As the temperatures continue to plummet, we’re all looking for comfy and cosy ways to keep our feet warm without sacrificing style – and these on-sale sheepskin boots may be just the ticket
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Classic sheepskin mini boots get a huge 68% saving as cold weather descends(Image: Aus Wooli Australia/Instagram)
Last autumn, the footwear choice of the season was clearly Uggs, a standout style that seamlessly blends fashion with comfort and practicality. That said, the classic Ugg boot comes with a hefty price tag, making it a less budget-friendly choice for most of us.
But there’s no reason we can’t all be wearing sheepskin slippers this season, without spending a fortune, as the iconic brand Aus Wooli Australia offers plenty of similar styles that promise style and cosiness without the steep cost. And what’s more, these plush suede mini boots are currently up for grabs for a whopping 68% off, thanks to Debenhams’ current sale.
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Touted as a pair of fashionable mini boots, these shoes promise to stay up-to-date with the latest trends at a more affordable price. Constructed from soft, premium, genuine Australian Sheepskin wool lining, these shoes boast a full leather Suede upper that mimics the iconic Ugg boots.
Promising water resistance and rubber, high-density EVA blend outsole, which makes them lighter, softer and more durable, these shoes are an easy choice for inside and outside wear, ensuring you can wear them around the house or while running errands, without getting your feet cold or soggy, and without the autumn weather ruining your new slippers in their first season.
These mini boots feature a unique, fully moulded insole that delivers plenty of comfort and support with every wear, plus the sheepskin-lined footbed keeps your toes cosy and toasty.
Described as extremely comfortable, these sustainable and eco-friendly slippers feature double stitching and a reinforced heel, not only keeping you looking stylish but also providing ample durability and protection. What’s more, the breathable sheepskin allows your feet to stay warm in winter and cool in summer.
Normally retailing for a hefty £155, Debenhams is now offering these mini boots for a much more affordable £49.99 in a range of colours and sizes. That said, some options are already sold out, so you’ll need to act quickly to secure yours before they’re gone.
Debenhams is offering a huge range of discounts on Aus Wooli Australia’s slippers, including this pair of Short Sheepskin Button Boots, which would normally cost £165, but are now up for grabs for the reduced price of £55.99.
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Elsewhere, shoppers can find the Jack Wills Personalisable Low Snug Boots Women’s, worth £74.99, for £30 at Sports Direct. ASOS is also offering a pair of SEQWL cosy mini ankle boots in sand for the budget-friendly price of £18.
Amanda Holden turned heads in a striking black outfit as she joined the judging panel on the Britain’s Got Talent red carpet in Blackpool
TV and radio presenter Amanda Holden has stunned in a black ensemble on the Britain’s Got Talent red carpet.
The judge, 54, wore black leather-look trousers with a structured, asymmetrical bandeau top to the auditions at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool on Monday.
Amanda paired the outfit with a black smoky-eye, French tips and silver jewellery, finishing the look with a black and silver belt and black and gold pointed pumps.
The TV star was joined by the rest of the judging panel on the red carpet, including YouTube star KSI, who has replaced Bruno Tonioli after he left the show due to scheduling conflicts amid his return as a judge on US show Dancing With The Stars.
KSI, whose real name is Olajide “JJ” Olatunji, stepped in as a guest judge during series 18. On the red carpet he opted for a casual look and wore a black ensemble with a bandanna.
Also opting for a streetwear look was Alesha Dixon, who wore trousers with a reptile-look print alongside an oversized khaki jacket, black sunglasses and large silver hoops. Judge Simon Cowell wore an all-black outfit, with presenting pair Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly also in casual wear.
Magician Harry Moulding won the 2025 series of Britain’s Got Talent and is to perform at this year’s Royal Variety Performance at the Royal Albert Hall.
Thousands of Palestinians gathered in Ramallah on Monday to await the release of some 2,000 political prisoners and forcibly disappeared people who were taken by Israel from the West Bank, which it occupies, and Gaza, which it has waged war on for two years.
Palestinians welcomed back 96 political prisoners, as well as the vast majority of people Israel detained from Gaza during the war.
