STRICTLY’s Maisie Smith has revealed her flat is an “absolute mess” as she lives alone for the first time while training for the show. The star – who plays Tiffany Baker in EastEnders – moved out of the Essex home she shares with her parents to isolate for the BBC talent show. But when speaking […]
THE future of I’m A Celebrity’s Gwrych Castle is in jeopardy as ITV funds failed to plug the venue’s “black hole”. Show bosses moved the series to the “treasured piece of Welsh heritage” from the Australian jungle due to the coronavirus pandemic. ITV reportedly paid £300,000 to hire the castle, but the huge sum still […]
THE biggest shopping week of the year will bring a £12billion shot in the arm for stores and pubs as Brits back our call to put your dosh where your heart is. Vaccine optimism is boosting spending this week for much-loved crisis-hit high streets after months of online shopping. Brits will splash 20 per cent […]
BRIDGET Jones writer Helen Fielding has denied persistent rumours that Sir Keir Starmer is the inspiration for her character Mark Darcy. Helen, 62, said the Labour leader, an ex-legal chief, was too stuffy to be a heart-throb. Colin Firth appears as lawyer Darcy in the films where he vies for Bridget’s attention with Hugh Grant’s […]
IT’S been 20 years since the senseless death of Damilola Taylor — and I wish I could pretend that no such tragedy could ever happen again. I wish I could pretend that we had driven knife crime off the streets of London and other major cities. I wish we had totally defeated the gangs that […]
BORIS Johnson has admitted successive governments have failed to learn the lessons from Damilola Taylor’s death. Today, the PM writes for The Sun to mark what would have been Damilola’s 31st birthday. And he has thrown his weight behind the campaign to etch December 7 into the calendar as a National Day Of Hope. Today […]
TWO Russian thugs who left a British man paralysed after an alleged attack at the Euro 2016 tournament go on trial today. Mikhail Ivkine, 34, and Pavel Kosov, 33, face up to 15 years in jail if found guilty of the brutal assault on Andrew Bache. He was caught up in sickening scenes of violence […]
FROM the moment I went to my first Nottingham Forest match I was hooked. Mainly by the swearing. No one warns you about that bit as a kid. Yes, you’re going to see your idols play football, but you’re also going to hear grown men scream appalling things and everyone will react like it’s totally […]
♈ ARIES March 21 to April 20 The working week takes an intriguing new shape as surprises planet Uranus steps up. Opportunities you might have always assumed were not for you are coming so close and this time you know what to do. In love terms, your feelings are Venus-deep but with the heat of […]
POSH accents are among the nation’s favourites – with Sir David Attenborough, Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley named the most loved talkers. Sir David Attenborough was named the ‘best voice’ by 28 per cent of the 2,000 adults polled, in a year that saw the conservationist launch the hit Netflix documentary A Life on Our […]
BEN Shephard has praised Kate Garraway for her “eternal optimism and positivity” during her husband Derek Draper’s coronavirus battle. He reflected on Kate’s difficult year and their friendship ahead of Good Morning Britain’s 1 Million Minutes Awards which celebrates people working to end loneliness. Ben said: “There is not a day when I don’t think […]
BRITAIN’S first all-electric forecourt opens for business today. On the swish new site 36 electric cars at a time can have their batteries recharged. But even using the service station’s ultra-fast chargers it can take between 20 minutes to half an hour to “fill up”. Costing 24p per kWh, the cost is around £10 for […]
FLOYD MAYWEATHER will face face YouTuber Logan Paul in an exhibition boxing match in February. The pair confirmed the news on social media on Sunday evening. But how do the pair stack up? SunSport takes a look… BOXING CAREERS MAYWEATHER enjoyed an illustrious career in the boxing ring. The American, 43, boasts an unblemished, unparalleled […]
Deal’s up to EU THE time for EU game-playing has run out. We really hope we can reach a last-minute, mutually beneficial trade deal with our European neighbours. But if French intransigence holds sway then we must leave the EU without one and wish them good luck. President Macron’s unrealistic eleventh-hour demands are not worthy […]
A FLOCK of starlings forms a giant Christmas stocking in the evening sky. The birds were snapped in festive formation over Fairburn Ings Nature Reserve, West Yorkshire. A photographer captured the stunning starling murmuration around sunset at the beauty spot on Saturday afternoon.
JOE Biden has backtracked about advising Barack Obama to wait on raiding Osama bin Laden’s compound because he was worried about possibly failing. According to Obama’s book, Biden “weighed in against the raid” in May 2011, in which Navy Seals were sent from Afghanistan to Pakistan to carry out the mission. Obama said that his […]
CARE homes are to get the new Covid vaccine before Christmas to protect elderly residents. The announcement comes as batches of vaccine have been arriving in hospitals ahead of the first jabs being given out this Tuesday. People aged 80 and over will be first in the queue for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which will be […]
FLOYD MAYWEATHER will return to the ring on February 20 next year to face YouTube superstar Logan Paul. Retired boxing icon Mayweather, 43, confirmed the news on his social media pages. The undefeated five-weight world champion also revealed that tickets are already on sale. Despite Paul, 25, turning pro this bout will be an exhibition […]
A POLITICIAN who previously worked as a staffer for Andrew Cuomo called the New York governor’s office a “toxic work environment” in a Twitter rant on Saturday. Lindsey Boylan, who previously served as Deputy Secretary of Economic Development for New York, alleged that people working for the governor are “deathly afraid of him.” The Democrat […]
ROCK star Shakin’ Stevens got Kate and Wills on track for their train tour of Britain. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge boarded the Royal Train on a nationwide tour to thank key workers and communities in the fight against Covid-19. They were treated to a performance of Merry Christmas Everyone by Shaky – known […]
STRICTLY’s Giovanni Pernice has called Ranvir Singh a “beautiful princess” after kissing her in the quarter finals last night. The professional dancer praised the Good Morning Britain star after they made it into the semi finals with 27 points following a jaw-dropping Viennese Waltz on Saturday. Giovanni, 30, said about Ranvir, 43, on Twitter: “Thank […]
EMMANUEL MACRON, a tinpot Napoleon in oversized boots, is this year’s panto villain . . . and he’s behind you, Boris. Luckily for our Prime Minister, his Tory MPs, ex-Labour rebels and his entire Cabinet — including Remainers — are right behind him, too. They are all bound by the Brexit manifesto which won them an 80-seat majority just […]
HOPES faded further for missing hiker Esther Dingley yesterday as two witnesses revealed they saw her on her last trek. Spanish Olympic skier Marti Vigo del Arco said she asked him for fruit an hour before her last contact with anyone. He said she was going up 8,976ft Pico Salvaguardia in the Pyrenees on November […]
I’M A Celeb winner Giovanna Fletcher was pictured fast asleep on the sofa by her husband Tom as he stole her crown. The McFly star, 35, took advantage of the newly crowned Queen of the Jungle’s, 35, exhaustion as he nabbed her crown. Tom looked mischievous alongside his eldest son Buddy, six, as he donned […]
IF you wanted some unique decorations this year, then look no further than this nature-inspired Christmas tree covered in fake flowers. One woman shunned traditional baubles and tinsel in favour of a more colourful tree – using faux foliage. She decked her tree out in a rainbow of colours, starting from red and ending with […]
