8 h. ago Pregnant Nicola Roberts forced to pull out of West End show for medical procedure

She said withdrawing from the production was ‘upsetting’

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32 h. ago Pregnant Nicola Roberts reveals heartbreaking news she has been forced to pull out of her West End show ahead of a surgical operation

The Girls Aloud singer, 40, stars as the goddess Persephone in the hit West End musical Hadestown at the Lyric Theatre.

Culture

61 h. ago Strictly star Amber Davies shows off transformation for new job

The Strictly Come Dancing finalist is preparing to take on the lead role of Elle Woods in Legally Blonde The Musical

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63 h. ago Glasgow City Council ordered to pay £80,000 to man hit by falling lamppost

Colin Shaw, 50, was left with life-changing injuries after being struck on Kirklee Road, near Kelvinside Academy in the west end.

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64 h. ago Vera actress bags lead role in major new Netflix series with A

A rising star will be taking the lead in Netflix's new murder mystery drama, and Vera fans may recognise them.

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64 h. ago Vera star bags major role in 'epic' new Netflix drama from best

Netflix's new crime series features a UK TV rising star in the lead role, and fans of detective series Vera may recognise her.

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67 h. ago I want to be first minister, says potential Reform leader in Scotland

Lord Malcolm Offord said his name is in the hat for the role of the party’s Scottish leader.

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2 d. ago Woman deliberately pushed buggy into path of lorry as cops launch hunt to find her

DETECTIVES are frantically searching for a woman who is alleged to have deliberately pushed a pram into the path of an oncoming lorry. The horrifying incident happened on Monday along the A16, at the junction with Middlegate Road West, Kirton, Lincolnshire. When the lorry struck the pram a "white or pink bundle", that witnesses believed...

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3 d. ago Major update on new Rangers chief executive as rival Premiership club’s supremo emerges as a leading contender for role

ST MIRREN chief Jim Gillespie is a leading contender to be the new Rangers chief executive - just over a year after REJECTING the chance to take the job. The Light Blues remain on the hunt for a new CEO after dramatically sacking Patrick Stewart in November. Stewart was axed amid a period of major...

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3 d. ago ‘It was overwhelming’: Katie Leung on Harry Potter, sudden fame, insecurity – and starring in Bridgerton

As a teenager, the actor landed her first ever job in the blockbuster film series. The experience was fun – but also led to horrendous online abuse. Now she’s back, playing a tough and surprising matriarch in the Regency smash hitSome actors might have been a little put out to audition for the role of the beautiful young romantic lead, and instead be cast as her mother, but not Katie Leung. “Absolutely not,” she says with a laugh. “I look young for my age – as most people in the west think Asians do – but I felt really seen to finally get to play the role of a mother.” She is a mother, she points out, and anyway, the role of Lady Araminta Gun, the steely aristo who is about to rock the new series of Netflix’s Regency behemoth Bridgerton, is so delicious, who could be insulted?Araminta, widowed, has seen off two husbands, and now she’s trying to marry off her two teenage daughters, ideally to a Bridgerton, while keeping her stepdaughter, Sophie, in her place – as a Cinderella-style s...

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3 d. ago Maya Jama bounces back from the flu as she touches down in Cape Town for Love Island: All Stars

The presenter, 31, was forced to pull out of a Love Island: All Stars launch event days before the hit ITV2 dating series begins.

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4 d. ago Man Utd timeline to appoint Ruben Amorim replacement as talks underway with 'several' candidates

Manchester United sacked Ruben Amorim on Monday with Darren Fletcher taking charge temporarily as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer emerges as leading contender for caretaker role

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4 d. ago Love Island's Maya Jama shares health update after missing All Stars launch

Love Island host, Maya Jama, was notably absent from the show's All Stars launch this week after she was forced to pull out of the glitzy event due to ill health

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5 d. ago Coronation Street star 'gutted' as they're forced to pull out of live TV appearance

Sherrie Hewson was forced to withdraw from Vanessa Feltz's Channel 5 show on Monday after being struck by a winter illness

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5 d. ago Maya Jama pulls out of Love Island: All Stars launch event due to a mystery illness with just hours to go until her flight to South Africa

Maya Jama was due to attend the Love Island: All Stars press launch on Monday, but hours before the event began, she pulled out due to a mystery illness. 

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5 d. ago Emma Raducanu's reason for pulling out of United Cup match and Judy Murray's sarcastic remark

Emma Raducanu was forced to pull out of her United Cup match due to a foot injury, reminding tennis fans of her encounter with Judy Murray and her "sarcastic" criticism

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7 d. ago Chelsea icon, 57, does NOT have cancer after health concerns sparked by mystery illness that saw him lose FIVE stone with Chinese medicine used

There is a lot of upheaval at Chelsea already in 2026, but there is some good news surrounding the Blues in the new year.

Science

8 d. ago Maduro urges Trump to abandon ‘illegal warmongering’ and start ‘serious talks’

Venezuelan president warns of a ‘forever war’ similar to Iraq after US counterpart claims first land strike on dockThe Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro, has urged Donald Trump to abandon his “illegal warmongering” and begin “serious talks” with his administration as mystery continued to surround a purported pre-Christmas CIA airstrike on the South American country.Speaking during an hour-long TV interview, Maduro declined to confirm reports of the apparent US attack, which would be the first on Venezuelan soil since Trump began his five-month campaign of military pressure in August. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Reason you're sick AGAIN after 'super flu' as new 'mystery bug' sweeps UK

A pharmacist shares why exactly Brits are experiencing a new 'mystery illness' right after the dreaded 'super flu' as people across the country start 2026 sick in bed

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8 d. ago Iain Ballamy: Riversphere Vol 1 review | John Fordham's jazz album of the month

(Babel Label)The 80s sax star leads an A-list quartet, plus a shared trumpet role for Laura Jurd and Ballamy’s son CharlieOpening 2026’s jazz reviews with a story from the mid-1980s might be risking audience restiveness, but that was the decade in which a far-sighted young saxophonist on the UK jazz scene called Iain Ballamy first appeared on this writer’s radar. The cross-generational lineup and captivating ideas of Riversphere, his first solo release in years, testify to exactly why he has stayed there for 40 years.In their 20s, Ballamy and pianist/composer Django Bates frequently joined forces as two mavericks, skilfully respectful of the classic jazz tradition while adventurously and often mischievously transforming it. They were key figures in a gifted UK generation that created some of the sparkiest European jazz of the 1980s and 90s, most influentially in the revolutionary orchestra Loose Tubes, which brought together genres from old-school swing to vaudeville, improv and ava...

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