1 hour ago Coatbridge Slimming World consultant highlights how you don't have to miss out on your favourite foods to lose weight

Stacey McKendrick who runs two Slimming World groups in Coatbridge's Calder Parish Church hall, gave her advice to deal with FOMO (fear of missing out) concerns.

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1 hour ago Trump admits Republicans ‘likely’ to lose midterm elections unless they go ‘nuclear’ and end Senate filibuster

Republican senators are unlikely to heed his demand to drop the chamber’s supermajority requirement for most bills as it could end up giving Democrats the same power down the line

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2 h. ago Is home buying in Britain broken? More than HALF of movers have had a property chain collapse

Broken chains mean movers miss out on their dream home, lose money on fees and can be faced with a scramble to find somewhere temporary to live.

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2 h. ago Vaping overtakes smoking in Britain for first time after generational shift

Campaigners welcome Office for National Statistics data showing 5.4 million people now vape compared to 4.9 million smokers

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4 h. ago Best iPad Black Friday 2025 deals, plus early offers to shop now

I’m expecting to see huge discounts on the iPad Pro, iPad Air and 11th-generation iPad this month

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5 h. ago Everton star brands January transfer rumour ‘complete lie’ after difficult start to season

Everton could lose defender Vitalii Mykolenko for nothing in the summer, with his current contract set to expire, but the Ukraine international says he wants to stay

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6 h. ago ‘You definitely felt disposable’: models – one 27, one 62 – discuss Botox, weight loss, creativity and the threat of AI

Modelling has changed hugely over the decades. Two models from different generations discuss the highs and lows of the industry, from the joy of travel and dressing up to predatory behaviour and physical pressuresIt’s easy to think of models as people whose lives are full of glitz and glamour, who “don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day”. But according to New York-based Danielle Mareka, 27, and 62-year-old Dee O, who lives in London, the reality for most models is a constant hustle to get noticed.That’s not to mention keeping up with the fashion world’s changing landscape: since O began modelling in 1983, the internet and social media have transformed the way the industry operates. And models are now navigating innovations such as AI models appearing in Vogue and the impact of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs on the sector. O and Mareka met to discuss their careers past and present. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Andrew Wiggins: how a shy NBA player negotiated growing up a star in the social media era

In an extract from his new book on the rise of Canadian basketball, Oren Weisfeld examines the pressures of being a teenage star in the modern gameAndrew Wiggins was among the first superstar prospects of the social media era. Born in Thornhill, Ontario just north of Toronto, Wiggins was known internationally by the time he was 13. It wasn’t always easy for the shy, small-town kid to embrace the spotlight.After just one full season at Vaughan, Wiggins needed better competition than Canada could provide and moved on to Huntington Prep in Huntington, West Virginia — a relatively new prep school set in a small, blue-collar, sports-oriented college town near Kansas.This is an edited extract from The Golden Generation: How Canada Became a Basketball Powerhouse by Oren Weisfeld. It’s published by ECW Press for $19.95 (USD) wherever you get your books. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Vermin and overflowing bins concerns ahead of new waste collection schedule

The new schedule has been introduced by West Dunbartonshire Council - starting next week - with the aim of boosting recycling rates and generating cost savings.

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8 h. ago There Was, There Was Not review – how four women’s dreams are destroyed by the shock of war

Emily Mkrtichian’s feature debut was shot in the now defunct republic of Artsakh, a tender, intimate meditation on the impermanence of lifeWith a title taken from the traditional opening phrase of Armenian fairytales, Emily Mkrtichian’s feature debut hints at the impermanence of life itself. Shot in the now defunct republic of Artsakh, the film follows four extraordinary women who find their hopes and ambitions cruelly derailed by war. The breakaway state was formed in 1991, after decades of political discrimination under the Soviet Union and military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. For the predominantly Armenian population here, their peace has always been under threat.The personal journeys of Mkrtichian’s subjects feel even more remarkable in the face of these uncertainties. A judo champion, Sose aspires to represent her country at the Olympics; Siranush campaigns to be on the city council; and Gayane runs a support group for women. For those living in Artsakh, memories o...