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This comes as part of an exchange of 20 living and 28 deceased Israeli captives held in Gaza for the nearly 2,000 Palestinian captives.
Of the more than 200 Israeli captives taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023, a total of 114 were released during two captive swaps with Hamas in November 2023 and January 2025, respectively.
They were handed over in exchange for the freedom of a total of 1,240 Palestinians.
Despite the brief euphoria, Israel violated ceasefires that coincided with those captive releases, arresting Palestinians across Gaza and the occupied territory wholesale, usually without charge.
Here’s all you need to know about the Palestinians expected to be released as part of the ceasefire deal, as well as those who were not included in the deal and who will stay in captivity.
Who is being released?
A total of 250 Palestinian political prisoners who are either serving life sentences or long sentences are being released from Israeli jails.
According to data obtained by Al Jazeera, all but nine of these prisoners are from the West Bank, and 157 of them are members of Fatah, the party that controls the Palestinian Authority governing parts of the West Bank.
Sixty-five are from Hamas, and the rest are from smaller political factions.
In addition, Israel will free 1,718 Palestinians who were, according to the United Nations, forcefully disappeared by Israel over the last two years of its genocidal war on Gaza.
Five of them are children under the age of 18, and two are women, according to the prisoner list obtained by Al Jazeera.
Most of the disappeared from Gaza were held in military camps, where dehumanisation and torture were rampant, according to international and Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups.
Palestinians were reportedly subjected to severe beatings, medical neglect, starvation and even rape.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, 77 prisoners have died in Israeli custody since October 7.
How many Palestinians is Israel not releasing?
Thousands.
According to Addameer, a Palestinian human rights organisation tracking political prisoners, the number of people taken captive by Israel increased from 5,200 to 11,100 since October 7, 2023.
The vast majority of these prisoners are from the occupied West Bank – 400 of them children.
Murad Jadallah, a human rights researcher with Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq, told Al Jazeera: “Israel tries to destroy Palestinian society in different ways, and arresting children is one of the tools it uses to do so.”
Once a Palestinian captive is released, that’s it, right?
No.
Israel tends to re-arrest Palestinians shortly after they are freed in captive swaps, said Tahani Mustafa, an expert on Israel-Palestine with the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
In November 2023, Israel released 240 Palestinian prisoners in a swap for Israeli captives held by Hamas in Gaza as part of a temporary ceasefire deal.
Weeks later, Israel re-arrested 30 of those people.
“Israel has a long history of using incarceration and arrests as a political weapon, and sometimes that could be for bargaining purposes for a later date,” Mustafa told Al Jazeera.
“There’s also no guarantee [with this current deal] that those being released won’t be rearrested again,” she added.
Will all of these Palestinian detainees be able to go home today?
Most of them have already been released.
While 96 of the 250 high-level political prisoners are being released to the West Bank and Gaza, about 154 of them are being deported from Palestine to third countries that have not been announced yet.
According to WAFA, the 154 have been taken to Egypt, but that will not be the final destination for all of them.
Israel may decide not to release everyone until it also retrieves the bodies of 28 deceased Israeli captives, which are expected over the next 72 hours.
Hamas said that it may struggle to locate all the deceased captives in that timeframe, but that the group is actively searching for them.
Thousands of people gathered in Khan Younis, Gaza, to welcome Palestinians – mostly civilians, including medics – who were disappeared by Israel.
There must be thousands of happy families today?
Well, yes, but they’ve been threatened not to show it.
Families are ordered by Israel not to celebrate the release of their loved ones or raise Palestinian flags in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem.
And the families of prisoners who are being exiled today will likely be prevented from travelling abroad to meet them in their country of exile.
Jadallah, from Al-Haq, added that most Palestinians merely hope the captive swap represents a permanent end to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
He added that Palestinians are unhappy that prominent Palestinian leaders such as Marwan Barghouti and Ahmed Saadat will not be released.
The former is arguably the most famous Palestinian political prisoner, traditionally aligned with Fatah, and the latter leads the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Renowned Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safia, who was abducted from Kamel Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza in December 2024, was not among the list of prisoners expected to be released.
