59 h. ago 'I spent weeks cleaning up major festival site and uncovered treasures left behind'

A man has shared the "treasures" he found after spending four weeks litter picking after Glastonbury Festival, which drew a crowd of 210,000 to see acts including Neil Young and Olivia Rodrigo

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59 h. ago Man spends weeks cleaning up after major festival and discovers 'treasures' left behind

A man has revealed the many 'treasures' he discovered on the floor during the month he spent as part of a team of litter pickers cleaning up after revellers left the Glastonbury Festival site

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67 h. ago Lil Nas X's father reveals star's heartbreaking request from jail after nude public 'breakdown' and arrest

The 26-year-old music artist spent multiple days in jail last week for stripping nude on a major street in Los Angeles and allegedly assaulting police officers.

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3 d. ago I spent a long, confusing week watching every single Elizabeth Hurley movie

To unravel the mystery of the British actor, model and entrepreneur’s surreal, winding career – which this week finds her playing a dead millionaire in a Channel 4 reality show – Adam White spent seven days watching all 28 of her films, from the one where she murders Patsy Kensit to the erotic thriller her son directed

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4 d. ago Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games? | Dominik Diamond

I’ve been playing Wheel World. It’s silly hipster fun, but I’d rather get on my real bike and ride. Where are the cycling equivalents of Crazy Taxi or Road Rash?I have spent a week trying to save the universe. Not by leading a hardened team of oddball veterans in an assault on a despot’s intergalactic outpost, nor by completing a series of well-written tasks to build up my warrior mage so they can defeat some ancient malignant omnipotent deity.I have done it by completing easy races on a bicycle. Sounds ridiculous? Welcome to Wheel World. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago The immigration problem that really concerns me? US celebrities | Frances Ryan

There are worrying signs that this uber-wealthy wave of migrants don’t truly understand British values. Have they even been to the big Asda?With September around the corner, this feels the right time to admit how I’ve spent the summer: tracking the invasion of foreigners to Britain. Tempted by our culture and a stable democracy, swathes of immigrants are coming here for a new life. While the rest of us toil at work and struggle to get on the housing ladder, many “foreign nationals” are enjoying luxury accommodation and hanging out idly in the streets. Still, it’s nice that Ellen DeGeneres has found happiness in the Cotswolds now that her chatshow has ended.Having relocated from the US after Donald Trump’s re-election last year, Degeneres and her wife, Portia de Rossi, have spent the summer effectively doing full-time English cosplay. In recent weeks, DeGeneres has shared with her 135 million Instagram followers such idyllic countryside pastimes as: buying sheep, riding a horse, mowi...

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8 d. ago Stacey Dooley: 'I spent the weekend with Lily Phillips and I was shocked by one thing'

Lily Phillips, 23, is an adult content creator on Only Fans and she spent the weekend with Stacey Dooley as part of the journalist and presenter's Sleeps Over series

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9 d. ago Fremantle meet the moment as AFL’s final round unfolds in dramatic fashion | Jonathan Horn

The Dockers shrugged off intense pressure to secure a fully-deserved place in this year’s finals, but for the Bulldogs it was the same old storyAhead of finals sign up for our free weekly AFL newsletterI’ve never been one to run with the “let’s just stick to football” line. But every person has their breaking point. Mine came this week when Andrew Dillon – a man who’d spent the previous four days weighing and measuring a slur, and four days negotiating five weeks down to four – carved out a good chunk of his press conference reminding us that Snoop Dog was “a grandfather and a philanthropist”. A few hours later, footage emerged of a less than grandfatherly and less than philanthropic headline act, accompanied by the headline “Snoop Dog’s Dig at Gay Parents”. That was it for me. Within a few hours, the AFL had appointed one of the state’s preeminent spin doctors and crisis managers. She could deal with this sort of stuff. The rest of them could just step out of the way, take their le...

