North Lanarkshire Council to make £15,000 donation to Pakistan floods fund

CHARLOTTE Crosby has revealed her baby girl has a £790 Hermes baby blanket. The Geordie Shore star gave a glimpse of the pricey Avalon blanket on Instagram with the beige and cream item draped over the side of a gifted cot. Charlotte said the nursery is close to completion although there's no rush as the tot is staying in her and boyfriend Jake's room for the foreseeable future.

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The UK's most squeezed households are seeing the price they have to pay for some of the cheapest food in the supermarket soaring by nearly two thirds, new data has revealed.

Tory toff Jacob Rees-Mogg has quit government after conceding he would not get a job in Rishi Sunak's Cabinet, despite recanting his claim the new Prime Minister was a "socialist".

An East Kilbride man caught with cocaine worth £7000 narrowly avoided a jail sentence this week.

Michael Smith is looking for Hearts to get their season back on track when they host RFS in the Europa Conference League on Thursday.

A little girl brought Strictly judge Shirley Ballas to tears at the Pride of Britain Awards.

Chris Moyles has been confirmed as the first contestant taking part in I'm A Celebrity 2022 after he landed at Brisbane airport and said "it should be nice" in the jungle.

Adidas is the latest of Ye’s big-name partnerships to end its business relationship with the hip-hop star after he made repeated antisemitic comments and espoused disproven conspiracy theories last week. The company faced calls from all quarters yesterday to drop the former Kanye West from its list of partners.

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Strictly Come Dancing contestant Tony Adams had already been amusing fans since the moment of his Full Monty performance, when he strutted on the stage topless in just a pair of red sequin shorts.The routine had been branded "entertaining" rather than technically competent by Shirley Ballas, but that didn't change the fact that the former footballer has his fans' full support as he grapples with his moves - and some were in stitches when he posted his latest dance mishap. "I'm not sure how @craigrevel and @shirleyballas would have marked this from rehearsals!" Tony joked to his 157,000 Instagram followers as he shared a snippet from his routine."Come ON, I clearly nailed the New Yorker," he reasoned with fans, before Katya laughingly corrected that it was called "the New York"."Kat does her best to replace the @mattgoss bum slap in her own inimitable style: What a Saturday!" Tony exclaimed, referring to the part of their act when pro dancer Katya Jones stood behind him and rhythmically slapped his bottom several times.He added in explanation of the blunder: "[She] tells me I went off too quick - so excited to channel my inner Des Lynam and David Coleman!"Thanking fans for their "love and support", he concluded: "Really so thrilled to still be in this extraordinary show: bring on spoooooky times and halloween." (sic)@sherriesilver laughed: "This bum of yours has gone through a lot! Slapped every week!"@harrysurplus excused the moment when Tony fell down with his legs in the air, and assured him the judges would have loved his performance, quipping: "I’m sure it would have been 10s all round Tony."However, @jjwooley argued: "I thought they were harsh this week and the full Monty week - talked all about the comedy yet you

She began: “We were shooting billboard posters for this Body Stories campaign.“First I was looking at Kaye Adams, who has the legs of an 18 year old.“Then we all started looking over at Frankie Bridge saying, ‘I ain’t standing next to her’ and I said, ‘I don’t mean to be rude Frankie, but there’s no way I’m being photographed next to you’.”Linda continued: “I felt like a big Oompa Loompa and so much more self-conscious about my body, particularly my veiny legs, than I had the first time we’d shot the Body Stories campaign, before Frankie joined the show.“I’m not normally a vain person and apart from plucking my eyebrows and chin hairs I’ve not had anything done, but after the show I thought, ‘If you can make yourself feel a little bit better about yourself, then why not?” Linda added to Mirror.co.uk.Linda previously opened up about her struggles with her weight and how her mum would make harsh comments whenever she'd gained weight.Discussing the topic with her Loose Women colleagues earlier this month, Linda claimed her mum gave her “complexes”.She explained to Kaye Adams, Dame Kelly Holmes and Judi Love that the remarks were meant in a light-hearted way.She revealed: "My mum gave me a few complexes but she didn't mean to, she was like Irish, old fashioned and that."Linda continued: "If I put on a bit of weight she'd go, 'Oh the salad bar is over there'.""She used to go to me 'Oh your face looked lovely on telly today, but your neck...', [then Linda would say] 'It's the only one I've got mum!'."I'd start wearing scarves and used to wear them all the time to cut it [neck] up.She added: "I'd then stand in the mirror and go 'Oh it would look so nice.'"To which Kaye Adams agreed: "We all do that, let's be honest."Linda then

Ben Brown, 62, sparked a mixture of hilarity and concern yesterday after announcing that he had gotten stuck in a BBC lift.The BBC presenter was eventually rescued after several hours of amusing tweets. Ben took to Twitter yesterday evening to share that, just moments after announcing the new prime minister, Rishi Sunak, live on-air to the nation, he soon ended up being stuck in the work lift for several hours. Sharing a picture of himself inside the lift, the BBC newsreader told his 11,000 Twitter followers: “Strange day - anchored live coverage of the announcement of new Prime Minister - and am currently stuck in a BBC lift trying to get home. Help!" (sic)Twitter user Rowan penned: "This seems to be a regular occurrence!""I know! At least I’m not due back on air until the morning,” Ben replied.However, it soon became apparent that help was taking longer than anticipated, with Ben revealing that he was still in the lift three hours later.He shared: "One hour and counting stuck in this BBC lift - I’ve been promised rescue teams are on the way but no sign of them yet."Not long after his initial tweet, Ben wrote: "Good news: a lift engineer is on the way.

AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson has spoken about the “despair” he felt when he was forced to leave the band’s 2016 tour due to hearing issues. In his new memoir, ‘The Lives Of Brian’, he says that he was unable to watch Axl Rose stand in for him on the remaining tour dates and, at the time, he “wouldn’t have minded” that much if he had died.Johnson was forced to step down from the 2016 tour after doctors told him that he risked losing his hearing entirely if he continued to perform. When that was announced, he said in a statement that he was hoping that medical treatment would eventually allow him to return to playing live and that while “the outcome is uncertain … my attitude is optimistic”.

An increasing number of Kanye West’s business partners in the music, fashion and wider entertainment industries are cutting their ties with the rapper following his recent spate of controversial statements.West has been widely criticised for recent comments he has made in interviews and on social media, including remarks about the death of George Floyd and various anti-semitic statements. Campaigners and politicians have also expressed concern that those latter statements in particular have been embraced by and are therefore empowering extreme right wing groups.Within the entertainment industry, talent agency CAA has seemingly cut its ties with West, while rival agencies UTA and WME have both also criticised the rapper.And on the recordings side, Universal Music has reportedly sought to distance itself from West and his Good Music label, which it previously distributed via its Def Jam division.

DEALSYoungBoy Never Broke Again has signed a new record deal with Universal Music’s Motown, according to Billboard. He moves over from Warner Music’s Atlantic label.

Having Ed Sheeran co-write a song with you is obviously a great honour. Huge. What a treat that would be.

Jack Garratt is back with his first new music since 2020 album ‘Love, Death & Dancing’. Having tapped into some electronic influences on that earlier record, he’s now leaning fully into dance music on new single ‘Just How I Like It’, aided by a new record deal with Skint.“‘Just How I Like It’ is a song about release and reclamation”, says Garratt. “I wrote it in the summer of 2021, when I wasn’t sure what to do with all the music I’d written over lockdown, as it was all pretty depressing.

Apprentices from across North Lanarkshire are learning a range of trade skills with the council’s strategic housing and repairs partner Mears Scotland.