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Sacked DJ Danny Baker says BBC ‘threw me under a bus’ over chimp joke about royal baby Archie Danny Baker, 62, admitted to Tracy Ann Oberman that he got what he ‘deserved’  Baker said that one of the BBC staff who called him was rude to his wife  Baker, who …

TALK OF THE TOWN: Laurence Fox’s family hit by abuse from ‘woke warriors’ as the star still faces criticism over his Question Time appearance By Joanna Bell and Sophie Cockerham For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:01, 23 February 2020 | Updated: 00:47, 23 February 2020 After actor Laurence Fox …

Former BBC broadcaster and teacher Simon Warr, who was found to be innocent after being falsely accused of sexual abuse, has died.  Mr Warr, 65, who announced in a sad message on Thursday that he was quitting Twitter and ‘unlikely to return’, died after a short battle with pancreatic cancer.   …

Two members of the same family have tested positive for coronavirus in England. The first cases of the virus to be diagnosed in the UK were announced as more than 80 Britons on an evacuation flight from the Chinese city at the centre of the outbreak were due to land …

Danny Baker is hit by backlash over his ‘nasty’ Twitter joke blaming Ozzy Osbourne’s Parkinson’s on ’35 years’ of cocaine use – eight months after being sacked by BBC over ‘racist’ royal baby tweet Danny Baker joked about Ozzy Osbourne’s recent Parkinson’s diagnoses 61-year-old had previously been slammed for a …

The cost of implementing the high-speed railway connecting London with Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds could reach £106bn, according to a leaked, government-commissioned review. High Speed 2 (HS2) was originally allocated £56bn, and current HS2 Ltd chairman Allan Cook revised the estimated costs to between £81bn and £88bn in October. But …

A right royal PAIN! Resurfaced documentary footage shows the Queen yelping ‘ow’ after a then two-year-old Princess Eugenie steps on her foot 1992 clip shows moment Queen tells off Princess Eugenie, 2, for stepping on foot Monarch, then 66, can be heard yelping out in pain after the incident takes …

Laurence Fox’s Question Time slanging match with an ethnicity lecturer over Meghan Markle has sent Twitter into a melt down. The 41-year-old accused Rachel Boyle, an academic at Edge Hill University on Merseyside, of ‘being racist’ after she called him ‘a white privileged male’ for denying the Duchess of Sussex …

Prince Harry launched the 2021 Rugby League World Cup at Buckingham Palace in what could have marked his last engagement as a senior royal on Thursday – but it wasn’t only the momentous occasion that garnered attention.  The Duke of Sussex, 35, sported a rapidly increasing bald patch – a …

Lisa Nandy has said she would maintain key pledges from Labour’s election manifesto, including the abolition of university of tuition fees and the denationalisation of Royal Mail.  In her first major television interview, the Wigan MP, one of five contenders vying to replace Jeremy Corbyn, also said she opposed a …