8 h. ago I lost three stone in three weeks and it completely changed my life... but there are shocking side

I consider myself pretty thick-skinned. Just as well, given the humorous comments made by some Mail readers about the dramatic fast I undertook recently.

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9 h. ago Failure to tackle digital exclusion 'risks abandoning communities like Thatcher', warns Peter Kyle

Technology Secretary Peter Kyle said that life in modern Britain was changing at a pace comparable to the industrial collapse in the 1980s - but he vowed no one would be left behind

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16 h. ago Troops discharged from Putin's war kill and maim more than 750 Russian people

A total of 378 people were killed by returnee Putin fighters, while 376 suffered serious life-changing injuries from the outpouring of violence by the discharged soldiers

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19 h. ago What happened to the original Hooters Girl: Lynne Austin, 63, was American chain's first pin

Lynne Austin had no idea how much her life would change after being offered a job to pose for a new restaurant's billboard advert in Clearwater, Florida.

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19 h. ago Israel ‘wants to extend first phase of Gaza ceasefire deal’ as talks stall

Israel ready to resume fighting if there is no progress in crucial talks this week, reports sayIsrael is seeking to extend the first stage of the ceasefire agreement in the war with Hamas in Gaza and is prepared to resume fighting if there is no progress in crucial talks this week, according to reports.Israel’s Kan Radio, along with Ma’ariv, a daily newspaper, reported on Tuesday that informal talks were under way aimed at extending the first 42-day stage of the ceasefire, which expires on Saturday. Official internationally mediated negotiations on how to implement the second stage – which would involve a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Palestinian territory – were supposed to begin weeks ago, but have been repeatedly postponed as the fragile truce has lurched from crisis to crisis. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago The play that changed my life: Sing Sing’s Clarence Maclin on lessons from Sophocles in prison

Staging Shakespeare and Twelve Angry Men with fellow prisoners was a revelation but Oedipus Rex proved particularly poignantWhen I came to the Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) theatre at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 1995, I’d been sentenced to 17 years for robbery. It was not my intention to watch a play. They were doing One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I saw my brother Dino who was playing Big Chief, the Native American guy. I knew Dino from elsewhere in the jail, but not for this.I got involved. I found a fascination for Shakespeare that I really didn’t expect. I didn’t think I’d understand the language. And I didn’t at first. But it fascinated me enough to research and study it: I loved becoming able to translate that so that others could feel the intensity of it. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Starbucks is removing 10 drinks from its menu in March — here’s what’s replacing them

The coffee giant will also bring back self-service condiments and free refills for in-store customers

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22 h. ago Surgery to fix my 'Ozempic face' left me unable to close my eyes

Joanne Law, 56, from Manchester lost seven stone, but surgery to fix her wrinkles left her unable to close her eyes. She saved up around £5,200 for a face, neck and eyelid lift and a fat graft.

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24 h. ago Queer Eye's Jonathan Van Ness shows off weight loss and reveals how dropped 4.7 stone

Netflix star Jonathan Van Ness showed off his dramatic weight loss in a new photo, and opened up about struggling with an eating disorder before a miracle drug and exercise changed his life

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25 h. ago 'I lost control my legs on walk home and can't do as much with my daughter now'

“It’s a life-changing diagnosis because I couldn’t carry on with my work, so I stopped being able to provide for my family financially, so it’s a lot of changes for everyone to get used to.”

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27 h. ago 'I've been healthy all my life, then I went to the doctor feeling tired and everything changed'

David went to his GP complaining of wheezing and feeling very tired, what happened next was horrifying

Society

39 h. ago Starbucks is culling 10 drinks from its menu in March — here’s what’s replacing them

The coffee giant will also bring back self-service condiments and free refills for in-store customers

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40 h. ago My food addiction was so bad I had alarms on the kitchen cupboards and ballooned to 23st

Crystal Rudd, 30,from Fleet, Lincolnshire, who weighed 23 stone at her heaviest, has lost 11 stone and has had a further 11 pounds of saggy skin removed in surgeries totalling £8,500.

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41 h. ago Girl, 7, has stroke while going down park slide before doctors remove a third of her skull and try 12 times to reach the blood clot in her brain

Charliee Sue Salisbury, 7, from Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, faces 'a tough road ahead' after she suffered a life-changing stroke while going down a slide in her local park.

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47 h. ago The one change that worked: I found an escape from online life by swapping my home office for the library

I can find essential and unusual facts for my arts journalism in the dusty old tomes – information not readily available on Google. And, as I did as a child, I lose myself in a world of books ...Last September, I started walking to the library every day. As a University College London alumnus, I get free membership of both the Senate House library and the university’s main library. It is 90 minutes door to door, at a thinking pace, the perfect stretch of time during which to fuss over whatever is bothering me (a sentence, a professional hurdle, a private conversation) then gradually forget all about it and just let my mind wander too. That’s what the walk does. It unknots me.That the destination is a library only compounds that. The beep when I swipe in with my card is the loudest thing I’ll hear all day. The necessary quiet of the space gentles my every gesture. I open doors more quietly. I pull chairs out from behind tables more carefully. I set up my station and sit down more pro...

Society

51 h. ago She quit her job and launched her own business, then a mystery pain changed her life forever

Collette Beckett says she is grieving the life she once knew

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56 h. ago Christine McGuinness, 36, makes history as the first female winner of Celebrity Hunted as she confesses it has changed her life

The personality, 36, who divorced her ex-husband Paddy last year, evaded the capture from the hunters and was crowned the winner after being on the run with Blue's Duncan James.

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3 d. ago 'I won £7m on EuroMillions – but then everything went horribly wrong'

Luís Lopes thought his life had changed when he won £8million on EuroMillions but, 15 years later, he's penniless and facing a crippling debt

Economics

3 d. ago How I lost 3 STONE in 3 WEEKS. My free method's more effective than any fat jab. I've reversed pre

There comes a time in life when you look in the mirror and simply don't recognise the person staring back. In my mind, I'm still the fit and confident undercover TV reporter.

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3 d. ago Woman who lost four limbs in 'massacre' after abortion shares how she copes after hell

In 2011, Priscilla Dray's life changed forever after she went into septic shock and had to have all four limbs amputated - a trauma she's compared to being 'massacred'. She has however found ways to cope with her new reality

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