47 m. ago Walker's announces new flavour of popular crisps and people are baffled

The new flavour is set to launch in stores from the end of July - but shoppers are divided on the brand new flavour leaving them confused at the difference in taste

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3 h. ago Charity highlights ‘harsh treatment’ of people who have been overpaid benefits

The Money and Mental Health Policy Institute said that overpayments can build up for months unbeknown to recipients but the DWP clawback may be rapid.

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3 h. ago Dive into Scotland’s heritage and science as Festival of Knowledge comes to Edinburgh

A major Scottish festival that aims to spark conversations around some of the biggest questions facing society today returns from September 6 to 14.

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6 h. ago Edwards left with food for thought as India edge England in first women’s ODI

1st ODI: India, 262-6, beat England, 258-6, by four wicketsDeepti Sharma hits 62 not out as tourists complete chaseFifty-over cricket is Charlotte Edwards’s Big Project. The day she was announced as the new England head coach, she declared that the national side had “underperformed” in the one‑day format of late, and that she was making it her “first priority” before the World Cup in India in October.All eyes, then, on this three‑match ODI series against India, which began on Wednesday at Southampton with a narrow four-wicket win by the visitors. Continue reading...

Events

7 h. ago Marks and Spencer launch Marmite pizza and it's 'already set to overtake classic Margherita'

The new 'love-it-or-hate-it' pizza is set to top the charts as shoppers switch from marg to marm.

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7 h. ago Channel 4’s new digital channel A Comedy Thing to launch with four fresh shows

The new channel, which will launch on July 21 on YouTube, comes after the debut of the broadcaster’s food channel Channel 4 Served earlier this year.

Culture

7 h. ago McDonald's asks public for support as it looks to open new drive

It would become its eighth location in the city

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8 h. ago Sainsbury’s to ban unhealthy snacks for staff amid government obesity crackdown

Sainsbury’s says the change in food provisions will give employees a chance to ‘make light meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner’

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8 h. ago Relatives mourn Palestinian American beaten to death by Israeli settlers: ‘He made everyone feel loved’

Sayfollah ‘Saif’ Musallet, 20, was an ice-cream shop owner in Florida, and a beloved member of a tight-knit family with deep ties to the US and PalestineWhen Fatmah Muhammad thinks about her younger cousin Sayfollah Musallet, affectionately known as Saif, she pictures him behind the counter of his ice-cream shop in Tampa Bay, Florida, carefully decorating her knafeh with the same effort he brought to everything else.She makes the dessert from scratch, and would sometimes ship it from California, where the 43-year-old baker lives, so the family legacy could grow nationwide. Saif would sell the Palestinian dessert in his his little Amish-style ice-cream shop that carried international treats from the world over. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Girls gone bad: Lena Dunham’s Too Much is just not good enough

The creator of the seminal HBO hit has followed up with an underbaked Netflix background watch, a crushing disappointment for her ardent fanbaseThere is one TV show that has been enjoyed most often, and most reliably, among my cohort in New York: Girls, the seminal HBO dramedy about Brooklyn’s downwardly mobile and highly self-important creative class of the 2010s. Though a cultural lightning rod when it aired from 2012 until 2017 – its whiteness, convincing narcissism, frank sexuality and frequent nudity all catnip for the cresting blogosphere and cyclical moral panic – Girls has rightfully settled into its status as one of the best television series of the 21st century, a foundational text for millennials as well as a biting satire of solipsistic, Obama-era striving. (Although viewers too young to remember it as anything other than canon now see the girls’ flailing – their freedom to wear terrible prints, listen to Vampire Weekend and be earnest – as something to be envied rather ...

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10 h. ago Deadly Massachusetts fire highlights the minimal regulations that govern assisted

The Massachusetts assisted-living facility where a fatal fire killed nine people was caring for dozens of aging residents reliant on wheelchairs and oxygen tanks, but it lacked the safety measures and most of the staffing requirements that are commonplace in nursing homes

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10 h. ago Tesco shoppers floored by 'disgusting' price of item spotted on shelves

Shopper complaints come as the Office for National Statistics announced today that food price inflation has hit its highest level since February 2024

Economics

10 h. ago As a fitness writer I think Jessica Biel’s workout is great – but it comes with a caveat

Comparing your own fitness progress to on-screen physiques should be avoided – it’s refreshing to see Jessica Biel highlight this

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10 h. ago Pretty Yende on the raw power of music: ‘opera is literally soul food’

The soprano is singing the lead role of Semele this year, and her star is on the rise. She chats to India Block about getting in character and growing into her voice

Culture

11 h. ago Tesco shopper says typing two words into app can get you free food

A savvy shopper has shared the simple hack that allows her to get free products and samples with her Tesco shop - including a Bonne Maman chocolate spread that 'tastes like Ferrero Rocher'

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11 h. ago Will Nigel Farage’s attempt to copy and paste Trump’s policies work in the UK? | Samuel Earle

The Reform leader is trying to import Doge’s cuts to spending and ‘DEI’. It’s clear what he gets out of it – not so much the British voterA popular maxim on the American right is that politics is downstream from culture. In the UK, it increasingly feels like politics is simply downstream from the US. With Reform UK ascendant in the polls, Nigel Farage – officially MP for Clacton, unofficially Donald Trump’s emissary to the UK – is setting the terms of the national conversation, and he is importing them directly from across the pond.Over the past few months, Reform has sought to launch “Doge” initiatives (referencing Elon Musk’s department of government efficiency), waged war on DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) employment schemes, and called for the UK government to embrace crypto and create a bitcoin digital reserve at the Bank of England, following Trump’s lead. It seems the Brexiteers were right: Britain doesn’t make anything any more – not even its own bogeymen.Samuel Earle ...

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11 h. ago Everything we learned from the Stranger Things Season 5 trailer

All is not well in the sleepy town of Hawkins, Indiana

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11 h. 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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11 h. ago Major UK crisp brand launches two new flavours and confirms exact date they hit shelves

Two brand new crisp flavours have hit the shelves this week as popular popchips, owned by KP Snacks have launched the meaty offerings to shoppers - promising to add fun to any occasion

Economics

11 h. ago Ronnie Wood urges people to look after wildlife before there is ‘nothing’ left

The campaign, titled the Tusk Turtle Trail, sees 16 life-sized street art installations positioned across central London.

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