The Daily Telegraph - Saturday
Donatella’s Valentino tribute
Donatella Versace arrives for the funeral of the fashion designer Valentino at the Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels and Martyrs, in Rome yesterday. Among the mourners were Dame Anna Wintour and Elizabeth Hurley. Valentino died on Monday, aged 93
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Badenoch: Britain is not broken
BRITAIN is not broken, Kemi Badenoch has declared in a rebuke to Robert Jenrick following his defection to Reform. Writing for The Telegraph, Mrs Badenoch sets out the dividing lines between the Conservatives and Reform, arguing that while the country...
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Playing a Bond girl ruined my career
Inever think of my age,” says Jane Seymour with a jaunty smile. “At least, not until somebody asks what I’m doing for my 75th birthday [in February].” She’s so perky and poised – in both mind and body – it’s hard to believe the Bond girl turned queen...
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Swiss fire: former pupil at British school missing
Giovanni Tamburi The 16-year-old’s mother, Carla Masiello, said she had called the hospitals but nobody knew anything “because those who arrive are in a very bad condition”. According to Italian news outlet Fanpage, Ms Masiello said that her son was...
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Hunt crowds rally in face of Labour ban
By Thomas McArdle, Genevieve Holl-Allen and Gareth Corfield BOXING DAY hunt crowds surged yesterday in the face of Labour’s plans to ban the tradition. The Countryside Alliance, the leading body representing rural interests, said “massive crowds” had...
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Walliams ‘harassed female staff ’ Investigation
DAVID WALLIAMS has been dropped by his publisher following an investigation by The Telegraph into inappropriate behaviour towards young women. Walliams, one of the country’s bestselling children’s authors, faced accusations that he had “harassed”...
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Good news about my cancer
THE King has revealed his cancer treatment will be reduced in the new year. In a televised message to the nation, the King said he had reached a “milestone” in his treatment, calling it a “personal blessing” and giving thanks for early diagnosis and...
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Kate spreads some comfort and joy
The Princess of Wales and her daughter, Charlotte, attend the ‘Together At Christmas’ carol service at Westminster Abbey last night. The Princess said the event, to promote compassion and connections, had become a ‘family tradition’
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Reeves on brink over tax lies
RACHEL REEVES misled the public over the state of the country’s finances as she plotted her £30bn tax raid, allegedly to save herself and Sir Keir Starmer. The Chancellor was last night at war with the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) after the...
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Ashes off to a flyer
Michael Vaughan hails ‘the most exciting opening day to an Ashes ever’, in which England were bowled out in just 32.5 overs before taking nine wickets in four hours.
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Jennifer Lawrence: My naked dances with co-star
Jennifer Lawrence was asked to dance naked with co-star Robert Pattinson when five months pregnant as she prepared to film Die My Love, in which she plays a mother suffering psychosis. ‘We had a level of trust that could make you go that far,’ she...
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MPs push to stop Andrew succession
SIR KEIR STARMER is under mounting pressure from his own MPs to remove Andrew from the royal line of succession. The former prince is currently eighth in line to the throne and only an Act of Parliament could prevent him ever becoming king. Sir Keir...
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Epping migrant freed in jail blunder
THE Epping hotel asylum seeker who caused nationwide protests after sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl has been released accidentally from jail. Hadush Kebatu, 38, who came to Britain on a small boat, was meant to be sent to an immigration...
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Andrew forced to give up royal titles
PRINCE ANDREW has agreed with the King to stop using his titles, including the Duke of York, saying he had “always put my duty to my family and country first”. The development, first revealed by The Telegraph, followed a string of new scandals...
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Push for peace: Ivanka at Western Wall
VLADIMIR PUTIN has suggested that Donald Trump is too good for the Nobel Peace Prize after the US president was snubbed for this year’s award. Mr Trump, who brokered the deal to end the Gaza war, lost out after the Nobel committee voted to hand the...
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Mourners vent their anger at Lammy
DAVID LAMMY was heckled by mourners of the Manchester synagogue terror attack last night amid mounting calls for a halt to pro-Palestinian protests. The Deputy Prime Minister was booed and faced shouts of “stop the marches” as he addressed a vigil...
