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Here for Hugh

Elizabeth Hurley arrives at the High Court in London yesterday to give evidence in the privacy claim against Associated Newspapers involving Prince Harry. She told the court she had been encouraged to sue one newspaper by the actor Hugh Grant.

Trump strikes Greenland deal

DONALD TRUMP announced last night he had struck a deal on the future of Greenland after talks with the head of Nato. The US president said he had agreed a “future framework” for Greenland and the “entire Arctic region” during a “very productive...

William: We need to help pubs

THE Prince of Wales has pledged to help British pubs, describing them as “crucial” for human contact and the beating heart of communities. The Prince, while ordering half a pint of cider at a pub in Stirling, Scotland, said he “absolutely loves pubs”,...

Harry’s friends ‘to blame for leaks’

PRINCE HARRY’S friends were a “good source of leaks” who told journalists what he got up to in his private life, lawyers for the Daily Mail’s publisher have said. The Duke of Sussex attended the High Court in person yesterday at the start of a...

4 million denied the right to vote

FOUR million people are to be denied the vote in May’s local elections in a “disgraceful attack on democracy” by Labour. The Government is expected to cancel at least 27 council elections, meaning hundreds of councillors will avoid the risk of being...

China embassy’s secret threat to City

CHINA is to build a hidden chamber alongside Britain’s most sensitive communication cables as part of a network of 208 secret rooms beneath its new London “super-embassy”, The Telegraph can reveal. This newspaper has uncovered plans for an underground...

Reeves to climb down on pub tax

RACHEL REEVES is preparing to reverse her decision to impose higher costs on Britain’s struggling pubs following a Telegraph campaign. The Chancellor is understood to be finalising plans to offer relief to venues facing the biggest increases in...

Trump: I may send military to take Greenland

DONALD TRUMP is considering using the US military to acquire Greenland, the White House has announced. The US president is discussing options for taking the Arctic island, including the use of military force. “President Trump has made it well known...

I’m a prisoner of war

NICOLÁS MADURO has declared that he is a prisoner of war as he pleaded not guilty to narco-terrorism and weapons charges in a New York court. The former Venezuelan president, who was seized from his home in a daring US military raid on Saturday, said...

Trump sets sights on Greenland

DONALD TRUMP has set his sights on a US takeover of Greenland after capturing Nicolás Maduro and saying he would run Venezuela. “We do need Greenland, absolutely,” the US president told The Atlantic magazine, adding that the Danish territory was...

Horror on New Year’s Eve

A FIRE tore through a Swiss ski resort bar as young revellers welcomed in the new year, killing at least 40 people and injuring 115. Foreign tourists are among the victims of the blaze that engulfed the packed basement of Le Constellation bar in the...

2026 arrives with a bang (and a big bell)

Sydney Harbour, above, is a blaze of colour as new year fireworks illuminate the night sky. The Bondi Beach victims were not forgotten, inset, as an image of a menorah was projected onto the pylons of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Bali and Beijing, right,...

Royal hit parade

The King is joined by the Prince of Wales and Princess Anne before the Trooping of the Colour earlier this year – one of a selection of pictures chosen by the Waleses as some of their favourite moments of 2025. Their other highlights included President...

Boxing Day tragedy

A mother and two children who died in a Boxing Day fire have been identified as Fionnghuala Shearman, 38, Eve, seven, and Ohner, four. The children’s father Thomas, a police officer, survived the blaze in Brimscombe Hill, near Stroud, after escaping...

Legend of the century

“SEE that woman over there with the long grey hair?” my mother whispered. “That’s Brigitte Bardot.” I was 10. I cared more about my next pain au chocolat than the hyper-tanned, 50-something woman bent over the olive stall a few feet away. But my...

Charlotte in full bloom

Princess Charlotte at the Christmas Day service in Sandringham yesterday. Among the other royals attending were Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. Their father, Andrew Mounbatten-windsor, was pictured driving in Windsor.

‘Find me inappropriate friends’

ANDREW MOUNTBATTEN-WINDSOR asked the convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to find him some “inappropriate friends”, the latest release of the Epstein files has revealed. The documents cast fresh light on the former prince’s relationship with...

Rea dies three days before Christmas

CHRIS REA, the singer, songwriter and guitarist who has died aged 74, rose to fame in the 1980s as a purveyor of huskily melancholic pop ballads such as Fool (If You Think It’s Over), Driving Home for Christmas and his biggest hit, The Road to Hell, a...

In fine feather

Kefan Wang, a shaman from China, joined thousands of revellers at Stonehenge yesterday morning to celebrate winter solstice. Approximately 8,500 people, many dressed in pagan clothing, gathered at the Wiltshire site where attendees sang, played the...

