21 m. ago Emmerdale's Steph star makes fans do 'double take' as she shares family snap

The actress took to her social media and surprised fans as she shared a family photoshoot

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22 m. ago Social media users horrified by mother, 61, who still breastfeeds her child in public: 'Strangers stare but I don't care'

Barbara Higgins says she will 'miss' breastfeeding when her son Jack decides it is time to stop. Despite the stares from strangers, she considers it the 'most beautiful and natural thing'.

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52 m. ago The rise of the skincare tweens: How retinol serums and eye creams took over childhood

As Gen Alpha beg their parents for £50 retinol creams and host parties at popular beauty retailers, Charlotte Cripps, a mum of two, explains why she’s stepping back from the ‘Sephora kids’ trend before it’s too late

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65 m. ago Jeremy Clarkson set to be replaced by social media influencer on The Grand Tour

A new host for Amazon Prime Video motoring series The Grand Tour is reportedly being lined up, and if you're a train fanatic you may know who he is.

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1 hour ago 'Adolescence' gets support from British leader as the series will show in schools across the country

The makers of hit Netflix show “Adolescence” have sparked a conversation on how to protect children from violent misogyny and other harmful content on social media

Culture

1 hour ago Fact check: The Prime Minister and the Army both celebrated Mother’s Day

Both posted to social media before criticism that they had not posted about Mother’s Day.

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1 hour ago Plastic surgeon reveals women are getting shocking $20k 'invisarib' procedure to contour their waists

Women are flocking to Reddit to find out how to get the tiny waistlines they see on social media - and it's courtesy of a new, time consuming procedure that involves wearing a corset for weeks.

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2 h. ago Don’t be fooled, Gen Z – working in an office isn’t glamorous, whatever TikTok tells you

A new social media trend is setting up the white-collar 9-to-5 as some kind of aspirational lifestyle aesthetic. Helen Coffey warns the next generation of workers that they are likely to be sorely disappointed by the reality of the corporate grind

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2 h. ago Nothing beats Bob Mortimer! The irresistible comedy that could just save Amazon

Last One Laughing UK, a reality show in which comedians like Mortimer, Daisy May Cooper and Richard Ayoade try to make each other laugh, has gone viral with good reason it’s a total hootAs you can probably tell by spending any time on it, Amazon Prime Video is in trouble. Citadel, its $300m Russo brothers-produced international spy thriller series, was met with widespread indifference. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, a show that will end up costing Amazon a billion dollars, is destined to go down as one of the worst investments of all time. Everywhere you look, the platform is wall-to-wall duds.And yet there is one glimmer of hope. The sole scrap of buzz Amazon has generated in months comes in the form of a cheap little reality show. Last One Laughing UK has been all over social media for the last couple of weeks, clipped up and shared across TikTok, Instagram and X. And this is down to its deceptively simple premise: a bunch of comedians sit in a room together and try to...

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2 h. ago 'I found stunning £115k house for sale – one unusual feature put me off'

A two-bedroom home in Northwich, Cheshire, has gone viral on social media due to one unusual feature, and house hunters are divided about what they think it is for

Economics

2 h. ago How to create Studio Ghibli images with ChatGPT, with some of the best examples

These are the ChatGPT prompts to use if you want to make anime-style images like the ones on your social media feeds.

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3 h. ago Wrestler dad told son 'I love you' in electrocution death match as pair break silence

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Footage of Jack Harrop, 27, electrocuting his father Isaac 'Iceman' Harrop with a car battery during a wrestling match in Sheffield went viral on social media and made headlines

Events

4 h. ago People are only just realising the sinister meaning behind popular 'eight ball' emoji as parents sent warning

Surrey Police have warned parents to be on the lookout for the 'eight ball' emoji on their children's social media profiles.

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4 h. ago Serie A star insists he 'wasn't bitten by a zombie' as fans spot horror neck injury

Bologna's star striker Jens Odgaard had to take to social media to rule out a zombie attack after he sported a brutal red mark on his neck during a Serie A clash

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5 h. ago New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures

Only a few statues remain, with thousands of priceless artefacts from Nubian and Kushite kingdoms missingVideos of Sudan’s national museum showing empty rooms, piles of rubble and broken artefacts posted on social media after the Sudanese army recaptured the area from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in recent days show the extent of looting of the country’s antiquities.Fears of looting in the museum were first raised in June 2023 and a year later satellite images emerged of trucks loaded with artefacts leaving the building, according to museum officials. But last week, as the RSF were driven out of Khartoum after two years of war, the full extent of the theft became apparent. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Men get more disgusted as they age? It’s only a matter of time before my husband sees the real, slovenly, me | Emma Beddington

Research shows that while women experience feelings of revulsion from a young age, men catch them up in later years. Maybe I should stop scraping the mould off the jam What disgusts you? I hope it’s not inexpertly summarised research, because I have been intrigued by the recently reported finding that men get more disgusted as they age. Researchers at the Institute for Environmental Decisions in Zurich found that while young women generally “experience more disgust than men”, later in life the difference between the sexes narrows, and “men and women will reach similar levels of disgust when they get older”.I don’t think anyone who has encountered young men’s bedrooms either in person or through the @boyroom social media account (a festival of coverless, unwashed duvets, defrosted bags of Ikea meatballs left to fester and stockpiled used tissues) will be surprised to learn that male disgust doesn’t kick in early. However, the theory is that as physical vulnerability increases with ag...

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7 h. ago John Lennon's son issues scathing attack against Rachel Zegler after Snow White drama

John Lennon's son Sean Ono Lennon has taken to social media and penned a rather blistering tweet attacking Snow White star Rachel Zegler who has been surrounded by controversy

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8 h. ago Social media is awash with ‘heteropessimism’. Do young women really think so poorly of men? | Rachel Connolly

The cliche of the loutish, emotionally inadequate boyfriend is everywhere. The truth is more complicatedHow is the ideal heterosexual girlfriend supposed to behave? This played on my mind after I watched Companion, a film about a loutish millennial man named Josh with a robot girlfriend named Iris. Iris was designed to be the perfect girlfriend, and so she regards Josh with total devotion and admiration, and prioritises their relationship above all else. She has a head full of fake memories, such as the one of the day they met, when they were both in the same supermarket and he clumsily upended a display of oranges, sending them rolling across the floor. This caught her attention. She has been programmed to regard this as the best day of her life.Like so many things you watch and read now, Companion is intended to reflect a familiar trope back at the viewer in an exaggerated but unchallenging fashion. It’s a pantomimed version of a wildly imbalanced heterosexual relationship, a port...

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9 h. ago David Dimbleby’s hugely compelling history of capitalism: best podcasts of the week

The seasoned pro brings us a slick new listen. Plus, Paris Hilton produces a rare story of social media being used for goodDavid Dimbleby takes on the history of capitalism. It’s a slick listen that opens in a barrage of air raid sirens and rumbling aircraft engines as Anthony Fisher watches his brother die while they both fly planes during the second world war – before going on to found the free-market thinktank the Institute of Economic Affairs. The half-hour episodes don’t allow for deep dives but are as hugely listenable as anything featuring its host’s voice is. Alexi DugginsBBC Sounds, episodes weekly Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Work and money worry young people more than culture wars or climate, UK poll finds

Class, education and gender found to influence difference in views but anxiety about finances was a common themeYoung people are more worried about their finances, work pressures and job insecurity than social media, the climate crisis and culture war debates, research shows.The polling also challenges the simplistic characterisation of generational conflict, revealing that differences within gen Z, whether around class, education or gender, are often more pronounced than the differences between generations. Continue reading...

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