1 hour ago Michelle Keegan shares sweet new pictures with newborn baby daughter on 'special' first Mother's Day

The actress welcomed her first child into the world earlier this month (March) with her husband Mark Wright

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69 h. ago The Orange and Other Poems by Wendy Cope audiobook review – an understated greatest hits collection

Read and contextualised by the poet herself, these gentle gems have an extra tang of immediacyA greatest hits collection from one of Britain’s best-loved poets, Wendy Cope’s The Orange contains themes of love, friendship, family and mortality. The 1992 title poem – which recently enjoyed a second life on TikTok, with users showing off their fruit-based tattoos – finds the author buying a large orange, sharing it with two friends and concluding: “I love you. I’m glad I exist.” After the Lunch is about falling in love on Waterloo Bridge while “high on the charm and the drink”, while Being Boring hails the virtues of a drama-free life (“No news is good news, and long may it last”).Cope is the reader, her delivery gently understated and frequently deadpan. In Loss, she reflects on the end of a relationship in which the woman “went through hell. His absence wasn’t a problem, but the corkscrew had gone as well.” Sometimes she breaks from the narration to share the context of a p...

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2 d. ago Millie Bright: ‘I’m really proud of Lucy Bronze for coming out and sharing her story’

Chelsea and England defender on the power of football, the pitch named after her and a new reality for fan interactions“When you experience the things we have in the women’s game, it does open your eyes to the struggles of others,” says Millie Bright. “It does make you more aware of all kinds of different barriers people might face. You really appreciate the struggles that people have to go through and the constant barriers and battles that have to be fought every single day just to exist. Literally just to exist. You’re not asking to be better than anyone, you’re just asking to exist and be able to do what you love doing, whatever that is, in sport or beyond sport; things that are just part of living a full life, and everyone deserves a full life.”The Chelsea and England defender is sitting in the small stand at Cobham FC’s brilliantly named Leg O’ Mutton Field talking about the power of football. Last year Bright was back in Killamarsh, the village in north-east Derbyshire where s...

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2 d. ago Millie Bright: ‘I’m really proud of Lucy Bronze for sharing her story’

Chelsea and England defender on the power of football, the pitch named after her and praise for her teammate for talking about her ADHD and autism diagnosis“When you experience the things we have in the women’s game, it does open your eyes to the struggles of others,” says Millie Bright. “It does make you more aware of all kinds of different barriers people might face. You really appreciate the struggles that people have to go through and the constant barriers and battles that have to be fought every single day just to exist. Literally just to exist. You’re not asking to be better than anyone, you’re just asking to exist and be able to do what you love doing, whatever that is, in sport or beyond sport; things that are just part of living a full life, and everyone deserves a full life.”The Chelsea and England defender is sitting in the small stand at Cobham FC’s brilliantly named Leg O’ Mutton Field talking about the power of football. Last year Bright was back in Killamarsh, the vil...

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4 d. ago The real Scandi noir: how a filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark’s self

The Black Swan follows a repentant master criminal as she sets up corrupt clients in front of hidden cameras. But is she really reformed – and is the director up to his own tricks?The trap was laid in a rented office: two rooms in downtown Copenhagen, furnished without a whisper of Scandi style. If it wasn’t for a Frida Kahlo print on one wall, the premises might have felt as impersonal and stark as a confessional. That, in any event, was what it became. For six months, beginning in mid-2022, a parade of people – members of motorcycle gangs, entrepreneurs, lawyers, real-estate barons, politicians – trooped through to recount their sins to Amira Smajic. They didn’t come for expiation. They knew Smajic to be one of them – an outlaw, and in her particular case, a business lawyer so skilled at laundering money that she’d enabled a couple of billion kroner in financial crime over the previous decade. They called her the Ice Queen, because she showed not a flicker of regret for what she d...

