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• Kevin Bacon reveals why he’s banned the iconic Footloose song from being played

  14-03-2025 15:02 via metro.co.uk
  
  Kevin Bacon doesn’t want to hear Footloose anymore! (Picture: CBS via Getty)Kevin Bacon has revealed he’s banned Footloose from being played in his presence after being asked to dance ‘like a monkey’ too many times.The American actor, 66, starred in the 1984 film Footloose that saw him play Ren McCormack – a Chicago teenager who tries to overturn a ban on dancing in a small Utah town.Footloose was a major success, becoming the seventh highest grossing film of 1984
  
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• ‘Huge miss’ – Tim Sherwood says one Chelsea star has been ‘disrespected’

  17-03-2025 23:10 via metro.co.uk
  
  Enzo Maresca has been missing one Chelsea star (Picture: Getty)Tim Sherwood believes Nicolas Jackson’s quality has been ‘disrespected’ as Chelsea continue to struggle in the absence of their first-choice striker.Chelsea fell to third defeat in their last five Premier League games with a 1-0 loss against Arsenal at the Emirates on Sunday.Enzo Maresca’s side were, at one point in the season, considered potential title challengers to Liverpool but are now in danger of dropp
  
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• Free UK streaming service quietly adds ‘one of the best comedy films of all time’

  17-03-2025 22:59 via metro.co.uk
  
  A beloved cult comedy movie can now be watched for free (Picture: CBS via Getty Images)A cult classic comedy film fans have called ‘quirky and offbeat’ is now available to watch in the UK for free.Released in 2004, the American coming-of-age movie Napoleon Dynamite starred Jon Heder as the titular character, a nerdy high-school student from Idaho facing ‘befriending an immigrant who wants to be class president, awkwardly pursuing a romance with a fellow student, and living wit
  
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• Is this REALLY the new leader of the resistance? SCOTT JENNINGS reveals the laughable reason why Democrats are more hated than they've been in nearly four decades!

  17-03-2025 22:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sitting in the CNN green room on Sunday morning, awaiting my appearance on the State of the Union hosted by Jake Tapper, I had to laugh.
  
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• Last Battle of Britain pilot dies aged 105: John 'Paddy' Hemingway was shot down four times and survived a plane crash. Now tributes pour in as his death draws to a close our 'finest hour'

  17-03-2025 22:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In 1940, John 'Paddy' Hemingway was one of that extraordinary band of brothers who were all that stood between Britain and enemy invasion during what Winston Churchill called our 'finest hour'.
  
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• Nat Barr says what is on everyone's mind as Aussies face ANOTHER referendum

  17-03-2025 22:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nat Barr has asked Peter Dutton the question on everyone's mind after the Opposition leader voiced support for a referendum.
  
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• GRAHAM GRANT: The Nats are fleeing a sinking ship - and the only certainty is that the next lot will be just as underwhelming

  17-03-2025 22:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The great SNP exodus began as a dash for the exit - and now threatens to turn into a stampede.
  
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• Brit who boasted about claiming benefits abroad ‘on hunger strike in Thai jail’

  17-03-2025 22:45 via metro.co.uk
  
  Mum-of-three Ellis Matthews claimed she’d been living in Thailand on UK benefits (Picture: Tim Clarke)A British TikToker who boasted of living in Thailand while claiming UK benefits says she is on hunger strike after being arrested by Thai authorities.Mum-of-three Ellis Matthews, 32, is being held at a detention centre for mothers with children in Bangkok with one of her sons, four-year-old Cairo.She was detained earlier this month for allegedly overstaying her visa ten days after it was
  
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• My nine-year-old daughter was sent home from A&E with paracetamol after doctors told us she'd sprained her wrist... it was weeks later we found the horrifying truth

  17-03-2025 22:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Maisie-Leigh (pictured), of Preston, Lancashire, has just begun gruelling treatment for Ewing sarcoma, starting with nine rounds of chemotherapy, followed by surgery, then another five rounds.
  
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• Will Prince Harry lose his visa and be kicked out of U.S.? What could happen as legal drama reaches climax

  17-03-2025 22:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Judge Carl Nichols in Washington D.C. is set to make public imminently three previously secret documents relating to the royal's U.S. visa.
  
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• Fury as PepsiCo's buys controversial 'health drink' for $2 BILLION

  17-03-2025 22:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  PepsiCo announced a plan to step into the health beverage market - acquiring a controversial drink for a whopping $2million.
  
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• Are the workmen on YOUR road all that they seem? Incredible story of how one quiet street exposed  Albanian drug kingpins and their iron grip on Britain's drugs trade

  17-03-2025 22:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  When a group of workmen with liveried vans and wearing hi-vis jackets moved into Wellesley Road in Middlesbrough, no one gave them a second thought.
  
