55 minutes ago Still hanging on to your old diaries and teenage photos? Chuck them out – and start to live | Nell Frizzell

I’m moving house, which means coming face to face with a lifetime of mementos. I feel a burden lifting with each item I bin, donate or recycleThere is a particular sort of box that lurks in every home, full of “memorabilia” or “mementos”. Baby teeth, divorce certificates, spare keys for locks unknown, your granny’s old Padre Pio fridge magnet, the tenancy agreement for your last flat: the whole thing is rank with association, emotion, nostalgia and pain. That box is my nemesis. That box is doom.Because I decided that turning 40, being pregnant and training for a second career wasn’t enough to be getting on with in a single month, I am also in the lucky position of moving house. Which means opening various drawers, boxes, cupboards and ring binders, only to discover a pit of painful sent...

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55 minutes ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing's Chris McCausland's latest odds revealed as 'huge shock' prediction made

Strictly Come Dancing's Chris McCausland has been a favourite to win the BBC talent show for some time and as the series nears its end, bookies reveal a ‘huge shock’ prediction

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80 minutes ago Andy Murray shares heartbreaking family loss just hours after landing shock new job

The tennis legend took to social media to share the devastating news

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85 minutes ago Rufus Wainwright offers ‘most controversial opinion’ as he names Chappell Roan as favourite artist

Musician said the ‘bar needed to be raised’ when it came to a specific community of pop fans

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1 hour ago Trump’s White House is filling with alleged sexual abusers ... led by him

As the far right celebrates a win for their gender, a raft of people accused of misconduct is named for the cabinet Donald Trump was found civilly liable last year for the defamation and sexual abuse of the writer E Jean Carroll - just one of the more than 27 women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. In January 2025, he will again be president of the United States – the first to take office with a court-adjudicated history of sex crimes.And it seems he’s eager to pack the White House with people just like him. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Reasons behind Man City's poor form suggested following shock Tottenham defeat

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3 hours ago Andy Murray’s next career move is not as surprising as you might think

Murray will coach his long-time rival Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open, but a shock new partnership has deep roots

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3 hours ago Hopes of finding mystery shooter who killed dad on doorstep as new murder evidence emerges

New evidence in the murder of Alistair Wilson has seen ex-Met officer Peter Bleksley suggest the information could be beneficial to the investigation, which has been ongoing for nearly 20 years

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3 hours ago Trump voters hail controversial cabinet picks as the government they want

Trump voters in the American heartland are excited, even as senior Republicans are less than enthusiastic about some of the president-elect’s choicesIn the American heartland, they’re excited. Finally, say voters who put Donald Trump into the White House for a second time, they are about to get the president they wanted all along.Even as leading Democrats decry Trump’s cabinet nominations as “agents of his contempt, rage and vengeance”, the former and future president’s supporters are interpreting the selections as evidence that he has finally broken free of the Washington establishment. Continue reading...

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