10 minutes ago The lip saviour beauty lovers say they are ‘much happier wearing’ slashed by 20% in Debenhams sale

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2 hours ago My house burned down and I lost everything from my wedding pictures to my jewellery. But there was a silver lining I'd never anticipated: DAISY GOODWIN

When I woke up to the news that wildfires were raging in Los Angeles and that thousands of people had had to leave their homes, I felt unutterably bleak.

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69 minutes ago New Ofgem plans for energy firms to offer ‘zero standing charge’ tariffs later this year

Standing charges currently cost every household around £338 each year.

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18 minutes ago Kiena Dawes' tragic final hours: Heartbreaking moment mother dropped her baby off at a friend's house before taking her own life following years of abuse at the hands of her boyfriend

Kiena Dawes, from Fleetwood in Lancashire, had written a suicide note saying, 'Ryan Wellings killed me', before leaving their nine-month-old daughter with a friend.

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2 hours ago Anger as mum and baby left with no heating or hot water for 'over a YEAR'

The housing association says it struggled to get access to the property, but their tenant says communication has been poor

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2 hours ago What food is toxic for dogs? The 9 dangerous common household foods that you should never feed your dog

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3 hours ago Lock of Lord Nelson's hair that was cut as he lay dying at the Battle of Trafalgar so it could be given to his mistress goes on sale for £15,000

As the great naval hero lay dying on HMS Victory, he instructed Vice-Admiral Thomas Hardy to remove chunks of his hair and give them to his mistress Lady Emma Hamilton.

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43 minutes ago Naomi Osaka reveals impact of LA wildfires with flames ‘three blocks away’ from house

The four-time grand slam champion is in Melbourne for the Australian Open while fires devastate her home city

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2 hours ago Plans for major public sector hub in Cardiff Bay that could house thousands of staff

While at an early stage Cardiff council is looking to attract civil service jobs out of London for a potential 500,000 sq ft as part of the wider Atlantic Wharf developement

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12 hours ago Inside Maura Higgins' millionaire lifestyle with a £1.5 million house, flash cars and lavish gifts for her parents

EXC: MailOnline can reveal that Maura is set to add to her vast empire as it can be revealed she will return to the US as host of the American version of the Love Island spin-off show, Aftersun.

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3 hours ago Debenhams shoppers praise £110 'warm and cosy' coat that's now £40 in January sale

The TOG24 'Anthorn' Jacket has been hailed as a must-have for winter, designed with a padded body and chevron quilted design - and now it's in the sale for just £40

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45 minutes ago Jumping giants Jonbon and Energumene on target for clash that will be ‘great for the game’

The two outstanding two mile chasers trained by Nicky Henderson and Willie Mullins will meet in the Clarence House Chase at Ascot on Saturday

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3 hours ago The Housefly Effect by Eva Van Den Broek & Tim Den Heijer: The seven flies that control us

The small things that influence your every day decision making skills.

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4 hours ago Farmer left in 'chronic pain' after being accidentally shot in the leg by country estate gamekeeper sues for £200,000

Samuel Lecocq, 33, owner of Park House Farm, in Yorkshire, sustained a gunshot injury to his left thigh after gamekeeper Guy Whitney accidentally set off his gun while the pair chatted in July 2020.

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62 minutes ago Revealed: Latest celebrity homes destroyed in apocalyptic LA wildfires including Mel Gibson and Bella Hadid as thousands more flee for their lives and death toll climbs to 24

Dozens of A-listers abandoned their luxurious California mansions and fled for their lives after the fires ignited, with many now confirming that their homes were reduced to rubble in the blazes.

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3 hours ago The Boy Who Lived by David Holmes: Harry Potter from the perspective of Daniel Radcliffe's now paralysed stunt double

David Holmes may not be a household name but most of us will have seen him whizzing around on a broomstick as Harry Potters stunt double. Now paralysed he is finally telling his side of the story.

