6 h. ago Eternity film review: This sweet and funny romcom is a wonderfully warm watch with delightful performances

ETERNITY (15) 114mins ★★★★☆ LOVE never dies, right? Well, it seems that is the case in this charming romcom about the afterlife. This is a story about the eternal love between Joan and Larry, a warm, bickering couple who have been married for 60 years. We first meet them at the end of their lives,...

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7 h. ago Walking felt impossible when I was obese but I lost 4st without fat jabs after years of failed diets – here’s my top tip

AFTER years of trying to slim down, a mother has opened up on losing over four stone without fat jabs. There was no Mounjaro or Ozempic in sight for Rachael Sacerdoti, 46, and instead, she credits a super simple tip that changed everything. The brunette explained that after years of failed diets, she has now...

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7 h. ago I discovered my husband’s affair with my best friend two days before Christmas – I moved back to Scotland with nothing

WHEN Gillian Dalgliesh’s sister told her “you’ll look back on this and you will feel completely different”, the mum-of-four couldn’t see beyond her life-shattering heartbreak. She had just discovered her husband of 17 years had been having an affair with her best friend. And instead of fighting for their marriage when confronted, he walked out...

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9 h. ago ‘A little less cool’: Spotify’s listening age feature stirs delight and dismay

Some users jump generations in expanded Wrapped review while Taylor Swift tops UK streams for third yearIt has given some in middle age dubious hope that they have their finger on the cultural pulse. Meanwhile, some younger users have been told their listening habits suggest they are well into retirement.Spotify has confected a wave of intrigue over what our musical preferences suggest about our vintage, with its “your listening age” feature causing delight and consternation. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Harry Dunn's mum gives emotional reaction after Foreign Office failings exposed

Charlotte Charles told the BBC said there is "comfort" in "knowing that going forward things should change" after an independent review found officials did not treat her son's death outside a US military base case as a crisis

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11 h. ago David Hockney at Annely Juda Fine Art: 'The greatest living painter

Artist Daniel Lismore visits Some Very, Very, Very New Paintings Not Yet Shown in Paris to find Hockney at the peak of his powers

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12 h. ago It Was Just an Accident review – Jafar Panahi’s urgent thriller should frighten us all

This Palme d’Or-winning drama arrives in the same week its director was handed a prison sentence

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12 h. ago Steven Pressley wants his Dundee players to adopt Scrooge mentality amid festive fixture pile

The head coach knows his side face a busy schedule before the calendar year draws to a close

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12 h. ago I'll strengthen child safety after 'sickening' West Hampstead paedophile nursery case, says minister

Bridget Phillipson promises a full safeguarding review into how Vincent Chan, 45, was able to prey on youngsters in his care at Bright Horizons nursery in West Hampstead

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13 h. ago I just roadtripped the Scottish highlands – this is the only bag I took with me

Stubble & Co’s duffle bag transforms from airplane hand luggage to an excursion-ready backpack

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13 h. ago Jay Kelly review – George Clooney is raw and revealing as an ageing movie star

A star-studded cast – including Adam Sandler, Laura Dern and Greta Gerwig – surround Clooney’s egotistical A-lister in Noah Baumbach’s new Netflix film

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13 h. ago All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles review – a deliciously sweary, prize

The actor Paul Hilton brilliantly inhabits the character of a ranting working-class academic in this debut novelSome books feel so suited to the audio format that they could have been written with the voice in mind. All My Precious Madness is one of those. Mark Bowles’s debut novel, which won the audiobook fiction category at the inaugural British Audio awards (where, full disclosure, I was a judge), is a deliciously sweary monologue from a middle-aged malcontent.A sideways reflection on working-class identity and masculinity, the novel gives voice to Henry Nash, a man of little patience. Sitting in a London coffee shop and trying to write a monograph of his father, he rains judgment on the other patrons whose obnoxious phone calls he can’t help but overhear. An Oxford graduate turned writer and academic, Nash lives in a Soho flat where he has been known to furtively drop eggs on passersby who disturb him with their drunken racket. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Nash Ensemble: Ravel album review – catches the music’s dazzling light and intriguing shade

The Nash Ensemble(Onyx)The chamber group’s all-Ravel CD is an impeccable farewell to its much-missed founderThis all-Ravel recording by the Nash Ensemble was the final project of Amelia Freedman’s extraordinary 60 years as artistic director, and it’s a fitting farewell to the group’s much-missed founder, who died in July. It includes all three larger chamber works plus the composer’s own two-piano arrangement of his orchestral masterpiece La Valse: Alasdair Beatson and Simon Crawford-Phillips are a polished team in this, sounding wonderfully louche early on and then dispatching fistfuls of notes and long glissandos with seeming ease, all while catching the music’s increasingly sinister nature.The 1905 Introduction and Allegro was a commission from a harp manufacturer, intended to make their instrument sound good – which it duly does as played by Lucy Wakeford, although what is most striking is the way the seven instruments coalesce and separate to create kaleidoscopic textural inter...

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14 h. ago Streeting orders review into ‘overdiagnosis’ of mental illness and ADHD in welfare spending crackdown

The health secretary has charged leading experts with finding out whether normal feelings have become ‘over-pathologised’

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14 h. ago Netflix fans 'turn off after very first scene' of new series in damning review

The new Netflix drama has been slammed as a 'shockingly bad' series that is 'not worth the time'

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14 h. ago David Ellis reviews Bonheur: Gordon Ramsay's top dog conquers Le Gavroche

Michelin bait — but not boring, says David Ellis

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15 h. ago Shoppers can’t get enough of M&S trousers that ‘fit perfectly’ and contain wool to keep you warm in cooler temperatures

IT'S that time of year again when you can't step out of the house without checking the temperature first. The cold and wet weather means we all have to make sure our outfits will keep us warm. And while this usually means you prioritise staying warm over style, you won't have to anymore. Shoppers have...

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15 h. ago Ebony Scrooge review, Sadler’s Wells – Ebenezer gets a fabulous hip

Charles Dickens’ miserly mister becomes a devilish fashion designer in this marvellously modern production

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16 h. ago ‘One bite and he was hooked’: from Kenya to Nepal, how parents are battling ultra

Five families around the world share their struggles to keep their children away from UPFsParents and young people: share your concerns about ultra-processed foods (UPFs)The scourge of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) is global. While their consumption is particularly high in the west, forming more than half the average diet in the UK and the US, for example, UPFs are replacing fresh food in diets on every continent.This month, the world’s largest review on the health threats of UPFs was published in the Lancet. It warned that such foods are exposing millions of people to long-term harm, and called for urgent action. Earlier this year Unicef revealed that more children around the world were obese than underweight for the first time, as junk food overwhelms diets, with the steepest rises in low- and middle-income countries. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago David Ellis reviews Bonheur: Ramsay's top dog conquers Le Gavroche

Review at a glance: ★★★★☆

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