57 m. ago Good Morning Britain poke fun at Meghan Markle by making their own rainbow platter with an unpeeled banana, brown apples and cornflakes

While many will be excited to watch The Duchess of Sussex's Netflix show, Good Morning Britain mocked the star with their own version of a fruit platter featured in a recent teaser trailer.

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59 m. ago Someone left a strange wheelbarrow in my kitchen. Now what do I do? | Zoe Williams

It’s not mine and I don’t know where it came from. I’m just hoping that someone will take it away againI’m going to do one of those tricks like a magician with a ball and cups, because it is imperative for legal reasons that I don’t say which of the household’s three teenagers was involved in this thing but on Sunday morning I woke up and there was a wheelbarrow in the kitchen. Cross-examination revealed that some other party had removed it from its original home, but it had ended up in our house because they didn’t want to take it on the tube. Nobody knew whence it had come, so it couldn’t be returned. I immediately suggested we put soil in it and plant vegetables, because that’s what passes for moral guidance in my world. You can strip the fun out of any misdeed if you make the end result boring enough. The counter-suggestion, from the person who definitely didn’t take it, was that we fill it with ice and beer and have one continuous party. There was no plausible compromise betwee...

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67 m. ago ‘I see things in very short bursts’: blind painter Bianca Raffaella on her explosive still lifes – and being mentored by Tracey Emin

Her paintings of stems and flowers, made by ‘seeing’ them through touch, give a unique perception of the world. She explains why she gave up a career in fashion to paint seriously – and why thumbs are better than brushesBianca Raffaella is showing me the huge canvases she has painted for her debut solo show Faint Memories when a strange realisation hits me. I can see these beautiful depictions of petals and stems in their full, widescreen splendour – and she can’t.The 32-year-old was born with congenital toxoplasmosis and is registered blind: her vision is largely limited to her left eye, through which she can only see things closer than a metre and for brief moments of time. “When I back away from a painting, I never see it in full,” says Raffaella. “I work really close, and I will see things for a fraction of a second and then it’s lost.” Continue reading...

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96 m. ago Kiss the Netflix deal goodbye! With Love, Meghan is so pointless it might be the Sussexes’ last TV show

After Harry’s dud polo docuseries, the couple need to get back to giving people the dramatic monarchy revelations they crave – not a Duchess joylessly filling kids’ party bags with seedsUnless it becomes a ratings smash (and that isn’t impossible), With Love, Meghan doesn’t just represent the hard launch of Duchess of Sussex’s new career as a Martha Stewart-style lifestyle inspo guru; it might also be the final thing she makes for Netflix.The terms of the deal Harry and Meghan signed with the streamer in 2021 were, by all accounts, wildly favourable. Their five-year deal was worth $100m, in the expectation that they would be so brimming with ideas that they would become Obama-style prestige-content producers. Reader, as you already know, this did not happen. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Harvey Weinstein's response to Adrien Brody mentioning his kids in 'rude' Oscar speech

The Brutalist star, Adrien Brody, praised his partner, Georgina Champman, and the kids she shares with jailed film producer, Harvey Weinstein, at The Oscars on Sunday

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1 hour ago Meghan Markle grapples with sad death in Netflix show as she shares heartbreaking regret

Meghan Markle's new Netflix series, With Love, Meghan, has finally landed. While the show is mostly glossy moments filled with fruit platters and gushing about parenthood, the duchess also opens up about heartbreak

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1 hour ago Swedish woman, 33, fled the scene after drunkenly crashing her while on route to confront her unfaithful lover over 'secret affair', court hears

Caroline Martinsson lost control of her car and ploughed into a wall whilst driving to demand an explanation from her partner over claims she was being cheated on.

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1 hour ago Typewriters, stinky carpets and crazy press trips: what it was like working on video game mags in the 1980s

Powered chiefly by enthusiasm and primitive publishing tech, these publications shaped the future of video games mediaIn the summer of 1985, I made the long pilgrimage from my home in Cheadle Hulme to London’s glamorous Hammersmith Novotel for the Commodore computer show. As a 14-year-old gamer, this was a chance to play the latest titles and see some cool new joysticks, but I was also desperate to visit one particular exhibitor: the publisher Newsfield, home of the wildly popular games mags Crash and Zzap!64. By the time I arrived there was already a long queue of kids at the small stand and most of them were waiting to have their show programmes signed by reigning arcade game champion and Zzap reviewer, Julian Rignall. As an ardent subscriber, I can still remember the thrill of standing in that line, the latest copy of the mag clutched in my sweaty hands. I wouldn’t feel this starstruck again until I met Sigourney Weaver a quarter of a century later.It turns out I’m not the only o...

