9 h. ago Dogs' sleeping positions show how furry friends really feel about their owners

EXCLUSIVE: A canine expert says your pooch's sleeping position can reveal vital clues about their health and happiness, and we have all the details

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17 h. ago My wife's new higher salary has made me depressed and less confident. What can I do? VICKY REYNAL answers

I am 46 and have been in a management role at the same firm for ten years. A year ago I started to feel quite low - less confident, more withdrawn from friends and arguing more with my wife.

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5 d. ago Dear Coleen: 'My friend makes me feel like a lodger in my own flat'

'She often brings people home without asking me, so I end up feeling like a lodger in my own flat.'

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8 d. ago 'I can't sleep after savage pitbull mauled my mum and killed her beloved dog'

The woman is recovering from plastic surgery after suffering severe injuries in the attack - which also killed her pet dog, Prince - in Ireland's County Meath at the start of June

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1 week ago Should you let your pets sleep on the bed? Experts say it’s not that simple

Lots of pet owners let their animals sleep on their bed, even though it's probably disturbing their sleep

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1 week ago 'Starting to feel like childhood friend is stealing mates and ignoring me'

Resident agony aunt Coleen Nolan has advice for a reader who wants to end things with a friend she's had for 20 years, and feels it will be more like a break-up

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2 w. ago Moment thug shows up at his ex's house to burn it down while she sleeps before killing her dog

Adrian West, 61, had subjected Louise Simpson, 53, to a campaign of violent attacks last year which included strangling, punching and kicking before she kicked him out of her house.

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2 w. ago Dog owners are just finding out what it means when pooch sleeps on your pillow

A common sight in many households, dogs sleeping on pillows may be more than just a comfort-seeking habit, according to a viral TikTok that has left viewers feeling quite emotional

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2 w. ago A stranger asleep in beautiful morning light: Joanne Leonard’s best photograph

‘My marriage had abruptly collapsed. I was longing for intimacy – yet this was not someone I knew well’It is not an accident that the image here, Another Morning, suggests intimacy; I was in a state of longing for just such intimacy when I made the photograph. Yet the figure was not someone I knew well. She was a guest in a house where I had lived only briefly in West Oakland, California. I’d come to live there after the abrupt collapse of my marriage. I noticed the beautiful light that flowed from a window and touched the sleeper covered only by a white sheet. I captured the moment, and it came to join several photographs I had made over the years of sleeping figures, of my daughter, my sister, my husband sleeping in our hotel room in Merida, Mexico – even sleeping dogs, with limbs entwined. I work towards an idea across a number of images, often over several years.A goal of mine as a photographer has been to find ways to avoid the intrusive aspects of photography. Rather than goin...

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3 w. ago DEAR CAROLINE: Here's why you SHOULD feel free to cut off your selfish, entitled, unreliable friend. If she gets offended, so be it

Our relationships counsellor answers your problems.

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4 w. ago Megan McKenna left heartbroken after beloved family member 'dies in her arms'

Megan McKenna has taken to social media to share a tear-jerking tribute to her beloved dog Daisy who recently died, with the star 'singing her to sleep'

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