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Baftas 2026: the red carpet, the ceremony, the winners – follow live!

Eyes and teeth darlings, it’s the biggest night of the year in British cinema – here’s a minute-by-minute update of all the gowns, gossip and glitz of the night

The Hamnet star Jessie Buckley, who is hotly tipped to win best leading actress at this evening’s ceremony, has just arrived and is wearing a striking blue velvet dress. The Irish actor recently started working with the Hollywood stylist Danielle Goldberg. Goldberg also works with Ayo Edebiri and Greta Lee, and over the past couple of months she has been honing Buckley’s red carpet approach. They have been sticking to a pared-back colour palette, including black-and-white looks from McQueen and Valentino. This evening’s marine blue look is a surprise, but we do love a celebrity who keeps us on our toes.

On the red carpet, Glenn Close is telling Dazed magazine that the line “I’m not going to be ignored, Dan” from her role in Fatal Attraction is still stuck in her head. Close, who is presenting an award later, definitely isn’t being overlooked in this beautiful black coat with shimmering silver embroidery detailing. The 78-year-old has hot-footed it from the Erdem show at London fashion week, where she sat front row next to Helen Mirren.

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Tottenham v Arsenal: Premier League – live

⚽ Premier League updates from the 4.30pm GMT kick-off
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It was quite the finish at the City Ground:

“Vitor Pereira’s just been sacked...” chortles Dave Estherby.

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Three dead and four injured after County Armagh multi-car collision

Condolences given to families of two men and 23-year-old woman killed near Moy on Saturday night

Three people died and four others were injured in a multi-car collision in County Armagh on Saturday night.

Emergency services dispatched three rapid response paramedics, seven emergency crews and one hazardous area response team after the Armagh Road crash was reported near Moy, in south-east County Tyrone.

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Mac Allister’s last-gasp winner gives Liverpool points at Nottingham Forest

As this game ticked into the 97th minute, Liverpool snatched victory as Alexis Mac Allister feasted on a loose ball in the Nottingham Forest penalty area. Just before stoppage time, Arne Slot was apoplectic as Mac Allister saw an effort disallowed for handball, though in reality the Forest defender Ola Aina had smashed his clearance into the Liverpool midfielder’s back and it flew in past Stefan Ortega, who initially saved Hugo Ekitiké’s header. Mac Allister’s goal flattened Forest in Vítor Pereira’s first league game in charge and got Liverpool out of jail.

Slot’s side were abysmal in the first half, registering two shots, one of which was blocked and the other off target, while they had just three touches in the opposition box. Mac Allister ultimately made his count at the death as Liverpool moved level with Chelsea, who were held on Saturday, and Manchester United, who are not in action until Monday’s trip to Everton. Liverpool were stodgy for long periods but did improve and at the end they snaffled a precious three points.

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USA stun Canada in overtime to win first Olympic men’s ice hockey gold since 1980

  • US win third Olympic gold, first since Miracle on Ice

  • Jack Hughes’ golden goal ends 46-year wait in Milan

The United States claimed their third Olympic men’s hockey title – and first since the Miracle on Ice team of 1980 – with a thrilling 2-1 overtime win over Canada in Sunday’s gold medal game at the Milano Cortina Games. In the third Olympic final meeting between the border rivals and the first since Sidney Crosby’s epochal golden goal in 2010, the Americans seized their moment to end a 46-year wait and dethrone the sport’s most decorated nation on its grandest stage.

Canada had been chasing a record-extending 10th gold medal in men’s ice hockey, but it was the United States who delivered when it mattered most through Jack Hughes’ winner less than two minutes into the extra period and a superhuman effort from goaltender Connor Hellebuyck, capping an unbeaten run through the first Olympic tournament to feature National Hockey League players in 12 years.

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Russia fires scores of missiles at Ukraine as Hungary threatens to block EU sanctions

‘Moscow continues to invest in strikes more than diplomacy,’ says Zelenskyy, as logistics and energy facilities targeted

Russia has fired scores of missiles and drones at targets across Ukraine, flattening a residential house in the capital, two days before the fourth anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Kremlin had launched 297 drones and nearly 50 missiles on Sunday, in the latest in a wave of overnight strikes. He said “a significant proportion” had been shot down as he called on allies to strengthen the country’s air defences against enemy attacks.

