55 m. ago Welsh woman launches bid to claim £64 million fortune due to family links with pirates

Viki Lopez-Love is convinced she descends from pirates and is a rightful heir to a £64 million estate

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95 m. ago MICHAEL GOVE: It is an iron law of history that when Jews feel unsafe, the candle of freedom is going out. Do we want it to be extinguished in our time? Let us pray, and fight, to ensure it is not

A month ago, I joined a march through London to draw attention to the rise of anti-Semitism. To all of us, the terrorist attack on Heaton Park synagogue will have been shocking.

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1 hour ago Taylor Swift reveals how Travis Kelce 'went all out' with 'very strategic' proposal amid album release

While promoting her new record, which features many odes to her and her now-fiancé's love story, she shared her honest thoughts about the way he proposed to her.

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2 h. ago ANGELA EPSTEIN: The Manchester synagogue was my family's place of worship. I feel shock and a burning fury

The Heaton Park synagogue was my family's place of worship for decades. On Jewish festivals and sporadic Sabbath days, my late mum, my sister and I would go together.

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4 h. ago Liverpool out of tune but Arne Slot working on finding better rhythm

More defensive opponents making life hard for champions but manager says Wirtz and different tactics will bear fruitDon’t panic. Stay calm. The advice from Virgil van Dijk and Curtis Jones was Zen-like in its reassurance in midweek as Liverpool digested back-to-back defeats for the second time under Arne Slot.Slot remained relaxed and upbeat on Friday too, sprinkling his press conference with several unprompted reminders that the team he was defending from rare criticism are top of the Premier League. Again. But behind the soothing messages and positive league table there are undeniable issues with Liverpool’s form that, according to Slot himself, run deeper than the opening 10 games of the campaign. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Henry Arundell leads Bath to nervy win against Sale as Borthwick takes note

Bath 28-16 SaleHosts made to work for win by stubborn Sharks sideAlmost everything is going swimmingly for Bath. At long last their long-awaited stadium redevelopment looks likely to happen and, on the field, the champions are two from two after the first couple of weekends. With Finn Russell due back in action next week to pick up the fly-half baton, it is going to take a seriously good side to steal their crown.On a wet and windy night in Somerset, even so, they were made to work extremely hard for it by a stubborn Sale team who stuck in the fight and refused to go away. It was only with three minutes left that Max Ojomoh slid in to score his side’s bonus point try and maintain his squad’s perfect start to the campaign. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago P Diddy sentenced to over four years in prison after begging judge for 'mercy'

Following an incredibly high profile eight-week trial, Sean 'Diddy' Combs, 55, has been sentenced to 50 months in prison with the judge telling him he will suffer through 'hard' prison time

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5 h. ago 'I partied hard with Diddy then he conned me with his fake gentleman act'

Associate Editor Tom Bryant recalls his two meetings with shamed rapper P Diddy and the very different person he came across on both occasions

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6 h. ago Coronation Street Bethany Platt's new love interest 'unveiled' in shock Kit Green twist

Coronation Street fans are convinced that Bethany Platt will embark on a romance with a fellow cobbles resident after she made her comeback to the ITV soap

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6 h. ago Strictly's Tasha Ghouri 'beyond grateful' to announce 'dream opportunity' in major career update

The former Love Island star, who made the final of the BBC One show last year, took to social media to reveal all

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6 h. ago Laura Anderson fires back at claims she stopped ex Gary from seeing daughter Bonnie

Former Love Island star Laura Anderson has taken a public swipe on social media believed to be aimed at her ex Gary Lucy, who she shares daughter Bonnie with

Events

7 h. ago MIKEY SMITH: 8 unhinged Donald Trump moments as White House issues chilling threat to US city

Karoline Leavitt went hard, painting protesters who don't like Donald Trump as "radical left" and said their "reign of terror" would soon be over. Also, we may have been premature about the shutdown

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7 h. ago The only protester still locked up after Trump’s campus crackdown breaks silence: 'I feel helpless'

A Palestinian activist arrested by the Trump administration in March says she feels helpless as she remains jailed while her family in Gaza suffers amid ongoing conflict

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8 h. ago Taylor Swift fans go wild over brutal 'Joe Alwyn dig' in The Life of a Showgirl single The Fate of Ophelia

Fans have seized on her latest album's lead single, which about how she 'pledges allegiance to' a love interest who 'dug me out of my grave' and 'saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia.'

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9 h. ago Crocs reduces 'cosiest' shoes to date that feel 'like pillows'

One shopper described them as 'comfy squidgy pillows'

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9 h. ago Strictly's Ellie Goldstein's gushing message to Vito Coppola after '5am move for little sister'

This week, the pair have been hard at work in training for the second week of the BBC One dance contest,

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9 h. ago Family of missing Scots busker issue emotional plea two months after he was last seen

"Lewis if you can see this please get in touch, we love and miss you more than you will ever know."

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10 h. ago The Guide #211: What the world is watching, from Brazilian telenovelas to superheroes made of red bean paste

In this week’s newsletter: Guardian writers spotlight the much-loved shows in the country they live, including Jamaican breakfast telly, Big Brother Naija and X Factor for Polish pianistsA little while ago the Guide looked at the wave of international post-apocalyptic dramas washing up on our shores, bringing tales of climate catastrophe, violent autocracy and alien invasions from as far afield as Argentina, Nigeria and Korea. As well as revealing just how terrified the whole world is of the prospect of institutional collapse, it also – somewhat more positively – underscored what a globally connected industry TV is in 2025. Streaming networks, satellite channels, YouTube and hooky pirate streams can instantly serve up local content from every continent (Antartica excepted, though I’d love to hear if there’s a penguin mob drama from King George Island that I’ve missed).Still, as intermingled as TV is these days, there are still so many programmes that will probably never reach our sh...

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10 h. ago Taylor Swift's love letter to London: Star spends her album launch day in the UK as she fangirls over Emma Bunton, proclaims her love for the city and goes house hunting

Rather than spend launch day in her native US, undoubtedly one of her biggest markets, Taylor, 35, has instead opted to fly to London.

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11 h. ago Is Trump producing the most popular reality TV show on Earth? | Fiona Katauskas

It’s hard to look awaySee more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading...

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