Coronation Street fans were left distracted after Helen Worth made an exit from the cobbles after playing Gail Platt for five decades on the ITV soap

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The first few episodes of this adaptation of Beth O’Leary’s novel feature zero chemistry between the leads. It’s one for fans of the genre onlyThe easiest way to describe The Road Trip would be to call it the TV equivalent of an airport novel. Perhaps that is because it is. Beth O’Leary has long kept the WH Smith industrial complex alive, with bestselling novels including The Flatshare, which sold more than 1m copies. That book was adapted into a six-part TV series in 2022, and followed two roommates thrust together by the fact that they rented the same bed – cleverly twisting the hellscape that is the London rental market into the stuff of a fluffy romcom. This one follows Dylan and Addie, a pair of exes thrust together by the fact that they have to use the same method of transport to get to a wedding 1,000 miles away. Like a rat, a potential love affair is never more than 6ft away in O’Leary’s world.This time, our star-crossed, claustrophobic pairing are Dylan and Addie, who are o...

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The attacking midfielder showed signs of frustration last weekend

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Gail Platt has left Coronation Street after 50 years on the cobbles - and her exit has left viewers divided over the way she said goodbye to the ITV soap

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Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg group has long drawn fascination for its clandestine meetings at exclusive hotels and alpine resorts where attendees discuss war and peace.

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The Strictly Come Dancing saga and Dave Grohl fathering a baby outside his marriage headline a year of dramatic celebrity scandals, including arrests and legal battles

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Christmas might be well and truly over for another year, but that doesn't mean you can't visit any festive markets after the big day. Now one man revealed his visit to one spot in Scotland

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Distractions long predated today’s fast-moving online world. Young people may well be discovering new ways of paying attentionMarion Thain is professor of culture and technology at King’s College London and director of the Digital Futures InstituteIn late-19th-century Britain, Londoners could expect to receive up to 12 postal deliveries a day. Letters were often exchanged with the frequency that we imagine only occurred with the advent of email. Today, archives brim with scrawled missives detailing arrangements to meet for dinner that are made first thing in the morning, only to be followed by an argument unfolding in the middle of the day, culminating in a reconciliation and reinstatement of the plan to meet. All before nightfall.We tend to think of the pre-digital era as much the same as now but without our myriad digital distractions, but it was not so. With ink blots and wild fountain-pen trails going up the margins, it is clear these historical writers were dashing off many suc...

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Earlier this month, Syrian leader Bashar Assad was ousted after nearly 25 years in power

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“The evidence from the review indicates a global femtech market which is expected to treble in size over the next 10 years, alone providing major opportunities for Scottish businesses capable of accessing this market” - Scottish Enterprise

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