Households to be 'clobbered' with council tax rises as councils face funding black hole

LITTLE Mix star Perrie Edwards has teased a solo release as she was seen screaming with excitement in the studio. The mother-of-one took to her Instagram with a series of snaps, showing her standing in a recording booth without her bandmates.

RYLAN Clark gave his fans the thumbs up in his first snap snice he was rushed to hospital with a mystery illness. The presenter, 33, updated his followers by sharing a photo from his home in Essex.

KATHERINE Ryan has already potty trained her son Fred, who is just eight months old. The 38-year-old boasted that she skipped the nappy stage almost completely, but admitted she was prepared for backlash over her method.

KATIE Price's daughter Princess made fans do a double take after she shared a snap with her lookalike mum. The 14-year-old looked the spitting image of her mum as she showed off her natural blonde curls in a recent snap.

Nothing can keep Arnold Schwarzenegger down, according to son Joseph Baena. The muscle-bound actor, who at just 24 years old is the youngest to ever grace the cover of Men’s Health, told Fox News Digital Schwarzenegger is "doing really well" after a frightening car accident last month that saw the "Terminator" star’s Yukon SUV roll over a Prius after striking a Porsche Cayenne in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. "My dad is always great.

I’M A Celebrity’s Roman Kemp grew close to Love Island star Maura Higgins at the Brit awards afterparty. Roman — 29-year-old son of Spandau Ballet star Martin — met the Irish beauty, 32, at the ceremony and headed off to singer Tom Grennan’s after party together with Roman’s Capital FM Breakfast Show co-hosts Sonny Jay, 28, and Siân Welby, 35.

NATALIE Imbruglia was named the winner of the Masked Singer this evening - sparking a fix row. The Australian star, 47, - famed for hits including Torn and Wrong Impression - beat off competition from Charlotte Church as Mushroom and Mark Feehily who was unmasked at Robobunny.

CHARLOTTE Church has been unmasked as Mushroom on The Masked Singer - coming second place. Fans of the ITV show have been convinced that the 35-year-old opera singer was behind the costume thanks to a series of clues. Fans of the show leaped on social media after the Welsh songstress was unmasked tonight.

WESTLIFE star Mark Feehily has been unmasked as Robobunny – coming in third place. Those watching the show at home, who had guessed it was the 41-year-old singer, were left furious by the reveal, insisting he has been robbed.

Juliette Binoche puts in another tremendous performance in Claire Denis’ drama Both Sides Of The Blade (aka Fire, and also aka Avec Amour Et Acharnement). The Berlin Film Festival competition title is an intimate slow-burner that sets a credible scene, but doesn’t quite deliver on the mystery it promises. 

EXCLUSIVE: NFL fans are going to see Colin Kaepernick at the Super Bowl tomorrow.

Guy Lodge Film Critic“Fire” begins in water: a wide, rippling expanse of Mediterranean blue under a cloudless sky, displaced and disrupted by two whirling human bodies. Sara (Juliette Binoche) and Jean (Vincent Lindon) tussle in the otherwise empty ocean as though they’ve just discovered weightlessness, while Eric Gautier’s camera lingers on skin touching skin under the shimmer.

BBC show for "dumbing down" questions for the celebrity contestants.Romesh, 43, who took over from former host Anne Robinson, was joined by seven famous faces including Loose Women star Kaye Adams, Countryfile host Sean Fletcher and Homes Under the Hammer star Martel Maxwell in a bid to win some money for their chosen charity.As viewers tuned into to the BBC quiz show, fans blasted the series of “pi** easy” questions served up to delighted contestants, with some claiming even their five-year-old could answer them.Some of the easy questions heard on the show included: “Valentine’s Day is celebrated on the 14th of which month”, "how much is the cost of plastic bag in the UK”, and “the prime minister lives at which street address in London”.One angry fan wrote: “Not being funny but my five-year-old could answer these questions!”A second agreed: “Them pi** easy questions didn't really require that much intelligence tbf,” while a third added: “Some of these questions!! Too Easy!”Loose Women star Linda Robson was the first to be voted off after screwing up a question about the Great British Sewing Bee.Following shortly after was Sean Fletcher, with presenter Martel and comedian Ed Gamble making it to the final round.After Martel answered two questions wrong in the final round, including one about someone's Achilles heel - to which she mistakenly answered “Hercules heel” – Ed was crowned the winner bagging £9.5k for his charity that supports research into Type 1 diabetes.“Seriously, these questions on the new Weakest Link are pathetically easy,” a fan added, as some believed host Romesh was “too nice” in comparison to his predecessor.“Anne Robinson wouldn’t have all this ‘we love you’ shi*e ,” blasted one viewer.While another

Valentine’s Day with the ghost of her dead husband. The TV medium revealed hubby John’s spirit has been communicating with her from “the other side” since his death four months ago.She says she speaks with him every day, and she has seen his ghost. The ex-Celebrity Big Brother star says their cat Marmalade has too – and their bulldog Nell barks when he is there.

Singer Natalie Imbruglia was crowned the winner of The Masked Singer UK after she was unveiled as Panda on the hit ITV show. The Australian-British songwriter and actress, who has hits including Torn, Shiver and Wrong Impression, floored Mo Gilligan, Rita Ora, Jonathan Ross, Davina McCall and guest judge Joss Stone during the final on Saturday 12 February.

She celebrated her 31st birthday with her aunt Julia Roberts the day before.And Emma Roberts appeared to have drawn out the celebration when she went out with friends on Friday night to the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood.The blond beauty was seen out in public for the first time since she split from her partner Garrett Hedlund in January. On the town: Emma Roberts, 31, continued her birthday celebrations on Friday night by joining friends at the Sunset Tower in West Hollywood.

bodybuilder after undergoing some major lifestyle changes and losing 48kg of fat. When Richard Smith, 38, was in his late 20s, he struggled to walk up the stairs without taking a break. Richard, from Neath in Wales, was labelled as “clinically obese” and suffered from daily debilitating headaches and chronic fatigue, Wales Online reports.

Rapper Kodak Black has been identified as one of the three people who were shot while attending Justin Bieber‘s afterparty in Los Angeles on Friday night.

Tyson Fury has vowed to chin Jimmy Carr in response to the comedian's recent controversial joke about gypsies and the Holocaust.The self-proclaimed Gypsy King boxer said if Carr was man enough to make offensive jokes, then he is “man enough to get punished for it” when asked his opinion on the current furore.Tyson, 33, said: "Jimmy you are getting chinned when I see you. Last time I saw you, you had enough to say on the Mo Gilligan show – so this time you’re getting chinned, mush."Carr, 49, has come under fire in recent weeks after his stand-up show hit headlines for crude jokes.The comedian joked that gypsy deaths in the Holocaust are "not talked" about because they were a "positive" in his new Netflix show, His Dark Materials.Charities and anti-hate groups have lined up to condemn the joke and have urged Netflix to cut it from the show.While Fury admitted that Carr needed to "pay the consequences", he said it would be silly for him to be "kicked off TV" as a result."I don’t get involved with jumping on board a ship that is sinking.

stormy weather, a waste company boss has warned.An empty one can weigh the same as a bowling ball and cause “chaos and destruction” during gales.They can also cause thousands of pounds of damage to property. Mark Hall, of waste collection firm Divert.co.uk, said: “We’ve all seen videos of bins being blown down the street during storms.

Lorry drivers face being stuck in Britain over Christmas after a Tory minister admitted they will take “a few days” to get home.