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1. Horoscope today: Your daily guide for Friday, April 24, 2026

   Read what the stars mean for you today, from Taurus to Gemini

2. Trump threatens ‘big tariff’ on UK over digital tax on US tech firms

   The digital services tax went unchanged under the UK–US trade deal agreed in May 2025.

3. Anne Hathaway: Singing role in Mother Mary was ‘terrifying’

   Hathaway stars in psychological drama Mother Mary alongside British actress Michaela Coel.

4. Kym Marsh says it ‘broke’ her family to find out about father’s prostate cancer

   Dave Marsh died aged aged 74 in 2024, after a three-year battle with incurable prostate cancer.

5. Consumer confidence falls as rapid price rises give households the ‘jitters’

   GfK’s long-running consumer confidence index fell four points to minus 25 in April.

6. ‘Fellowship’ formed to share tales of missing Stone of Destiny fragments

   The Fellowship of the Stone came about thanks to research into the artefact by academic Professor Sally Foster.

7. Martin Compston urges voters to back SNP to ‘keep Farage out of Scotland’

   The Line Of Duty star accused Scottish Labour of wanting to do a deal with Reform UK after the Holyrood election.

8. Men aged in their 20s particularly at risk of sextortion scams, warns Nationwide

   The society found the ages of those had been targeted by sextortion scams in the cases it looked at ranged from teenagers to 70.

9. Morgan McSweeney denies bullying civil servants into appointing Peter Mandelson

   Former Foreign Office chief Sir Olly Robbins said there was an ‘atmosphere of pressure’.

10. Star evicted from I’m A Celebrity to leave four in the final

    The celebrity had to leave the camp after losing a challenge which saw them have to memorise coloured balls while being showered with insects.