8 h. ago Brad Pitt says he needed ‘rebooting’ and looked forward to AA meetings

The 61-year old actor opened up about some of his experiences attending AA meetings, describing it as an ‘amazing experience’.

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12 h. ago Brad Pitt says he ‘needed rebooting’ when he joined AA after Angelina Jolie divorce

Pitt and Jolie split in 2016 after two years of marriage

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64 h. ago Kimberley Garner puts on a leggy display in a frilled summer mini dress as she enjoys sweet meet

Kimberly Garner looked radiant in a blue summer dress as she met her friend Bella Frank's baby for the first time on Friday. The Made in Chelsea star, 34, kept it cool in the open-backed dress.

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1 week ago Women’s prize winner Yael van der Wouden: ‘It’s heartbreaking to see so much hatred towards queer people’

The winner of this year’s fiction prize on growing up as an outsider, why we’re all guilty of complicity, and using her acceptance speech to reveal that she is intersexIt has been a dramatic couple of years for 37-year-old Dutch author Yael van der Wouden: her first novel, The Safekeep, a love story that deals with the legacy of the Holocaust in the Netherlands, was the focus of a frenzied bidding war and shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. Last night it won the Women’s prize for fiction.“I wrote this book from a place of hopelessness,” she says when we meet. “I was looking for a ray of sunshine.” This morning in London the sun is blazing. She could never have expected that her novel would see off shortlisted authors including Miranda July (of whose work she is a big fan) and Elizabeth Strout. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Model railway fans to hold open meeting in bid to establish Stewartry club

Ian Bradbury and Ian Kemp are keen railway modellers and are looking to meet other enthusiasts to exchange ideas and share skills.

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2 w. ago Hero aunt, 32, is left with gaping wounds after using herself as a 'human blanket' to save her four

Abbie Nudd, 32, of Willow Way, Dovercourt, had taken Lydia, four, to meet an American Bulldog that her neighbours were looking after on Tuesday, June 2.

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4 w. ago ‘My parents didn’t have a clue’: why many digital natives would not give their kids smartphones

Online bullying, violence and paedophilia have made young people sceptical of unfettered access to technologyIn 2019, when Sophie* was 12, her classmates sent her “extreme and traumatising” videos that included an al-Qaida beheading, pornography and bestiality. She recalls an adult player in an online game persuading her to meet in person. Although her dad worked in IT, looking back she thinks: “My parents’ generation simply didn’t have a clue.”Now aged 18 and a student at the University of Edinburgh, she wouldn’t allow her children to have a smartphone until they’re adults. “As a teen I would have been the biggest advocate on everyone having a phone, but I’ve 100% changed my opinion,” she said. Continue reading...

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