35 h. ago Love Island favourite sparks 'quit' fears after just five days 'she needs to walk'

Love Island All Stars has been on our screens less than week and fans of the ITV2 dating show are convinced one girl could walk before the first offical dumping

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37 h. ago On embracing the ‘urgency of now’ and unconditional love on MLK Day

People across the US are moving on from the empty platitudes MLK Day often evokes – and embodying King’s wordsThis year, the Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday forces Americans to grapple with the crisis and protests that have spread across the country, particularly in Minneapolis. Each year on this holiday, we reflect on King’s life and legacy. We wonder about what he might make of this moment. Though civil rights protesters in the 1950s and 60s were repeatedly met with extreme state violence, Americans are now facing a president who is troublingly more powerful than past figures such as the notorious segregationist and Alabama governor George Wallace.Militarized and masked federal police forces, abetted by a corrupted justice department, are expansive and employ far more deadly weapons against protesters today. Civil rights leaders often sought federal intervention to combat localized racial violence in the south. But now, local and state officials, along with ordinary citizens who ...

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3 d. ago Brits have their say on Poundland’s £1 engagement ring for cash

HERE’S a gem of a bargain for cash-strapped lovers popping the question this Valentine’s Day – a £1 ring. The sparkler, with a choice of four “stones”, is flying off the shelves at Poundland. But would you say, “I do” to a budget proposal – or send your penny-pinching partner packing? Graeme Culliford and Victoria...

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3 d. ago Love Island fans claim Charlie Frederick is USING villa girl as a ‘winning ticket’ and doesn’t really fancy her

LOVE Island: All Stars may only be two days in, but the connections are already forming between the islanders - particularly for Charlie Frederick. The personal trainer, 31, has a blossoming romance with 2021 show winner Millie Court, but some fans think the relationship is part of a gameplan and have suggested Charlie isn't really...

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5 d. ago Would you marry someone with dementia and just four years to live? Gary did just that

There was one vow that carried particular poignancy for Anita and Gary Goundry-Smith on their wedding day: to love one another 'in sickness and in health'.

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5 d. ago After decades of red wine, no exercise and 15 cigarettes a day, these are the super

For more than 25 years, I smoked 15 cigarettes a day. I loved smoking. It was the one thing in a busy, stressful life of work and motherhood that gave me a little 'me time'.

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6 d. ago Is Hollyoaks on tonight? Channel 4 soap pulled off air tonight in schedule shake

Hollyoaks fans have to wait days for the next episode of the much-loved Channel 4 soap after it was pulled off air to make way for a football match between Nigeria and Morocco

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8 d. ago Harry Styles's fans go wild over huge hint that he's set to announce his comeback after mysterious posters appeared around the globe

The singer has taken a break from the spotlight after finishing his global Love On Tour in 2023, with longtime fans eagerly awaiting the day his new music will be released.

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8 d. ago 'Non break in' Skechers loved by workers on their feet 'all day' 49% less on Amazon

Amazon has knocked these Skechers to the "lowest price in 30 days"

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8 d. ago Martin O'Neill admits Celtic transfer inactivity has forced his hand as 'main problem' cited amid quiet January window

The Hoops boss recalled Stephen Welsh back into the Parkhead fold by cutting short the defender's season-long loan at Motherwell

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8 d. ago Celtic recall Stephen Welsh from Motherwell loan days after he said he was 'loving every minute' with Steelmen

The Hoops have terminated the defender's season-long loan at Fir Park early

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1 week ago The Traitors’ Fiona thanks viewers for love and support following tense row

The dramatic row came after Fiona from Wales accused Rachel of being a liar and playing her own game in a move that got her banished from the castle.

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1 week ago Love Island filming halted as crew evacuated from villa days before All Stars launch

Love Island All Stars has been forced to postpone filming and evacuate the production site due to wildfires near the South African villa, days before the show's Monday premiere

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1 week ago Aberdeen approach Celtic for Stephen Welsh transfer but face 3 major hurdles despite Nancy exit opening door

The managerless Dons are desperate to add more Scottish players to their squad this month

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1 week ago My favourite family photo: ‘I can still feel my mother’s arm around my shoulder’

I love the way we are both looking in astonishment at my son. It shows the unwavering support she gave me when he was bornThis picture of my mother, me and my eldest son, Theo, was taken the morning after he was born in May 2002, in University College Hospital, London.There are a lot of things I love about it. I love the fact my mother is exquisitely dressed – she’s wearing her pearls! She always looked very elegant at this time in her life and enjoyed clothes (we bought that suit on a day out together). I love the composition too – our three dark heads, faces in profile and the way our three hands are aligned. I love the miracle of my son’s intricate little shell of an ear, the nose (his dad’s) and lips (mine) still visible now in his 23-year-old face. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Love Island All Stars contestant has major setback days before show

One of this year's Islanders has it all to do

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1 week ago Belgrave Road by Manish Chauhan review – a tender tale of love beyond borders

This poignant debut about two strangers who fall in love offers a powerful portrait of the lived realities of immigrants in Britain“Love is not an easy thing It’s both the disease and the medicine,” a character says in Manish Chauhan’s meditation on modern love. This poignant and perceptive coming-of-age story, about two strangers who become star-crossed lovers, is a powerful portrait of the lived realities of immigrants in Britain, and of love as home, hope and destiny.Newly arrived in England following an arranged marriage with British-Indian Rajiv, Mira feels increasingly out of place as she finds out that Rajiv holds secrets and loves someone else. On the eponymous Belgrave Road in Leicester, entire days go by “without sight of an English person”, and Mira feels “disappointed that England wasn’t as foreign or as mysterious as she had hoped”. She takes English classes, finds companionship in her mother-in-law and fills her days with household chores, but nothing shifts her d...

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1 week ago My favourite family photo: ‘I bucketed 30 years of tears that day – then smiled my smiliest smile’

After more than three decades together, Simon Hattenstone and his partner Diane Taylor decided to have a civil partnership. It was a beautiful celebration before the shock of the pandemicDiane and I had been living together for more than 30 years, and our children were 28 and 26 when we got civilled. We’d never wanted to get married. It seemed a bit too pipe and slippers. It also felt like tempting fate. We were really happy without being married, so why change things? And you can’t have more of a commitment than children. But we always said if they introduced civil partnerships for heterosexual couples, we’d get civilled.I think friends assumed we did it primarily for tax reasons – to ensure that if one of us died, the other wasn’t left in the shit. There was an element of that. But more importantly, we actively wanted to get civilled. It actually felt really romantic – tying the civil knot as an expression of love after all this time together. It was such a beautiful day, in every...

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1 week ago Maya Jama bounces back from the flu as she touches down in Cape Town for Love Island: All Stars

The presenter, 31, was forced to pull out of a Love Island: All Stars launch event days before the hit ITV2 dating series begins.

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1 week ago Rangers ‘push’ for two signings, Celtic hold talks, EPL club recall defender

All the latest Scottish football transfer rumours this Wednesday morning - including Rangers, Celtic, Aberdeen, and Dundee United.

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