20 minutes ago Coronation Street stars respond after ‘cashless’ claims and cast exodus

‘The show is not on its knees,’ Andy Whyment said

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93 minutes ago Levante Beach Club, Rhodes: the sporty Greek holiday for people who hate sunbathing

This active resort holiday is pegged as the perfect place for Type 2 fun personalities. Samantha Herbert puts it to the test — seeing how many activities she can fit into seven days

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4 hours ago How to dress to boost happiness– 7 colourful and trending wardrobe additions from £26

Looking to beat those January blues? Adding some colour into your wardrobe is a guaranteed way to boost your mood so we've found the best dopamine buys on the high street

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98 minutes ago ‘Brother for life’: man injured in New Orleans attack witnessed friend’s death

Ryan Quigley was celebrating the new year with former teammate Martin ‘Tiger’ Bech, one of the 14 victims killedAmong those who were injured but survived the deadly New Year’s Day truck attack on New Orleans’ most famous street was a former Princeton University football player whose ex-teammate was murdered by the assailant.Ryan Quigley, 26, was in New Orleans with Martin “Tiger” Bech – who grew up about a two-hour drive west of the city in Lafayette, Louisiana – to ring in 2025 after both had forged a friendship while playing for Princeton University’s college football team. They had joined other revelers on Bourbon Street when a former US army veteran inspired by the Islamic State (IS) terror group managed to drive a pickup truck into the crowd that had gathered on one of the world’s most festive thoroughfares. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago ‘It will be jolly nice’: illustrator Helen Oxenbury, 86, on preparing for her first solo show – and a new book with Michael Rosen

Acclaimed for her work on children’s books, the artist is teaming up again with her collaborator on Bear HuntThe imaginations of hosts of little children, many now parents themselves, have been shaped by the paintbrush of Helen Oxenbury. Her illustrations have guided millions of toddlers off to the Land of Nod, yet the first solo exhibition of her work has been a long time coming.And so, just as oddly, has any follow-up collaboration with Michael Rosen, considering the huge success of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, their 1989 picture book. Continue reading...

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38 minutes ago Alive in the Merciful Country by AL Kennedy review – peace of mind meets a monster from the past

This provocative novel contains two narratives: the memoir of an activist starting a new life and the violent manifesto of a spy cop who knew herAnna McCormick, as many people did, is discovering that the first pandemic lockdown is playing havoc with time. Becalmed in her deliberately fortress-like London home with her young adult son Paul, she is simultaneously under pressure – teaching primary school children on Zoom, maintaining her stockpile of tinned goods, attempting to communicate with her mother’s care home – and forced into unnatural, unwanted inaction. As a survivor of domestic abuse, and several other threats to her safety and sanity, she is aware of the immense prize – a sanctuary, a job, meaningful relationships – she has secured, but also of its precariousness. Amid these conditions of unbidden contemplation, she begins to write a sort of memoir.So too does Buster, the shape-shifting, monstrous undercover cop who once infiltrated the OrKestrA, the “merry little band of...

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36 hours ago Rachel Reeves prepares to slash billions of pounds of disability benefits to calm debts crisis

Downing Street is said to believe that significant reductions are needed in the welfare budget, namely from personal independence payments (PIP).

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4 hours ago Medieval Women: In Their Own Words review – a bracing cold shower with Joan of Arc and co

British Library, LondonA letter from the French saint and a lethal shopping list are among the stars of a mind-bending show of the words, mystical visions and everyday lives of women from 1100 to 1500What does hell smell like? At the British Library last week, I opened a small wooden door and inhaled a scent that was bitter and vegetal: a combination of sulphur and something that I didn’t dare to think about for too long so soon after breakfast. Ugh. To spend eternity breathing in this! Happily, though, a counter-stink was on hand. Before the devil had a chance to appear, I closed the door and opened another next to it. This time, my nose filled with the sweetness of honey. It wasn’t precisely heavenly; to be worldly just for a moment, I think you need Chanel or Guerlain for truly celestial perfumes. But it did make me smile. The things museum curators get up to when they’re trying to encourage time travel.The horrible smell was inspired by the saintly Julian of Norwich’s 16th and f...

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20 hours ago Photos of two Coronation Street legends on their real life wedding day

See how many famous faces you recognise in these fascinating photos

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1 hour ago I've tested hundreds of beauty products, but this Trinny London brow and mascara duo stands out

I rarely repurchase beauty products, but the Lash2Brow stick is an exception

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6 hours ago A Second Act by Dr Matt Morgan review – what nearly dying can teach us about living

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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11 hours ago SARAH VINE: Holy smoke! Meghan has shocked us by playing a real blinder

Pity poor Princess (sic) Meghan. Just days from the launch of her new Netflix series, half of California goes up in flames.

