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For use in UK, Ireland or Benelux countries only BBC handout photo of George Clarke &and Alexis Warr appearing on the live show on Saturday for BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing. Picture date: Saturday November 22, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Guy Levy/BBC/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: Not for use more than 21 days after issue. You may use this picture without charge only for the purpose of publicising or reporting on current BBC programming, personnel or other BBC output or activity within 21 days of issue. Any use after that time MUST be cleared through BBC Picture Publicity. Please credit the image to the BBC and any named photographer or independent programme maker, as described in the caption.

I’m suddenly very worried for George Clarke on Strictly Come Dancing

TV December 6, 2025 By Adam Miller

We got my husband's diagnosis - he died within days

Health November 30, 2025 By Liv Williams

I told my son I was trans - nothing prepared me for the response

Lifestyle January 17, 2026 By Amethysta Herrick, Ph.D.

Rabina Khan looking at the camera, with a blurry park behind

A child called me a terrorist - the silence was deafening

Lifestyle December 1, 2025 By Rabina Khan

Balvinder Sopal and Julian Caillon during Strictly Come Dancing, dancing a Bollywood dance for their Couple's Choice in the ballroom.

Balvinder Sopal’s Strictly Come Dancing journey has felt cruel and unjustified

TV November 29, 2025 By Adam Miller

For use in UK, Ireland or Benelux countries only BBC handout photo of Lewis Cope & Katya Jones during Saturday's Strictly Come Dancing show on BBC1. Picture date: Saturday November 1, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Guy Levy/BBC/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: Not for use more than 21 days after issue. You may use this picture without charge only for the purpose of publicising or reporting on current BBC programming, personnel or other BBC output or activity within 21 days of issue. Any use after that time MUST be cleared through BBC Picture Publicity. Please credit the image to the BBC and any named photographer or independent programme maker, as described in the caption.

Strictly Come Dancing fans should be grateful for these two couples

TV November 24, 2025 By Adam Miller

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The most toxic christmas movie of all time is getting a sequel to ‘honour Diane Keaton’

Film November 20, 2025 By Brooke Ivey Johnson

Alex Kingston and Johannes Radebe

Strictly Come Dancing let Alex Kingston down - but she can turn it round

TV November 15, 2025 By Adam Miller

Caption: Shadowing shopping mall security on the frontline of retail crime epidemic

We joined a security team on the frontline of the retail crime epidemic

UK November 11, 2025 By Josh Layton

A View from a Bridge - Joe Bloom standing with a red phone to his ear

The story behind the viral account that sees strangers share their innermost secrets

Lifestyle October 15, 2025 By Josie Copson

The woolly mammoth and a 30ft sea cow could all soon be back from the dead

Tech September 9, 2025 By Josh Milton

Inside the Navy's secret battlespace that most people don't know exists

I went inside the Navy's secret battlespace to see how it prepares for war

UK August 11, 2025 By Josh Layton

Lucy Guo stood in front of a grey background. Her long hair is down and straight. She is wearing a white vest. She is smiling but not showing her teeth

Triple workouts and no days off — life of world’s youngest self-made female billionaire

Lifestyle December 30, 2025 By Josie Copson

Successful pub reopening campaigns prove the local boozer isn't dead yet

How a generation-bending TikTok campaign saved a local boozer

UK July 19, 2025 By Katie Boyden

Andy Bell in a promo image for his new album Ten Crowns Andy Bell in a black and red jacket holding onto a rope

Erasure's Andy Bell on kissing Boy George on stage

Music June 25, 2025 By Laura Harman

A sign that says welcome to CrimeCon with police scene tape behind it

I attended the UK's biggest true crime convention — it wasn't what I expected

UK November 12, 2025 By Josie Copson

(FILES) This handout photograph released by EDF Energy on December 15, 2023, shows engineering teams using the world's largest crane Big Carl to lift a 245-tonne steel dome onto Hinkley Point C's first reactor building at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station near Bridgwater in southwest England. The Hinkley Point C nuclear plant under construction in southwest England could be delayed by up to four years and cost as much as ??8 billion ($10.1 billion) more than planned, French state energy firm EDF said January 23, 2024. (Photo by Handout / EDF ENGERY / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/EDF ENGERY/AFP via Getty Images)

This is where the UK plans to hide nuclear power waste for thousands of years

UK June 11, 2025 By Craig Munro

Michael Ross photo used in The Orkney Assassin documentary. He is wearing a checkered shirt and smiling.

The teenage Orkney killer who got away with murder for 14 years

UK June 8, 2025 By Josie Copson

A generic blue and white home robot in a domestic house, using a portable vacuum cleaner to clean the carpeted stairs in a modern domestic house on a bright day, during winter, with some holiday decorations on the staircase.

Rich people ‘will have robot butlers within five years - with one major flaw’

Tech June 8, 2025 By Jen Mills

Why so many young Brits are being 'manipulated' into smuggling drugs

Why so many young Brits are being 'manipulated' into smuggling drugs

UK June 1, 2025 By Josh Layton