55 m. ago Strictly's Dianne Buswell breaks silence after withdrawing from series with 'kindest human' Stefan Dennis

The pair will not be competing on Strictly going forward after Stefan tore his calf

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58 m. ago Prince Andrew's accuser Virginia Giuffre claims she was groomed by being raped aged about nine by her own father

Virginia Giuffre claims she was raped by her own father when she was about nine. She describes a childhood so blighted by horrific abuse that she became the 'perfect victim' for Epstein and Maxwell.

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59 m. ago Trump says he doesn’t think Ukraine will win back land taken by Russia during war – live

US president says ‘anything can happen’ in Russia-Ukraine war as he signs rare earth minerals deal with Australian prime ministerThe Senate will vote, for the 11th time, on a House-passed funding bill that would reopen the government at 5.30pm today.As the government shutdown enters its 20th day, there is little end in sight. The lower chamber is still out of session, as both parties continue to trade barbs over the lapse in funding. Continue reading...

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62 m. ago Dianne Buswell issues statement as Strictly Come Dancing star forced to quit

BBC Strictly Come Dancing has announced that Stefan Dennis has been forced to pull put of the series following an injury

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67 m. ago Search for remains of Disappeared victim Columba McVeigh moves to new area

It comes ahead of the 50th anniversary of the murder and secret burial of the Co Tyrone teen by the IRA on November 1 1975.

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77 m. ago Neighbours actor Stefan Dennis pulls out of Strictly with calf injury

The actor was paired with professional dancer Dianne Buswell on the BBC One show.

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80 m. ago The Guardian view on the price of a prince: what Virginia Giuffre’s story says about palace accountability | Editorial

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has exposed a constitutional blind spot: royal privilege remains beyond democratic scrutiny. MPs must be able to question powerThe tragic story of Virginia Giuffre raises the question of who governs when royal privilege and public outrage collide. As a vulnerable teenager she was drawn into a world of sexual exploitation by the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Ms Giuffre alleged that Epstein trafficked her and that she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew on three occasions, including when she was 17. He has denied all the claims. Despite previously insisting he had no memory of meeting her, the prince reportedly paid £12m to settle her civil case in 2022. The money was said to have come from his mother, the late queen – who, just six weeks later, was photographed walking beside him at her husband’s memorial service.With a posthumous memoir, Ms Giuffre has brought the issue back into the spotlight. In his calamitous 2019 Newsnight interview,...

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81 m. ago The Guardian view on Ukraine peace talks: Europe must ensure Zelenskyy can resist Trump’s bullying | Editorial

The US president’s attempts to broker a deal fail to distinguish between the aggressor and the victim. No just agreement is possible on that basisIt wasn’t quite the calamity of February, when Volodymyr Zelenskyy was publicly humiliated in the Oval Office by Donald Trump and his vice-president, JD Vance. But the Ukrainian president’s latest visit to the White House on Friday was, by all accounts, a disquieting experience. Mr Trump’s public musings before the meeting suggested that his stance had hardened towards Vladimir Putin, to the strategically significant extent of being willing to sell long-range Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv. But by the time Mr Zelenskyy arrived in Washington, the US president had changed his mind, instead lecturing his guest on the need to make territorial concessions to Russia.So far, so familiar. Since being re-elected, Mr Trump has repeatedly resiled from following up tough talk on Russia with meaningful action. Faux deadlines for Mr Putin to make substa...

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82 m. ago As Sydney Sweeney's boxing biopic Christy is trashed by critics, BRIAN VINER's review reveals whether she's the victim of a leftie backlash or her performance is really on the ropes

Christy packs a strong dramatic punch, as every boxing film should. Unfortunately, the blow lands below the belt.

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91 m. ago Stefan Dennis 'forced to withdraw' from Strictly 2025 over 'significant' injury

The Neighbours legend was paired with Dianne Buswell on the BBC series

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91 m. ago Olivia Attwood ‘fighting for her marriage’ as Bradley Dack ‘embarrassed’ by her behaviour

Following an undeniably tricky few months, a source claims Olivia Attwood and her husband Bradley Dick are still very much love each other and she'll 'fight' to save their relationship

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1 hour ago Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported

Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.The Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, has been urged to condemn the comments by Katie Lam, a former Home Office shadow minister and now a whip for the party. Lam was previously a special adviser to Boris Johnson and is often described as a rising star of the new intake. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Woman loses life savings and husband’s insurance after falling for scammer impersonating feds: ‘I couldn’t believe it happened’

Since 2020, there has been a fourfold increase in over-60s losing at least $100,000 to scams involving impersonations of businesses or the government

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2 h. ago What do we learn from Epstein and Andrew? There’s a level of power at which right and wrong no longer exist | Zoe Williams

Prince Andrew has finally decided to give up his titles – but we have known the shape of the allegations against him for years. Why was there a collective decision to look away?On the eve of the publication of Virginia Giuffre’s book Nobody’s Girl, released six months after her death from despair, Buckingham Palace is apparently braced for fresh revelations. Many MPs are calling for a change in the law, to give King Charles or a parliamentary committee the power to remove royal titles, with Rachael Maskell, the Labour MP for York Central, pleading with parliament to take seriously this opportunity to “address the wrongs of history and to ensure that the voices of victims and survivors are really heard and acted upon”. A source at the palace told the BBC they expected “more days of pain ahead”.Getting ahead of these “days of pain”, Prince Andrew – he continues to hold the title he was born with – announced last Friday that he was relinquishing his use of “Duke of York” and “KG”, knig...

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2 h. ago Influencer Lorna Luxe, 43, shares update on husband John, 64, amid his battle with stage 4 cancer

The influencer said publicly documenting John's illness has helped her cope, with supportive messages providing 'exactly what I needed' during difficult times.

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3 h. ago Donald Trump and Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese sign rare earth minerals deal – US politics live

US president says ‘we’re here to talk about trade, submarines, lots of military equipment’ as Albanese says deal is ‘$8.5bn pipeline’ to supply rare earths to USThe Senate will vote, for the 11th time, on a House-passed funding bill that would reopen the government at 5.30pm today.As the government shutdown enters its 20th day, there is little end in sight. The lower chamber is still out of session, as both parties continue to trade barbs over the lapse in funding. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago More air miles in the name of Net Zero! Keir Starmer WILL attend COP climate summit in Brazil

The Prime Minister will head to Belem, a port city known as a gateway to the Amazon rainforest, in November to push forward his Net Zero agenda.

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3 h. ago Cannibal schoolboy, 13, kills classmate & eats part of his body ‘out of curiosity’ before chopping him with electric saw

A TEENAGE school boy killed his classmate, sawed his body into pieces and ate parts of the victim's body "out of curiosity". The 13-year-old bludgeoned his classmate with a wooden stick, then using a power saw he cut his victim into bits small enough to fit into his school bag. The schoolboy lured his classmate...

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3 h. ago Asian grooming gang in Rochdale that 'humiliated and degraded' vulnerable schoolgirls saw them as 'easy prey', court told

Alleged ringleader Tahir Rashid, 54, is said to have abused two teenagers and also to have raped a girl, 12, in the late 1980s. The prosecution said two alleged victims were friends in Rochdale.

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3 h. ago Jury retires to consider verdicts in alleged caravan raid 'murder plot'

Michelle Mills is accused of conspiring with her former-solider lover Geraint Berry and ex-RAF man Steven Thomas to murder her husband - a charge all three defendants deny

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