49 m. ago 'I bought Britain's most expensive coffee – you'll never believe how much one cup costs'

A food and drink lover, who often spares no expensive on his meal times, decided to try London's most expensive coffee shop to see if it is worth the staggering price tag or not

Politics

51 m. ago Denise Welch responds to viral rumours she has disappeared in hot air balloon crash

Denise Welch has mocked false rumors online claiming she was killed in a hot air balloon crash.

Events

72 m. ago Kanye West condemned for wearing black KKK outfit during controversial interview

Condemnation of West for his latest stunt has been swift, with one person on X/Twitter writing: ‘This dude just needs to go away’

Politics

82 m. ago 'Dine and dash' family rack up £300 food bill then do 'shameless' act before legging it

One restaurant manager was left £300 short after a family refused to cover their hefty bill even after carrying out a 'shameless' act, according to the workers

Economics

90 m. ago Next shoppers hail £30 joggers that 'feel lovely on' as 'great for hot weather'

"These are really good quality trousers. These are nice to bring spring into summer wear with nice plain vest and trainers or flip flops"

Economics

1 hour ago Eurostar rivals say 'green signal' has been given to run trains through Channel Tunnel

Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group says there are ‘no more major hurdles to overcome’ for it to launch services rivalling Eurostar

Politics

2 h. ago Urgent £186 water bill warning to thousands of Brits before April

'Awful April' brings with it swathes of household bill hikes that will see millions of Brits become worse off. However, home expert Nancy Emery reveals one simple way you can cut almost £200 from your annual water bill

Events

2 h. ago ‘The food is bad, everything is bad’: what it feels like to be on a hopeless NBA team

Teams like Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls have gone down in history for their winning streaks. But what’s it like to be on a truly terrible roster?The business of sports is about winning. But that, of course, doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of losers out there. That’s most evident every year in the NBA around the first day of spring. With about a dozen games left in the regular season, it’s obvious which teams are also-rans – and they have probably known that for some time. But when a team are losing and losing often, how does that affect the roster? How do the players deal with the constant lows?“When you lose,” says former NBA All-Star Xavier McDaniel, “it’s like getting a life sentence. I knew for me, losing, it started me to drink beer. Losing created a lot of bad habits. Losing can be a disease. We were losing so much [my rookie season] that by January I was drinking beer!” Continue reading...

Politics

2 h. ago Kurt Cobain’s guitar from Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged show to go on display in UK

The Martin D-18E, played at renowned performance five months before singer’s suicide, sold for £4.8m in 2020The world’s most expensive guitar, which Kurt Cobain played in one of Nirvana’s most acclaimed performances – the MTV Unplugged in New York show – is to be displayed in the UK for the first time.The Royal College of Music in London has been loaned the Martin D-18E by its owner, Peter Freedman (the chair of Røde microphones), who bought the guitar for $6m (£4.8m) in 2020, making it the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction. Continue reading...

Culture

2 h. ago Virgin says it has ‘green signal’ for running trains through Channel Tunnel

Sir Richard Branson’s company said there are ‘no more major hurdles to overcome’ for it to launch services rivalling Eurostar.

Politics

3 h. ago Date set for every home in England to get up to 5 recycling bins in new plan

The Govermnent today said the recycling scheme will collect food waste weekly, plastics, paper, green waste and 'plastic film'

Politics

3 h. ago Jeremy Clarkson ‘discovers’ random food item that’s helping him lose weight after Ozempic failed

‘Weirdly, it does taste and feel like the real deal,’ TV star said of luxury food item

Events

3 h. ago All the bills going up in 'awful April' from council tax to water

Energy bills, broadband and mobile, and the TV licence, will also become more expensive - but The Mirror has highlighted all the ways to fight back and cut your costs

Economics

4 h. ago The Tallis Scholars review – inspired pairing of Palestrina and Pärt brings shining warmth and clarity

