7 h. ago It should have been the happiest day of wealthy heiress Paula Leeson's life... but as she walked down the aisle, her husband

After arriving at Peckforton Castle, a stately pile set in rolling Cheshire countryside, in a vintage car accompanied by her father, a beaming Paula Leeson looks every inch the happy bride.

Economics

38 h. ago 'She walks free from court, free to live her life... that's an insult to Roger's life'

'To think he passed away at the side of the road with only strangers with him will haunt us for the rest of our days'

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42 h. ago Race Across the World contestant reveals what REALLY happens when they get to each checkpoint hotel in moments hidden from show

The new series of BBC adventure show kicked off this week and saw five pairs from different walks of life embark on a 14,000 kilometers race across China , Nepal and India.

Culture

3 d. ago 'I went for a salon treatment but walked out with a cancer diagnosis'

Margaret Gardiner, 65, who won the Miss Universe pageant in 1978, revealed that she was diagnosed with cancer after having a simple beauty treatment

Science

5 d. ago Rory McIlroy shares details of private homecoming after Masters victory and 'cool' chats with two Presidents

New Masters champion touched by 'people reaching out from all walks of life'

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7 d. ago AP PHOTOS: Global tributes pour in to honor Pope Francis after his death

Tributes to Pope Francis poured in from around the world, from presidents to people of all walks of life, after the Vatican announced the pontiff’s death at age 88 on Monday.

Culture

8 d. ago It’s not too late to stop Trump and the Silicon Valley broligarchy from controlling our lives, but we must act now | Carole Cadwalladr

In her final piece for the Observer, Carole Cadwalladr reveals what happened when she returned last week to give the opening speech at technology conference Ted, where she gave her first – life-changing – talk six years agoTo walk into the lion’s den once might be considered foolhardy. To do so again after being mauled by the lion? It’s what ill-advised? Reckless? Suicidal? Six years ago I gave a talk at Ted, the world’s leading technology and ideas conference. It led to a gruelling lawsuit and a series of consequences that reverberate through my life to this day.And last week I returned. To give another talk that would incorporate some of my experience: a Ted Talk about being sued for giving a Ted Talk, and how the lessons I’d learned from surviving all that were a model for surviving “broligarchy” – a concept I first wrote about in the Observer in July last year: the alignment of Silicon Valley and autocracy, and a kind of power the world has never seen before. The key point I wan...

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9 d. ago Rampaging dog owner's three words before beloved cavapoo savaged in brutal attack

Steven Yorke revealed the terrifying ordeal he and his dog faced when an off-lead pet attacked his beloved cavapoo on a woodland walk - leaving it fighting for its life

Events

1 week ago ‘The Salt Path gave us back our life’: walking back to happiness on Cornwall’s South West Coast Path

As a film of Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir The Salt Path is released, we follow in her footsteps along the Cornish section‘I want to tell you something. I have a stage 4 brain tumour, and I don’t know how long I have left.” When fellow walker Peter utters these words to me at the Minack theatre in Porthcurno on Cornwall’s south coast, I half think he might be reading lines for a new play. Behind him, the waves are dancing, while mist swirls on the wind as though spooling from a smoke machine.It had only been an hour since I first met him and his wife, Michelle, as we all took shelter from the freezing wind in a hut at nearby Gwennap Head. I had asked why they were walking the South West Coast Path – the 630-mile (1,014km) trail that weaves its way from the seaside town of Minehead in Somerset around to Poole harbour in Dorset, via the windswept headlands, secluded coves and beaches of Devon and Cornwall. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Dr Michael Mosley's son shares sweet tribute to 'maverick' late father ahead of anniversary

The TV doctor lost his life last year after going missing on a walk on a Greek island

Politics

2 w. ago Michael Watson’s next miracle? Walking a mile with the doctor who saved his life

Watson, who sustained a life-threatening brain injury in his 1991 loss to Chris Eubank, will walk a charity mile with Peter Hamlyn this week

Politics

2 w. ago Harry Potter actor Nick Moran 'left struggling to walk or talk' after being diagnosed with 'life threatening' condition and undergoing risky emergency surgery

The actor, 55, who played Scabior in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, went under the knife for the risky operation after pain in his neck was discovered to be something more sinister

Events

2 w. ago Gareth Bale's dream new life, huge net worth and incredible physique two years on from quitting

The Wales football legend has been living an amazing life since walking away from football at 33

Politics

2 w. ago ‘I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body’: Frances Ryan’s manifesto for disabled women

Women with disabilities are the biggest minority group in the world, but are still shut out of society. In an extract from her new book, the writer reveals how that is changing – and what more needs to be doneI would like to be able to start this story with a stellar anecdote about how exactly my life imploded. “I was walking down Sunset Boulevard and Harry Styles ran me down in a Ferrari.” “I was dancing on a podium in Ibiza when a falling speaker semi- decapitated me.” In reality, it was much more mundane, as these things inevitably tend to be. I went to the pub and I caught the flu. That was it.I spent Christmas 2017 with what I thought was a regular illness. By February, I was unable to breathe or move. Flu had become flu complications and I was strapped to a ventilator mask. My energy had all but disappeared to the extent that even breathing was a high-end task. In my bedroom, alone, plastic casing enveloped my skin. I looked like Darth Vader, if Darth Vader spent a lot of time...

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3 w. ago ‘I didn’t start out wanting to see kids’: are porn algorithms feeding a generation of paedophiles – or creating one?

More than 850 men a month are arrested for online child abuse offences in England and Wales. They come from every walk of life: teachers, police officers, doctors, TV presenters. And the numbers are rising every year. How did this happen?Andy was enjoying a weekend away with his wife when it happened. “My neighbour phoned me and said, ‘The police are in your house. They’re looking for you.’” He didn’t need to wonder why. “You know. You know the reason. I was petrified when I got that call. It wasn’t just the thought of other people knowing what I had done; I also had to face myself, and that is a sick feeling – it is guilt, shame.”Andy had been watching and sharing images of children being sexually abused for several months before the police appeared at his door. He tried at first to keep it from his wife: “I was afraid she would ask me to leave. I wouldn’t have blamed her if she had.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Juice recalled in 12 states due to possible botulism contamination

Customers should contact Walker’s Wine Juice to determine how to dispose of the juice

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3 w. ago Basquiat to Delaney: inside the exhibition honouring 50 years of art in Black Paris

The vast show at the Pompidou highlights how the French capital became a haven for creatives from across the diasporaHello and welcome to The Long Wave. I was in France at the weekend to check out the Paris Noir exhibition at the Pompidou Centre, an odyssey through the generations of Black artists from across the world who found a complicated sanctuary in the city. This was supplemented with a walking tour on the life of the artist Beauford Delaney, guided by the company Entrée to Black Paris, and finished off with a mind-blowingly delicious Senegalese dinner. Yes, I’m trying to make you jealous. Continue reading...

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