Christmas Eve: Last News

Fancy ringing in the new year with a family getaway? Butlin's might be just the ticket, offering last-minute deals and a 10% discount on festive breaks. However, this offer won't stick around forever—it's for a limited time only.

The latest Met Office weather map for this weekend shows huge parts of northern England covered by snow showers - just days before Christmas Day.

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If you've attempted the joy of a supermarket car park in recent days, you'll know the Christmas dash is in full swing. However, there are plenty of people who need to pop to the shops for everything from another bottle of booze to a last-minute turkey or a present for that relative you forgot was turning up. However, the supermarkets are not necessarily going to be open at the times you're used to with the three most popular - Sainsbury's, Tesco and Asda - all cutting down their hours in many of their stores in the days before and after Christmas.Though in common with most UK retailers there will be nothing at all sold on the big day itself to give staff the day off.

Kim Kardashian is enjoying a night out with friends!

Emmerdale viewers are convinced that the identity of Peter's enigmatic boss has been 'unveiled' - and it's neither Joe nor Jamie Tate.

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran writer-producers John Hoberg and Kat Likkel (Elemental) have signed to write Alloy Entertainment‘s animated feature Christmas Forever, based on Penguin/Random House children’s book of the same name by Elysa Koplovitz Dutton.

Netflix fans are reacting online to new holiday thriller released last week which has raced to the number one spot on the streaming platform.

Carry-On is a Christmas treat for many Netflix viewers this month, but will there be a sequel? Read all we know so far below.The film is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (The Shallows, Black Adam) and stars Taron Egerton (Rocketman, Kingsman) as Ethan Kopek, a young airport security officer who is blackmailed into letting a nerve agent onboard a flight during Christmas Eve.Jason Bateman, Danielle Deadwyler and Logan Marshall-Green co-star in the film, which was released onto Netflix on December 13.The film was first announced in 2021 as part of a deal between Netflix and Amblin and has been written by T.J. Fixman, a former video game writer, with a budget of $47million (£37million).The film currently sits on an impressive 84 per cent critics score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with a lower audience rating of 59 per cent.While there has been no official word on whether there will be a second film in the Carry-On universe, many fans have speculated that it could be a real possibility given the nature of the premise.Some have pointed to the success of the Die Hard sequels as a suggestion of how well further Carry-On films could work, and Egerton himself has said he thinks it has potential.Speaking on the Today show in the US, the actor said: “It’s kind of like an extraordinary set of circumstances, so I think it would need a really innovative, creative idea to feel like a worthy idea for a sequel.

Drivers have been urged not to travel on major routes at certain times this weekend to avoid the worst Christmas holiday traffic.

Many of us have been swatting up on recipes ahead of Christmas Day.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recently confirmed changes to State Pensions and benefits over Christmas and New Year for people whose scheduled payment dates fall on certain days. The announcement also confirms that people in Scotland-only will receive payments earlier due to the January 2nd bank holiday.

Netflix‘s holiday thriller, Carry On, debut this weekend on the streaming service, and it quickly became the number 1 movie of the past few days!

Ulrika Jonsson has shared that she'll be spending Christmas alone this year.The 57 year old Swedish-British TV legend confessed that 2024 has been "a year of massive change" for her. She bravely opened up about her struggles with alcohol, revealing that there were times when she would drink until she blacked out.

As ever, it is an action-packed schedule that greets the royals who arrive at Sandringham to celebrate Christmas with King Charles and his wife, Queen Camilla.The monarch may have updated things somewhat since his rein began, but little has changed since the late Queen Elizabeth’s time as host, when there was a strictly adhered-to 72-hour festive timetable handed out by the Master of the Household. In it, guests would read detailed instructions on when they should wake up, gather for drinks, eat meals and even go to bed.

Pop star Katy Perry has revealed her special Christmas tradition with Orlando Bloom, which includes Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.

Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman are locked in a tense cat-and-mouse chase in action thriller Carry-On.Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (The Shallows), the Netflix film follows young TSA officer Ethan Kopek who is blackmailed by a mysterious man into letting a dangerous package aboard a flight on Christmas Eve.Other cast members include Logan Marshall-Green, Sofia Carson, Danielle Deadwyler, Theo Rossi, Dean Norris, Sinqua Walls, Josh Brener and Curtiss Cook.After sneaking onto the flight through the cargo hold, Ethan manages to defuse the deadly nerve toxin bomb – albeit not without alerting the traveller (Jason Bateman) above.Following a scuffle with the traveller, Ethan, who has already secretly removed one of the nerve toxin cylinders, manages to shove him inside a vacuum-sealed fridge with the toxin. The traveller accidentally smashes open the cylinder letting out the Novichok nerve agent, which kills him in gruesome fashion.After the plane has landed safely, a flash-forward to a year later shows Ethan and his girlfriend Nora now have a baby together.

Keira Knightley‘s new Netflix series Black Doves is a huge hit, and it’s one of those rare cases where we didn’t have to wait for a renewal notice.

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers from “Black Doves” Season 1, now streaming on Netflix. “Black Doves,” Keira Knightley’s first television series in more than two decades, has already proved a massive success for Netflix, which, knowing it had a hit, had ordered a second season from Knightley and creator/showrunner Joe Barton before the show even premiered. Over the course of six episodes, viewers have been entranced by Helen (Knightley) as she balances her competing roles: elegant wife of Wallace (Andrew Buchan), the Minister of Defence, doting mother of twins, supportive friend to semi-alcoholic assassin Sam (Ben Whishaw), passionate affair partner to her lover Jason (Andrew Koji) and ruthless spy for a mercenary organization called the Black Doves. After Jason is mysteriously murdered, Helen is hellbent on revenge before realizing she has stumbled into a global conspiracy that could possibly result in World War III, and pits her against the Black Doves and its brusque, cold-blooded leader, Mrs.

Four major supermarkets have announced they are cutting the price of Christmas vegetables in the run-up to the big day.

Love Actually might have been one of the films that helped Keira Knightley break through, but she’s revealed that it’s not in her movie rotation over the Christmas period.The star, who most recently played undercover assassin Helen Webb in the Netflix spy thriller series Black Doves, revealed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that she’s never seen the holiday classic since its premiere.On Monday (December 9), Fallon mentioned that she was one of the stars of the Richard Curtis-directed movie, which he described as “one of the greatest holiday films of all time,” and asked her if she ever watches it during the holiday season.“No,” she replied. “I saw it on the premiere when I was 18, and I’ve never seen it since.”She continued: “This is nothing about Love Actually – I don’t really watch anything I do.