At least two people were killed and several others were hurt when Israeli fighter jets bombed villages in Lebanon, starting in the east of the Bekaa Valley and continuing to the south of the country. Israel has attacked Lebanon nearly daily since agreeing to a ceasefire a year ago, claiming that it is attacking Hezbollah positions.
Published On 23 Nov 2025
The A-list has already released the memo, and faux fur is having its comeback for the winter of 2025/26. Anya Taylor-Joy has been wearing dramatic, texture-rich outerwear that looks like it came straight out of a movie set, while Hailey Bieber has been seen sporting oversized chocolate-brown and printed coats, Kendall Jenner has been seen sporting cropped plush jackets, and Kendall Jenner has been sporting oversized, chocolate-brown and printed coats.
It’s cozy, glamorous, and makes a plain outfit feel instantly cool. However, to capitalize on the current state, you don’t need celebrity budgets. From faux-mink fabrics to teddy-textured jackets, the high street is full of expensive-looking items that feel and look expensive.
I’ve listed five simple faux fur looks that you can wear this season, whether you want a subtle, full-glam, or something else.
The most straightforward way to embrace the trend is with a faux-fur coat. Whether you prefer a soft teddy texture or a sleeker style, when you combine one with a jumper and jeans, the entire ensemble comes off more polished. The coat should handle the heavy lifting, with the coat remaining straightforward. It’s inexpensive, has a little drama, and is warm enough to get that celebrity-winter look without the price tag.
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Shop it: ASOS faux fur shawl mid-length coat in chocolate, £110, and Albaray Brown Faux Fur Jacket, £140.
Due to the celebrity crowd, fake fur hats, especially buckets and trappers, are back. Even the most practical winter outfits are given personality by them, giving them a warm, slightly playful edge. Choose a neutral to get a day-ready outfit, or a bright color for a special occasion.
Next Chocolate Brown Bucket Hat, £20.
A faux-fur bag is the simplest place to start if you want to test the trend. It enhances texture without imposing itself, and it looks particularly good with tailored coats and slick silhouettes. The high street has plenty of items to add a little fun to cold-weather clothing, from fluffy shoulder bags to soft totes.
Shop it: M&S Faux Fur Shoulder Bag, £35
When you need warmth but not a full coat, a faux-fur gilet is the best option. Layer it with something for more depth, such as a chunky knit. It’s surprisingly versatile, and it lifts even the most basic outfits with a softness.
Judge Craig Revel Horwood has opened up about his troubled relationship with his father, Philip.
He claims that “he was a terrible alcoholic” throughout our early years. Alcoholism is a terrible childhood experience.
“It was just so abusive at home,” she said. That’s the justification for my dancing. I couldn’t stand being at home, not just because I was porky. I believe that led to a dance life.
“I lived 10,000 miles away from home for a good reason.”
Horwood reveals that the toxicology report found significant amounts of alcohol after Philip, a former lieutenant in the Royal Australian Navy, passed away suddenly.
He claims that “people don’t realize how dangerous alcohol can be.” “Poor dad had a disease,” he said.
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He recalls an incident that caused his father to become abusive to his mother and sent him to prison for it. “It got so bad that Dad tried to shoot my brother-in-law and put me in jail for it,” he says.
He also recalls his father’s lengthy sobriety period.
He claims that he and I went through some of that with him while he was in AA for four years. He was only in his final four years of substance abuse.
It resembled Jekyll and Hyde, they said. I therefore decided that I would learn to love both him and who he might have been when he passed away.
And he has a strong love for his mother.
He claims that “she played a crucial role in nurturing my early interests, including my passion for performance.” Despite the difficulties at home, her presence gave the impression of normalcy and support.
He praises two additional outstanding mothers who also happen to be queens.
He says: “Queen Elizabeth ll bless her; gorgeous, was the most remarkable lady. I met her for an Australians Day in Buckingham Palace.”
Meanwhile, Queen Camilla is a friend.
