48 minutes ago ‘I am nothing if not persistent’: Lesley Imgart, winner of our graphic short story prize 2024

It was fifth time lucky for Imgart in this year’s Observer/Faber award for emerging cartoonists, with her spellbinding tale about the life of a young witchRead winner Lesley Imgart’s Witch Way? hereRead runner-up Elly Bazigos’s LANSA Flight 508 hereSpeaking to the winner of the annual Observer/Faber graphic short story prize is always a highlight of my year, but this time around the experience was especially lovely. Lesley Imgart, whose brilliant broomstick-ridden story Witch Way? we publish today, has entered the competition five times in the past six years, and when she talks to me from her home in Edinburgh, she still sounds amazed finally to have triumphed. “It’s unbelievable,” she says. “It was this thing I just did every year I keep forgetting I’ve won, and then 15 minutes later, ...

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2 hours ago 'I always do one thing before getting on plane – it gets me the best seat'

A travel influencer has shared a 'flight hack' that she claims sometimes allows her to choose the best seat on the plane - it doesn't always work, but could be worth a try

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4 hours ago I was duped out of £230 by a dodgy meet and greet parking service at Gatwick Airport... they never arrived and only answered my call TWO MINUTES before my flight

EXCLUSIVE: Ella Alcindor from Suffolk was duped out of £230 after a 'meet and greet' parking service at Gatwick Airport called her two minutes before her flight and never arrived to pick up her car. 

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5 hours ago The hidden gem Christmas market named one of the best in Europe a flight from Manchester Airport

Christmas markets are popping up in towns and cities across Europe

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10 hours ago Former Tory Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi tipped to receive peerage in Rishi Sunak's resignation honours list

Mr Zahawi did not contest his Stratford-on-Avon seat in this year's election and was sacked last year as Tory Party chairman over omissions about his tax affairs.

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10 hours ago Doctor warns ‘dangerous’ TikTok weight loss hack should be ‘left in the 70s’

The Coffee Loophole diet has been taking TikTok by storm, but a doctor highlighted the major 'red flag'

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14 hours ago Bombshell new clue may finally crack DB Cooper case 53 years after hijacker escaped out of plane with $200k

The enigma behind DB Cooper, the man who jumped out of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 with thousands in cash has long racked sleuths brains and stumped the FBI.

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18 hours ago UK justice secretary attacks assisted dying bill as ‘state death service’

Shabana Mahmood has written to her constituents saying she is ‘profoundly concerned’ about Friday’s Commons voteMPs will be placing the country on a “slippery slope towards death on demand” if they back legislation on assisted dying in England and Wales this week, the lord chancellor and justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has said in a letter to constituents before a historic Commons vote on Friday.Mahmood has received numerous letters about the bill from people in her Birmingham Ladywood seat, which has a big Muslim population, and sent out replies saying that she was “profoundly concerned” about the legislation, not only for religious reasons but also because of what it would mean for the role of the state if one of its functions became helping people to die. Continue reading...

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18 hours ago Barry Hawkins sends Ronnie O’Sullivan out of UK Championship in first round

Hawkins comes from 4-2 down to seal 6-4 victoryDefending champion O’Sullivan: ‘I’m used to it’Ronnie O’Sullivan crashed out on the opening day of the UK Championship with a 6-4 defeat by Barry Hawkins in York. Hawkins reeled off four frames in a row to haul back a 4-2 deficit and clinch only his third win over O’Sullivan, the defending champion, in 21 career attempts.It was a remarkable revival by the 45-year-old Hawkins, who compiled four consecutive half-centuries that left the eight-time champion stuck in his seat for three straight frames. Continue reading...

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