51 m. ago AD FEATURE: Head to National Museum Cardiff this May half term for a diverse and vibrant experience

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2 h. ago Christine Baranski says Stellan Skarsgård ‘hated’ Mamma Mia! filming experience

‘The camera would usually avoid him,’ the actor said

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2 h. ago Readers' Letters: Women won't forget Sturgeon's role in gender controversy

Nicola Sturgeon’s response to last week’s Supreme Court judgment around sex and gender continues to provoke discussion

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3 h. ago TODAY'S TV WITH SARA WALLIS: Channel 4's sex experiment show's eye

From a reality show that gives couples the chance to cheat to a rugby design challenge and pulped fiction, our TV columnist Sara Wallis picks the best telly to watch tonight

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4 h. ago ‘I punched another dad’ – your stories of the worst parent behaviour at kids’ football

From rocks being thrown at cars to spectators being given the red cards, readers share their experiences of the most shocking scenes at children’s soccer gamesThe first manager my son had, when he was seven, got the parents together and told us how shouting could affect our sons’ development and behaviour, not only as players but as human beings. Usually, I don’t behave so badly. The worst I’ve done is to complain to the referee and I’ve sworn once or twice. But mostly I’ve been civil. There was one time, though, when a game was interrupted because the other team had fielded ineligible nine-year-old players. There was a lot of swearing and shouting from managers and dads. My wife decided enough was enough and took our son from the field to go home. He was the team’s only keeper so without him there was no game and several of the other team’s dads taunted us, shouting: “Are you running?”, “Are you scared?”. My wife ignored them and headed for the exit but one of the dads pushed her. ...

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11 h. ago Liam Fox wants manager gig again as Hearts interim explains how Dundee Utd experience has made him better

Neil Critchley was given the boot by the capital club with Fox delivering a big win over Ross County in Dingwall

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13 h. ago Forgive and forget? Both sides must be accountable after a family fallout

Prince Harry and King Charles will need to put past grievances to one side if they are to move on from their estrangementFor most families, fallouts and squabbles are a regular occurrence. But what happens when those rifts deepen to an estrangement, such as appears to have beset the royal family and the Beckhams, and how can relationships be rebuilt?According to the following psychologists and psychotherapists, family reconciliation requires both sides taking accountability for their behaviour and not letting past grievances and trauma block efforts to meaningfully re-engage with estranged relatives. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Government monitoring Newham Council over concerns at how 'broke' town hall is run

Ministers are concerned about the council’s ‘significant value for money weaknesses’ as well as ‘cultural and governance issues’

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16 h. ago 'Fantastic value for money' smart watch drops 63% cheaper in Amazon tech sale

Normally £59.99, this budget smart watch just dropped to £21.98 at Amazon.

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16 h. ago Surgery, real sex and water sports: Louise Weard on her four

The Canadian director set out to make a 90-minute snapshot of the trans experience before it ballooned in length and scope. Nevertheless, the film’s writer, director and star is confident of reaching the mainstreamWhen Louise Weard began shooting her debut film in 2023, she envisaged it as a snappy, 90-minute portrait of a group of queer and transgender friends in Vancouver. Now, Castration Movie, a crowdfunded camcorder epic made for less than C$60,000 (£33,000), runs four-and-a-half hours. And that’s just part one. When the entire magnum opus is finished later this year, Weard estimates it will clock in at more than 12 hours. Take that, Béla Tarr. Watch your back, Rivette.Not that anyone could mistake Castration Movie for slow cinema. “It’s not as if I’m asking you to watch farmers in a field for 20 minutes,” says the 31-year-old director over coffee in an east London cafe. Indeed not: the first hour-and-a-half follows a budding “incel” as he sinks deeper into the manosphere. The ...

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16 h. ago The reason eggs are less likely to crack when dropped on their side

Hundreds of eggs were used to reveal the findings

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16 h. ago This is why I hate drunk women... and why I'm so glad I turned my back on alcohol: JULIE COOK

Don't get me wrong. Drunk men are awful, too; they fight, fall over and get lairy. But they don't draw my ire because I can't recognise myself in them. In drunk women, I see a mirror of a past I'd rather forget.

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16 h. ago New supermarket that’s 'like Tesco but with Amazon Prime' to open in UK

A new supermarket offering a "more convenient" shopping experience could be launched throughout the UK by the end of this year

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16 h. ago ‘An optimal state of consciousness’: is flow the secret to happiness?

It can happen when doing ‘just about anything’ – experts share how to get ‘in the zone’, and what can pull you outWhat is the secret to happiness? In a 2004 Ted Talk, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi boldly claimed to have the answer: flow.Flow is the experience of being completely absorbed in a particular task. Sometimes we call it being “in the zone”. Csikszentmihalyi described it in his Ted Talk as an “effortless, spontaneous feeling” and an “ecstatic state”.An intense focus that “leads to a sense of ecstasy”Knowing exactly what you want from one moment to the nextGetting immediate feedback on what you are doingKnowing your goal is achievable, even if it is difficultLosing track of timeForgetting yourself – you are so focused on your task that any self-consciousness disappearsFeeling part of something bigger than yourself Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Simon Cowell reveals doctor feared he would never walk again after horror bike accident

Simon Cowell suffered a near-death experience when he was thrown off his electric bike while testing it out at his home in Malibu, California, leaving him with a broken back

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17 h. ago Three out of four new and expectant mothers experience mental health challenges

A ‘devastating’ discovery described in the new survey is that most mothers struggle in silence

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17 h. ago Eggs are less likely to crack when dropped on their side, according to science

New experiments show eggs are less likely to crack when they fall on their side

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17 h. ago Having a child has been both the most transformative and mundane experience of my life | Rebecca Varcoe

Parenthood has opened the door to a new kind of love – one not necessarily more sacred or pure than the love for my friends, parents and husbandGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailTwo years ago I fell pregnant and within five weeks I was diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum, a medical condition that causes extreme nausea and vomiting. It lasted my entire pregnancy and that year was (almost) the worst of my life. Now, I keep being told the relief of no longer being sick is the main reason I enjoyed the first year of my child’s life so much.Shortly after my baby was born, I started seeing social media content about Charli xcx’s song “I think about it all the time” and its articulation of the apprehension many women have about becoming mothers. I have recently started back at work and miss my child terribly. It’s the unhappiest I have been since she was born, around the same time Chappell Roan said none of her friends with children were happy.Sign up for the fun stuff with our ...

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17 h. ago Government intervenes in Newham Council over concerns at how 'broke' town hall is run

Ministers are concerned about the council’s ‘significant value for money weaknesses’ as well as ‘cultural and governance issues’

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18 h. ago A starters guide to bootlegs in 2025: from what they are to 13 of the most lucrative releases

What are bootlegs and what are the most coveted historical releases on the format?

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