Phillipson blocks safe spaces for women

BRIDGET PHILLIPSON is blocking the publication of trans guidance that would force business and public bodies to protect women-only spaces. The Women and Equalities Secretary has given a statement to the High Court describing the proposed rules as...

Duke accused of strangulation

The Duke of Marlborough was due in court today after being accused of three offences of intentional strangulation between 2022 and 2024. Last year, the 70-year-old separated from his wife Edla, 57, pictured with him at Goodwood.

Teenage boy arrested over girl’s murder

A BOY has been arrested after a nineyear old girl was killed in her home. Aria Thorpe, who celebrated her birthday two weeks ago, was named as the victim by family friends. Police confirmed that a teenager was arrested on suspicion of murder after the...

Bugged: the new MI6 boss

MI6 chiefs so rarely speak in public that when they do every aspect of their appearance is scrutinised for hidden messages or ciphers. So it is unsurprising that when Blaise Metreweli, the spy agency’s first female leader, chose to make a large,...

William spreads some Christmas cheer

The Prince of Wales enjoys a drink with the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards at their Christmas party in Windsor. The Prince, who is Colonel of the regiment, helped to serve up pudding to the junior ranks. Writing on social media, the Prince said: ‘A huge...

Peerage for women’s champion Davies

Sharron Daviesn, 63, the Olympic medal-winning swimmer, is to be a Conservative peer after campaigning to ban biological men from competing in women’s sport. She will be joined in the House of Lords by Katie Martin, Rachel Reeves’s former aide.

Bardella: I will stop the boats

BRITAIN will be allowed to push small boats carrying migrants back into French waters under immigration plans put forward by Jordan Bardella, the man tipped to become France’s next president. In an interview with The Telegraph, Mr Bardella, the leader...

Tea for two

The Queen visited the set of Rivals yesterday where she had tea with Alex Hassell, who plays Rupert Campbell-black – a character said to be based on the Queen’s former husband Andrew Parker Bowles.

Right wingers branded danger to children

A FORMER Royal Marine has been banned from working with children after he protested against illegal migrants, The Telegraph can disclose. Free speech campaigners said spurious safeguarding concerns were increasingly being deployed to “silence” people...

Brothers in arms

Russian president Vladimir Putin is treated to a ride in Narendra Modi’s prime ministerial car after he landed in Delhi for a visit to discuss trade and arms. A £1.5bn deal has been agreed for India to lease a Russian nuclear submarine and Putin is...

Purple reign

THERE were jokes about beer, football and of course that famous German sense of humour – or lack of one. At the heart of the German state visit, though, was an unexpectedly heartfelt message. The Royal family, President Frankwalter Steinmeier told...

‘I’m over my stalker ordeal. I’m not hiding’

Emma Raducanu, the British tennis No1, has rediscovered her self-assurance and is happy to use public transport again after suffering the unwanted attention of an obsessed fan. ‘I’m not hiding from anything anymore,’ she said. Interview: Sport, back...

Reeves clings on as OBR chief silenced

THE head of the fiscal watchdog was forced out yesterday as Rachel Reeves battled to save her political career. Richard Hughes, the chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), resigned amid a fiasco that saw his organisation leak the...

Home and dry

Chloe Pinkerton is reunited with her young cousin Ava after spending eight months on HMS Prince of Wales as part of Operation Highmast. The aircraft carrier, which docked at Portsmouth Naval Base yesterday, was deployed to the Indo-pacific earlier this...

Starmer rips up Rayner’s rights bill

SIR KEIR STARMER has scrapped a key pledge in the workers’ rights bill championed by Angela Rayner. The Government yesterday announced it was abandoning plans to allow employees to sue for unfair dismissal on day one of their employment. The...

A red box of broken promises

• Reeves to hit millions of workers with higher rate of income tax leaving manifesto pledge in tatters • Properties, pensions and savings also targeted despite assurances that last year’s Budget was the end • Middle-classes will bear brunt of the...

‘Dirty dozen’ tax rises to hit middle-class families

MIDDLE-CLASS families face a “dirty dozen” tax rises in the Budget as Rachel Reeves expands the welfare state. After abandoning plans for the first increase in income tax rates since 1975, the Chancellor will instead impose a string of other tax rises...

BBC in disarray over bias claims

THE BBC chairman has insisted he will not resign despite deep divisions at the broadcaster being exposed at a public hearing. Samir Shah’s leadership of the BBC came under intense scrutiny by MPS as a fellow director said there was a “sharp difference...

