It’s time to celebrate celery with a soothing soup, and a nice potato pancake to go with itMost of the soup I make is in an effort to deal with my over-enthusiasm at the shops, a need to tidy up a vegetable rack overflowing with beetroot or leeks. A case of waste not, want not rather than to spotlight a vegetable in season. The results can be good or less so, depending on just how many turnips and swedes I am also trying to get rid of. This week, I made soup simply to celebrate a particularly fine head of celery.I carried it home with my shopping, the celery’s plume of leaves poking pertly from my bag. The soup was good, using the entire head, or at least those stalks I hadn’t torn away and munched raw the moment I arrived home. The like-it-or-loathe-it vegetable was mellowed and sweetened by sour cream and potato. Continue reading...

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The 2025 edition of WWE's Royal Rumble will air on Netflix for the first time ever, live from Indianapolis, as stars including John Cena, CM Punk and Roman Reigns do battle in the annual spectacular

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Six years ago, the Royal Mint created one million special edition Brexit 50p coins. However, the coins never saw the light of day due to a manufacturing error and were instead approved to be destroyed.

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Here, FEMAIL rounds up a selection of the most questionable sketches for you to put your star-spotting abilities to the test. Scroll down to see them all - then check your answers at the bottom...

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Jessica Alba 's personal life has been back in the spotlight after she confirmed her split from her husband Cash Warren this month and declared she was 'embarking on a new chapter of growth.'

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Tesco shoppers have been left frustrated after spotting a yellow sticker glitch, meaning they don't know how much they have saved on the supermarket giant's discounted items

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It started five years ago. Roo Powell was working at a tech company and wanted to expose just how many predators lurk online, looking for kids to target.

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Outage comes on HMRC’s deadline day for settling self-assessment tax returns and a pay day for many workersA serious IT glitch has left some Barclays customers locked out of their accounts throughout the night and almost 24 hours on from the bank’s initial outage.Barclays has apologised to customers and said it was “currently facing intermittent errors” with its payment system. “We’re working to fix this as quickly as possible,” it said. Continue reading...

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Leicester City boss Ruud van Nistelrooy is ready to make do with his current squad if the club do fail to bring in new recruits - despite being given assurances over the transfer situation

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On Friday, the bank apologised to its customers, acknowledging 'intermittent errors' with their payment system and assuring that they were 'working to fix this as quickly as possible.'

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Mail Opinion says it is essential that by the conclusion everything possible is known so that every possible lesson can be learned.

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On top of the added levels of noise and air pollution, there’s the non-trivial matter of demolishing hundreds of homes, diverting several waterways and rerouting a long stretch of the M25Ladies and gentlemen, the captain has illuminated the “fasten seat belts” sign. Not only have Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves run into severe turbulence over Heathrow, the flight deck deliberately steered the Labour plane into storm clouds. That’s an interesting choice for a government that was already buffeted by serious unpopularity and it’s a choice that a lot of their own party are struggling to explain to themselves. Anger about the chancellor’s new commitment to back the expansion of the London airport and others is mingled with bewilderment. A lot of Labour people are scratching their heads trying to work out why she wants to burn political capital on a hugely contentious project that couldn’t possibly be complete until long after she’s done at the Treasury and Sir Keir is gone from Number...

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Stevenage is one of 500 UK towns where threatened closures will affect local retailers and the publishing tradeWH Smith sale could turn high street into ‘book desert’, authors sayJust two shop floor staff are on duty and shoppers are mostly serving themselves at shouty automated tills in WH Smith’s Stevenage branch, where there are boxes of goods on the floor, some empty shelves and missing signage.Set in a faded shopping centre that was cutting-edge when it heralded Great Britain’s first new town in 1965 but is now gap-toothed with empty stores, WH Smith in Stevenage is a clear example of what is at stake for 500 communities across Britain whose local store is now at risk. Continue reading...

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An island off the coast of Brazil is home to a deadly and critically endangered creature whose bite causes rapid tissue death, internal bleeding and kidney failure in humans

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‘Mexican Monster’ beats Morrell by unanimous decisionBenavidez improves to 30-0 with one-sided victoryStephen Fulton wins WBC featherweight belt in co-mainDavid Benavidez unified the light heavyweight championship by earning a unanimous decision over challenger David Morrell on Saturday night to keep his interim WBC belt and win the WBA title.Judges Patricia Morse Jarman and Steve Weisfeld both scored the fight 115-111 while Tim Cheatham scored it 118-108. Continue reading...

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Wedged between a used car dealership, a Maserati garage and aquarium superstore, lies Crust MCR is a self-styled Italian kitchen serving up fresh Neapolitan pizzas

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Queen Camilla, whose mother died in agony of osteoporosis, is the president of the charity, having supported it since 1994.

