10 h. ago We live in two 40ft shipping containers complete with a king

Lexi Newkirk, from Texas, has shared how she and her husband, Diego, built their dream home out of two shipping containers costing $5,500 (£4,170) each.

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13 h. ago Kate Garraway's late husband Derek 'burst into tears' after GMB host's heartbreaking promise

Kate Garraway appeared on ITV's Lorraine this morning and shared an emotional story about her late husband Derek Draper, who died in January last year.

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3 d. ago ‘It can break you’: Life for parents of autistic children can be exhausting. One podcast is offering hope. Is it real?

A podcast claims to show that autistic children with limited speech may be able to communicate via telepathy. What does the science say about the idea? There’s a moment, 26 minutes and nine seconds into Disney’s Coco, where the film’s departed souls are trying to clear a customs desk in the afterlife. It’s a moment that Mary* can see clearly without ever looking at the screen. She’s seen Coco more than a thousand times, easy.Mary’s sons, Ryder* and Murphy*, adore it. They light up when watching the film, pretzels in hand, and they stay, transfixed, right through to the end – the very end – every time. “My kids absolutely love credits,” Mary laughs. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago It’s wrong to tell off other people’s kids – it leaves me fuming as a mum

So many people take it upon themselves to lay down the law with other people’s kids. Enough is enough, says Charlotte Cripps. We need to be able to hold it back for emergencies where genuine harm is going to come to someone

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5 d. ago Martin Freeman, 53, makes rare comments about family life with his French actress girlfriend Rachel Benaissa, 30, and his two children

The Sherlock actor, 53, and his French actress girlfriend Rachel Benaissa, 30, have been dating for around three years but are rarely seen together in public.

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5 d. ago Heartbreak as parents of terminally ill toddler who's spent entire life in hospital refuse to take him off life

Dezeioun Crudup Jr has spent the entire agonizing 27 months of his life in intensive care at Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock, with no prospect of recovery - but his parents won't let him go.

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6 d. ago Gladiators star Steel devoted his life to help and inspire children be healthy

Gladiators star Steel devoted his life to help and inspire children be healthy before revealing the tragic news his premature baby son Leo died.

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6 d. ago Meghan Markle shares rare insight into daughter Lilibet's life with adorable habit

Meghan Markle has opened up on her new podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder, about life as a mother to two children, including her youngest, daughter Princess Lilibet

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7 d. ago Queen of Versailles star Jackie Siegel reveals sister died from drug overdose days after husband's death

Queen of Versailles star Jackie Siegel has suffered another heartbreaking family tragedy, just days after the death of her husband,

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7 d. ago I moved to Bali to give me children a new life after my husband died at 47

Kate Marillat, 44, from Peacehaven, East Sussex was left devastated after her husband Nigel, 47, tragically passed away in May 2020 but in September she made the decision to move to Bali.

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7 d. ago The Handmaid's Tale Commander Wharton actor Josh Charles' offscreen life from famous wife to children

The Handmaid's Tale is back on screens

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7 d. ago 'He went into the boys' bedroom at 1am... I think on some level his soul knew'

Kate Marillat's husband Nigel was 47 had complained of back ache before he died suddenly in 2020

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7 d. ago Helen Skelton's home life with three kids as she lifts lid on adoption plans

As the third series of Springtime on the Farm returns to screens, presenter Helen Skelton is preparing to return to her Cumbria home life with her three children

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7 d. ago 'My husband died of a sudden heart attack – now I'm living it up in Bali as a digital nomad'

Kate Marillat's husband Nigel, 47, died suddenly of a heart attack in May 2020, leaving her to solo parent their two sons Kieran, 13, and Seb, 10 - and she has since moved to Bali

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8 d. ago How a solo mother embraced a digital nomad lifestyle in Bali after tragedy

A widow, whose husband died suddenly of a heart attack, has relocated with her two sons to Bali to embrace the digital nomad lifestyle.

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8 d. ago Weight loss surgery: Husband left 'devastated' after wife dies following surgery complications

The 54-year-old received ‘woeful’ aftercare following a gastric sleeve operation, a coroner has heard 🏥

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9 d. ago Queen of Versailles star Jackie Siegel breaks silence over husband David Alan's death at 89 in heartfelt tribute

Queen of Versailles star Jackie Siegel is mourning the death of her husband, David Allen Siegel, who died at the age of 89 over the weekend.

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9 d. ago Were you raised by a 'peacock parent'? How to spot if your mother or father was a narcissist

According to UK consultant clinical psychologist Dr Nihara Krause, a 'peacock parent' will almost certainly struggle to meet their child's emotional needs

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1 week ago Annabel Croft's bouncing back... tragic tennis star is all smiles as she lunches with pal Huw

When Annabel Croft's husband died almost two years ago, she said she was able to do little more than sob at home, but she couldn't stop smiling at a lunch with a handsome male friend last week.

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1 week ago ‘Fundamentally wrong, brutal and paranoid’: how will the world respond to Donald Trump’s tariffs?

The US president’s sweeping, unprecedented tariffs on countries around the world are threatening to reshape the global economy – so, what exactly happens next?On Thursday evening, towards the end of a long week at a textiles factory on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen Thi Dieu and her husband were watching the news. More than 8,700 miles away, US president Donald Trump was announcing sweeping, unprecedented tariffs on every country around the world. Nowhere was safe, even the uninhabited Heard Island and McDonald Islands off the western coast of Australia that, for some unexplained reason, were hit with a 10% tariff.His announcement launched a fierce global trade war and triggered a global market meltdown, including on Trump’s own cherished Wall Street, where hundreds of billions of dollars of stock values evaporated. Continue reading...

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