Streeting goes to war with No 10

WES STREETING has branded Downing Street “toxic” and “juvenile” amid a briefing war over threats to Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership. The Health Secretary was accused of plotting against the Prime Minister by allies of Sir Keir, as they attempted to...

We are the very best of society

TIM DAVIE has blamed “enemies” of the BBC for stoking the bias scandal engulfing the corporation, declaring the broadcaster “the very best of society”. Mr Davie took a defiant stance as he addressed staff for the first time since his resignation, in a...

Trump to sue BBC for $1bn

DONALD TRUMP has made an extraordinary threat to sue the BBC for $1bn, accusing it of a “reckless disregard for the truth”. The US president turned the screw on the corporation as it was reeling from the resignation of Tim Davie, its director-general,...

He was furious at critics and blind to the problem

THREE weeks ago, I bumped into Tim Davie. It wasn’t a warm encounter. We were at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, where Mr Davie was appearing on stage. It is unusual to have a speaker at a book festival who isn’t promoting a book, so after saying...

… as BBC rebukes newsreader over impartiality

Martine Croxall, the BBC newsreader who rolled her eyes while changing the phrase ‘pregnant people’ to ‘pregnant women’ broke impartiality rules. Her expression showed a ‘controversial view about trans people’, the BBC complaints unit ruled.

Pay per mile tax to hit drivers in Budget

ELECTRIC vehicle drivers will be hit with a new pay-per-mile tax in the Budget, The Telegraph can reveal. Under current plans, to be announced by the Chancellor on Nov 26, drivers of electric cars (EVS) will be charged 3p per mile on top of other road...

The royal wave

Waves lap up in front of a boat carrying the Prince of Wales during his tour of the Guapimirim mangrove area in Brazil. At one point, he stopped the boat to speak to fishermen. The Prince is on day two of his visit to Brazil for the Earthshot Prize...

BBC’S Trump bias exposed in memo leak

THE BBC “doctored” a Donald Trump speech by making him appear to encourage the Capitol Hill riot, according to an internal whistleblowing memo seen by The Telegraph. A Panorama programme, broadcast a week before the 2024 US election, “completely...

The devil’s not going to win, train attacker told passengers

A Knife-wielding attacker told passengers that the “devil is not going to win” as he launched a rampage on a highspeed train to London. The British-born suspect was being questioned last night by police over the 14-minute stabbing spree, which left 11...

Andrew no longer Prince

THE KING has removed Prince Andrew’s remaining titles and will evict him from Royal Lodge. Buckingham Palace announced last night that the monarch’s younger brother would now be known simply as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. Confirming that Andrew had...

Reeves eyes 2p income tax rise

RACHEL REEVES is considering a 2p rise in income tax in a move that would breach Labour’s manifesto. The Telegraph understands that the measure is being explored by the Treasury after Sir Keir Starmer refused yesterday to repeat that Labour would not...

Farewell, Sybil Fawlty

Prunella Scales, who became a household name as Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, has died aged 93. Her sons Samuel and Joseph said their “darling mother” had been watching the classic show the day before she died.

Headache for the palace as King heckled over Andrew

A PROTESTER heckled the King about Prince Andrew during a cathedral visit yesterday. The man shouted questions about the Prince and Jeffrey Epstein as the King visited Lichfield Cathedral in Staffordshire, amid mounting pressure to settle his...

Billions wasted in migrant hotel chaos

BILLIONS of pounds of taxpayers’ money were squandered on asylum hotels because of a “failed, chaotic and expensive” system imposed by the Home Office, a committee of MPS has found. Ministers and officials “neglected” day-to-day management of their...

King and Pope bridge 500-year divide with a single Amen

IT WAS the moment that made ecclesiastical history. The King and the Pope joined together in prayer, marking the public end to a 500-yearold divide and ushering the Christian faith into a new era. It was quiet, simple and understated: blink, in fact,...

Kardashian comes to town

Kim Kardashian arrived in London yesterday for the UK premiere of All’s Fair, her new legal drama on Disney Plus. The 10-part series follows a team of female lawyers who leave a male-dominated firm to open their own practice

Carla’s au revoir

Carla Bruni shows her gratitude to supporters of her husband, Nicolas Sarkozy, as he began his five-year prison sentence yesterday. France’s former president was found guilty of seeking to acquire Libyan funding for his 2007 campaign.

Grooming inquiry ‘sabotaged by Labour’

LABOUR has been accused of sabotaging the national grooming gangs inquiry by victims and campaigners. Sir Keir Starmer’s long-promised inquiry suffered a serious blow yesterday after two victims quit a liaison panel and claimed they were being...

