3 h. ago Hollyoaks star Callum Kerr calls on late mother’s friends not to attend stepfather’s funeral

“Please do not attend Andrew’s service if you were a friend of our mother"

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4 h. ago Hollyoaks star calls on late mother’s friends not to attend stepfather’s funeral

Andrew Searle and Dawn Kerr, who were both aged in their 60s, were found dead in their home in the south of France in a suspected murder-suicide.

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7 h. ago Hollyoaks star Callum Kerr begs friends of 'murdered mum' not to attend stepdad's funeral

Callum Kerr and his sister Amanda Kerr issued a joint statement today where they said for friends of their mother Dawn Kerr to not attend the funeral of her husband Andrew Searle

Events

8 h. ago Tennis boss responds to struggling stars calling for change to congested calendar

Jannik Sinner's recent withdrawal from the Cincinnati Open final has resulted in the latest complaint from top tennis players over the schedule, and the response has been swift

Politics

9 h. ago Bob Odenkirk in Edinburgh: Staff thrilled as Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul star visits restaurant

He was photographed at the restaurant with two members of staff.

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13 h. ago Wrexham close in on £8m deal for Man City starlet Callum Doyle

The England Under-21 international enjoyed a loan spell with Norwich last season but is now poised to depart the Etihad Stadium on a permanent deal

Economics

38 h. ago Nato boss says leaders to work on security guarantee details in coming days

Mark Rutte says more would come ‘over the coming days’ as Ukrainian president calls the guarantees a ‘starting point’

Politics

42 h. ago Xavi Simons makes transfer preference clear as Man City eye Chelsea hijack

Chelsea have been linked with a move for RB Leipzig star Xavi Simons all summer long but saw a switch called into question with fresh interest from one of their Premier League rivals

Sport

52 h. ago ITV Ridley cast list in full as Coronation Street, Call the Midwife and This City is Ours stars join drama

The northern cop series from the pen of Vera writer, Paul Matthew Thompson, returns for a second series of Sunday night adventures

Events

56 h. ago Forgotten Man Utd star offered surprising exit option after brutal Ruben Amorim call

Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim has shown a number of senior stars what he thinks about their future and that could lead to yet another summer departure

Politics

64 h. ago Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock calls for Keir Starmer to scrap two

Lord Kinnock, who led Labour in opposition between 1983 and 1992, is the latest senior party figure to pressure the current Government to end the two-child limit on benefits.

Politics

3 d. ago ‘I’m the one to beat’: is Taylor Swift’s Showgirl era set to take h to even greater heights?

Just-announced album already looks like it will make singer and partner Travis Kelce hysterically famous at a new level – and that may be precisely their planTaylor Swift’s podcast interview with her American football player boyfriend, Travis Kelce, this week yielded plenty of tidbits for fans. Across two hours of loose chat on New Heights, the show Kelce helms with his brother Jason – also a football player – Swift revealed she was obsessed with sourdough and lurked on baking blogs. The couple spent the summer with her family, caring for her 73-year-old father, Scott, after he had a quintuple heart bypass. She gave Kelce a lesson on Hamlet and taught him how to avoid internalising speculation about their two-year relationship. You could call them the tentpoles of the 35-year-old pop star’s brand: literary passions and professional self-awareness.One surprising revelation came near the end. Until the record-breaking 149-date Eras tour that Swift mounted from 2023-24, she said she ha...

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3 d. ago ‘I’m the one to beat’: is Taylor Swift’s Showgirl era set to take her to even greater heights?

Just-announced album already looks like it will make singer and partner Travis Kelce hysterically famous at a new level – and that may be precisely their planTaylor Swift’s podcast interview with her American football player boyfriend, Travis Kelce, this week yielded plenty of tidbits for fans. Across two hours of loose chat on New Heights, the show Kelce helms with his brother Jason – also a football player – Swift revealed she was obsessed with sourdough and lurked on baking blogs. The couple spent the summer with her family, caring for her 73-year-old father, Scott, after he had a quintuple heart bypass. She gave Kelce a lesson on Hamlet and taught him how to avoid internalising speculation about their two-year relationship. You could call them the tentpoles of the 35-year-old pop star’s brand: literary passions and professional self-awareness.One surprising revelation came near the end. Until the record-breaking 149-date Eras tour that Swift mounted from 2023-24, she said she ha...

