40 m. ago Huge restaurant, deli and cocktail bar announces Manchester launch date and opening offer for diners

It will feature an 150-cover restaurant with a menu centered around fresh, handmade pasta, antipasti, sharing dishes and indulgent desserts

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49 m. ago Nintendo Switch 2 launch – live: Console reveal just hours away

Follow live: All the build-up to the biggest gaming launch in years, plus the latest news and rumours

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59 m. ago Frankie Bridge launches raunchy product based on her nipples

Loose Women's Frankie Bridge baffled fans as she revealed her brand new product that is a copy of her nipples so they can 'get attention' like her - but it's not all as it appears

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63 m. ago Urgent search for Brit dad seen 'suddenly leaving boarding queue' at airport after Benidorm stag do

Spanish police have launched an urgent search for Jason Taylor, 36, after he failed to catch a return flight home to Birmingham, with his family flying to Benidorm to aid the search

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87 m. ago New Zealand Rugby and Ineos settle sponsorship contract dispute

NZR had launched legal action over missed paymentDetails of settlement to remain confidentialThe Manchester United co-owner Ineos and New Zealand Rugby have announced a settlement has been reached in their sponsorship contract dispute.In February NZR, the federation responsible for the All Blacks team, said it had launched legal action against Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos after accusing the chemicals firm of failing to pay the first 2025 instalment of a six-year deal. Ineos at the time said it had looked to “adjust” its sponsorship, with it having to implement “cost-saving measures” due the impact of “high energy costs and extreme carbon taxes” on its European businesses. Continue reading...

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94 m. ago Royal fans spot awkward typo in Meghan Markle's newsletter as she finally launches her As Ever products

In her latest newsletter, the Duchess of Sussex, 43, said she hopes buyers will be able to 'mimic the magic of Montecito in a way you can recreate at home'.

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1 hour ago Friends launch fundraiser for rescue team who battled to save tragic student at Scots beauty spot

Emily Russell and Eleanor Blake will take on the West Highland Way and Three Peaks Challenge in memory of Eilidh McNab who tragically drowned near Bracklinn Falls in Callander.

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1 hour ago ‘I feel as though I’ve been in chains’: the bittersweet life of lovers rock legend Mari’ Pierre

The British-Guyanese singer topped the reggae chart with 1978’s Walk Away, but despite work with Robert Plant and others, she’s rarely returned to the studio. This interview might change that In December 1978, Marie Pierre was at No 1 in the UK reggae chart with the lovers rock classic Walk Away, a beautiful tearstained lament on a troubled relationship. Her 1979 debut album Love Affair, powered by another enduring scene song in Choose Me, remained one of Trojan’s best-selling albums well into the 1980s; Pierre, with her crystalline multi-octave voice, seemed destined to follow her contemporary, Silly Games singer Janet Kay, into mainstream pop-reggae success.But in the 46 years since, Pierre has never released another album. A career that promised so much has – despite TV work and successful backing singing gigs with Robert Plant, Donna Summer and Chaka Khan – been one of frustration and thwarted ambition. Misfortune, mistrust and mistreatment, personal and professional, have sidel...

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1 hour ago ‘We feel the pain but there is also joy’: the healing power of diasporic connection

The Legacies of Enslavement programme aims to atone for the Guardian’s past while highlighting the lasting impact of transatlantic slaveryIllustrations by Ngadi SmartSalvador, Bahia, Brazil. In capoeira – an art form whose origins were carried across the Black Atlantic by enslaved people, but which developed and grew into a cultural form of resistance in Brazil – we sometimes wish each other axé (pronounced “ah-shay”). In doing so, we would be bestowing on our interlocutor life force, vitality or just positive energy in the capoeira roda (circle where capoeira is played) or in life.The term is also used in Candomblé and Umbanda, syncretic afro-Brazilian religions with African roots. For me it also symbolises the ability to harness ancestral knowledge and energy to enrich the jogo (game of capoeira), embodying and paying tribute to those who kept the art form alive. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Caledonian Sleeper launches online gift shop with ‘golden ticket’ giveaway

Caledonian Sleeper has partnered with Glasgow-based ORB Group to launch its first-ever online gift shop, allowing both guests and fans of the overnight train the chance to be amongst the first to get their hands on one-of-a-kind, official merchandise.

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2 h. ago Aldi confirms date it will launch 'first of its kind' Dubai chocolate ice cream

Mark your calendars, as Aldi's twist on the viral Dubai style chocolate is set to land in stores next week.

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3 h. ago Spirited Away director says AI art is an 'insult to life' in harsh reaction to viral trend

Beloved Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki's harsh condemnation of AI has resurfaced on social media as X is being flooded by controversial images imitating his animation style

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3 h. ago 'Totally epic' Arnold Schwarzenegger action film hits streaming this month

Still as good as ever some 35 years after it came out, Total Recall was a huge smash on release in 1990 and launched the career of a huge Hollywood star

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3 h. ago Ineos and New Zealand Rugby reach settlement in sponsorship dispute

NZR had launched legal action after accusing Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos of failing to pay the first 2025 instalment of a six-year deal.

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3 h. ago Girl missing after 'paddling in Thames river' during day off school

The missing schoolgirl entered the river near London City Airport on Monday morning, emergency services launched a "large-scale response".

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3 h. ago Ukraine reports rare night of NO 'mass drone strikes' on civilians after Trump said he was 'pi**ed off' with Putin and threatened sanctions

Ukraine did claim to have shot down two Kh-59/69 cruise missiles launched by Russia overnight to attack southeastern Ukraine.

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3 h. ago Ukraine reports NO drone strikes for first time since October after Trump said he was 'pi**ed off' with Putin and threatened sanctions

Ukraine did claim to have shot down two Kh-59/69 cruise missiles launched by Russia overnight to attack southeastern Ukraine.

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4 h. ago A lot of mums are angry at Chappell Roan. I just want her to come over and listen to me whinge | Molly Glassey

Whether you’re a parent or not, you should be able to talk candidly about how tough it is having kidsA few weeks ago I told my friend – a good friend – that I was considering having a third kid. The colour washed from her face, and before her filter could kick in she said: “Please don’t.” She corrected herself. “You don’t really want to, do you?” I realised she thought I was unhappy. She thought I regretted it all. She was wrong on both accounts, but I didn’t blame her for coming to such a stark conclusion.That friend was not Chappell Roan. But the pop star is being pelted with the internet equivalent of soiled nappies for saying “all [her] friends who have kids are in hell” and “she doesn’t know anyone who’s happy with children at her age”. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Matadors and madness: the poses of a visionary – in pictures

She dressed up as a bullfighter, sat in a window with two magpies and flew colossal flags of warning. We go inside a fascinating new exhibition of photographs by multimedia artist Rose Finn-Kelcey Continue reading...

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5 h. ago 'I couldn't find her': Woman tells of desperate effort to save girl, 11, who fell into Thames as search is scaled back

Emergency services scaled back their search for the girl on Monday night after a ‘large scale response’ was launched to locate her

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