5 d. ago A 'sink estate', daily horrors and the truth behind Adolescence

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9 d. ago Digested week: It’s 35 years since the ‘tax man’ conceded married women were independent beings

Let’s celebrate the feminist wins and thank goodness dire wolves are back, since DNA is simpler to understand than tariffsIdeally, for diary purposes, it would be today, but we cannot allow simple chronological misfortune to allow yesterday to go unmarked. For 6 April 1990 was the day that married women became recognised by HMRC as beings – get this! – independent from their husbands, and started having their incomes taxed separately from their spouses’. Of course, many said the rot would set in and it’s true that just a few short years later rape in marriage became a crime, as people started to think that maybe wives’ bodies as well as their earnings were their own and things briefly started looking up all round. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Loose Women legend Ruth Langsford's life after surprise Eamonn Holmes marriage split

Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes were one of the most beloved couples on TV, but their marriage came to an end in 2024 after 14 years together - here's how Ruth has been coping

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2 w. ago Life and death decisions, a gobs**** and our very own Berlin Wall

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2 w. ago Single and happy: These women ditched dating. They have no regrets

More and more women are ditching dating and prioritizing solo life. They tell Rhian Lubin how they feel liberated abandoning the social norm of finding a partner before they check off the other big cornerstones of life

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2 w. ago Love, actually: How intimacy survives marriage and motherhood | Saman Shad

The key isn’t chasing some impossible ideal of passion that never fades, but learning to appreciate love in all its evolving formsThe first thing a friend did when I told her the title of my book was laugh. “The Sex Lives of Married Women?” She asked. “You mean The No Sex Lives of Married Women.”I laughed too. She wasn’t wrong – married people aren’t exactly known for their thriving sex lives. And I suspect the only couples reliably having sex must be the ones who have scheduled it into their Google calendars, probably in a shared folder alongside “Bunnings trip” and “remortgage review”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Married hotel jacuzzi sex pest who attacked three women is spared jail

Dad-of-two Zia Khan was found guilty at Nottingham Crown Court.

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4 w. ago Ruth Langsford's phone 'discovery' that led to Eamonn Holmes split

Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes announced their split in 2020 after 14 years of marriage - and it has now been claimed the former Loose Women star discovered her ex was in contact with another woman

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4 w. ago Ruth Langsford's painful 'discovery' that led to Eamonn Holmes split

Loose Women star Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes were married for 14 years before they announced their split last spring

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