69 m. ago Aston Martin signing dream driver Max Verstappen is a ‘pipe dream’, says Adrian Newey

Newey is in the paddock in Monaco this weekend for the first time since joining Aston Martin

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72 m. ago Bank Holiday weekend weather as Met Office warns of 'unsettled' conditions

The Met Office explained that more 'unsettled conditions' are set to develop across the UK through the weekend

Events

81 m. ago Blacklisted fashion photographer Terry Richardson returns to the newsstands

Arena Homme+ publishes cover shots and portfolio eight years after sexual misconduct allegations surfacedEight years after major fashion brands and publications said they would no longer work with Terry Richardson, following a string of allegations of sexual misconduct made against the renowned fashion photographer, he now appears to be making a comeback.This week, the magazine Arena Homme+ unveiled its latest issue, featuring two covers shot by Richardson and an accompanying portfolio. One cover consists of an image of a toilet cubicle graffitied with the text “Punk rock ruined my life.” Another is a shot of a cardboard cutout of Donald Trump’s face. Continue reading...

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82 m. ago Soap spoilers for next week: EastEnders' deadly car crash and Corrie icon returns

Soap spoilers for next week tease huge moments ahead across EastEnders, Emmerdale and Coronation Street including a wedding, a horror crash and the return of a soap favourite

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82 m. ago When Premier League fixtures are announced for 2025/26 season with key dates confirmed

The Premier League is set to wind down for the summer this weekend but all the dates for all the action ahead of the 2025/2026 campaign have already been rubber stamped

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2 h. ago Beauty expert reveals how to treat common foot conditions before summer: from fungal nails to verrucas

From diabetes to arthritis, serious conditions often show up in your feet first. Alice Robertson reveals how wellbeing starts from the toes up

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2 h. ago The stunning Portuguese escape that's just 3 hours from London and inspired hit movie Casino Royale

The weekender: Sintra, Portugal

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2 h. ago Farewell Kevin De Bruyne: Manchester City’s genius and a law unto himself | Simon Hattenstone

Footballing great, dedicated family man and surprisingly outspoken, the playmaker leaves the Premier League this weekend after a decade of entertainmentKevin De Bruyne is leaving Manchester City, and I’m going through all five stages of grief at once. Denial (the club will give him a new contract); anger (how could they not renew his contract?), bargaining (at 33, he’s past his peak and injury prone), depression (life without Kev is no life) and acceptance (it was never going to last, and I not only got to watch him for 10 years, I got to meet him.)They say you should never meet your heroes. I’ve always stood by that maxim when it came to Manchester City players, with the one exception. Oh Kevin De Bruyne. (For the uninitiated, chant endlessly to the chorus of Seven Nation Army.) As De Bruyne is a law unto himself as a player, so he is as an interviewee. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Those who object to music events shutting off parks are branded nimbys. But this time, I’m on their side | Moya Lothian

A high court dispute over a south London park shows the limits of private interests encroaching on public spaceA grassy south London oasis erupted into a turf war this week. From Monday, visitors to Brockwell Park would have seen calling cards left by both sides. The provocation? A sturdy 3-metre-high boundary fence, encircling large swathes of the 50-hectare (125-acre) stretch that has been designated for music festivals this summer. Daubed on the structure were signs of discord: graffitied messages in stark white lettering. “You fucked our park,” read one. “We fucked your wall.”Brockwell is now the hottest front in a conflict that has started to rear its head in the capital every summer. A week ago, it made the front pages in the form of a bombshell high court ruling against Lambeth council. The authority responsible for the park lost a case brought by Protect Brockwell Park (PBP), a group of local residents and park users who argued that the council had not obtained the proper pl...

