AT the start of his new movie, marmalade-loving bear Paddington gets into bother reaching for an orange hanging on a tree. But the real grizzly he is based on faces far greater dangers. The adored fictional character, created by late British author Michael Bond, was inspired by the spectacled bear that lives in South America.

Veteran CNN news anchor Chris Wallace has announced he is leaving the network to venture into the streaming world. Wallace, 77, told the Daily Beast Monday that he decided to forfeit his seven-figure contract, just about a week after he hosted the station’s election night coverage. The career broadcast journalist described his decision as ‘quite liberating.’ His time at the network will be over at the end of the year.

Two senior soldiers from one of the Army’s most prestigious regiments face investigation after wearing Nazi uniforms to a party days before Remembrance Sunday. The sergeants from the Queen’s Royal Hussars were frogmarched from the fancy dress event at their barracks after shocked guests complained about their attire. Remarkably, their Regimental Sergeant Major had approved the SS outfits – and he has been suspended pending an inquiry.

A RED alert weather warning for rain is currently in place at Costa del Sol as Spain braces for more floods. Thousands have been evacuated from their homes while people started stockpiling and drivers resorted to wrapping their cars in cling film. Locals were pictured yesterday afternoon boarding up the doors to their homes or laying sandbags in front of them as they prepared for what was to come.

Move over, Sandbanks. There’s a new kid muscling in on seaside millionaire’s row… Skegness. Yes, that’s right. ‘Skeggy’, the faded Lincolnshire resort recently ranked as the one of the worst holiday destinations on the planet, and noted for its fish and chip shops, migrant hotels and Britain’s first-ever Butlins holiday camp. The coastal town was voted amongst the least favourable holiday destinations in Britain and even the world, an unlikely honour it shares with North Korea capital Pyongyang.

President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is nominating Fox News host and decorated Army veteran Pete Hegseth to serve as his defense secretary. The 44-year-old deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and won two Bronze Stars, then unsuccessfully ran for Senate in Minnesota in 2012 before joining Fox News. ‘Pete is tough, smart and a true believer in America First,’ Trump said in a statement, as he spent much of Tuesday adding to his cabinet.

A DAD was left horrified after he returned home to find his three children brutally stabbed to death. The tragic discovery happened at the family’s home in the ski town of Taninges in France as the kids’ mum is missing. The three children, two boys aged two, 11, and a 13-year-old girl were found at the family home around 1pm on Tuesday.

This is the tense moment masked Antifa activists dressed in all black surrounded a police cruiser in Seattle. The far-left masked aggressors joined a protest at the Space Needle on Saturday against president-elect Donald Trump, as reported by The Post Millennial journalist Katie Daviscourt. About a dozen masked so-called ‘anti-fascists’ were seen on video holding umbrellas and surrounding a police cruiser.

President-elect Donald Trump has officially tapped Elon Musk to ‘dismantle’ the $6.5 trillion bloated US bureaucracy by spearheading the newly created ‘Department of Government Efficiency.’ Trump made the bombshell announcement Tuesday night saying Musk will co-lead the ‘Manhattan Project of our time’ with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. ‘This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!’ Musk said in a statement.