2 h. ago Engelbert Humperdinck, 89, makes rare appearance with his daughter at Jayne Mansfield documentary event

Engelbert Humberdinck made a rare public appearance with his daughter Louise Dorsey on Monday.

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4 h. ago North Lanarkshire Council to make more active use of social media to highlight important planning applications to the public

Members supported a motion which was a response to commonly expressed complaints that the public were often aware of planning applications before development began.

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21 h. ago Users' intimate chats posted to app's PUBLIC feed in latest nightmare for Instagram owner

Excruciating messages that users clearly did not intend to be made public have been widely shared.

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41 h. ago Allo la France review – romance of French phone booths exposes funding cuts to rural services

In an endearingly whimsical road trip documentary, Floriane Devigne takes calls from her interview subjects in the last remaining phone boxes dotted across rural FranceThe humble telephone box, a souvenir from the days of analogue, can also be an intriguing cinematic locus. Floriane Devigne’s road trip documentary begins with such a relic: the last public phone booth in Paris, which also appears in Jacques Rivette’s mesmerising 1981 film Le Pont du Nord. Unlike their Instagrammable British counterparts, French phone boxes are usually painted in a demure grey and blend seamlessly with their surroundings.As it moves from the capital city to more remote areas, Devigne’s film observes the vanishing of a formerly essential utility as her cross-country odyssey sparkles with an endearing whimsicality. Instead of using talking heads, Devigne ducks into various phone boxes scattered across France, as she takes calls from her interview subjects. Stories of love and longing fill these unassumi...

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56 h. ago Met Office urges public to come forward and ‘submit’ names for big list

The UK weather agency is appealing for suggestions from members of the public

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61 h. ago Machine Gun Kelly's daughter makes rare public appearance as fans say 'she's a natural'

Machine Gun Kelly's eldest child recently made a rare public appearance alongside her musician father at the Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards and fans were blown away

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4 d. ago JK Rowling makes rare public appearance at Ascot with doctor husband Neil Murray

The author, 59, and doctor Neil Murray, were pictured dressed to the nines as they sat in the stands on the fourth day of the prestigious racing event in Berkshire.

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4 d. ago Do YOU think anyone can outclass Princess Diana or Prince Philip? Royal author reveals the only royal to do it

Princess Diana and Prince Philip shared their crowd appeal and common touch with members of the public - traits which one royal expert says another member of the family also possesses.

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6 d. ago The Latest: US says foreign students seeking visas must unlock social media accounts

The U.S. State Department says it is restarting the process for foreigners to apply for student visas but says all applicants must have their social media accounts set to ‘public’ to allow review by officials

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6 d. ago Esther Rantzen's daughter shares heartbreaking update on her health as she issues plea

Esther Rantzen's daughter has issued a heartbreaking update on her health as she appealed for the public and MPs to grant her mum's birthday wish by supporting the assisted dying bill on Friday

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6 d. ago Majority of Trump supporters against US military involvement in Israel

Findings reinforce public appetite for peaceful resolution to aim of forcing Iran to give up ambitions of acquiring nuclear weaponsUS politics live – latest updatesA majority of supporters of Donald Trump are against US military involvement in Israel’s conflict with Iran, a poll published Wednesday found, reflecting a growing Republican backlash to the president’s threats to utilize American firepower.A wide ranging Economist/YouGov poll conducted over the weekend revealed that 53% of voters who backed Trump in the 2024 presidential election do not want the country to join in Israel’s strikes. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Most Trump supporters want to keep US military out of Israel

Findings show public appetite for peaceful approach to aim of forcing Iran to give up ambition of acquiring nuclear armsUS politics live – latest updatesA majority of supporters of Donald Trump are against US military involvement in Israel’s conflict with Iran, a poll published on Wednesday found, reflecting a growing Republican backlash to the president’s threats to utilize American firepower.A wide-ranging Economist/YouGov poll conducted over the weekend revealed that 53% of voters who backed Trump in the 2024 presidential election do not want the country to join in Israel’s strikes. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Kate misses Royal Ascot for second year as she aims for right balance

The Princess of Wales’s public appearances have increased in recent weeks and she has attended three high profile events.

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6 d. ago Kate Middleton 'disappointed' as she pulls out of event at last minute

The Princess of Wales is said to be balancing public appearances with her health

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7 d. ago Gorka Marquez makes Gemma Atkinson 'beyond proud' as fans push 'new career'

Gemma was supporting the dancer while fans are putting him down for a 'new career' after his latest public appearance

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7 d. ago Police issue 999 appeal for public's help to find missing boy, 12, last seen at rugby club

Officers say they are 'concerned for his welfare'

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8 d. ago Wishaw charity appeal to public for support in upgrading vandal

Approximately £3000 is needed to repair the damage with a fundraising page set up by Made4UinML2 in a bid to raise the funds.

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8 d. ago Ali Khamenei: ruthless defender of Iran’s revolution with few good options left

The Iranian supreme leader is backed into a corner, a situation he has spent his life doing his best to avoidWhen he appeared in public for the first time in five years in October, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, had an uncompromising message. Israel “won’t last long”, he told tens of thousands of supporters at a mosque in Tehran in a Friday sermon.“We must stand up against the enemy while strengthening our unwavering faith,” the 84-year-old told the gathering. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago How a Pentagon account on X became Pete Hegseth’s personal cheerleader

Department’s rapid response team is weaponizing the social platform to champion defense secretary and attack rivalsWhile it’s true no president or political leader has ever used social media quite as prolifically as Donald Trump, no recent secretary of defense has ever weaponized X or any other platform, quite like former Fox & Friends weekend host, Pete Hegseth.Hegseth is actively reshaping the Pentagon in his own image since taking over, prompting a social media policy that has taken a dramatic turn towards supporting Hegseth’s every move and public appearance. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The Kardashians of history: why are we so obsessed with the Mitford sisters?

They were impossibly glamorous, fatally flawed and turned up at every significant moment of the 20th century, but underneath it all is a highly relatable family drama – without the infamous friendsThe rise and fall of the Mitford sisters is like one of those earthquakes we’re due on a regular rotation: eight years out from Gucci’s much-documented Never Marry a Mitford jumper, four years after the BBC drama The Pursuit of Love, a new TV show appears fortuitously to bring them back into the public consciousness again.Here they come, out of the mists of time, the seven children of a minor member of the House of Lords: Nancy, of course, the author of Love in a Cold Climate and The Pursuit of Love and probably the most famous in her own right; followed by Pamela, the least famous and fond chiefly of chickens and horrible men; then Tom, the only boy, with a weakness for the Nazis and, as far as history is concerned, no personality. Continue reading...

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