77 m. ago An interiors expert's guide on how to bring summer's brightest colour trend into your home

Colour experts have called it: tangerine is officially trending for summer. Nicole Gray helps you bring some zing to your home

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78 m. ago ‘I was locked in the bathroom sulking’: Temba Bavuma on his path from township to WTC final

The South Africa captain talks about street cricket in Langa, adapting to new schools after a scholarship and why playing at Lord’s means so much“There was always some sort of allegiance with Lord’s when we were growing up in Langa,” Temba Bavuma says of his childhood as a township boy living just outside Cape Town. Bavuma, the first black cricketer to captain South Africa, will lead his country against Australia in the World Test Championship final, which begins at Lord’s on Wednesday.In the quintessentially English surroundings of Arundel, the 5ft 3in Bavuma looks as if he has gone back to being a kid in the dusty townships. “In Langa we had a four-way street,” he says, his face crinkling with the memories. “On the right-hand side of the street the tar wasn’t done so nicely and we used to call it Karachi because the ball would bounce funny. The other side was the MCG [Melbourne Cricket Ground] but my favourite section of the street was clean, and done up nicely, and we called...

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78 m. ago Couple's last day of holiday ruined by cruel 'Scouse stereotype' insults

Catherine Kemp, 57, and her partner Stephen Rice, 56, were enjoying a weekend away in the Lake District when they popped into a pub called the Crafty Baa in Windermere for a drink

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79 m. ago Fire Stick users warned they 'really could' face jail over dodgy devices

The maximum penalty is five years in prison and the head of the agency cracking down said the threat is real

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1 hour ago Boxing Tonight: TV channels, live streams, ring walk start times and fight cards

Fabio Wardley faces Justis Huni in a mouthwatering heavyweight showdown, while the other big even tonight sees Callum Simpson take on Ivan Zucco

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1 hour ago Bombshell truth about why I don't speak to my dad Jeff: In his only interview FREDDY BRAZIER accuses his father of being obsessed with money, controlling his every move and even SPYING on him

As a father and son duo on the much-loved BBC show Celebrity Race Across The World , Jeff Brazier and his youngest boy Freddy won the hearts of millions of viewers.

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2 h. ago We played real life Call of Duty in a Cheshire wood, it's a brilliant day out

Teams get to enjoy four live missions over the seven-acre woodland

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2 h. ago Online ‘guru girlies’ promise a better life, but is it too good to be true? | Zandile Powell

Level up and access your feminine energy, say these influencers to young women. This is self-delusion, not self-improvementAbout two years ago, a self-professed “goddess coach” called Jaelyn posted an eight hour-long “sleep affirmation” video which, according to many a satisfied viewer, has worked wonders for them. In a somewhat sultry, meditative voice she repeats mantras and welcomes her listeners to attract “the kind of men and people who will always treat you like a goddess”.The video, boldly titled Attract Men Who Spend Money, Provide and Love You! is one of many in a genre of content that is booming on YouTube and social media. I call them “guru girlies”, and they are proving a force to be reckoned with. In their rather austere imparting of wisdom, guru girlies have become many young women’s go-to guide for all manner of modern conundrums. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Should you take your dog on holiday? We went on a European road trip with our border terrier to find out

Dogs have a sense of adventure, don’t they? We thought Missy would enjoy exploring France and Spain. She had other ideasPlus tips on travelling with dogsWhen, two years ago now, our dog sitters cancelled on us just 24 hours before we were due to go on our summer holiday, we felt more than a little put out. Aware that we couldn’t leave Missy, our border terrier, home alone with a tin opener, we sent out frantic texts and made urgent phone calls before at last finding someone, a friend of a friend of, I think, another friend, and simply hoped for the best. What else were we to do? The flights were non-refundable.It all turned out fine, but it was not an experience we were keen to repeat. And so, the following year, we took Missy with us. Dogs are portable, after all, and have a nose for adventure. Also, this was to be an extended holiday, away for a full month – working part time in order to fund it – and we couldn’t be apart from her for that long. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Manchester United transfer calls could rip up iconic plan for future