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Sacconi Quartet review – new Freya Waley-Cohen work reveals ensemble at their finest

Wigmore Hall, London
Marking 25 years since their formation, Dances, Songs & Hymns for Friendship was informed by the composer’s observations of the four musicians in and out of rehearsal

Founded at the Royal College of Music in 2001, the Sacconi Quartet celebrated their silver jubilee by looking forward as well as back. If Haydn and Beethoven represented the bedrock upon which their musical sensibilities were grounded, it was a newly commissioned work by Freya Waley-Cohen that revealed them at their finest.

Impeccably crafted and full of rhythmic and harmonic invention, Dances, Songs & Hymns for Friendship is a six-movement string quartet informed by the composer’s observations of the four musicians both in and out of rehearsal – she even watched them making tea! It opened with Spin, in which bold unison passages dissolved into fragmentary solos. Waley-Cohen’s musical fingerprints here were spicy, but rarely ventured beyond a world that Bartók, for example, would have recognised. It suited the Sacconi’s tightness of ensemble and muscular tone, especially in the lower instruments.

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Inquiry into Andrew’s Epstein links not ruled out as police searches continue

Calls mount for Mountbatten-Windsor to be dropped from royal line of succession

Police searches of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s former home on the Windsor estate continued on Sunday as a government minister did not rule out having a judge-led inquiry into the former prince’s links with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, representing the government, did not rule out such an inquiry but said it was premature because of the police investigation.

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Tributes paid to two young men who died on Eryri mountains hike

Eddie Hill, 20, and Jayden Long, 19, found dead on Yr Wyddfa in north Wales after a huge search operation

Tributes have been paid to two young men who died on a hiking expedition on Yr Wyddfa, also known as Snowdon, in north Wales.

Eddie Hill, 20, and Jayden Long, 19, both from Norfolk, were found dead in Eryri national park on Thursday after a huge search operation in severe winter conditions.

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Lib Dems call on home secretary to delay new dual national border rules

Letter to Shabana Mahmood describes controls that could block British dual citizens’ entry to UK as ‘unacceptable’

The Liberal Democrats have called on the home secretary to “move at speed” to delay the rollout of new border controls that could result in British dual nationals being blocked from entering the country.

A letter sent by the party to Shabana Mahmood echoes one sent by the former Conservative cabinet minister David Davis on Friday asking for a grace period to be implemented urgently after one of his constituents living in the Netherlands told how she could no longer visit her dying mother in a care home in Yorkshire.

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My fortnight in a posture corrector: can this simple device help reduce back pain?

These harnesses are increasingly popular, but experts are divided on how useful they are. I decided to give one a try

When I sat at my desk this morning, I couldn’t slouch over the keyboard like I usually do. As much as I tried to hunch over, my back was held straight, shoulders pulled back. My trick? I was wearing a corset-like device with straps over my shoulders that forced me into an upright position.

Posture correctors claim to provide instant improvement in posture and relieve the back, shoulder and chest pain often associated with poor posture, if worn long term. The one I have on, Vicorrect (£29.99), is one of many on the market – Lidl’s budget posture trainer (£7.99) is now sold out; Taylor Swift has been spotted wearing a sports-bra version by Forme (£140).

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Lamborghini pulls plug on plans to launch all-electric supercar

Company will shift focus to hybrids, citing drop-off in EV demand among sports car lovers who ‘miss the noise’

The Italian supercar manufacturer Lamborghini has abandoned plans to make all-electric vehicles, and will instead focus on making plug-in hybrid cars, after a drop-off in demand for EVs among its wealthy clientele.

Lamborghini unveiled its first all-electric concept car, the Lanzador, in 2023, but it is no longer planning to put it into production.

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China’s Eileen Gu soars to ski halfpipe gold as Zoe Atkin claims GB’s fifth medal of Games

  • Gu and Li Fanghui take Winter Olympic gold and silver

  • Zoe Atkin’s bronze matches that of sister Izzy in 2018

Zoe Atkin won women’s freestyle skiing halfpipe bronze to claim Great Britain’s fifth medal of their record-breaking Winter Olympics as China’s Eileen Gu soared to win her first gold of the Games.

