7 h. ago James Corden's £8.5m dream family home still boarded up two years later

James Corden and his family purchased Templecombe House in Oxfordshire back in 2020 with plans to move back to the UK after eight years in America, but it remains untouched

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7 h. ago Moving house ‘comes above childbirth’ as most stressful life experiences ranked

Thousands of people said moving house was the most stressful experience in life

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42 h. ago The moment I knew: I heard her sing for the first time and awe ran through me

Alyssia Algeri and her new girlfriend knew they shared a love of music. But everything changed when Elissa started singing Adele’s One and OnlyIn 2023 I made my regular queer pilgrimage from Melbourne to Sydney to strut the streets at Mardi Gras in flared pink pants. With my best friend in tow we moved through the masses of glittered faces.We stumbled on a house party – the balcony overflowing with people dancing. Partygoers littered the street below, praising the DJ as they hung from trees and danced on car roofs, waving their rainbow fans in sync with the music. Continue reading...

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51 h. ago Coronation Street star Stephanie Davis filled with nights of ‘dread’ after two

The 32-year-old star previously described the experience as the ‘scariest time of my life’

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55 h. ago Why did 30 Met officers kick the door down at a teenage tea and biscuits meeting in a Quaker house?

When six young women hired a room to discuss the war in Gaza, the gathering ended with 30 officers storming in to make arrestsWhen six young women gathered in central London to discuss the climate crisis and the war in Gaza, the setting could not have been more appropriate. The building in which they sat was a Quaker meeting house, the home of a movement whose centuries-long history is rooted in protest and a commitment to social justice. On the table were cups of jasmine tea, ginger biscuits and a selection of vegan cheese straws.But the events that brought this apparently convivial gathering to an abrupt end have sparked protests of a different kind and raised questions about how justice is administered by the UK’s largest and most embattled police force. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Woman trying to sell home astounded when she discovers what neighbour has done

A woman has been left fuming over her neighbour's "entitled" actions, which she believes were sparked by the fact she and her husband are trying to sell their house and move away

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3 d. ago Having a child has been both the most transformative and mundane experience of my life | Rebecca Varcoe

Parenthood has opened the door to a new kind of love – one not necessarily more sacred or pure than the love for my friends, parents and husbandGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailTwo years ago I fell pregnant and within five weeks I was diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum, a medical condition that causes extreme nausea and vomiting. It lasted my entire pregnancy and that year was (almost) the worst of my life. Now, I keep being told the relief of no longer being sick is the main reason I enjoyed the first year of my child’s life so much.Shortly after my baby was born, I started seeing social media content about Charli xcx’s song “I think about it all the time” and its articulation of the apprehension many women have about becoming mothers. I have recently started back at work and miss my child terribly. It’s the unhappiest I have been since she was born, around the same time Chappell Roan said none of her friends with children were happy.Sign up for the fun stuff with our ...

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4 d. ago I bought six houses in Italy for £5 for my family and friends to move into

She plans to renovate all six properties

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5 d. ago Only Fools and Horses star Sir David Jason makes 'painful' decision as he admits 'it's over now'

Only Fools and Horses legend Sir David Jason has been forced to give up a huge part of his life that he loved due to the physical pain he was experiencing.

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5 d. ago The spinetingling supernatural encounter I experienced after my sister's brutal murder: Frasier star KELSEY GRAMMER

Kelsey Grammer has opened up about the moment he saw heaven, describing it as 'the greatest experience of my life.'

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5 d. ago EastEnders legend lined up to star in Real Housewives of London in move 'sure to whip up excitement'

EastEnders legend lined up to star in Real Housewives of London in move 'sure to whip up excitement'  The Sun

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7 d. ago In battle against transgender rights, Trump targets HUD’s housing policies

In the months since President Donald Trump took back the White House and installed a loyalist to lead the federal housing department, HUD Secretary Scott Turner and his team have moved swiftly to undo, uproot and remake the agency’s decades of work and priorities

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7 d. ago Homefires burning: how a cache of passionate love letters shows the second world war on two fronts