Abu Safia has been subjected to severe torture and solitary confinement, according to human rights monitors.
A freed Palestinian prisoner after being released from an Israeli jail in Ramallah, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, October 13, 2025 [Mohammed Torokman/Reuters]
While Israelis celebrated the return of captives from Gaza, Israel warned Palestinian families against holding celebrations over the return of prisoners – some who had been held for decades. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh explains.
He was an Arsenal wonderkid who had the world at his feet – now, after a playing career ravaged by injuries, Jack Wilshere will take his first steps in management at League One side Luton aged just 33.
It is a “full-circle moment” for Wilshere who returns to the club where he started as an eight-year-old before moving to Arsenal aged nine.
Wilshere then made his first-team debut for the Gunners in 2008 at just 16 years and 256 days – becoming a regular in 2010-11 when he was 18.
However, his career was blighted by injuries, with the midfielder breaking his right ankle in pre-season in 2011 and being ruled out for 15 months.
He missed a total of 151 Arsenal games between 2011 and 2016, spending more than 1,000 days on the sidelines during his time at Emirates Stadium.
At 25 a surgeon warned him he might not be able to play again, but Wilshere ended his Arsenal career with 197 appearances – and two FA Cup trophies – as well as 34 international caps.
Spells at Bournemouth, West Ham and AGF Aarhus followed his Arsenal exit in 2018 before Wilshere retired in 2022 aged 30.
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Wilshere briefly returned to Luton in 2021, being invited to train at the club by then boss Nathan Jones after he had left West Ham.
He says it was around this time that he started considering a move into coaching.
And Wilshere took advice from current Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta before taking a managerial job.
“About a year ago I asked Mikel when he knew he was ready,” Wilshere said at his news conference on Monday.
“He laughed and said ‘you just have to jump in and swim as hard as you can’.
“He’s done that really well and this feels a little similar. It’s a different level but Arsenal wasn’t a nice place when Mikel went in.
“The fans weren’t sure what was happening and he built complete unity and trust in what he was doing.”
Yet it was clear to some Wilshere was going to become a manager much earlier in his career.
“You could see the way his brain works, what he sees on the football pitch, how he wants to play the game and change things,” said Paul Robinson, who played with Wilshere when he was on loan at Bolton in 2010.
“You could always see that he would go into [management] and the coaching side eventually.”
Robinson added: “You [can see the] players who could go on and be good coaches, they understand the game, and they can change the game quickly with a different formation or moving players to a different position…
“With Jack, he was always that type of guy. He understood it. He always wanted to talk about different things.
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Will Wilshere provide magic for Hatters?
Luton believe they have a manager who can add some magic to a club who have tumble from the Premier League to League One with successive relegations.
The Hatters are currently 11th in the third tier, five points adrift of the play-offs, having won five and lost five of their 11 games.
Just over two years ago, they beat Everton at Goodison Park for an historic first Premier League victory.
Luton had whittled down nine options to a three-man shortlist for the job – with Wilshere joined by Leyton Orient manager Richie Wellens and former Swansea boss Luke Williams.
It was an extensive process and Wilshere impressed the interviewing panel with his knowledge and enthusiasm.
Luton chose him above Wellens – who took Orient to the League One play-off final last year and has two promotions from League Two on his CV.
With Wilshere comes assistant Chris Powell, the former Charlton manager who has managed in the top four divisions, and Luton believe his experience will be crucial in aiding their new manager in his first role.
‘Hungry to achieve great things’
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The League One visit of Mansfield on Saturday is the latest and most notable point on Wilshere’s brief coaching journey so far.
He took his first role with Arsenal Under-18s in 2022 at 30 after being forced to retire after a brief spell in Denmark with Aarhus.
Wilshere was then appointed as Norwich first-team coach last year – and oversaw two Championship games as caretaker boss after Johannes Hoff Thorup was sacked.
The ex-Arsenal playmaker becomes the third-youngest manager in the top four divisions – behind Brighton’s Fabian Hurzeler and Will Still at Southampton.
“I don’t want people to think about my playing career,” said Wilshere at his Luton unveiling.
