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Actress Alex Kingston has become the eighth celebrity to be eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing. The Doctor Who star and her professional dance partner Johannes Radebe have left the show after losing the dance battle to EastEnders actress Balvinder Sopal and Julian Caillon. The couples performed their routines from Saturday night, with Kingston and Radebe dancing their cha cha cha to Anita Ward’s Ring My Bell. They failed to make […]

Lando Norris’ bid to become champion of the world will go to a season finale in Abu Dhabi next weekend after Max Verstappen cashed in on a calamitous McLaren strategy decision to win the Qatar Grand Prix. Norris, who finished only fourth, will head to the concluding round just 12 points ahead of Verstappen with Oscar Piastri, runner-up to the Red Bull driver under the lights on Sunday, 16 points […]

West Ham paid a moving tribute to former captain and manager Billy Bonds ahead of Sunday’s Premier League match against Liverpool following his death at the age of 79. Bonds was the longest-serving player for the Irons, making 799 appearances across a 21-year career which saw him lift the FA Cup twice as well as winning the old Second Division. After moving into coaching, initially with the youth team, Bonds […]

Jeremy Corbyn suffered a setback on Sunday as his new party’s founding conference rejected his preferred leadership set-up. Members of the new Your Party voted narrowly against having a single elected leader, opting instead for a collective model that put a committee of members in charge. Mr Corbyn, the former Labour leader, had previously said he backed the “sole leader” model and would stand for the position. The collective model […]

Rachel Reeves has defended her handling of the Budget as opposition figures claimed she misled the public over the size of the fiscal “repair job” she faces. In media interviews on Sunday morning, the Chancellor said she “of course” did not lie to the public when she set out a gloomy economic picture at the beginning of November. She told broadcasters: “Anyone who thinks that there was no repair job […]