46 m. ago ‘I’m here to open doors’: Bernardine Evaristo on success, controversy and why she plans to donate her £100k award

The Girl, Woman, Other author has this week been awarded a one-off Women’s prize award for her outstanding contribution. She talks about her long road to recognition, and using her profile to support other writersBack in 2013, Bernardine Evaristo gave a reading in a south London bookshop from her novel Mr Loverman. Only six people showed up, a couple of them were dozing and she realised they were homeless people who had come to find somewhere comfortable to sleep. Last month, the hit TV adaptation Mr Loverman, about a 74-year-old gay Caribbean man set in Hackney, east London, won two Baftas, including leading actor for Lennie James, making him the first Black British actor to win the TV award in its 70-year history. “I checked Wikipedia!” Evaristo exclaims of this shocking fact when we meet in London.Evaristo’s long career is one of firsts and creating them for others. In 2019, at the age of 60, she became the first Black woman to win the Booker prize – shared with Margaret Atwood –...

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46 m. ago Craig Bellamy: ‘I loved living in Brussels it gave me freedom and allowed me to breathe’

Coach learned his trade under Vincent Kompany at Anderlecht, now he leads Wales back to Belgium for a World Cup qualifierThe last of Craig Bellamy’s 78 Wales caps came in Brussels in October 2013 and although that 1-1 draw concluded an underwhelming World Cup qualifying campaign, the Belgian capital is where he considers his coaching career achieved liftoff. He spent a little more than two years working at Anderlecht alongside his former Manchester City teammate Vincent Kompany, first as the under-21 coach and then as Kompany’s assistant, a springboard that has led him to representing his country at the King Baudouin Stadium for another qualifier, this time as a manager.It is a city Bellamy remembers fondly, despite leaving Anderlecht in September 2021, before the end of his contract, to return to Cardiff to deal with depression after struggling being away from his family. “I loved living in Brussels,” he says. “It gave me a good step back. I was completely unrecognisable – no one h...

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51 m. ago We love living in Britain's WHITEST neighbourhood: Two Sri Lankans are the only ethnic minorities in the area

Brotton in North Yorkshire is a village with a unique claim to fame: it is the area with the UK's 'whitest' population. Of 1108 people recorded in the all but two identified as White

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54 m. ago People left disgusted by bizarre new 'hairy' Dubai chocolate bar and say it looks like 'loft insulation'

People have been left disgusted by a bizarre new 'hairy chocolate bar' from Dubai. The Hairy Daddy pink chocolate bar combines the texture and sweetness of candy floss with chocolate

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76 m. ago Richest people in the UK: the 10 richest people in Britain in June 2025

Discover the stories behind the UK’s top billionaires 💼

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96 m. ago Horror as car plunges off cliff near coastal landmark with man 'recovered' from the water

It is understood a man was 'recovered' from the water by a lifeboat volunteer.

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1 hour ago STI map of Britain! As cases of terrifying syphilis soar, is your area a hotspot for one of the 5 biggest sexual diseases?

One part of the nation had so many sexually transmitted infections that it was equivalent to 3 in every 100 people being diagnosed with a sexual disease.

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2 h. ago Sir Nick Faldo takes swipe at UK while bragging about Donald Trump friendship

Multimillionaire golfer Nick Faldo, who was knighted for services to sport, told how he has no plans to return to Britain after taking a recent stroll down Eton High Street

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2 h. ago Asylum seeker 'who recruited child soldiers' wins appeal to stay in Britain despite being refused refugee status in France because he's an alleged war criminal

The Sri Lankan, who remains unnamed after he was granted anonymity, faces claims he 'enlisted children under the age of 15' to separatist terrorist group Tamil Tigers.

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2 h. ago England gets £16bn for transport as people share views on what Wales needs

WalesOnline readers have shared their thoughts on the the billions of pounds that will be spent on tram, train, and bus projects in mayoral authorities across the Midlands, the north, and the west of England

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2 h. ago Furious neighbours of King Charles's Highgrove say they have nowhere to leave their cars due to hordes of tourists

Residents living in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, near Highgrove House, pay for one of Britain's most expensive parking permits.

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2 h. ago 'I went from shy girl to party lover at uni and now I earn £470k a year by faking it'

EXCLUSIVE: Tam Kaur spent most of her school years virtually mute but now she's on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List raking in big money after learning a skill that would be the foundation of her career

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2 h. ago Beloved little boy beats cancer only to get devastating news within months

Henry Castle was diagnosed with leukaemia when he was just 18 months old and has spent more than two-thirds of his life in treatment

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3 h. ago Gavin & Stacey icon Ruth Jones' secret life in one of Britain's most remote corners

Ruth Jones enjoys a tranquil 'second' life in one of Britain's remotest corners, a thousand miles away from her home in Wales.

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3 h. ago Fancy some iconic celeriac? New Nordic cuisine, now a blockbuster exhibition

Twenty years ago, a group of Scandinavian chefs announced a culinary revolution. But as Norway’s National museum celebrates the New Nordic manifesto’s impact on dining and the arts, has the movement betrayed its own ambitious ideals?When is gastronomy about more than just recipes? When it is New Nordic cuisine: to its advocates, the most influential culinary movement of the 21st century; to its detractors, a school of foodie puritans who have spent the last two decades sucking the joy out of dining and injecting it with po-faced declarations.If a decade of breathy Netflix food programming is to be believed, you could delicately tweezer some edible petals and micro-herbs on to locally foraged mushrooms and a bed of ancient grains, serve it with a naturally fermented lemonade, and you’ve got yourself a cracking (if not hugely substantive) New Nordic meal. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago We live on Britain's STEEPEST road we love it here and the views are incredible

With its annual Easter egg rolling competition, as well as regular skiers, cyclists and skateboarders, the residents of Vale Street in Bristol reveal what really angers them about life on a steep incline.

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5 h. ago Landlords' sickening find in property rented by couple accused of murdering Pheobe Bishop

The landlords of a home rented out to a couple accused of murdering Pheobe Bishop were left disgusted by the state of the premises.

Society

6 h. ago Britain has escalated the global nuclear arms race – and is bringing us closer to armageddon | Simon Tisdall

The UK’s strategic defence review risks normalising nuclear warfare. Don’t believe the PR hype: these weapons are immoral, irrational and catastrophicPlans by Keir Starmer’s government to modernise and potentially expand Britain’s nuclear weapons arsenal, unveiled in the 2025 strategic defence review (SDR), seriously undermine international non-proliferation efforts. They will fuel a global nuclear arms race led by the US, China and Russia. And they increase the chances that lower-yield, so-called tactical nukes will be deployed and detonated in conflict zones.This dangerous path leads in one direction only: towards the normalisation of nuclear warfare.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Innocent man who spent 17 years in prison for rape he didn't commit ‘not finished’ fighting

Andrew Malkinson, 59, spent 17 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of rape. His conviction was quashed in 2023, but he says his fight for justice is not over

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7 h. ago UK weather: Britain facing 29C SCORCHER in just days as maps turn fiery red across England

In a matter of days, weather maps turn glowing red as a searing "Spanish plume" makes landfall in the UK, sending temperatures soaring as high as 29C in London

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