s autobiography, What It Feels Like for a Girl, it wasn’t the only one wrestling with how to find the right actor to play the lead in a biopic. “Cher did an interview,” smiles Lees, “and she said: ‘We just can’t find somebody that’s Cher.’ I was like: ‘Same, girl. I hear your struggles.’ So me and Cher have been going through it.” Sitting next to Lees is the actor they went with, Ellis Howard, who you may remember as the sapling Ivan VI in HBO series Catherine the Great, but who you will never have seen being this luminous.“In the beginning, we were looking for a trans person,” Lees says. She and Howard are sharing a Zoom screen, and it’s not so much that they look similar as that they both look so cinematic, the...

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2 w. ago The Thursday Murder Club's first trailer is released as Helen Mirren, 79, and Pierce Brosnan, 71, transform into amateur sleuths in VERY star

Dame Helen Mirren, 79, will be playing lead role Elizabeth Best, Sir Ben Kingsley, 81, is portraying Ibrahim Arif and Pierce Brosnan, 71, will taken on the role of Ron Ritchie.

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2 w. ago Kevin Costner and Horizon producers sued by stunt performer over ‘violent unscripted’ rape scene

Devyn LaBella is suing the actor-director and the producers of his film Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2 alleging breach of contract, with Costner denying all allegationsA stunt performer is suing Kevin Costner and the producers of his film Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2, alleging that she was made to perform in a “violent” unscripted rape scene without the required notice, consent or a mandatory intimacy coordinator present.Devyn LaBella was the lead stunt double for Ella Hunt, who plays Juliette in the Horizon films, a four-part western anthology written, directed by and starring Costner. LaBella’s lawsuit, filed in California on Tuesday, alleges that on 2 May 2023 Costner improvised a scene in which Juliette would be raped, one day after Hunt and LaBella filmed a scripted scene in which Juliette was raped by a different character. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Rangers next manager state of play as takeover kingpin Andrew Cavenagh to take the lead in appointment

The driving force behind the imminent takeover will personally play his part in the managerial appointment

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2 w. ago Ruth Jones says 'leave them be' after being quizzed by Lorraine Kelly on Gavin and Stacey's future

The BBC series is one of the most popular UK shows of all time

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2 w. ago Disabled celebrities urge Keir Starmer to scrap ‘inhumane’ benefit cuts

Exclusive: More than 100 people including Liz Carr and Rosie Jones sign letter criticising Pip and universal credit changesMore than 100 of the UK’s most high-profile disabled people, including Liz Carr, Rosie Jones, Ruth Madeley and Cherylee Houston, have called on the prime minister to abandon “inhumane and catastrophic plans to cut disability benefits”.In an open letter to Keir Starmer before a planned Commons vote next month, they argue that the government’s plan to reduce eligibility to personal independence payment (Pip) and the health component of universal credit is a matter of “survival” and “basic human rights”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Gavin and Stacey's Ruth Jones reunited with Neil the Baby at Margam festival

The pair shared a cwtch on the main stage of In It Together festival, after a surprise appearance from Ruth Jones

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3 w. ago James Corden and Ruth Jones explain why Gavin and Stacey is never coming back

Duo discussed the series during an appearance at the 2025 Hay Festival

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3 w. ago Joe Goldberg lookalike reveals he's inundated by fans of Netflix's You

Nikita Darwin, 22, a content creator from Dover, Kent, says he is regularly compared to Joe, the lead character in the hit series played by Penn Badgley.

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