Writers, therapists and academics give advice on how to make, and strengthen, meaningful bonds with mates and friendsEmma Reed Turrell, psychotherapist, author and host of the podcast Friendship TherapyYou can keep balance in friendship by showing your working out, rather than making assumptions and mind-reading. This might sound like: “I’d like to invite you to a party but I’m wondering if it might not be your thing and I want you to know that you can absolutely say no, or just come for an hour.” That way you get to express your wish and your friend gets to be honest in their choices, rather than people-please you or dodge the question. Look for the ‘both/and’ of a balanced friendship, rather than an ‘either/or’ situation, and negotiate how to both get what you need from your communication styles or time together, rather than create a one-way street in which one of you is always keeping the other happy. Not everyone wants a two-way street in friendship and you might find you get pu...

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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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A Real Madrid legend has revealed how he was on the verge of joining Manchester United but was later left in tears when his move to the Premier League powerhouse collapsed

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Eternal rivals meet again with silverware on the line

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Tottenham Hotspur’s makeshift defence have been warned about Tamworth’s secret weapon in the shape of non-league Rory Delap, Tom Tonks' giant throw-in

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Melania ended up wearing a £5,500 powder blue cashmere dress and bolero by Ralph Lauren to her husband's 2017 inauguration - one of few designers who offered to create an outfit.

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Chris 'Flamebaster' Roberts' from Caernarfon began showcasing his cooking skills on Instagram in 2016, but has since garnered a glittering career as a chef

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The world-famous conductor, now 70, on family life in Berlin, why music keeps you young and the bleak outlook for the arts in BritainThe instruction was straightforward: “10.30am at home. Coffee and croissants.” Since timing, at least in part, is a conductor’s priority, a visitor feels the pressure – especially with the siren call of coffee – to be prompt. Simon Rattle lives on the edge of Grunewald, the expanse of forest and lakes to the west of Berlin, a haven for the prosperous who built villas there at the end of the 19th century, and a green lung for all Berliners today. I arrive a few minutes early – long enough to take issue with Christopher Isherwood who, in his Berlin Stories, complained about the “expensive ugliness” of the properties here, ranging from “the eccentric-rococo folly to the cubist flat-roofed steel-and-glass box”. Gables and turrets turn suburban houses into small castles, a reminder of Germany’s romantic folklore past. Fairy lights – we meet shortly before C...

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Alex Jones went on to present a snippet of the iconic singer Elton John, speaking directly from his house.

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Train managers at Avanti West Coast will walk out every Sunday until May 25 in an ongoing row over rest-day shifts, bringing another blow to venues which have already lost billions in previous strikes

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FA Cup third round weekend begins at Anfield

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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has revealed that veteran defender Kyle Walker wants to move on and see out his career abroad, with a January transfer now on the cards

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Dancing on Ice judges Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have announced they will retire from live performances on the next season of the ITV show, which is set to return on Jan 12.

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West Midlands Police and Fire Service confirmed a freezing dog was found abandoned in the boot of a Volkswagen Passat in Dulverton in the early hours of this morning (January 11)

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Food phobias are on the rise, particularly among children. So can a three-hour session with one of the world’s most sought-after practitioners for those with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder help cure Charlotte Cripps’s eight-year-old daughter Lola, who won’t eat anything except fish fingers and pizza? She took Lola along to find out

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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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The Chancellor met Vice-Premier He Lifeng in Beijing to discuss trade and investment opportunities, saying she wants a long-term relationship with China in 'our national interest'

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In this sequel to his bestseller, Critical, the intensive care doctor draws lessons on the joys of a ‘second life’ from the experiences of patients who have flatlined and been revived“We have two lives,” Dr Matt Morgan writes, before clarifying: “The second begins when you realise you have [only] one.” Sometimes, as the case studies in this book detail, this realisation comes more suddenly and profoundly than most of us can imagine. For more than 20 years, Morgan has been a specialist doctor in intensive care, labouring at the extreme margins of life. Just occasionally, in his day-to-day education in human mortality, he has witnessed what might, in other traditions, be thought of as supernatural events: people whose vital signs have flatlined, but who have returned to tell the tale. The stories in this book – a sequel to his bestselling Critical – are his accounts of those impossible second acts, and his reflections on what we can learn from those lucky few who have experienced both...

