5 h. ago Two women die after being pulled from water in Eryri national park

Officers were called to reports that one woman had been pulled from a pool close to the Watkin Path in Nant Gwynant, Gwynedd

Events

14 h. ago Tamara de Lempicka’s ‘remarkable nude’ of lover Rafaëla to be auctioned

La Belle Rafaëla by ‘revolutionary’ art deco painter to go on sale at Sotheby’s with estimate of £6m-£9mWhen Tamara de Lempicka first came across the young sex worker Rafaëla on Bois de Boulogne in Paris, she was enchanted.Recalling the meeting, the artist called Rafaëla “the most beautiful woman I have ever seen”. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago Consecration review – creepy nuns deliver the classic moves of holy terror very effectively

Purest hokum, of course, but what hokum! Real pride has gone into crafting this set of shocks, and it’s very well acted in beautiful locationsThis is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a wimple. In this well-crafted horror movie, a young woman called Grace (Jena Malone) finds herself up against a bunch of nuns who may or may not be trying to do something extremely dodgy with an unknown relic, and as with last year’s Omen prequel, there’s a nice line in casting here from the Ladybird Book of Horror Nuns. There’s dotty young nun who pops up going “peekaboo” (Eilidh Fisher), an arrogant mother superior (Janet Suzman), a hardliner weapon-of-Christ sort (Jolade Obasola), and the rather rarer spooky nun with one eye hidden behind an ominous white bandage (Alexandra Lewis). Their acting is uniformly excellent, as is that from Danny Huston, who plays a priest who introduces himself thusly: “I’m Father Romero, I’m here from the Vatican,” which announces him as probably up to no good...

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54 h. ago Woman hilariously confuses AI scam call and films it for all the world to see

A woman on TikTok took an AI scam call off the rails in a hilarious video.

Politics

56 h. ago Greta Thunberg dismisses viral image of her receiving a sandwich from an IDF soldier as 'a PR stunt' by Israel as she lands in France

The Israeli foreign ministry has portrayed the voyage as nothing more than a publicity stunt by 'celebrity activists', referring to the Madleen as 'the selfie yacht'.

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58 h. ago Bakery 'plagued by woman called Sue' left high and dry after 'soul destroying' act

A famous bakery in Greater Manchester, has been run by the same family for three generations and is renowned for its occasion cakes and expertly crafted chocolates

Politics

3 d. ago Tory WAG Sasha Swire's attack on Sarah Vine is vindictive nonsense. Why didn't she write about the mink

War broke out among the WAGs of Westminster when a woman called Sasha Swire - most readers have never heard of her, I know - launched a petty and vindictive attack on Sarah Vine's new book.

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6 d. ago Coronation Street fans all say same thing as Eileen Grimshaw's exit sparks complaints

Coronation Street fans were left divided this evening as Eileen Grimshaw left the cobbles after 25 years with some viewers blasting Sue Cleaver's "dreadful" exit

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6 d. ago Diner dates and bathhouse chili: the colorful, defiant history of the American gay restaurant

In his new book, Erik Piepenburg dishes on the US eateries that have served as LGBTQ+ havens and are still thrivingErik Piepenburg’s voice breaks when he speaks of the Napalese Lounge and Grille in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The restaurant known as “Naps” to locals is where a group of transgender people regularly come together to chat over beer-battered shrimp, deep-fried green beans and cheese curds. Many travel long distances to do so.“An amazing woman called Martha oversees it,” says Piepenburg, 54. “She told me the stories of people who drive there but can’t get out of the car, and of one young trans woman whose mom stayed outside so her kid could enjoy themselves. It’s not political, everyone was having fun just being able to be themselves. Naps shows how important gay restaurants are – and they are not new. Walt Whitman enjoyed eating in his era’s version of a gay restaurant. We’ve been finding one another for a very long time.” Continue reading...

