12 h. ago Man shot during Walthamstow armed police standoff suffers 'life

Man shot during Walthamstow armed police standoff suffers 'life-changing' injuries  Guardian Series

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13 h. ago Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's secret life of crime before football stardom: Strictly Come Dancing star was part of teenage gang in Amsterdam slum before one night changed his life forever

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is now strutting his stuff under the Strictly Come Dancing disco ball but glitz, glamour and the football stardom he rose to are are far cry from his early life of crime. 

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13 h. ago Strictly winner Ore Oduba on 'taking big a** risks' and coming back to Manchester on a new stage

Winning Strictly changed his life, and Ore is now back in Manchester preparing for the "biggest role of his career"

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14 h. ago Sam Ryder: From Russian bunkers to Wembley — how graft, gratitude and good timing changed everything

EXCLUSIVE As he gears up to play Wembley Arena, Sam Ryder tells the Standard how a gig ticket changed his life and why ‘your path doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s to be a success’

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16 h. ago TikTok influencers fuelling parallel market for unlicensed weight

Guardian finds a thriving trade on Telegram for retatrutide, which is still in clinical trials and illegal to sellAn online parallel market for an unlicensed weight-loss drug is being fuelled by TikTok fitness influencers and sellers on WhatsApp, a Guardian investigation can reveal.Retatrutide, which is still in clinical trials, is being advertised by social media influencers for its supposed fat-burning effects. Followers are urged to message the accounts privately for supplier links, as well as being provided with discount codes. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago ‘To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op’: Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical – and how getting high nearly broke her

The global icon of women’s education is ready to tell the full story of her turbulent recent life, from arguing with her parents to being ghosted by the statesmen who were once desperate to be seen with herI am at the shed where Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai smoked her first bong. No, there’s no punchline – it’s not that kind of anecdote. “My life has changed for ever,” Yousafzai says sadly, as we gaze at the semi-derelict structure. “Everything changed for ever, after that [night].”The shed is tucked away at the back of Lady Margaret Hall, away from the prying eyes of Oxford’s college life. You have to know how to find it. Yousafzai leads me through quadrangles and out into a hidden garden. Inside are dusty pint glasses and spiderwebs, and board games with the pieces missing. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Man who threatened to kill himself with a gun is left with life

Police were called by his family on Friday morning to a home in Walthamstow, north-east London , to report that he had a gun and was making threats to harm himself, Scotland Yard said.

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23 h. ago Man shot by police after ‘threatening to harm others’ during four

The man was taken to hospital with life-changing injuries.

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31 h. ago HMRC alert to workers who fail to report four key life changes

Not reporting four key life changes to the tax authority could increase your bill by up to 100% in some instances

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31 h. ago 3 life changes that could get your PIP benefits stopped if you don’t tell DWP

People who don’t report these changes could risk being taken to court or having to pay penalties

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31 h. ago Glum Willy Wonka experience Oompa Loompa unrecognisable after huge transformation

Kirsty Paterson, 30, from Scotland, went viral for her disgruntled Oompa Loompa look at the Willy Wonka experience - now her life has changed for the better

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32 h. ago Enslavement, immolation and a HIV diagnosis: the artists expressing harsh truths with collage

From queer relationships and migration to AI and colonial histories, a huge range of artists have spliced together photography and archive material to create images that challenge history as we know itWhen the artist Sunil Gupta found out he was HIV positive in July 1995, making a collage helped him to process how he felt. He used an image of himself taken on the day of his diagnosis clutching his knees and looking defiantly into the camera, then placed it, using Photoshop, between the bars of the M25 bridge crossing, which look as though they’re imprisoning him. “It was the day my life changed,” he says.“Photography was a great tool for therapy,” Gupta says, and collaging “was very freeing, to get rid of those boundaries and put elements together.” On his new Apple computer, he merged low-resolution photographs he’d taken of posters and graffiti in Berlin; a zoomed-in picture of a 1930s gay bar the Nazis closed down; self-portraits and scans from books. He explored queer relationsh...

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35 h. ago Strictly’s Thomas Skinner gives health update on twin girls, 2, after hospital dash – and fears life changing diagnosis

THOMAS Skinner says his twin daughters suffered seizures on the same day. Now doctors have warned they face a life-changing diagnosis. The terrified Strictly Come Dancing star rushed his two-year-old girls to hospital on Wednesday evening for urgent tests. Thankfully, Roma and Darla are now recovering at home after having febrile convulsions while suffering from...

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35 h. ago How Dave Allen became ‘as fit as he’s ever been’ to face Arslanbek Makhmudov

Allen’s trainers say he looks quicker. Fans say he looks like he’s in the ‘shape of his life’. This is what he has changed.

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48 h. ago Disney is increasing prices at all its parks. Here are the new rates to visit Mickey Mouse

Starting after October 2026, Disney World single-day tickets will average $5 more, as annual pass prices will also increase

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55 h. ago Oompa Loompa from flop Willy Wonka experience looks different after major life change

Kirsty Paterson was one of the orange-faced helpers hired for the two-day event - and now she shared what she has been up to since her costume circulated worldwide

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56 h. ago Fat jabs could treat two ‘major causes of illness and death’, say scientists – as current treatments ‘fall short’

WEIGHT loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy are powerful tools for tackling obesity and lowering the risk of serious disease. Now new research suggests they could be used to treat two "major causes of illness and death" - drug and alcohol addiction. Scientists say weight loss jabs, usually prescribed for diabetes or obesity, have...

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58 h. ago I won the Grand National and millions in prize money but I’d give up every winner I ever rode just to hug my wife again

GRAND NATIONAL hero Graham Lee says he would give up every single winner he ever rode just to be able to get out of his wheelchair and hug his wife again. The 2004 Aintree king, who also counts the Ascot Gold Cup and leading rider honours at Cheltenham Festival on his glittering CV, suffered life-changing...

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60 h. ago 'My daughter would come to me with a finger in her hand because it's fallen off'

Gemma Loach, 33, still suffers with the trauma of her young daughter Olive's life changing ordeal

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3 d. ago Ricky Gervais on how losing his job aged 37 changed his life

The 64-year-old was made redundant from his position at a radio station in 1998

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