43 h. ago Has Leo DiCaprio FINALLY settled down? Actor, 50, reveals how his mother has inspired him to change his dating rules since finding love with model, 27

Leonardo DiCaprio has hinted he has finally settled down with his model girlfriend Vittoria Ceretti after making some changes in his life since entering his fifties.

Culture

6 d. ago Tommy Fury makes decision about Bambi's future after own Love Island past

Tommy Fury has admitted he will 'do anything to stop' his daughter Bambi from appearing on Love Island like him and her mother Molly-Mae Hague when she is grown up

Politics

7 d. ago EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Why Meghan wouldn't be a guest at Fern's dinner party

Choosing Princess Diana as her fantasy dinner party guest on a podcast, Fern Britton contradicts Harry's conviction that his late mother would have 'loved' Meghan.

Politics

9 d. ago Brad Pitt shows love for mother Jane Etta in heartbreaking clip just weeks before her death

The actor's family confirmed Wednesday that Jane, a retired school counselor, had died at the age of 84.

Events

1 week ago 'Monster' who abused fiancée Kiena Dawes before she took her own life is arrested behind bars alongside mother and new lover on suspicion they 'coached him to give evidence'

Ryan Wellings, 31, was jailed for six-and-a-half years in January after he was convicted of subjecting new mother Kiena Dawes, 23, to years of sickening domestic abuse.

Events

1 week ago 'Monster' who abused fiancée Kiena Dawes before she took her own life is arrested behind bars alongside mother and new lover on suspicion they 'coached him to give evidence'

Ryan Wellings, 31, was jailed for six-and-a-half years in January after he was convicted of subjecting new mother Kiena Dawes, 23, to years of sickening domestic abuse.

Events

2 w. ago ‘A psychological umbilical cord’: Why fiction loves difficult mothers

As the film of Deborah Levy’s novel Hot Milk is released, author Abigail Bergstrom explores the literary fascination with inaccessible, emotionally distant maternal figures‘My love for my mother is like an axe,” the narrator of Deborah Levy’s 2016 novel Hot Milk tells us. “It cuts very deep”. Set in the Spanish coastal city of Almería, the book – which has now been made into a film starring Sex Education’s Emma Mackey – is a sun-drenched unravelling of a daughter tethered to her ailing mother.Hot Milk fits into a growing canon of literature exploring the absent, or fading, or otherwise inaccessible mother – stories in which the maternal figure is pulled to the edge of the frame, so that the daughter can take centre stage. Books such as Gwendoline Riley’s My Phantoms and First Love, both featuring mother-daughter relationships marked by emotional distance and strained communication. Or The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante, where the protagonist, Leda, is both unseen daughter and deser...

Science

3 w. ago Love Island star Toni's mother doesn't hold back as she addresses Harrison's exit

Love Island star Toni Laites' mum Leslie has shared her thoughts after Harrison Solomon made the decision to leave the famous villa after weeks of wooing her daughter

Politics

3 w. ago Drug smuggling siblings caught at UK airport with £5m of cocaine after mum recruited them

Farzana Kauser, 54, used five of her children to smuggle drugs from Cancun in Mexico through to Birmingham Airport. Two of the children were teenagers at the time of the offences

Events

4 w. ago 'Loving mother' who used her children to smuggle £14.4m of cocaine into UK with luggage trick is jailed for 13 years

Farzana Kauser, 54, worked with an unidentified accomplice in Pakistan known as 'Uncle' to mastermind bringing 180kg of the Class A drug from Cancun, Mexico, to Birmingham Airport.

Economics