Society

6 d. ago Diner dates and bathhouse chili: the colorful, defiant history of America’s gay restaurants

In his new book, Erik Piepenburg dishes on the US eateries that have served as LGBTQ+ havens and are still thrivingErik Piepenburg’s voice breaks when he speaks of the Napalese Lounge and Grille in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The restaurant known as “Naps” to locals is where a group of transgender people regularly come together to chat over beer-battered shrimp, deep-fried green beans and cheese curds. Many travel long distances to do so.“An amazing woman called Martha oversees it,” says Piepenburg, 54. “She told me the stories of people who drive there but can’t get out of the car, and of one young trans woman whose mom stayed outside so her kid could enjoy themselves. It’s not political, everyone was having fun just being able to be themselves. Naps shows how important gay restaurants are – and they are not new. Walt Whitman enjoyed eating in his era’s version of a gay restaurant. We’ve been finding one another for a very long time.” Continue reading...

Society

6 d. ago The Reckoning review – shattering stories of invasion in Ukraine

Arcola theatre, LondonThe horrific reality of Russia’s invasion is recounted during the preparation of a Ukrainian salad in Anastasiia Kosidii and Josephine Burton’s playDuring the violent chaos following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a woman whose husband is missing receives a phone call from his number. Brief relief implodes when the speaker is not him but a stranger revealing that this device has been found beside a corpse covered by a tarpaulin.This is one of numerous shattering anecdotes in a play by Dash Arts, based on work by The Reckoning Project, which collects verbatim testimony from conflict victims with the aim of bringing prosecutions for war crimes.At the Arcola theatre, London, until 28 June Continue reading...

Events

7 d. ago Supreme Court makes it easier to claim 'reverse discrimination' in employment, in a case from Ohio

A unanimous Supreme Court has made it easier to bring lawsuits over so-called reverse discrimination, siding with an Ohio woman who claims she didn’t get a job and then was demoted because she is straight

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8 d. ago Airport staff threaten to call police after disabled woman asks for help

Georgina has MS and needs adjustments to help her travel

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1 week ago Police investigate hate crime after passenger called 'woman from Taliban' on Cardiff to Bristol train

The woman was travelling with her family on a service south Wales from Wales to London and asked another passenger not to sit on the table. What happened next left them shocked

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1 week ago Family sue Royal Mail after delivery driver left in 'vegetative state' following 7.5 tonne lorry crash

Petar Mitev was struck by an HGV while on a zebra crossing at Royal Mail’s Jubilee Mail Centre in Feltham

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1 week ago Woman who calls herself ‘UK’s poshest thief’ fined for stealing Le Creuset cookware

Pauline Al Said and husband Mark Wheatcroft fined £2,500 between them after thefts from garden centre and M&SA former criminology lecturer who calls herself the “UK’s poshest thief” has been fined for stealing more than £1,000-worth of Le Creuset cookware, steaks, wine and gin.Pauline Al Said and her husband, Mark Wheatcroft, have been fined £2,500 between them after the thefts from a garden centre and a branch of Marks & Spencer. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Woman calls for sunbed ban after stage four cancer diagnosis, age 23

Lily used a sunbed fewer than 10 times to get a 'base tan' before a holiday

Science

2 w. ago Woman attacks boy who called her ‘fat’ and ‘Miss Piggy’ during plane trip back from Disney World: cops

Kristy Crampton was arrested on a flight home from Disney World with her family after hitting a child who was calling her names

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2 w. ago Harrowing three words in emergency call as pet chimp ripped off woman's face and started eating it

Travis the chimp was a beloved member of the Herold family in Connecticut, USA, after he was adopted by Sandra and Jerome when he was just three days old - but in 2009 he savagely attacked family friend Charla Nash

Politics

2 w. ago Ripeness by Sarah Moss – a beautifully written novel of place and identity

An English woman’s tale of migration, alternating between mid-60s Italy and present-day Ireland, considers family heritage and the treatment of refugeesSarah Moss’s post-Brexit novels, Ghost Wall, Summerwater and The Fell, have dealt centrally with the anxieties and hostilities of the white working and middle classes in contemporary Britain. This trio of short, vivid works has also quietly established Moss as a revered chronicler of the political present. Though Ripeness bears many of the hallmarks of her recent fiction – evocative descriptions of the natural world abound, no speech marks used, chapter titles plucked suggestively out of the narrative – it also departs from it. It is longer, slower, European in setting, and its political critiques are ultimately muted.Ripeness is structured in alternating narrative strands, both following an English woman called Edith: one as a septuagenarian living comfortably in the west of Ireland in the post-pandemic present, and anothe...

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