5 h. ago Joss Stone 'forgives' men who tried to decapitate her with a samurai sword

Two men who plotted to decapitate singer Joss Stone have been released early from prison, with the star saying she hopes they are 'okay and healed'

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6 h. ago Slimmed down Peter Wright barely eating in bid to be first Scot to win three World crowns

Snakebite has shed three stone as he attempts to get his game back to peak performance

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20 h. ago I visited prettiest UK village but one thing ruined it — I won't return

The village is known as 'Venice of the Cotswolds' and it is extraordinarily beautiful, with its waterways and stone buildings making it so special.

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29 h. ago Disgruntled Celtic fans take aim at board as 'bold' protest plans set in stone

Many supporters will only enter Rugby Park on 12th minute

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33 h. ago Super slimming mum urges people to ditch weight loss jabs after losing 4 stone naturally

Sandie Simms says losing the weight naturally is better as she has kept it off herself after the super slimmer gave up weigh loss injections to join Slimming World

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34 h. ago 'Tragic fatal event led to me losing more than half my body weight'

Sharon Pitkethly, 54, weighed almost 27 stone and found herself trapped in a 'vicious cycle' of depression, anxiety and overeating - until two tragedies drove her to transform her lifestyle

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36 h. ago Ancient burial site upends what we know about Stone Age women and children

Researchers say findings overturn old stereotype of ‘man the hunter’

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36 h. ago Jamie Oliver 'forgives' Liam Gallagher after 'being harassed through letterbox'

Jamie Oliver, who used to live opposite a pub frequented by the Oasis frontman, reportedly "can't wait" to see the reunited Gallaghers perform when they take to the stage at Wembley Stadium

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36 h. ago EFL icon Steve Evans reveals secret to his incredible six and a half stone weight loss

Steve Evans has opened up on his incredible weight loss transformation after he shed six-and-a-half stone in just six months following his departure from Rotherham

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37 h. ago South Park under pressure as episode mocking Charlie Kirk before shooting is pulled

South Park writers Trey Parker and Matt Stone have been slammed by Charlie Kirk fans after the right-wing influencer was shot dead at a rally - but others have leapt to the show's defence

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40 h. ago Ancient burial site upends what we knew about Stone Age women and children

Findings overturn old stereotype of 'man the hunter'

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40 h. ago Channing Tatum says turning down Guillermo del Toro project was the biggest mistake of his career

‘I’ll probably never forgive myself on that one,’ actor said

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40 h. ago 'Family tragedy and house fire led me to lose more than half my body weight'

Mum Sharon Pitkethly, 54, weighed almost 27 stone at her heaviest

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40 h. ago Jeremy Clarkson's partner Lisa Hogan rushes to pull up his trousers as they fall down after two stone Mounjaro weight loss

The TV presenter, 65, took home the award for Factual Entertainment with his Amazon Prime show Clarkson's Farm.

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42 h. ago No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes review – a thrilling take on the Golden Fleece myth

Medea tells her side of the story in a reimagining of the ancient Greek stories that puts women centre stageThe women of myth have been talking – and they’re pointing the finger at us. Myths are “mirrors of us”, writes Natalie Haynes in Pandora’s Jar, her book of essays on the women of Greek mythology. “Which version of a story we choose to tell, which characters we place in the foreground, which ones we allow to fade into the shadows: these reflect both the teller and the reader, as much as they show the characters of the myth.”Considerations of culture and bias have been central to the recent wave of mythic retellings focused on women, from Madeline Miller’s Circe and Pat Barker’s Iliad trilogy to Haynes’s own triad of novels set within the classical Greek world (The Children of Jocasta, A Thousand Ships and Stone Blind). This latest is a reimagining of the myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece and, true to form, it centres the women. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago ‘A tantalising mystery’: could I find the standing stone on a Scottish island from a childhood photo?

My mum gave me an old picture of me sitting on the cairn on Islay when I was 11. Forty years later, I set out to find itI don’t remember the picture being taken. Somewhere in Scotland, sometime in the 1980s. It has that hazy quality you get with old colour prints: warm but also somehow melancholy. I’m wearing blue jeans, white trainers, an army surplus jumper – and am perched on a standing stone.My mum gave me the photo when I turned 50. She found it up in the loft. Some of these childhood pictures, souvenirs of trips with my grandparents to historic sites, have the place names written on the back. This one was blank, a tantalising mystery. Though I didn’t recognise the location, something about the landscape and quality of light suggested it was Islay, an island I’d visited just once – when I was not quite 12. So I decided to see if I could find the spot, slipped the photograph into my notebook and set off. Continue reading...

Culture

51 h. ago Jeremy Clarkson jokes his 'trousers are falling down' after losing two stone on Mounjaro as he forgets to thank partner Lisa Hogan during chaotic National Television Awards speech

The TV presenter, 65, took home the award for Factual Entertainment with his Amazon Prime show Clarkson's Farm.

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57 h. ago ‘It’s like they’re trying to get prosecuted’: when cartoons try to take down governments

From The Simpsons mauling George HW Bush to South Park’s current head-to-head with Trump, animations are no stranger to political battles. But sometimes, things get far, far more brutalIt shouldn’t really be a surprise that South Park has become “the most important TV show of the Trump 2.0 era”. Trey Parker and Matt Stone have spent decades taking any potshot they like at whoever they choose, from Saddam Hussein to Guitar Hero to – thanks to their inexplicable 2001 live-action sitcom That’s My Bush! – other sitting presidents.But by using every episode in its latest series to focus their fury solely at the current US administration, hitting Trump with a combination of policy rebuttals and dick jokes (and daring him to sue them in the process), this is the strongest sense yet that Parker and Stone are out for nothing less than full regime change. Continue reading...

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58 h. ago Meghan Markle breaks her silence as Prince Harry embarks on pseudo

In a post shared to Instagram on Tuesday, the Duchess of Sussex, (left) 44, reposted a clip of Harry, 40, (right) sword fighting at the WellChild Awards on Monday night.

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58 h. ago Stanhope Silver Band walk on water! Richard Grassick’s best photograph

‘There was only room for one band member on each stepping stone. When they saw me standing in the middle of the River Wear, I imagine they just thought, “Here he goes again”’I joined the Amber Film & Photography Collective in 1983. Amber’s aim was to capture working-class life in north-east England, and over nearly 30 years I amassed a body of work documenting life in the upper Durham Dales – a project I later called People of the Hills. In 1994, I moved with my young family into a derelict plumber’s workshop and yard in Stanhope, Weardale. Living there over the next six years meant I met people in all kinds of circumstances – I got to know and photograph many local owners of smallholdings because my kids befriended theirs at school.The members of the Stanhope Silver Band, seen in this photograph, were well known in the village. One was a joiner who paid us five quid a month to use our outbuildings as workshop space. I don’t know how many of those in the picture are still in the...

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