He says, “I directed the show for the Royal Osteoporosis Society, which I am a patron and ambassador for, and Camilla is the president.” I personally have raised £500, 000 for that charity, so I’m very proud to have that platform on which to stand. We raised £350, 000.
“My dád called me and said “Jeez Craig” as Camilla and I were dancing together. I just happened to see you dancing with that bloody Camilla on the six o’clock news, on the bloody news, and on the bloody news?
His close friendship with Anton du Beke is one of his most unexpected revelations, given their airtime spats.
He admits, “I really love him.
While of the BBC show that made him a household name, he adds: “Strictly continues to inspire me.”
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Everyone is hoping that with a good wind, they can make it all the way to Wembley this weekend because the women’s FA Cup second round is taking place. Can’t we just dream?
Lewes Football Club, which I am currently the director of, became the first and only professional or semi-professional club in the nation to support its men’s and women’s teams equally in 2017.
Our women’s team has since experienced greater support, matching their higher league position, thanks to the Football Association’s central grants and commercial revenue shares. Moving from an equity-focused position to one that is Equality FC.
We have also been campaigning for equal FA Cup prize money for both women’s and men’s competitions since 2019. This is not a catchphrase, but rather a strategy.
The FA Cup needs to catch up with the fairytale if it truly is, as it claims to be, “the game’s great leveller.”
A victory in the second round of the FA Cup is worth £79,500 for a men’s club. For the women it is just £8, 000 – a £71, 500 difference.
The difference is £41, 750 in the first round, and £86, 500 in the third round. Same game, the same rules, the same competition, the same governing body, but with a different emphasis on the players.
Let’s avoid using the common justifications: “commercial reality,” “revenue difference,” “it’s complicated.”
No, it’s not. The prize pool for both competitions is determined by the FA. Tomorrow they could be equal, it’s just that you need to want to do it.
By focusing on broadcast revenues and crowd sizes, it is simply too easy and lazy to ignore the demand for equality as some people do. Yes, men’s TV rights are currently worth more, and there are higher attendance rates for men’s matches.
However, the FA does not participate in gate receipts, making the discussion of equal prize money irrelevant. There is ultimately no valid justification for maintaining unequal prize funds because the FA is publicly committed to redistribution.
The FA has previously chosen to ignore our requests for clarification and dialogue, but has recently gotten more accommodating.
Ironically, the FA is aware of how to “do equality.” The same match fees and bonuses have been paid to the women’s and men’s England teams since 2020. The St George’s Park policy is based on the adage “equal pay for equal performance.”
So, is it not important whether the FA supports equality. That belief is halted by the FA Cup, though.
This season’s men’s competition has a total prize pot of £23.5 million, while the women’s prize pot is £6.14 million. Is the FA basically telling women and girls that they are not as valuable as their male counterparts?
The Lewes FC campaign calls for a more equitable division in the men’s competition in addition to promoting equality between the women’s and men’s competitions.
The £23.5 million men’s prize fund will currently go to wealthy Premier League clubs where it is unlikely to have a significant impact. Small clubs would benefit more from a more equitable distribution of the rewards across the pyramid, helping them survive and prosper rather than just aiming to fill the highlights reel once a year.
Football’s finances are incredibly risky and becoming increasingly dangerous, as I now only know now, so here is a quick and efficient way to ensure that prize money is distributed more evenly and fairly. Our full proposal can be found at equalfacup.com.
Women’s football was denied decades of development, investment, and, most importantly, the building of the cultural capital that is so essential to the success of the men’s game: the ingraining of football into our daily lives. The ban lasted for 50 years.
This is a reminder of what football stands for, not a protest against it. The premise of the FA Cup was that any team could win, and that Wembley-based teams were equally important.
Equalizing FA Cup prize money is a single, straightforward, and transformative step because the FA wants the women’s game to stand on its own two feet. Giving out prizes in the same way is not charity; rather, it is a form of honoring performance.
