9 h. ago People are only just discovering the hidden purpose of red Christmas lights

Christmas lights with a red tip have a secret purpose that many do not know about

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20 h. ago TikTok adds new Nearby Feed to discover videos around you – and there’s a handy trick for holidays too

TIKTOK users in the UK will find a new tab in the app filled with videos and content posted around their area. The Nearby Feed allows people to discover content and creators locally. It will appear along the top of the TikTok home screen, named as the location you're near. TikTok works out an approximate...

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31 h. ago Meghan Markle's exact classy red Christmas PJs from her Netflix show are still in stock

Meghan Markle just dropped the new holiday episode of her With Love, Meghan Netflix series, and she’s seen wearing the perfect festive red pyjamas for Christmas

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33 h. ago Meghan is acting like she invented Christmas with vulgar Netflix show – and Harry cameo is pure fakery, expert slams

MEGHAN Markle is acting like she invented Christmas with her "vulgar" Netflix show, a royal expert has claimed. The latest episode of her much-criticised cookery series, With Love, Meghan was released today. Meghan, 44, revealed she loves Christmas trees, advent calendars and wreaths before dressing up in matching red pyjamas with friends.  The cheery episode follows...

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56 h. ago Robins will flock to your garden all year round if you add 1 plant to your garden now

The red breasted bird doesn't have to be just for Christmas, as this one gardening hack can make them appear in your garden all year round including the summer

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64 h. ago ‘I can’t hear Mariah Carey for the 1,000th time!’ Professional Santas on their most loved – and hated – Christmas hits

A flock of Father Christmases share the seasonal songs that capture the magic, merriment and occasional heartbreak that comes with donning the red suit My father was a Santa and my wife got me into doing it. It’s the best thing I ever did. I do schools, universities, supermarkets, Christmas lights switch-ons As soon as Santa comes along, everybody melts. One little girl brought her guinea pig, who leapt off her hand and dived straight into my Santa beard. The parents were in stitches while we tried to get him out. My favourite Christmas songs are Eartha Kitt’s sultry version of Santa Baby, because it gets all the adults in the mood to get up and have a boogie with Santa, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, because the lyrics are so pure. No Christmas songs drive me mad. It’s Christmas: they’re all great. Paul Fessi Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Peter Kay reveals moment he discovered making people laugh was ‘only thing’ he was good at

Peter Kay chatted to Sara Cox at the Lowry in September

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4 d. ago I begged my stepmum not to wear white to my wedding but she didn’t listen – in fact she went one step further

THERE are unwritten rules when it comes to weddings, don’t show up late, don’t drink too much and definitely don’t wear white. However, as one bride discovered, some people believe these rules don’t apply to them. Taking to Reddit a newlywed shared the nightmare experience she had with her stepmum on her wedding day. She...

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4 d. ago People are just finding out wild fact about the Scottish flag

Saint Andrew's Day is celebrated on 30 November in Scotland, and people are only just discovering a wild fact about the Scottish flag, which is also known as the Saltire

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9 d. ago Crick: A Mind in Motion by Matthew Cobb review – the charismatic philanderer who changed science

Genius and arrogance play leading roles in a new biography of the man who helped uncover the structure of DNAMost people could tell you that Francis Crick, together with James Watson, discovered the double helix structure of DNA, and shaped our understanding of how genes work. Fewer know that Crick also played a key role in modern neuroscience and inspired our continuing efforts to understand the biological basis of consciousness.Crick once said the two questions that interested him most were “the borderline between the living and the non-living, and the workings of the brain”, questions that were usually discussed in religious or mystical terms but that he believed could be answered by science. In his new biography of the Nobel prize-winning scientist, Matthew Cobb, emeritus professor of zoology at the University of Manchester, does an admirable job of capturing the rare thinker who not only set himself such ambitious goals but made remarkable progress...

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1 week ago Action thriller compared to Quentin Tarantino classic with 'unforgettable' Tom Hanks

Film fans can't believe that more people have not discovered the title now streaming and stars Pedro Pascal

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2 w. ago British woman among five dead in snowstorm in Chilean Patagonia

The bodies of five people were discovered in the tourist hotspot of Torres del Paine National Park, in southern Chile

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2 w. ago Woman orders Christmas jumper but is mortified by what arrives

The woman was left red-faced when picking up her Christmas jumper, and when she made eye contact with the woman at the counter, she burst out laughing at the package

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2 w. ago Kylie Minogue, 57, wows as she squeezes into two skintight latex dresses at surprise London pop

KYLIE Minogue has Christmas wrapped up very very tightly. The I Can’t Get You Out of my Head singer wowed fans in a red latex dress as she turned on Battersea Power Station’s Christmas Lights in West London. During the evening Kylie sang along with Battersea Power Station Community Choir who performed a number of...

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3 w. ago Starbucks Red Cup Day: full list of confirmed items on the Christmas 2025 range

The red cups have been released in UK stores today 🎄

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3 w. ago Christmas Karma review – Dickens adaptation has as much Yuletide spirit as a dead rat in the eggnog

Gurinder Chadha’s leaden update of the hardy seasonal chestnut with Kunal Nayyar is joyless and nausea-inducingKeen though I always am to indulge any and every new riff on Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, and keen also to hear from Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha, this cynically Christmassy movie is leaden, unconvincingly acted and about as welcome as a dead rat in the eggnog. It’s the worst Christmas film since last year’s Red One, in which Dwayne Johnson played the head of security for Santa Claus and more or less had us all rooting for anyone who could beat up Father Christmas.In this one, Big Bang Theory star Kunal Nayyar lifelessly and joylessly plays a Scrooge variant called Mr Sood, part of the Ugandan south Asian community expelled by Idi Amin in his childhood, and embittered by early poverty. An early romance soured because of his obsession with money, and he has become a grasping and unpleasant old guy in London (cue stock footage of the London skyline) in the ra...

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3 w. ago Grandad found dead inside his flat in Kettering as four people arrested after tragedy

Four people have been arrested after a grandad was discovered dead inside his Kettering flat on Saturday evening. Police have launched a murder investigation after the tragedy

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3 w. ago People are only just discovering 'secret code' on microwave dial for key function

A dad has shared a video on social media revealing how he discovered a 'secret code' on his microwave

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3 w. ago Aldi's viral new £8 drink might just edge out mulled wine as the go

Aldi has just launched a new sparkling red wine which is sure to be a hit this Christmas - and it's already a wine lover's favourite with some calling it a 'party starter'

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3 w. ago Millennial dating involves a lot of sexy moves – so why does it so rarely lead to sex? | Zoe Williams

Modern courtship entails a complex set of escalations, from texts to voice notes to photos, before everything fizzles out. Give me gen X messiness any dayIt’s well known that dating apps are a nightmare, that hell is empty and all the demons are on Hinge, to the extent people aren’t really allowed to complain about it any more. It would sound like whining about getting run over after you couldn’t be bothered to use an underpass, so you just ran across a motorway and hoped for the best.And yet, as it was my great privilege listening to some millennials to discover, young people are still going on dates, and a lot still goes wrong, without the involvement of any tech whatsoever. It’s all in that bit of the Venn diagram where “I couldn’t work out what he/she was thinking” meets “I didn’t know whether I was that into it”, which is to say, the grey lacuna marked “nothing happened”. It could be a super-efficient, young-professional walk-through-a-park date, and then nothing happened, or a...

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