21 h. ago Five unique Valentine’s Day experiences couples can enjoy across Scotland

Couples can enjoy unique Valentine’s Day experiences in Scotland, from spa retreats to glowing lantern trails.

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7 d. ago Love at first bite for couple who met at Jammie Dodgers factory

'I know a lot of couples probably wouldn’t enjoy working together, but we love it'

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2 w. ago No Drama This End brings back glory days for Nicholls – and it’s Cheltenham next

Hot favourite makes all in Grade One Challow HurdleMinella Yoga doubles up on sparkling day for trainerDays like these were once almost a weekly experience for Paul Nicholls, as he strung together one title-winning season after another, so the 14-time champion will have taken particular pleasure from his double here on Monday as No Drama This End, in the Grade One Challow Hurdle, and Minella Yoga both emerged as contenders for the Cheltenham festival in March.The Challow has often been an early proving ground for future stars over fences, and No Drama This End, Nicholls’s seventh winner of the race, joined former champions from the yard including Denman, the 2008 Gold Cup winner, and Bravemansgame, the 2022 King George VI Chase winner, on the roll of honour. Sent off at 4-9, the five-year-old made all the running under Harry Cobden and needed little encouragement to maintain a one-and-a-quarter length lead to the line. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Emma Sleep Boxing Day sale sees up to 30% off 'magical sleeping experience' mattress

Emma Sleep has launched its winter sale with up to 30% off mattresses, pillows and duvets, plus extra discounts for Boxing Day shoppers

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3 w. ago Professional chef gives tips to fix common Christmas dinner fails

A professional chef has shared the common fails that people experience on Christmas Day, and the ways you can fix them without getting stressed and throwing in the towel

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3 w. ago Ice by Jacek Dukaj review – a dazzling journey to an alternate Siberia

The 1908 Tunguska comet changes the direction of history and gives rise to a weird new reality in this acclaimed epic from the Polish authorThe opening sentence of this remarkable novel announces that the reader is in for an intriguing experience. “On the fourteenth day of July 1924, when the tchinovniks of the Ministry of Winter came for me, on the evening of that day, on the eve of my Siberian Odyssey, only then did I begin to suspect that I did not exist.” It may hint at Kafka in the ominous arrival of officials, or Borges in its metaphysical conundrum, but stranger things are afoot. In 1924 there was no tsar, let alone his bureaucrats, the tchinovniks. The date is significant, but I don’t mind admitting I had to find out why online. The time, as Hamlet says, is out of joint.The rudely awakened sleeper is Benedykt Gierosławski, a Polish philosopher, logician, mathematician and gambler whose debts will be erased if he undertakes a special mission for the Ministry. He is to travel ...

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3 w. ago Zendaya and Tom Holland enjoy a family day out at London's The Traitors experience

‘You can't trust anyone when you enter the round table not even family,’ Tom’s brother, Sam, wrote on Instagram

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3 w. ago Tom Holland and Zendaya's very ordinary English Christmas: Hollywood couple shun lavish restaurants for under

Last Christmas, Zendaya and Tom Holland had much to celebrate while in the US with her family as the actor popped the question to his longtime love.

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3 w. ago Holly Ramsay and Adam Peaty's wedding week gets underway: Couple enjoy a slap

The couple are expected to exchange vows at the Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paulin Bath  on December 27.

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3 w. ago Zendaya gets playful as she joins fiancé Tom Holland, his parents and brothers for a fun

The actress, 29, and actor, also 29, are spending Christmas with his family in England after celebrating their engagement in America with Zendaya's family last year.

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