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5 hours ago Glasgow’s Macfarlane Group seals ‘unique and exciting’ £18 million takeover of Scottish rival

“The acquisition represents a unique and exciting opportunity to grow our business in Scotland and provide in-house supply to our businesses in the north of England” – Peter Atkinson, CEO

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2 hours ago ‘I’m going to have him run out of here by inauguration day’: Steve Bannon escalates his war with Elon Musk

Donald Trump’s former White House chief strategist branded the tech tycoon as a ‘truly evil person’ and said stopping him before Janaury 20 has become ‘a personal issue’

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3 hours ago Woman's simple and 'excellent' storage hack keeps onions fresh for months

Onions can be tricky to store, but a simple hack using a household item can keep them fresh for months - and it's not a Tupperware container or a brown paper bag

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2 hours ago Iconic talk show host shares moment medium predicted house blaze months before wildfires

Ricki Lake shared a clip where the Los Angeles wildfires were predicted three months before they took place, with the medium saying she would 'lose material items' in a huge blaze

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3 hours ago Both houses and a supreme court supermajority: how Trump’s power compares historically

Trump’s second term will be marked by a rare level of influence in Congress and the highest courtDonald Trump will come in to power with a “trifecta” of governmental control after his Republican party won the House of Representatives, the Senate and the presidency in the 2024 US election.Control of both chambers of Congress is not uncommon for US presidents. Trump achieved a trifecta in his first term, as did Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago Is it true pensions won't be increased by RPI inflation after 2030? STEVE WEBB replies

I understand that from 2030 CPIH (Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers' housing costs) will be introduced which is less than the RPI.

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3 hours ago $83m mansion featured in Succession reportedly destroyed in Los Angeles wildfires

The 18-bedroom, six-bath house was available for rent at £371,474 a month

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3 hours ago Stacey Solomon uses these clever jewellery boxes to keep her pieces organised

Stacey Solomon has been on a mission to tidy and reset her home for January, including organising her jewellery collection with some handy travel jewellery boxes that are on sale

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7 hours ago 'I found a way to get a £600 treadmill perfect for any size house or flat for £99'

"This is a perfect treadmill for when you not got the space."

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3 hours ago Dog owner screams through streets after finding missing pet five days after LA wildfire ravaged house

A dog owner broke down in tears, screaming for joy through the streets of the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood of Los Angeles on Sunday (12 January) as the pair were reunited after their home was destroyed in the Palisades Fire.

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4 hours ago Administrators closing in on sale of Dumfries and Galloway land earmarked for huge holiday park

McAlister and Co received a 'number of offers' for Barncrosh and Barnsoul and they hope to complete the sale 'soon'.

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8 hours ago Stock market today: Asian stocks follow Wall Street's retreat, oil prices surge

Asian stocks have retreated after U.S. stocks fell as good news on the job market raised worries over inflation

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11 hours ago Painting LA pink! Fire retardant stains houses that still stand and everything around them in an attempt to slow the blazes that have killed at least 24 people

The spray, known as Phos-Chek, has been dropped from nine large planes and 20 water-dropping helicopters across the city to fight the fires that have been burning since Tuesday

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4 hours ago ‘I was crying, there was no anaesthesia’: the fight for legal and safe abortion in Nigeria

In a country where thousands die every year from unsafe procedures, and rape is shockingly high, campaigners must overcome strict laws and religious beliefs, as well as misinformation and stigmaIn a modest house on a red dirt road in Ota in Ogun state, Adijat Adejumo, a 39-year-old auxiliary nurse, runs a small chemist shop. She treats common illnesses such as malaria and colds and sells painkillers, antidiarrhoeal medications and vitamins. For the past few years, she has also been selling packs of mifepristone and misoprostol, medicines included in the WHO essential medicines list to induce abortion safely.Both medicines are legal in Nigeria, a country with one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates, but only if used to save women’s lives during obstetric complications. Adejumo does not stock them in her shop; instead when a woman comes asking for help to end an unwanted pregnancy, she has them delivered. On average, she gets three such requests a month. Continue reading...

