7 h. ago Love Island couple announce major life update as star talks 'wedding bells and babies'

EXCLUSIVE: Love Island stars Will Young and Jessie Wynter have got some big plans this year as the pair plan to buy their own farm and hint at some huge relationship milestones

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8 h. ago ITV Love Island contestants who returned to their day jobs from social worker to Lidl

Love Island often extends beyond finding love with the potential for a career as an influencer and lucrative brand deals but it doesn't always work out for some

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17 h. ago Former social worker turned author hits huge milestone as publisher picks up new book

Julie Conrad's seventh effort is available in the shops

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34 h. ago ‘The risk was worth it’: All Fours author Miranda July on sex, power and giving women permission to blow up their lives

The artist and author’s hit book had so much in common with her own life that even her friends forgot it wasn’t real. How did this revolutionary portrayal of midlife desire come to inspire a generation of women?When Miranda July’s All Fours was published in May last year, it triggered what felt like both a spontaneous resistance movement and the sort of mania last experienced when the final Twilight book dropped, except this time for women in midlife rather than teenage girls. Two friends separately brought it to my house, like contraband dropped out of a biplane. Book groups hastily convened, strategically timed for when the men were out of the picture.The story opens with a 45-year-old woman about to take a road trip, a break from her husband and child and general domestic noise. She’s intending to drive from LA to New York, but is derailed in the first half hour by a young guy, Davey, in a car hire place, to whom she is passionately attracted. The next several weeks pas...

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46 h. ago Children’s social worker who got boy, 15, to sell drugs and supplied guns jailed

Chloe Scott and Miles Addy sourced a firearm linked back to a murder investigation, Scotland Yard said

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50 h. ago Office worker finds genius use for standing desk as people left in stitches

One office worker took to the social media site to show people his unique use for his electric standing desk, and it's certainly captured people's attention, racking up more than 1.6million likes

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3 d. ago Bloody Scotland: Full line up of crime writing festival revealed, including author behind hit TV show

Bloody Scotland will take place in Stirling in September

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3 d. ago Love Island's Sophie Lee breaks silence with 'swipe at Harry' after brutal dumping

Motivational speaker and author Sophie Lee has appeared to hit out at the boys in the Love Island villa as she breaks her silence on her brutal exit from the ITV2 show

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4 d. ago Petition to stop asylum seekers receiving benefits smashes huge new milestone

The petition, which was set up by Bob Clements, has been signed by more than 350,000 people. It calls for the Government to stop providing financial and other support to asylum seekers

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8 d. ago BBC Radio 2 icon Jo Whiley's heartbreak over tragic loss amid huge life milestone

Jo Whiley, who is narrating a new National Rail guide about Britain's biggest musical locations, talks rock and roll nights, her milestone 60th and swapping raves for wild swimming

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1 week ago Kylie Minogue breaks down in tears onstage as she makes history at London's O2 arena

Kylie Minogue broke down in tears onstage during her concert at the O2 arena tonight, as the singer celebrated a huge milestone in music

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1 week ago 1000lbs Sisters' Tammy Slaton lost for words as she finally hits weight loss goal

1000lbs Sisters star Tammy Slaton was left in disbelief as she reached a huge weight loss milestone in the latest episode of the TLC reality series

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1 week ago Dark true story behind hit drama What It Feels Like For a Girl: Transgender author Paris Lees endured horrific sexual abuse and was jailed at 16

Critics have commended the BBC 's adaptation of journalist Paris Lees' memoir, What It Feels Like for a Girl, which looks at the British writer's tumultuous history and at times dark journey.

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2 w. ago Hidden Greater Manchester food spot says its reached 'huge milestone' as it wins major award

The business operates out of a 'ghost kitchen' near Manchester Piccadilly

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2 w. ago Cyberpunk 2077 sequel gets new name as Witcher 3 hits huge sales milestone

Cyberpunk 2077's sequel is now in pre-production, and it's got a new name that's unlikely to surprise anyone – here's all we know, including the latest sales figures for Witcher 3

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2 w. ago Amanda Owen celebrates 'momentous' family milestone in huge update

Amanda Owen was joined by her large family on the Channel 4 show as she shared an update from the Anty John's renovation

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3 w. ago 'Keir Starmer has got it wrong – here's why we're not an island of strangers'

Real Britain reports on All Souls church, which closed in 1986, became a magnet for anti-social behaviour, until community worker Inayat Omarji decided to try to do something about it

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3 w. ago Gogglebox fans say same thing as star marks huge milestone on show

On Friday night, Channel 4 viewers saw one of the beloved stars of Gogglebox mark a major milestone minutes the opening minutes

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3 w. ago Andrew Hunter Murray: ‘Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I find more jokes’

The author and podcaster on taking inspiration from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, welling up to Charles Dickens, and the enduring appeal of Jane AustenMy earliest reading memoryAt a secondhand book sale at school, a kind teacher recommended my mum buy Brian Jacques’s Redwall. Noble monastic mice battle thuggish rats: catnip for a seven-year-old.My favourite book growing upThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. The mad robots and two-headed aliens are great for the teenage brain, but beneath all that is the sadness, and the questions about why life has to be like this, all filtered through poor Arthur Dent. I sometimes pull it off the shelf to read half a page, just to remind myself how comedy writing is done. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'People always tell me I wish you died instead of him': PETER HITCHENS remembers sibling rivalry with late brother CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS on new Mail podcast

Christopher Hitchens, the brother of Alas podcast host, Peter Hitchens, was a prodigious author and journalist, known for his divisive atheism and left-wing politics.

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