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4 d. ago Elon Musk 'super fan' releases 'North Korea propaganda' music video as people beg it's not real

An Elon Musk music video has gone viral with many doubting if it is real - one person wrote that the song resembles 'North Korean propaganda songs about Kim Jong Un'

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6 d. ago People tell mum she's 'ruined daughter's life' with unique baby name

Emma says she doesn't care what people think and just didn't want something boring

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6 d. ago 'We're real people': Actor's fury as Disney replaces Snow White dwarves with CGI

'I think they've gone backwards'

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6 d. ago Is BBC Three's Crongton based on a true story? Inside ‘shocking’ inspiration behind new drama

The gritty inner-city drama is likely to resonate with many young people, but is it based on real life?

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7 d. ago People say 'real love exists' after man's sweet gesture for wife of 60 years

People say 'this type of love doesn't exist anymore' after a romantic man shared a sweet gesture he has done for his wife who he has been together with for 60 years

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7 d. ago Shoppers report 'visibly whiter' teeth in just days thanks to 'free' tooth whitening pen deal

Popular teeth whitening brand MySweetSmile is currently offering a buy two get one free deal across all their products - so you can get a brighter smile in no time

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8 d. ago The REAL reasons people cheat: I'm a psychotherapist who spent five years researching affairs. This is what I discovered about the signs people will stray

From the doctor addicted to his online mistress to the woman who left her husband for a female colleague, these adulterers all have one thing in common

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8 d. ago Emma Barnett: ‘People ask, is that the radio you or the real you?’

The broadcaster and author talks maternity leave, childhood curiosity and her imaginary radio audienceAt school, I was the girl who wanted to dissect sheep lungs. I had a lack of horror around gore, I’m not squeamish at all, which was helpful when it came to all those needles for IVF. I thought about being a surgeon. I also thought it would be interesting to become a fishmonger. I’m fascinated by fish – I don’t know why.As an only child, radio was my companion. I had a little battery-operated radio at the table next to my cereal bowl. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago The real reason you can't smile in your passport photo revealed

A travel expert has revealed the real reason why people aren't allowed to smile in their passport photo. And it's linked to facial recognition software...

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1 week ago New Wales Women coach says 'things are changing' as he reveals wife's sweet gesture to squad

Sean Lynn is focused on bringing a 'family feel' back to the Welsh squad

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1 week ago Jodie Foster receives a sweet kiss on the head from a mystery man after a two hour lunch in NYC

Jodie Foster was spotted out with a male companion in New York City on Tuesday. At one point he affectionately kissed the top of her head.

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1 week ago Martin Lewis says people with these conditions could be owed £109 a week

Martin Lewis has urged Brits to check if they're entitled to extra money through Attendance Allowance - which is a benefit that is awarded to people over state pension age

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1 week ago Still think autism is a 'boy thing'? Wrong: we're vastly under

If asked to name someone famous, fictional or real who is 'on the spectrum', most people give the same sorts of replies. Raymond Babbitt from the movie Rain Man is usually favourite.

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2 w. ago ‘They shouldn’t have to fight alone’: the families on the frontline of the Navajo Nation missing people crisis – photo essay

The disproportionate violence against Indigenous people is deeply felt on and around the reservation, where families must become their own investigators. Words and photography by Wayan BarreOn a cold January evening in 2021, Joey Apachee, a Navajo father of two, set out to meet a friend near the water tower in Steamboat, Arizona. Hours later, he was found beaten to death. However, despite a confession from a suspect, no trial has taken place. Joey’s father Jesse Apachee, a retired police officer, says the family feels abandoned by the Navajo Nation’s justice system.Indigenous people experience violence at alarmingly high rates. According to the Urban Indian Health Institute, in some parts of the US, Indigenous women are murdered at a rate 10 times higher than the national average. Additionally, 10,123 Native American people were recorded as missing in 2022, though the real tally is probably higher due to inconsistencies in reporting and data collection. In recent years the crisis ha...

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2 w. ago ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Was 'the Kurgan', the bad guy in the film Highlander, based on a real person?

The Kurgan (pictured) from the movie Highlander wasn't based on a specific person but on a real-life people: the Kurgans, an ancient nomadic people from the Pontic-Caspian steppe.

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