69 m. ago 'My friend named daughter after a food and baby's nickname is even worse'

A woman has shared her shock after hearing what her friend is naming her newborn daughter, as she explains how her entire family reacted to the news at the child's gender reveal party

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81 m. ago Man tracked down his wife after she fled home and stabbed her 26 times as she pushed their baby in pram, murder trial told

Kulsuma Akter was 27 and from Oldham

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97 m. ago Prince Harry's ex gives birth to 'miracle' second baby with very special name

Prince Harry's former girlfriend Cressida Bonas is said to have given birth to a daughter, her second child, and given her a name that is close to her heart

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97 m. ago Netflix adding second season of popular comedy featuring Hollywood legend two years after last episodes

The star-studded series premiered all the way back in 2023

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1 hour ago Woman stabbed more than 25 times in attack by husband while pushing baby in pram

Habibur Masum has denied murdering his wife Kulsuma Akter in Bradford.

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1 hour ago Liz McClarnon announces baby's gender in first TV interview since difficult pregnancy journey

Atomic Kitten's Liz McClarnon has shared the gender of her baby in her first TV interview since announcing the pregnancy, having opened up about her difficulties around conceiving

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1 hour ago Rising TV star to make Royal Ascot debut leading up father’s horse in big race

Andie Biancone, one of the emerging broadcasting talents in US horse racing, is leaving her mic at home to help prepare Patrick Biancone’s Queen Mary Stakes hope

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1 hour ago Mum's surprise as baby son's rare blond hair goes viral on TikTok

Saoirse Ina Havelaar, 22, welcomed baby son Lewis on January 20 and he quickly shot to fame on social media for his rare blond hair

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2 h. ago Constance Marten victim of ‘relentless and dogged’ smears, court told

Marten and convicted rapist Mark Gordon are on trial at the Old Bailey accused of the manslaughter of their newborn baby Victoria.

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2 h. ago Emmerdale's Amy Walsh on 'cathartic' soap role 10 years after debut

The actress shared how it feels to play the role of Tracy Robinson after joining over a decade ago

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3 h. ago Expectant parents still relying on pregnancy myths to predict baby’s gender

New research has uncovered the top 20 myths expectant parents believe during pregnancy, especially those regarding gender predictions

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3 h. ago Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 Highlights: Here are all 17 Edinburgh Comedy Award winners returning this year

With thousands of shows to choose from it can be hard to decide what to book at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. All these comedians are tried-and-tested comedy champions.

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3 h. ago Female entrepreneur ‘absolutely humiliated’ after London Tech Week refuses entry for bringing baby

London Tech Week said the flagship event had not ‘been designed to incorporate the particular needs, facilities and safeguards that under-16s require’

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5 h. ago Race Across the World favourites named after leaders Brian and Melvyn trip up in semi

Caroline and Tom reached the seventh checkpoint in first position, but in a shocking twist, Brian and Melvyn ended up last, 17 hours behind

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5 h. ago Something in the water: how kelp is helping Maine’s mussels boom

When a US firm saw the seaweed was making their shellfish the ‘biggest and best’ scientists realised they’d hit upon a natural way to combat ocean acidificationPhotographs by Greta RybusMore on this story: A drop in the ocean: does experimental technology hold the key to saving the world’s seas?On a glimmering May morning, Tom Briggs pilots a 45ft aluminium barge through the waters of Casco Bay for one of the final days of the annual kelp harvest. Motoring past Clapboard Island, he points to a floating wooden platform where mussels have been seeded alongside ribbons of edible seaweed.“This is our most productive mussel site,” says Briggs, the farm manager for Bangs Island Mussels, a Portland sea farm that grows, harvests and sells hundreds of thousands of pounds of shellfish and seaweed each year. “When we come here, we get the biggest, fastest-growing mussels with the thickest shells and the best quality. To my mind, unscientifically, it’s because of the kelp.”Zoe Benisek, oyster l...

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5 h. ago Entrepreneur ‘humiliated’ after London Tech Week turns her and baby away

Entrepreneur ‘humiliated’ after London Tech Week turns her and baby away  The Guardian

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6 h. ago Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way by Elaine Feeney review – a satisfying tale of memory and place

Stories within stories give fascinating depth to the prize-winning author’s third novel, about a woman’s return to her family home in the west of IrelandElaine Feeney’s third novel, following the success of her prize-winning debut As You Were and the Booker-longlisted How to Build a Boat, focuses on Claire O’Connor, a woman who has moved from London back to Athenry in the west of Ireland in the wake of her mother’s death. Her new life is disturbed when she finds her ex-partner Tom has moved in down the road. Or rather, that’s one thread in a story that becomes steadily more interesting than this simple set-up from the romance novelist’s playbook, as layers of family memory and trauma build up to form a portrait of the wider O’Connor family: all their history, the way it has shaped them and the traces it has left on the places around.Claire shows herself to be unusually attuned to the history of her home place, telling stories about nearby Thoor Ballylee, where Yeats lived; Lady...

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8 h. ago Viktor Gyokeres expected to join Man Utd as Erling Haaland role emerges

Viktor Gyokeres is looking to head to Manchester United this summer according to singer and Coventry City fan Tom Grennan - who has remained friendly with the Sporting Lisbon star

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9 h. ago Netflix’s Titan: The OceanGate Disaster tells the inside story of CEO Stockton Rush’s fatal gamble

In June 2023, when a tourist submarine went missing off the coast of Newfoundland, the whole world stopped to follow the extraordinary story. Tom Murray speaks to the director of a Netflix documentary about the case, and hears about the mistakes that led to the accident

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9 h. ago Brazil clinch World Cup spot as Carlo Ancelotti enjoys home debut in charge

The win lifts Brazil to third in South American qualifying, joining Ecuador on 25 points.

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