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• NPR reporter driven into hiding after being named by MAGA as one who hit Trump in face with a mic

  17-03-2025 22:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NPR political correspondent Daniekke Kurtzleben was named online by MAGA fans as the person who hit Donald Trump in the face with a microphone.
  
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• Could Prince Harry lose his U.S. visa as judge set to release secret documents?

  17-03-2025 22:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Judge Carl Nichols in Washington D.C. is set to make public imminently three previously secret documents relating to the royal's U.S. visa.
  
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• Terminally ill baby pictured after luxury Duck Bay Marina hotel staff refused to help him

  17-03-2025 22:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The family of baby Charlie slammed the Duck Bay Hotel in Scotland as an 'absolute embarrassment' after staff denied him use of a plug socket needed for his vital medical device
  
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• Melania's depth of influence over Donald Trump revealed by White House insider

  17-03-2025 22:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  First Lady Melania Trump is still an 'incredibly important advisor' to her husband, according to the author of yet another book on the president's 2024 reelection.
  
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• Trump says 80,000 pages of unredacted JFK files will be made public tomorrow

  17-03-2025 22:13 via metro.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump stands in the presidential box as he tours the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on Monday (Picture: Getty Images)President Donald Trump has announced that 80,000 pages of unredacted files on ex-President John F Kennedy’s assassination will be released tomorrow.Trump broke the news on the much-anticipated release of the files as reporters toured the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on Monday.‘While
  
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• Look out, ladies! Racy Victorian 'love manual' filled with 'explicit directions' found in Scots museum

  17-03-2025 22:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A racy Victorian manual offering tips and 'secrets' of love making has been found in a Highland museum.
  
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• Trump says ALL JFK assassination files totaling over 80,000 pages will be released tomorrow

  17-03-2025 22:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'We have a tremendous amount of paper. You've got a lot of reading,' Trump told reporters as he announced the administration is releasing 80,000 JFK assassination files Tuesday.
  
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• I spent £18k rebranding my family-owned clothing shop because its name was too similar to Shein and I was being inundated with their returns... but now I've hit another clash and it's WORSE

  17-03-2025 22:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mehak Vig, the owner of Timeless London, has been inundated with complaints since last November from angry customers who purchased poor-quality clothes from an almost identical brand.
  
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• My nine-year-old daughter was sent home from A&E with paracetamol  after doctors told us she'd sprained her wrist... it took weeks until we found out she had a rare form of cancer

  17-03-2025 22:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Maisie-Leigh (pictured), of Preston, Lancashire, has just begun gruelling treatment for Ewing sarcoma, starting with nine rounds of chemotherapy, followed by surgery, then another five rounds.
  
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• We were heartbroken when our dog Teddy went missing until he showed up three months later, 150miles away... after being GIFTED to a little girl

  17-03-2025 22:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Teddy the Pomeranian went missing from his home in Ilford and was found three months later in Lincoln having been gifted as a birthday present to a young girl, to the shock of his owners.
  
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• Drunk barmaid's small car was 'overloaded with seven people' before horror fatal crash

  17-03-2025 22:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Truman Hub, 22, died in 2022 in North Tyneside while a passenger of Karla Dodds' 'overloaded' car after it hit a lamppost and flipped over on the way to a house party
  
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• Canadian rage room throws violent jibe at Donald Trump with customers calling it 'iconic'

  17-03-2025 22:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rage Room Halifax is offering a new promotion that allows residents to let their rage out on President Donald Trump amid the intense political climate between the countries.
  
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• Guilty, mother who stabbed her boyfriend through the heart with his 12-inch hunting knife

  17-03-2025 21:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A woman who stabbed her boyfriend through the heart with a hunting knife was last night behind bars.
  
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• Plot to evict longstanding custodians from Silicon Valley public wilderness sparks fury

  17-03-2025 21:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Residents are furious over a plot to evict a family that has called the forests of an affluent Silicon Valley neighborhood home for more than half a century.
  
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• 'Labour making the wrong choices again over welfare' warns top union leader

  17-03-2025 21:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  'How is it possible that the go-tos for getting money into the economy are always the most vulnerable,' asks Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham ahead of controversial welfare reforms
  
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• Keir Starmer issued warning on eve of huge DWP benefit cuts announcement

  17-03-2025 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Keir Starmer's Cabinet will meet on Tuesday to sign-off a controversial package of reforms to sickness and disability benefits - before the plans are announced to MPs
  
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• Keir Starmer issued warning on eve of huge DWP benefit cuts annoucement

  17-03-2025 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Keir Starmer's Cabinet will meet on Tuesday to sign-off a controversial package of reforms to sickness and disability benefits - before the plans are announced to MPs
  
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• Kate Middleton's unique green amethyst St Patrick's Day earrings have a powerful meaning

  17-03-2025 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Princess of Wales wore a very special pair of earrings with sentimental value for the St. Patrick's Day parade
  
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