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  1. I've visited 25,000 pubs... and sunk 60,000 pints. From a grand Victorian library to a ramshackle cider farm, these are the top 50 you simply must visit - and I bet you haven't heard of most of them

    I've spent the last 42 years visiting pubs. Not just the odd one or two, either. I've just clocked up my 25,000th, which I reckon makes me something of an expert on the great British boozer.

  2. ANDREW NEIL: Britain's lack of resilience to threats makes us the laughing stock of Europe. We shall all pay dearly for Labour's failures

    Labour has a cheek urging people to become more resilient in the face of growing threats which could disrupt food and energy supplies when it's done next to nothing to improve resilience.

  3. BORIS JOHNSON: The wonders of ChatGPT saved me from a domestic mutiny over our broken boiler. Now the Tories need to harness it to slash the crazy cost of the State

    This is the moment for the next Tory government to set out a plan to harness AI as a tool to cut all the wasteful and unnecessary costs of running our country.

  4. Chris Pratt: 'I'll always be a man of faith'

    Chris Pratt is dad to 14-year-old son Jack with ex-wife Anna Faris, and Lyla, six, Eloise, four, and 23-month-old Ford with wife Katherine Schwarzenegger.

  5. Dolly Parton's niece going through her 'own cancer battle'

    Danielle - the daughter of Bobby Lee Parton and Doris Maxine Noland - opened up to Extra about her own health struggle, as she said: “I’m going through a little bit of a cancer battle myself right now.”

  6. 9th Circuit blocks path for Trump to again deploy National Guard without state approval

    The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that President Trump's deployment of California National Guard troops last year was unlawful and unconstitutional. The ruling also blocks a way for the president to…

  7. Ten years after I watched the infamous Calais Jungle camp being torn down, I've never seen so many migrants lining the coast - all hell-bent on heading to Britain: SUE REID

    I have been reporting on migrants in Calais for some 20 years. But I have never seen more of them here than in recent days - each and every one planning to get to England.

  8. Picturesque cottage from Dawn French comedy The Vicar of Dibley is on the market for £375,000

    Now the charming cottage next door to vicar Geraldine Granger's house in the show is on the market - with bids starting at £375,000.

  9. Pair share lead in Bermuda, Aussie five shots behind

    Two players share the lead going into the weekend at the Bermuda Championship, with Aussie golfer Cameron Davis just five shots behind.

  10. ALISON BOSHOFF: Did Andrew Lloyd Webber's new-found sobriety shatter his 50-year friendship with Tim Rice?

    Earlier this year, Andrew Lloyd Webber made the confession of his life: he was an alcoholic.