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14 hours ago Average house seller in 2024 ‘made £91,820 more than they originally paid’

Despite lower price gains last year, around nine in 10 households are estimated to have achieved more than they paid, property firm Hamptons said.

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13 hours ago Painting LA pink! Fire retardant stains houses that still stand and everything around them in an attempt to slow the blazes that have killed at least 16 people

The spray, known as Phos-Chek, has been dropped from nine large planes and 20 water-dropping helicopters across the city to fight the fires that have been burning since Tuesday

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5 hours ago Botox, hair dye, Reformer Pilates: I had no idea that ageing would be this expensive

Every day, writer Isolde Walters is bombarded with different ways to slow the signs of ageing. So far, she’s resisted. But will she be able to hold out as the faces around her become ever smoother and firmer?

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22 hours ago 'My favourite £220 winter coat that heats up and is very waterproof is on sale'

"Absolutely love this jacket. It's been tested in the rain, very waterproof. The heating element is a fabulous bonus"

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13 hours ago LA officials warn of price gouging as those displaced by fire seek housing

County sheriff says anyone who tries to scam the thousands of people looking for accommodations will be prosecutedWildfires live updatesLos Angeles authorities are warning against scams and price gouging as thousands of displaced families seek new accommodations as a result of the wildfires that devastated whole neighborhoods and forced the evacuation of others.In a press conference on Sunday, Los Angeles county sheriff Robert Luna warned against “anyone taking advantage of anyone who’s been victimized already, whether it is burglary looting, or any other crime, whether it’s a scam of some kind that you’re conjuring up to make money off of the poor people that have been involved in this”. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick review – a restless mind on the move

Reissued for British readers, the renowned US writer’s 2015 essay about wandering the streets of New York has lost none of its sparkleThere is a rare breed of writer whose books defy easy categorisation, their subjects prone to meandering in an intellectually driven stream of consciousness across the page. They may touch upon fiction, memoir or even philosophy, but they delight mostly because they reveal a brilliant, and idiosyncratic, mind. In the UK there are, among others, Deborah Levy and Geoff Dyer; in the US, Sigrid Nunez and Vivian Gornick.Gornick, 89, is a celebrated American writer not much known on these shores, although her work is diligently being resurrected by the wonderful Daunt Books. Having previously put out Fierce Attachments, the much-praised 1987 memoir about her complicated relationship with her mother, now it is republishing The Odd Woman and the City, a 150-page essay (originally published in the US in 2015) that casts Gornick as a modern-day flâneur traversi...

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23 hours ago I tried a posh £325 massage by a brand that Victoria Beckham loves... my body will never accept anything less again

Corinthia London's in-house 5-star spa recently launched a treatment in conjunction with beauty brand and Victoria Beckham favourite, Augustinus Bader

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18 hours ago Fractured Rangers' house of juxtapositions with fan rammies, protests and jeers amid an easy win

No ordinary afternoon at Ibrox as discontent taken up a notch

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6 hours ago They say a name like mine can hold you back in life, but I will never change it | Xaymaca Awoyungbo

An unusual name can have a detrimental impact on your life and finances – but in my experience, it also has advantagesGrowing up, there was a wearying and familiar pattern for me on the first day of school, or whenever a substitute teacher took the register.“Blake.”Xaymaca Awoyungbo is a freelance football writer and film director Continue reading...

