75 m. ago De'Longhi La Specialista Touch review: Despite its stunning design and good coffee, there's nothing special about the Specialista

The La Specialista Touch is Delonghi's smallest bean-to-cup coffee machine to date. It's packed with a lot of useful features including a 'bean adapt' function for the perfect espresso.

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1 hour ago Cook Mary Berry's easy salmon traybake that's 'full of flavour' in just 25 minutes

Mary Berry's Thai-style salmon traybake with roasted vegetables is a quick and easy midweek meal for all that's packed and full of flavour - and it's perfect for fish lovers

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2 h. ago Daisy Lowe wears easy to style FatFace midi dress with pockets in new V&A collection

Daisy Lowe and her mum Pearl Lowe have fronted FatFace's new autumn/winter collection, which was inspired by the V&A's archives and is packed with autumn favourites

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3 h. ago New home secretary Shabana Mahmood says she will not run for deputy leader after Labour accused of ‘stitch

Candidates will need backing of 80 MPs by 5pm on Thursday if they wish to standPaul Nowak, the TUC general secretary, used his speech to conference this morning to say that the TUC expected the government to deliver its workers’ rights bill “in full”. He said employment rights were “overwhelmingly popular with voters across the political spectrum”.And he condemned Reform UK for its stance on employment rights. After saying that Nigel Farage claimed to represent working class people, he went on:Here’s the truth – there is a world of difference between what Nigel says and what Nigel does.Every single Reform MP, including Mr Farage, voted against outlawing fire and rehire, against banning zero hours contracts and against day one rights for millions of workers.Ask yourself this fundamental question. Do you believe in your gut that that Nigel Farage really cares about the people of Clacton when he’s off collecting his speaker’s fees in the United States?Do you believe that Richard Tice r...

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4 h. ago Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy eggs in a basket with smoky chard – recipe

Elevate this everyday favourite with a serving of lemon and paprika-spiked greensEggs in a basket are a treat. The easiest way to make the necessary holes in your sliced bread is with a round pastry cutter – or a heart-shaped one for fun. Break the eggs into their bread ‘baskets’, then fry up their “hats” to go alongside. To make this a grownup rather than a nursery dinner, serve with lemon-and-paprika-spiked chard, or spinach or kale, if that’s what you have; I am growing a surfeit of chard, so I always need new ways to use it up. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Brendon McCullum labels upcoming Ashes as ‘biggest series of all of our lives’

England head coach hails ‘box office’ Jofra ArcherStokes and Wood ‘progressing well’ after injuriesBrendon McCullum has ramped up the Ashes hype ahead of this winter’s trip to Australia, describing England’s pursuit of the urn they last won a decade ago – and have brought back from the Antipodes just once since 1986-87 – as “the biggest series of all of our lives”.England returned to international action last week for the first time since a thrilling five-Test series against India concluded in early August, and though they lost to South Africa over three one-day internationals that run ended with a historic, one-sided victory in Southampton on Sunday. A spellbinding performance in that game from Jofra Archer, who took four wickets for 18 runs – “There was an ‘ooh’ or an ‘aah’ every single over,” he said afterwards – set imaginations racing with thoughts of what the injury-prone seamer might achieve in more high-profile assignments to come. The first Ashes Test starts in Perth on 21 ...

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5 h. ago Jodie Marsh sparks frenzy with bold social media dating ad as she seeks love

Jodie Marsh reveals she’s single and ready to mingle, calling herself “cute and a bit of a geek” whilst admitting she prefers animals to people as she looks for a partner

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6 h. ago Need I list all the reasons why Trump shouldn’t get a Nobel peace prize? | Sidney Blumenthal

Trump has been an enabler of war, famine, disease and deathDonald Trump’s thuggish campaign to bully his way to the Nobel peace prize should not be the cause for the committee to reject him. There are many more substantial grounds that render him patently unqualified to receive the award.Among the numerous reasons that make him one of the least deserving people in the world who should be honored, he has single-handedly destroyed the United States Agency for International Development, which has saved hundreds of millions of people from hunger and disease, and promoted democracy and the rule of law around the world. In an executive order issued on his inauguration day, 20 January, Trump slandered USAID as “not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values” and claimed that its workers “serve to destabilize world peace”.Sidney Blumenthal, former senior adviser to Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has published three books of a projected five-volume p...

