29 m. ago 'I thought it was just an anxiety attack but it led to me getting a new heart'

Lucy Smith, 23, from Dumfries and Galloway, thought she was burnt out from working long hours as a carer when in reality she was suffering from a life-threatening condition

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50 m. ago I no longer have any sexual desire – and now my husband is talking about a threesome

I want him to be happy but we have young children and sex feels like a chore. What should I do?I have been married for three years and no longer have any sexual desire. I am deeply in love, but my husband says I have stopped initiating physical intimacy and he hasn’t felt wanted for a long time. We have very young children, so I am exhausted all the time. He fantasises about exotic romps whereas I dream of a hot meal, shower and a nap. I don’t have any support from family or friends for our children, let alone myself, but I really want my husband to be happy and satisfied. Every time he brings up sex, it feels like just one more thing on my list of chores, and it’s always late at night when I’m trying to sleep. I thought I was having difficulty juggling life with kids, but he insists I’ve been pulling away ever since we got married. My family disowned me when I decided to get married, and I would be lying if I said that we had an easy-going relationship, but there is mad love here. ...

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59 m. ago Vile couple had sex with pet pug in 'worst case judge has ever seen'

Graham Marshall, 39, forced Paige Reaney, 33, to engage in a range of sex acts with their pet pug, Charlie - a judge said the animal would have suffered pain and distress as a result

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60 m. ago Charities call on Lanarkshire locals for more support for mental illness

Members of the UK Anti-Stigma Alliance – See Me in Scotland, Inspire in Northern Ireland, and Time to Change Wales – are encouraging people across Lanarkshire to play their part in helping to end the shame which so many people feel.

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67 m. ago Man City fans call for Micah Richards to be sacked after 'big club' FA Cup fury

Micah Richards left Manchester City fan furious after claiming there are 'no more big teams' left in the FA Cup quarter-final following Manchester United's exit

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68 m. ago Good Morning Britain star admits 'it's just been a joy' as they share baby news

Good Morning Britain presenter Alex Beresford welcomed a daughter with his partner Imogen three weeks ago and the weather star shared his experiences of becoming a dad for the second time

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78 m. ago Greggs smashes through £2 billion sales for the first time as profits surge

A record 226 new shops opened in 2024 growing the estate to 2,618 outlets at the year end.

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80 m. ago Looming relegation vote begs question: do WSL clubs now have too much power? | Suzanne Wrack

Amid a controversial proposal to suspend relegation in the WSL, decision-makers risk putting self-interest above all elseOn Friday a shareholder meeting of the Women’s Professional Leagues Ltd took place to discuss the future of the women’s professional game. This was not unusual. The body responsible for running the Women’s Super League and Championship, owned by the clubs and having taken over from the Football Association last summer, holds quarterly meetings and each one has involved discussions on the professional women’s game in England as it enters a new phase.There was caution ahead of the first season of WPLL ownership; no immediate expansion, no swift progression to full-time referees, no big moves to adopt the other recommendations in the fan-led government review of women’s football carried out by Karen Carney, despite a widespread desire for many of them. Continue reading...

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80 m. ago 'Ruben Amorim could already be running out of time at Man Utd as sack threat looms'

Manchester United's FA Cup loss to Fulham was their 10th defeat in Ruben Amorim's 24 games and their sixth at Old Trafford as things continue to go from bad to worse

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82 m. ago Pope resting after acute breathing crises forced him to resume noninvasive ventilation

Pope Francis is resting after he suffered further setbacks in his fight against pneumonia

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89 m. ago Fans despair as Justin Bieber smokes drugs in new viral post after leaving wife Hailey Bieber to attend party alone

Justin Bieber's latest social media post left fans increasingly worried. The hitmaker, 31, took to his Instagram sharing photos that showed him smoking from what appeared to be a bong.

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1 hour ago Archive of the Future review – mesmerising safari through Vienna’s natural history museum

Joerg Burger’s film, as immersive as a museum visit, lovingly embraces the meticulous labours of the curators and touches on key current questions for the sectorJoerg Burger’s meticulous and mesmerising study of the Vienna Museum of Natural History is itself a work of natural history, in that it studies its core subject from a number of methodological angles. In one level, it simply puts the displays on display via some exquisitely composed, high-resolution photography that drinks in the rooms, both public and private, where the many collections dwell; vitrine after vitrine, drawer upon drawer, archive boxes until the end of time, with beetles, geological samples, taxidermied birds and botanical samples, each one lovingly tagged and sorted.That said, the fact that the archive is only maybe 10% digitised and indexed means that the staff clock up kilometres’ worth of walking every day as they search for requested items: as such this is also a study of information science at a point of...

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1 hour ago Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy review – incurable sadness if bravely borne

Colm Tóibín introduces this welcome reprint of the US author and critic’s poignant account of orphanhood, first published in 1957Mary McCarthy was a formidable, not to say frightening, figure in the literary landscape of mid-20th-century America, one of a cohort of remarkable left-leaning intellectuals that included Elizabeth Hardwick, Dwight Macdonald, Randall Jarrell and McCarthy’s lifelong friend Hannah Arendt. The famous feud between McCarthy and the playwright Lillian Hellman – “every word Hellman writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’” – led to a $2.5m libel suit brought by Hellman but which in the end damaged her own reputation beyond repair.McCarthy was already an established critic and fiction writer when, in 1963, she published The Group, the novel that was to bring her huge popular success. It is an account of the lives of a set of young women in postwar New York and, for its time, was frank to the point of being scandalous. Anyone reading it now will wonder what the ...

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1 hour ago Former Manchester United star left 'lost for words' after huge lottery win

Cliff Bull joined Manchester United just 10 days before the Munich Air Disaster, but was forced to retire through injury, though he is now the beneficiary of a bumper lottery win

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2 h. ago Macaulay Culkin reveals emotional reaction to brother Kieran’s Oscar win

Kieran won best supporting actor for his role in Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘A Real Pain’

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2 h. ago China and Canada retaliate after Trump trade tariffs come into effect

Markets tumble as US president’s levies against Canada, Mexico and China come into effectChina and Canada unveiled retaliatory measures against the US after Donald Trump imposed his sweeping tariffs plan at midnight US time, despite warnings it could spark an escalating trade war.US tariffs have come into force of 25% against goods from Canada and Mexico, the US’s two biggest trading partners, and 20% tariffs against China – doubling the levy on China from last month. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Police officers suffering burnout and working in ‘desperate’ conditions – report

Study identifies areas for improvement to provide “happier and more effective working life”

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2 h. ago Pancake Day is probably wrong time to mention growing global obesity epidemic...

About six out of ten adults in the world are expected to be overweight or obese within 25 years

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3 h. ago Club Brugge vs Aston Villa prediction, odds and betting offer

Aston Villa will be looking to get a win in Brugge at the second time of asking as they face Club Brugge in the Champions League round of 16

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3 h. ago Russia sending ‘suicidal missions’ to win foothold over Dnipro River, says Ukraine

Moscow trying to improve its claim to entire Kherson region in time for peace negotiations, says governorRussian forces are repeatedly trying to seize a foothold across Ukraine’s Dnipro River, dispatching troops on high-casualty missions to gain territory for future peace negotiations, according to the Ukrainian governor of Kherson region.Oleksandr Prokudin said Russian forces were trying to cross in four locations to justify their claim to the whole oblast, one of four Ukrainian regions that Moscow says it wants to incorporate. Continue reading...

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