64 m. ago Coronation Street's Claire Sweeney teases 'wedding plans' after Ricky Hatton split

Claire Sweeney has said that she would love to tie the knot with her Coronation Street co-star Simon Gregson as the pair's characters have been growing closer

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70 m. ago Bitcoin jumps on US crypto reserve plan; euro rises on Europe’s Ukraine peace push – business live

Cryptocurrencies rally while euro and sterling rise on Keir Starmer’s ‘coalition of the willing’Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy.Cryptocurrencies have rallied on plans for a new US strategic reserve, while the euro and sterling rose amid Europe’s peace push for Ukraine. Continue reading...

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76 m. ago Coronation Street star Tony Maudsley says 'that's George' as he reveals soap future amid co

The actor is currently playing George Shuttleworth in the ITV soap having joined back in 2020

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83 m. ago Is Europe misunderstanding Trump on Ukraine? | Stephen Wertheim

The new administration appears to be taking a position that Ukrainian and European leaders aren’t hearing – or are trying to alterA high-stakes transatlantic miscommunication is unfolding, with the potential to produce far worse consequences than the Oval Office contretemps between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.In the past month, the Trump administration has delivered several strong and sometimes conflicting messages to America’s allies and partners in Europe. Discerning the signal in the noise isn’t easy, but amid the zigs, zags and bombast, the new administration appears to be taking a position that Ukrainian and European leaders aren’t hearing – or are trying to alter.Stephen Wertheim is a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of US Global Supremacy Continue reading...

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98 m. ago Zelenskyy offers to step down as president of Ukraine under one condition

The Ukrainian President spoke at London Stansted Airport after meeting with European leaders and King Charles.

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1 hour ago Volodymyr Zelensky meets King Charles as European leaders back Ukraine defence

King greeted Ukrainian leader at Sandringham after summit on Ukraine’s defence

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2 h. ago Teenager fighting for life after stabbing in Canning Town as six people are arrested

Officers found a 17-year-old boy with stab injuries at a street close to Canning Town station

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3 h. ago Immigration: How Spitalfields shows the changing face of London

Immigration: How Spitalfields shows the changing face of London  BBC.com

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3 h. ago Coronation Street star Claire Sweeney teases 'wedding plans' after recent Ricky Hatton split

In an exclusive chat, Coronation Street's Claire Sweeney opened up about Cassie's intense upcoming storyline and why she's hoping for wedding bells for the troublesome character

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4 h. ago ‘Cocaine is classless ... everyone’s at it’: Danny Dyer on fame, aliens, love and male violence

He went from Harold Pinter’s protege to barely scraping a living to roaring success in Jilly Cooper’s Rivals. With the release of his new film Marching Powder, he talks about his journey from national joke to national treasureThe Danny Dyer fanbase is an eclectic one. There are the ravers who got in on the ground floor, idolising Moff, the ranting pill dealer Dyer played in the 1999 film Human Traffic. There are the “sort of alpha males”, as he calls them; basically, lads who were into The Football Factory and his run of 00s films about hooliganism, drugs and sex (usually all three). Then, a nine-year run in EastEnders brought onside a lot of “old ladies”, he says. And now, with the success of Rivals – the TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s book, in which he plays the kind-hearted self-made millionaire Freddie Jones – a hornier faction has joined his supporters’ ranks.“I’m getting a lot of women of a certain age and a certain class come up to me in the street,” says Dyer, “you know, ju...

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5 h. ago Stock market today: Asian shares advance on back of Wall St's rally and upbeat Chinese factory data

Asian shares have started the week with solid gains after Wall Street closed its dreary February on a brighter note

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5 h. ago 'Water keeps flooding our street and we're terrified it's going to happen again'

'We are told things take time, but we haven't got time. My business is my life. If I don't have my business then my family haven't got food on the table.'

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6 h. ago Younger Ukrainian Army generals are inflicting 'unsustainable losses' on Russian forces, reports from on the ground say

Ukrainian troops are now inflicting 'unsustainable losses' on Russian forces and keeping them at 'marginal gains', Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports.

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6 h. ago Woman killed in New London crash on State Street, police say

Woman killed in New London crash on State Street, police say  New Haven Register

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7 h. ago Timothee Chalamet's 'body language changed' as he saw Kylie Jenner at Oscars

Timothee Chalamet is the youngest two-time Best Actor Oscar nominee since James Dean and he took that status seriously as he walked the Oscars red carpet solo

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7 h. ago Social media told me 'manifesting' would change my life. Instead I became convinced I'd killed my father

As an emotional Jessica Gunning collected a prestigious Screen Actors Guild award for her role in Baby Reindeer last month, the 38-year-old's heartfelt speech was dedicated to the power of manifesting.

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8 h. ago Not too sweet! Treats on holiday may make you suffer 'obese brain', scientists say

A week of indulgence can change the chemical makeup of your brain to make it behave as if you are overweight, giving you an 'obese brain', scientists have found.

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8 h. ago King's show of solidarity! Charles throws protective arm around Volodymyr Zelensky as world leaders scramble to help Ukraine president after shattered relationship with Donald Trump

In a pointed show of support, Charles invited the Ukrainian president to Sandringham for a private audience just 48 hours after President Trump's meltdown in the Oval Office horrified allies.

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9 h. ago 17 words from Barry Ferguson show how Rangers boss REALLY feels as tune change says it all about first week in job

It was 'my, my' from the interim boss early on – now it's 'they' and 'them'

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10 h. ago Volodymyr Zelensky says he's 'ready to sign' minerals deal with the US and insists he 'just wanted Ukrainian position to be heard' during disastrous Oval Office meeting with Trump

Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he is 'ready to sign' the minerals deal with America that was put on hold after his stormy meeting with Donald Trump.

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