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Petula Clark makes end-of-life admission as she admits 'I've been very lucky'
Story by Jess Phillips
Petula Clark made a frank end-of-life admission after turning 93 in November 2025. The Downtown hitmaker, who starred in films like Dance Hall and Madame Louise, lost her estranged husband and former publicist Claude Wolff a year before in 2024. He was the same age as Petula is now - and in an interview with Yours magazine, she reflected on growing older.
Pentagon tells adult shop to stop sending butt plugs to soldiers in Bahrain
Jan 13
Written by Chantelle Billson
The Pentagon has reportedly asked an adult shop to stop sending butt plugs to soldiers in Bahrain, where sex toys are prohibited. In a video posted on TikTok, Grace Bennett, co-founder of the Canadian online store Bonjibon, claimed that she received two letters with the Department of Defense seal in the upper left-hand corner (renamed the Department of War by president Donald Trump in September last year) expressing annoyance at her taking orders for toys and sending them to a naval base in the Middle East.
Tiny muntjac deer scares off huge rhino at Wrocław Zoo
The 13kg deer easily bested the 1,700kg rhino in a playfight at the Wrocław Zoo. The Rhino is clearly having fun and games here and it not attacking or scared, it is so sweet to see.
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James Corden fights council's order to rip up newly laid paving
Story by Tina Campbell
James Corden is reportedly appealing against a council order to rip up newly laid paving at the front of his north London home. The move escalates a long-running planning dispute with neighbours in one of the capital’s most tightly-protected conservation areas. The 47-year-old TV star and presenter, best known for Gavin & Stacey and hosting The Late Late Show, bought the prime property in leafy Belsize Park for a reported £11.5 million in 2024.
What the people of Greenland have to say to Trump,
and even the wildlife agrees.
The collapse of the vegan boom
Story by Tom Haynes
Perhaps nothing represented Britain’s vegan craze more than the launch of Greggs’ meat-free sausage roll.
Released by the bakery chain in January 2019, the vegan alternative was so popular that it was regarded in some corners of the internet as the UK’s cultural moment of the year.
Survey across 153 countries links the effects of LGBT-phobia and economic insecurity
by Bruno Ventelou, CNRS
LGBTQ+ people face unequal treatment across different human societies. Several concomitant factors can contribute to this discrimination at various levels of society, resulting in diminished living conditions. In a study published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, researchers from the CNRS and UNAIDS establish a link between LGBT-phobia and unfavorable socio-economic conditions. This outcome was achieved by analyzing how prejudice manifests itself at institutional, community and family levels.
BBC 'set to charge viewers to watch shows' as UK ditches TV for YouTube
Story by Bekka Barnard
The BBC may be forced to put paywalls in place to keep themselves afloat as YouTube overtakes the broadcaster's viewing figures.
YouTube, a social media platform used to share videos, has overtaken the BBC in terms of viewing figures for the first time ever. According to the latest data released to the public, YouTube's December monthly viewership trumped the BBC's across every single one of their channels.
The Sound of Music's stars 60 years later, including the child stars with tragic fates
Story by Ahad Sanwari
Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer are flanked on all sides by their children, all members of the singing Von Trapp family, in this publicity handout from the 1965 adaption of the Rogers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music.
Celebs who died and left their kids nothing
Story by Alice Cattley
You might assume that people who grew up with wealthy parents are set for life. But not all of them were handed a fortune on a plate.
From people who disinherited their children after bitter family feuds to those who chose to provide for their family in alternative ways, read on to discover the rich and famous names who didn't leave their money to their kids.
Trump gives middle finger to 'pedophile protector' heckler
Story by Mike Bedigan and Rachel Dobkin
Donald Trump appeared to mouth an expletive and stick up his middle finger after being heckled at an automotive plant in Michigan.
In a video obtained Tuesday by TMZ, the president was accosted by the off-camera heckler at the Ford factory in Dearborn, who can be heard calling him a “pedophile protector” – in apparent reference to the administration’s handling of the Epstein files.
'Real-life Popeye' who boasted of growing huge arms from oil injections dies aged 55
Story by Natalia Penza
A bodybuilder dubbed a real-life Popeye who once boasted of growing the largest arms in his native Brazil from oil injections has died aged just 55.
Arlindo de Souza had participated in TV programmes when he was younger to show off his crazy physique. Relatives linked his death on Tuesday (January 13) to kidney problems which had led to him being admitted to hospital last month in the city of Recife in north-east Brazil, near to Olinda where he hailed from.
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Thomas Skinner backtracks over £10,000 Strictly fee as real sum exposed
Story by Meghna Amin
Strictly Come Dancing contestant Thomas Skinner has come clean about his true earnings from the show, revealing he pocketed a whopping £50,000 - a far cry from the £10,000 he initially claimed.
The former Apprentice star sparked controversy with his appearance on the BBC programme and became the first celeb to be booted off, paired with pro dancer Amy Dowden.
If ever there was a male Karen, Thomas Skinner is precisely that. What a spoiled precous brat.
'Treason': Elon Musk urges imprisonment of educators accurately teaching US history
Self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk believes schoolteachers should be “imprisoned” for educating students on topics that portray America negatively—including the nation’s history of racism and the displacement of Native Americans.
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