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3 d. ago Love Is Blind UK star called out by fans as it's revealed 'they had a baby on the way during filming' for hit Netflix dating series

The Netflix series saw 30 singles enter the pods in search of a spouse, but Patrick quickly grabbed attention with his unusual dating approach.

Sport

5 d. ago ‘We thought with The Crown: “Is anyone going to watch this?”’ director Benjamin Caron on risk, realism – and royalty

A ‘safe pair of hands’ in high end TV, Caron now reunites with Vanessa Kirby for hyperactive Netflix thriller Night Always Comes about the terror of urban homelessnessIt’s quite a schlep from Buckingham Palace to the mean streets of working-class Portland, Oregon, but it is one that Midlands-born film-maker Benjamin Caron and actor Vanessa Kirby have undertaken with their new thriller Night Always Comes, adapted from the taut novel by Willy Vlautin. Caron and Kirby met nearly a decade ago when he directed episodes of The Crown, in which she played the young Princess Margaret from behind a cloud of cigarette smoke.Now Kirby stars as a former sex worker called Lynette, toiling in multiple jobs and living with her disabled brother (Zach Gottsagen) and their wrecked, wayward mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh). They have cobbled together the funds to buy their dilapidated house at a snip, only for Lynette’s mother to recklessly blow her half on a new car. Cue one manic night in which Lynette ...

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5 d. ago Will Ferrell in Scotland: Hollywood star shocks staff on visit to Aberdeenshire castle

Braemar Castle staff called the Hollywood star a ‘true gentleman’.

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5 d. ago Wrexham star forced to show true colours as Phil Parkinson call left him in 'dark place'

Wrexham's Ollie Palmer has revealed how tough he found being frozen out by Phil Parkinson last season, but has shown his resilience by standing firm and fighting for his place

Politics

5 d. ago Nobody 2 review – Bob Odenkirk’s suburban tough guy beats action sequel into submission

The Better Call Saul star reprises his role as a kickass family man in a forgettable follow-up riddled with endless gonzo fight sequencesBob Odenkirk’s unlikely new career journey as a kickass tough guy continues in this pretty formulaic and forgettable sequel to the amusing original hit, which first showed us Hutch (Odenkirk), an apparent suburban nobody with wife-plus-kids who keeps forgetting to put the garbage out in time – then from nowhere busts out some serious fight moves.This sequel from Indonesian action director Timo Tjahjanto, co-written by the writer of the original, Derek Kolstad, really doesn’t have much of the humour and the storytelling chutzpah of the first film. But what it does have, inevitably, are endless gonzo fight sequences in which Hutch is unfairly matched against half a dozen or so humongous goons, and winds up reducing these bullies to cat litter. There was a big scene in the first film set on a bus, and it seems to have become the Nobody franchise’s USP...

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6 d. ago Merz’s manoeuvres on world stage fail to quell doubts about his leadership

The German chancellor’s high-wire statesmanship on Ukraine has done little to alleviate his domestic woesEurope live – latest updatesFriedrich Merz hosted the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Wednesday as a weakened leader 100 days into his term, with his attempts to rally western support for Kyiv and wrangle Donald Trump failing to silence his domestic critics.The German chancellor took the initiative for Wednesday’s lightning round of telephone conferences bringing in EU leaders, Trump and his vice-president, JD Vance. Zelenskyy’s surprise arrival in Berlin to sit in on the calls underlined Merz’s starring role in the diplomatic efforts. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Keir Starmer says Ukraine ceasefire 'viable' and makes Donald Trump claim

Keir Starmer held calls with Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump and other European leaders ahead of high stakes in-person talks between the US President and Vladimir Putin on Friday

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