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1 week ago Arsenal: Mikel Arteta reveals hard work behind the scenes to get Viktor Gyokeres firing

The Gunners have spent this week ‘understanding’ the new £67m striker

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1 week ago KPopped: the bizarre musical duel where South Korea’s hottest stars make the Spice Girls look like dead weight

This battle of the bands-style show teams western pop artists with K-pop stars to retool their songs. And it isn’t exactly flattering to the likes of Boy George, Vanilla Ice and TLCI would like to understand K-pop better, as I believe it is very popular with the kids. That sentence is a hard-working one: it introduces the information that I have spent this week watching the new Apple TV+ show KPopped (from Friday 29 August), while suggesting I am too old to have any hope of success. But it’s nowhere near as hard-working as a Korean pop star.This battle of the bands-style show aims to raise awareness of K-pop in the west like it’s lymphatic filariasis or something. The format reminds me of PE lessons. You know how gym teachers split groups of friends up, so they concentrate? Here, Korean boy and girl groups such as JO1 and Blackswan are split in half. Each half works with a famous western pop artist, re-tooling their best-known song in K-pop mode. The resulting performances are voted...

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1 week ago I drove electric car for a week on single charge and the numbers were remarkable

The BMW i4 M50 is a big electric saloon car with a hefty price tag, but how does it fare in the real world? We spent a week with it to find out

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1 week ago 'Evil twin black moon' to arrive in days as people think it's the 'End of Days'

People who pay attention to biblical passages have spent the first part of this week getting ready for the End of Times, after half the moon became 'invisible' to the naked eye

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2 w. ago My husband always dreamed of distant oceans. With a volunteer crew, I gave him a sailor’s farewell

Seven years after John’s cremation, I was ready to set him free – with help from Australia’s Volunteer Coast GuardI feel the ocean swell beneath the keel as we leave the Mooloolaba harbour entrance training walls, heading out to sea. I was right here 44 years ago, our course set for Moreton Bay.Then, we were aboard Pearl Bay, our beautiful cruising ketch, a labour of love and another dream fulfilled for my husband, John. After a harrowing experience crossing the Wide Bay Bar, we spent a week recuperating in this quiet, almost-deserted harbour, its coast guard “headquarters” nothing but an ageing caravan. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Katie Price has 'well needed catch up' with daughter Princess amid Peter Andre drama

Former glamour model Katie Price has spent a cosy weekend with her daughter Princess Andre as she revealed they had a 'well needed catch up' amid the family drama

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2 w. ago Ryan Reynolds explains awkward moment with Wrexham's record signing

Wrexham smashed their club transfer record earlier this week as they spent a potential £10m to tempt Nathan Broadhead to return to the club from Ipswich but he didn’t exactly get a warm welcome from Ryan Reynolds

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2 w. ago How many Strictly Come Dancing celebrity contestants are there for 2025 series

Fans have spent the week finding out who's getting ready to showcase their dance moves

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2 w. ago When Debbie Harry met Alice Cooper’s pet snake, Julius Squeezer

Exclusive: Photographer Martyn Goddard recalls the week he spent with Blondie, as a new exhibition of his work with the band opens in London

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2 w. ago I spent the weekend at this charming Highland Perthshire cottage and it felt like coming home

This retreat is perfect for large groups or extended family

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2 w. ago A moment that changed me: I resolved to reduce my screen time – and it was a big mistake

I was looking for liberation from the apps, but quitting them only made my life harder and turned me into a man obsessedI unlocked my iPhone screen at the precise moment that my weekly screen time notification appeared – accidentally dismissing it before I could take a screenshot – and promptly erupted into a rage. I had spent an excruciating week resolutely not looking at my phone, part of a month-long effort to whittle my daily screen time down from more than four hours a day to less than an hour, with the hope of improving my mental wellbeing (and possibly carving out a career as an inspirational speaker). But my efforts felt futile without being able to post evidence online about how offline I had become. I frantically Googled how to retrieve notifications (you cannot) and – briefly – considered re-creating my screen time report in Photoshop.Over the past decade or two, my efforts at self-improvement have taken various forms: the year where I read 105 books; the period during wh...

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2 w. ago Man, 60, poisoned himself after taking medical advice from ChatGPT

The 60-year-old American spent three weeks in hospital suffering from hallucinations, paranoia and severe anxiety after taking dietary tips from ChatGPT.

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