7 h. ago Americans try beloved British chocolate bar and give very honest review

An American couple who moved to the UK tried a popular British chocolate bar and couldn't get their heads around it, sharing that it was unique to anything they'd had in the US

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10 h. ago US woman held by Taliban alongside British couple warns of health concerns

Faye Hall was arrested with Peter and Barbie Reynolds in February when they were returning to Bamiyan Province, Afghanistan

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12 h. ago British couple held by Taliban are ‘literally dying’ in prison former fellow captive warns

Peter, 80, and Barbie Reynolds, 76, remain in prison after being arrested by the Taliban in February

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46 h. ago 'We've been told they could get TEN years': Son of British couple arrested in Iran on trumped

Joe Bennett never wanted his mother and stepfather, Lindsay and Craig Foreman, to go to Iran on their round-the world motorbike 'trip of a lifetime'.

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48 h. ago 'We've been told they could get TEN years': Son of British couple arrested in Iran on trumped

Joe Bennett never wanted his mother and stepfather, Lindsay and Craig Foreman, to go to Iran on their round-the world motorbike 'trip of a lifetime'.

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3 d. ago A Splintering by Dur e Aziz Amna review – a woman’s ambitions in Pakistan

This novel fizzes with energy as it follows the parallel lives of two siblings and exposes the crushing divides of gender and classI admired Dur e Aziz Amna’s precise and lyrical first novel, American Fever; the protagonist – an exchange student from Pakistan to rural Oregon – staying with me long after I encountered her. She has now delivered a superb second novel that features another fascinating central character, though in a much darker, more disturbing context.A Splintering is the story of Tara, one of five siblings from a poor farming family in the hinterlands of Pakistani Punjab. This is the kind of landscape where age-old codes of manhood, with brother or son as provider and adjudicator of women’s lives, still rule. Tara, gazing at the stars from their courtyard at night, wants to get away from the squalor of Mazinagar (literally, past city), where most people live and die unnoticed, and build a life full of money and possessions in the city. She has no romantic notions...

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4 d. ago Expensive Center Parcs staycation prompted British couple to spend  £30,000 relocating to New Zealand

Ed Porter, 35, and his wife, Kim, 34, were living in Henley-on-Thames, South Oxfordshire, when they first began questioning how expensive Britain had become after booking a £1,200 staycation.

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4 d. ago ‘Looks so sizzling they could fry an egg!’ How the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice adaptation changed my life

The 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic, starring Colin Firth, has its own fan group, has inspired university courses and was even featured in the Barbie movie. What’s behind its enduring appeal? I was born in the wrong century – or so my mother says, while I protest from my writing bureau, wax seal in hand, ready to dispatch an Austen-style letter to a friend. But as I put out the candle flame with my antique snuffer, I wonder if she might be right. For me, the past has always felt like home – I grew up on a literary diet of classic fiction, seasoned with a love of my Regency hero, Jane Austen.So when the BBC dramatisation of her most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice, first aired in 1995, it was manna from heaven for me, especially as an A-level English literature student. My pre-binge-era classmates and I delighted in the weekly suspense. We chattered of Mr Darcy’s intense looks, so sizzling they could fry an egg; laughed over the unfiltered comments of a dramatic Mrs Benne...

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5 d. ago Three rescue kittens are 'lost in transit' after being flown out of Greece by British couple

The cats arrived in France, but had not been unloaded. They were 'somehow forgotten in the hold, or not seen', and remained on the flight as it flew back to Greece

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7 d. ago Families of British couple killed in Lisbon funicular crash ‘heartbroken’

Relatives pay tribute to Kayleigh Smith, 36, and William Nelson, 44, who died when the Elevador da Glória derailedThe families of a British couple killed in Lisbon after a funicular streetcar derailed have paid tribute to them and have said they are “heartbroken”.Kayleigh Smith, 36, and William Nelson, 44, died alongside 14 other people after the Elevador da Glória hurtled down a hill and careered into a building on Wednesday night. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Family of British couple killed in Portugal crash 'heartbroken'

Kayleigh Smith and her partner Will Nelson were two of three British people killed

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7 d. ago Tributes paid to British couple killed in horror Lisbon funicular crash

Portuguese police said three British citizens were among 16 people killed when a funicular tram derailed in Lisbon on Wednesday

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7 d. ago 'Heartbroken' families pay tribute to British couple killed in Lisbon tram disaster who were 'hugely talented' theatre workers dedicated to 'inspiring the next generation'

Kayleigh Smith, 36, and her partner Will Nelson, 44, were named as two of the three Britons who died after the popular tourist attraction derailed in the centre of the Portuguese city on Wednesday night.

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7 d. ago British couple killed in Lisbon tram disaster were 'hugely talented' theatre workers dedicated to 'inspiring the next generation'

Kayleigh Smith, 36, and her partner Will Nelson, 44, were named as two of the three Britons who died after the popular tourist attraction derailed in the centre of the Portuguese city on Wednesday night.

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7 d. ago British couple killed in Lisbon funicular crash shared final post before tragedy

Kayleigh Smith, 36, and William Nelson, 44, were among the 16 tourists from around the world killed when the Gloria funicular that derailed and careered down a hill before smashing into a hotel in Lisbon.

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8 d. ago British couple killed in Lisbon funicular pictured smiling together before tragedy

Kayleigh Gillian Smith, 36, and William Nelson, 44, were among 16 killed in the horror crash

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8 d. ago Pictured: British couple killed in horror Lisbon funicular crash

Portuguese police said three British citizens were among 16 people killed when a funicular tram derailed in Lisbon on Wednesday

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9 d. ago Patrick Hemingway, last surviving child of literary giant Ernest Hemingway, dies at 97

Patrick's most ambitious undertaking was the editing of ‘True at First Light,’ a fictionalised account of Ernest Hemingway's time in Africa

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1 week ago Man and woman are arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated assault after British NHS nurse 'attacked in park by couple who asked if she "came here on a rubber boat"'

A couple who were walking their dog demanded to know if the nurse, an NHS worker of 12 years, 'came here on a rubber boat' and hurled water and grabbed her hair in an alleged assault

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2 w. ago 'Loose cannon' criminal's assassination of prison officer who exposed his fling with fellow guard even shocked underworld, top cop reveals

The criminal was a 'loose cannon' who broke the code of Liverpool's underworld, where even hardened criminals were 'wary' of the 'incredibly twisted' man, a top cop has revealed.

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