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The performance artist shocked 1980s London with his surreal outfits, outlandish lifestyle and collaborations with Lucian Freud, dancer Michael Clark and others. As a major exhibition opens at Tate Modern, family and friends talk about Bowery’s larger-than-life legacyIn October 1980, 19 year-old Leigh Bowery arrived in London from the small Australian town of Sunshine in suburban Melbourne. He brought with him a single suitcase and a portable sewing machine. A few months later, he spent his first Christmas away from home in a rented bedsit feeling depressed and lonely. On 31 December, he attempted to raise his spirits by writing down his new year resolutions:1. Get weight down to 12 stone. 2. Learn as much as possible. 3. Become established in the world of art, fashion or literature. 4. Wear makeup every day. Continue reading...

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JONATHAN McEVOY: Times change, not always for the worse, just usually, and now it was a 4.45pm kick-off in Dublin and Eddie Jones  was paraded as the new star signing of ITV's coverage.

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Transport minister Jo Haylen admits ‘I made the wrong decision’ after ministerial car booked out for 13 hours for Hunter Valley lunch at wineryGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe NSW transport minister, Jo Haylen, has apologised after using her ministerial driver to chauffeur her and some friends to and from a three-hour private lunch on the Australia Day weekend – at a cost of $750.“I made the wrong decision,” Haylen said on Sunday when apologising and confirming she would repay the money for the 13-hour, 446km trip to the Hunter Valley.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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One helped herself to a basketful of items and her antics on TikTok

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The 18-year-old demolished the former world number two by winning eight straight legs and averaging 105.47.

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The 40-year-old was spotted wrapped up in a full-length woollen coat, black hoodie and a beanie, paired with a pair of burgundy Adidas Sambas and red socks, as she charged her new motor.

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Eoin O’Faodhagain said he spotted the creature which 'could only be Nessie' while watching the live feed from a webcam that is trained on the waters of Loch Ness allowing viewers to seek Nessie

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Prison bosses have revealed they are worried about the very possible prospect of drones being used to lift inmates up and out of jail. They are already being used to deliver drugs into cells

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The Princess of Wales has reportedly decided that the public focus should be on the causes that she is spotlighting rather than her clothing, according to a palace source

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Accies slipped into the relegation play-off spot in the Championship amid mounting fury from fans over recent displays

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Tottenham Hotspur supporters are the biggest baldies, it has been revealed, in a poll of 2,000 footie fans. Singer Phil Collins and actor Jude Law are two famous slapheads to follow the team

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Police want to close the mill until it is 'deemed safe'

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‘[S]he’s an actor,’ retired police detective Jose Martinez says in Episode 1 of Scamanda. ‘She’s in that character 24/7’

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY CHARLOTTE DALY: Matt Floyd, the Australian boxer with a troubled past, has spoken exclusively to Mail Sport about his ongoing negotiations for a fight with Tommy Fury.

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The 2025 edition of WWE's Royal Rumble will air on Netflix for the first time ever, live from Indianapolis, as stars including John Cena, CM Punk and Roman Reigns do battle in the annual spectacular

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Scotland needs whistleblowing office so that concerns about possible child abuse, sexual and physical, can be reported and investigated more quickly

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Change of strip makes no difference for Dons

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Carolyn Shepherd lived in fear every single day thanks to her controlling husband's actions but reveals what eventually gave her the strength to finally leave after years of abuse

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The Egyptian adds another gear to Manchester City’s shift to more direct play with a short-passing game as backup Everything is new. Everything is different. Omar Marmoush steps off the plane at Manchester Airport and what greets him is a kind of sensory overload. He peers through blacked-out windows of his chauffeured car at the city he now calls home. “What are the names of the supermarkets?” he asks. “Tesco,” comes the reply. “Asda. Sainsbury’s. Aldi.”On the pitch, it’s a similar story. “He has something special,” Erling Haaland confirms after a dynamic debut against Chelsea last Saturday night. “He’s going to be a fantastic player for us. It’s about getting to know him as soon as possible, because there are so many important games coming.” Continue reading...

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Arne Slot’s team are masters of making their opponents, Bournemouth this time, look as if they are in poor formLiverpool this season have been very good at being good enough. There have been very few games in which they’ve dismantled the opposition. They have won fewer league games by more than three goals than Tottenham have, but ended the day nine points clear at the top with their closest rivals to play the defending champions on Sunday. If Liverpool do, as they surely will, go on to win the title, it will have been an old-fashioned sort of success, a league won not by the spectacular or the flamboyant but by consistency and calmness, by ruthless accumulation.This was Liverpool’s sixth 2-0 win in the league; more than a quarter of their games so far. It’s a scoreline that speaks of control, of winning games with a little to spare, taking freakish equalisers, ill luck and odd refereeing decisions out of the equation, without being flashy and demanding overexertion: 2-0 is the scor...

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The Diamonds made it back-to-back league wins for the first time this season

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The Antarctic 'alien' was spotted by a social media user looking at satellite imagery of the area, with some speculating it could be related to as similar mysterious 'face' on Mars

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The Eighties are back – but with it spots like Fort Lauderdale in Florida. Christian Adams revisits the sunshine state after three decades.

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The decision to award Liverpool a penalty after Lewis Cook's challenge on Cody Gakpo was checked for two separate possible transgressions before Mo Salah dispatched the spotkick

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