10 h. ago Wetherspoons launches Top Trumps game so its best pubs can battle it out for top spot

British budget pub chain Wetherspoons has launched the card game, featuring 30 of its best pubs, to raise money for charity. It includes some of its most iconic boozers

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46 h. ago Striking doctors’ bosses turn against them as public support crumbles over pay battle

STRIKING doctors’ bosses are turning against them as public support crumbles for their pay battle with ministers. Hundreds of hospital chiefs applauded Health Secretary Wes Streeting this week when he branded the British Medical Association “unreasonable” and “reprehensible”. Managers have urged union barons to tone down their demands for a 26 per cent pay rise...

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3 d. ago How Eamonn Holmes went from daytime TV's golden boy to sacked ITV star who has battled health woes, a failed marriage and a string of public feuds

Eamonn Holmes and his estranged wife, Ruth Langsford, were once the golden couple of daytime TV.

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5 d. ago Trump calls into ESPN show on Veterans Day to rip ‘demeaning’ NFL rule

‘I hate the kickoff in football. I think it’s so terrible, I think it’s so demeaning. I think it hurts the game and hurts the pageantry,’ Trump told host Pat McAfee

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6 d. ago Arne Slot’s big mistake at Liverpool this season? Failing to drop struggling Salah | Barney Ronay

Mohamed Salah has drifted from crucial to peripheral in big games, and Arne Slot’s decision to keep picking him is strangeThere must be blame. We need heads on the battlements. We need entrails, horses, chains, a public quartering. Basically we just need to feel something. We need, above all, to feel that this is all someone’s fault.This is how elite football must function now. The Dalai Lama once said that instead of looking to blame others we should look for answers within ourselves, which just goes to show how wrong you can be and is, frankly, very disappointing from the Dalai Lama. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago BBC Chairman's humiliating apology as civil war erupts inside Corporation... as it emerges senior bosses discussed doctored footage way back in January

BBC chairman Samir Shah finally issued an apology over the doctored footage of Donald Trump yesterday as a blame game within the corporation broke out into the public domain.

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7 d. ago Trump met with mixed response as he attends NFL game during record shutdown before claiming ‘prices are coming way down’

‘I just want to say, was that the greatest flyover ever? Nobody's ever done a flyover like that,’ Trump enthused as he disembarked Air Force One on his way to the football game

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7 d. ago Trump booed at Commanders NFL game before calling plays from Fox broadcast booth

President greeted with jeers by many fans at gameTrump has appeared at several sports events this yearDonald Trump became the first sitting US president in nearly 50 years to attend a regular-season NFL game when he dropped in on the Detroit Lions’ win over the Washington Commanders on Sunday.There were boos from large sections of fans, as well as scattered cheers, at the Commanders’ Northwest Stadium when Trump was shown on the screens late in the first half – and again when the president was introduced by the stadium announcer at halftime. The Washington DC area has strong Democratic support, while Trump’s cuts to the government have affected many workers in the vicinity of the Commanders’ stadium. Sunday was not the first time Trump has received a hostile reception from a Washington sports crowd: he was greeted with ‘lock him up’ chants at the Washington Nationals’ home stadium during the 2019 World Series. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Donald Trump plans to be the 1st sitting US president at a regular

Extra security measures are in place before the Washington Commanders’ game against the Detroit Lions, where President Donald Trump planned to become the first sitting president in nearly a half-century to attend a regular-season NFL contest

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8 d. ago Freewheeling England shake off the shackles to trump Fiji at their own game | Andy Bull

Steve Borthwick’s men were invited to a dance and had all the moves, reacting to a classic try with one of their ownSomething is happening in south-west London. The statistics will give you a hint of it – England have won nine Tests in a row and haven’t lost at home all year – but the sight of the way they played here in the second half against Fiji says more about what’s going on than the numbers do.England, whisper it, turned in a brilliantly entertaining 40 minutes of freewheeling rugby against a Fiji team who are a hell of a lot better than their ninth-placed standing in the world rankings suggests. The Fijians invited England to a dance, and, glory be, Steve Borthwick’s team were delighted to take them up on it. You can only wonder what Borthwick made of it from his spot up in the coaches’ row. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago The LA Dodgers won the World Series but for Latino fans, it’s complicated

