6 h. ago People are only just learning they've been pronouncing Moet wrong their whole lives

Moët & Chandon is one of the world's largest champagne producers, and although they produce over 28 million bottles every year, there's still a big debate about how to pronounce the name

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31 h. ago One wrong move could be fatal: the divers risking their lives to save whales from ‘ghost nets’

Abandoned fishing equipment haunts our oceans, killing coral, turtles, sharks and whales. But in Colombia’s Gulf of Tribugá, ‘guardians’ are on call to free entangled marine animalsAfter a day of scuba diving, Luis Antonio “Toño” Lloreda was exhausted. Then a friend brought urgent news. “Toño, man, there’s a whale caught in a net out there.” Lloreda, 43, had freed other, smaller wildlife from fishing nets but this would be his first marine animal of such size.The four to five metres-long juvenile humpback, accompanied by its mother, had a net studded with hooks wrapped around its fin and mouth. One wrong move could have been fatal for Lloreda or the whale.Luis Antonio ‘Toño’ Lloreda holds a photo of the whale he freed from a fishing net Continue reading...

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35 h. ago People feel 'today years old' after learning clever way to watch videos on Instagram

Whether or not you sit on social media every day, it can be useful knowing the latest tips and tricks to use online. Now have you ever tried this little-known Instagram hack?

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3 d. ago At American summer camps, kids get a glimpse of their future. That’s what made the horror in Texas so crushing | Emma Brockes

As news of the floods began to break, for so many parents the scene at Camp Mystic was intimately imaginableAmong the many dreams that the US offers its citizens, there’s this: that the American child, around the age of eight, will go to sleep-away camp a few hours from home and begin one of the key formative experiences of their life. They will return every summer. They will learn independence. They will form bonds with people who will one day godparent their children. As an adult, a friend of mine – no kidding – returned to the hallowed ground in Pennsylvania where her summer camp once stood, bought a piece of land and built a house there. Whenever we visited, she’d point out the ruins of the old dining hall down by the lake and get a haunted look on her face.I mention this because, among the many devastated reactions to the flash floods in Texas last week, there is one that is particular, and particularly acute, to millions of Americans: a gut-level blow of unfathomable loss stri...

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3 d. ago At US summer camps, kids get a glimpse of their future. That’s what made the horror in Texas so visceral | Emma Brockes

Camps are a rite of passage for American parents and children. That’s why the tragedy at Camp Mystic was intimately imaginableAmong the many dreams that the US offers its citizens, there’s this: that the American child, around the age of eight, will go to sleep-away camp a few hours from home and begin one of the key formative experiences of their life. They will return every summer. They will learn independence. They will form bonds with people who will one day godparent their children. As an adult, a friend of mine – no kidding – returned to the hallowed ground in Pennsylvania where her summer camp once stood, bought a piece of land and built a house there. Whenever we visited, she’d point out the ruins of the old dining hall down by the lake and get a haunted look on her face.I mention this because, among the many devastated reactions to the flash floods in Texas last week, there is one that is particular, and particularly acute, to millions of Americans: a gut-level blow of unfa...

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5 d. ago Camp Mystic survivor, 13, reveals awful first sign that something was terribly wrong, as death toll shoots up further: Live updates

Blair, 13, and Brooke Harber, 11, were found dead with their 'hands locked together' after the catastrophic Guadalupe River flood ravaged the Texas Hill Country.

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6 d. ago 'I've spent 40 years helping people to die well – this is what I've learned'

EXCLUSIVE: After four decades of helping hundreds of people through their final days, Belinda Marks has seen some extraordinary moments as people reach the end of their lives.

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8 d. ago Brits urged to stop boiling potatoes and use one quicker method that locks in flavour

Cooking is a learning process, and experts now urge people to stop boiling potatoes, and instead try this simple method that will cut the overall cooking time by half.

