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We are flying to Malaga in early May. What will happen? Will there be more queues at European airports?

The outpouring of grief when my husband Dr Michael Mosley died of heatstroke on a hillside in Greece in June 2024, one of the hottest recorded days, was extraordinary.

The area is often overlooked by its larger and more well known neighbour

The disgraced former prince cut a solitary figure as he roamed the countryside for 90 minutes near Wood Farm where he is currently staying in Norfolk.

As the nation's favourite playwright approaches his 93rd year, his diaries reveal how he copes with age and some of his star studded memories

Mick McCarthy has made his lingering feelings on Roy Keane - and the new Steve Coogan film depicting their 2002 World Cup fall-out - very clear in an x-rated speech.

Officers discovered a “substantial and well-organised cannabis factory” in a barn on the property.

Officers discovered a “substantial and well-organised cannabis factory” in a barn on the property.

America's cable TV industry "is undergoing its most dramatic collapse in history," reports Cord Cutters News, "with operators large and small waving the white flag on traditional TV service and pointing their customers toward streaming platforms instead." Just in 2025 Comcast lost 1.25 million pay-TV subscribers (ending the year with just 11.3 million), while Charter Spectrum also lost hundreds of thousands of customers each quarter. But "for smaller regional operators, who lack the scale and diversified revenue streams of giants like Comcast, those kinds of losses are simply unsurvivable," they write. And "the companies that once delivered hundreds of channels through coaxial cables are now either shutting down entirely or reinventing themselves as internet providers." Pay-TV subscriptions have plummeted from nearly 90% of U.S. households in the mid-2010s to roughly half by the end of 2025, resulting in billions in lost revenue and forcing many smaller operators to conclude that continuing linear TV services is no longer viable... [This year over U.S. 50 cable TV companies — primarily smaller and midsize providers — are "expected to cease operations entirely or shut down their television services," Cord Cutters News reported earlier.] YouTube TV's pricing is so competitive that the platform is projected to have close to 12.6 million subscribers by the end of 2026, positioning it to become the largest paid TV distributor in the United States. Exclusive content deals, such as YouTube TV's acquisition of NFL Sunday Ticket rights, have further eroded the value proposition of traditional cable at every level of the market... As older cable subscribers age out of the market, there is no new generation of customers waiting to replace them... [Cable TV] operators like WOW! are betting that their physical infrastructure — now increasingly upgraded to fiber — is more valuable as an internet delivery system than as a cable TV platform. [WOW! serves customers across Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Alabama — but is "phasing out its proprietary streaming live TV service and directing all customers toward YouTube TV," the article notes.] Industry observers see this as part of a broader trend: operators shedding unprofitable video segments to focus on broadband, where returns and network investments are prioritized. By the end of 2026, non-pay-TV households are expected to surge to 80.7 million, outnumbering traditional pay-TV subscribers at 54.3 million — a milestone that would have seemed unthinkable just a decade ago. For the cable companies still standing, the math is now inescapable: the era of the cable bundle is ending, and the only real question left is how gracefully each operator manages its exit.

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Terry's apparent views were displayed on an Instagram post by Rupert Lowe, the former Reform UK MP who recently launched another political party called Restore Britain.

Freddy Brazier and his girlfriend, Holly Swinburn, who recently rekindled their relationship, announced that they have welcomed a baby girl, 'Isla Jade Brazier', earlier this month.

Harry Potter star Paapa Essiedu has said that he's faced death threats since being cast as Severus Snape in the new TV series.

A tin of sardines might not seem like an obvious weight loss tool - yet thousands of people online are turning to the oily fish as part of a short-term 'sardine fast'.

Patricia 'Chickie' Maguire, 60, discovered she had stage four cancer when she travelled to Spain to have a hernia removed, only for doctors to share they were unable to operate.

A poll found just 57% of adults are now confident in the courts, down from 69% in 2024 in the biggest year-on-year fall since records began.

Thousands of motorists each year get caught out by the bus gate with many claiming to have missed circular signs and red road markings warning them the area permits only buses to travel through.

Almost 14 years on, her older sister Hazel Jones, now 31, is breaking her silence for the first time on the tragedy that tore her family apart when April, 5, was abducted and murdered in 2012.

Man United legend Dwight Yorke has lived a life full of colour both on and off the pitch, with the latest remarkable travails coming in the dugout. 

The sky's the limit, says Aurora Saboir, when it comes to the niche world of private jet interiors. Here, she reveals what's on the wish list of her big spending clients...

Economists have estimated the 'Trumpflation' shock from the Iran war could leave the Chancellor scrambling to fill a £20billion shortfall in the public finances.