4 h. ago 'I partied for three days straight at DJ Spoony’s UNDRGRND Butlin’s weekend'

Garage, drum and bass and R&B legends take over Butlin’s Skegness as DJ Spoony’s UNDRGRND weekender delivers 72 hours of non-stop party mayhem

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30 h. ago Marks and Spencer fans race to buy 'glamorous' Christmas party top while available for 60p

The sparkly top is as perfect for wearing to Christmas parties as it styling with jeans on office days

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4 d. ago The moment I knew: when we reunited in our 60s, it felt like coming home

Lynne Besant met Paul as a teenager. After 40 years apart, she discovered she still had feelings for himFind more stories from the moment I knew seriesIn the mid-60s, my family followed my father’s work to a caravan park in Gladstone, central Queensland. He worked in construction and the sprawling transient accommodation for the hundreds of families who’d relocated to build an aluminium plant became our home. I was going on 16 and sulking about having to change schools, again. Then I met Paul.Back in those days people made their own fun. We often had huge parties at the caravan park, and Paul, an apprentice electrician, would volunteer to rig up the lighting. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago The best beach hotels in Bali: Where to stay near Nusa Dua, Seminyak and more

From parties on the sand until the sun comes up, to quieter days in the shade with shallow waters, Bali has a hotel for every type of beach holiday

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9 d. ago ‘We’ve planted the apple that fell on Newton’s head’: the artists striking back against the climate emergency

From cultivating a spiral-shaped orchard to finding lost glaciers and dressing up as a landmark bird, on 4 November artists around the UK will participate in Remember Nature, a day of activism to offer hope for the futureBack in 2015, well into the twilight of his life, the artist and activist Gustav Metzger decided to embark on one last big project. Best known as the inventor of auto-destructive art – a response, he said, to the destructive horrors of the Holocaust – Metzger had also, over the course of a long career, been an inspirational teacher to Pete Townshend of the Who and campaigned for numerous causes including nuclear disarmament and vegetarianism. Now, on a video message barely three minutes long, he was making one final plea.“I, Gustav Metzger, am asking for your participation in this worldwide call for a day of action to remember nature on November 4th, 2015,” he began, appealing to creatives to take a stand against the ongoing erasure of species. “Our task is to remin...

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1 week ago Why plummeting oil price could finally undo Putin: As Ukraine hits refineries, Russia's economy is struggling and rare anti

There are flickering signs of Russians daring to criticise Vladimir Putin and his war which is now only 70 days short of the length of Soviet participation in the defeat of Hitler in WW2 ..

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1 week ago 'Sunniest' European city that's 4 hours from Manchester and 19C in November

Southern Spain still has sunny days at this time of the and is the perfect place to escape the gloomy days in the UK. One particularly lovely spot is Cordoba, which is approximately an hour's train journey from either Malaga or Seville,

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1 week ago Tories will not deport legally settled people, Badenoch clarifies

Katie Lam spoke ‘imprecisely’ in stating large number of people would ‘need to go home’, says Conservative leader UK politics live – latest updatesThe Conservative MP Katie Lam spoke “imprecisely” in stating the party would deport large numbers of legally settled families from the UK, Kemi Badenoch said, adding she had no plans to make tougher immigration rules retrospective.Badenoch’s comments to reporters after a speech in London end days of confusion over Tory migration policy, particularly over whether many thousands of people who have made lives in the UK could lose their status of indefinite leave to remain (ILR) under a future Conservative government. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Prince Andrew 'had orgy with Virginia Giuffre and 8 other girls before she miscarried'

Virginia Giuffre, who took her own life in April aged 41, claimed in her posthumous memoir that she lost the baby just days after participating in 'an orgy' with the prince and 'eight other girls'

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