17 h. ago Best lightweight tents of 2025 to take to festivals, hiking and camping

Save your strength for getting the festival pints in

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18 h. ago Best festival tents for 2025: Top picks for Glastonbury and beyond

Ready for a summer of disco-tents? Festival season is back

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41 h. ago The budget supermarket wines that scooped medals at the prestigious International Wine Awards, including a £7 Aldi bottle

At the 2025 IWSC, UK supermarkets picked up dozens of medals with own-label, budget bottles impressing the judging panels.

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3 d. ago Major retailer promises ‘full refund’ on every tent sold to discourage abandoners

Tents bought throughout festival season can be returned after use

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3 d. ago 15 of the most wanted CDs according to Discogs in June 2025: have you picked any up recently?

Has the run up to festival season changed what CD’s fans are after on Discogs this month?

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3 d. ago Sleep expert explains how to actually get some rest at a festival

It is possible to wake up feeling rested after a festival night, experts say

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3 d. ago Heading to Download 2025? Our pick of the acts throughout the days before the headliners hit the Apex stage

Will we see you for a little dance at these sets taking place at Download 2025?

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3 d. ago Decathlon extends No Tent Left Behind refund pledge ahead of summer festivals

Customers who buy a Decathlon tent this summer can return it once used, for a full refund on a gift card

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4 d. ago Outdoor retailer promises ‘full refund’ on every tent sold to discourage abandoners

Tents bought throughout festival season can be returned after use

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9 d. ago UK Festival lifesavers 2025 – our pick of the best value tents, torches

From waterproof speakers to instant-pitch tents, these 10 affordable buys will make your 2025 UK festival experience smoother, cleaner and better equipped.

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1 week ago London Gallery Weekend 2025: our critics pick their top shows

London Gallery Weekend 2025: our critics pick their top shows  The Art Newspaper

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1 week ago Global economy to slow as Donald Trump’s trade wars hit growth, OECD warns – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as OECD forecasts global growth will slow to 2.9% in 2025 and 2026UK will slump to 1% growth next year as Trump tariffs bite, says OECDUS firms say Trump trade war is hitting production as dollar nears three-year lowUS economic growth is expected to slow markedly to 1.6% in 2025 and 1.5% in 2026, the OECD says.That’s relatively weak growth by recent standard, and slower than the “robust” growth of 2.8% recorded in 2024.Annual headline inflation is set to pick up to 3.9% by end-2025 due to higher import prices but is expected to ease throughout 2026, aided by moderate GDP growth and higher unemployment.Risks to the growth projection are skewed to the downside, including a more substantial slowing of economic activity in the face of policy uncertainty, greater-than-expected upward pressure on prices from tariff increases, and large financial market corrections. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Best dehumidifier deals for June 2025 – top picks to banish damp and mould

These models stood out in our tried and tested review – and they’re now discounted

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2 w. ago ‘Infused with the fire born of resistance’: the magic of the Calabash literary festival

Marlon James, Ian McEwan and Sheryl Lee Ralph lit up the Jamaican book event, celebrating the small island’s gargantuan cultural footprint with readings, discussions and DJs“Do I look like a rebel?” Booker prize winner Marlon James jokingly asks the crowd moments after walking on stage, head-banging his dreads to the sound of Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit.If your only experience of literary festivals are polite, well-mannered affairs inside tents in the British countryside, the Calabash literary festival, held on Jamaica’s Treasure Beach, hits differently. It’s not just the setting but the rare joy of seeing a majority-Black audience and roster at a literary event. It’s a festival infused with the magic and fire born of resistance. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Don’t go up the wall: how to pick paint colours for your home

Having prepared paint for The Block’s contestants, I understand the pressure to achieve interior design perfection. But choosing colours need not be excruciating “We offer 15,000 whites. Pick any three.”I more often give this advice to female clients, since in 40 years restoring, colour-matching and consulting I’ve seen most domestic décor decisions made by women. Apart from any cultural aspect, studies of human biology suggest a reason: only one in 200 women is colour blind compared with one in 10 men (even more, I suspect, are partially afflicted). Tetrachromacy – the ability to see a far broader range of colours – is also only found in females. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Welsh beauty brand boss quits festival after she's followed to tent and 'shouted at for 20 minutes'

The boss of Hair Syrup, which featured on Dragon's Den earlier this year, was with a colleague handing out free samples at In it Together Festival in Margam when the incident happened

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2 w. ago ‘It’s the best game ever invented’: is padel the new pickleball?

Pickleball might have developed legions of new Australian fans, but padel is snapping at its heels as a contender for the best tennis-alternative in town It was Darren McMullen’s obsession with padel that led him to missing an audition and changing the course of his life. Known for his role as Alex Larden on House Husbands and for presenting shows such as The Voice Australia, he had increasingly been sucked into padel tournaments.“My agent went crazy: ‘What were you thinking? What’s your bread and butter?’,” McMullen says. “I was like, ‘God, you’re right. I should open a padel centre.’” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Mum 'could have died' in horror scenes after what stranger did at music festival

Rebecca Law was left permanently scarred after a thug began swiping at another man in the Legends Tent at Reminisce Festival during an ill-fated "revenge" attack

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4 w. ago The Best of the 2025 BBC Proms: 20 picks, from Chineke! to Mozart

As the Proms head back to London, another season of music variety beckons. Nick Kimberley picks out the ones worth grabbing tickets for

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