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Sophie: I’m proud of getting older
Sophie Ellis-Bextor tells The Telegraph that she is proud of getting older now that she is 46. ‘I like the experience I’ve amassed and I like the people around me’ she said as she revealed she used Google to help create the title for her new album
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Starmer rewards terror, says Badenoch
SIR KEIR STARMER is giving Hamas a “reward for terrorism” by recognising a Palestinian state, Kemi Badenoch has said. The Conservative Party leader said Sir Keir was “incapable of leading Britain on the world stage” and accused him of “economic...
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Burnham prepares challenge to Starmer
ANDY BURNHAM is laying the groundwork for a leadership bid amid growing speculation that Sir Keir Starmer will not last in post until the next election. The Greater Manchester mayor has launched a new campaign group calling on Downing Street to...
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Exit Rayner, now Starmer takes the fight to Reform
SIR KEIR STARMER purged his Cabinet yesterday after the resignation of Angela Rayner in an attempt to counter the threat from Reform. Ms Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister, quit after an ethics investigation found she ignored two warnings to seek...
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Roberts is back in the hunt
After the Hunt Venice Film Festival ★★★★★ IN Steel Magnolias, Pretty Woman and beyond, it was Julia Roberts’s bright, generous smile that made her a star. So it is all the more notable that in her latest film – a nastily exhilarating moral thriller...
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‘I was Starmer’s political prisoner’
IT WAS 10.18 on Thursday morning when the gates of HMP Peterborough swung open, a taxi drove out past the waiting press pack and one of Britain’s most famous prisoners was free. Lucy Connolly had been behind bars for 380 days for a nasty tweet posted...
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British boots on the ground in Ukraine within week of a ceasefire
BRITAIN is poised to put “boots on the ground” in Ukraine within a week of a ceasefire being declared, The Telegraph understands. Plans have been made for hundreds of British military trainers and engineers to enter the country if fighting pauses, to...
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Epstein’s butler: There’s no way he killed himself
Jeffrey Epstein and Valdson Vieira Cotrin, who ran the paedophile financier’s Paris home. Mr Cotrin told The Telegraph he could not accept the official verdict of suicide and also said he believed that Virginia Giuffre was a victim of foul play
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Peter Phillips to marry again
Dressing for the summer’s volatile weather and lengthy list of social events is never easy, but it must be all the more difficult for a woman becoming increasingly visible in the public eye. One figure who has made this particular combination look...
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Trump: Migrant invasion is killing Europe
DONALD TRUMP told Britain to “get its act together” on illegal migration after he landed in Scotland for a four-day visit. The US president claimed that a “horrible invasion” was taking place and had to “stop”, shortly after touching down on Air Force...
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Afghan migrant brings 22 relatives
AFGHAN migrants have brought as many as 22 family members to the UK after relatives previously rejected for asylum were allowed in following a military data breach. The disclosure could raise fears that national security may have been compromised in...
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General blows hot over threat of war
Gen Sir Patrick Sanders, who stood down as Chief of the General Staff last year, cuts a relaxed figure smoking an Epicure No 2 on his BMW bike. But he warns in a Telegraph interview that Britain should prepare for war with Russia in the next five years.
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Raducanu goes down swinging
HOW much fluff is the perfect amount of fluff? That may seem like a strange question but in the world of professional tennis it is a live issue. The quality and feel of the ball – and, in particular, its fluffiness – is having an impact on the game,...
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NHS sees patients as a pain, says new boss
THE NHS sees patients as an “inconvenience” and has “built mechanisms to keep them away”, its new boss has said. Sir Jim Mackey said the health service was too often “deaf ” to criticism, “wasted a lot of money” and deployed far too many “fossilised”...
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King’s tickled pink at Ascot
POLICE have launched an investigation into a bloody brawl that broke out on Ladies Day at Royal Ascot. It follows the emergence of footage yesterday showing two racegoers viciously swinging punches at each other at the event attended by the King,...
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Iran strikes back at Israel
IRANIAN ballistic missiles struck Tel Aviv last night as Tehran launched its retaliation against Israel. Dozens of missiles were fired at Israel’s largest city and other sites in the country in what the military said was an attack on civilians....