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2 h. ago CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN: ‘Luna's political rival gets three years in the slammer’

The Mirror's US editor, Christopher Bucktin, reports on the best of the most bizarre it-could-only-happen-in-the-USA stories in his weekly The Buck Stops Here column

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2 h. ago Comfy Boden sliders with 25% off are easy to walk in and look brilliant

A summer shoe essential from online retailer, Boden, which is running a sale across the site at the moment, has dropped by £12

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2 h. ago The massive antiques village where you might spot a TV star running a shop

It's billed as the "largest craft and antiques centre in the north west" and this weekend a TV star is manning a shop

Culture

2 h. ago My £4.99 Aldi middle aisle buy is exactly what I need this summer

It's made things so much quicker and easier

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3 h. ago Apple CEO Tim Cook called Greg Abbott to press him to stop the state’s proposed online child safety laws, report reveals

The tech boss had a cordial conversation with Greg Abbott last week, but made it clear that Apple was interested in stopping the bill, according to sources

Society

3 h. ago My cultural awakening: a punk band told me quit drinking. So I did

As a teen, I was surrounded by binge culture. But then a band called Minor Threat taught me it was radical to be sober – and it changed my lifeI started drinking when I was 14. It was how we’d have fun as kids in Aberdeen – I didn’t come across any youth clubs or anything particularly productive. You drank beer or alcopops in some shady lane, and you drank so quickly that you’d get drunk but then be sober enough to get home at 11pm so your parents wouldn’t notice anything. It wasn’t drinking for pleasure: binge drinking was just what everyone – regardless of social groups – seemed to be doing.During my teenage years I worked at a newsagent and I would read Kerrang! every week, which was extremely formative for me in discovering music. It’s incredible how many new bands I was introduced to, and just how my music taste evolved – from nu-metal bands such as Korn to Rage Against the Machine and, most influentially, Fugazi. Continue reading...

Culture

3 h. ago The Rehearsal: Nathan Fielder makes genius appointment TV that may spoil you forever

In his twisted and often horrifying reality show, Fielder piles ethical grey areas on top of each other like problematic pancakes. Get stuck in!Schopenhauer defined genius as someone who aims at a target the rest of us can’t see. Which raises a philosophical paradox – how do we know they’ve hit it? I was moved to such musings while watching this week’s pick, a singular piece of art that functions unlike anything else on TV, and calls the medium itself into question. No, it’s not Police Interceptors.In The Rehearsal (Monday, 10pm, Sky Comedy), comedian Nathan Fielder blends documentary, social experiment, performance art and absurdist satire in a devised method all his own. He has ordinary people tackle emotionally fraught situations from their lives, by role-playing them with hired actors in meticulously recreated sets that mirror significant personal locations. It’s arch, but the stakes are real. The first series opened with a man who wanted to apologise to his pub quiz teamma...

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3 h. ago Tragic soap characters who should never have been killed off as Craig brutally axed

A number of soap icons in Emmerdale, Coronation Street and EastEnders have died in the most tragic circumstances - with fans left devastated by their loss

Events

3 h. ago Alex Albon's mum's prison sentence, 'hardest year in life', professional athlete girlfriend

Formula One star Alex Albon will be aiming for a long-awaited podium finish at the Monaco GP this weekend, and here's a closer look at his life away from the F1 circuit

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4 h. ago Six great reads: Sam Altman’s spectacular comeback, British preppers, and fear and loathing in Starbase, Texas

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Tim Dowling: let my tortoise’s humiliating mishap be a lesson to him

A freak thunderstorm soaks the middle one on his way to our house (he’s come to raid the fridge), but the real drama is the toppled tortoise After an hour’s work on a hot morning I leave my office shed and return to the kitchen for a coffee. Halfway there I find the tortoise lying on his back on the path. He can’t have been there for more than an hour, as he wasn’t there when I came out.“What happened to you?” I say, setting him on his feet. But it’s pretty obvious what happened: he tried to exit the garden bed by climbing over the border of diagonally laid bricks and overbalanced. It’s an obstacle he surmounts without difficulty between five and 10 times a day in the warmer months, but occasionally – perhaps once every four years – he puts a foot wrong. So far, I have always been there to turn him back over. Continue reading...

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