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2 hours ago Who is and isn't following Meghan Markle's Instagram? Princess Eugenie, Patrick J Adams and Oprah are just some of Duchess' pals that have snubbed her on the app

Who has decided to welcome the Duchess of Sussex back online? FEMAIL takes a look at celebrities who have chosen to hit follow and others who have snubbed Meghan.

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17 hours ago Coronation Street's Sam Aston breaks silence on soap future as cast hit with multiple exits

Coronation Street star Sam Aston - who plays Chesney Brown on the ITV soap - has discussed the recent mass exodus of characters and his own future ahead of Dancing On Ice

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3 hours ago Watch as man goes snowboarding down street during heavy snow as cold weather continues

Watch the moment a skatepark owner tries his hand at snowboarding down his local street, making the most of the heavy snow.

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19 hours ago Teenager seriously injured in Scots street by masked attackers on scooters

The 18-year-old victim was taken to hospital where his injuries are described as serious.

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4 hours ago The week in TV: Patience; 7/7: The London Bombings; Playing Nice; American Primeval – review

The week in TV: Patience; 7/7: The London Bombings; Playing Nice; American Primeval – review  The Guardian

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20 hours ago Search for missing sisters is extended to coast as worried family say they were both happy and cheerful in the days before they disappeared

Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, both 32 from Hungary , were last seen on Market Street at Victoria Bridge at around 2am on Tuesday.

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4 hours ago In Attendance: Paying Attention in a Fragile World review – visions of mortality abound

Fitzrovia Chapel, LondonIn a former hospital chapel replete with its own stories, works by Paula Rego, Phyllida Barlow and others resonate in their exquisitely contemplative surroundingsThe Fitzrovia Chapel is a miniature cathedral in the heart of London – a tiny vault of marble, stained glass and gold conceived on the most human of scales. Old photographs show congregations of barely more than 50. It is possible to walk from one end to the other in fewer than a dozen steps, but along the way are glimmering mosaics, glowing stars and some of the most moving words I have ever read in a church.This chapel, where King Charles recorded his recent Christmas message, is all that remains of the old Middlesex hospital in the heart of London. A neo-gothic building of dark red brick, it once nestled inside this venerable teaching hospital, founded in 1745. Now it stands alone, and fully visible, dwarfed instead by the high-rise apartments and luxury shops of the Pearson Square complex that re...

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21 hours ago ‘Most of my work is a response to war’: Colombian artist Doris Salcedo on violence, Trump and her crack in Tate Modern’s floor

The artist, famed in the UK for her extraordinary fissure in the turbine hall, has turned her focus to the climate catastrophe and the plight of migrants, but old concerns about her country remainAs the world turns toward another fractured year, Doris Salcedo, the Colombian artist, is at work trying to fathom how to create a house out of human hair. Salcedo, 65, has long made herself a channel of collective trauma, her art expressing profound anger at political crimes and atrocities at home and abroad – as well as creating imaginative spaces for mourning. Her hair project, she says, comes in response to what she has come to think of as “domicide”: the calculated bombing and destruction of places that people call home.“Most of my work is a response of some kind to war,” she says. “And we have all witnessed – of course for decades in Colombia, but also now in Ukraine and Syria and Sudan and in Gaza – this destruction of houses for the sole purpose of escalating human suffering. In Gaz...

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4 hours ago UK's biggest bin lover reveals 'perfect place' for odd hobby and slams rivals

EXCLUSIVE: "I think there’s something about that bit of street furniture [bins], most post boxes are the same, most phone boxes are the same but I think there’s more variety in the bin"

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24 hours ago Netflix viewers divided as sequel to hit 2023 movie shoots to No 1 in rankings

‘Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger’ has proved immediately popular

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5 hours ago A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin spar in sublimely bittersweet Holocaust tour movie

The stars play Jewish American cousins touring Poland in honour of their grandmother in Eisenberg’s sharp, highly personal comedy boasting an Oscar-tipped performance from CulkinIt’s a slip of a thing, clocking in at a tight 90 minutes; a deft, light-footed amalgamation of two potentially formulaic comedy genres: the road movie and the mismatched buddy flick. But the second directorial venture from actor Jesse Eisenberg, which he also wrote and stars in, is considerably more than the seemingly slight sum of its parts. A Real Pain is a whip-sharp comedy driven by the rattling verbal sparring between uptight, neurotic David (Eisenberg) and his outgoing, unpredictable cousin Benji (Kieran Culkin). It’s also a profound character study – a substantial and emotionally nourishing journey that contains, courtesy of Culkin, perhaps the most devastating final shot of any film you will see this year.It’s a notable step up for Eisenberg as a writer-director. His 2022 debut, When You Finish Savi...