St George’s BristolThe consummate vocal ensemble beautifully highlighted symbolic connections between the 16th-century Italian composer and soon-to-be 90 Arvo PärtThis year marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Palestrina, the Italian composer who took the name of his native town, just east of Rome, now part of the metropolitan city. In director Peter Phillips’s inspired pairing of Palestrina with the music of Arvo Pärt in the year of his 90th birthday, there was a particular frisson in knowing that in January, the Tallis Scholars had sung this very programme in the cathedral of Sant’Agapito Martire in Palestrina, where the young Giovanni Pierluigi may have been a chorister and was certainly organist from the age of 19.Phillips has described Palestrina as the “most consummate of renaissance composers”: it may surely be said that the Tallis Scholars are the consummate vocal ensemble. Opening with his motet Surge Illuminare, the 10 Scholars immediately brought a shining warmth t...

Events

4 h. ago ‘Society SUCKS!’ The fanatical diary of a teen scribbler who threw herself into punk

Don’t live like everyone else! Angela Jaeger met every act going in punk, in New York and London – and had crushes on them all. Now 65, she talks us through her thrill-filled diariesThere is nothing new to discover, surely, about the birth of punk. But perhaps it depends where you look. Written between 1977 and 1981, the teenage diaries of Angela Jaeger crackle with life. Published as the book I Feel Famous, the New York and London punk scenester’s writing gives us a real-time immersion, with zero revisionism, into not only what happened and who was there, but how it felt to a musically fanatical teenage girl.Diary entry for 9 May, 1977, about a Bryan Ferry/Talking Heads gig being sold out: “Shit, damn, piss forever!! What can you do but kick and curse cause you CAN’T GO! It shits bricks solid!!” By 27 June, she’s a dedicated anglophile, a Sex Pistols and Clash obsessive, searching for an identity and asking the big questions: “Why should we be expected to live like everyone else do...

Politics

4 h. ago ‘Joni Mitchell’s Blue revolutionised the way I saw music’: Emeli Sandé’s honest playlist

The singer was a young fan of Mariah and pretends she hates one 70s musical classic, but which aquatic power ballad can she genuinely no longer stand?The first song I fell in love with Samson by Regina Spektor, when I was 16 and falling in love for the first time. I got introduced to her music when I was working in Virgin Megastore in Aberdeen. Then I met someone in a club.The first single I bought All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey, from Asda. My dad had played me the Music Box album from when I was about seven, so I loved Mariah. I saw it in the bargain section for £1.99 and thought: “Let’s get it.” Continue reading...

Politics

4 h. ago A new start after 60: I was never a great swimmer – but I took up diving and now somersault into the pool

After moving to a new city, Antonia Murphy was captivated by the local diving facilities. Now 68, she can launch herself off a 7.5-metre platformAntonia Murphy has always loved water. It can be warm or icy, wild or maintained in a municipal facility. Although “not a great swimmer”, she is a confident one. So when she moved to Edinburgh two years ago, she promptly checked out the public leisure centre. She was captivated by the alluring, deep blue of the diving pool. “I thought: ‘This is unbelievable.’ I felt seduced,” she says.She had “larked around” as a child, but never learned to dive, so she went along to the Royal Commonwealth’s public session. “This bloke was standing there. We got chatting.” He told her about coaching sessions – and Murphy, then 66, booked a taster class. Continue reading...

Politics

4 h. ago Dad, 35, died on holiday after stomach ache he thought was food poisoning

Andrejs died just 36 hours after falling ill

Events

4 h. ago Popular Manchester restaurant and takeaway to host DJ club night rivalling London's sweaty Boiler Room

Forget Boiler Room, it's all about the Bao-ler Room now, right?

Society

5 h. ago With energy bills set to rise again, here’s how to cook dinner without getting burned

As energy bills rise yet again this April, these five low-energy recipes promise comfort food without the cost – saving you time, money and up to 80 per cent on cooking energy

Economics