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"It wasn't a pleasure editing everyone else out though but all part of the job."

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The Irishman hit out at the fans last week before their humorous response in midweek and our man looks at their relationship

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The week began with a biting cold snap that hammered much of the U.S., the product of a jet stream that slips out of its usual path more often these days

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The Fir Park gaffer wasn't pleased with his side's performance at Easter Road

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FA Cup third round weekend begins at Anfield

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Outrage over the handling of the devastating Los Angeles fires is heating up amid reports that city leaders failed to prepare local reservoirs while power grids struggled hours before the blazes.

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The historian on taking the social pulse of the nation in his new TV series, why we’re such word addicts, and his fear that the needle in the US is moving towards redSimon Schama, 79, is a writer, television presenter and professor of history and art history at Columbia University in New York. His bestselling, prize-winning books include The Embarrassment of Riches, about the Dutch Golden Age, and Citizens, a study of the French Revolution. His television series for the BBC include A History of Britain, Simon Schama’s Power of Art, and The Story of the Jews. His new series, Simon Schama’s The Story of Us, traces the history of postwar Britain in an effort to locate the origins of the current culture wars and to celebrate the art that has united us in the past.How did you begin thinking about this series?Well, I live most of my time in America, but I come back here often and it always pierces me. I’m heartfelt about it. I wanted to take the social pulse of Britain, and I wanted to lo...

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Just hours after Montecito-based Meghan Markle released the trailer for her upcoming Netflix series With Love, Meghan, critics accused her of poaching recipes.

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Hollywood actor Michael Sheen impressed fans after he announced he's funding a new national theatre company for Wales after National Theatre Wales ceased to exist

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Strong winds and low humidity continue as five fires rage across Los Angeles area, with death toll expected to riseLos Angeles fires: the damage in maps, video and imagesWeather forecasters in Los Angeles were expecting fast, dry winds to return towards the end of the weekend, threatening to fuel wildfires that have already destroyed 10,000 structures and killed 16 people.Urgent “red flag” alerts – meaning critical fire weather conditions – announced by the US National Weather Service (NWS) said moderate to strong wind and low humidity would continue on Friday morning, as five fires raged across the metropolis. Continue reading...

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Legislation to protect children in the digital realm is essential. But if it results in the loss of small cycling and cancer-care forums, something’s gone wrongLondon Fixed Gear and Single-Speed (LFGSS) is an admirable online community of fixed-gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London. Sadly, this columnist does not qualify for membership: he doesn’t reside in (or near) the metropolis, and he requires a number of gears to tackle even the gentlest of inclines – and therefore admires hardier cyclists who disdain the assistance of Sturmey-Archer or Campagnolo hardware.There is, however, bad news on the horizon. After Sunday 16 March, LFGSS will be no more. Dee Kitchen, the software wizard (and cyclist) who is the core developer of Microcosm, a platform for running non-commercial, non-profit, privacy-sensitive, accessible online forums such as LFGSS, has announced that on that date he will “delete the virtual servers hosting LFGSS and other communities, and effectively immedi...

