24 h. ago Are you the most generous in your group? Find out your social spending persona

A quiz has been created to reveal where Brits fall on a 'social spending persona' scale, which includes questions about office leaving gifts, children's birthday parties and splitting restaurant bills

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44 h. ago Mum's message to parents after no one turned up to child's birthday

A mum said not a single child turned up to her daughter's seventh birthday party - despite the youngster's friends giving their RSVPs

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49 h. ago Mum's heartbreaking message to parents after nobody turns up to child's birthday

A mum has shared her heartache after watching her daughter fight back tears when nobody turned up to her seventh birthday party - and she has issued a message to all parents as a result

Society

49 h. ago Hidden meaning in Princess Beatrice's husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi's birthday post for her as he takes inspiration from Prince William and Kate

Princess Beatrice's London-based husband celebrated her 37th birthday with a sweet social media first from all their children.

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9 d. ago Meghan Markle celebrates 44th birthday and fans all say the same thing

Meghan Markle will be celebrating her birthday on Monday with husband Prince Harry and their two children, Archie and Lilibet, as fans have pointed out the Duchess never appears to age.

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3 w. ago 'I left out one boy from my kid's birthday party – he didn't deserve an invite'

A single dad has sparked a debate after he allowed his daughter to exclude one child from her class from attending her birthday party - and he doesn't regret it

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3 w. ago 'I banned one kid from my daughter's birthday party – his mum then gave me hell'

A single dad has taken to social media to ask users online for advice after he banned one child from his daughter's birthday party but invited the rest of the class

Events

3 w. ago Turning 35, I don’t have answers but I have learned one thing: we’re all just winging it | Alexander Hurst

My adult life seems to be mirroring that of the lead character in Bref, a French comedy about growing up and the things that hold us backWhen I was little I imagined, as most children probably do, that the grownups had things all worked out and someday I would find myself on the other side of a clear boundary. Adolescence on one side; maturity, responsibility, self-assuredness, composition on the other.A few weeks ago I turned 35. As the day ticked closer, I found that old childhood suspicion creeping in again; if any birthday should serve as a demarcator of that boundary, it should be this one, shouldn’t it? And now, as the days tick further from that imagined inflection point, it has become a reinforcement of probably the single biggest lesson I have taken away from “adulthood”: that most of us are simply winging it most of the time, through a process of becoming that never quite reaches become.Alexander Hurst is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

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last month Mum who lost daughter to measles has one message for every parent

There has been a decline in vaccine uptake

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