Andrew could face first royal police inquiry in 20 years

PRINCE ANDREW faces becoming the first member of the Royal family to be investigated by police for more than 20 years after he was accused of trying to use his protection officer to smear his teenage sex abuse accuser. The Metropolitan Police is...

Revealed: Andrew’s meetings with ‘spymaster’

PRINCE ANDREW met the top Chinese official at the centre of the Beijing spy case at least three times, The Telegraph can reveal. The Duke of York held meetings in 2018 and 2019 with Cai Qi, one of the most senior members of the Chinese Communist Party...

‘Andrew, Epstein and me’

Virginia Giuffre (then Roberts) aged 16, around the time that she met Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Giuffre’s posthumous book, Nobody’s Girl, will be published next week, and details when she met the Duke of York.

Apple of Gwyneth’s eye

Apple Martin, the daughter of Coldplay star Chris Martin and actress Gwyneth Paltrow, says that her parents don’t want her to be entitled and that she must work for a living. She has started modelling while studying at university in Nashville.

Trump: Let’s end Ukraine war

DONALD TRUMP is preparing to arm Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk missiles as he turns his attention to ending the war with Russia. The US president was lavished with praise for bringing peace to the Middle East during a jubilant visit to Israel...

US attacks Labour minister as ‘delusional’ over Gaza deal

THE US ambassador to Israel has accused Labour of being “delusional” for claiming the UK played a key role in securing the ceasefire in Gaza. Mike Huckabee criticised Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, after she claimed Britain had been a...

‘We have peace in Middle East’

DONALD TRUMP declared “peace in the Middle East” and announced that hostages would be freed early next week after Israel and Hamas signed a deal to end the war. The US president told a meeting of his cabinet at the White House yesterday that he hopes...

Kemi Badenoch and her husband, Hamish, embrace following her speech on the final day of the Conservative Party’s conference in Manchester. The Tory leader announced plans to scrap stamp duty if elected prime minister.

Champagne before noon: My distilled hit of pure Jilly joy

“WOULD it be indecent to start on the champagne at noon?” It’s 11.55am on a sunny April morning when Dame Jilly Cooper asks me this, and I can’t lie: I am shocked. Not at the noon tippling. She can pop that cork and pour us both a couple of fishbowls...

Emma’s busy day

VALENTINO is a brand on the hunt for a hit shoe or an It bag. It’s 15 years since Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli (now at Fendi and Balenciaga respectively) came up with the Rockstud and the brand is heavily dependent on the spiky punky...

Israel blames Starmer after synagogue terror rampage

ISRAEL has accused Sir Keir Starmer of failing to curb a “toxic wave of antisemitism” in Britain after a suspected Islamist terror attack on a Manchester synagogue. As the congregation gathered at the Heaton Park Synagogue to mark Yom Kippur – the...

‘Send in military to stop boats’

DONALD TRUMP has urged Sir Keir Starmer to consider calling in the military to stop small boat crossings. The US president offered his advice on how to tackle illegal migration during a joint press conference at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country...

Banquet fit for a president

DONALD TRUMP has described his second state visit to the UK as “one of the highest honours of my life”. An American president feted by the King, in a second state visit which pulled out all the diplomatic stops and which he called “truly one of the...

Comfort for the King

The King is consoled by the Princess of Wales at the funeral of the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Westminster Cathedral in London. The duchess, a Catholic convert who died aged 92 on Sept 4, was remembered with a Requiem Mass, which included a message...

Trump to go easy on embattled Starmer

DONALD TRUMP is expected to go easy on Sir Keir Starmer during his state visit starting today because he understands the Prime Minister is “on the ropes”. Sir Keir yesterday insisted that he would not resign amid intense scrutiny over what he knew and...

Benefits rebels rally behind Burnham

LABOUR’S benefits rebels have backed Andy Burnham in his challenge to Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership of the party. MPS who defeated Sir Keir’s attempts at welfare reform told The Telegraph it was clear “this administration is coming to an end” and that...

Charlie Kirk suspect ‘left gun with trans message’

INVESTIGATORS hunting the gunman who shot dead Charlie Kirk recovered a hunting rifle with ammunition engraved with “transgender and antifascist ideology”, according to an internal law-enforcement update. Authorities believe the sniper fired a single...

Harry and King reunited after 19 months

Prince Harry arrived at Clarence House yesterday evening to meet the King for tea. It was the first time in 19 months that he had been face to face with his father, who is undergoing treatment for cancer. The pair are reported to have spent 53 minutes...