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Former BBC Radio 1 and Capital Xtra DJ Tim Westwood has pleaded not guilty to charges of rape, sexual assault and indecent assault at a court hearing in London.The 68-year-old is charged with four counts of rape, nine counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault. The charges relate to seven women, some as young as 17 years old, with the allegations spanning 1983 to 2016.Three of the accounts of indecent assault are alleged to have taken place in BBC studios in 1996. Mr Westwood hosted shows on Radio 1 between 1994 and 2013.He appeared at Southwark Crown…

Lynette HorsburghNorth WestPA MediaJoey Barton has been ordered to do 200 hours of unpaid work in the community and pay more than £20,000 in costsFormer footballer Joey Barton has been handed a suspended sentence for social media posts about broadcaster Jeremy Vine and TV football pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko.Barton, 43, was found guilty by a jury at Liverpool Crown Court of sending grossly offensive electronic communications with intent to cause distress or anxiety.The trial heard he had “crossed the line between free speech and a crime” with six posts on X including comparing Aluko and Ward to serial…

Even if you’re a private person, consider sharing with the front desk, your travel agent, the airline’s gate agent, or the restaurant maître d that it’s your honeymoon. Doing so might give you the best room, seat, or table. Everyone loves to see a couple in love, and that includes those who work in the hospitality business—they live for opportunities to make a trip seem even more special, particularly on a honeymoon. If you use an online reservation system for a restaurant, for example, there is a notes field where you can declare the special occasion. It’s not like you have…

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.Welcome to ZDNET’s Best of 2025 awards, our annual ceremony of the year’s top-performing gadgets and gizmos, from 100-inch TVs to smart rings to AI chatbots that help you get more done.Over the last 12 months, our team has unboxed, benchmarked, dropped, submerged, and doom-scrolled on hundreds of devices. We have worn dozens of smart glasses in an attempt to understand the next frontier of mobile technology — while making face-worn geekery cool again. We have tested enough noise-canceling headphones to block out the sound of a jet engine (and, occasionally, our own…

Felicity Jones didn’t realize she wanted to play a moon. “People really underestimate fun,” begins the Oscar-nominated actress, whose upcoming performance in Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights of Hero is a whimsical and joyous departure from her recent portrayals on screen (see: The Brutalist and Train Dreams). “The most powerful stories are often the most entertaining,” she continues. “Julia has managed to do that amazing trick of combining those things, which is a very, very difficult thing to pull off.” Ahead of this past Friday’s release of Jackman’s sophomore feature film, the director and her stars Felicity Jones and Maika Monroe…

Emily KeoghDec 8, 2025, 05:57 AM ETCloseBased in London, Emily Keogh is ESPN’s women’s soccer correspondent, specializing in the WSL and UWCLYou would have been forgiven for thinking Everton had won the Women’s Super League (WSL) with the emphatic way they celebrated their 1-0 win over Chelsea at full-time on Sunday. They obviously didn’t, but they did do something no other team has managed in 34 WSL games: beat Chelsea.The narrow win, courtesy of Honoka Hayashi’s effort in the 12th minute, broke an historic unbeaten run that stretched back to Chelsea’s 4-3 defeat to Liverpool on May 1, 2024, while…

QUICK FACTSName: Ash PendantWhat it is: A silver pendant with a female figureWhere it is from: Aska hamlet, in southern SwedenWhen it was made: Circa 800 to 975This round, silver pendant was found in a 10th-century elite woman’s burial in Sweden in 1920 and is the only known depiction of a pregnant Viking.The artifact, known as the Ash Pendant, is in the collection of the Swedish History Museum. It is about 1.5 inches (4 centimeters) in diameter and made out of gilded silver. A ring partially encloses a female figure, who stands with her legs spread and hands clasped under…

The sequel is more of the first game, but with smart updates that make everything flow smoother. It’s one of my favorite games of the year, and I highly recommend it to any fan of tactical card games. Deadzone Rogue Deadzone Rogue instantly joins the pantheon of roguelite first-person looter shooters, which includes perennial favorites Gunfire Reborn and Roboquest (I haven’t played them yet, but the brand-new Abyssus and Void/Breaker are also generating a bunch of buzz). Where Roboquest excels at fun, Doom-like movement and colorful environments, Deadzone Rogue is all about the shooting. The game has the best gunplay…

Teenagers as young as 15 are seeking help after receiving botched Botox treatment and fillers, a charity has said.Advice Direct Scotland (ADS) says it wants tighter restrictions on cosmetic procedures after receiving hundreds of complaints about procedures.The Scottish government has proposed legislation to make non-surgical treatments illegal for under-18s and require procedures to be carried out in approved premises.ADS, which runs the website consumeradvice.scot, told MSPs examining the proposals that it had seen 430 problem cases in the last two years which left customers £192,000 out of pocket.The charity’s submission to Holyrood’s Health, Social Care and Sport Committee stated: “We…

Though Ethan Hawke was just a teenager during the filming of “Dead Poets Society,” he recognized that Robin Williams — who played inspiring English teacher John Keating in Peter Weir’s 1989 classic — was struggling. When asked in an interview on “CBS Sunday Morning” if he’s been able to watch the film after Williams’ 2014 suicide amid his battle with Lewy body dementia, Hawke said that “does not fundamentally change the way I watch the movie.” “Even at 18, I was aware of the complexity of his emotional life,” Hawke continued. “I’ve had a lot of depression in my family,…