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9 d. ago BBC to drop ‘high risk’ live performances after Bob Vylan Glastonbury set

Broadcaster admits making mistakes before and during punk duo’s show in which they chanted ‘death to the IDF’The BBC has said it was wrong to believe the punk duo Bob Vylan were “suitable for live streaming with appropriate mitigations” for their performance at Glastonbury festival, despite ranking them as “high risk” before the event.In a statement signalling there would be repercussions for those behind the failure, the corporation said: “We fully understand the strength of feeling regarding Bob Vylan’s live appearance at Glastonbury on the BBC. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago New learning module for drug and alcohol support workers can help people in West Lothian kick tobacco

'When a cigarette burns it releases a dangerous cocktail of more than 5,000 chemicals'

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1 week ago How £93m plans to care for the elderly in Rhondda county are progressing

The council is developing new care facilities for older people and people with a learning disability across the county borough

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1 week ago A moment that changed me: An accident left me terrified of risk. Then I joined a stranger on a motorbike adventure

We rode through the dark, through winding mountain roads to reach scenic nooks I otherwise would never have seen. From then, I had the confidence to make friends and travel moreAs I watched the sleek, white motorbike roll out of the hire shop in Thakhek, Laos, I wondered if I was making a dreadful mistake. It was March 2017 and I had agreed to go on a road trip with a stranger – an American named Travis, whom I had met a few weeks earlier. We were classmates on a Rotary International Peace Fellowship, which brought together people from sectors such as academia, farming and activism to learn about conflict resolution, in Thailand. I tended to have my guard up around people I didn’t know but Travis’s constant gentle efforts to get to know me had worked, and we bonded over a shared sense of humour. When he suggested we explore Laos together, it felt like a natural progression of our budding friendship.Travis wanted to visit a climbing hotspot, I wanted to see the Laos that wasn’t on th...

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1 week ago Over 7500 people across South Lanarkshire take part in Learn to Swim National Framework

The programme is delivered by 38 leisure trusts and aquatic providers in 167 pools across Scotland, including nine pools in South Lanarkshire.

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2 w. ago Nearly 5000 people across North Lanarkshire take part in Learn to Swim National Framework

Programme, a partnership between Scottish Swimming and Scottish Water, has now supported 210,337 children and adults in Scotland to be safer in, on and around water over the past seven years.

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2 w. ago ‘Bungling Badenoch’ under fire after suggesting Starmer wrong to miss PMQs for Nato summit – UK politics live

Liberal Democrats say Conservative leader focused on ‘cheap point scoring’ and her MPs are in ‘open revolt’In his final answer Starmer explained how he thought government and business should work together.A true partnership is not two people or two bodies trying to do the same thing. It’s two people or bodies realising they bring different things to the table.Government shouldn’t try to run businesses. It’s done that in the past and it doesn’t work particularly well. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Zohran Mamdani's wife Rama Duwaji is an animator, illustrator and ceramicist. And they met on Hinge

People across the country are still learning about Zohran Mamdani, who stunned the political world and is poised to become the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor after sweeping past Andrew Cuomo

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2 w. ago Get a sharp knife, season properly and don’t do too much at once: how to start cooking

Cooking at home tends to be healthier and cheaper than eating out or ordering in. So how does one start cooking? We asked the expertsFood is more than just nutrition: it can be joyful, social and exciting. But the act of preparing it can feel awfully daunting.Many beginner cooks suffer from a fear of failure, a lack of foundational knowledge and a poor understanding of how long it actually takes to prepare a dish, says Sam Nasserian, founder and CEO of Cozymeal, a culinary services company. But “once people learn the basics and try a few recipes, they’re surprised by how easy and fun cooking can be”, he says.How to start meditatingHow to start weightliftingHow to start budgetingHow to start running Continue reading...

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3 w. ago I struggled to find work without role models, says Hilton Down’s syndrome worker

Sam Innes is urging employers to give UK’s 1.5 million people with learning disabilities a fair chance

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3 w. ago The seagulls have landed: why gulls are encroaching on our towns

Avian invaders have coastal communities in Britain and beyond in a flap – but people are learning how to live with them Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The seagulls have landed: why gulls are encroaching on Britain’s towns

Avian invaders have coastal communities in Britain and beyond in a flap – but people are learning how to live with them Continue reading...

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