4 h. ago Jodie Marsh shares update after devastating fire tore through farm killing animals

Jodie Marsh posted a before and after of her bathroom which was engulfed in flames as professional cleaners get to work following the devastating farm fire

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7 h. ago How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’?

Big tech treats our attention like a resource to be mercilessly extracted. The fightback begins hereIn the last 15 years, a linked series of unprecedented technologies have changed the experience of personhood across most of the world. It is estimated that nearly 70% of the human population of the Earth currently possesses a smartphone, and these devices constitute about 95% of internet access-points on the planet. Globally, on average, people seem to spend close to half their waking hours looking at screens, and among young people in the rich world the number is a good deal higher than that.History teaches that new technologies always make possible new forms of exploitation, and this basic fact has been spectacularly exemplified by the rise of society-scale digital platforms. It has been driven by a remarkable new way of extracting money from human beings: call it “human fracking”. Just as petroleum frackers pump high-pressure, high-volume detergents into the ground to force a litt...

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48 h. ago Gardeners' World's Monty Don forced to make major change with wife after personal struggle

Monty Don has been a mainstay on Gardeners' World for decades, but the presenter has also been open about his struggles, which led his wife Sarah to contemplate leaving him

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3 d. ago £1.50 bathroom cleaning hack 'completely changed' 1 person's life

A Reddit user has shared the simple hack that helps them keep their bathroom floor looking spotless in less than five minutes using a tool which cost just £1.50

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3 d. ago Simple £1.50 bathroom cleaning hack 1 person said 'changed my life'

Posting on Reddit, the person said the tip had "changed my life". They wrote: "This has completely altered how I feel about dusting and cleaning the bathroom floor."

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6 d. ago A new start after 60: I adopted a Guide Dog mum – and found true love, community and confidence

After her husband died suddenly, and her children left home, teacher Helen Smith started to question everything in her life. Then a radio programme about a shortage of Guide Dogs gave her an ideaHelen Smith was cleaning her bathroom and listening to the radio, some time after the pandemic, when a story came on about a shortage of guide dogs. The pandemic had made it hard to breed puppies. One vision-impaired owner faced a two-year wait for a new dog. Knowing the importance of her own relationship with dogs, Smith was overcome with sadness for him. Right then, she thought, “Well, what am I going to do with the rest of my life?”She was living in the south of Hesse, in Germany, having moved in 1998 from Shropshire for her husband’s work. Their daughters were nine and three. The family settled. They got a dog. Smith found tutoring work and started a business teaching English.Tell us: has your life taken a new direction after the age of 60? Continue reading...

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8 d. ago 'Unlucky' Scouse mum wins £100k and sports car as she says it was 'a gift from dad'

Claire Carty from Liverpool never considered herself a 'particularly lucky person' – but her fortunes changed after she won £100,000 cash and an £85,000 Lotus through Omaze in a twist of fate

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8 d. ago Eliminate window condensation and mould with curtain hack that's completely free

Wanting to remove condensation and threat of mould for good? This easy trick ensures they won't return - and protects you from inflating bills too. You don't even need to buy a dehumidifier

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1 week ago All 17 changes Universal Credit claimants need to report or risk losing payments

Failing to report changes in personal circumstances could lead to serious consequences including benefit fraud prosecution and payments being stopped

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2 w. ago Six personality changes that may be a hidden sign of dementia

A study over two decades has found that six symptoms of depression may be early indicators of dementia. With close to one million dementia diagnoses in the UK alone, could this help experts find a way to slow the condition down?

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3 w. ago Tories: Farmers’ personal cost not forgotten despite inheritance tax change

Labour’s watered-down plans will see the relief threshold for farmers raised from £1 million to £2.5 million.

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3 w. ago Tories: Farmers’ personal cost won’t be forgotten despite inheritance tax change

Labour’s watered-down plans will see the relief threshold for farmers raised from £1 million to £2.5 million.

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3 w. ago RAKIB EHSAN: Equalities chief is divorced from the realities of life in modern Britain

Two weeks ago, a 15-year-old British schoolgirl from Leamington Spa stood up in court and told the judge: 'The day I was raped changed me as a person. Now every time I go out I don't feel safe.'

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3 w. ago Luke Humphries on how Paul Lim changed him as darts player and person – 'He’s a warrior'

World No.2 looked back on his defeat to the Singapore Slinger five years and how it was a marker point on and off the board

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4 w. ago ‘There’s a sense of our freedoms becoming vulnerable’: novelist Alan Hollinghurst

A knighthood, a lifetime achievement award and a hit theatre production of The Line of Beauty the author on a year of personal success and political changeIf there can be a downside to receiving a lifetime achievement award, it can surely only be the hint of closure it evokes. I put this as tactfully as I can to Alan Hollinghurst, this year’s winner of the David Cohen prize, which has previously recognised the contribution to literature of, among others, VS Naipaul, Doris Lessing and Edna O’Brien. It does have “a certain hint of the obituary about it”, he concedes, laughing. “So I’m very much doing what I can to take it as an incentive rather than a reward.”But there have been plenty of rewards recently. Hollinghurst was knighted in this year’s New Year honours list, a couple of months after the publication of his novel Our Evenings, the story of actor Dave Win’s journey from boarding school to the end of his life, which received rave reviews. In the Guardian, critic Alexandra ...

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