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Injury forces dancer Amy Dowden to leave this year’s Strictly Spokesperson says Dowden will not take part in the rest of the competition owing to foot injury. The professional dancer Amy Dowden will not be continuing with this year’s season of Strictly Come Dancing to recover from a foot injury. The development was revealed on the spin-off show Strictly It Takes Two on BBC Two on Monday and comes after a period of absence from the show for Dowden. Continue reading… https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/nov/04/injury-forces-dancer-amy-dowden-leave-strictly

Latino voter says expensive groceries and low salaries are main concern Latino voter says expensive groceries and low salaries are main concern in the swing state of Michigan. A young Ecuadorian-American who lives nearby. Like many Latinos, they are supporting Harris. Salazar predicts an extremely close race. But hopes Harris will ultimately prevail. “The economy is pretty much it I’d say,” he told me. “Life is expensive. Groceries are expensive. Salaries are low. People are unemployed. That’s it. People also mention the border sometimes, but not as much.” Young Americans want jobs and opportunities to make money, they don’t want…

What seems like a last minute thing, Anti-Trump protesters picket in Michigan during Trump rally to distract the Trump campaigners and his millions of supporters. Anti-Trump protesters picket in Michigan A few protesters have turned up outside where Donald Trump will hold his final rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan. They said they were confident that Michigan – one of the key swing states – would go blue in large part because of women’s reproductive rights and, in their words, some former Republicans finding Trump’s behaviour “vile.” When they walked past the crowd, his supporters started chanting Trump, booing, and some…

Just one day to go until the US Presidential election and the US front pages are firmly focused on the last day of campaigning. Both Harris and Trump will spend their final day of campaigning in the battleground states trying to win over voters, and with the latest polling suggesting the race is still too tight to call, it looks set that the election will go to the wire. 

We pick out the best shows on TV this week with some insightful documentaries and a great Christmas movie on the cards.

England’s top flight football returns on Monday night as Fulham face Brentford.

Richard Madeley has revealed he and his wife Judy Finnigan sleep in separate beds, after 38 years of marriage. The Good Morning Britain presenter, 68, shared an insight into his marriage with his former This Morning co-host, 76, in a recent podcast. The couple married in 1986 and welcomed their son that year, and daughter Chloe the following year, before hosting the ITV programme together from 1988 for more than a decade. They quickly grew to become one of TV’s strongest couples, but Richard has now shared what happens behind closed doors. Speaking to Kate Thornton on her White Wine…

Sir David Attenborough fans were left confused when they noticed something different about his voice on his latest TV series, saying it’s ‘not quite right’. Last night, the beloved natural historian returned to the BBC for yet another eye-opening programme, this time delving into the wonders of nature and animal life in Asia. In the first episode, the 98-year-old took viewers on a journey to explore the oceans of the expansive continent, introducing creatures including tiny fish that actually have the ability to climb trees, and glow-in-the-dark squids. The film began with Sir David walking through the Natural History Museum…

After someone figured out how to display pictures on Nintendo Alarmo, their next goal was to get a certain beloved shooter running on it. We’re still not sure what possessed Nintendo to make an interactive alarm clock, and call it Alarmo. Whatever the case, it seems to have gone down well with diehard enthusiasts who don’t mind being woken up by the sound of Splatoon gunfire. Like with any new piece of hardware, it didn’t take long for people to ponder that age old question: can it run Doom? This was something posited to Twitter user GaryOderNichts, who’s known for…

Exactly 20 years ago, a dysfunctional family of secret superheroes hit the big screen and changed animated cinema forever. Pixar classic The Incredibles, directed by Brad Bird, followed the Parr family – Helen, Bob, Dash, Violet, and Jack-Jack – as they tried to keep their unique superhuman abilities hidden from the world. Boasting a voice cast of Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, and Craig T. Nelson, The Incredibles was a major success and spent three weeks atop the UK box office over Christmas and New Year in 2004 and 2005. One of the lesser-known names among the list of Hollywood…