4 h. ago Save £20 per person on adventures by steam train from London

This summer, treat yourself, family or friends to a special day out with The Railway Touring Company

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20 h. ago RAF veteran, 99, will remember friends ‘who didn’t make it’ on VE Day

Dennis Bishop visited RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Wednesday as it prepares for the VE Day flypast.

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7 d. ago Chris Hoy has 'epic day' in Wales as he blows away Gethin Jones and friends

The former Olympic champion left his mates stunned as he showed off his skills

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7 d. ago The eyewitness to the ‘Zizians’ murder was murdered weeks before the trial started. Now the only other witness is dying and has lost his memory

Patrick McMillan, 81, testified vividly about the day his ‘best friend’ Curtis Lind was stabbed with a samurai sword — but often struggled to remember details

Events

7 d. ago ‘Zizian’ murder case takes bizarre turn after key witness claims to have worked as undercover US government asset

Patrick McMillan, 81, testified vividly about the day his ‘best friend’ Curtis Lind was stabbed with a samurai sword — but often struggled to remember details

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8 d. ago Hero bystander suffers horror injuries as he stops woman and newborn baby being attacked by three dogs

William Newbury, 22, had been dropping off gifts for a friend on Mother's Day when he was forced to leap through a window to stop the attack.

Events

9 d. ago Alex Jones says she's 'terrified every day' as she opens up about friend's death

The BBC One Show presenter shared more about her personal life on the latest episode of Fearne Cotton's podcast - Happy Place

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1 week ago Barry Hoban, British cycling legend and Tour de France icon, dies aged 85

Yorkshire-born cyclist won eight stages of Tour de FranceFamously beat Eddy Merckx at Gent-Wevelgem in 1974The pioneering British road sprinter and Classics rider Barry Hoban has died at the age of 85. Hoban was for many years the UK record holder for stage wins in the Tour de France notching up a tally of eight during his 17-year professional racing career, a total bettered only by the greatest sprinter of them all, Mark Cavendish, in 2009.Hoban’s first stage victory in the Tour, in 1967, was not one he cared to remember – or that he felt was really a win – as it came the day after the sudden death of his friend and rival Tom Simpson on Mont Ventoux; he was “permitted” to escape and cross the line first by the grieving peloton. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Boden knocks £93 off trendy sunshine yellow summer dress that's 'flattering on mum tums'

"Gorgeous summer dress, great for work, summer day out or drinks with a friend. Gorgeous colours, really flattering lovely fit"

Economics

1 week ago ‘People lay at my feet. I said: get up. They were silent’: Ukrainian survivors speak after Russia’s attack on Sumy

Alla Shyrshonkova was on a bus when Russian missiles hit the city. Now a toy bear and hippo mark the spot where 35 people, including two children, were killedLast weekend, Alla Shyrshonkova got on the 62 bus on a journey to her cottage near the Ukrainian city of Sumy. It was a warm spring day. “I thought I’d sit with friends, have some tea. Birds were singing. The weather was beautiful. It was so nice,” she recalled.“The bus was packed. There wasn’t a single free seat. People were standing. Some were going to church for Palm Sunday. There were families with children.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘I saw cars on fire. People were lying at my feet’: Ukrainian survivors describe Russia’s attack on Sumy

Alla Shyrshonkova was on a bus when Russian missiles hit the city. Now a toy bear and hippo mark the spot where 35 people, including two children, were killedLast weekend, Alla Shyrshonkova got on the 62 bus on a journey to her cottage near the Ukrainian city of Sumy. It was a warm spring day. “I thought I’d sit with friends, have some tea. Birds were singing. The weather was beautiful. It was so nice,” she recalled.“The bus was packed. There wasn’t a single free seat. People were standing. Some were going to church for Palm Sunday. There were families with children.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago London Irish celebrate their homeland at friends and family day

London Irish celebrate their homeland at friends and family day  The Irish Post

Society

2 w. ago I will love my oldest friends until the day I die but now I dread seeing them

That's the thing with old friends. You feel such intense conflicted feelings about them. Love - yes, I really will love them both until I die. But I also feel the weird push and pull of judgment.

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2 w. ago Two American college students jailed in Denmark for allegedly fighting with Uber driver

Owen Ray’s mother fears for her son, as she claims he and his friend are being ‘locked up 23 hours a day’ in a Copenhagen jail

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2 w. ago I’m disagreeable – and it’s backed by science. Can I change my personality?

I scored low for agreeableness in a personality test for the ‘big five’ traits – does this mean I’m doomed to be disagreeable? I looked into how I can change who I amThe other day, a friend decided to playfully name our individual roles within the group: planner, emotional support, and so on. I was the fault-finder – or, as she put it, “the grumpy teenager” – who points out problems, but doesn’t suggest alternatives.She was only kidding around, but she struck at an insecurity I have: that I’m unacceptably, intolerably negative.I’m an adult. Why do I regress under my parents’ roof?I like my own company. But do I spend too much time alone?People say you’ll know – but will I regret not having children?Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change by Olga Khazan is out now Continue reading...

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2 w. ago I cheated on my perfect husband on a girls' trip in Bali. The next day, my friend confessed something that made my skin crawl: SAUCY SECRETS

I love my husband, I really do. In many ways, he's perfect. Yet, when I met a hot Swedish backpacker on my White Lotus-style girls' holiday, I was putty in his hands...

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2 w. ago Gardeners' World's Monty Don flooded with support as he says goodbye in sad announcement

Gardeners' World presenter Monty Don has been supported by fans after he shared a moving tribute to a friend who has sadly passed away, following a day of goodbyes

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2 w. ago 'I joined an unconventional tour group to make the most of a Mediterranean holiday'

Reporter Ellen Jenne found new friends on tour of an island full of treasures. The eight-day tour unveiled a treasure trove of historic gems, architectural masterpieces and dreamy bays.

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3 w. ago SARAH RAINEY: I tried the NAD+ IV drip celebs claim will help them to 'look young forever' , the next day my school mum friends couldn't believe the difference...

Lying on a turquoise hospital gurney, hooked up to a drip of clear, sparkling fluid, I can feel a tingling sensation pulsing through my body.

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3 w. ago Alan Cumming leads Tartan Day parade in New York as John Swinney hails 'historic friendship'

The acting icon was this year’s Grand Marshal, with several high-profile politicians also heading across the Atlantic to the Big Apple.

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