20 h. ago Make potatoes last six months 'as fresh as the day you bought them' if stored in 1 place

If you're tired of your potatoes sprouting overnight, there's a way to make them last longer - and it's according to supermarket Tesco

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4 d. ago Convenience store worker bought a lotto ticket on her way to break. It ended with her much richer

‘This is really going to come in handy,’ Nora Huntley of Polkton, North Carolina, said of jackpot

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1 week ago ‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system

In the year’s most shocking documentary The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for helpWhen film-makers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman visited Alabama’s Easterling prison in 2019, they found a deceptively pleasant scene. Like Alabama’s 13 other prisons, Easterling largely prohibits media access, but allowed the documentarians to film its annual volunteer-run barbecue, a sunny day in which incarcerated men, most of them Black, ate fresh roasts to live music and sermons. On camera, men danced and smiled. But off camera, many more told a different story – horrific beatings, unreported stabbings, unimaginable violence swept under the rug and appalling conditions that “ain’t fit for human society”. Cries for help emerged from inside the sweltering, filthy dorms. When Jarecki approached the voices, a prison official shut down filming, claiming that it was unsafe for him to speak to the men without a police chaperone.“It was very clear that there were are...

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1 week ago Potatoes will stay fresh 5 months longer without sprouting if kept in 1 unusual place

If you've ever been frustrated by a bag of potatoes that spouted faster than you could use them, there's a simple way to keep them fresh for longer

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1 week ago The Filter is one! 50 things we loved this year, from a sleep mask to the perfect pan

Twelve months, thousands of tests and a revolutionary potato masher – here are our readers’ and writers’ ultimate buys• Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe Filter is turning one. Since we launched a year ago, we’ve run, hiked, camped and swum; we’ve drunk 455 cups of coffee; washed 34 loads of clothes; slept on mattresses for 2,240 hours, and much more, testing a total of 2,040 products – from coffee machines to gin – to bring you the most rigorous, informed and entertaining buying advice.We’ve even had a decent stab at identifying the preferred lipstick of a global icon. And we’ve helped you consume less – and look after your precious things, from your phone to your wooden kitchen utensils, to make them last longer. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Stop buying supermarket bread when Mary Berry's farmhouse loaf recipe is tastier

This bread recipe is a delicious and healthier alternative to store-bought bread and is perfect for those who love to bake.

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2 w. ago What a £5 coffee (or a £100 Pizza Express) tells us about a changing Britain | Gaby Hinsliff

For many gen Xers, it feels like we’re sliding back towards the land of our childhoods: where eating out was for special occasions, and Thermoses were kingIt was only a chain-store coffee.A morale-boosting one, bought for consoling purposes on the faintly weepy way home from dropping our precious firstborn off at university; but still, just a takeaway oat-milk latte from a bog-standard roadside chain somewhere in Berkshire. The shock was that it was over £5.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Fresh Michigan church shooting horror as driver plows through police barricade day after gunman murdered at least four: Live updates

Dozens of investigators are at the church as they continue searching for victims in the charred rubble following the Sunday morning attack.

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3 w. ago Major high street retailer to sell 156 stores as part of rescue deal

Around half of the stores are being bought out in the deal

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3 w. ago Horoscope today, September 29, 2025: Daily star sign guide from Mystic Meg

OUR much-loved astrologer Meg sadly died in 2023 but her column will be kept alive by her friend and protégée Maggie Innes. Read on to see what’s written in the stars for you today. ♈ ARIES March 21 to April 20 Your day starts with fresh emotional energy – lean into this and use it...

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3 w. ago Andy Burnham says he 'won't be shying away' as he launches a fresh blast at Keir Starmer's leadership on first day of Labour's conference

The Greater Manchester mayor, who has claimed Labour MPs are privately urging him to challenge the PM, did nothing to dampen down speculation about his ambitions.

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3 w. ago Family uncover huge diamond at Arkansas park after digging with tools they bought at dollar store

Raynae Madison and her family were on a trip to Arkansas from Oklahoma to celebrate her nephew's birthday when they decided to visit a local park.

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3 w. ago 'Lovely and fresh' Marc Jacobs Daisy perfume you can 'smell all day' is now 50% off

The Marc Jacobs Daisy Ever So Fresh perfume is currently 50% off for a limited time, and shoppers have been raving about the scent, saying it's 'lovely and fresh'

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3 w. ago Save 50% on ‘bright and fresh’ Marc Jacobs perfume shoppers say you can ‘smell all day’

Marc Jacobs’ Daisy Ever So Fresh perfume has just received a huge 50% price cut, slashing it to under £50 as shoppers say it smells ‘bright and fresh’ and lasts ‘all day’

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