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32 hours ago Weight loss app that has women over 40 'staying active longer' launches 50% off sale

Reverse Health's programme is designed for women over 40 who are looking to lose weight

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19 hours ago LA fires could test Getty Center’s claim of being safest place to store artwork

Getty team says no current plans to move prominent pieces from center deemed ‘marvel of anti-fire engineering’It houses some of the richest treasures of the art world, such as Vincent van Gogh’s Irises, a popular Rembrandt and a priceless collection of paintings, portraits and other works spanning more than seven centuries.To protect them, the Getty Center in Los Angeles was built in 1997 as “a marvel of anti-fire engineering”, complete with fire-resistant stone and concrete, protected steel, and set in well-irrigated landscaping. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago Get your kilt on and take mighty strides to help Chris's House in Wishaw

The charity has a limited number of free spaces available

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36 hours ago Six household bills set to rise in the coming weeks including council tax and mobile phones

Households are set to be hit with a raft of price hikes in early 2025, including council tax, energy bills and mobile phone and broadband contracts

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22 hours ago The Shetland Way by Marianne Brown review – a daughter’s journey to the heart of the climate crisis

An environmental writer returns to her father’s home for his funeral in a family memoir that becomes an examination of Shetland’s crucial role in the energy landscapeAs with many nature-centric memoirs of recent years, Marianne Brown’s debut, The Shetland Way, begins with personal loss. It opens at the funeral of her father, Bill, on his home island of Shetland, a place she knows only in glimpses; her parents separated when she was two, and her relationship with her father was characterised by absence, “always promising something it would never deliver”. But her connection with the islands and her late father is forced into an accelerated intimacy; the funeral takes place in February 2020 as the pandemic spreads, and Brown finds herself unexpectedly spending the months of lockdown with her partner and young daughter in Shetland: “Confinement in a land that claimed half my genealogy, a history and culture of which I knew next to nothing about.”They stay in the house that Bill, a pott...

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7 hours ago A Quiet Evening by Norman Lewis review – they don’t make travel writers like this any more

From run-ins with Hemingway in Havana to gunmen in Guatemala, this colourful collection of the late writer’s long-form journalism shows why Graham Greene was an admirerThe travelogues of Norman Lewis, which are much admired for the extraordinary burnish they attain, were written by him in a spidery longhand. The author of acclaimed accounts of the Sicilian mafia and the exploitation of Indigenous tribes in South America, he scribbled his rewrites on fresh scraps of paper and, with the help of his wife Lesley, pasted them over earlier drafts until his manuscript crackled like parchment. I observed this process for myself when I interviewed the writer, by then in his 90s. We were at his home, an old rectory in deepest Essex enclosed by a wild garden which grew as high as an elephant’s eye. Here he recuperated between adventures in an “introspective, almost monastic calm”, or so the blurb on his book jackets improbably claimed. Rangy and moustachioed, he had been an early adopter of zo...

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38 hours ago Housekeeper's sick revenge on boss after being denied $500 Christmas bonus

A Florida housekeeper allegedly turned violent on Christmas Eve after being denied a $500 bonus, assaulting her 83-year-old employer and stealing checks, credit cards, and holiday gift.s

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24 hours ago LA writer living in Scotland 'heartbroken' as former home ravaged by wildfires

“What would have been the first thing we grabbed after the children and the pets?”

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9 hours ago ‘A lump of metal? Fascinating’: I get interviewed by the AI Michael Parkinson

Can the AI Parky ever beat the real chatshow colossus? As the Virtually Parkinson podcast launches, our writer sits in on a bizarre interview with Monty Don – then ends up in the hot seat himselfAsk anyone who regularly interviews people and they’ll tell you that few things are stranger than when the tables turn and you’re the one being interviewed. This is especially true when the person interviewing you has been dead for a year and a half. But here we are. Virtually Parkinson is a new podcast in which celebrities are interviewed by an AI model trained to speak and act like the late Michael Parkinson. The announcement of the podcast last year prompted a flurry of vaguely apocalyptic reactions. It was sacrilegious, some said, tantamount to digging up and reanimating a national treasure against his will. It was pointless, others said – of all the transformative ways to use AI, you’re blowing it on a podcast? Then there were folks like me, quietly nervous that Robot Parky was coming f...

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25 hours ago American writer in Edinburgh heartbroken as LA wildfires ravage former home

Jess Ross lived in the Pacific Palisades for between 15 to 20 years.

