12 h. ago Kids will love this Bluey and Bingo Plush Sofa Chair now 47% off from Wowcher

Get 47% off this cosy Bluey and Bingo sofa for toddlers and kids.

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15 h. ago The magical Alice in Wonderland play experience that kids will love in Manchester

Children can venture down the rabbit hole and have a Mad Hatter's Tea Party at the new immersive Wonderland play experience in Manchester

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3 d. ago Étoile review – a ballet show that’s absolutely not on pointe

This drama about dancers could have been as fun as Fame in tutus. Instead, it is a jarring, cringe-inducing mess. Wait till you see Simon Callow as an evil billionaire!At first, Étoile looks as if it’s shaping up to be Fame in pointe shoes. One character even knowingly quotes the “This is where you start paying, in sweat” speech. This would be fine – great, even, because who didn’t love the quintessential 80s series about the high-energy kids from New York City’s High School of the Performing Legwarmers? The problem is that, as the new venture from Gilmore Girls and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino progresses, it doesn’t seem to be sure what it is. Apart from Whimsical with a capital W, an attitude that rarely works out well for anyone.The setup is simple. Two dance companies – Le Ballet National in Paris and the Metropolitan Ballet Theater in New York City – are struggling after Covid and assorted other modern pressures such as anti-eliti...

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5 d. ago The high speed karting experience just 20 minutes from Glasgow that kids and adults will love

A trip to Larkhall could be just the answer to a thrilling summer activity with the kids.

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1 week ago Natalie Portman, 43, talks her 'Lolita phase' and being sexualized as a young star after making film debut at 12

Portman, 43, recalled being 'excited' to start a family with someone she 'was in love with' as she talked raising kids as a former child star herself.

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2 w. ago ‘It can break you’: Life for parents of autistic children can be exhausting. One podcast is offering hope. Is it real?

A podcast claims to show that autistic children with limited speech may be able to communicate via telepathy. What does the science say about the idea? There’s a moment, 26 minutes and nine seconds into Disney’s Coco, where the film’s departed souls are trying to clear a customs desk in the afterlife. It’s a moment that Mary* can see clearly without ever looking at the screen. She’s seen Coco more than a thousand times, easy.Mary’s sons, Ryder* and Murphy*, adore it. They light up when watching the film, pretzels in hand, and they stay, transfixed, right through to the end – the very end – every time. “My kids absolutely love credits,” Mary laughs. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The beautiful Victorian park in Greater Manchester you need to visit on a sunny day

This grade-II listed park has several features kids will love including water fountains, a play area and an aviary

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2 w. ago The forest near Greater Manchester with a play area kids will love this Easter holiday

It has a free activity trail, a new play area and walks for all the family

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2 w. ago MP in visit to give 'grafting dads who love their kids a hug'

Big push to boost paternity leave for fathers

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3 w. ago Virginia Giuffre's lonely life on a rural farm after bitter love split cut her off from her kids

The 41-year-old - who was allegedly trafficked by Jeffery Epstein to have sex with Prince Andrew as a teenager - initially claimed she had just 'four days to live' after the crash at a rural intersection.

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4 w. ago ‘I go for the jugular’: Carrie Coon on White Lotus, female friendship and toxic politics

Fearsomely authentic, Carrie Coon has dazzled in a host of roles, from the Leftovers to Gone Girl and Fargo. With the latest season of the White Lotus glueing us to our screens, she talks about US politics, freedom and finding her voiceCarrie Coon is done with small talk. “I tend to go right for the jugular,” she grins. The time for conversations about the weather and I like your shoes has passed – now, she says, is a time for talk that is large and unwieldy and circles the question she finds herself asking people a lot which is (she leans in): “What are you afraid of?”She’s at home in New York, in front of a grey screen set up to shoot her nanny’s audition tapes. Her nanny acts, her husband (Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts) acts, their little kids, well, act up – this is a house of love and drama, in which Coon mothers and frets and contemplates the end of the world. She grew up in Ohio, one of five kids – her parents adopted her sister, Morena, when Coon was three. H...

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4 w. ago ‘I go for the jugular’: Carrie Coon on The White Lotus, female friendship and toxic politics

Fearsomely authentic, Carrie Coon has dazzled in a host of roles, from The Leftovers to Gone Girl and Fargo. With the latest season of The White Lotus glueing us to our screens, she talks about US politics, freedom and finding her voiceCarrie Coon is done with small talk. “I tend to go right for the jugular,” she grins. The time for conversations about the weather and I like your shoes has passed – now, she says, is a time for talk that is large and unwieldy and circles the question she finds herself asking people a lot which is (she leans in): “What are you afraid of?”She’s at home in New York, in front of a grey screen set up to shoot her nanny’s audition tapes. Her nanny acts, her husband (Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts) acts, their little kids, well, act up – this is a house of love and drama, in which Coon mothers and frets and contemplates the end of the world. She grew up in Ohio, one of five kids – her parents adopted her sister, Morena, when Coon was three. H...

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