4 d. ago The ultimate High Street pizza chain taste test: From Pizza Express to Domino's TOM PARKER BOWLES tried them all... and you'll never guess which favourite came bottom of the pile

It all used to be so easy. A frozen French-bread pizza, bought as a treat from Sainsbury's.

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4 d. ago Is being a Guardian reporter as exciting as the movies make out?

Keira Knightley cuts a more glamorous figure than most Guardian staff in her new Netflix film The Woman in Cabin 10, while Tennant is a dead ringer for star reporter Nick Davies. But how convincing are they?In The Woman in Cabin 10, Netflix’s new potboiler, Keira Knightley plays a fearless justice warrior, a lone voice of dogged truth in a maelstrom of corruption, and this is not her first foray into such terrain: six years ago she played the whistleblower Katharine Gun in Official Secrets, the 2019 film about some pretty dicey US and UK behaviour before the Iraq war.This time round she’s a journalist, though – and not just any old hack, a Guardian journalist. Exhausted and possibly traumatised by a crusading investigation she has just finished about some bad people doing bad things, she accepts a trip on a billionaire’s yacht for a breather, only to discover that billionaires are also bad. You cannot call that a spoiler, even though it technically is one. You’re reading the Guardia...

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6 d. ago Cost of eating out at Pizza Express surges by 55% in the past five years as classic margherita jumps to £14.45

The economy has been hit by wave upon wave of inflation since 2020 with prices increasing by 27.7 per cent overall in that time. This has been particularly devastating in the hospitality industry.

Economics

8 d. ago 'I bought £5 Pizza Express bag to save food waste and was floored by contents'

Laura was left gobsmacked when she opened up her Too Good To Go bag from Pizza Express and she lifted box after box after box out of the large paper bag she'd been given

Economics

8 d. ago Woman buys £5 Too Good To Go bag from Pizza Express and what's inside floors her

A woman unboxed her £4.99 Pizza Express Too Good To Go bag and was left floored by what was inside, saying that the shop wasn't even about to close soon

Economics

9 d. ago The next archbishop of Canterbury has no time to waste in making change – this is what she will be up against | Martine Oborne

Sarah Mullally is known to be wise, intelligent, courageous and compassionate. That should serve her well in the battles aheadThe Rev Martine Oborne is the chair of Women and the Church (Watch) and vicar of St Michael’s church in Chiswick, LondonPeople all over the country will have rejoiced on Friday at the news of the first ever female archbishop of Canterbury. After literally centuries of women seeking to serve as leaders in the church, a woman will now hold the most senior position in the Church of England. And the news was welcomed not simply because Sarah Mullally is a woman, but because she is a wise, intelligent, courageous and compassionate leader.Of course, some people are unhappy – either because of her sex or because of her support for the blessings of same-sex relationships. And some raise concerns about a serious safeguarding case five years ago that was not handled well on her watch by the diocese of London safeguarding team.The Rev Martine Oborne is the chair of Wome...

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1 week ago First female Archbishop of Canterbury still an outlier among world's top religious leaders

For the first time, a woman will serve as the Archbishop of Canterbury, following the 105 men who have held the role since St. Augustine took that position in the year 597

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1 week ago What a £5 coffee (or a £100 Pizza Express) tells us about a changing Britain | Gaby Hinsliff

For many gen Xers, it feels like we’re sliding back towards the land of our childhoods: where eating out was for special occasions, and Thermoses were kingIt was only a chain-store coffee.A morale-boosting one, bought for consoling purposes on the faintly weepy way home from dropping our precious firstborn off at university; but still, just a takeaway oat-milk latte from a bog-standard roadside chain somewhere in Berkshire. The shock was that it was over £5.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Economics

2 w. ago Professional taste tester wanted by Pizza Express – and it comes with incredible benefit

Pizza Express is on the hunt for a 'CE-Dough' to fill the role of professional taste tester for its new 11-inch Specials range, and the lucky winner will be paid to taste the delicious pizzas

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2 w. ago Pizza Express is giving a lucky fan free pizza for a year on one condition

For those who class themselves as a pizza fanatic, popular chain Pizza Express are offering one lucky fan the chance to be paid to eat pizza as they announce brand new job role

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2 w. ago Horror at M6 services as woman's life changed forever in 'catastrophic' incident

A woman's life has been changed 'forever' after an incident at the M6 services in Knutsford

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3 w. ago Madeleine McCann prime suspect says he has 'special information' but 'THEY want to make me cold'

Exclusive: Christian Brueckner has been released from a German jail after serving more than five years for raping a 72-year-old woman, but insists he knows who took Madeleine McCann

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3 w. ago Where will Madeleine McCann prime suspect roam as he's released and 'may flee Germany'

Christian Brueckner, 48, was released from Sehnde prison near Hannover at 9.15am this morning after serving a seven-year sentence for raping an elderly woman in Portugal

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3 w. ago Doctor who left unconscious patient on operating table to have sex with nurse had 'momentary lapse of judgement', tribunal finds

"This conduct does not meet with the standards required of a doctor"

Science

4 w. ago Main suspect in Madeleine McCann case due to be released from German prison

Authorities say they no longer have legal justification to hold Christian Brückner in jail after serving rape sentenceThe main suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is expected to be freed on Wednesday as German authorities admit they no longer have legal justification to hold him in jail.Christian Brückner, 49, is due to be released from prison in Sehnde, northern Germany, after serving a sentence for the rape of an American woman, then 72 years old, in Portugal in 2005. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Main suspect in Madeleine McCann case released from German prison

Authorities say they no longer have legal justification to hold Christian Brückner in jail after serving rape sentenceThe main suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann was freed on Wednesday as German authorities admit they no longer have legal justification to hold him in jail.Christian Brückner, 49, was released from prison in Sehnde, northern Germany, after serving a sentence for the rape of an American woman, then 72 years old, in Portugal in 2005, a reporter for the AFP news agency at the scene reported. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Married doctor, 44, who left patient on operating table in the middle of surgery to have sex with a nurse is cleared to resume his medical career

Consultant anaesthetist Suhail Anjum, 44, was discovered 'in a compromising position' with another nurse in an operating theatre at Tameside General Hospital in 2023.

Science

4 w. ago Pizza Express staff film sex act on table as woman served different kind of dough ball

The iconic pizza chain's menus can be seen in the background of the footage while the woman performs a sex act on the man before the pair romped on the floor, on a table and in a manager's office

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