Jessie J opens up about the year that changed everything – motherhood, music and a life-saving diagnosis

2025 was supposed to be Jessie J’s year. But while she was readying herself to release her first new music in eight years, ...
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Jimmy Cliff, Nicholas Zakaria leaid to rest

Cliff’s wife, Latifa Chambers, announced his death in an online post She said the cause was a seizure followed by pneumonia. Fuelled by his searing performance as a musician-turned-outlaw in the 1972 ...
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Notable deaths of 2025

A look back at some of the most notable figures who died this year, from Jane Goodall to Hulk Hogan. RELIGION Pope Francis, ...

‘God bless us, every one!’ The five best film versions of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

The classic festive tale of humbug and redemption has been adapted countless times for film and TV since the very first ...
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‘I try to be an open book on record’: In conversation with Kofi Stone

Kofi Stone is one of the most exciting rappers in Britain. The self-proclaimed ‘Mayor of Brum’ has steadily been grafting ...

Mark Bennett: 'Tis the season of kids' Christmas programs, and that's a good thing

We both needed to stretch our legs, my youngest grandchild and I. He’d watched his older brother’s elementary school Christmas program a few days earlier. Now he was doing the same at another ...