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Boulter: I get death threats when boyfriend loses
Katie Boulter, the British women’s tennis No 1, reveals today that she gets death threats online when her boyfriend, the Australian Alex de Minaur, loses. ‘Ultimately you get abused and I get double now, because every time Alex loses, they blame me’
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Key to the White House? Trump’s farewell gift to Musk
Donald Trump presents Elon Musk with a golden key in the Oval Office yesterday as his head of government efficiency bowed out. Hours before the meeting it was claimed that Mr Musk, who was sporting a black eye, used drugs including ketamine and magic...
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Protester charged for mocking Hezbollah
A JEWISH protester was arrested by the Metropolitan Police after he briefly held a placard satirising a Hezbollah terrorist leader, The Telegraph can reveal. The British man, who has asked to remain anonymous for his safety, was detained and charged...
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Beckham feud deepens
Brooklyn Beckham, pictured with his wife Nicola, believes he has been made to feel like he is an “idiot” as the rift with his parents David and Victoria deepens. The couple are said to have found common ground with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex
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Mr and Mrs Galloway at Putin parade
George Galloway, the former MP, appeared with his wife Putri at Vladimir Putin’s Victory Day celebrations in Moscow, days after flying to Iran to collect an award named after a Hamas leader. He called Putin’s military show of strength ‘inspiring’.
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The six votes that shook politics
NIGEL FARAGE has declared the end of two-party politics after Reform secured the greatest local election result for an outsider party. Reform UK has had the “Labour Party for lunch” and “wiped out” the Conservatives in parts of England, he said, after...
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‘We shut up Rachel Riley then Countdown was fine’
Anne Robinson, former host of Countdown, tells The Telegraph today that there was no falling out on the TV quiz but her co-host Rachel Riley was too ‘chatty’. She says she loathes the ‘woke terrorists sucking the lifeblood from Britain’
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Reeves: It is foolish to cut our ties with China
RACHEL REEVES has said it would be “very foolish” to cut Britain’s ties with China, in a rejection of Donald Trump’s efforts to isolate Beijing. In an interview with The Telegraph, the Chancellor made the case for a deeper partnership with China...
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The Knight-watchman
James Anderson, England’s all-time leading Test wicket-taker, has been awarded a knighthood in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list. Anderson, 42, retired from Test cricket last season. The former chancellor Jeremy Hunt becomes a peer
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Russell Brand charged with rape
Russell Brand was charged yesterday with historical sexual offences after a year-and-a-half-long police investigation
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Net zero tsar: I can see why people are angry
Emma Pinchbeck, the Government’s new climate change adviser, tells The Telegraph today she can understand why people are angry over the net zero agenda. ‘It never works to force people to change their lives,’ says the 38-year-old.
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Colossal failure of Heathrow blackout
AIRLINE chiefs have accused Heathrow of “clear failure” after Europe’s busiest airport was shut down by a fire in a single electricity substation. The travel hub closed for nearly 24 hours yesterday as about 200,000 passengers were stranded across the...
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Reform’s big guns go head to head at Cheltenham
The Reform UK turf war moved to Cheltenham yesterday as Nigel Farage shredded a losing betting ticket about 400 yards from where his critic and rival Rupert Lowe enjoyed hospitality in the royal box. Asked why he was not invited to the royal box, Mr...
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Revealed: mastermind at centre of Russian spy ring in Britain
A RUSSIAN agent behind a UK-based spy ring was able to flee Europe despite multiple warnings to the police and security services, The Telegraph can reveal. Jan Marsalek was working for the Kremlin while running Wirecard, one of the world’s biggest...
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‘Make a deal or we’re out’
A TELEVISED shouting match between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office saw peace talks between the two leaders abruptly halted. In a hostile press conference, the US president told Mr Zelensky to sign a ceasefire or “we’re out” as...
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‘Army has blood on its hands’
THE ARMY has “blood on its hands”, the sister of a teenage soldier who took her own life after being sexually assaulted has said. Royal Artillery Gunner Jaysley Beck, 19, was found hanged in her barracks at Larkhill Camp, Wiltshire, on Dec 15...
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Vance: Free speech in Britain is in retreat
JD VANCE has warned Britain that mass migration and the erosion of free speech poses a greater threat than Russia. The US vice-president yesterday told the Munich Security Conference that countries in Europe had allowed their “fundamental values” to...
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King plays host to the Beckhams
DAME Helen Mirren and the Beckhams were among the King’s guests at a black-tie dinner to celebrate Anglo-Italian relations. David Beckham, the former England footballer who was twice loaned to AC Milan, and his wife Victoria joined Donatella Versace,...
