7 h. ago London leaver: 'It's easy to almost forget there's life outside the M25'

On Friday evenings Tori Halman and her boyfriend Rob Overall would be cosy at home, cooking pasta and enjoying a glass of wine, while listening to the shrieks and shouts of twentysomething revellers beginning their big nights out.

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11 h. ago Petal the bulldog's life hasn't been easy and she needs a new home

Petal needed an operation and a health regimen when she came into Cardiff Dog's Home

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48 h. ago ‘The lawsuit was my life. Of course I’m writing about it’: Hard Life – formerly Easy Life – on being sued by easyGroup and starting afresh

When the Leicester band were forced to drop their old name after a legal threats from a certain budget airline, it could have been curtains. But frontman Murray Matravers’s trip to Japan has prompted a bold new outlook – and an upbeat new albumWhen writing songs, “95% of the time” Murray Matravers starts with the title. It’s a tactic he picked up from Gary Barlow: a producer once told him the Take That man tends to arrive at sessions touting a load of prospective song titles “cut out on little pieces of paper, and he’d put them on the table and you could just choose one. I was like: that’s fucking brilliant. Ever since I’ve always had loads of titles in my Notes app. It actually changed the way I wrote music,” he says with genuine enthusiasm. “Shout out to Gary Barlow!”Names are clearly very important to the 29-year-old – but in recent years they have also caused him untold stress. By 2023, Matravers’ band Easy Life was thriving, having s...

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1 week ago Four easy strawberry recipes to make during Wimbledon (or just because)

Celebrate British strawberry season, and Wimbledon, with these quick, crowd-pleasing desserts and drinks – from a giant strawberries and cream scone cake to a refreshing gin spritz

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2 w. ago Anne Burrell talked about marital bliss and appearing on Meghan Markle's show in heartbreaking interview weeks before Food Network star's shock death at 55

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail in April, she talked animatedly about how much she was enjoying married life, claiming it was so easy that she felt they were still in the honeymoon phase.

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3 w. ago 11 basic life skills we've lost since the 60s, which almost everyone used to have

Navigating modern life is not easy and requires a very particular set of skills, as Liam Neeson might say.

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3 w. ago Secrets of the keyless car thieves: As an epidemic sweeps Britain, real

In a brazen display of criminality, a pair of masked car thieves are demonstrating to a TV film crew the ease and speed with which they can steal luxury cars.

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3 w. ago Father’s Day brunch ideas: 4 easy recipes to impress Dad without the fuss

Skip the crowded cafes and treat Dad to a flavour-packed homemade brunch instead. These four speedy recipes – from spicy tacos to Turkish-style eggs – are ready in under 30 minutes and guaranteed to make his morning

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4 w. ago How to make excellent pizza at home – no pizza oven (or pizzaiolo training) required

It started with a walk, a glass of wine and a pizza dropped face-down on the floor. Hannah Twiggs shares her dad’s hard-earned lessons in home pizza – plus three topping combos worth arguing over

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