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Denise Welch looked the epitome of Hollywood glamour as she wowed in a powder pink dress at her son Matty Healy's LA wedding to model Gabbriette Bechtel over the weekend. 

At 4am on Friday, July 10, residents in Broadway Market were awoken to the sound of drilling as a man dressed all in black forced his way into the Post Office and changed the locks.

The once sought-after home, which sits on the River Thames in Bray, Berkshire, was bought by Deborah Developments International Ltd earlier this month.

An unidentified delivery man was seen booting the dog, Ethel, outside a family home in Buckinghamshire earlier this month.

At the last census, almost half the adults in England and Wales said they regarded themselves as Christian.

The age-gap couple dined at the port's swanky Cherry restaurant. They've been dating since 2023.

Thousands of Germans have been threatened with fines or prison sentences for social media posts, reports The Telegraph, calling the country's political speech laws "unusually stringent for an EU member state." One German had his home raided for calling a minister a "Schwachkopf [dummy]" while another was fined €2,000 (£1,700) for calling Friedrich Merz a "lying Fritz" under a law that, critics claim, makes it effectively illegal to make fun of politicians. The number of investigations under Section 86a, the Nazi symbols ban... has more than doubled over the past decade according to official police statistics. Investigations into the "political insult" law also reached record levels in 2025. The surge in cases is so vast that the UN has launched an investigation into free speech violations in Germany, a step typically reserved for dictatorships and banana republics... In one recent case, a pensioner was investigated under Section 188 for posting "Pinocchio is coming" on Facebook, after he learnt Friedrich Merz, the chancellor, was visiting his hometown... The case was dropped after the story caused an outcry in Germany, and police have since clarified that calling the chancellor Pinocchio is not a crime... In November 2024, police in Bavaria raided the home of another pensioner because he called Robert Habeck, the then vice-chancellor of Germany, a "schwachkopf", or dummy. The raid was reportedly launched after Mr Habeck personally filed a criminal complaint against the pensioner. Prosecutors eventually dropped the investigation after deciding that the insult "dummy" was not of "sufficient weight" to merit criminal charges. While such cases might seem like bizarre outliers, there are plenty of others. In 2021, police raided a man's apartment in Hamburg after he told a senator "you're such a d---," and this year a resident was fined €2,000 for calling Mr Merz a "lying Fritz". Official figures show a record 4,792 Section 188 cases were filed in Germany in 2025, with the numbers rising by nearly 85 per cent between 2023 and 2025. The article notes both left- and right-leaning free speech activists in Germany are calling for some of the stricter laws to be scrapped. And it adds that the uproar "bears some similarities to the free speech debate in Britain, where citizens have had a knock on the door from police over opinions posted online."

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The new Prime Minister spoke to Mr Zelensky in one of his first calls after taking office last Monday and invited the Ukrainian leader to visit 'at the earliest opportunity'.

He announced that he would retreat from the public eye on Sunday to his 1.6million YouTube subscribers because of health concerns.

After Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged the attack, adding that the Iranian vessel was being used to transport Russian 'military cargo', Iran's foreign minister weighed in

The Government is being urged to change the law to force drivers who hit cats to stop and report the collision after a record-breaking petition.

Emergency services rushed to the scene following reports that a red Hyundai had crashed into trees on the A38 after coming off the A516 carriageway at around 11pm on Saturday.

A female referee reportedly suffered a concussion after being knocked to the ground during a melee in a men's friendly match in France.

The hit ITV show returned on Sunday night for one last episode before the final, which will see one couple crowned the winners of the 2026 series.

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Scientists investigating 'time-restricted eating' - a form of intermittent fasting - were looking into whether the practice could help those at risk of developing the syndrome.

For the first time in 72 years, the BBC is not covering the Commonwealth Games - to the anger of fans and athletes competing in Glasgow .

It seems Andy Burnham must do plenty more if he is to rebalance the country, with analysis showing the North-South divide for life expectancy has widened during the past decade.

Gisele Bundchen showed off her incredible figure while enjoying a romantic bike ride with husband Joaquim Valente during a getaway to Rio de Janeiro this week.

In a bleak new report, economists at the ITEM Club raised the alarm over the damaging impact of disruption and surging energy prices caused by renewed conflict in the Middle East.