Alejandro Garnacho, Rasmus Hojliund and Kobbie Mainoo were not so long ago the future of Manchester United, they could soon all be in the past

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2 h. ago Callum Simpson hoping Barnsley welcome helps in taking down Italian foe for European belt

Callum Simpson is preparing for his second fight on the pitch at Barnsley's Oakwell stadium this weekend with European crown up for grabs

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2 h. ago Bryce Dallas Howard: ‘I was such a messed up kid – I would walk around the Disney lot reading about euthanasia’

The star of ‘Jurassic World’ and ‘The Village’ plays a struggling improv comic in her very funny new film, ‘Deep Cover’. She speaks to Adam White about her famous father, the hyper-fame that never materialised for her, and why her storytelling mantra is simple: more peril and more dismemberment

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3 h. ago Little Simz on breakthroughs, betrayal and becoming one of the UK’s best

Critics’ favourite and curator of this month’s Meltdown festival, the British artist is flying high. But a nasty legal battle with her closest collaborator and a crisis of confidence left her close to calling it quits. Instead, she put it all on the new albumIt’s an unseasonably warm spring afternoon and sunlight is beaming through the floor-to-ceiling windows of a north London photo studio. When I arrive, Little Simz is out on the balcony. Wearing chunky sunglasses, a skirt and comfy cardigan, she sits on a chair with her back to the sun, eyes on the horizon, and pulls her legs up, wrapping her arms around her knees in a defensive position that’s verging on foetal.It’s curious body language for an artist at the top of her game. At 31, Simz is looking out at a city she can justifiably claim to have conquered since emerging as a teenage rapper more than a decade ago. But that’s not where she’s at right now. “I genuinely felt like I could disappoint everyone,” Simz says when I ask abo...

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3 h. ago Electric Spark by Frances Wilson review: Muriel is as intriguing as her novels

What is so fascinating about Muriel Spark? In the last decade before she died aged 88 in 2006, any interview with the Scottish author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie became an event. The excitement was firstly because she was an artist of the old school, famous not only for her brilliant and complex novels, but also for her unconventional life in Italy, where she lived up a hill with her friend Penelope Jardine, who was also her assistant (and now, in her nineties, her literary executor).

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3 h. ago Inside Home Office immigration raids as over 6000 people arrested in illegal migrant workers crackdown

Home Office targets nail bars, restaurants and caravan parks across the UK as arrests soar by over 50 per cent in a year

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4 h. ago Police arrest 300 people in major crackdown on illegal working in Scotland

Officers have been swooping on businesses across the country in a bid to tackle those abusing the UK immigration system.

Events

6 h. ago Supreme Court to hear Alabama appeal in push to execute intellectually disabled man

The inmate killed a man by beating him to death with a hammer and saw.

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6 h. ago UK's 'wonkiest' road where driving is 'impossible' and £5m investment to fix it

Following a major landslip caused by Storm Eunice, huge chunks of a road were broken up and cracked - pushing it 25 metres downhill and turning it into a playground for BMX enthusiasts

Economics

8 h. ago Switch on those glutes! Suddenly it’s all about the bass, and for good reason

The gluteal muscles are vital for getting us up and about, yet humanity’s increasingly sedentary lifestyle is leading to neglect of our glute healthI’m staring at the screen, trying to write a joke. It involves a muscle called the gluteus maximus, Roman centurions and possibly a reference to Biggus somebody from Monty Python’s Life of Brian.I’ve been sitting here for over an hour, so long that when I finally stand up I have to hobble and wobble a few steps before I can get my stride back. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Supreme Court will hear Alabama appeal in bid to execute man found to be intellectually disabled

The Supreme Court will consider making it harder for convicted murderers to show their lives should be spared because they are intellectually disabled

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