The fact that Latino stars were at the forefront of the victory over the Toronto Blue Jays sits alongside the club’s near silence on the immigration raids roiling the cityFor Natalia Molina, a lifelong fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers and a third-generation Mexican American, the crowning moment of baseball’s World Series didn’t come in last Saturday’s nail-biting finale, when her team performed one death-defying escape act after another before prevailing in extra innings over the Toronto Blue Jays.It came a game earlier, when two of the team’s second-tier players, Kike Hernández, who is from Puerto Rico, and Miguel Rojas, from Venezuela, pulled off a thrilling, game-winning sequence that simultaneously upended the many negative stereotypes Donald Trump has been touting about Latinos since he first ran for president a decade ago. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Frail Bruce Willis, 70, holds carer's hand on very rare public outing amid heartbreaking dementia battle

The Hollywood icon - who was moved out of his family home to a separate one-story house where he has a 24/7 care team - held onto his carer's hand as they walked together.

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2 w. ago Britain would do well to remember where its power over China lies | Simon Jenkins

It’s ridiculous for the government to splurge on defence while it slashes spending on its most valuable asset: cultureThe US has backed down in its tariff war with China. Thanks to Donald Trump’s egotistical diplomacy, rare earths can again flow one way, soya beans the other, and less of the chemicals used to make fentanyl in between. No matter that the war was Trump’s own idea and seems to have been a stunt. The stunt is over. Trump has played his favourite game of dealmaker, much to the discomfort of millions.Meanwhile Britain still cannot make up its mind if China is its enemy. In 2008 British officials visited the Beijing Olympics authorities to discuss the next games in London in 2012. The government told them to “raise” human rights issues, about which the British government was most concerned. I am told the Chinese reacted with sympathy at the Britons’ embarrassment at broaching the matter, and then everyone got down to business. Soon China was a friend, certainly to David Ca...

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2 w. ago William and Kate win legal battle after family holiday pictures published

The Prince of Wales views the privacy of his family as of paramount importance.

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2 w. ago Prince William and Kate Middleton issue statement on 'grossly intrusive' moment

The Prince and Princess of Wales have won a legal battle against a magazine after it published pictures of them on holiday in the Alps earlier this year

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2 w. ago Why Trump’s White House is using video game memes to recruit for ICE

A recent spate of posts has garnered attention, but Trump and his allies have long been using gaming imagery to mobilise a toxic subculture of ‘rootless white males’ Just days after Microsoft announced Halo: Campaign Evolved, the next game in its famous science-fiction series, the White House shared an interesting picture on X. The image, which appears to be AI-generated, shows President Donald Trump wearing the armour of Halo’s iconic protagonist, Master Chief, standing in salute in front of an American flag that’s missing several stars. In his left hand is an energy sword, a weapon used by the alien enemies in the Halo games. Posted in response to a tweet from US game retailer GameStop, the text accompanying the image reads “Power to the Players” in reference to the store’s slogan.GameStop and the White House exchanged another Halo meme or two, and then, on 27 October, the official Department of Homeland Security X account joined in – using Halo imagery of a futuristic soldier in ...

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3 w. ago I'm A Celeb star addresses 'tragic' health battle that left her crying on public transport

I'm A Celebrity star GK Barry has opened up about her mental health struggles, admitting she was 'so scared' as she spoke out on her lifelong health battle

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3 w. ago Blood infection scandal victims demand Rachel Reeves changes rules so they don't lose millions in compensation payments

After a long battle beset with public authority cover-ups on a grand scale, the government agreed to set aside £11.8bn for the victims and their families last year.

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3 w. ago Queensland STOPS transgender kids accessing puberty blockers

The first Australian state to deny puberty blockers for young transgender patients stands accused of stoking "Trump-style hate" after becoming embroiled in a landmark court battle.

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3 w. ago Trump 'planning invasion of Venezuela' as game of chicken may see 'Maduro wake up to US forces'

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is ramping up the pressure on Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro while striking vessels that it says are trafficking drugs, sparking fears of a forced regime change

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