90 m. ago Rory McIlroy's dad said one thing to change headmaster's mind about golf future

Rory McIlroy's former headmaster has opened up on the golfer's schooling days and how he was convinced that the sporting prodigy's intense schedule was of his own desire

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1 hour ago The horror Siege of Leningrad: How 1.5million people died during Nazi starvation blockade that saw mothers resort to feeding their babies BLOOD and families turn to cannibalism

A baby sucking blood rather than milk from its mother; a human leg found in a worker's locker; children ending up stooped and hairy.

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1 hour ago Rise of 'Marmite' Nigel Farage is 'good news' for John Swinney ahead of election

Professor John Curtice said the SNP "don't really have to worry" about losing supporters to Nigel Farage - unlike Scottish Labour and the Conservatives.

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2 h. ago Inside Spencer Matthews and Vogue Williams' marriage from secret Scottish wedding to divorce rumours and selling London pad

Spencer Matthews and Vogue Williams have been married since 2018, and share three children together - but now their relationship has been hit by rumours of a split

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2 h. ago Scotland duo inspire shock win in relegation fight as World Cup winners' title hopes suffer major blow

Defender continues to shine for Canary Islanders

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2 h. ago Man last seen in Edinburgh missing as cops launch urgent search

Selim El-Syed was last seen around 7pm on Saturday, 19 April, 2025 in East Hermitage Place.

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2 h. ago Graham Thorpe's wife details how tragic cricket legend battled 'so hard' against depression

Graham Thorpe's widow Amanda lost her husband last year after the England legend's battle with mental illness and she's determined to change the stigma after seeing what he went through

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2 h. ago Full list of Scottish Councils that will observe a holiday on Easter Monday in 2025

Easter Monday isn’t a nationwide bank holiday in Scotland, but some councils do observe it.

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2 h. ago Scots RAF jets 'scrambled twice in 48 hours to defend Nato against Putin'

The British Typhoons, currently based in Eastern Europe, sprung into action after alerts of Vladimir Putin’s jets trying to leave their borders.

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2 h. ago Scottish nursery parents fear extra £2,000 childcare bill after closure announcement

The pushback comes as cash-strapped councils across the country are making similar announcements.

Economics

2 h. ago The May elections are a perfect opportunity for Nigel Farage to peddle his politics of grievance | Andrew Rawnlsey

An unpopular government and floundering official opposition creates fertile territory for ReformFor his next trick, perhaps Comrade Farage will belt out all the verses of The Red Flag and tell us that his favourite book is The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. Brother Nigel has popped up on the government’s left flank by demanding the immediate nationalisation of the steel industry. He’s also expressed a solidarity with trades unionists hitherto undetected in this longtime admirer of Margaret Thatcher.At an event at a working men’s club in one of the more deprived wards of County Durham, the old fraud even claimed to have a personal affinity with steelworkers because he used to be in the “metals business” himself. This was a disingenuous reference to his time as a trader at the London Metal Exchange, which involved long lunches in the City fuelled with copious quantities of port. Or maybe he was thinking of his gig as a paid “brand ambassador” for a firm that deals in gold bullion. ...

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3 h. ago Chelsea star Mykhailo Mudryk breaks his silence with a cryptic post after failed drugs test last year

The 24-year-old - who joined in a £88m deal last in January 2023 - has not featured since a Europa Conference League match on November 28.

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3 h. ago ‘When medieval times return, I’ll be ready’: Bella Ramsey on friendship, fashion and The Last of Us

The young actor’s life has been transformed since they landed the lead role in what turned out to be a TV phenomenon. As the much-anticipated second season begins, they discuss growing up in the glare of fameBella Ramsey self-recorded their audition tape for The Last of Us at their parents’ home in Leicestershire and sent it off more in hope than expectation. Ramsey, who was 17 at the time, had never played the post-apocalyptic zombie video game on which the new TV series was based, but knew it was a big deal: released in 2013, it had sold more than 20m copies. It would later emerge that Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, the show’s creators, looked seriously at more than 100 actors for the role of Ellie, the sassy and quirky but also complicated and vicious American protagonist of The Last of Us. “Yeah, I’ve been told,” says Ramsey with a wry smile.When Ramsey got the first callback from Mazin and Druckmann, they joined the Zoom from their childhood bedroom. “I’ve gotten very used to ...

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3 h. ago Saturday Night Live has lost its bite, so why would we want it here? | Sarah Manavis

The once fearless, now formulaic, satirical show is on its way from the US. Can it bring back the fun?What makes good satire? The answer might vary depending on who you ask. What is more unifying, however, is what doesn’t. Most would agree it’s things like punching down, cheap jokes, obviousness or, worst of all, failing to actually be funny.We saw a unique combination of all of the above last weekend, when the American live sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) attempted to parody the hit HBO series The White Lotus, setting it among current White House staff. Alongside middling caricatures of Donald Trump and the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, the pre-recorded skit portrayed the English actor Aimee Lou Wood, who has a gap between her teeth, and her character from the show, Chelsea, as uncharacteristically stupid, with bulging eyes and buck teeth. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Saturday Night Live lost its bite long ago, and it’s unlikely to find it on British TV | Sarah Manavis

The once fearless, now formulaic, satirical show is on its way from the US. Can it bring back the fun?What makes good satire? The answer might vary depending on who you ask. What is more unifying, however, is what doesn’t. Most would agree it’s things like punching down, cheap jokes, obviousness or, worst of all, failing to actually be funny.We saw a unique combination of all of the above last weekend, when the American live sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) attempted to parody the hit HBO series The White Lotus, setting it among current White House staff. Alongside middling caricatures of Donald Trump and the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, the pre-recorded skit portrayed the English actor Aimee Lou Wood, who has a gap between her teeth, and her character from the show, Chelsea, as uncharacteristically stupid, with bulging eyes and buck teeth. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Abuse I received for TikTok video after Women’s Six Nations defeat was crazy | Jaz Joyce

Dance live on the BBC with a club teammate, after Wales had lost to England, provoked a torrent of hate onlineThe abuse and hate messages I received for doing a TikTok dance live on the BBC after Wales’s defeat by England was crazy. On Instagram I received a few DMs saying: “You’re an embarrassment, what do you think you’re doing?”That doesn’t affect me because we get criticism all the time for different things: losing a game, dropping a high ball. I am not hugely active on X and it was not until those of my friends who aren’t big fans of rugby were checking in on me to see if I was OK that I realised the extent of the abuse on social media. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago TOWIE's Junaid Ahmed says he's 'never been happier' after rocky start being disowned at 18

The Only Way Is Essex star Junaid Ahmed made history as the first ever gay Muslim reality star when he joined the cast in 2021, and he's been making waves ever since

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3 h. ago King Charles and Queen Camilla to join other royal family members at Easter Sunday service today

The Prince and Princess of Wales will not be at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, as they are spending the weekend with their children in Norfolk.

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4 h. ago World Championship finalist turned to Stephen Hendry after criticism from 'social media clowns'

EXCLUSIVE: World Championship star Jak Jones consulted Scottish snooker legend Stephen Hendry after being accused of slow play during the 2024 tournament

Sport

5 h. ago Crime thriller from Prison Break and Lost writer is 'most underrated show on TV'

There's plenty of episodes to binge with more on the way

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