4 h. ago Robins will keep coming to your garden if you feed them these key items

Robins are one of the UK's most popular birds - so, if you want them to keep coming back to your garden, experts say you should make sure to leave out their favourite foods

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6 d. ago Exact bird box that will attract robins to your garden and keep them coming back

Robins are particular when it comes to their preferred accommodation and you have to choose wisely if you want to see them returning

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8 d. ago Emmerdale spoilers tease baby bombshell, horror attack and John Sugden exposed

Fans of ITV soap Emmerdale have some dramatic episodes coming up, with spoilers teasing developments when it comes to Liam's attack and the death of Nate Robinson

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2 w. ago Gardeners issued brutal bird feed warning over scraps falling on lawns

Gardeners are warned that leaving uneaten bird feed in the garden can spread fatal diseases to the wildlife - with leftovers doing more harm than good

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2 w. ago ‘Beautifully, awfully funny’: why Withnail and I is my feelgood movie

The latest in our ongoing series of comfort movies is a pick for Bruce Robinson’s cult British comedyIn the words of its writer and director, Withnail and I is a comedy that “doesn’t know it’s funny”. To its star, it’s about “the nobility of failure”. It ends with its title character alone in the rain, his one friend gone, delivering a Hamlet soliloquy to an indifferent wolf. It’s my feelgood movie.Bruce Robinson’s British classic was released in 1987. He and Richard E Grant made the remarks above in 2007, at the British Film Institute. I was there, eager to hear Robinson discuss a movie based on his own experience. Themes abide. As he said recently about The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman, his imperishable novel about his brutal childhood: “It’s very funny but also sad as fuck.” Robinson’s first film was a novel before it was a screenplay. At the BFI, he said he knew he’d got his film right at an early screening, when a “girl sort of threw up, laughing”. She had a point. Withna...

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2 w. ago Soaring St Mirren enter STATUE status as Stephen Robinson sees a top six plan come together – 3 talking points

Saints sealed top six for a third consecutive season after edging a 3-2 thriller with Ross County

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3 w. ago RSPCA urges gardeners to make simple change to bird feeders immediately

Bird feeders with a specific sized feed hole should be put out for wildlife if your garden struggles with pigeons throughout the spring and summer

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3 w. ago It could set the industry back 50 years: fashion braces for impact of Trump tariffs

From farmers to designers, the entire supply chain will be hit – but it is unclear what duties apply to a finished productFirst it was steel producers. Then automobiles. Now the fashion industry has been left reeling from Donald Trump’s announcement on Wednesday that he was imposing tariffs on more than 180 countries including severe levies aimed at some of fashion’s biggest manufacturing regions.Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs included a 10% duty on all imports to the US but “worst offender” countries – those with whom America has bigger trade deficits – face a higher rate. Several of these are key to fashion’s supply chains. China, where everyone from Prada to Zara outsource production, faces a 54% duty. Vietnam, where more than half of Nike’s footwear was produced last year, will be subject to a 46% tariff. Pakistan, a key manufacturer of denim items, will be hit with a 29% duty. Bangladesh, where garment manufacturing makes up to 80% of its total exports, will be subjected to 3...

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4 w. ago The kitchen scrap that gets thrown away every day which can make peace lilies thrive

One key kitchen item you are binning regularly can be the difference between a drooping plant and a blooming flower

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