25 h. ago How to ensure more of your estate passes to your loved ones tax free

WEALTH CONFIDENTIAL £1m-plus properties are making more people pay more in IHT, writes Stuart Lamont, financial planner with W1M

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4 d. ago Music icon dies after secret health battle as band shares sad statement

A well-loved heavy metal musician has sadly passed away and fans have rushed online to share tributes, thanks and anecdotes about his life and career

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1 week ago Skydiver who fell 15,500ft took own life hours after split with boyfriend

"A bright, adventurous, free spirit, she lived with immense energy, passion and love and touched countless lives with her warmth and kindness."

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1 week ago The magic of samphire season: Jimi Famurewa’s recipe for mackerel, chorizo, new potato and samphire

When the samphire is growing on the coasts of north Norfolk, our writer returns almost every year to cook this buttery, smoky marine dishNorth Norfolk captured our hearts by stealth. For most of my life, this arcing coastal stretch of East Anglia was somewhere I had never visited, nor ever spent that much time thinking about; a span of English countryside that I mostly associated with Alan Partridge, Colman’s mustard and, in the context of my south London home, an awkward schlep. But then, almost exactly a decade ago, I stumbled through an internet rabbit hole on to an entry for a clutch of self-catering cottages in a seaside village near the gently bougie, wax-jacketed market town of Holt. Decision made.Soon we were rumbling out across an impossibly wide and flat expanse, bound for the ripe, blustering winds and billowing steam trains of a varied network of time-warp beaches and little towns. Not expecting much, and yet falling a little more in love with each passing moment and mea...

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1 week ago ‘Pregnant, homeless, what now?’ The search for a safe place to abandon a baby

Each year, women make the desperate decision to abandon their babies. Specially designed ‘baby windows’ can help – but some argue they make matters worseWhen Romina discovered she was pregnant in 2021, she was 39 years old and homeless, without a euro to her name. She did what many a lonely and frightened woman has done throughout history, on learning that she was going to have a baby, and pretended she wasn’t. “If you don’t think about it, it doesn’t exist – something like that,” she told me, more than three years on.By the time she noticed the changes in her body, she had been homeless for nearly seven years. Before that, she had lived a comfortable, secure life in The Hague, with a man she had fallen passionately in love with. But the man had become controlling, she said, preventing her from working or seeing her friends, spying on her and eventually threatening her if she left him. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Tourists describe panic on board Boeing jet as engine exploded moments after take

Flight DE3655 to Dusseldorf from Corfu was carrying 273 passengers and eight crew when it took to the skies on Saturday, before making an emergency landing in Brindisi, Italy.

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2 w. ago Bride who passed out 'singles sheet' at wedding defends divisive tactic after it's branded as 'humiliating'

When Jessica Branda tied the knot, she wanted a way for her single friends to mingle and possibly find love with one another so she passed out a paper listing all the single attendees.

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2 w. ago Cruise passengers reveal their top ship features and it’s not waterslides

A new survey has revealed what passengers really want from a cruise

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3 w. ago Jim Lovell dead: Legendary NASA astronaut who nearly died during lunar landing passes away at 97

A legendary astronaut who commanded the almost doomed lunar mission has passed away at the age of 97.

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3 w. ago Kidnap, blackmail and Suranne Jones as PM: inside Hostage, Netflix’s breakneck new political thriller

The British prime minister and French president get sucked into a shady conspiracy in the streaming giant’s latest twisty, emotional drama. Jones and Julie Delpy tell allHostage is a political thriller, and observes the conventions in many ways. The pace is absolutely flawless, it’s twisty, it has emotional heft. The British prime minister, Abigail Dalton, played by Suranne Jones, faces her husband, Alex Anderson (Ashley Thomas), being kidnapped. Their marriage is well drawn – “it’s happy, it’s assured, they’re supportive of each other,” Jones says. As we chat in Netflix’s central London offices, she’s always saying five things at once, only one of them out loud. Here, the subtext (I’ve decided) is: it’s actually pretty skilled work, creating a not-schmaltzy, passionate but familiar love match in which all the audience’s hopes and prayers are with the abducted spouse. That’s why normally when fictional politicians are the victims of a family kidnapping, it’s one of their kids.Meanwh...

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3 w. ago Brad Pitt's mum dies aged 84 as bond with Hollywood icon remembered

Brad Pitt is mourning the loss of his mother, Jane Etta Pitt, who passed away at 84. Remembered by her family as “love in its purest form,” she leaves behind a legacy of kindness

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3 w. ago Ozzy Osbourne's cause of death revealed after Black Sabbath star, 76, passed away 'surrounded by love'

Legendary heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osborne's cause of death has been revealed after he died last month at the age of 76.

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