22 h. ago 'I spent six months in hospital after pouring a chip pan of boiling oil over myself'

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Kennedy lost everything when his life changed overnight after a horror accident left him in a hospital bed for months on end and living on a knife edge

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6 d. ago The day screaming Prince Charles threw a book at me after I didn't lie to Diana for him: unmissable new revelations from ex

Let's make this quite clear. Diana never wanted a divorce. Despite everything that happened, I have no doubt that Diana fell in love with Prince Charles.

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6 d. ago I thought I was growing up in a racially tolerant Britain. I now realise I was wrong | Rohan Sathyamoorthy

I’ve experienced more racism in the past year than the rest of my life put together – the only answer is for young people to stand up to the far rightSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreWhen my dad went to school in the 1970s, the kids used to pretend he was invisible. Every day he would try to make conversation and play with the other children, and every day he would be ignored. One night it got so bad that my grandma found him crying himself to sleep, unable to process, as an eight-year-old, why no one would want to talk to “the brown kid”. This kind of social exclusion was sadly all too familiar in postwar Britain – my white grandma had endured her own share of abuse ever since she fell in love with my Sri Lankan grandad in 1966, committing the family’s original sin of interracial marriage.When I heard these stories as a child, they felt like terrible...

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8 d. ago Heartbroken woman claims she was scammed out of life savings by her love bombing ex

Jill Schardein, 50, fell in love with Todd Dean, a charismatic 'businessman' who claimed he was launching a mental health center in southern Kentucky called Nashville Sanjara Wellness.

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8 d. ago The golden rule of Trump and Farage’s free speech crusade: they’re allowed to chat rubbish – you’re not | Marina Hyde

The Reform leader has been in the US, bemoaning Britain’s ‘awful authoritarian situation’. It’s a shame about his party’s own anti-media huff back homeSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and morePop quiz. Of whom did Donald Trump say admiringly: “I also learned that he loves his country very much”? And: “He wrote me beautiful letters. And they are great letters. We fell in love”?If you answered “Nigel Farage”, then I’m sorry. The Reform UK leader might have spent this pre-party conference week in his happy place – lodged several feet up the US presidential colon – and rhetorically demanding of US lawmakers: “At what point did [the UK] become North Korea?” But those Trump compliments were in fact previously made about Kim Jong-un, the dictator of well, you know the rest.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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1 week ago 'I risked going to jail to marry my cousin, we fell in love as kids when we looked the same'

Nothing could get in the way of the connection of cousins Michael Lee and Angela Peang, who have compared themselves to Romeo and Juliet.

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1 week ago 'I risked prison to marry cousin, we fell in love when we looked the same as kids'

Even during their shared childhood, two first cousins knew that there was something between them that went beyond their family bond, and they risked everything to pursue it

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1 week ago Doctor's chilling codename for sexual fantasies with teen patient he 'fell in love' with

Dr Cian Hughes first met the girl when she was just 13 and having an operation at a children's hospital in 2011. The pair started a sexual relationship in 2015, when the girl was 17

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1 week ago Kate was 17 when she fell in love with a boy on holiday. She thought things had just fizzled out... but then she discovered this secret 30 years later that her mother had hidden in the attic

No one forgets their first love - certainly not when he's the sort of boy who writes poetry and songs for you and worships the ground you walk on.

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1 week ago ‘Who would not want to dance to Boogie Wonderland?’: Alison Balsom’s honest playlist

The classical trumpeter had her mind blown by Dizzy Gillespie and has a tin ear for karaoke. But which Christmas banger really grinds her gears?The first song I fell in love with When I was seven and I started playing the trumpet, my mum would take me to the library. They just happened to have Afro by Dizzy Gillespie, and I fell in love with Con Alma, which Dizzy plays on the trumpet with so much soul that it feels like a voice. I remember thinking: Wow, this is something else.The song I do at karaoke I can recognise the melodies in most songs because I have the ear of a musician. But I don’t really listen to the words – I feel having the words in front of me would throw me off, so I’ve never done karaoke. If I had to, I’d probably do an old classic like Crocodile Rock by Elton John. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Kate was 17 when she fell in love with a boy on holiday. She never saw him again... but then discovered this secret 30 years later that her mother had hidden in the attic

No one forgets their first love - certainly not when he's the sort of boy who writes poetry and songs for you and worships the ground you walk on.

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2 w. ago ChatGPT has its uses, but I still hate it – and I’ll tell you why | Imogen West

It’s bad for the planet and could make many jobs – including mine – obsolete. But my loathing runs deeper than thatIt’s one of those topics that comes up over drinks or dinner at the moment: whether or not you think AI is going to steal your job. So far, I’ve felt relatively confident that while AI could no doubt have a fair crack at writing a newspaper opinion column, there is something I do as part of my work that AI cannot: reporting.Except now, it seems, AI is claiming to be doing that as well. Last week, it was revealed that at least six reputable publications have had to take down published articles because it turned out that they were probably pieces of fiction written by AI and then passed off by somebody as works of journalism under the name of Margaux Blanchard. One of these was a piece for Wired titled They Fell in Love Playing Minecraft. Then the Game Became Their Wedding Venue, which quoted a “digital celebrant” called Jessica Hu, who does not seem to actually exist. An...

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2 w. ago Cheryl Fergison fell in love with Moroccan toyboy after five

Cheryl Fergison played Heather Trott in EastEnders, and her life has been as wild as some of the storylines in the hit BBC One soap, as she details in her new autobiography

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3 w. ago Love Is Blind UK couple's 'epic' love story not shown on TV and how it nearly fell apart

Some of the relationship journeys are never shown

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3 w. ago Paisley DJ charts her journey from TikTok to the world stage

DJ Eden fell in love with music when she was a teenager but only started practising being a DJ when she was 36

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3 w. ago Mike Lynch's words from beyond the grave: A year on from yacht tragedy, how he fell in love at first sight with the wife who's fighting for his legacy while grieving her husband and daughter

Mike Lynch thought a very great deal of his wife Angela. He'd fallen in love with her after she arrived late for their first business meeting, which she proceeded to dominate.

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3 w. ago 'I fell in love with baby name but my husband says it's reserved for strippers'

A woman is seeking advice after seeing her husband's stern reaction to the name she picked out for their future daughter - but she says his child will never go by that moniker

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3 w. ago Stacey Solomon 'fell in love' on family holiday with Molly Mae and Tommy Fury

Stacey Solomon revealed that she spent the first part of her family holiday with Molly Mae, Tommy Fury and their daughter Bambi as she revealed she 'fell in love' with them

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3 w. ago I fell in love with an AI chatbot... but then its personality changed overnight

Humans who entered into romantic relationships with digital chatbots were left heartbroken after a new ChatGPT update changed their partners' personalities overnight.

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4 w. ago I was ready to ditch the Eufy X10 pro omni robot vacuum, then I fell in love with it

I put one of the best robot vacuums on the market through its paces

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