5 h. ago 'I quit my job after making £400k on Etsy and teach others how'

Emily Odio-Sutton left her full time job in education after working out how to make money online

Society

6 h. ago Emma Raducanu could quit tennis for new bank job and nobody would blame her

Emma Raducanu tearfully cowered behind the umpire's chair when she spotted her latest stalker mid-match in Dubai, with a separate man sentenced for stalking near her home

Politics

8 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

Politics

3 d. ago I became a millionaire overnight when I won a £4.5m home in the Omaze draw

Daren Bell, 54, now owns the breathtaking coastal home in Norfolk for just £10, after he scooped the grand prize in the Omaze Million House Draw back in 2023.

Economics

4 d. ago Cycling to school almost became extinct – until one man revived the bike bus

Sam Balto took the idea from a local school to the White House and beyond, inspiring a global movement in which children feel the benefits of cycling together“It’s a movement, not a moment.” That’s the mantra from Sam “Coach” Balto, a former school teacher from Portland, Oregon who quit his day job to stoke a revolution called the “bike bus” – groups of kids and families cycling to school together.How did one person in a mid-sized American city turn a weekly bike ride into something of a phenomenon? He leaned on the power of social media. In the past two years his videos have been viewed by hundreds of millions of people. Continue reading...

Transport

4 d. ago Woman left permanently blind and in agonizing pain after common contact lens mistake

Maureen Cronin, 53, a former communications executive, was left blinded and forced to quit her job after a common mistake caused parasites to burrow into her cornea and damage her eye.

Politics

5 d. ago New Zealand’s tourism campaign is not the world’s worst – and I should know | Arwa Mahdawi

The slogan ‘Everyone must go!’ is being rubbished, but is it really that bad? Hong Kong and Vilnius have much stronger claims to this shameful title ...Having worked in the advertising industry for a while, I can tell you that creating a great ad is a lot more difficult than skewering a bad ad. That’s partly why I left a full-time gig in adland to focus on writing. Although the bigger reason, if I’m honest, is that I wrote a column saying I was going to quit my stupid advertising job before actually quitting, and my boss saw it and reacted as you might expect.But my poor life choices are not the point; the point here is other people’s poor choices, namely those of some marketers in New Zealand. You see, the people at Tourism New Zealand are facing international ridicule for a new advertising campaign – with the tagline “Everyone must go!” – designed to entice Australians to visit. Continue reading...

Politics

6 d. ago I ditched the UK to move to Spain with my two kids and husband

Sophie Marnick, her husband Jake and two sons Oscar, nine, and Ruben, five, packed up their life in Staffordshire to move to Cadiz earlier this month.

Politics