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GK Barry has been defended content creator Bonnie Blue, the controversial star who she interviewed in a conversation that’s been heavily criticised by people online. It’s been claimed that following the interview, ITV has been having ‘crisis talks’ about GK, who is reportedly in the I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! line-up for the 2024 series. Bonnie is an adult content creator who recently went viral after revealing that she had sex with 158 people in two weeks, explaining how she has specifically ventured to student areas in Australia and the UK to sleep with 18-year-olds who she…

Strictly Come Dancing star Pete Wicks has revealed his dance partner Jowita Pryzstal is suffering from an injury, which could take months to recover from. The Towie star, 36, has continued to soar through the BBC competition, having been saved by the public vote after hitting the bottom of the leaderboard last Saturday. However, he’s now revealed difficulties behind-the-scenes after a ‘tough’ week. Speaking on his Staying Relevant podcast with I’m A Celebrity winner Sam Thompson, Pete explained: ‘We’d had a tough week because Jowita has been working with an injury because she got whiplash on Monday.’ According to the…

Starmer increases university tuition fees for first time in eight years University tuition fees will increase in England for the first time in eight years as part of a major overhaul of the higher education system, education secretary Bridget Phillipson has announced. The announcement appears to set Labour on course for a clash with one of their biggest voter bases, students. It follows other groups losing out with 10 million pensioners hit by the removal of the winter fuel payment and wages being hit by the hike in national insurance. Tuition fees have been frozen at £9,250 since 2017 but…

Why is Bonfire Night celebrated? Guy Fawkes’ Gunpowder Plot explained “Remember, remember, the fifth of November, “Gunpowder, treason and plot! “We see no reason, “Why gunpowder treason, “Should ever be forgot!” Every 5 November we remember the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 – a thwarted act of terror in which a cabal of Catholic conspirators planned to blow up the House of Lords to rid England of King James I. The plot is commemorated every autumn with the burning of an effigy of Guy Fawkes, its mastermind, an oddly pagan act of gloating sanitised by the addition of fireworks, sparklers and…

Kemi Badenoch reveals shadow cabinet as Tugendhat ‘snubs shadow cabinet role’ – liv New Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has unveiled her shadow cabinet, with senior roles for Priti Patel, Chris Philp and leadership rival Robert Jenrick. After a combative leadership contest, Mr Jenrick – a staunch advocate of leaving the European Convention on Human Rights – was handed the justice brief, while Mr Philp was appointed shadow home secretary, Ms Patel given foreign affairs, and Mel Stride made shadow chancellor. While ex-security minister Tom Tugendhat was among senior Tories notably absent from the new shadow cabinet, sources insisted he had…

CCTV: Sexual predator lures lone woman into car Ghulan Mohammed, 36, preyed upon the woman as she walked through Leicester city centre on 17 December, last year. After approaching the woman, who was in her 20s, Mohammed drove her around in his car for more than two hours. In the early hours of the following morning, he was seen pulling up at a petrol station, where he and the woman got out the car. She can be seen in an angry and distressed state. The woman was able to message to her friends asking for help, along with her location,…

Domestic abuse victim’s home address leaked to ex-partner after data breach A domestic abuse victim said she was left fearing for her life after a company which obtains restraining orders accidentally leaked her home address to her ex-partner. Speaking to The Independent, Lola* said the data breach happened when she was applying for a non-molestation order through the National Centre for Domestic Violence several years ago. Lola said the centre served her abusive ex-partner the restraining order in person, accidentally handing him a piece of paper containing her address – despite repeated pleas for her address not to be shared…

Working with Kamala – and bracing for Trump: How Starmer is preparing for US election Since becoming prime minister on 5 July, Sir Keir Starmer has only met with one of the two candidates hoping to be elected president – and it was not with his natural Democrat ally Kamala Harris, but Republican rival Donald Trump. The lack of a meeting between Ms Harris and Sir Keir was not a snub from either side but reflects a twin-track approach that Labour has been taking in preparing for the outcome tomorrow for many months now, dating back to when they were…

Warning issued over ‘unsettling’ pension trend which could wipe out savings during retirement Experts have warned of an “unsettling trend” among pensioners which could see them exhaust their pension in retirement. Analysis of Financial Conduct Authority data found a nearly 30 per cent rise in the number of pensioners withdrawing more than 6 per cent of their pension’s total value in the most recent financial year. More than 280,000 pensioners had a withdrawal rate of 6 per cent or higher, the analysis by Hargreaves Lansdown found. That included more than 220,000 pension pots with a withdrawal rate of more than…

Farmers say 75% of British food production will be hit by Reeves’s tax raid Rachel Reeves’inheritance tax raid will hit three quarters of food produced by British farmers, industry chiefs have warned, as the government battles a growing backlash over its extension of death tax. Under plans announced in the Budget, inheritance tax will be charged at 20 per cent on farms worth more than £1m, although the chancellor has said that in some cases the threshold could in practice be about £3m. The move has triggered backlash from farming and rural communities and led to a dispute over the…