12 h. ago People call me a gold digger but I wear it like a badge of honour – my lover’s friends insist he gets a prenup

A WOMAN who is 26 years younger than her fiance has revealed that his friends are demanding he get a prenup before they say ‘I do’. You can’t help who you fall in love with - and as if it were destiny, Paige, 29, and Jamie, 55, lived on the same parallel street before he...

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8 d. ago Never be honest in Hollywood – even if you’re Quentin Tarantino | Dave Schilling

Success doesn’t mean you can speak your mind – and criticizing Paul Dano is like kicking a bunny at a birthday partyThere are many things Hollywood is known for: lavish parties, subtle (or not so subtle) plastic surgery, the concept of juice as a meal. What it is not traditionally known for is honesty. I live in Los Angeles, work in the entertainment industry when I’m not moonlighting as a semi-reputable journalist and have done my fair share of lying or, more accurately, omitting the truth. One of the least pleasant experiences in town is being asked to give honest feedback to someone who is at best an acquaintance. It’s worse yet if that person is a friend, lover or family member who actually takes your opinion seriously. Overall, the notion of offering honesty to a peer is akin to rubbing poison oak on your privates.And yet, despite knowing how gruesome this can be, I still solicit feedback on scripts, films and even nascent ideas I’m toying with. Naturally, I feel guilty doing i...

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1 week ago Post Office releases final dates for sending Christmas cards and gifts

Some 67% of Britons have received Christmas cards and presents in the post after December 25, a survey for the Post Office found.

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2 w. ago Pilot tested positive for cocaine after crash that killed North West couple, inquest hears

Diane and Ron Hughes were among four people who died in the mid-air collision on Australia's Gold Coast

Events

2 w. ago Prince Harry, Jay Z and Usher: all of the celebrities pictured partying with Diddy over the years

It used to be a badge of honour to get an invite to one of P Diddy’s famous parties. Now, it’s quite the opposite. Jordan Page reveals which names were on the guest list

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2 w. ago The question isn’t whether the AI bubble will burst – but what the fallout will be

Will the bubble ravage the economy when it bursts? What will it leave of value once it pops?The California Gold Rush left an outsized imprint on America. Some 300,000 people flocked there from 1848 to 1955, from as far away as the Ottoman Empire. Prospectors massacred Indigenous people to take the gold from their lands in the Sierra Nevada mountains. And they boosted the economies of nearby states and faraway countries from whence they bought their supplies.Gold provided the motivation for California – a former Mexican territory then controlled by the US military – to become a state with laws of its own. And yet, few “49ers” as prospectors were known, struck it rich. It was the merchants selling prospectors food and shovels who made the money. One, a Bavarian immigrant named Levi Strauss who sold denim overalls to the gold bugs passing through San Francisco, may be the most remembered figure of his day. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'We've never seen anything like it': The price of gold is soaring to levels not seen in years. Now, our Hatton Garden experts reveal why Brits are turning their backs on banks

While pensions, stocks and shares feel unstable in our volatile world, more and more people are investing in gold. Liz Hoggard meets the sisters who are leading the trend

Economics

3 w. ago Horror moment Liverpool parade crash driver's wife 'saw her car on TV'

Paul Doyle had been known as a 'role model father' with a 'heart of gold' before that fateful night which saw more than 100 people injured.

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4 w. ago Inside UK pet cloning trend where desperate Brits pay £50k to resurrect ‘zombie dogs’ as TV star reveals replica twins

ANYONE who has lost a beloved pet knows the heartrending grief that brings - and how you would do anything to bring them back. But, while cloning is currently illegal in the UK, an increasing number of British animal lovers are banking samples of their furry friends in high tech laboratories ready for a potential...

Economics