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6 h. ago ‘Do you care about our kids?’ Minnesota parents demand gun ban after deadly shooting

Families say they will ‘settle for nothing less’ than instant ban on semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazinesSome parents whose children were wounded in the recent deadly school shooting in Minnesota are demanding greater gun safety measures as the divided legislature gets ready to debate the state’s response this week.Mothers and fathers have gone public to highlight the acute suffering being endured by their children in the aftermath of last month’s attack by a shooter that killed two children and injured 17 others while they were at prayer at the Annunciation Catholic school, traumatizing the community in south Minneapolis. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Donald Trump’s Oval Office bling exposed as knockoff £43 plastic sprayed gold

Donald Trump’s claim of a “24 karat” Oval Office has been mocked after sleuths revealed his gold décor is nothing more cheap moulds bought from America’s answer to B&Q

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6 h. ago Trump’s Oval Office bling exposed as knockoff £43 plastic sprayed gold

Donald Trump’s claim of a “24 karat” Oval Office has been mocked after sleuths revealed his gold décor is nothing more than £43 plastic moulds sprayed gold - bought from America’s answer to B&Q

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7 h. ago Voices: Is Shabana Mahmood the ‘Maggie Thatcher of the left?’

If the new home secretary can succeed in closing migrant hotels and stopping the boats, she will single-handedly revive Labour’s fortunes – and she might also cement herself as Keir Starmer’s successor, says Simon Walters

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7 h. ago Tesco delicious homemade pumpkin spice latte with less calories than Starbucks

As autumn comes in a frothy latte really comes into its own. Many of us want to stay at home if the weather is cold or rainy, so why not conjure up a spicy latte in your own kitchen, it's easy to make and less calorific than many high street options

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7 h. ago Actor Emily Osment is single as her divorce from musician Jack Farina becomes official

Actor Emily Osment is divorced and single

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10 h. ago ‘The cultural landscape is decimated’: Louise Alder on stage fright, arts funding and the Last Night of the Proms

The great soprano will be the first British singer to top the bill at the Last Night in over a decade. So why does she advise her younger colleagues to leave the country?It’s the height of the August heatwave when I sit down opposite British soprano Louise Alder in a fiercely air-conditioned central London office. We’re here to discuss her headline performance at this year’s Last Night of the Proms but, as a seasonal warmup, I ask whether she’s had a break this summer. Alder looks faintly amused, then reminds me she’s been at Glyndebourne doing three performances of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro every week since the end of June. In fact, she was on stage as the Countess barely 12 hours earlier.“It’s never-ending,” she says. “I don’t want this to come across negatively – it’s been the most amazing contract – but an extremely long run. Twenty shows, which I think is the longest single run that Glyndebourne has done.” Days after the show closed, the company performed it again at the Prom...

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12 h. ago Full Married at First Sight UK 2025 cast – TV star, grandparent and wedding called off

Married at First Sight UK is back with a brand new batch of singletons ready to roll the dice and walk down the aisle with a total stranger, so here are the brides and grooms

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12 h. ago SNP Government shells out £4m on golden goodbyes for public sector staff in single year

EXCLUSIVE: An MSP told the Record the size and regularity of the pay-outs showed SNP ministers were "playing fast and loose with public money".

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16 h. ago Photo highlights from the US Open as Carlos Alcaraz overpowers Jannik Sinner

Spain's Carlos Alcaraz beat rival Jannik Sinner of Italy to claim the U.S. Open title. They are the first two men in the sport’s history to face each other in three consecutive Grand Slam finals within a single season.

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16 h. ago Forget smart meters and use £10 home hack that helps you save on energy bills

No need to worry as the temperature gets cooler, you can save money on your energy bills by following this cheap and easy expert hack that doesn't involve using a smart metre

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17 h. ago Jade: That’s Showbiz Baby! review – former Little Mix star thrives in chaos on an idiosyncratic debut

(Sony)Jade Thirlwall offers a wild ride through electroclash, Eurovision drama and emotive synth-pop – albeit one she can’t quite maintain for a whole albumLast month, the indefatigable Vice magazine published a piece on the “summer of British chaos”, documenting a scene of deranged social media provocateurs existing at the crispiest fringes of our nation’s cooked identity. Writer Clive Martin defined these graven images of the algorithm as being regionally specific, lurid, rowdy, funny and hedonistic. As a former member of Little Mix, a girl band put together via public vote on The X Factor, Jade Thirlwall might not seem like the likeliest bedfellow of this unhinged movement. But the South Shields pop star’s debut solo single, last year’s Angel of My Dreams, dodged focus-grouped smoothness to present a sublimely whacked-out, thoroughly British pop vision that felt like spinning through someone else’s for you page and realising they exist in a markedly different universe from your o...

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