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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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Leny Yoro has had to be patient for his chance at United but is beginning to show his worth

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Pair being interrogated in Kyiv, with intelligence agency SBU saying one had fake Russian military ID; Russia claims control of village near PokrovskSee all our Ukraine coverageUkraine said it was interrogating two North Korean soldiers after capturing the pair in Russia’s Kursk region – the first time it has announced the capture of North Korean soldiers alive since their entry into the war last year. The president, Volodymyr Zelensyy, said on X on Saturday the soldiers were captured by Ukraine’s special forces and were being interrogated by the SBU domestic intelligence agency in Kyiv. The SBU released a video showing the two men in hospital bunks, one with bandaged hands and the other with a bandaged jaw. It said their questioning was being done in Korean with the help of South Korea’s NIS intelligence agency. Neither Russia nor North Korea immediately reacted to the announcement.The SBU said the two captured North Korean men had told interrogators they were experienced army sold...

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UK woman Shamima Begum was disallowed to challenge the removal of her British citizenship at the Supreme Court in August last year.

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The raider was recorded on a doorbell camera making repeated trips over the course of a full hour to empty the contents of the van he had broken into and prepare it to be collected.

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Outrage over the handling of the devastating Los Angeles fires is heating up amid reports that city leaders failed to prepare local reservoirs while power grids struggled hours before the blazes.

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California governor calls president-elect’s claim that water is being withheld from southern California ‘delusional’Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic governor, appeared briefly to put his long-running feud with Donald Trump to one side on Friday, when he invited the president-elect to Los Angeles to survey devastation from the wildfires and meet with first responders, firefighters and the “Americans” affected.“In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread disinformation from the sidelines,” Newsom wrote in a letter to Trump on Friday. “Hundreds of thousands of Americans – displaced from their homes and fearful for the future – deserve to see all of us working in their best interests to ensure a fast recovery and rebuild.” Continue reading...

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The 26-year-old has been beset by injuries during his time at Turf Moor and the Sweden defender is now available for loan

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Outrage over the handling of the devastating Los Angeles fires is heating up amid reports that city leaders failed to prepare local reservoirs while power grids struggled hours before the blazes.

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The unnamed man, who was in his 20s, was in a flimsy dinghy that was launched in the early hours of Saturday from a beach near Calais.

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It was over lunch with one of the most entertaining movers and shakers in showbiz that they let slip such an amusing story about a male star that I almost choked on my fishcake.

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The Wanted singer Max George revealed he made a few preparations while staying in hospital. The star underwent surgery to have a pacemaker fitted

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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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Kelsey Parker has shared that her late husband Tom told her via a psychic that she should date again, as her new partner Will Lindsay moves in with her

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Outrage over the handling of the devastating Los Angeles fires is heating up amid reports that city leaders failed to prepare local reservoirs while power grids struggled hours before the blazes.

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Macy Gray's departure from The Masked Singer as Toad In The Hole took an unexpected twist when she stormed off stage after being eliminated. Producers spent nearly an hour convincing the star to return for her unmasking and final performance.

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A new theory has emerged about the cause of the wildfires that have devastated Los Angeles, as a firm detected spikes in electrical faults hours before the Palisades, Eaton and Hurst fires broke out

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Rebecca Ryan played Lydia Chambers on ITV's Coronation Street from 2021 until 2022 and has appeared in a string of other hit shows - including Waterloo Road, Casualty and Shameless

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Outrage over the handling of the devastating Los Angeles fires is heating up amid reports that city leaders failed to prepare local reservoirs while power grids struggled hours before the blazes.

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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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The actress, who is currently starring in Hollyoaks, has been in a relationship with Ben since 2020

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In the words I reproduce in this article, there is something very shocking about the Lucy Letby case. It comes from a speech made in the House of Commons last Wednesday.

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

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Manchester City begin their latest FA Cup campaign with a mauling of Salford of League Two - owned by a group of Manchester United legends.

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A transatlantic row has broken out over the possible fate of ‘Isis bride’ Shamima Begum with Trump’s incoming counterterrorism adviser claiming he has been misrepresented

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The Union Bears and the Rangers Supporter's Association are calling on fans to leave their seats early at Ibrox on Sunday

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Rod Stewart has been married three times and has eight children, but it was his relationship with Penny Lancaster that finally showed him what true love is

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