53 h. ago Buy small plants – and consider a ‘bulb lasagne’: how to give your garden a late

From planting in odd numbers to painting fences and walls the same colour, here are some easy, effective ways to give your outdoor space a seasonal spruce-up“It is not always necessary to rip out everything and start again,” says Ella Malt, who runs the gardening company Soil and Soul Norfolk. “It is much more sustainable to work with what you have. You can make such a difference with a bit of cutting back, clearing up leaves, cutting an edge on a lawn. People notice edges: you could spend hours making a herbaceous border perfect but if the edge of that border isn’t crisp, it will automatically look untidy.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago LIVE: Street taped off as crews spend hours tackling hours fire

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5 d. ago The chic guide to Margate: How to spend 24 hours in the Kent seaside town

Thought ‘Shoreditch-on-sea’ was overdone? After visiting on a hot summer’s day, Jes Salter is reminded why it’s the perfect mini break for foodies and culture-lovers alike

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8 d. ago Sarah Ferguson makes subtle dig with hidden detail following explosive Prince Andrew claims

Sarah, Duchess of York took to Instagram to post a snap of her at a book signing event - hours after bombshell allegations of her wild spending and infidelity appeared in new biography

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1 week ago Man spends 24 hours in Metaverse and discovers empty hellscape with screaming McDonald's

YouTuber Globert spent 24 hours in the Metaverse and discovered that most people in the online virtual reality game were children who spend their time at 'MetDonald's'

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1 week ago How to spend a perfect 72 hours in Toronto: What to eat, drink, see and where to stay

Right now flights are affordable, your currency will go further and an epic food scene awaits. There’s never been a better time to visit Toronto, says Jonathan Samuels

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3 w. ago Child killer Lucy Letby & Sara Sharif’s evil stepmum spend hours playing Uno in cushy jail

Child killers Lucy Letby and Beinash Batool have become extremely friendly in their cushy jail, as they enrage staff and other prisoners loudly playing Uno and making cheese toasties

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3 w. ago Evil nurse Lucy Letby and Sara Sharif's killer stepmother 'are pals and spend hours playing Uno together behind bars'

The child killers (pictured, Lucy Letby) while away the hours in their comfortable cells at Surrey's HMP Bronzefield with endless rounds of the popular card game.

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4 w. ago Killer inmates on America's harshest death row get rare privileges and incredible new perk

The program allows the selected prisoners to spend several hours a day outside their cells and allows them to enjoy communal meals, TV time, prayer circles and - for the first time in decades - direct human contact

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4 w. ago Purity Ring: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

The electropop duo’s vocalist mj shares what brings her joy online – including odes to napping, crying and rainbowsI try to spend as little time on the internet as possible. I didn’t get a cell phone until I was 19. I stayed mostly away from screens and spent a lot of time in the woods, on the water and in my head. As far as I’ve seen, those were and always will be better places to find ourselves.I ended up skipping some of the internet’s best years – they’re long gone, along with the dream of what the internet could have been. In all the hours I spend doomscrolling I can say I haven’t gained much but the following makes some of that time feel worth it. Continue reading...

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