The intimate correspondence of a Manchester Guardian journalist and his wife is the basis for a theatre piece marking the 80th anniversary of VE DayDuring a house move, a cardboard box belonging to my husband Matthew’s grandparents came to light. Inside we found thousands of love letters sent between the Manchester Guardian journalist Gerard Fay and his wife Alice, during the second world war. They were jumbled up and undated, and reading them all seemed a daunting task, so the box was shelved.Matthew is an academic writing a book about an earlier generation of Fays, Frank and Willie, the actors who co-founded Dublin’s Abbey theatre with WB Yeats. Frank was Gerard’s father, so when lockdown happened we decided to tackle the correspondence, to see if there was any useful information for Matthew’s book. We discovered so much more. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago The moment I knew: fire was lapping the trees near my house when he knocked on my door in uniform

When author Tracy Sorensen was preparing to evacuate with her cat, Steve showed up as her own personal fireman. A few weeks later, he was back for a different emergencyFind more stories from The moment I knew seriesIn the late 1990s, I received a gentle ultimatum from my housemate: I was welcome to stay, but my cat was not. Prince, my long-legged tabby, was at war with Stanley, my housemate’s much smaller, black and white cat. While Stanley just sat around, comfortable and insouciant, Prince was furiously, ineffectively, trying to mark some territory. The best spot for this, he felt, was the new carpet just below the cat flap. The house was soon dominated by the smell of cat piss, wet carpet and the sound of giant fan dryers.So I moved, with my cat, to one last share house, then bought a house in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. This was 25 years ago, when a single woman without much money buying her own home did not seem outlandish. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago I took my own life and went straight to hell... here's the torture I endured in a pit of blackness

A man is sharing one of the most disturbing experiences of his life in the hopes no one else has to follow in his footsteps - going an eight-hour journey through Hell.

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9 d. ago Revealed: The VERY ordinary suburban home of the woman who invented Ozempic... and while she'll never move house

Lotte Bjerre Knudsen lives comfortably in this pleasant, but not showy, £900,000 apartment in central Copenhagen with her husband, Peter Mads Olsen.

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9 d. ago My cultural awakening: Groundhog Day made me quit my job, move house and leave my girlfriend

When I saw Bill Murray’s classic comedy I realised that I was trapped in my own unfulfilling time loopI didn’t know anything about the plot of Groundhog Day before I decided to watch it 10 years ago. I remember collapsing on to the sofa after work – completely exhausted – and putting it on. My girlfriend was already asleep in the next room. Her drinking had been getting steadily worse that year, but I think we were both in denial about it. Most evenings I’d spend alone, so I’d put a movie on in the background for company.I found it funny at first, watching Bill Murray’s character trapped in a time-loop. But about 20 minutes in, I started feeling this creeping sense of dread. I remember seeing Murray’s white alarm clock going off, waking him up to begin the same day and feeling this horrible spark of recognition. It was like watching my own life play out on the screen in front of me. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The incredible immersive experience in Greater Manchester bringing famous stories to life

'Humbling is the word that just keeps coming to mind'

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1 week ago Maine lawmaker appeals to Supreme Court over censure by state House for transgender athlete post

A Republican state lawmaker from Maine appealed to the Supreme Court after she was censured by the state House for a social media post about a transgender athlete, a move that comes amid sparring over the issue between the Democratically controlled state and the Trump administration

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1 week ago Shoes on at home or shoes off? If you care about your health, it’s a no

One study reported that 96% of shoes carry coliform bacteria, commonly found in faecal matter. So why is it so uncool to ask visitors to take them off?It is a truth almost universally unacknowledged in the UK that wearing shoes in the home is gross. More than gross, actually – there’s scientific evidence it could have serious health consequences and even, if you want to come over all dramatic about it, be life-threatening. And yet I can count on the fingers of no hands the people I know who ask me to remove my shoes when I visit.Until now this has been an uncomplicatedly divisive subject: you were either a Shoes Off household, or you weren’t. But a secret underground movement is gathering pace – the Shoes On households who wish they were Shoes Off, but are worried about the uptight implications of rolling out that policy. Can you be a Shoes Off household while avoiding Shoes Off household energy?Polly Hudson is a freelance writer Continue reading...

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