68 minutes ago 'The trouble hadn't begun with sex... he'd begun to doubt if he really liked his wife': Read acclaimed author TESSA HADLEY'S new short story Treasure only here

Millie, aged six, was on her way to school; she sat strapped into her booster seat in the back of her father's car. Improbably, beyond the car windows, it was snowing - a sleety, mushy kind of snow...

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76 minutes ago A row over a playing field fence is dividing opinions in a Welsh village

It said the pitches needed protection from damage and dog mess but people who want public access to the land aren't happy

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84 minutes ago Bukayo Saka's fears grow over hamstring injury as Arsenal star could miss crucial spell

Bukayo Saka was forced off early into Arsenal's hammering of Crystal Palace on Saturday evening, with boss Mikel Arteta left fearing the winger will be out for a lengthy spell

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1 hour ago Jeremy Clarkson suffers 'total disaster' at Farmer's Dog pub after 'losing fortune'

Jeremy Clarkson has suffered a "total disaster" at his pub, The Farmer's Dog, in the run-up to Christmas as the presenter admitted he had been "naive" about the huge project

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1 hour ago Palantir and Anduril join forces with tech groups to bid for Pentagon contracts

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2 hours ago Desperate homeless people kicked out of pod houses by council and forced to live on the street for 'unspeakable' reason

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2 hours ago Giovanni Pernice says he is 'back' after 'a difficult year' as he thanks UK and Irish fans for their support after winning Italian version of Strictly

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2 hours ago Man, 38, named after being killed when Volkswagen Golf hit parked car on Scottish street

The 38-year-old was a passenger in the Volkswagen Golf that collided with a parked car

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4 hours ago Miracle survival for people in plane crash stuck on minus 24C mountainside for three days

The two pilots and a passenger, aged 71, 68 and 25, managed to survive the minus 24C conditions after digging a hole in the snow and burning fuel from their downed An-2 aircraft

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5 hours ago I had 25 addresses in 20 years – but now I’ve created the beginnings of a new life | Jay Bernard

Gentrification and the cruelties of the rental market kept forcing me to move. This Christmas, I know I’ll find happiness wherever I amIn our end of year series, writers and public figures remember the place or time when they felt most at homeAfter a while, you want to live alone. And then it happens and you discover everything that’s difficult about it. You realise that you didn’t really want to live alone, you were just sad and alienated in your old life.The pandemic reshuffled society in a way that could not be anticipated. Sometimes it feels as though the life I now have has come about because I stepped through a portal to a parallel world. There is a disconcerting jump cut between life before Covid-19 and life now. In the history of unstable housing that characterised my 20s and early 30s, and about which I feel nothing but regret, there was a moment when it changed from an unquestioned, if depressing reality, to something emblematic.Jay Bernard is a writer and artist Continue ...

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