20 h. ago Coronation Street rejects Matt Lucas after Little Britain star asks for role on soap

Little Britain star, Matt Lucas, has revealed he once asked Coronation Street bosses if he could be on the soap as new character, Teddy Pink, but admitted they 'didn't bite'

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46 h. ago UK's biggest coffee chains shut shops as customers ask 'where will I get flat white now'

In a new blow for Britain's battered high street, both Starbucks and Costa Coffee have shut majorly popular branches in two towns - leaving customers gasping for their 'flat whites'

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3 d. ago UK's most divisive seaside town as Brits can't decide if it's beautiful or bleak

Consumer rights magazine Which? has surveyed 3,800 members of the British public to find out what is the overall best seaside town, with Bamburgh in Northumberland hitting the topspot again

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1 week ago New West Lothian flats agreed despite objections as housing crisis continues

The proposals for a vacant site in Stewart Avenue did attract seven objections including one from the village community council voicing concern about potential parking issues.

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1 week ago Britain's cheekiest street names revealed – from Busty View to Bell End

Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate and Crotch Crescent are among the actual real life addresses scattered across Britain - there's so many, that we even rounded them up for you to have a snigger at

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1 week ago Coronation Street star who shot to fame on Britain's Got Talent 'confirms' soap exit

The actor, 26, who shot to fame on Britain's Got Talent, joined the soap in 2023 as Bobby Crawford.

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2 w. ago Britain's most beautiful pub has been named and it's not where you would think

The Forester in Ealing, west London, has won a national CAMRA Pub Design Award, which recognises the most stunning, historically significant and lovingly restored pubs across the UK

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3 w. ago Trump says he plans to court Rand Paul’s vote on the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ as he reinvites him to White House picnic

Kentucky Republican annoyed to be excluded from social event after publicly speaking out against the president’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

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3 w. ago Sen. Rand Paul calls Trump admin ‘incredibly petty’ as he’s uninvited from White House picnic

Kentucky Republican annoyed to be excluded from social event after publicly speaking out against the president’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

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3 w. ago Trump opens door to forgiving Musk after Epstein accusations: ‘I have no hard feelings’

Musk claimed Trump’s name appears in the unreleased ‘Epstein files’ amid their public feud over the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

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3 w. ago The most beautiful pubs in Britain: From street corner locals to attractive village beer houses, Camra reveals the UK's best

From an 'industrial chic' refurbishment to a stunning 17th century timber-framed building, these are the winners of the Pub Design Awards 2025 run by the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra).

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3 w. ago Adolf Hitler's bigamist brother's womanising legacy in Britain revealed... and the UK street that is horrified at becoming a Nazi shrine

With convictions for theft as a young man, Alois Hitler left Austria and his bullying father for Ireland where he met and married an Irish teenager by the name of Bridget Dowling

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3 w. ago Sir Nick Faldo takes swipe at UK while bragging about Donald Trump friendship

Multimillionaire golfer Nick Faldo, who was knighted for services to sport, told how he has no plans to return to Britain after taking a recent stroll down Eton High Street

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3 w. ago The Peak District town with country walks and old pubs holding a major festival this summer

It's a town full of Georgian architecture, beautiful walks and charming pubs, and every summer famous faces descend upon it for a major arts festival

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3 w. ago What life is like on the most divided street in Britain's most segregated city... where just one Christian who was born there remains

Tension between Muslims and Hindus has echoed through the modern history of the subcontinent, from the partition to the recent war between India and Pakistan.

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3 w. ago Minnesota’s boundary waters are pristine. Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ could pollute them forever

A little-known provision would open thousands of nearby acres to a foreign mining company, risking acid drainageThe story is co-published with Public Domain, an investigative newsroom that covers public lands, wildlife and governmentA little-known provision of Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” would open thousands of acres of public lands at the edge of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters wilderness to a foreign-owned mining company. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Musk declares war on Trump as split over ‘big, beautiful’ bill gets personal

Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s public brawl has implications for the ‘big, beautiful bill’ as it turns ugly, John Bowden writes

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4 w. ago Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Between Elon and Melania, Trump now has two foreigners who won’t sleep with him’

Late-night hosts discuss the White House falling-out and growing Republican dissent over Trump’s big, beautiful billLate-night hosts delved into the rift between Elon Musk and Donald Trump after Musk publicly criticized Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill”. Continue reading...

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