17 h. ago ‘It’s allowed me to see through his eyes’: Super Mario, my dad and me

When his mum found their old family NES covered in dust and rust, Thomas Hobbs cleaned it up, got it working and reconnected with his childhood and late fatherOne of my earliest memories is watching my mum and dad play the opening level of Super Mario Bros in cooperative mode on the Nintendo Entertainment System. This was the early 1990s, and they were joined at the hip on the sofa, laughing at the idea of two portly plumbers becoming gigantic after consuming copious amounts of magic mushrooms.In this moment I sensed their natural chemistry, while the intoxicating mix of 8-bit visuals and perky, synth-heavy music blew my toddler mind. Although it was irritating seeing them constantly fail to jump high enough to hit the top of the flagpole at the end of the level, I remember being transfixed by the TV screen, and I’m pretty sure this was the first time I connected properly with a video game. Continue reading...

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41 h. ago Katy Perry's daughter Daisy, 4, is seen for the first time as she's filmed watching Blue Origin flight in awe alongside dad Orlando Bloom after pop star's sweet tribute to her in space

The singer, 40, soared into the sky with a star-studded crew including Lauren Sanchez and Gayle King for an 11-minute trip, before safely touching back down on Earth.

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3 d. ago Owen Farrell incident in spotlight as star branded 'very lucky' with dad Andy watching on

Playing alongside Farrell on the night was Wales international Will Rowlands.

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3 d. ago Hilarious video shows dad’s priceless reaction to daughter’s surprise return from Canada

Watch the moment a dad is stopped in his tracks when his daughter surprised him at home, after returning from Canada.

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6 d. ago Prince George leaves royal fans saying the same thing as he goes to football match with William

Prince George joined his dad Prince William in Paris to watch Aston Villa take on PSG on Wednesday night, and the 11-year-old left royal fans all saying the same thing

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6 d. ago Footballer, 21, dies after horror collision with keeper leaving club in 'great pain'

Helar Gonzales Altamirano, 21, has died following a horror collision with an opposition goalkeeper during a Copa Peru match between Real Titan Nc and Defensor Nueva Cajamarca

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6 d. ago Footballer, 21, dies after horror clash with keeper during match as dad watches on

The youngster was left unconscious after colliding with a keeper during a Peruvian Cup match

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6 d. ago Footballer, 21, tragically dies after horror collision with goalkeeper during match

Tributes have been paid to a Peruvian footballer, 21, after he died in hospital following this horror collision in front of his anguished family. The fatal collision occurred in the 70th minute of the game.

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6 d. ago Footballer, 21, tragically dies after horror clash with keeper during match

Helar Gonzales Altamirano has died in hospital at the age of just 21 after being involved in a horror collision during a Copa Peru match on Sunday in which he was knocked out

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8 d. ago Today's TV with Sara Wallis: Bradley Walsh crack walnuts with bum in ITV's Breaking Dad

From gory Jack The Ripper thrills to Alison Hammond caring for cats and a nutty scene in Breaking Dad, our TV columnist Sara Wallis picks the best telly to watch tonight

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9 d. ago ‘Unfailing ability to cheer me up’: why The Rebel is my feelgood movie

The next entry in our series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort watches is a look back to the 1961 Tony Hancock comedyFor me, memorable and/or uplifting film experiences tend to be around individual moments – the resurrection scene in The Matrix for example, or Dizzy’s “I got to have you” in Starship Troopers. (Do either really hold a candle to Mel Brooks’s A Little Piece of Poland number in the To Be Or Not to Be remake? The jury is still out.) But without wanting to sound like either a retro bore or a they-don’t-make-’em-like-they-used-to fuddy-duddy, I turn to Tony Hancock’s yuk-heavy feature vehicle from 1961 for its unfailing ability to cheer me up.I think I must have first watched it in the 1980s on TV, after my dad solemnly recited one of the film’s great moments, when Hancock offers a hunk of cheese to a blue-lipsticked beatnik Nanette Newman and says, with a sort of slack-jawed terror: “You do eat food?” Newman, as it happens, is perhaps The Rebel’s most amazing si...

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2 w. ago Mum shot dead outside son's nursery by kid's dad as horrified children watch on

Orlando Mitchell, 35, opened fire and shot dead his former girlfriend Krystal Walton, 32, outside Charity Child Care, in Indianapolis, where she had been dropping off their son

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