EXCLUSIVE: Actress Rita Simons, best known for her EastEnders character Roxy Mitchell, is engaged after a secret proposal from her partner Ben Harlow after "being together for a while"

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Often patients reach their goal weight and feel good about themselves. Then, because of the initial success, they decide the drugs have done their job and simply stop taking them.

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Fans of the classic BBC sitcom are being offered the chance to buy an empty box of Del Boy's Peckham Spring Water, which he famously try to pass off as genuine mineral water

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The 2024 Golden Boot winner flopped at Everton and faded away at Real Madrid but is still a maestro for ColombiaOn Monday, Rayo Vallecano released James Rodríguez on a free transfer. It hadn’t been much of a stay. In four and a half months at the club, he managed 136 minutes of league football. Only once did he start in La Liga. Rodríguez is 33 now. Since he left Everton in 2021, he has started just 37 league games and scored only 10 goals. This is the sixth season in a row in which he has been released on a free transfer as he has drifted from Real Madrid to the team currently 12th in the table, via Qatar, Greece and Brazil. The sense is of a waning career nearing its end.And yet in those three and a half years since his last game for Everton, Rodríguez has played 32 times for Colombia. While at Rayo, he has played 374 international minutes. True, he doesn’t often last a full game, but there are few other indications of decline. As Colombia reached the final of last year’s Copa Amé...

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Beginning this Tuesday, the area was struck by its worst windstorms in over a decade, fueling fires that have destroyed thousands of structures and claimed at least 11 lives over the course of the week.

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In 1983 David Hurn met one of his photographic heroes, André Kertész , and jokingly suggested that, when he reached Kertész’s age of 89, he would remake his seminal volume, On Reading. True to his word, the Magnum photographer has now done so. Wherever Hurn travelled as a photojournalist, he took images of people reading books, magazines and, lately, on mobile phones. “One of the things that happens in every country in the world is people read,” he says. “It’s lovely to read – the touch of the paper, the ease of being able to check back a few pages. But we’re at a time now where we’re not quite sure whether, in the future, books on paper are going to disappear.”David Hurn’s On Reading is published by RRB Photobooks (£35) Continue reading...

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Vaccinations and routine check ups can help people stay healthy as they age

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The Masked Singer fans flocked to X to share their guess about Toad in the Hole's identity - and they were all in agreement that the celebrity is a famous RnB singer

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EXCLUSIVE: Nicki Shields is the face of ITV and TNT Sports' coverage of Formula E motorsport and is able to travel the world with the series despite having three young children at home

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"As a member of the itty-bitty committee, this style fits like a glove. Totally enhanced my God-given attributes, and made me feel super sexy and desirable. The lift was perfect."

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High wages, ageing players, and repeated injuries make United’s squad unappealing for other clubs in the market

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Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, both aged 32, vanished after last being seen on CCTV going for a late-night walk next to the River Dee in Aberdeen, Scotland, this week

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Nick Frost has suggested he was "abandoned" by his parents from a young age and doesn't feel he has anything to thank them for - in fact, he would probably tell them off

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Georgia lawmakers could order agencies to broadly share education, child welfare and juvenile court records after four people were shot and killed at Apalachee High School in September

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Pension Age Disability Payment will only be available to people over State Pension age living in Scotland.

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As befits a former cricket star who was captain of Surrey at the precocious age of 22, Olivia Bentley 's new boyfriend, Rory Hamilton-Brown, clearly doesn't hang around.

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The reality TV star opened up about his grandad's sad death at the age of 92

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The Total Eclipse Of The Heart singer, 73, told the Mirror that when she fell pregnant aged 39 with her partner Robert, she felt it was the right time to have a baby.

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The mirror-like shiny lob is easier to achieve than you may think

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A woman stunned online commenters when she revealed her real age on TikTok – and people were delighted when she posted about how she stays looking so young

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The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has extended its ultra rare cold 'amber' health alerts for all of England until Tuesday - it comes following the coldest January night in 15 years

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High Hall, a 16th-century Tudor mansion and the Mock Beggar Hall are just some of the buildings in the village

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The £10 gadget is ideal for anyone who suffers from cold feet as the weather continues to push temperatures down

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Two North Korean soldiers have been captured alive and are now helping Ukrainian secret service after being given false Russian identities and drafted in to fight in Putin's war against Ukraine

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Critics flag ‘worrying trend’ of keeping royal files under lock and key as thousands set for release to publicResearchers fear that thousands of government documents about the late queen and Prince Philip due for release in the next two years could be censored.The files are scheduled to be made public in 2026 and 2027, five years after the royal couple’s deaths, and internal discussions have begun in Whitehall about how to process them and what should remain secret. Continue reading...

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Curled up on the sofa after putting my children to bed, I can feel boredom creeping in. My husband is out for the evening - and wouldn't be much company if he was here, to be honest.

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The 2025 Golden Globe Awards suggest the tide is starting to turn -with middle-aged thespians being rewarded for their bold, stigma-defying, and nuanced performances this year.

