All news by author: Matt Roper

For the BBC Christmas special, this year DIY SOS team were transforming a derelict bungalow into a wellbeing hub for a mental health charity

Queen Letizia’s ex-brother-in-law, Jaime Del Burgo, claims he had an affair with the royal before he married her sister, Telma in a salacious new book which has just landed in Spain

Martin and Shirlie Kemp had crushes on each other before they even met - then legendary singer and mutual pal George Michael introduced the pair, and the rest is history

Just before Christmas 20 years ago, Strictly judge Shirley Ballas' brother David took his own life and she hasn't celebrated the holiday since - but new life in the family means all that will change

It was during Roald Dahl’s childhood that England’s two largest chocolate makers, Cadbury’s and Rowntree’s, were locked in an increasingly intense and bitter fight to capture the British sweet market

Nearly half of 2,000 adults in a survey said they were using online marketplaces to fund festivities.

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A landmark mafia trial in Italy this week saw dozens of informants betray the criminal group as hundreds were arrested and sentenced to 2,200 years in prison

Right-wing populist Javier Melei might become the world's most far-out and maverick leader after winning more than 55 percent of the vote to become Argentina's new president

As the beauty giant announces the opening of its first shops in the UK, previous Avon Ladies tell us of their experiences going door-to-door peddling their wares

Israel's war with Hamas continues well into its second month, with over ten thousand innocents dead since the militant groups bloody attack on October 7

Former UKIP politician and Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage will appear on ITV's new series of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! for a reported fee of £1.5 million

HOPE Not Hate, an anti-extremist group, has discovered a host of disparate groups are heading for the capital for tomorrow’s March for Palestine march and Sunday’s Remembrance Day events

Hollywood icon Barbra Streisand has concealed a secret battle with her voice hidden from fans, but revealed that she "hates her voice" and is riddled with "self doubt"

As Liverpool star Luis Diaz becomes the latest victim, we lift the lid on how abductions of soccer stars' relatives has become a huge industry blighting South America

In a live-streamed conversation with Rishi Sunak, billionaire Elon Musk has predicted that the march of technology would mean that, one day, no one will have to work

Jan Stangryciuk died this week at the age of 101, bringing the curtain down on a project that was once 649-strong and was described as the 'most exclusive club in the world'

The bodybuilder-turned-actor is reinventing himself again, sharing the secrets of his success with new self-help book - and now he is looking back on his life in the public eye

A string of tragedies the Osage Tribe suffered on their lands in the United States in the 1920s have now been brought to life on the big screen by the legendary moviemaker

Gary Morecambe - whose biography about his dad Eric is out this week – thinks there was a less healthy reason why his dad thought he had to keep being funny all the time

In extracts from the biography, Gary and Gail Morecambe share insights into comedian Eric Morecambe's life and childhood

All your questions about the Israel-Palestine conflict answered amidst deadly violence, including who Hamas are and why the violence has erupted again

As always, it was the youngsters who moved the 1,000-strong audience the most, starting with the very first winner, Child of Courage Freya Harris, who was diagnosed with cancer aged 7

Abraham Lincoln was shot as he watched a play and within days his killer was caught - but all these years later new evidence has emerged that John Wilkes Boot may not have been the wanted man

Ukrainian journalists from the ­Associated Press who decided to stay in Mariupol after every other media group left ended up filming not just the worst, but also the best of humanity