Girl, 15, shoots herself dead with a machine gun while recording TikTok video

After just three months on the cobbles Rebecca Ryan has bowed out of Coronation Street as Lydia Chambers.

Everyone’s favourite gossip period drama is back this weekend, and we can’t wait to see what Lady Whistledown gets up to in the second season of the Netflix hit Bridgerton. With season two launching on the streaming service today, March 25, we’re excited for the extravagant hair ups, period decor, regency fashion and pop songs reimagined to classical violin music.

More than 250 homes in Bolton have been without electricity since yesterday, with engineers battling to restore their supply.

A man has spoken out after being fined £150 for feeding ducks in his local area. James Watson, 68, received a fixed penalty notice from a member of the Kingdom enforcement team on March 12 at 9.53am for "throwing bird food on the ground and walking away".

A motorcyclist has been taken to hospital with a 'severe head injury' after a crash in Trafford.

NICOLAS Cage looked totally unrecognizable with pale skin and purple lips as Dracula on the set of his new vampire movie. The 58-year-old actor is currently filming Renfield, a vampire movie that is set to come out next year.

GOOD Morning Britain viewers were in tears today as Chris Kamara opened up about his battle with apraxia of speech. The 64-year-old bravely spoke of how the condition, which is caused by his underactive thyroid, is affecting his ability to talk.

JESY Nelson showed off her amazing figure as she soaked up the sun in LA yesterday. The singer, 30, wowed wearing a hot pink bikini while lounging at her incredible pad in the city.

THE Chase viewers were left swooning over a "hot" contestant with a shock link to The Apprentice's Lord Alan Sugar. Host Bradley Walsh, 61, welcomed four more hopefuls to the show in a bid to beat the Chaser and take home the cash prize.

HE has a reputation for pushing his Strictly dance partners to the brink because of his fierce competitiveness - causing fiery rows backstage. But Brendan Cole, 45, insists this bad boy image was manipulated by BBC bosses - who only showed one side of him for 15 years.

Danny Walters cosied up to his girlfriend as he stepped out for a star-studded event in London.The former EastEnders actor and his partner, Maddi Faircloth, attended the opening night of Wicked at the Apollo Theatre on Thursday 24 March. The 28-year-old turned out in a smart casual look with a black shirt and dark faded jeans which he paired with brown boots to watch the new cast members take to the stage in the long-running show.

THIS weekend’s Oscars are in crisis — with half of the Best Picture films battling Covid scares. Nominees have dubbed the panic “swab sweat” — as they nervously await two mandatory PCR tests 48 hours ahead of Sunday’s ceremony.

ONE is a ballroom champ who seemed destined to win Dancing On Ice, the other a novice who shook more than his trademark maracas. But former Strictly professional Brendan Cole, who has made it to this weekend’s final of the ITV contest, reckons hapless Bez was one of his greatest rivals.

BRIDGERTON fans are all in an uproar over one final detail after the second season finally launched on Netflix. The debut season of Netflix's Regency-era bonkbuster was packed full of steamy action, with many left wondering if the second instalment will follow the same suit.

SHE is gearing up to welcome her first child, but that doesn’t stop Chloe Madeley from being a daddy’s girl. The 34-year-old fitness fanatic, who is 21 weeks pregnant, was spotted saying goodbye to her dad Richard yesterday with a peck on the lips after an al fresco lunch.

A PLACE In The Sun host Danni Menzies has revealed that she is now single after splitting with her boyfriend earlier this week. The property expert, who shot to fame on the Channel 4 property show, said she called it quits with her partner and admitted she was feeling "s***".

CORONATION Street fans are convinced they spotted a touching tribute in Monday's instalment of the show. Viewers of the long-running soap are wondering if Ukraine was in the thoughts of ITV bosses.

Viral TikTok babysitter Delaney Renee’s incredible “American Idol” audition aired on the season 20 premiere Sunday.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTikTok is again cranking up the maximum length of videos users can upload to the platform — more than tripling it, to 10 minutes.TikTok, owned by Chinese internet conglomerate ByteDance, is moving to let creators make longer-form videos as rivals like YouTube, Facebook and Instagram have aggressively built out their own TikTok-like short-form video features.TikTok’s expansion to allow up to 10-minute videos comes less than a year after it raised the maximum length of videos to three minutes in July 2021 (up from 60 seconds before).One of the reasons TikTok has become massively popular — with more than 1 billion monthly active users — is that it provides an auto-generated feed of entertaining, bite-size short videos of under a minute, algorithmically tailored to users’ interests. It’s not clear how many TikTokers will take advantage of the longer-form videos but the change clearly shows that the company is eager to facilitate ways to keep viewers in the app for longer periods of time.

TikTok has made a big change, beginning today.

A 15-year-old girl died after accidentally shooting herself with a submachine gun while recording a video for TikTok.