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Strictly Come Dancing 2025 contestants: Full line-up revealed

Strictly Come Dancing 2025 contestants: Full line-up revealed

Strictly Come Dancing 2025 contestants: Full line-up revealed

15 August 2025

The celebrities for this year’s series includes actors, reality TV stars and Olympians.


Housing asylum seekers in Essex hotel causing ‘very serious problem’, court told

Housing asylum seekers in Essex hotel causing ‘very serious problem’, court told

Housing asylum seekers in Essex hotel causing ‘very serious problem’, court told

15 August 2025

Epping Forest District Council is seeking an interim injunction stopping migrants from being accommodated at the Bell Hotel in Epping.


Charity rowers MP mistook for migrants complete first leg of journey

Charity rowers MP mistook for migrants complete first leg of journey

Charity rowers MP mistook for migrants complete first leg of journey

15 August 2025

Row4MND is aiming to raise £57 million for research into motor neurone disease with a series of four epic rows over four years.


Kate Forbes not banned from Summerhall building, venue says

Kate Forbes not banned from Summerhall building, venue says

Kate Forbes not banned from Summerhall building, venue says

15 August 2025

The Scottish Deputy First Minister was a guest at a Fringe event held at the Edinburgh venue.


Labour councillor cleared over cutting throats comment at rally

Labour councillor cleared over cutting throats comment at rally

Labour councillor cleared over cutting throats comment at rally

15 August 2025

Ricky Jones faced trial accused of encouraging violent disorder at an anti-racism rally in the wake of the Southport murders.


Iceland to offer customers £1 reward for reporting shoplifters

Iceland to offer customers £1 reward for reporting shoplifters

Iceland to offer customers £1 reward for reporting shoplifters

15 August 2025

Last month, official figures revealed that the number of shoplifting offences recorded by police in England and Wales climbed to another record high.


Game Of Thrones star, former Lioness and TV presenter announced for Strictly

Game Of Thrones star, former Lioness and TV presenter announced for Strictly

Game Of Thrones star, former Lioness and TV presenter announced for Strictly

15 August 2025

Kristian Nairn, Karen Carney and Ross King complete the line-up for this year’s show.


Jury retires in trial of Labour councillor over ‘throat-cutting’ comments

Jury retires in trial of Labour councillor over ‘throat-cutting’ comments

Jury retires in trial of Labour councillor over ‘throat-cutting’ comments

15 August 2025

Ricky Jones has denied encouraging violent disorder after he told a crowd at an anti-racist rally that ‘Nazi fascists’ should have their throats cut.


Charity boss offers ‘olive branch’ to Jenrick in migration comments row

Charity boss offers ‘olive branch’ to Jenrick in migration comments row

Charity boss offers ‘olive branch’ to Jenrick in migration comments row

15 August 2025

The BBC apologised to Robert Jenrick after Krish Kandiah suggested the Tory MP was xenophobic during a broadcast.


UN plastic pollution talks fail again with negotiators rejecting draft treaties

UN plastic pollution talks fail again with negotiators rejecting draft treaties

UN plastic pollution talks fail again with negotiators rejecting draft treaties

15 August 2025

Delegates were seeking to complete a legally binding international agreement during a 10-day conference in Geneva, Switzerland.


Lords does not need ‘Putin apologists like Farage’, minister says

Lords does not need ‘Putin apologists like Farage’, minister says

Lords does not need ‘Putin apologists like Farage’, minister says

15 August 2025

Defence Secretary John Healey said the voice of Reform UK is ‘conspicuously absent’ in Commons debates on Russia and Ukraine.


Healey hopes Trump-Putin summit could be ‘first step’ on road to peace

Healey hopes Trump-Putin summit could be ‘first step’ on road to peace

Healey hopes Trump-Putin summit could be ‘first step’ on road to peace

15 August 2025

The Defence Secretary said the end to any conflict ‘must come from diplomacy’.


Kingsmill owner ABF to buy Hovis to create bread giant

Kingsmill owner ABF to buy Hovis to create bread giant

Kingsmill owner ABF to buy Hovis to create bread giant

15 August 2025

ABF told investors on Friday that the deal will ‘combine’ the production and distribution activities of Hovis and its Allied Bakeries business.


Lone piper plays at Edinburgh Castle to mark 80th anniversary of VJ Day

Lone piper plays at Edinburgh Castle to mark 80th anniversary of VJ Day

Lone piper plays at Edinburgh Castle to mark 80th anniversary of VJ Day

15 August 2025

Stirling Castle and the Kelpies are among the sites around the UK set to be lit up on Friday evening to commemorate the end of the Second World War.


Woman charged with assault after migrant ‘walked into her flat’

Woman charged with assault after migrant ‘walked into her flat’

Woman charged with assault after migrant ‘walked into her flat’

15 August 2025

The alleged victim of the assault is a security guard at the Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf.


King hails heroes’ courage on VJ Day and reflects on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

King hails heroes’ courage on VJ Day and reflects on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

King hails heroes’ courage on VJ Day and reflects on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

15 August 2025

The monarch released an audio message on the 80th anniversary of VJ Day in which he vowed those who fought for the allies will never be forgotten.


Full text of the King’s address to the nation on VJ Day 80th anniversary

Full text of the King’s address to the nation on VJ Day 80th anniversary

Full text of the King’s address to the nation on VJ Day 80th anniversary

15 August 2025

Charles reflected on the horrors experienced by prisoners of war and the impact of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.


Southport victim’s family criticises police plan to share suspects’ ethnicity

Southport victim’s family criticises police plan to share suspects’ ethnicity

Southport victim’s family criticises police plan to share suspects’ ethnicity

15 August 2025

The grandfather of Bebe King said the ethnicity of serious crime suspects is ‘completely irrelevant’.


Parts of England to hit 30C as fire crews travel across country to battle blaze

Parts of England to hit 30C as fire crews travel across country to battle blaze

Parts of England to hit 30C as fire crews travel across country to battle blaze

15 August 2025

Heat health alerts were extended into next week for much of England.


Ukraine cause akin to Second World War Allies, Starmer says before Alaska talks

Ukraine cause akin to Second World War Allies, Starmer says before Alaska talks

Ukraine cause akin to Second World War Allies, Starmer says before Alaska talks

14 August 2025

The Prime Minister told veterans Volodymyr Zelensky’s war against Russia has the same values as the fight against the Axis powers.


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