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Sam & Dave singer’s electrifying artistry was revered by musicians ranging from Bruce Springsteen to Mariah CareySoul Man singer Sam Moore dies aged 89 from surgery complicationsSam Moore had put out a Christmas album in 1998, but it wasn’t until 2006 that he released his debut solo album proper. There was clearly something tongue-in-cheek about its title. Overnight Sensational arrived a quarter of a century after the duo he had formed with Dave Prater had finally broken up after decades of acrimony: before the split, Sam & Dave had not actually spoken to each other for 13 years, Moore horrified by a domestic incident in which Prater had shot and wounded his wife.That it took so long for one of the most lauded figures in 60s soul to release an album under his own name says something about the difficulties Moore faced in establishing himself as a solo artist. Part of the problem was that Sam & Dave’s career had been on the commercial skids ever since they stopped recordin...

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Watts was warned that drawing attention to your age after 23 years old in Hollywood is ‘career suicide’

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Intelligence officials in Syria’s new de facto government say they have thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a Shiite shrine in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab

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The drippling posh six-bed dwelling nestled on the banks of the River Avon boasts four reception areas, a wine cellar and even a secret room behind a sliding cabinet

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David Steiner incredibly saw his his white three-story home remain intact despite the neighbours' homes around him falling victim to the fires.

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Vonn, 40, finishes sixth in first in World Cup downhillAmerican was 0.58sec behind Italy’s BrignoneSix years later it’s “Wow, Lindsey, wow!”The racecourse commentator broadcasting Lindsey Vonn’s first World Cup downhill race since 2019 – the American is age 40 and has a titanium knee – summed up how impressive the ski great’s performance was. Continue reading...

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Dayna Talbot, 27, has been left heartbroken after Mandy McEwan passed away aged just 51.

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The wounded men - pictured - are the first taken alive since Kim Jong-un sent his soldiers to fight for Vladimir Putin. They are now in Kyiv assisting the Ukrainian secret service

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ITV's Take Me Out used to be a fan favourite on Saturday nights, now a former contestant has lifted the lid on what the show was really like to appear on and the secret strict rules

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Dementia is also back on football agenda after Dean Windass diagnosis.

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David Steiner, a retired waste-management businessman, saw his white three-story home mansion remain intact in Malibu despite his neighbours' homes around him succumbing to the devastating wildfires

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William, better known as Bill, and Jean Marshall have reflected on more than seven decades together after they first met in 1950.

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Singer known for definitive hits of the era such as ‘Soul Man’ and ‘Hold On, I’m Comin’

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Latest Manchester United transfer news as Marcus Rashford faces a potential move away from Old Trafford

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Sam Moore, one half of the iconic soul and RandB duo Sam and Dave, has died at the age of 85 with the legendary performer responsible for inspiring the likes of Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen

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One in two women over the age of 50 will break a bone due to osteoporosis

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Singer Sam Moore, who performed as one half of the Grammy-winning R&B duo Sam & Dave, has died at the age of 89.

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Popstar Bonnie Tyler has shared how she keeps her incredible complexion looking youthful at 73 years old, revealing which procedures she has had done over the years.

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Aged 40, Lewis Hamilton is bidding to win an eighth Formula 1 drivers' title before he retires and has swapped Mercedes for Ferrari in order to achieve that goal

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Before the defence of his British and Commonwealth belts, the 28-year-old reflects on the tragic death of his sister“I’ve heard her voice in training sometimes,” Callum Simpson says quietly as looks up in his apartment in Dewsbury and remembers his sister Lily-Rae who, just over four months ago, died tragically following an accident on a quad bike at the age of 19. “I hear her when the sessions are hard, especially during running sessions, and her voice will say: ‘Just keep going, keep pushing.’”West Yorkshire looks beautiful on a bitterly cold yet sunlit morning. A new year has just begun, and there is still snow on the ground, but the same raw pain churns though Simpson. The 28-year-old boxer is a composed and impressive man who will defend his British and Commonwealth super-middleweight titles against Steed Woodall in Sheffield on Saturday night. It is likely to be a difficult test against a determined domestic rival who has lost only two of 22 bouts – particularly as Simpson and...

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A new Sky History docu-drama, The Lost Women Spies, uncovers the incredible stories of the brave women who were recruited as secret agents during World War 2 - and their tragic endings

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Singing sensation Bonnie Tyler has opened up about the devastating miscarriage she suffered aged 39, admitting it was the first time in her life she had felt 'maternal'.

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Sam Moore, who was the higher voice of the 1960s duo Sam & Dave, influenced musicians including Michael Jackson, Al Green and Bruce Springsteen, has passed away in Florida

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Darts wonderkid Luke Littler, 17, has been supported every step of the way by his family - and favourite takeaway shop. Here we look at where the darts star is from and his upbringing

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A University of Oxford study observed 862 children whose weight was measured from the age of seven and whose weekly physical activity levels were tracked from 11.

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EXCLUSIVE: Bonnie Tyler has opened up about the devastating miscarriage she suffered aged 39, admitting that it was 'tough' for her and husband Robert Sullivan.

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Scientists have previously shown health in mid-life affects your risk of poor brain health in later years but Oxford University researchers have now found evidence that the seeds may be sown much earlier

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To age well, geriatricians say one underappreciated key is maintaining good balance

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Many people are 'wrongly' associating dementia with age, experts warn

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