2 h. ago The best vegan beauty products to try this Veganuary, according to industry experts

From make-up to body care – here are a beauty editors’ top vegan beauty picks

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3 h. ago Female paedophile teacher, 30, nicknamed 'Bunda Becky' who had sex with two schoolboys and fell pregnant to one is banned from classroom for life

Rebecca Joynes, 32, slept with the pupils at a Manchester school before becoming pregnant with one of their children in March 2023.

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3 h. ago The popular board game that helps build resilience and problem

Settlers of Catan fundamentally changed the board game industry since its launch in 1995

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6 h. ago Sali Hughes on beauty: the new crop of milky toners are a game

These gentle, hydrating toners impart the glassy look popularised by Korean skincare – and I can’t do without themI wouldn’t say it was rare that the beauty industry invents a whole new product category, but my own willingness to adopt another step certainly is. Ten years ago, I’d have told you not to bother with toner unless you particularly enjoyed using it, which is as good a reason as any in a world on fire. And yet over the past couple of years, the new “milky toners” have, to me at least, become so functional as to be indispensable.These are cloudy fluids, thicker than a toner but thinner than a moisturiser, usually containing gentle, universally skin-pleasing ingredients like glycerine, ceramides and peptides. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Why Pocket Gamer Connects London has become a Schelling point in the global games industry

Why Pocket Gamer Connects London has become a Schelling point in the global games industry  PocketGamer.biz

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11 h. ago My weirdest Christmas: I insisted, through gritted teeth, that it would be fun to eat outside

It was 2020, and I hired a gazebo and heaters so we could have a festive feast with my mum in the garden. What could possibly go wrong?We called it “diffmas”, because it was going to be a different kind of Christmas. Our son was five, so we were trying to package it appealingly for him. But we might have done that anyway, given the kind of year we’d had – and by “we” I don’t just mean my family, I mean the world.It was 2020. When the then prime minister, Boris Johnson, had announced, in March, that we “must stay at home”, it left my mum, who had lived on her own since my dad died in 2012, completely alone, like many people, for months on end. Her work had involved travelling all over the country, having meetings, organising events, networking. Then, in lockdown, everything stopped. She was Zooming with the best of them, but it was clearly extremely difficult. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Who's OFF Jan Moir's Christmas card list? The crying and lying political failure. The ultimate West End Girl. And the royals who really deserve their exile. It's the ultimate social rundown

Do people even send Christmascards any more? Industry sources say the custom of posting cards to loved ones hasn't completely fallen out of fashion, but the tradition is declining.

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16 h. ago Miami Heat’s Terry Rozier asks judge to throw out betting charges

Lawyers for Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier are asking a judge to throw out sports gambling charges that have kept him off the court this season, arguing that the government overreached by turning a private dispute over bettors’ use of non-public information into a federal case

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16 h. ago RUTH SUNDERLAND: Steel was my dad's life. He'd be appalled at Labour's abject failure to protect an industry so vital to our security

This Christmas Eve will be poignant for my family because it will be 30 years to the day since my father, Alan, died.

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16 h. ago Horoscope today, December 24, 2025: Daily star sign guide from Mystic Meg

OUR much-loved astrologer Meg sadly died in 2023 but her column will be kept alive by her friend and protégée Maggie Innes. Read on to see what’s written in the stars for you today. ♈ ARIES March 21 to April 20 Venus arrives at the top of your chart so this is a day when...

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17 h. ago Job opportunity with free accommodation working on stunning Scots isle and wildlife haven

The role runs for six months from March to September 2026

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19 h. ago Casino gambler made a $25 bet on a slot machine – it paid out a heck of a lot more

The recent jackpot at Thunder Valley Casino Resort follows other big slot wins, including a $224,804 Buffalo Link payout

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23 h. ago Elon Musk, AI and the antichrist: the biggest tech stories of 2025

A look back at the biggest tech stories of the year, from the rise and fall of Musk’s Doge to lucrative investments into AIHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, wishing you a happy and healthy end of the year. I myself have a cold.Today, we are looking back at the biggest stories in tech of 2025 – Elon Musk’s political rise, burst, and fall; artificial intelligence’s subsumption of the global economy, all other technology, and even the Earth’s topography; Australia’s remarkable social media ban; the tech industry’s new Trumpian politics; and, as a treat, a glimpse of the apocalypse offered by one of Silicon Valley’s savviest and strangest billionaires.How an obscure US government office has become a target of Elon MuskHow Elon Musk’s billionaire Doge lieutenant took over the US’s biggest MDMA company | Technology | The GuardianThe chaos Elon Musk and Doge are leaving behind in WashingtonEggings, swastikas and dog poop: Tesla bears brunt of people’s ire ag...

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25 h. ago Shocking pictures show inside beauty salon destroyed in gangland firebombing

Logan Carlin, 24, started the blaze at the Belle Cheveux beauty parlour in Albert Street, Edinburgh, on March 6.

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26 h. ago Stranger Things star is worlds away from Netflix blockbuster in first look at X

Stranger Things star Charlie Heaton looks worlds away from his character Jonathan Byers in X-rated BBC drama Industry.

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26 h. ago Make the 'best ever' homemade chips by adding 1 ingredient before cooking

Making homemade chips can be a bit of a gamble, but one chef has shared a simple method to ensure they come out crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside - and it's all down to one key ingredient

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28 h. ago Scots gangster torched salon linked to kingpin in chilling 'f*** over my pals' vow

Logan Carlin, 24, pleaded guilty to setting fire to Belle Cheveux beauty salon and DB Auto Services in Edinburgh on March 6 and March 16 in attacks linked to serious organised crime

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28 h. ago Man admits firebombing Edinburgh beauty salon owned by gangster Mark Richardson's partner

Logan Carlin pleaded guilty to a charge of wilfully setting fire to Belle Cheveux in Albert Street, Edinburgh, on March 6.

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28 h. ago Britain's worst cowboy builder who fleeced customers out of more than £1.25m to fund luxury holidays and gambling is jailed for 14 years

Mark Killick, who was known to customers as Marc Cole, 56, from Paulton, Somerset, faces 14 years behind bars after callously fleecing his customers out of more than £1.25million.

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28 h. ago Explore better living this winter with Homary home essentials and design

Your online destination for furniture chosen with purpose, with the UK store opening in March 2026 for in-person browsing, too

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