3 d. ago West Lothian club's summer drive to help youngsters get into the game of golf

Coaching was delivered by PGA Professional David MacMullen

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4 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: How CAN today's kids experience the summers of adventure we did if Mum is spying on them with trackers in their trainers?

High August is when childhood's freedoms are forged. The school holiday stretches to the horizon, offering endless scope for adventure.

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4 d. ago Arsenal player ratings vs Athletic Bilbao as Viktor Gyokeres stars for the Gunners

Arsenal took on Athletic Club in their final pre-season game of the summer, with Mikel Arteta's side looking to end their preparations for the new season on a high

Sport

7 d. ago Jet2 refuses to let 'devastated' mum and kids on flight saying 'no, actually you can't get on'

'I even considered just running on because she'd already scanned my boarding pass and I thought if I could just see the staff on the plane they would let us on'

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8 d. ago Mum and young kids 'traumatised' after Jet2 staff refuse to let them on flight home

Megan Patrick, 35, was returning from a four-day break in Santa Ponsa, Majorca, with her two children and a friend

Events

9 d. ago ‘Children are entering a hellscape’: the terrifying film about grieving parents taking on social media giants

Sextortion, suicide scenarios, unwanted sexual advances – all this and more is served up to teens on their phones. Can’t Look Away tells a devastating story of bereft parents trying to hold the likes of Snapchat to accountIn 2020, Amy Neville found her 14-year-old son Alexander dead in his bedroom. He had taken what he thought was an oxycodone pill, bought – according to Neville – from a drug dealer he met on Snapchat. The pill was a fake, laced with fentanyl. Four years later, his mum stood up in the California high school where Alex would have been a student to warn other parents and teenagers about social media. “We give our kids these smartphones. We let them have these apps. And that is the equivalent of dropping them off in the worst neighbourhood in our area.”Neville is featured alongside other bereaved parents in Can’t Look Away, a terrifying new documentary about kids and social media directed by Matthew O’Neill and Perri Peltz, based on extensive investigative reporting by...

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9 d. ago Brits' guilt about not being able to bring pet dogs on holiday with them

Most Brits feel guilty when they go somewhere that isn't dog-friendly for a holiday. Now, TripAdvisor has teamed up with Cesar to help dog owners plan the perfect trip

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2 w. ago Don’t feel guilty about letting your kids game during the summer break – celebrate it

After a long day of exploring, swimming or hanging with grandparents, games from Fortnite to Super Mario are a good way to wind down. Sometimes I play along, tooWe’re a week into the school summer holidays here in England, and I wonder how many parents who started out determined to keep their children completely away from screens are now beginning to feel the strain. When my sons were much younger, I often had these idyllic images in my head of day trips to the seaside, back garden treasure hunts, paddling in the river, visiting relatives an endless series of character forming experiences which I imagined in grainy Kodachrome colours. Then I’d be faced with the reality of having a job, and also the, let’s say, limited attention span of my sons. Those boys could rocket through a host of formative activities in a few hours leaving a trail of muddy boots, half-finished crafting projects and tired grandparents in their wake. Sheepishly, we’d end up allowing some Fortnite time to catch o...

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3 w. ago 'Married lover gives me biblical orgasms as we romp on the stairs – but I feel guilty'

JUST JANE: Today our agony aunt Jane O'Gorman is dealing with a new issue from a Daily Star reader who is addicted to forbidden love

Society

3 w. ago Woman 'irritated' with 'intrusive' neighbours letting their 'unruly' kids into her garden

The woman finds the situation "really intrusive and unpleasant" and asked for advice on how to stop it

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3 w. ago Woman's 'intrusive' neighbours keep letting 'unruly' kids into her garden

The woman finds the situation "really intrusive and unpleasant" and asked for advice on how to stop it

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3 w. ago England’s clash with USA delayed by weather in Washington DC

The game is the third and final match of England’s summer tour.

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3 w. ago For Muslims, Mamdani’s rise signifies a new way of looking at who represents America

The New York mayoral candidate has piqued the interest of South Asian Americans and Muslims – not only because of his identity, but his platform, tooZohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s Democratic primary for mayor has a group of Pakistani American aunties and uncles so excited that they are wondering if they should have given their own children more freedom in choosing their careers. “What if we let our kids become politicians, and not just doctors and engineers?” a member of the grassroots political organizing group, DRUM Beats, asked at a small celebration held at an Islamic school last month in south Brooklyn.DRUM Beats, which represents New York City’s working class South Asian and Indo-Caribbean populations, was one of the first grassroots groups to endorse Mamdani, when he launched his campaign in October – long before he became a household name. More than 300 volunteers, who spoke near a dozen languages, knocked on at least 10,000 doors to support him. DRUM Beats says...

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3 w. ago How to watch Reading vs Tottenham: TV channel and live stream for friendly today

Thomas Frank era begins at Spurs with first pre-season game of the summer

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3 w. ago Electric rechargeable pump that ‘blows up paddle boards in minutes’ gets axed by £40

This portable electric pump is a game-changer for all of your summer activities, from inflating paddle boards to topping up your bike's tires - and right now, it's nearly half-price

Economics

3 w. ago Manchester United sent resounding transfer message as striker search continues

Man United are looking as though they will have to play a waiting game in their quest to sign a striker this summer.

Sport

4 w. ago Princess Andre pouts in white bikini after mum Katie Price banned from her 18th birthday

Princess Andre has jetted off to Mexico for a sun-soaked break after celebrating her 18th birthday with a family soiree that her mum, Katie Price, was not invited to

Events

last month Measles cases are surging in Europe and the US. This is what the anti

Nearly 30 years after Andrew Wakefield’s discredited study linking the MMR vaccine and autism, we badly need an injection of rationalityIt’s easy to say in hindsight, but also true, that even when the anti-vax movement was in its infancy in the late 90s before I had kids, let alone knew what you were supposed to vaccinate them against, I could smell absolute garbage. After all, Andrew Wakefield, a doctor until he was struck off in 2010, was not the first crank to dispute the safety and effectiveness of childhood vaccines. There was a movement against the diphtheria-tetanus-whooping cough vaccine in the 1970s in the UK, and a similar one in the US in the early 1980s. The discovery of vaccination in the first place was not without its critics, and enough people to form a league opposed the smallpox rollout in the early 1800s on the basis that it was unchristian to share tissue with an animal.So Wakefield’s infamous Lancet study, in which he claimed a link between the MMR (measles, mum...

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