37 m. ago 'Victoria Beckham and I got eating disorders for same reason, I almost died'

Former Emmerdale star Gemma Oaten has spoken of the sadness and devastation eating disorders can cause and voiced fears the 'heroin chic' trend from the 90s is returning

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74 m. ago Scrambled eggs are 'fluffier' when you replace milk with 1 common ingredient

Scrambled eggs are a great breakfast food, but it's important to use the right ingredients to make them perfectly fluffy and tender. Instead of milk, you should use water to create steam and give the eggs a jiggly texture

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1 hour ago I never thought I'd say this, but I now understand the appeal of home schooling | Emma Brockes

More and more parents in England are opting their kids out of the education system. I could never do it, but ‘wellbeing days’ do sound niceIf you want to get rich, a friend of mine said recently, set up an exam centre. We were talking about her decision to home school – or unschool, or home educate, depending on your tribal affiliation – her two children, making her simultaneously part of a broader trend and also somewhat strange to herself. The cliche of home schooling still leans on the idea of a fringe choice made by fanatical parents who produce a poorly socialised child – if you said of a child: “They’re home schooled”, you’d trigger a knowing look that implied: “Say no more.”Well – maybe – all that is changing. Home schooling is still fringe, but the numbers are soaring. In 2024, UK councils received 66,000 notifications of children moving to education at home, more than double the number from 2020 and bringing up the total to some 111,700 children in England. Given that there...

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2 h. ago Warning issued over bizarre fitness trend that sees people run on all fours like animals

Critics have warned of the potential injury risks associated with quadrobics, while others have gone so far as to claim that the exercise 'poses a danger to society'.

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3 h. ago What is bluetoothing? Dangerous new drug trend that may be driving a global HIV surge

Method has become popular among drug users in poverty-stricken areas of Africa and Pacific areas

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3 h. ago Terrifying Ozempic shortcut sweeping your local gym – as one doctor gives grim warning

WEIGHT loss jabs have boomed in popularity, and it seems everyone is trying to get their hands on them - even the fittest of Brits. A new wave of people turning to the NHS-prescribed jabs - which include Mounjaro and Wegovy - are certain gym goers, who claim they can use them safely for added...

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4 h. ago Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront

A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and planktonWhen Shelby Riskin was handed disk-shaped samples of century-old soil from Toronto’s waterfront, the ecosystem ecologist was hopeful she might find trace evidence of plants – cattails, bulrushes, water lilies and irises – that had once populated a long-destroyed wetland.But when she and a graduate student peered through a microscope, they watched in astonishment as a brown wormlike creature greedily munching through green clumps of algae as if more than 130 years hadn’t passed since its last meal. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago How to cut your water bills as 7 million households face bigger price hikes

Long suffering households of five of England's biggest water companies will have little choice to swallow yet more price rises

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6 h. ago Millions of UK households face higher water bills after watchdog announcement

The most recent water bill increase took place less than a year ago

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6 h. ago Darnold, Mayfield and Sagapolutele: who will be the NFL’s next first

Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen have former an axis of excellence. But which player will break that cycle?There has been a trend in recent NFL seasons. Around Week 8, the MVP race starts to follow a predictable script: Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson (if the Ravens are rolling) will almost certainly feature.Between 2015 and 2019, the NFL had four first-time MVP winners – Cam Newton, Matt Ryan, Mahomes and Jackson. But in the last five years, only Allen has been a first-time winner (Aaron Rodgers, Mahomes and Jackson were the other victors). Continue reading...

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7 h. ago British households to pay an extra £556MILLION in water bills as regulator approves bid by five firms to hike charges

Five companies - Anglian Water, Northumbrian Water, South East Water, Southern Water, and Wessex Water - argued Ofwat's original decision left them unable to meet regulatory requirements.

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7 h. ago Millions of households face jump in water bills after watchdog’s ruling

Five companies have been granted permission to increase their charges

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7 h. ago Five water firms provisionally allowed to raise bills by further 1% to 5%

An independent group appointed by the competition watchdog rejected nearly 80% of increases sought by companies.

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8 h. ago Millions of homes set for bigger jump in water bills in new cost of living blow

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8 h. ago Water companies told they can raise bills by up to five per cent more

The increases will come on top of previously announced hikes, Ofwat says

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10 h. ago Home Bargains slashes 'luxurious' £25 skincare with 'beautiful scent' to £4

The retailer has slashed the price of the 'soothing' skincare item 'designed to deeply hydrate'

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12 h. ago Cristina Fernández de Kirchner: Argentinian court sentences man to 10 years for attempted assassination

Court in Buenos Aires sentences Fernando Sabag Montiel and accomplice over 2022 incident in which gun was pointed at former president but did not go offA court in Argentina has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison after finding him guilty of attempting to kill former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.The court in Buenos Aires also sentenced the man’s accomplice to eight years in prison, capping a dramatic case that has captivated the country since 2022, when the main defendant, Fernando Sabag Montiel, squeezed through a crowd outside the ex-president’s home, thrust a loaded gun at her face and pulled the trigger. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Wayne Thiebaud review – staggering still lifes to make your mouth water

Courtauld Gallery, LondonThe pop pioneer’s paintings of sweets and cakes offer up a succulent and incredibly moreish slice of a long-lost American dreamYou’re not allowed to lick paintings in museums, which is cruel when you’re faced with something as mouthwateringly tempting as Wayne Thiebaud’s art. The American pop pioneer dedicated his long career to cakes, sweets and gumball machines, a visual world of treats and candies laid out in American diners and on deli counters, tempting viewers to commit the ultimate crime and take a big, juicy bite.But he didn’t just paint for the sake of getting you salivating. His work (here at the Courtauld in his first ever UK museum show) is both an ultraserious take on the material history of painting, a sort of update on the long legacy of the still life, and a deep dive into burgeoning consumerism and the capitalistic euphoria of the mass-produced, mid-century American dream. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Visitor spend a fifth higher as Fringe by the Sea bucks festivals trend

The festival has been running since 2008

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22 h. ago Killer jailed after throwing boiling sugar water over victim before plunging knife in heart

Gavin Gallagher claimed that Stephen Gray came to his door armed but prosecutors refuted his claims and insisted he had murdered the man.

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