63 h. ago The return of long hair: why XXL lengths are this season's most

The long hair revival is here...

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4 d. ago ‘It wasn’t on my bingo card’ – Dame Prue Leith surprises Edinburgh hairdresser

The Great British Bake Off judge popped into a salon in the city to have her hair done before a charity event on Tuesday.

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5 d. ago Emma Bunton's 'just brilliant' hair mask she uses instead of the salon now £4

The Spice Girl said this product left her hair 'shiny' and added: "It feels amazing"

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8 d. ago A Sudanese massacre foretold: the grim familiarity of the RSF’s rampage through El Fasher

Atrocities unfolding in El Fasher since it fell to paramilitary forces follow a bleak pattern seen in Rwanda, Liberia and Sudan itself, including lack of international actionHundreds of patients and staff massacred at a hospital; unarmed men of fighting age separated and shot at close range; civilians trying to flee stripped of their belongings and extorted for ransom; perpetrators filming much of the violence themselves.The reports of atrocities that have emerged from the Sudanese city of El Fasher since it fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces last weekend follow a familiar pattern. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Expert explains why cold air smells so good as Brits look to book winter breaks

There's nothing like a fresh, biting cold day in the UK - with sunny skies and icy frost, they make the dreary, rainy months worth it. And there's a scientific reason behind why cold air smells so good.

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2 w. ago My beloved sons were removed by social services and put up for adoption. But read my story before you judge 'unfit' mothers like me, says Angela Frazer

Angela Frazer-Wicks will never forget the sunny July day she strapped her two little boys into a stranger's car and waved goodbye - heartbreakingly aware that she was unlikely to see them again.

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2 w. ago Joanne Penney opened front door and was shot at close range with single bullet, court hears

Joanne Penney, 40, 'barely managed to stagger back to the living room of the address, before she fell to the floor and died moments later'

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2 w. ago 'Nearly dying was the best thing that's ever happened to me'

Drew Roberts' life changed forever following a catastrophic event on a sunny August day in 2023

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3 w. ago On a sunny day, my ex came to the hair salon where I worked – and shot me at close range

Rachel Williams says domestic violence is a ‘national emergency’. After she survived her ex’s final attack, her traumatised teenage son took his own life, and she began campaigning to end the terrible cycle of abuseIt was a sunny Friday in August when Rachel Williams arrived at the hair salon where she worked in Newport, Wales. As she was shuffling clients around, she remembers “looking at the shop door or window and thinking something was obscuring the sunlight”. She quickly recognised her ex-husband Darren’s 6ft 7in frame, and instinctively ran towards him as he pulled a sawn-off shotgun out of his black duffel bag.She fought him for the gun and was soon on the floor beside a woman in her 90s called Connie, who was shouting: “Go on, get out of here, get out of here.” (“She was in the war, so made of steel.”) Rachel tried to pull a table across herself for protection but Darren kicked it away. Instead, she rolled into the foetal position, pulling her knees up under her chin. “He st...

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3 w. 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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4 w. ago Winter is coming: England’s cricketers fly out for long tour that will decide Ashes and World Cup

Four decades ago Mike Gatting lamented 30-game schedule and while improvements were made, players will be weary of gruelling season aheadA meteorologist would say that England’s winter will start this year at midnight on 1 December; an astronomer would point a few weeks later to the 21st, perhaps even the moment at precisely 3.03pm when the northern hemisphere is tilted furthest away from the sun, the least sun-kissed moment of its least sunny day. But a cricket fan might go a little earlier, perhaps as soon as next Saturday at about 7.15am. Leaves might still be clinging to trees as yet unbothered by frost, but that is when the national side is scheduled to play its first fixture of a hectic touring schedule, and by the time it all ends the Ashes will have been decided, a World Cup will have been won, and it will be spring.For the players involved in all formats, these moments will bring a combination of excitement and perhaps also a bit of dread. The T20 squad departed for New Zea...

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4 w. ago California man accused of threatening to kill conservative influencer Benny Johnson by strangling him with a US flag

The threats allegedly made against podcaster Benny Johnson were made days after his close friend, TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, was shot and killed

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