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12 h. ago ‘I felt violated’: the Italian women taking on porn sites over doctored images

Giorgia Meloni, Sophia Loren and writer Francesca Barra among prominent figures to have ‘nudified’ photos posted on sexist forumsAs she reeled from the discovery of a pornographic website featuring AI-generated images of herself naked, the prominent Italian journalist and writer Francesca Barra said the question that struck her the most came from her young daughter.“She asked me: ‘how do you feel?’,” Barra, 47, said. “But what I heard was another more subtle question that my pre-adolescent daughter perhaps didn’t have the courage to ask, and that was: ‘If it happened to me, how would I handle it?’.” Continue reading...

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12 h. ago ‘I felt violated’: the Italian women taking on pornography sites over doctored images

Giorgia Meloni, Sophia Loren and writer Francesca Barra among prominent figures to have ‘nudified’ photos posted on sexist forumsAs she reeled from the discovery of a pornographic website featuring AI-generated images of herself naked, the prominent Italian journalist and writer Francesca Barra said the question that struck her the most came from her young daughter.“She asked me: ‘how do you feel?’,” Barra, 47, said. “But what I heard was another more subtle question that my pre-adolescent daughter perhaps didn’t have the courage to ask, and that was: ‘If it happened to me, how would I handle it?’.” Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Aspiration to own a ‘forever’ home is ‘losing relevance for younger generations’

Nearly a quarter of homeowners aged 34 and under view homes as financial assets to be leveraged at the right time, according to a survey for Zoopla.

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17 h. ago The dream of a ‘forever home’ is losing relevance. Here’s why

Traditionally, people sought to buy a property that they could live in for decades

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19 h. ago More than $70tn of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists warn

Expert panel says report on gap in global wealth between rich and poor highlights need for intervention by G20More than $70tn (£53tn) of inherited wealth will pass down the generations across the world over the next decade, widening inequality and highlighting the need for intervention by the G20 group of leading nations, a group of economists and campaigners have warned.In a report ahead of the G20 meetings in Johannesburg, hosted by the South African government later this month, the expert panel said the gap in global wealth between rich and poor will widen over the next decade without a permanent monitoring group such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago World Cup fans set to descend on home turf of Mexico’s most powerful cartel despite rocket launcher attack and mass grave

Hundreds of garments and burned bone fragments were found at a ranch in the state earlier this year

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21 h. ago Chile to end Pinochet henchmen’s pampered prison life of tennis and barbecues

Punta Peuco – where military human rights offenders enjoy privileged conditions – set to join public prison networkInmates at an infamous high-security military prison in Chile, which houses the perpetrators of dictatorship-era human rights crimes, are set to lose their privileged conditions under plans to incorporate the prison into the public prison network.President Gabriel Boric announced on Monday that Punta Peuco is being transformed into a regular prison to help deal with overcrowding in the penitentiary system. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Arsenal lose fixture row with Crystal Palace despite Mikel Arteta's 'not fair' plea

Arsenal were drawn at home to Crystal Palace in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup, presenting the EFL with a fixture headache due to the Eagles' participation in the Conference League

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23 h. ago Gardener paralysed after falling from a ladder trimming a multimillionaire couple's trees loses £1million High Court compensation bid after judge rules he was not their employee

Barry Relph, 59, fell from the step ladder while clearing branches from a conifer overlooking the John and Joanna Meager's tennis court at the couple's £2.3 million Surrey Home.

Economics

27 h. ago The generational divide is so overrated – here’s how I crossed it and forged new friendships | Zoya Patel

I have the benefit of friends who are both much younger and older than me. Our exchanges of ideas and points of view are making me a better personIt seems like intergenerational warfare is everywhere right now. Aside from the fact that it’s the burden of every generation to feel misunderstood by those older than them, and to condescend to those younger, the current tension between baby boomers, gen X, millennials and gen Z does seem to run deeper.Those of us in the latter two categories blame everyone older than us for the dire state of the world today (a viewpoint that sometimes ignores the fact that the world has been getting worse since the big bang). And let’s face it, it’s impossible to not be bewildered and feel attacked by people younger than you when they automatically dismiss your life experiences, start speaking seemingly in code (I still don’t know what “six-seven” means) and laugh at your idea of fashion. Continue reading...

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