3 hours ago 'I've gained 5 dress sizes but stopping one behaviour made me accept my curves'

A woman, who once hated her body, is now unashamed of going from a size 6 to 16 after realising that punishing herself with exercise or food is not the answer - and now wants others to grow in confidence too

Politics

32 hours ago Nearly £3m of free school meal debt wiped out during cost of living crisis

Green MSP Ross Greer hailed the write-off after his party had pushed for a fund to help parents.

Economics

36 hours ago The Traitors fans left 'emotional wrecks' as the contestants open up during heartfelt dinner party

During the meal every revealed plans for how they'd spend the show's prize money as shared insight into their lives away from the castle.

Sport

73 minutes ago 'I've gained 5 dress sizes but I will never diet again thanks to stopping behaviour'

A woman, who once hated her body, has opened up about going from a size 6 to 16 after realising that punishing herself with exercise or food is not the answer - and now she hopes to inspire others

Events

22 hours ago 'I spoke to Dr Hilary Jones about processed food – what he said changed my diet'

We are often told that ultra-processed foods aren't good for us, but I didn't realise what they were doing to my body until I spoke to ITV's Dr Hilary Jones. What he said has transformed my diet

Events

7 hours ago This disturbing new rental trend shows just how broken Britain’s housing market really is

It only takes a quick skim through London’s depressingly exploitative ‘room for rent’ adverts to realise that live-in landlords are inflicting increasingly unreasonable conditions on their tenants. Helen Coffey investigates the creeping practice that restricts a lodger’s access to their own room and asks the experts whether there is any legal pushback

Politics

22 hours ago 'I gave my son a name to embrace his Irish roots – but I can't pronounce it'

A mum has been criticised online after a run-in with an Irish person made her realise she doesn't know how to pronounce her own son's name – as some have called her 'cruel'

Politics

27 hours ago Marketing expert says Charlie Bigham meals have wooden packaging for 'genius' reason

Charlie Bigham is seen by many as the ready meal king despite its higher price – and this marketing expert explains why. The packaging could be more important than you think

Politics

28 hours ago A cold boiled egg pot may be a convenient shot of protein, but where’s the joy in that? | Lucy Dearlove

Somewhere between protein powders and chicken breasts in plastic containers, I fear the pursuit of wellness has become a thief of joyLast year, I needed to eat on the go between exercising and an evening class. Frequently, I would find myself striding up a hill in the dark eating cold boiled eggs from a plastic pot. The eggs had been cooked into submission, with a grey ring around the chalky yolk that plastered itself across my tongue and teeth. The whites were rubbery, and the bottom of the pot held a little pool of mysterious cloudy water that made me shudder.So why choose to eat the cursed eggs? I’m clearly not alone: Tesco recently revealed that boiled egg pots have ousted crisps from the top spot in its meal-deal league table (other retailers have reported equivalent growth in the snack’s popularity). It’s possible to read the “egg protein pot” as evidence of a joyless nation – a variation on the “joyless tubes”, the term the English writer Douglas Adams gave to sausages, bolst...

Politics

29 hours ago Meera Sodha’s veghan recipe for lemon mousse with fennel seed shortbread | The new vegan

All the freshness of a posset and all the cool crumbliness of a good shortbread – and all without the dairyI didn’t know there was shortbread beyond Walker’s until I was in my mid-20s and working (briefly) at the Dock Kitchen, where, under the guidance of chef Richard Blackwell, I whipped up a batch. Each mouthful was unlike any other biscuit; it was rich, buttery, crumbly and melted enthusiastically in my mouth. I imagine it’s for this reason that shortbread is often paired with sharp and creamy posset, a smooth set cream and citrus dessert on which today’s mousse is based. The fennel seed, with its sweet, green flavour, acts as an excellent chaperone, helping to ease any tension between mousse and shortbread. Continue reading...

Politics

30 hours ago Prime Target: Leo Woodall is TV’s most charmless man in this rollickingly silly maths thriller

This entertaining, high concept drama rattles along at quite the pace. It’s very watchable, even if its main character is a sullen grump – and it can feel like prestige TV by numbersEvery actor needs a speciality; Leo Woodall just happens to be really good at portraying total arseholes. In the irresistibly grubby second season of luxury hotel-based The White Lotus, he was smarmy Essex boy Jack, the “naughty nephew” of an apparently affluent British expat. But as his poor gullible mark Portia discovered, this cheeky chappy was, in fact, a manipulative conman. Next, he starred as Dexter Mayhew in Netflix’s note-perfect adaptation of David Nicholls’s romantic odyssey One Day. The handsome, privileged Dex was just about bearable until he became a TV presenter – at which point his natural talents for narcissism, cruelty and carelessness really started to shine through.By all accounts, Woodall’s talent for playing unpleasant men bears no relation to his actual personality – but the 28-yea...

Politics