6 d. ago I was so fat I couldn't walk round my kitchen island. But now aged 74 I've lost three stone and FOUR dress sizes in less than a year

As you read this, I am somewhere between Land's End and the White Cliffs of Dover, pedalling my heart out on the second day of an 18-day, 450-mile charity bike challenge.

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6 d. ago I was so fat I couldn't walk round my kitchen island. But now aged 73 I've lost three stone and FOUR dress sizes in less than a year

As you read this, I am somewhere between Land's End and the White Cliffs of Dover, pedalling my heart out on the second day of an 18-day, 450-mile charity bike challenge.

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6 d. ago Last year, at 73, I was so fat I couldn't walk round my kitchen island. But now I've lost three stone and cycle five hours a day

As you read this, I am somewhere between Land's End and the White Cliffs of Dover, pedalling my heart out on the second day of an 18-day, 450-mile charity bike challenge.

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1 week ago Trump’s mass federal cuts disrupt LA wildfire recovery: ‘It’s coming tumbling down’

Doge has gut staff at Fema, EPA and the army corps, who are crucial for helping survivors get back on their feetOn 13 April, Tess McGinley was working in her Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) cubicle in Los Angeles, calling people who had lost their homes in the January wildfires, when her team was told to stop what they were doing and leave the office immediately.McGinley, a 23-year-old team leader for AmeriCorps, the US agency for national service and volunteerism, was helping Fema by reviewing wildfire survivors’ cases to ensure they received housing assistance. Over the past six weeks, she and her seven teammates had reviewed more than 4,000 cases and made hundreds of calls to survivors. Now, even as the team drove home after their jobs were cut, their government phones kept ringing. “Survivors just kept calling us And we weren’t able to help,” McGinley said. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Star Wars and Indiana Jones Oscar winner dies as fans pay tribute

Les Dilley, who won an Oscar for his work on Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, has died at the age of 84, his family have confirmed in a moving statement

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2 w. ago I had a midlife crisis, an affair and lost my job and mother. Then I discovered a cheap, little

It is ten years since my life imploded in my mid-40s. I wish I'd known back then what I know now: that a midlife crisis is not only a good thing, but essential for all women.

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3 w. ago Prue Leith's heartbreaking letter from late husband on his deathbed

Dame Prue Leith married her first husband Rayne Kruger in 1974, but the property developed died, aged 80, in 2002, leading Prue to fear she'd 'lost happiness'

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3 w. ago Russia spy warning over claims Vladimir Putin's agents are 'disguised as lost tourists'

Vladimir Putin's Russian spies are posing as lost tourists as a spy agency warned citizens to keep an eye out for Kremlin agents lurking in their own neighbourhoods

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3 w. ago Gladiators champion who lost mum aged 2 offers important advice to kids like him

Gladiators champ Joe Fishburn and the 'amazing woman’ who brought him up have spoken about his ‘less typical childhood’ to the Mirror – and how it helped make him into the man he is today

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