9 h. ago Welsh BBC marriage drama 'as good as Doctor Foster' has fans hooked

The hit series is currently available to watch on iPlayer, with three seasons for fans to binge on. The series follows Faith Howells, a solicitor as she tries to find her missing husband

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28 h. ago ‘I had no voice’: black mental health patients on surviving a care system they say is racialised

As a report into mental health care in England finds a sharp increase in people sent for urgent care, two people tell their traumatic stories of being hospitalisedAdult mental health crisis referrals in England double in a yearIt has been more than four decades since Devon Marston, a 66-year-old community organiser and musician, was taken to a psychiatric hospital where he was restrained, injected and forced to take medication. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.“Everything was said around me and about me, but no one asked me how I was doing,” he said. “I had no voice, and there was no one to say: ‘Don’t do that to him,’ or: ‘Listen to him, hear what he has to say.’” Continue reading...

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35 h. ago Is Adolescence based on a true story? Inspiration behind real

Adolescence is streaming on Netflix and it tells some harrowing truths about the pressures faced by young people of today.

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40 h. ago BBC doctor tells people with condition who need toilet at night to avoid product

Doctor Oscar Duke has spoken to BBC Morning Live TV hosts Gethin Jones and Gaby Roslin and said one product could affect your breathing

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48 h. ago Connor Barron in defiant Rangers vow as lingering pressure point is dismissed ahead of Fenerbahce firecracker

Avoid a record fourth defeat in a row tomorrow night and Rangers will be looking forward to a Europa League quarter final spot.

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3 d. ago Inside Gaza where electricity has been cut off by the Israelis

Locals tell of hospitals paralysed, food prices soaring and people forced to burn rubbish to cook their food as electricity is cut off to the Gaza Strip by the Israelis

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3 d. ago BBC Morning Live's Doctor Xand shares 'secret' his mum 'kept from him for years'

The BBC Morning Live team, including co-hosts Gethin Jones and Gaby Roslin, were shocked as he said it's his "inspiration"

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3 d. ago BBC Morning Live Doctor Xand warns anyone with knee pain to avoid common mistake

He busted many myths that we're all led to believe when he appeared on BBC Morning Live alongside Gethin Jones and Gaby Roslin

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4 d. ago Trump promised to bring down egg prices on day one. Now, he’s sharing articles telling people to ‘shut up’ about it

‘The egg prices out of control. And we are working hard to get it back down,’ Trump said last week

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4 d. ago ‘It sounds terrible but I listen to it 30 times a day’: how the Lumineers made Ho Hey

‘We were moving away from bar band covers to doing our own songs. So shouting “Ho hey!” from the stage got people’s attention. We were doing it to be heard. Then suddenly everyone started listening’After growing up in Ramsey, a small town in New Jersey, we moved to New York to try to make it in music but found it a very difficult circuit to break into. Bars would let you play because they wanted your friends to buy drinks, but then they’d kick everybody out to get the next group in. Whenever I would meet people, I’d tell them, “I’m a waiter but I play music,” and they’d go, “Yeah, so does my cousin.” The prospect of playing somewhere like the [iconic New York venue] Mercury Lounge felt about as likely as playing a stadium. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago People urged to check for rare 50p coin worth a lot more after major 'error'

A rare coin expert on TikTok has shared a clip telling people how to identify a 50p piece that might be worth a lot more than it seems because of a minting error

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4 d. ago Harry Potter, The Bill and One Foot in the Grave star dies at 63

He also appeared in the BBC's Doctor Who alongside Matt Baker in a long TV career. Now tributes have been paid to his life

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4 d. ago Cry When the Baby Cries by Becky Barnicoat review – the black and white truth about motherhood

Barnicoat’s memoir of early parenthood is funny, unflinching and a welcome corrective to the ceaseless pressures new mums face from social mediaIt’s a mark of the brilliance of Becky Barnicoat’s Cry When the Baby Cries that it worked for me, testing my patience only occasionally: as I’ve been known to tell people, while I like children a lot, I could never eat a whole one. I have a hunch that her book’s bracingly truthful tone will indeed make new (and new-ish) mothers feel very seen, just as some of the quotes on its jacket promise: no subject is for her off limits, from leaking breasts to dubious stains. But the more important thing by far is that it’s very funny and even sardonic. At her best, Barnicoat reminds me of Claire Bretécher (1940-2020), the great French cartoonist and one of the geniuses of the form.When I was growing up, my mother hung one of Brétécher’s strips on the kitchen wall. In it, a woman with a baby is visited by a friend who drones on obliviously about her ma...

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7 d. ago People in the US: tell us how your life has changed since the Covid

We would like to hear from people about the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on them five years onAhead of the fifth anniversary of Covid being declared a pandemic in the US, we would like to hear how your life has changed since the outbreak started.Have you changed jobs or moved home? Do you socialize more – or less –since the pandemic? Perhaps you’ve decided to take more of an interest in your mental and physical health? Continue reading...

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7 d. ago When the horror stops, the key to peace in Gaza and Ukraine will be how power is shared | Simon Jenkins

Constitution-building offers no headlines – but what it can do, history tells us, is stop hundreds of thousands of people dyingSyria is reportedly sliding back towards civil war, as its various factions demand devolved authority. It is at root the same issue, that of local autonomy, that led to regional unrest in Ukraine and splintered leadership in Palestine. It underlies the devastating conflicts in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. All these places are flush with guns, allies and bombast. What they lack are national constitutions that allow their citizens sufficient local control to live at peace with others in one nation. They lack the skills of political federation.The present Ukraine war followed the failure of peace accords reached in Minsk in 2014 and 2015; critically, they depended on the technical details of how self-determination was to be allowed in eastern Ukraine. A later failure was that of the Istanbul deal after the Russian invasion in 2022. It appeare...

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7 d. ago Basketball is Scottish! Someone tell the tea towel people it needs an update

Basketball was based on a Scottish game called “duck-on-the-rock” and invented by a man who considered himself Scottish although he was born in Canada

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7 d. ago My houseboat hell – why living on the canal isn’t for everyone

Living on the canal has its charms, but there is a lot people don’t tell you about

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9 d. ago Maura Higgins tells mum 'gory details' about love life and racy bedroom antics

Most people can't think of anything worse than having to tell their parents about what they get up to in the bedroom, but Maura Higgins apparently tells her mum every single detail

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9 d. ago BBC Morning Live doctor issues urgent warning over home testing kits

Dr Xand van Tulleken admitted to Helen Skelton and Gethin Jones that he is often tempted to pick one up when he sees them in the shop

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9 d. ago Survivor of UK's deadliest Channel crossing tells of moment 'people started dying' as boat got into trouble

Issa Mohamed Omar, a survivor of the deadliest Channel crossing in history told an inquiry he believes half of the inflatable boat passengers would have survived if help had come faster.

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