62 m. ago 'UK's most hated mum' pulls daughter, 3, from nursery to 'count my cocktails on holiday'

Carla Bellucci, 42, has taken her youngest daughter, three-year-old Blu, out of nursery - claiming she is learning more by counting her cocktail intake while on a luxury holidays

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79 m. ago True story behind Netflix's Toxic Town as Jodie Whittaker leads waste scandal drama

Toxic Town, starring Jodie Whittaker, Aimee Lou Wood, Claudia Jessie and Robert Carlyle, tells the story of a group of women who take on their local council

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1 hour ago Drone used to count seals along coast in Natural England pilot project

The drone can capture images from 110 metres above, minimising disturbance to the seals.

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2 h. ago Skin cancer signs and symptoms as Ruth Langsford issues urgent plea to viewers amid health worry

The Loose Women host has urged viewers to keep an eye on any change in colour and texture of their skin

Science

2 h. ago Celtic starlet Jude Bonnar on his 'dream come true' as he makes first team debut in Aberdeen rout

The 19-year-old from Hamilton got his first run out for the Hoops in last night's 5-1 thumping of Aberdeen

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3 h. ago UK's 'most hated' mum takes daughter, 3, out of nursery to 'count her cocktails on beach'

A mum has left the "horrific" British weather behind and taken her daughter out of nursery so they can spend seven nights in Egypt where her youngest has been learning by "counting" her cocktail intake

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3 h. ago 'Extremely proud' Caledonia Gladiators hit new milestone in Scottish women’s basketball first

Caledonia Gladiators have broken another attendance record as basketball continues to grow in Scotland.

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3 h. ago Don’t Make Me Laugh by Julia Raeside review – more monstrous men

The relationship between a predatory male comedian and a female producer rings true in this darkly funny debutAli is a radio producer; Ed is a comedian. Ali is vulnerable; Ed is charming. Ali is desperate to be loved; Ed is ready to love her.And Ed is a predator. Ali is prey. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Jury retires to consider verdicts in trial of alleged student rapist

Zhenhao Zou, 28, is accused of drugging and raping three women in London and seven in China between 2019 and 2023.

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4 h. ago Couple's horror as dead body placed next to them on Qatar Airways flight

Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin were travelling to Venice for a dream holiday

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4 h. ago MLB players are giving their new robot umpire overlords a cautious welcome

Anger over blown calls is as old as baseball itself. But in Spring Training this year, players can ask technology for a little helpFor the first time ever this month, major league players who disagree with an umpire’s rendering of the strike zone can do something about it. Something other than an exaggerated pantomime of disbelief or a testy reply liable to get them thrown out of the game entirely. They can do something effectual, productive, process-based. They can appeal to a higher power, one that has become revered within the sport for its ability to optimize anything and everything: Technology.Major League Baseball is testing the challenge system version of the Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) in roughly 60% of Spring Training games this preseason. In layman’s terms: this spring, players can ask robot umps to review pitch calls. Continue reading...

Sport

5 h. ago Food for Thought review – breezy documentary makes a light meal of vegan debates

Peppy look at the rise of plant-based diets skates around the planet from Los Angeles to South Africa but doesn’t really pause to sift through the statsThis bright and proselytising documentary about veganism will no doubt win some new converts to the cause, with lots of sun-dappled footage of rescued farm animals restored to Edenic freedom. But it doesn’t delve seriously enough into still-debated issues to sway interested fence-sitters, let alone diehard carnivores that must be converted if animal agriculture’s carbon footprint is to be reduced to sustainable levels; this latter is surely the most universally compelling argument in the vegan arsenal.Co-directors Dan Richardson and Giles Alderson, also appearing front of camera, initially present the film as a fanfare for veganism’s recent growth and new acceptability. But with the film skating superficially through various locations – a vegan fair in Croatia, a sanctuary farm in South Africa, vegan mecca Los Angeles, a Super Size M...

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5 h. ago The shocking reasons one gender always regrets divorce more: TRACEY COX talks to men and women to find out how they felt after leaving their marriage

Around a third of divorced couples in the UK regret their decision to end their marriage - but do both partners feel the pain equally? TRACEY COX explains why men may suffer more than women.

Events

6 h. ago Mystery after three women found dead in holiday resort as families reject one theory

A theory over the cause of death of three female tourists who were tragically found dead in a beachside resort in Belize over the weekend has been disputed by family and friends

Events

6 h. ago Woman wore 'array of wigs' to complete fraudulent UK citizenship tests for other people admits fraud

Josephine Maurice admitted to pretending to be 13 different men and women when she undertook the Life in the UK Test

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6 h. ago The ultimate hack to save money on women’s mags like Hello! and Bella – and get two months free with Readly

Love magazines but hate the cost? With Readly, you can access dozens of top women’s titles for one low price – and right now, you can get two months free. Here’s how to save big while enjoying all your favourite reads.

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6 h. ago Djed Spence waited two years for a start at Spurs. Now he’s indispensable

Neither Antonio Conte nor Ange Postecoglou were convinced by Spence but he’s showing his value nowBy Ben McAleer for WhoScoredRed Djed Redemption. Return of the Djedi. The Walking Djed. Call it what you like but, in a season of few success stories at Tottenham, Djed Spence’s emergence as a key player is the feelgood story of the campaign. He even scored his first goal in the Premier League at the weekend.“A kid who had the wildest dreams to play in the Premier League. A kid who had the wildest dreams to score in the Premier League. That dream came true. Never stop believing,” wrote Spence on Instagram after Tottenham’s 4-1 win against Ipswich at Portman Road. Given the first two years of his time at Spurs, that dream did not seem likely to come true this season. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Australian radio host axed after ‘disgusting’ comments on Matildas and women’s football

Marty Sheargold has apologised for comments he initially suggested were ‘comedy’ that ‘missed the mark’

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6 h. ago Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie review – a tale of four women

The Nigerian-American author returns with an astute and moving exploration of female experience‘Novels had always felt to me truer than what was real,” declares a character in Dream Count, the highly anticipated new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It is a statement echoed in the accompanying author’s note, which contends that the “point of art is to look at our world and be moved by it, and then to engage in a series of attempts at clearly seeing that world, interpreting it, questioning it”. Since the publication of her extraordinarily assured debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, in 2003, Adichie’s fiction has performed this task of seeing, interpreting and questioning to huge acclaim, garnering her major awards as well as a public profile far beyond most writers, whose work hasn’t been sampled by Beyoncé.In keeping with her superstar status, Dream Count is billed as “a publishing event 10 years in the making” and is perhaps the surest bet so far for this year’s Women’s prize. However, ...

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7 h. ago Why England continue standing with Spain as Luis Rubiales casts shadow over Wembley

While Sarina Wiegman praised Jenni Hermoso for her ‘remarkable courage’, there is a reason the Lionesses won’t stop talking about the incident that overshadowed the Women’s World Cup final

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