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Winslet tells of being told to do 'fat girl parts' as a young actor
Kate Winslet has described being body shamed as a young actor by schoolmates and teachers.
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December 22, 2025
The Guardian
Minecoins or Robux? How to give virtual cash to gamers
Mulling a last-minute gift for a young gamer but perplexed by virtual currencies? Shane Hickey looks at Minecraft, Fortnite, Roblox and more
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Money hacks Take care of your home to avoid unexpected bills
Looking after electrical goods will save you money in the long term.
4 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
10 lessons my artist father taught me
When we were children, my father, the painter David Gentleman, never offered much advice to me or my siblings.
4 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Emily in Paris gets an Italian fashion reset
The famously frothy romcom Emily in Paris, which has divided critics and Parisians alike, seems to have won the French president's seal of approval - despite the fifth season seeing the show's heroine take a \"Roman holiday\".
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
'Better out than in' How sharing opinions can bring people together
It was a filthy day in Rotherham as Storm Bram swept through the South Yorkshire town earlier this month.
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December 20, 2025
The Guardian
No 10 told: fix youth jobs or risk a 'lost generation'
The future of the youth minimum wage will come under review as part of a major inquiry into rising inactivity among young people by the former health secretary Alan Milburn.
4 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
'We were banned from over 1,000 petrol stations'
Drivers have accused a major petrol station security company of issuing \"false\" fuel theft debts, which left one family unable to fill up their car at more than 1,000 petrol forecourts for more than a year.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Hypnotic spin on Christmas classic from bijou cast
The Nutcracker screams Christmas. For major ballet companies it's usually their biggest spectacle of the year, with a huge cast, lavish sets, all stops pulled out.
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December 20, 2025
The Guardian
‘Hunger strikers are dying' Critical time for Palestine Action prisoners
‘A lot of the times it feels like you’re being suffocated.
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December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Super Saturday predicted after shoppers delay buying their presents
Retailers are hoping for a last-minute dash for the shops after a lacklustre run-up to Christmas, with households forecast to spend £3.4bn this weekend, up 12% on last year.
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December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Village hit by second 'radiator rattling' quake of the month
A village in Lancashire has been hit by a “radiator rattling” earthquake for the second time in little more than two weeks.
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December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Keeping it in the family: Britain’s ultimate nepo babies rise to the top
“I don’t like the nepo baby term,” said Kate Winslet in an interview with BBC News last week to promote her directorial debut, Goodbye June - the Christmas movie written by her 21-year-old son that would definitely still have been made had his parents both worked in insurance.
4 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Earliest known work by a female Spanish novelist gets update
Sixty years before a gaunt and deluded nobleman from La Mancha was overdosing on tales of derring-do, visiting his madness on those around him - and single-handedly rewriting the rules of fiction - the deeds of another heroic knight had already made literary history.
3 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
West Bank The settlers using herds of goats to drive out Palestinians
It is a daily onslaught.
4 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Victims' champion says long waits for justice are shameful
The victims of disasters such as Hillsborough and Grenfell having to wait years for justice is a \"stain on our society\", the new independent public advocate (IPA) has said in her first interview in the role.
3 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Bandit Santas steal a sleigh full of food saying it will go to needy
Dressed in red suits and backed by masked elves, a group of Santas marched into a Montreal supermarket, loaded their bags with thousands of dollars worth of groceries and disappeared into the night.
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December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Rain washes away hopes of a white Christmas
Hopes for a white Christmas are fading after forecasters predicted brighter conditions ahead of 25 December.
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December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Brown murders: investigation focuses on motive after suspect found dead
Investigators have turned to the search for a motive in the murders of two Brown University students and a physics professor in Massachusetts in separate but linked attacks, after the prime suspect was found dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.
3 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Trade minister: 'not clear' if China was behind cyber-attack on Foreign Office
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office was hacked in October, a minister has said.
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December 20, 2025
The Guardian
'It takes months to recover' Firms reel from Monmouth's devastating floods
“It was heart-wrenching,” says Andrea Sholl, recalling the Friday night last month when flood waters started rising inside Bar 125, the restaurant she and her husband, Martin, own in the Welsh border town of Monmouth.
4 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Contactless card payment limit of £100 to be scrapped from March
The £100 limit on contactless card payments will be scrapped next year and consumers could be allowed to spend as much as they wanted without inputting their pin under changes announced by the UK financial regulator.
3 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Australia to launch gun buyback scheme after Bondi terror shootings
Australia's federal government is to launch a gun buyback scheme in what the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said yesterday would be the biggest collection of weapons since after the Port Arthur massacre nearly three decades ago.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Reform UK Kent cover-up claim over green plans
Reform-run Kent council has been accused of trying to block scrutiny after it refused, for more than five months, to produce evidence that it had saved more than £40m by cancelling two environmental projects that did not exist yet.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Government borrowed more than expected as pre-budget jitters hit
The UK government borrowed more than expected in November, official figures show, amid pressure on the economy before Rachel Reeves announced her autumn budget.
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December 20, 2025
The Guardian
South Korean president wants social insurance to cover hair-loss treatments
The South Korean president, Lee Jae Myung, has instructed his government to consider extending public health insurance to cover hair-loss treatments, arguing that baldness had become a “matter of survival” rather than a cosmetic concern for young people.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
TikTok signs Trump-backed deal to avoid a ban in the US
TikTok has reached a deal to form a joint venture that will allow it to continue operating in the US, five years after Donald Trump threatened to ban the social media platform over privacy and national security concerns, a move that further strained relations with China.
2 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Maga disciples Trump's envoys raising eyebrows around Europe
When your goal is to “help Europe correct its current trajectory” because it is “weak” and facing “civilisational erasure”, your choice of highly trained operatives for the mission is plainly of paramount importance.
4 min |
December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Woman and her lover who plotted to kill her husband receive 19-year jail terms
A woman who plotted with her secret lover to murder her husband so they could start a new life together was yesterday jailed for 19 years.
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December 20, 2025
The Guardian
Have a low-fat Christmas: TV food ads fall in line with new junk food rules
The festive season is traditionally a time of national culinary overindulgence but eagle-eyed viewers may have noticed that this year’s crop of big-budget Christmas TV ads have been decidedly lean and sugar-free.
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