The Green Machine looks to be on the backburner as the Dutch superstar shakes things up

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Our head of shopping was stopped in her Pilates class by a woman wanting to know the name of her perfume, but the scent was from a cheap box of 'incredible' in-wash scent boosters

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The Simple Sabotage Field Manual is going viral! All the kids are reading itSign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are publishedGet all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

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Defense sources confirmed the nature of the training exercise, after internet sleuths had floated a theory online that it was doing exactly what sources say.

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The Grade II listed three-storey mansion has been called the 'White House of Britain' and went on sale for £250m

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If you're not a fan of the January gym rush, this affordable foldable step machine is a great way to squeeze in a workout without even having to leave your house

Economics

The staggering cost of welfare in the UK has exceeded even Government caps by £8.6billion

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Nigel Farage compared Reform’s polling rise to Donald Trump's US election victory, declaring “There's going to be an earthquake in British politics”.

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves is said to be pushing to lift trade barriers with Brussels. But other ministers and officials fear this will lead to Labour haemorrhaging support to Reform UK.

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James McMurdock, who did not publicly disclose before election his conviction 18 years ago, meets party vetting standardsA Reform MP who was convicted of assaulting his girlfriend 18 years ago will not be suspended and would pass the party’s new vetting process, the party’s deputy leader has said.Richard Tice has defended James McMurdock’s assault on his ex-girlfriend as a “mistake” and said his fellow MP was “doing brilliantly”. Continue reading...

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Nigel Farage is set to hold a rally with Reform UK members in Kemi Badenoch’s constituency on Friday evening

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The singer, famous for forming a band with her sisters, died at the age of 65 in January

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Beloved Noughties band The Kooks spoke to The Mirror after wowing fans at an exclusive London club night ahead of their release of their new album

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Voters in Biden’s home town turned to Trump to lower prices, but some are wary of the president’s economic plansThe annual Downtown on Ice festival is under way in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Ice sculptures are dotted around the city – there was little chance of them melting as an Arctic blast pulled temperatures down to 15F (-9C).Inside Boscov’s, a 100-year-old department store, Sue Sloan says she can’t wait for spring. The 60–year-old housekeeper says she’s also looking for other changes. “Everything is so expensive,” she says. “Food prices, eggs, meat, gas, electricity, everything. It’s terrible,” she says. Continue reading...

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The rally in Quendon, North West Essex, is expected to see speeches from all five of Reform's MPs with the party boasting the area is a 'target seat'.

Events

Although the Royal Family has a plethora of long-established rules and protocols that need to be followed, the most important one has always been to bow or curtsey to the monarch.

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Interest in 49-year-old's fitness regime came after he stripped down to tight underwear and flaunted his washboard abs in the risqué images, as part of a new partnership with BOSS.

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A patchwork of armed opposition groups have made major gains over the past year, with the military facing further losses The streets of Lashio, a once bustling city in north-eastern Myanmar, are quieter than usual. Schools are shut, except for those run by volunteers from the pro-democracy resistance in the community. Months of airstrikes have left destruction. Even though the fighting has stopped, electricity is still not running properly. Instead, residents rely on solar power to charge their phones, and firewood and charcoal to cook.“We saw a lot of civilians who died during the battle [in those days]. We saw them on the streets, on the lanes, some of the bodies were decayed and some of them were freshly dead. Some died in their homes,” said Leo*, a 40-year-old driver, whose family spent months living with constant bombardments by the military, running to hide in the darkness of a homemade bunker each time jet fighters came. Continue reading...

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"Had a problem with condensation and resulting black mould. This machine solved the problem."

Politics

It's the end of January at last. Of those who made New Years resolutions to get fit, only the stragglers remain on the treadmill.

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The deputy leader said James McMurdock was someone who had ‘got things wrong, learnt from it and has grown and succeeded’.

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If you've ever wanted to blow up the guns of Navarone or bust some dams or plot a great escape, then Sniper Elite: Resistance is the game for you.

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Men are being shamed online for attending expensive boutique fitness classes as female content creators call them out for grunting, slurping, and breathing heavily. 

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An armed convict escaped from Standford Hill open prison in Kent before using a makeshift weapon to force a nurse to drive him to a cash machine, reports say. 

Events

Alcohol tax will rise in line with RPI inflation at 3.6 per cent, while a new system to tax wines and spirits based on strength will also be introduced at the same time.

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John Swinney says any Reform MSPs elected in 2026 may not stick to the vision of a cohesive and united parliament.

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Scottish TikTok content creators @weescottycleaners shared a hack that will save you a fortune.

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Exclusive: The latest Techne UK tracker poll for The Independent comes as Nigel Farage prepares to hold a Reform UK rally in Kemi Badenoch’s Essex constituency

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Sometimes a petty disagreement can become a lifelong grudge. Louis Chilton picks 11 of the most notorious feuds between musical collaborators

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Forget tatty cast-offs – the secondhand marketplace is now the first port of call for the savvy shopperThe rise of secondhand fashion is an enormously cheering thing, and in a world not currently over-blessed with hugely cheering things, it is worth taking a moment to celebrate.In a short space of time, the pre-loved fashion economy has gone from being niche – vintage stores full of antique silk dresses at the top end, jumble sale tat at the other, not much in the middle – to a viable way to source every part of your wardrobe. The marketplace of new-to-you clothes, rather than new-to-the-world clothes, is now an aspirational, respectable, efficient, affordable place to shop. Not just for the pieces that have always been associated with secondhand (tea dresses for retro dressers, rare jeans for denim nerds) but for straight-down-the-middle mainstream wardrobe stuff. Your cousin’s North Face puffer jacket? £45 from Vinted. Your line manager’s Zara blazer? £18 courtesy of Depop. The Pr...

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SNP infighting over Nicola Sturgeon’s legacy and the direction of the party could flare up again

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He's been an expensive understudy this season but Kyogo's exit has thrust Irishman into the limelight

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Reform chairman Zia Yusuf has hit out at Donald Trump for “political point scoring” after the deadly Washington DC plane crash.

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