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12 hours ago JD Vance splits with Trump on major issue that could cause turmoil on their first day back in the White House

JD Vance has diverged from Donald Trump on pardoning January 6 rioters, advocating against clemency for those who committed violence while supporting pardons for peaceful protestors.

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26 hours ago California fires live: around 35,000 LA homes and businesses without electricity as police issue warning over looters

LA Department of Water and Power says it is working to restore power; Los Angeles county sheriff says death toll expected to rise; police say looters posed as firefighters coming out of housesFull report: international crews arrive to battle raging wildfiresPoliticians quibbling as LA burns: Gavin Newsom’s latest beef with TrumpDetails emerge about the LA fire victimsAs is noted in our news report on the California wildfires, at least 20 arrests have been made for looting. Officials have imposed a mandatory curfew in evacuation zones as well as in the city of Santa Monica, which is next to Pacific Palisades.“Looting is an issue, the number of arrests is continuously growing,” Capt Mike Lorenz of the Los Angeles Police Department said yesterday. Continue reading...

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14 hours ago How much the average house seller made last year compared to when they bought

On average, sellers had owned their home for just under nine years

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27 hours ago 'First pair lasted over 20 years’ – Berghaus boots that are ‘extremely comfortable’ hit half

If you're looking for a new pair of staple shoes to see you through the months of cold and wet weather, look no further than this sale on some 'exceptionally comfortable' boots

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16 hours ago Barcelona thrash Real Madrid in chaotic clásico Spanish Super cup final

Spanish Super Cup final: Barcelona 5-2 Real MadridBarça shrug off Szczesny red card after first-half blitz“I don’t know what’s going on with the clásicos but they have been a bit mad recently,” Carlo Ancelotti had said and here was another one. There had been 35 goals in the last 10 meetings between these two great rivals and there were seven more in the final of the Spanish Super Cup. The only pity was that it happened in the wrong place. FC Barcelona had put four past Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu in October; now they went one better on their way to an extraordinary 5-2 victory, 5,000km away in Jeddah, a night when they played with two goalkeepers ending with a third, the injured captain Marc Andre ter Stegen, lifting the trophy.Barcelona had finished a man down and started a goal down, Wojciech Szczęsny beaten early and sent off later, but ultimately it didn’t matter. Hansi Flick’s side were just too good. Exceptional in fact, Raphinha tireless until he was withdrawn, cram...

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27 hours ago 'My house exploded in LA Fires and I watched it all happen on my Ring doorbell'

Evan Brau, 52, was left devastated after the brutal wildfires claimed his home in the Pacific Palisades as he was forced to watch the home he lived in with his wife and two children go up in smoke

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16 hours ago Barcelona thrash Real Madrid in chaotic clásico Spanish Super Cup final

Spanish Super Cup final: Barcelona 5-2 Real MadridBarça shrug off Szczesny red card after first-half blitz“I don’t know what’s going on with the clásicos but they have been a bit mad recently,” Carlo Ancelotti had said and here was another one. There had been 35 goals in the last 10 meetings between these two great rivals and there were seven more in the final of the Spanish Super Cup. The only pity was that it happened in the wrong place. FC Barcelona had put four past Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu in October; now they went one better on their way to an extraordinary 5-2 victory, 5,000km away in Jeddah, a night when they played with two goalkeepers ending with a third, the injured captain Marc Andre ter Stegen, lifting the trophy.Barcelona had finished a man down and started a goal down, Wojciech Szczęsny beaten early and sent off later, but ultimately it didn’t matter. Hansi Flick’s side were just too good. Exceptional in fact, Raphinha tireless until he was withdrawn, cram...

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30 hours ago Man puts 25 dynamite sticks in mum's suitcase before plane explodes killing all on board

John 'Jack' Gilbert Graham hated him mum so much that he packed her suitcase bound for a flight to Alaska with 25 sticks of dynamite, ultimately killing all 44 people on board

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