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2 h. ago Mother on carnivore diet says her children are ‘flourishing’ eating only meat and eggs

Olivia Khwaja went from keto to the carnivore diet consisting of meat, fish and eggs

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2 h. ago Harvey Weinstein addresses Adrien Brody thanking his kids in Oscars acceptance speech

‘The Brutalist’ actor has been dating Weinstein’s ex-wife since 2019

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2 h. ago Expectant parents who suffer a miscarriage before 24 weeks of pregnancy to be granted a right to bereavement leave under new reforms

Parents are already granted bereavement leave in cases where they have lost a child or suffered a pregnancy loss after 24 weeks.

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2 h. ago Putin is not Hitler. His actions in Ukraine are horrific enough to need no exaggeration | Simon Jenkins

Keir Starmer has said we face the greatest threat to our national security since the cold war. Such hyperbole helps nobodyIs Vladimir Putin another Adolf Hitler? The western world seems to think so. In which case is Donald Trump another Neville Chamberlain and Ukraine another Czechoslovakia? Is history bunk, or is it a wise old man leaning on the gate as Europe storms into its latest crisis?Godwin’s law holds that the longer a political argument continues, the nearer it gets to Hitler. This reductio ad Hitlerum distorts the issue under discussion and diminishes the exceptional horror of Hitler and the Holocaust. A variant of Godwin’s law goes further. It asserts that having to call Hitler in aid means that you have already lost the argument.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Dolly Parton's heartfelt reason for never having kids with late husband Carl Dean

Dolly Parton and Carl Thomas Dean never had children despite decades of marriage, and the singer explained why after admitting they even picked out names for future kids

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3 h. ago Aspire Global firm hit with £1.4m penalty for ‘wholly unacceptable’ failures

The Gambling Commission said one at-risk customer of AG Communications lost £6,000 in two days.

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3 h. ago I no longer have any sexual desire – and now my husband is talking about a threesome

I want him to be happy but we have young children and sex feels like a chore. What should I do?I have been married for three years and no longer have any sexual desire. I am deeply in love, but my husband says I have stopped initiating physical intimacy and he hasn’t felt wanted for a long time. We have very young children, so I am exhausted all the time. He fantasises about exotic romps whereas I dream of a hot meal, shower and a nap. I don’t have any support from family or friends for our children, let alone myself, but I really want my husband to be happy and satisfied. Every time he brings up sex, it feels like just one more thing on my list of chores, and it’s always late at night when I’m trying to sleep. I thought I was having difficulty juggling life with kids, but he insists I’ve been pulling away ever since we got married. My family disowned me when I decided to get married, and I would be lying if I said that we had an easy-going relationship, but there is mad love here. ...

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4 h. ago 'I lost 3st on diet so now my kids don't eat fruit or vegetables'

Olivia's weight loss has inspired her husband and children to adopt the same routine

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5 h. ago Former Manchester United star left 'lost for words' after huge lottery win

Cliff Bull joined Manchester United just 10 days before the Munich Air Disaster, but was forced to retire through injury, though he is now the beneficiary of a bumper lottery win

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5 h. ago Inside Dolly Parton's intensely private marriage to husband Carl Dean and the real reason they never had kids

DailyMail.com takes a look inside Dolly Parton and Carl Dean's intensely private marriage after she announced his tragic death at 82.

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6 h. ago At the bottom of the North Sea, out of air and with no hope of rescue, I said goodbye to all my dreams

Diver Chris Lemons was 300ft beneath the surface when he lost contact with his colleagues, their support ship – and his air supply. How did he escape that ‘dark, lonely’ place?It was, says Chris Lemons, “very much a normal day at the office”. Until things went wrong. But when they went wrong, they went wrong very badly, very quickly. The “office” was actually the bottom of the North Sea, where Lemons was left without air for almost half an hour.Lemons was working as a saturation diver, living in a pressurised chamber onboard a specialised ship for stints of up to a month, and being lowered to the seabed in a diving bell to work on offshore structures. “It is a serious business, but it is routine for us. That bell going down is like the taxi to work. I always felt comfortable down there.” Continue reading...

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6 h. ago The Rainham volcano: a waste dump is constantly on fire in east London. Why will no one stop it?

Under Arnolds Field, tonnes of illegally dumped waste have been burning for years, spewing pollution over the area. Locals fear for their health – and despair that no one seems willing to helpOne afternoon in July 2011, an 11-year-old boy named William Knowlden was out cycling with friends when he came upon Arnolds Field, an expanse of green land in Havering, east London. The site spans about 17 hectares, or 24 football pitches, and around its perimeter runs a wooden fence, with two access points through which vehicles can pass. Arnolds Field rises much higher than the surrounding land. Its surface is lumpy and undulating, like a blanket thrown over a heap of cuddly toys. The land is overgrown. It has been decades since animals grazed there, and few people have set foot on it in recent years. But every so often, it is mistaken for a safe place to explore.As Knowlden descended a hill, he lost control and was thrown over the handlebars. When he came to, he was lying in a small crater ...

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