Homebase has put 74 stores up for sale after the DIY chain fell into administration. The company has set a deadline of the end of next week for potential buyers to snap up its remaining shops in the UK and Ireland. Homebase appointed administrators at consultancy Teneo after it was hit hard by an ‘incredibly challenging’ three years for the DIY sector.

Coleen Rooney is rumoured to be in the running for TV presenting roles as a result of her stint on I’m A Celebrity. ITV bosses are hoping to ‘capitalise on Coleen’s girl next door charm’ and loyal fan base by offering her a big money TV deal, it has been reported. A source told The Sun that there are hopes Coleen will be the next Holly Willoughby and present a host of shows backed by advertisers.

Gary Lineker is set to receive a bumper pay day after the BBC revealed a new one-year licensing deal to host two popular podcasts made by his production company. The BBC’s highest paid presenter and former England striker is leaving Match Of The Day at the end of the season after more than 25 years at the helm. But Lineker’s presence will still be felt at the corporation after a new deal was struck between the BBC and his co-founded company, Goalhanger Productions, which has rapidly established itself in just two years as the UK’s most successful podcast production company.

MSNBC’s Joy Reid told Republicans their liberal friends and family have a right to be scared in an end-of-times warning on TikTok today. Reid, 55, who recently left X after Elon Musk’s cabinet nomination by President-Elect Donald Trump, isn’t done explaining to GOP voters why she believes Democrats are rightfully scared for the future. She warned Trump voters they should accept being excluded from family Thanksgiving plans, and spoke of the likelihood of the country collapsing under the new government.

Republican lawmakers took a first step in an effort to shutter the U.S. Department of Education, a move that President-elect Trump called for on the campaign trail. South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds introduced the Returning Education to Our States Act on Thursday. The bill would eliminate the Education Department and redistribute all federal programs under the department.

Britain’s new £3.2billion aircraft carrier has stocked up on ammunition and increased its ‘readiness’ after a Ukrainian military chief claimed ‘World War Three had begun’. HMS Prince of Wales sailed into Glenmallen on Loch Long, in Argyll and Bute in Scotland, as tensions between the West and Russia threaten to boil over. Posting on X, the 65,000-tonne ship’s official account wrote: ‘We have arrived into Glen Mallan to uplift our ammunition and increase our readiness.’