28 h. ago Tragic death of talented musician, 31, found at home in Lancashire

An inquest has heard there were no suspicious circumstances after the singer was found dead at home earlier this year

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3 d. ago ‘My body deserves pleasure’: is Virgin Island the most awkward TV sexperiment ever?

Twelve virgins, one island and a team of sex therapists who encourage participants to pleasure them Channel 4’s new show is eye-popping TV. The stars talk fruity games, panic attacks and intimacySex seems to be everywhere – in TV and films, the quagmire of porn online – but young people are increasingly not getting it in real life. The Next Steps longitudinal study following more than 16,000 people, by University College London, found that one in eight 26-year-olds still hadn’t had sex.Hence Channel 4’s new show, Virgin Island, which depicts a two-week “radical retreat” led by sexologists Danielle Harel and Celeste Hirschman and a team of experts. The 12 participants are all virgins, and their varied issues around physical intimacy are explored via therapies that include sex coaches stripping naked and encouraging participants to pleasure them. The hope being that sex might be something they get to experience in the next fortnight. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Jill Sobule dies at 66: I Kissed A Girl singer who feuded with Katy Perry mourned as cause of death revealed

Jill Sobule, the singer best known for her groundbreaking 1995 single I Kissed A Girl, has died at 66.

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1 week ago Jill Sobule dies at 66 as I Kissed A Girl singer who feuded with Katy Perry has tragic cause of death revealed

Jill Sobule, the singer best known for her groundbreaking 1995 single I Kissed A Girl, has died at 66.

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1 week ago I Kissed a Girl singer passes away at 66 as her tragic cause of death is revealed

Jill Sobule, the singer best known for her groundbreaking 1995 single I Kissed A Girl, has died at 66.

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1 week ago Civil War reenactors’ love triangle ends in revenge porn and $10.5 million federal lawsuit

Exclusive: Reenactor Lisa Twark, a 54-year-old veterinarian, discovered her reenactor husband was having an affair with a fellow reenactor by installing spyware on his laptop, according to court papers

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1 week ago Take It Down Act, addressing nonconsensual deepfakes and 'revenge porn,' passes. What is it?

The Take It Down Act, which seeks to enact stricter penalties for the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery, sometimes called ‘revenge porn’ online, is heading to President Donald Trump's signature after its bipartisan passage in congress

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1 week ago Who was Mike Peters? Singer passes away at 66 after blood cancer diagnosis

The frontman has died after previously being diagnosed with blood cancer more than 30 years ago

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2 w. ago Jess Glynne 'parts ways with record label' after blow over album sales

Brit Award nominee Jess Glynne is said to have parted ways with record label EMI - which is part of Universal Music Group - after releasing just one album together

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2 w. ago Army dentist in revenge porn plot against 'hero of Nairobi' secretly sacked over new stalking claims

Major Jennifer Wilson had been allowed to continue serving in the Army after pleading guilty to harassment and malicious communications, including bombarding Tobi-Jayne Cadbury with messages.

Society

3 w. ago ‘This trick is incredibly risky for him’: Ankit Ghosh’s best phone picture

The Indian photographer captures his neighbour breathing fire at the finale of a major Hindu festivalIn a narrow lane in Kolkata, West Bengal, Ankit Ghosh paused for a moment to take this photo. Ghosh was among crowds attending Vijaya Dashami, the last day of the Durga Puja, a festival he describes as “cultural potpourri”. He says, “It’s celebrated all across India, but there is no other place to experience it better than West Bengal. As this was the grand finale, the atmosphere was one of joy, pride and celebration.”The man in the photo is Ghosh’s neighbour. “He’s a fine performer of this trick, which you don’t see very often; it is generally saved up for special festivals and celebrations,” Ghosh says. “The liquid in the air is kerosene [paraffin], which is spat upwards through a lit matchstick to create these cloudy flames. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'Revenge porn' fury as record label releases CD by dead singer including naked photos of the performer taken by an ex

New Century Records were accused of an 'unforgiveable' act after announcing plans to distribute two intimate pictures of legendary singer Aki Yashiro, who died in 2023.

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3 w. ago Various artists: Disk Musik – A DD Records Compilation review | Safi Bugel's experimental album of the month

(Phantom Limb)The 80s label released hundreds of oddball DIY recordings. Their final compilation, now repressed, jerks from folk to punk to ambient – with moments worthy of great kids’ TVIn 1980, a group of friends in Japan started DD Records, a platform for amateur musicians to share bizarre homespun recordings across their network. The label released an impressive 222 cassettes and a handful of vinyl records in five years, then disbanded and faded into relative obscurity. Their last known release, the compilation Disk Musik – a multi-genre compilation bringing together 13 Japanese artists – is so rare that even the prolific music catalogue database Discogs bears little trace of it.Four decades on, it’s been re-pressed – and it still sounds as mind-warping as it probably did to its small circle of listeners back in 1985. The opening track by trio Circadian Rhythm may as well be three songs in one, drifting haphazardly from stray humming vocals to wistful coda, by way of a tangle of...

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3 w. ago Bliss set to hit the target as band releases debut single on Lanarkshire label

Recorded in January Bullseye will be released on Main St Records

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4 w. ago Naked pensioner leaves £100,000 trail of destruction including a destroyed HOUSE after taking monkey dust

Naked pensioner Walter Harrison was seen by neighbours shouting and banging on doors hours before he set fire to his own home whilst high on monkey dust.

Economics

last month AP PHOTOS: Coachella 2025: Benson Boone, Tyla and GloRilla perform in the desert.

Lady Gaga delivered a five-act career-spanning — and perhaps defining — performance, Benson Boone sang “Bohemian Rhapsody” with Queen's Brian May on guitar and Lisa drew a massive crowd to the Sahara tent as the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival opened in the California desert.

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