Alan Titchmarsh admits his daughter “was right” after she sent him a firm warning. The 76-year-old has been a popular face on television screens since launching his broadcasting career in 1977.
It came as Alan joined BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours and The Today Programme as a gardening expert. Before then he had spent his career writing and editing gardening books as well as working as a gardener.
Alan lives in Hampshire, where he films his popular Love Your Weekend, with wife Alison, a retired teacher. The couple share adult daughters Camilla and Polly together.
Alan claims that Polly sent him a warning on the Lessons From Our Mothers podcast. He claimed that while Camilla worked as a classroom assistant for a while, Polly had stated that I am very patient with plants but wouldn’t have the patience to deal with kids, her older daughter also became a teacher, like her mother, Alison was a teacher, and her younger sister now works interior design and property searches, etc.
According to Alan, he said he thinks he found his calling after learning how to garden. He continued, “I adore my children and grandchildren, but I think she’s right. I love them both. I do have a higher tolerance for people than plants. “Plants are not wind-up merchants,” explains the statement.
As a youngster, Alan confessed that he would use his pocket money to go to Woolworths to purchase seeds in his garden. He claims that because nasturtiums “just right for my small fingers to press into the ground,” he would typically choose them.
He eventually transitioned from his family’s Yorkshire home to a polythene lean-to before transitioning to a greenhouse. He stated in a letter to the Daily Mail that all he wanted to do was garden.
He left school in 1964 at the age of 15 and only had one O-level in art. After that, he made the decision to enroll in a day-release horticulture apprenticeship at Ilkley Council.
Alan moved to Hertfordshire in 1968, and he soon found himself working at Kew’s Royal Botanical Gardens. He made the decision to work in horticulture journalism in 1974.
However, Alan claims that his “feverishness for growing flowers, trees, fruit and vegetables” is still present even in his seventies. Alan recently acknowledged that as a result of his “pottering” experience, time can “slip away” now.
He wrote in Gardeners’ World Magazine that “there are those who become maudlin about the speed at which “time flies” and that, true to form, hours, minutes, and seconds pass through one’s fingers more quickly.
A seven-year-old perceives a year as their “seventh of their life,” according to Alan, while a 70-year-old perceives a 70-year-old’s year as their “seventh of their life.”
After a difficult year that included a challenging Las Vegas Grand Prix weekend, Lewis Hamilton said he is not looking forward to the 2026 Formula 1 season.
The first time in his 19-year F1 career that he qualified last for the race was when he first competed on pure pace.
In the final stages of the race, the Ferrari driver quickly climbed up the standings to take the lead over Nico Hulkenberg’s Sauber on a medium tyre, and he placed 10th overall.
“It’s a terrible outcome,” the author declared. Hamilton stated on BBC Radio 5 Live, “There is nothing to take away from today.”
“I’m anticipating it to end, and I’m anticipating it to end. I’m not anticipating the following one.
After the team debrief, Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur said he would take Hamilton’s comments into account because they were made at the right moment.
Let’s get to the point. Let’s talk about it after the debrief, Vasseur said, and jump out of the car and say the first comment is always a little too much.
Lewis has obviously had to deal with it over the last few weekends, and he acknowledged that it has been difficult.
We just need to relax and concentrate on the next two races, Lewis said, “I understand the reaction right after the race because we will be back.”
“And keep in mind that Lewis was there in FP1 and FP2 as well, which means that we must build up the weekend like this, and starting from P20 is undoubtedly not the best way to get a good result.”
Hamilton leads Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc, who is currently fifth, by 73 points.
Hamilton, 40, finished third overall in the Ferrari race podium, but he did win the sprint race there in March.
It would mark Hamilton’s first season without a podium finish in Formula One if he didn’t finish in the top three in the final two races of 2025.
After a poor qualifying session on Friday in wet conditions in Las Vegas, where he struggled for pace on the extreme wet tyre, he was on the back foot.
After leaving the Sao Paulo Grand Prix two weeks ago, Hamilton said his first year with Ferrari was “a nightmare.”