27 h. ago I’m obsessed with deep sea sharks: their bioluminescent spots are just visible in the pitch black environment they live in

Most of these little-known but already endangered fish have never been seen alive in their natural habitat, but are under threat from bottom trawling and deep-sea miningThree years ago I was running a research project from a bottom trawler off Namibia about deep-sea sharks – all of which live under enormous water pressure, close to the seafloor and are rarely seen by humans.These sharks were being brought up in the trawler’s nets. By the time they were brought to the surface, they had experienced such a dramatic change in pressure that they had undergone barotrauma, so they were internally damaged and unlikely to survive. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon ‘excited’ that show is coming to UK

A UK version of the sketch comedy series, which McKinnon has starred in, is to air in 2026.

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4 d. ago Victoria Beckham shares personal 'struggle' that's lasted 'throughout entire life' in candid admission

It comes as the Victoria Beckham Beauty founder, 51, is launching her brand's first-ever foundation

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5 d. ago UEFA make big announcement on Champions League final just hours before draw

UEFA have announced that this year's Champions League final in Budapest will kick-off three hours earlier than its usual time slot with fan experience and matchday logistics motivating the change

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5 d. ago Taylor Swift’s romantic travails were the soundtrack to mine. What does her engagement mean for fans’ love lives? | Hollie Richardson

The singer’s breakups were anthems for emotionally bruised youth. Now she’s happy, I look forward to hearing yet more poundingly relatable lyrics – based on real, lasting love• Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announce engagement on social mediaTaylor Swift wrote today’s headlines when she was only 17 with her country hit Love Story: “Baby, just say yes!” Now, at 35, she has announced her engagement to Travis Kelce, her American football player partner of two years, who got down on one knee and popped the question. “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” she captioned the subsequently staged engagement photos of them in a rose garden. It’s gaudy, it’s cringe, it’s gleefully too much – some even say it makes the Bezos wedding look classy. But it’s perfect and it made me cry.When the pop star who has soundtracked your entire adult love life gets engaged, it’s discombobulating. Especially when they are similar in age. Over two decades, Swift has gifted a song for ...

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5 d. ago Jamie Oliver claims he 'never took away Turkey Twizzlers away'

The TV chef and author, 50, exposed the dire nutritional state of Britain's school dinners in 2005 and villainised junk foods like Turkey Twizzlers.

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5 d. ago Jamie Oliver admits battling 'really dangerous' health issue

Jamie Oliver rose to fame with The Naked Chef before tackling the nation's unhealthy eating habits, but he now admits he has one 'really dangerous' health struggle of his own

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6 d. ago Jamie Oliver's daughter 'shouted at' and faces work 'complexities' over dad's decision

The celebrity chef, who turned 50 in May, talked about a controversial show that marks its 20th anniversary this year and how it's led to some unwanted comments for his daughter, Poppy

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6 d. ago Jamie Oliver says ‘five a day is a lie’ and Brits should be eating up to 11 portions

‘Britain can handle it,’ said the TV chef

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9 d. ago Husband's secret marriage busted as second wife gives birth at first's workplace

The woman had been all ready to help the other woman deliver her baby when her husband showed up to help her as well – leading to the man's entire double life being exposed

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9 d. ago Sam Nicoresti’s Baby Doomer wins best comedy show award at Edinburgh fringe 2025

Playful set about Nicoresti’s life as a trans woman wins main award, with Ayoade Bamgboye named best newcomerThe Edinburgh comedy award, the annual “Oscar of comedy” given to the best show at the fringe, has been won by Sam Nicoresti for Baby Doomer, which is based around a humiliating experience in a department store changing room.The Birmingham standup becomes the first transgender winner of the prestigious award after near-misses for Jordan Gray in 2022 – and Eddie Izzard 34 years ago. Nicoresti pockets £10,000 in prize money and, on accepting the award, joked they had promised their partner the win a year ago to help pay for their upcoming wedding. Continue reading...

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1 week ago 'I went on Jamie Oliver's show and one experience changed my entire life'

Jamie Oliver's Kitchen star Tim Siadatan was plucked from obscurity to become a chef on one of the star's first cookery shows, and it completely transformed his life

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1 week ago Jamie Oliver 'totally transformed everything' for chef as 'he didn't know what he'd be doing'

Tim Siadatan was one of the 15 youngsters who were given the opportunity to work under Jamie Oliver's watch on the programme Jamie's Kitchen, which aired in 2002

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1 week ago Jamie Oliver gets green light to open takeaway bakery in former stable at his £6m listed country manor

The celebrity chef, 50, had originally planned to open the bakery three weeks ago, but has only just been given the green light to change the use of the former stable block.

Economics

1 week ago Make 'delicious' Jamie Oliver scones in just 12 minutes without an oven

"These scones are absolutely delicious crispy and golden - but also fluffy inside"

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1 week ago Make Jamie Oliver's fluffy flourless pancakes for the Bank Holiday in just 10 minutes

If you're looking for a delicious breakfast recipe to whip up over the August Bank Holiday Weekend then look no further - and this pancake recipe is 'not too tricky' to make

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2 w. ago Perrie Edwards reflects on ‘toxic’ Zayn Malik romance as she details 'safe' Alex Oxlade

The singer, 32, also spoke admitted the experience left her reluctant to date again, but that changed when she met fiancé and footballer Oxlade-Chamberlain

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2 w. ago ‘Your work changed the course of my entire life’: novelist Douglas Stuart meets painter Jenny Saville

He was a struggling 16-year-old when he first saw her paintings. Now, the Booker prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain sits down with the record-breaking artist to talk early success, bad reviews, and the joys of making artIn the summer of 1992, I was a 16-year-old who was watching his mother drink herself to death. I had a desperate need to find work and somewhere to stay, and so remaining in education didn’t seem like a possibility. I had two teachers who saw how I was struggling. They dreamed a future for me that I could never have imagined for myself. One evening they took me up to the degree show at the Glasgow School of Art, and there I came face to face with the paintings of Jenny Saville.The power of that encounter has never left me. Those images were fierce and confrontational. A few months after the degree show, I lost my mother to her addiction. With the support of my teachers, I eventually finished school and went on to art school and built a career in design. Meanwhile, ...

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2 w. ago 'I was forced onto streets after marriage split but now have unique job'

Invisible Cities offers tours run by people who have experienced homelessness. For dad-of-two Andy it's been life-changing – and his clients love it too.

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2 w. ago In the Green Heart by Richard Lloyd Parry review – neocolonial jungle fever

An intensely political story of a new father’s escape with his baby through a rainforest during wartimeRichard Lloyd Parry, a longtime foreign correspondent whose experiences of war and regime change are recorded in his remarkable 2005 memoir In the Time of Madness, can be said to know whereof he speaks. Many of that book’s issues, including the psychic damage he incurred from events he witnessed in Indonesia, East Timor and Afghanistan in the 1990s and early 2000s, are reinflected in this, his first novel.Kit and Lara live in a remote village in the deep rainforest. She works for a small, undependably financed NGO. He’s a stay-at-home husband, living for their baby daughter Helen. While Lara presents as impulsive yet practical and barely able to contain her own energy, Kit is dreamy, internalised, exhibiting a calmness that falls easily into dissociation. “This is your life,” she shouts at him shortly before they leave the UK, “a day of your life, and it requires your presence.” He...

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