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Countryside chief: Green belt is not a religion
Mary-Ann Ochota, the head of the Countryside Charity, tells The Telegraph today that she wants to see community-led building projects to wrest power from housing developers: ‘The green belt is a planning designation, not a religion’
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Migrants shackled for flight out of US
DONALD TRUMP’s mass deportation drive is in full swing as shackled illegal migrants were escorted on to a military plane for repatriation to their home countries. “Deportation flights have begun,” Karoline Leavitt, Mr Trump’s press secretary,...
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Trump to rule on Starmer’s Chagos deal
DONALD TRUMP will rule on the future of the Chagos Islands after his team directly intervened in the British Government’s deal. The Telegraph understands that Mr Trump’s team demanded Britain delay its decision to hand back the strategic islands to...
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‘Perfect sex scene? It’s all about the grunting’
Nicole Kidman says her new film Babygirl, in which she plays a frustrated boss who has an affair with an intern half her age, made her realise that sex is not properly explored on screen. ‘Don’t forget the grunting,’ she says. ‘It was actually scary’
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Here comes the snow
Snowfall around Stonehenge, in Wiltshire, yesterday marked the beginning of a white weekend in Britain, with power cuts and widespread disruption expected for the next three days. The Met Office has issued two amber warnings for snow and ice, meaning...
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Your future health minister?
Joe Wicks gets a little nervous about headlines. The fitness guru, whose lockdown PE workouts for the nation made him a huge star and earned him an MBE, has been on the wrong end of some choice ones. There was the time he was chatting on a podcast...
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The IVF pioneer, secret sperm donors and families torn apart
DAVID GERTLER loved his father, a Jewish refugee who had survived the Holocaust; Roz Snyder too was devoted to her dad, who had brought her up as a single parent after her mother died of cancer when she was 12. But more than half a century on from...
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INSIDE MI5 probes Duke’s cash from China
CHINESE money given to the Duke of York is being investigated by the security services, The Telegraph can disclose. Prince Andrew’s business venture is understood to have received money from Chinese donors with links to an alleged Communist party...
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Prince Louis
and the Princess of Wales during the Together at Christmas carol service at Westminster Abbey
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Blanchett gets political
Cate Blanchett tells this weekend’s Review about her role as a female German chancellor in her new film Rumours. ‘Politicians’ body language is so stilted: it’s disconnected from anything resembling a human being,’ she says.
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Trump threatens sanctions on ICC
DONALD TRUMP is considering sanctions against a British lawyer over the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu. The Hague-based court is facing a major international backlash for its decision to issue a warrant for the...
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Badenoch challenges Starmer on hate laws
HATE crime laws must be reviewed to protect free speech, Kemi Badenoch has said, after police launched an investigation into a Telegraph journalist over a tweet. The Conservative leader said it was “absolutely wrong” for the police to visit any...
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Ben Ainslie: We had a surrogate child
Ben and Georgie Ainslie are sitting in the kitchen of their Wimbledon home trying to coax their three-year-old son, Fox, to eat the rest of his lunch. Fox is more interested in going outside to try out a new leaf-blower, which has just arrived at...
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King cuts off Duke of York
The King is understood to have ended the Duke of York’s ‘£1 million-a-year’ allowance. In an updated biography about the monarch, Robert Hardman has revealed that the King has given instructions to ‘sever’ payments to his brother.
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Workers’ taxes will rise, admits Chancellor Queen’s day in the sun
RACHEL REEVES has admitted that some working people will face tax rises in her Budget next week. Last night, the Chancellor said she could only commit to not raising “key” taxes on workers, despite a Labour manifesto pledge that working people would...
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Reeves prepares tax triple whammy
RACHEL REEVES is to launch a manifesto-breaking tax raid on incomes in this month’s Budget. The Chancellor is set to freeze income tax thresholds as part of a triple whammy raid which will include raising more money from inheritance tax and putting up...
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Spencer’s new love in court feud with his estranged wife
The new partner of Earl Spencer, Princess Diana’s brother, is suing his estranged wife for misuse of private information. Catrine Jarman, 42, an archaeologist specialising in the Vikings, has lodged a claim against Countess Spencer, 52, his third wife....
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