“There are many things I can use from my playing career – my experiences with different coaches, good and bad – to try and make me the coach I am today.
“But the first week I was at Arsenal with the under-18s I quickly realised this is something I was going to have to get better at – being a good player doesn’t make you a good coach…
“I wanted to be clear that I didn’t want to step straight to a first team until I was ready.
“Then I went to Norwich, and that taught me so much. I was in the real world.
“This is a new Jack Wilshere, a different Jack Wilshere, who is hungry to achieve great things.”
When Thorup was sacked in April, Wilshere was handed the Norwich job for the final two games of the season. He made it clear he wanted – and felt ready – to take on the role full-time.
Inspired by Arsenal but making his own way
Having played under Arsene Wenger at Arsenal and returning to a coaching role at the club’s academy under Arteta, it is obvious to see where Wilshere’s philosophy has been shaped.
Yet he wants to make his own way in the game and not be compared to anyone who he has worked with before.
“You are who you are as a coach and that’s important,” he said.
“But I spent my life in the academy at Arsenal so I have a way of thinking about the game. I like the ball, I want to have control of the game – but there’s things that you have to do before you can get to that.
“My coaches over the years said to me ‘you have to earn the right’.
“It’s probably an old saying in football but it’s still there. You have to earn the right to get the ball.
Gavin Plumb, who has given a life sentence in prison over a plot to kidnap, rape and murder TV presenter Holly Willoughby, is set to have his appeal bid heard in court next week
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Holly Willoughby has said Gavin Plumb’s plot has been ‘life changing’ for her
The man who was jailed over a plot to kidnap, rape and murder Holly Willoughby is set to be back in court later this month. Security guard Gavin Plumb, 38, was found guilty of soliciting murder and inciting rape and kidnap.
He was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 15 years and 85 days following a trial at Chelmsford Crown Court. Plumb, from Harlow, Essex is now set to have an appeal bid heard in court on October 21.
According to court listings, his case will be heard at the Court of Appeal in London. Court officials had previously said they received applications for permission to appeal against his convictions and the sentence.
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Judge Mr Justice Murray described some of the plans Plumb had discussed online as “particularly sadistic, brutal and degrading”. His plan was revealed after a US undercover cop infiltrated an online group.
He became so concerned about Plumb’s posts that he passed on evidence to the FBI. Police in the UK were contacted by US law enforcement.
Essex Police raided Plumb’s flat where they found bottles of chloroform and an “abduction kit” complete with cable ties. The court heard how Plumb had planned to “ambush” the former This Morning presenter at her family home.
Plumb had argued it was just an online chat and fantasy. Yet, it was dismissed by Mr Justice Murray, who said: “I have no doubt that this was all considerably more than a fantasy to you.”
The court heard how the sinister plan had a ‘life-changing’ impact on Holly, who bravely waived her right to anonymity. In a rare interview earlier this year, Holly courageously opened up on her experience stepping back from the spotlight following the ordeal.
She left This Morning in October 2023 after 14 years on the daytime show. At the time, she said she’d made the decision “for me and my family”.
Speaking about the harrowing ordeal, Holly said: “I wouldn’t wish what happened to me on anybody at all — sometimes things go wrong, but you have to keep going for it because that’s all you can do.
“You have to hold on to, ultimately, [how] all this serves its purpose. A lot of the change has been really good, you know? I’ve spent a long time not being able to take my kids to school,” she told The Sunday Times Style Magazine.
Following Plumb’s sentencing, Holly issued a statement where she praised the Crown Prosecution Service and those involved in convicting him. She said: “As women, we should not be made to feel unsafe going about our daily lives and in our own homes.
“I will forever be grateful to the undercover police officer who understood the imminent threat and to the Metropolitan and Essex police forces for their swift response.
“Thank you to the Crown Prosecution Service, the Rt Hon Mr Justice Murray, Alison Morgan KC, the members of the jury and all involved in this case for ensuring that justice was done and that the defendant will not be able to harm any more women.
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“I would also like to commend the bravery of his previous victims for speaking up at the time. Without their bravery, this conviction may not have been possible.”
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