9 h. ago Strip teases, coke binges and orgies with star bedding FOUR men in a night – inside TV’s raunchiest parties

WITH cocaine binges, lustful actors barely able to keep their hands off each other and boozy benders every night, the late Dame Jilly Cooper would have been proud of her Rivals cast.  Their wild antics would outshone debaucherous scenes penned by the bonkbuster writer, who died aged 88 this year, which titillated viewers after being...

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64 h. ago UK earthquake: 8 things you need to know after 3.3 magnitude tremor

Brits living in Lancashire were jolted in their beds by shaking late last night after a magnitude 3.3 earthquake struck the area and parts of the southern Lake District

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3 d. ago Venezuela’s Maduro ‘sleeping in different beds every night’ after Trump threats

US president is said to have issued Maduro with an ultimatum to leave Venezuela last week

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6 d. ago Comedian Judi Love: ‘I’m a big girl, the boss, and you love it’

Before she was a TV mainstay, Judi Love was a single mum juggling standup with care work. Now she’s back on stage for a show that finds humour in past trauma: ‘It’s laughter that helped me’, she says.Judi Love was 17 when she was kidnapped, though she adds a couple of years on when reliving it on stage. It was only the anecdote’s second to-audience outing when I watched her recite it, peppered with punchlines, at a late-October work-in-progress gig. The bones of her new show – All About the Love, embarking on a 23-date tour next year – are very much still evolving, but this Wednesday night in Bedford is a sell out, such is the pull of Love’s telly star power.She starts by twerking her way into the spotlight, before riffing on her career as a social worker and trading “chicken and chips for champagne and ceviche”. Interspersed are opening bouts of sharp crowd work – Love at her free-wheeling best. Next, she’s at college, studying IT, but mostly “going into the games room looking for ...

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1 week ago I'm a Celebrity to introduce brand new bushtucker trial – the 'most terrifying' yet

Celebrities will face “one of the sickest trials ever” as they brave a terrifying night-time Bugtime Stories challenge, tucking into a giant bed swarming with critters, while their campmates listen in via baby monitor

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2 w. ago ‘I thought the grownups were back in charge!’: John Crace on how Labour shattered his expectations

After 14 years of Tory rule, the Guardian’s parliamentary sketch writer thought he had seen it all. Westminster would surely tick along nicely once Keir Starmer’s party took over. How wrong he was ...I feel I should probably start with an apology. A few days after the 2024 general election, I wrote that it felt as if the grownups were back in charge. It wasn’t as if I was carried away by the vision of Keir Starmer or the charisma of Rachel Reeves. More that I felt we had regained a basic level of competence. That politics would become business as usual rather than the breathless psychodrama of the past 10 years. You could go to bed at night relatively confident that the country would be more or less recognisable when you woke up. There would be no more mad people doing mad things as we raced through five or six news cycles in the course of a couple of hours.And part of me was a little concerned. Because what is good for economic stability and social justice isn’t necessarily good fo...

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2 w. ago Backlash at the bed tax: Rachel Reeves plans to bring in an overnight tax on top of your hotel or Airbnb bed for the night

Rachel Reeves faced a furious backlash over plans to impose a 'bed tax' on hotel stays and holiday rentals.

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2 w. ago Driver urges all women to lock car doors after terrifying late

Driver Liv Bedford recalled a 'petrifying' situation she endured late at night in a car park recently, and has urged all other women to lock the doors as soon as they step into their vehicles

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3 w. ago Sharon Osbourne admits she 'hates going to bed at night' since Ozzy's death

Sharon Osbourne has opened up in her first podcast following the death of husband, Ozzy Osbourne.

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3 w. ago Urgent plea to UK households to stop making common electric blanket mistake

Although a warm blanket may feel perfect as you snuggle into bed on cold, dark winter night, it could unknowingly put your life at risk

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