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24 hours ago Wall Street looks forward to a bonfire of capital and climate rules under Trump

Profits are poised to dominate in a new era shorn of years of hard-won regulatory restrictionsWhen some of the biggest banks on Wall Street reveal their full-year earnings this week, they will have more to celebrate than just rising profits.Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration on 20 January – scheduled the Monday after US bank results week – will raise the curtain on a period of looser regulation, lower corporation tax, and weak climate commitments. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago The 10 rules of friendship: show up, go beyond banter, learn the boring details

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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25 hours ago Tributes paid to Chippy Lane legend after Dorothy's chip shop owner dies

Tony ran Dorothy's on Caroline Street for decades and was well loved by staff and customers

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6 hours ago ‘I like to break the rules’: Björk on comedy, darkness and the most flamboyant tour of her career

The musician describes herself as many things: artist, introvert, activist, Scorpio, matriarch, punk, joker, optimist We step inside the multiverse of the incomparable BjörkBjörk is in Paris, and her laptop camera isn’t working. The laptop is eight years old, she explains, and she doesn’t want to replace it, for environmental reasons. “But let’s just say I haven’t exactly been crying about the fact that it doesn’t work.” She is a black square on my computer screen, which feels quite un-Björk-like, somehow, and yet also very Björk-like, too. Even without the visuals, she is instantly familiar. She jokes, she teases, her answers unravel slowly as she weighs up every side of a response, pin-balling between as many angles as she can find.She says she has always felt a bit weird about video calls anyway. “Even when they started, I would find more distance in talking to loved ones, because it’s sort of fake. You see people, but it’s not real. You’re not getting the presence. So maybe it’s...

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25 hours ago Secret of LA wildfire 'miracle' house that became only one in street to survive

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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9 hours ago Former Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan shares cryptic post leaving fans speculating about her soap return

The former Coronation Street start left the cobbles in 2018 but has recently shared a nostalgic photo from her time on the ITV soap, which has left fans speculating about her potential return

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27 hours ago Accrington Stanley milk advert kids now from convicted killer to Coronation Street star

It's been over 40 years since the Accrington Stanley advert aired on TV and young actors Carl Rice and Kevin Spaine had a famous squabble over milk - but where are they now?

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13 hours ago Laurie Anderson says artificial intelligence spells ‘the end of the world’

The artist and musician said you ‘can impersonate anyone’ with the technology.

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27 hours ago LA fires: Secret of how 'miracle' house became only building in street to survive blaze

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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13 hours ago Will Kate be the Baftas' comeback of the year? Princess of Wales set to return to royal working life with show

Insiders at the awards are 'pulling out all the stops' to ensure the ceremony marks the Princess of Wales's return to the red carpet following her cancer diagnosis and treatment last year

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28 hours ago 'I live on 'Poo Mews' where it's been flooding with sewage and dead rats for 30 years'

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Sewer flooding on Sandcliff Road in Erith, south-east London, a street now known as "poo mews" has become so bad that it was featured in the 2015 documentary Britain’s Horror Homes

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15 hours ago Coronation Street star Rebecca Ryan announces she is pregnant with baby number

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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29 hours ago Meghan and Prince Harry comfort LA fire victims and first responders as Fox is slammed for saying 'Princess Markle' is 'hanging out with the commoners' while city continues to burn

The couple were seen handing out food parcels to those affected by the devastating fires at the World Central Kitchen in Pasadena on Friday.

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15 hours ago Coronation Street star Rebecca Ryan announces she is pregnant with second baby

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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29 hours ago Coronation Street Mason Radcliffe star 'set for rival soap role' after getting killed off

Coronation Street's Mason Radcliffe actor Luca Toolan has been tipped to join a rival soap following his character's tragic exit from the ITV soap

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16 hours ago Coronation Street’s Sam Aston explains how Dancing on Ice impacts Chesney storyline

As Sam Aston prepares for the first Dancing on Ice show on Sunday, he reveals what this means for his Coronation Street character Chesney, and whether he will be returning to the cobbles

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33 hours ago DWP claimants warned about new review form following increase in PIP awards being 'reduced or ended entirely'

People claiming the Personal Independence Payment have been cautioned that a new style form could cause them to lose their benefits or see a reduction in payments

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17 hours ago Kate Middleton to issue royal warrants to honour iconic British brands

Warrant issued to companies favoured by the royal family

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19 hours ago Coronation Street star Andy Whyment denies 'soap on its knees' as he shuts down claims

Andy Whyment, who has played Kirk Sutherland on Coronation Street for over 20 years, has spoken out against claims of a cast revolt on the ITV soap amid a lot of changes

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