85 m. ago Superfans descend on Windsor to enliven Trump’s festival of nothing

With US president hidden from public view, media focuses instead on peripheral sideshow of clowns drawn by state visitNever in its long and august history has the No 10 bus from Windsor to Staines (via Datchet and Wraysbury) received a welcome like this. Its passage secured by police escort, its progress followed by the world’s media, the orange single-decker trundles regally up Windsor’s high street, while onlookers crane to get a glimpse of the single pensioner conveyed within. “It’s not him,” one man mutters, a little superfluously.It was that kind of a day on the banks of the Thames: lots of excitement over very little, a sideshow that felt largely peripheral to the pageantry unfolding within the sealed castle grounds. “I’m afraid nothing’s going to happen, madam,” a police officer informed a woman filming a Facebook Live video from the kerb as he shooed her a safe distance back towards the pavement. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago The Best Christmas Hotels in London for a Festive Stay in 2025

The Best Christmas Hotels in London for a Festive Stay in 2025  Condé Nast Traveler

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4 h. ago Best supermarket Christmas food to elevate your festive dining in 2025

These supermarkets are already getting us into the festive spirit

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6 h. ago Stranraer Oyster Festival 2025 delivers 'joyous' weekend as celebrity chefs praise community spirit

This year’s Stranraer Oyster Festival has been hailed a “wonderful, feel-good festival” by TV presenter, Matt Tebbutt.

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7 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing star Ellie Goldstein's life from Gucci fame to heart surgery

This weekend, BBC viewers will see 15 celebrities make their debut on Strictly Come Dancing.

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14 h. ago Foodies flock to world's biggest chicken wing festival complete with 'Lava Wing Challenge'

Foodies with a love of all things spice are this weekend invited along to Wing Fest, a celebration of all things chicken wings with plenty of innovative flavours in store

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29 h. ago Very best of community spirit on show at 2025 North Lanarkshire Provost Awards

Held at Dalziel Park on Friday, September 12, the awards brought together nominees, families, and community representatives for a special afternoon of celebration.

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30 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing expert addresses 'fix' accusations ahead of launch

Strictly Come Dancing is set to return to screens this weekend, with a whole new line-up of celebrities taking to the dancefloor.

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33 h. ago The Central line is celebrating its 125th birthday with a treasure hunt across London this weekend

The Central line is celebrating its 125th birthday with a treasure hunt across London this weekend  Time Out Worldwide

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56 h. ago London Design Festival 2025: live updates from the Wallpaper* editors

London Design Festival 2025: live updates from the Wallpaper* editors  wallpaper.com

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63 h. ago Janeites unite: Austen festival in Bath celebrates 250th anniversary of author’s birth

The annual festival, now the largest and longest-running of its kind, first took place in 2001 and has since grown to a 10-day programme drawing thousands of visitors from around the world“One cannot have too large a party,” writes Jane Austen in Emma. But could she ever have predicted that more than 200 years later, balls held in her honour would be selling out in 15 minutes?This year, the largest and longest-running Jane Austen festival, held in Bath, brings together more than 3,000 fans, or Janeites as they prefer to be called, to celebrate the life and legacy of the beloved author. From balls and cream teas to festival fayres and dance lessons, for 10 days the city transforms into a living homage to Austen’s world. But what keeps modern audiences so captivated by this imagined past?A group of re-enactors enjoy afternoon tea at the Bath Bun Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing star dealt major blow ahead of BBC debut

Strictly Come Dancing is set to return to BBC screens next weekend, with the 15 celebrities taking part yet to be matched with their professional partners

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4 d. ago Tariq Ashkanani wins 2025 McIlvanney Prize at Bloody Scotland crime writing festival

Ashkanani won with his novel The Midnight King.

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4 d. ago A ceramicist turns a family home in an inspiring design exhibition at London Design Festival 2025

A ceramicist turns a family home in an inspiring design exhibition at London Design Festival 2025  wallpaper.com

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5 d. ago Ten Years: has the hit film’s dystopian vision of Hong Kong in 2025 become a reality?

In 2015, a scrappy group of film-makers tapped into the ‘anxiety of what the city would become’ under Beijing’s increasing influence. Now screening at the Hong Kong film festival UK, it resonates in new waysA taxi driver struggles to keep working as his native language of Cantonese is sidelined for Mandarin. Petty gangsters do the work of the authorities amid a violent debate about a national security law. Supporters of Hong Kong independence are jailed.In 2015, a scrappy group of Hong Kong film-makers imagined what their semi-autonomous city could look like under the increasing influence of the Chinese Communist party (CCP). Continue reading...

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5 d. ago The new 2025 London Open House Festival tours to book if you love homes

The new 2025 London Open House Festival tours to book if you love homes  wallpaper.com

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6 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing in chaos as full list of 2025 pairings leak online just over a week before BBC show launch airs

BBC bosses had gone to great lengths to keep the partnerships under wraps ahead of next weekend's big launch, where 15 celebrities will go head-to-head for the glitterball trophy.

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6 d. ago Postecoglou targets trophies and ‘true believers’ at Nottingham Forest

Former Spurs manager had his 60th birthday plans upended by job offer but feels ‘things happen for a reason’Ange Postecoglou walked out of the City Ground tunnel, which is decorated with famous images from yesteryear, and surveyed the scene. Just like that the Nottingham Forest head coach, in a blue suit, open-neck white shirt and Paul Smith trainers – the designer is a son of the city – was back in business. He posed with the garibaldi red shirt and before long was explaining how Forest’s move interrupted his belated 60th birthday celebrations last weekend. “We had this whole thing planned, The Hangover-style but we were in bed by 10pm as we realised our age,” Postecoglou said.It was in May, when the Europa League trophy parade halted outside the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, that Postecoglou provided an iconic mic-drop moment: declaring that season three always eclipses season two in the best TV series. Four months after being sacked, replacing Nuno Espírito Santo three games into th...

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6 d. ago Four talks and events hosted by Dezeen during London Design Festival 2025

Four talks and events hosted by Dezeen during London Design Festival 2025  Dezeen

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6 d. ago 2025 Stranraer Oyster Festival set to be biggest yet as organisers report record ticket sales

And adding to the excitement is the news that festival headline chef Matt Tebbutt has just been announced as the new judge on BBC’s MasterChef: The Professionals.

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