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Tale as old as time: Ora fulfils Beauty and the Beast dream...

RITA ORA says her life is "feeling like a Disney movie" after landing a dream role starring in a new Beauty and the Beast TV prequel series.

Ocado rattled as tech spending spikes losses

OCADO'S big bet on selling "smart warehouses" to other grocers saw its losses jump last year, leaving some investors rattled.

Mercedes hint at Hamilton's return

MERCEDES appear to have confirmed Lewis Hamilton's return to the grid for this season.

Judge silences horn-honking truckers in Ottawa protest

TRUCKERS in Ottawa have been told to silence their horns with an injunction today amid protests over Covid rules.

Jimmy Carr's Holocaust gag fails the funny test

IF ANYTHING, it's a surprise it's taken this long. In his 22 years of comedy, Jimmy Carr has made a career out of jokes that take straight-faced pleasure in slicing right through the boundaries of acceptability, poking fun at everything from acid attacks to Rohypnol. This is the man who named his 2007 tour Repeat Offender, after all.

Getlink sees Eurotunnel freight surge as Brexit frictions ease

THE Eurotunnel saw strong growth in freight traffic in January, after new measures reduced frictions in the movement of goods between Folkestone and Calais.

Germany talks tough as it fires new warning at Putin

Straw men: German army snipers demonstrate their capabilities at the Bundeswehr training ground in Munster

Carrie is steeped in the Westminster bubble, says friend of biographer

LORD Ashcroft is "a bit baffled" by criticism of his forthcoming biography of Carrie Johnson, The Londoner understands.

Anne McElvoy Boris makes more band changes than Spinal Tap – let's see how this plays

GUESS who's back, back again? Meet the old friends-of-Boris with updated nameplates on the office door. The Prime Minister has the kind of default mode that some chaps have in calling up old girlfriends and he deploys the same chat-up line, invariably starting the conversation with, “It's time to get the band back together again.” Some, like his campaign strategist Sir Lynton Crosby, made clear they had moved on to other relationships (while being around for emotional crises and guest roles come the next election perhaps.

Zahawi: Exams will not be axed unless there's a public health emergency

EXAMS will be cancelled this summer only if there is a “public health emergency", the Department for Education pledged today, with Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi, inset, saying he “firmly intends” exams will take place.

Stewart: It felt good to be Diana

KRISTEN STEWART has spoken of how nervous she was before playing Princess Diana in Spencer, but that the role eventually made her feel "higher than 1 remember".

QUEEN TO STAGE JUBILEE SHOW OF STRENGTH

IMPRESSIVE SCHEDULE OF ENGAGEMENTS. SHE WANTS TO BE OUT AMONG PEOPLE'

Ottawa emergency over 'out of control trucker protest

THE mayor of Canada's capital Ottawa has declared a state of emergency as truckers paralysed the city in an ongoing protest over Covid rules.

Moving from No 11 to 10 is notoriously treacherous

NO one goes into politics – with its endless door-knocking and having to be nice to voters all the time – to be lobby fodder. Most MPs, on both sides of the house – including Liberal Democrats - want to be prime minister. Of course, only a tiny minority succeed.

Fashion's more diverse than it was — but I still have to change to fit in

DESIGNER and artist Osman Yousefzada says despite the progress the fashion industry has made on diversity, “I still codeswitch” – a term for using a different way of speaking in different places.

Eriksen arrives at the Bees

CHRISTIAN ERIKSEN was due to train with Brentford for the first time today.

Catherine and Heathcliff's doomed romance is most joyful production for an age

EMMA RICE brings all the weapons in her theatrical armoury to this exuberant adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic novel, apart from brevity. The doomed moorland romance of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, which almost totally destroys their families, unfolds with dance, song, physical comedy, clever props and back projection.

Tories hold seat in by-election after MP killing

THE Conservatives have held on to the seat of Southend West following a by-election triggered by the killing of Sir David Amess.

There's no place like home, says Raducanu

TENNIS star Emma Raducanu has told the Standard “there’s no place like home” as she swapped the courts for a night out in Shoreditch.

Russia ‘plotting fake attack to justify invasion'

THE United States has accused the Kremlin of an elaborate plot to fabricate a “false flag” attack by Ukrainian forces that Russia could use as a pretext to invade its neighbour.

Munira: Boris whisperer who wielded the dagger

SOME departures matter more than others. You might say the exit of a head of a policy unit unknown outside Westminster is small on the resignation Richter scale.

Moyes blast at ‘terrible' fixture pile-up

DAVID MOYES hit out at international fixture scheduling as Michail Antonio was due to land back from Jamaica duty just over 24 hours before their FA Cup tie at Kidderminster tomorrow.

Met has no intention of changing its racist culture, says Doreen Lawrence

‘Public won’t trust Met unless racists are named and punished’

Harry: I burned the candle at both ends until I found meditation

THE Duke of Sussex has told how he experienced “burnout” and was guilty of burning the candle at both ends — until he discovered meditation.

Gift to Coleridge Trust in drive to save poet's grave

THE FIGHT to save poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Highgate grave from “benign neglect” has entered a new phase, The Londoner has learnt, following a £20,000 donation to the trust concerned.

Gemini boss fears ad rules may drive crypto investors offshore

THE UK boss of Gemini, the cryptocurrency business set up by the billionaire Winklevoss twins, has claimed new regulations risk driving British crypto investors offshore.

Frank warning to Toney over video

THOMAS FRANK has issued a warning to Ivan Toney after a video of the striker saying “f*** Brentford” went viral on social media.

Cancer patient MP: One million are waiting for diagnostic scans

LABOUR’S Wes Streeting today accused the Government of not taking cancer treatment waiting times seriously as he spoke about his own frustration at being forced to wait for a crucial scan.

Bausch shows all is fair in love and war with dancing dating game

Kontakthof — Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch Sadler’s Wells

Shell rewards investors as soaring oil and gas prices drive up profits

SHELL was today forced to defend bumper payouts to investors after 2021's blistering rise in natural gas and oil prices helped propel annual profits to a seven-year high.