Atkin qualified for the final in first place and led after the first run, in which the single best score from three runs counts in the standings.

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Nottingham Forest v Liverpool: Premier League – live

⚽ Premier League updates from the 2pm GMT kick-off
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Eric Peterson gets in touch: “I wouldn’t mind Wayne Rooney pulling on an old Everton kit and getting on some podcast to remind Arne Slot, “Easy there, sport. You say that the only thing you and Jurgen Klopp have in common is that you both won the league. That’s not true. You both won the league with Jurgen’s team. Whether you can build a champion of your own is a different question.”

Arne Slot just spoke to Sky, starting with Dominik Szoboszlai at full-back: “He needs to be because that’s what we need. We have our issues, especially in defence. Missing our 2 fullbacks, but Dominic has done that job really well. Last week, Curtis Jones, did his job really well. So that’s the good thing about midfielders, they are usually able to play in more positions than only in the midfields.

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Secret Service shot and killed armed man who breached Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence

Authorities say agents confronted a white male, who has not been identified, carrying shotgun and gasoline can

The US Secret Service shot and killed an armed intruder who breached the perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Florida residence and private club in Palm Beach, early on Sunday.

Although the US president often spends weekends at the oceanfront resort, he was at the White House in Washington during this incident, as was first lady Melania Trump.

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Chelsea v Manchester United: Women’s FA Cup fifth round – as it happened

Girma’s extra time winner against Manchester United sends Chelsea through to the FA Cup quarter-finals

5 min: Lauren James progresses with the ball before slipping in Thompson. Thompson plays it on to Johanna Rytting Kaneryd but she can’t get a shot away.

4 min: Chelsea are dominating possession in the opening stages.

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Winter Olympics men’s ice hockey final: Canada v USA – live

Away we go …

What else has happened at the Games today? And what were some of the highlights of the past two weeks and change? Check our multisport coverage:

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France v Italy: Six Nations rugby union – live

Updates from 3.10pm kickoff (GMT) in Lille.
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Bad news for the mercurial 10.

Although it’s hardly a downgrade as Ramos, who has found himself at first receiver this campaign, slots in at 10.

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Sheffield Wednesday endure historic relegation from Championship after derby defeat

Sheffield Wednesday’s three-year stay in the Championship was ended in a cruel final twist of fate by Sheffield United after a 2-1 derby defeat at Bramall Lane.

For their city rivals to operate the relegation trap door only added insult to injury as Wednesday’s miserable mathematical fate was confirmed.

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Will Jacks stars for England as Sri Lanka flail with bat in T20 World Cup

  • Super 8s: England, 146-9, beat Sri Lanka, 95, by 51 runs

  • Harry Brook hails ‘awesome performance’ in Super 8 win

Over the first hour of this match the grass banks on either side of the wicket filled both in numbers and in belief. Dot balls set off boisterous celebrations, wickets provoked delirium. An increasingly joyous crowd whooped as England’s batters trooped dolefully to and from the middle. Mexican waves rippled around a stadium already, and prematurely as it turned out, in full celebration.

England were restricted to just 146 for nine, an innings that revealed few demons in the pitch – for all that it had spent much of the previous few days sweating under covers – and several in their heads. Again they faltered against spin. Jos Buttler remains in dismal form. Tom Banton was run out seeking a make-believe single, victim of scrambled decision-making. Jacob Bethell, rather than giving himself a few moments to get the measure of Maheesh Theekshana, attacked the spinner’s first ball of the game and sent a leading edge to short third.

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© Photograph: Lahiru Harshana/Reuters

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The next Mamdani? Progressive Nithya Raman shakes up LA mayor’s race

Highly rated councilmember makes last-minute entry after endorsing former ally Karen Bass – can she build a campaign to win?

Nithya Raman, a progressive urban planner, entered Los Angeles politics with a bang when she was elected to city council in 2020, defeating an incumbent Democrat endorsed by Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton.

More than five years on, the 44-year-old is making waves again with her last-minute entry into the LA mayoral race. Raman filed to run just hours before the deadline – after recently endorsing Mayor Karen Bass for re-election – to the surprise of constituents, and political allies and opponents alike.

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