49 m. ago Man arrested after Windrush exhibition vandalised in Brixton

Man arrested after Windrush exhibition vandalised in Brixton  London Evening Standard

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49 m. ago Man arrested after Windrush exhibition vandalised in south London

Met Police officers were called to Windrush Square on Thursday following reports of damage to the display

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70 m. ago National Fried Chicken Day: Where to score the best freebies and deals

Burger King and Shake Shack are just some of the spots offering deals today

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71 m. ago I was conned out of my £67,000 life savings by a loving, hunky 'American oil rig worker' who turned out to be a Nigerian romance fraudster

A 76-year-old grandmother has spoken of her heartbreak and humiliation after being duped out of £67,000 by a romance fraudster who reeled her in with sweet words and fake photos

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75 m. ago ‘It is not jus. It is not a glaze. It is gravy!’ Britain’s gift to the world finally gets the love it deserves

Chefs have gone head over heels for the brown stuff. Some drown their burgers in it; others serve it with brioche and black pudding; one even turns it into ice-cream. What’s going on?Pub roasts, grannies, Sunday lunch, Ah! Bisto!: gravy triggers nostalgic food memories for Britons like little else. But unlike complex French sauces, for example, gravy is brown and plain, not gastronomic alchemy. Its homely bedfellows – potatoes and pies – have had fancy makeovers, but gravy’s potential hasn’t been much exploited on the modern menu. Until now.The nostalgic wave sweeping Britain’s food scene is reviving this ancient staple, but with a twist: gravy is going gourmet. It is appearing as a dip for burgers in London at the upmarket chain Burger & Beyond and at Nanny Bill’s. It is served with brioche and black pudding at Tom Cenci’s modern British restaurant Nessa in Soho, and even does a turn at Shaun Rankin’s Michelin-starred Grantley Hall in Yorkshire, where it is styled as beef tea a...

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75 m. ago Breakfast: How to make a ‘lazy girl’ breakfast that is quick and healthy

This breakfast is easy to make and healthy 😍

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75 m. ago I lost 120lbs but then realised how much skin I needed to lose – this is how I did it

EXCLUSIVE: Raquel Sardinha' powerful before-and-after photos, workout updates, and candid talk about body image have earned her thousands of fans TikTok followers

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2 h. ago Coleen Nolan details how therapy saved her from downward spiral following sister Linda’s death

TV star said therapy has given her ‘the belief and the courage’ to deal with her grief

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2 h. ago Holiday home is trashed after gender reveal booking turns into 200

Police in riot vans were called to a 10-bed £635,000 home in the quiet village of Norden, Greater Manchester, after revellers from as far as London turned up.

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2 h. ago BREAKING: Eurostar chaos LIVE: Passengers stuck on London train with 'lack of air' and 'no electric'

Passengers are facing major Eurostar disruption with one person saying that he has been left waiting for more than three hours inside a carriage and that bathrooms are not even working

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2 h. ago Man charged with murder following death of man, 85, in Lambeth

Man charged with murder following death of man, 85, in Lambeth  This Is Local London

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2 h. ago A Look At Shilpa Shetty's Scrumptious 'Son Day Binge' With Viaan In London

A Look At Shilpa Shetty's Scrumptious 'Son Day Binge' With Viaan In London  NDTV Food

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2 h. ago Fiona Phillips reveals how Alzheimer’s symptoms put ‘strain’ on marriage before diagnosis

TV presenter struggled with mood swings before her diagnosis

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3 h. ago Voices: Did Jaguar ‘go woke and go broke’? No, it’s more complicated than that

The silly season discourse pinning Jaguar sales figures on a car that didn’t even exist was enough to make the eyes roll, writes Sean O’Grady – they’re simply not making cars, but there’s life in the old cat yet

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3 h. ago Paula Bomer: ‘If you describe yourself as a victim, you’re dismissed’

Having made waves as part of the alt-lit movement, the US author is poised to go mainstream with The Stalker, her most exhilarating work yetWhen I arrive at Paula Bomer’s apartment building in south Brooklyn I am briefly disoriented in the lobby, until I hear the yapping of dogs and amid them, her voice calling my name. Bomer is tall and striking, in her mid-50s. I met her last year at a reading in Williamsburg, Virginia, where she seemed like someone who cared almost manically about literature and also like someone who would be fun to hang out with, two qualities not always confluent. I had heard of these anxious dogs before, when she and I met for dinner a few months ago, and she disclosed that her life was now spent managing canine neuroses.“I got them when my dad died,” she says, in between offering me matcha, coffee, tequila or wine (it’s 2.30pm on a Sunday; Bomer doesn’t drink any more, save a glass of champagne on selling her book, but doesn’t mind if othe...

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3 h. ago The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell

Decades ago, a generation of UK schoolchildren unwittingly took part in an initiative aimed at boosting reading skills – with lasting consequencesThroughout my life, my mum has always been a big reader. She was in three or four book clubs at the same time. She’d devour whatever texts my siblings and I were studying in school, handwrite notes for our lunchboxes and write in her diary every night. Our fridge door was a revolving display of word-of-the-day flashcards. Despite this, she also was and remains, by some margin, the worst speller I have met.By the time I was in primary school, she was already asking me to proofread her work emails, often littered with mistakes that were glaringly obvious to me even at such a young age. It used to baffle me – how could this person, who races through multiple books a week and can quote Shakespeare faultlessly, possibly think “me” is spelt with two Es? Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Who preserves the homes of Black literary giants | Nneka M Okona

Langston Hughes and Toni Morrison’s childhood homes remain unmarked – raising urgent questions about legacy and preservationNothing could prepare me for seeing the house that Langston Hughes, the heralded Harlem Renaissance poet, author, journalist and traveler, lived in as a teenager in Cleveland, Ohio. Only eight steps separated me from the walkway that led to the front door as my Uber driver idled behind me. I clasped my camera in my hand, the shutter echoing in the quiet of a snowy February day. I looked more like a too-curious-tourist than a concerned writer researching the literary legacy of a man who had inspired me all my life.The house was ordinary, painted in an aging beige that was deepened with crisp, burgundy accents. At the top in an attic space the burgundy was most prominent. I’d learned before this visit that Hughes had lived and written there. I’d also known going into this trip that the house had at one point been at risk of being demolished, efforts that were sub...

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3 h. ago Horrifying doorbell footage of mum begging for help after being poisoned in own home

Tracey Condron has no recollection of having a seizure before making her way to her neighbour's house for help - just moments later, she was resuscitated as she was blue-lighted to hospital

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3 h. ago All the places where Bonnie Blue is banned and which one 'hurts the most'

EXCLUSIVE: Controversial figure and adult star, Bonnie Blue has revealed all the places she's banned thanks to her racy antics - but there's one she's truly gutted about

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3 h. ago 'Way World War Three will start' revealed by top NATO Chief after 'learn Russian' warning

A co-ordinated power grab by two major nations could be the likely start of WWIII, according to NATO's Mark Rutte, as Russia threatens him with life in a Siberian labour camp

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