41 m. ago Tour de France 2025 live: Grand Depart updates and stage 1 route as Evenepoel loses time in crosswinds

Who will take the first yellow jersey of the Tour as three weeks of racing kick off in France?

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59 m. ago Chaka Khan pays tribute to ‘amazing’ Quincy Jones at Montreux Jazz Festival

The 72-year-old opened the 59th edition of the Swiss music festival with a homage to the 28-time Grammy winner who died last year aged 91.

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65 m. ago Thousands of marching Wales fans bring Swiss city streets to standstill in stunning scenes

Wales fans descended upon Lucerne's 16,000-capacity stadium ahead of a massive game.

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66 m. ago BBC Casualty cancelled tonight after massive TV schedule shake

The BBC has shaken up it's schedules this weekend which means popular medical drama Casualty won't be airing

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1 hour ago Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s final gig – follow it live!

The Birmingham band are back together for one last concert at Villa Park, entitled Back to the Beginning – joined by the cream of heavy metal. Follow every song hereYou’ll be thinking: show me photos of all these starry metal shenanigans! I’m really sorry but Live Nation have told me there won’t be any photos available until the end of the gig, and the livestream doesn’t allow screengrabs. Use the power of your mind, I guess.There are a notable number of empty seats there, but remember this was all going on two hours ago which is quite an early start for a massive stadium show. “Stadium really pretty full from the beginning – testament to the depth of the line up,” Michael says. “Maiden a fortnight ago had a higher proportion of battle jackets though.” Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Tour de France 2025 live: Grand Depart updates and stage 1 route as Filippo Ganna abandons after crash

Who will take the first yellow jersey of the Tour as three weeks of racing kick off in France?

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2 h. ago Tour de France 2025 live: Grand Depart updates and stage 1 route as Ineos hit by crash in the peloton

Who will take the first yellow jersey of the Tour as three weeks of racing kick off in France?

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3 h. ago Oliver Bearman slapped with massive British GP grid penalty for dangerous Silverstone act

British Grand Prix stewards at Silverstone have given a heavy punishment to Oliver Bearman after the Haas driver span in the pit entry while under red flag conditions during practice

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3 h. ago Black Sabbath’s Back to the Beginning live: Music world pays tribute Ozzy Osbourne in massive final show

Legendary acts including Metallica, Guns N Roses, Alice in Chains and Tom Morello are taking part in the band’s Birmingham homecoming show at Villa Park

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3 h. ago Tour de France 2025 live: Grand Depart updates and stage 1 route as sprinters set for battle on streets of Lille

Who will take the first yellow jersey of the Tour as three weeks of racing kick off in France?

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3 h. ago Billie Eilish fans left 'gobsmacked' after discovering who her parents are as they claim 'I thought she looked familiar'

Billie Eilish fans have been left stunned after discovering she has famous parents as they asked if she was a 'nepo baby'.

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5 h. ago Tour de France 2025 live: Grand Depart start time and stage 1 route as sprinters set for battle on streets of Lille

Who will take the first yellow jersey of the Tour as three weeks of racing kick off in France?

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6 h. ago Oasis tickets spotted on sale for £72 despite Liam Gallagher's claim

Oasis ticket prices have dropped to a jaw-dropping £72 for their Cardiff seats as more tickets are issued to allow fans to witness the Gallagher brothers reunite

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6 h. ago Woman thought she hit the Postcode Lottery jackpot until she opened her prize

One People's Postcode Lottery winner has been left floored after a man in red turned up at her door and handed over her prize - it was the last thing she was expecting to open

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6 h. ago Love Island's first ever winner looks looks completely different 20 years after victory

The first ever winner of Love Island looks completely different to his time in the Fiji villa two decades on

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6 h. ago First ever Love Island winner looks completely unrecognisable 20 years on

In 2005, the first series of Celebrity Love Island aired and it was an ex-Westlife bodyguard and a popular TV host who went on to win

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7 h. ago DWP pays £749 a month in PIP for these 87 muscle and joint conditions

Personal Independence Payment is a benefit for people who need help with everyday tasks. Here are the 87 muscle and joint conditions that could let you claim it

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7 h. ago Love Island winner looks unrecognisable 20 years after winning the show

Celebrity Love Island was the original version of the ITV dating show and ran for two series between 2005 and 2006

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7 h. ago Today at Wimbledon: Saturday order of play, prize money, TV schedule, Novak Djokovic

It’s day six at Wimbledon - and Novak Djokovic will be hoping to get one step closer to yet another Grand Slam title..

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8 h. ago ‘The damage is terrifying’: Barbara Kingsolver on Trump, rural America and the recovery home funded by her hit novel

Demon Copperhead, the author’s retelling of Dickens during Virginia’s opioid crisis, was a global success. Now she has used royalties from the novel to open a recovery residenceIn the spotless kitchen of a white clapboard house in the Appalachian mountains, a retired deacon, a regional jail counsellor and I form an impromptu book club. The novel under discussion is Barbara Kingsolver’s bestselling, Pulitzer prize-winning Demon Copperhead, which is set in this area, Lee County, Virginia, during the 1990s, at the beginning of the opioid epidemic. I say that I loved the novel, that it was vivid and brilliant, heart-warming and tragic. Their reaction is more complex – there’s a real sadness behind it. Julie Montgomery-Barber, the jail counsellor, tells me she found the book “hard to read”. The Rev Nancy Hobbs agrees that reading it was painful, “because I felt like: I knew these people. At every level, from foster care to the football coaches to Demon. I knew Demon.”Hobbs and Montg...

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