Strictly's Triple Dance-Off and the Politics of Vulnerability on Screen

Cost of living protests turned violent this Halloween weekend, with riots in Germany, a third week of unrest in Paris, and a dawn eviction of housing activists in Lisbon.

Liverpool couple Shannon and Ethan Jones say a wedding singer cancelled minutes before the ceremony and never refunded their £1,400 advance payment.

New IMF demands from Paris talks would force Lebanese banks to raise twice their current capital, depositors and workers will pay the price.

Greater Manchester Police's new Transport Policing and Crime Command launched on 29 October 2026, making four arrests on day one amid a rollout of facial recognition on the Bee Network.

England recorded 5,449 TB cases in 2025, barely down on 2024. The UKHSA warning tells us what to watch for; the deprivation data tells us who is being left to cough.

BBC One's new EastEnders Christmas trailer explains Nicola's injuries, confirms Janine Butcher's return and teases a death certificate mystery.

Fabrizio Romano says there is no transfer alert at Chelsea despite reports of a January loan to PSG, as Estevao Willian continues to struggle for minutes under Xabi Alonso.

Jeff Stelling has called Celebrity Race Across the World co-stars Princess and Junior Andre “the nicest people in the world” as the new BBC series launches with a 7,500km trek from Malaysia to Melbourne.

A 237-million-year-old fossil reveals the only amphibian known to have lived in the ocean, and the armour it needed to survive there.

A New York jury convicted Halima Salman of ISIS weapons training. But the trial record tells of a 17-year-old taken to Syria by her father and forced into marriage.

A Place in the Sun presenter Craig Rowe has opened up about losing his best friend Jules after more than 30 years of friendship, telling followers he cries every day.

A 13-year-old from Northumberland had a stroke on holiday and was told it was a sinus problem. Her story exposes how young stroke survivors are dismissed and then abandoned after survival.

Shaun Wright-Phillips became the fourth celebrity to leave Strictly Come Dancing, eliminated on his 45th birthday after a dance-off defeat to Jaime Winstone.

Shaun Wright-Phillips has left Strictly Come Dancing after finishing bottom of the leaderboard, as the BBC unveils a first-ever triple dance-off for the Halloween special.

Simon Brocklehurst, the Sutton Santa, was told on 13 October he cannot volunteer this year. Behind the flag row lies a story of unpaid care work and commercial power.

From a Romanian sex trafficking network to a serial child abuser caught through INTERPOL forensics, Greater Manchester's courts sentenced traffickers, rapists and abusers this week.

Rochdale councillors have deferred Wain Homes' 45-home first phase for a second time, demanding answers on flooding that residents say the developer keeps avoiding.

Manchester's Zippy Santa is back on Albert Square from 23 October, ahead of the Christmas Markets opening on 6 November, in a year marked by tribute to Pat Karney.

Court documents reveal Tennessee's execution team used about 10 needles on Christa Pike, who survived two doses of pentobarbital on September 30.

Manchester City bring a perfect seven-from-seven record to Villa Park on Saturday, October 24, but an in-form Aston Villa side beat them twice last season and smell blood.

Body language expert Sean Johns says Maya Jama's stillness at the Round Table could expose her as a Traitor before next week's longest-ever finale of the BBC series.

Carmarthenshire Council cut emissions 12% in 2025-26, but reaching net zero by 2030 will cost an estimated £39 million a year.

Allister Bain, the Grenada-born Doctor Who actor and choreographer whose Bee Wee Ballet helped found Notting Hill Carnival, has died aged 94.

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's Elizabeth Holmes documentary grossed $15,000,000 on 855 screens, the biggest sub-1,000-screen opening since Borat in 2006.

Blackburn Rovers lost 3-2 at West Brom after leading 2-0, with 13 points now dropped from winning positions. An analysis of what keeps going wrong.

Judi James’s “ominous” reading of Dani Dyer, commissioned by Paddy Power, shows how betting firms, body language analysis, and the male gaze converge on women contestants.

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Merseyside Police imposed a second consecutive weekend dispersal zone on the village of Rainhill on October 16, after reports of young people setting off fireworks in the street and launching them at vehicles.

Ringo Starr was recruited by Lennon and McCartney at Butlin's Skegness in 1962, then told to shave his beard. The story says more about class and control than pop trivia allows.