15 h. ago A bold image of motherhood – using a prosthetic belly: Gabriel Moses’ best photograph

‘My sister used to have all these fashion posters in her bedroom – Nick Wright photographs, pictures of Naomi Campbell. Those references have become important in my work’I was raised in a single-parent household by my mum and we’re very close. She is a nurse, but she also did a lot of flower-arranging. I would often go to hang around the florists with her and her arrangements were always around the house. When I was a kid she was also a Sunday school teacher and would run arts and crafts workshops at church. I think I began to appreciate colour, how to match things, and develop taste, from there. My sister also studied fashion – and I was always in her bedroom as that’s where I would go to watch TV. She would have all these posters from Dazed and Vogue, Nick Knight photographs, pictures of Naomi Campbell. I thought it was rubbish at the time, but in hindsight I can understand how those references have become important.This image was the cover of my book, Regina, which was a massive ...

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66 h. ago Single mum living in cramped hotel room with two kids forced to push beds together

Abbie Coulthard, 31, has shared her story of living in a hotel room in Liverpool city centre with her son Rocco, 8, and daughter Dollie, 6 months, who was born in a B&B in Manchester

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4 d. ago The mum and two kids living in a hotel room with beds pushed together

Abbie Coulthard and her family have been living in a hotel for five weeks

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5 d. ago Mystery over 'heartbreaking' message in a bottle that left people in tears is solved as bereaved daughter reveals her late mother's final wishes

Single mum of five Wendy Chadwick always dreamed of seeing the world but could only manage holidays in the UK. But this has changed after her death.

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5 d. ago Huddersfield murder probe launched as single mum, 61, and son found dead in home

Police said Jane Riddell's death was being treated as suspicious, prompting a murder investigation, after she was found dead in a property in Huddersfield with her son's body

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6 d. ago Kidnapper sentenced to nearly 400 years after holding woman inside hotel room and raping her for two years

Ian Kroe developed a friendship with the 74-year-old woman in the wake of his mother’s death before kidnapping and raping her

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7 d. ago Keir Starmer 'picks money man RAF chief to head UK Armed Forces' as he launches push to get Britain 'war

Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, an RAF engineer, is reportedly in line to be the next Chief of Defence Staff.

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8 d. ago Helen Flanagan's 'nightmare' return from Scotland following family trip to Glasgow

The Corrie star, 34, has admitted that her ban from driving has caused her chaos as she struggles to juggle life again as a single mum to her three kids Matilda, nine, Delilah, six, and four-year-old son Charlie.

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1 week ago Disabled single mum left £500 a month worse off thanks to benefit cuts

Hannah Leonard, who has achondroplasia, a bone growth disorder which causes dwarfism, said she lost working family tax credits and disability tax credits, worth around £500 a month combined under recent benefits changes

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1 week ago BBC Race Across the World star Sam Gardiner dies aged 24 in tragic car crash

Sam Gardiner, who appeared in the second series of the BBC show alongside his mum Jo, was involved in a single-vehicle collision in Manchester last week

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1 week ago 'I’m worried I’ll be kicked out on the streets. What am I going to do about the kids?'

A huge rent increase has left one single mum scared she could end up without a home. Charlotte Hall reports.

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1 week ago I’m not looking for a male role figure for my children – is that wrong?

It’s widely believed that two-parent families with a male role model are the gold standard – but it’s not always the case, says single mum of two, Charlotte Cripps

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2 w. ago Zelenskyy warns of Russian troops gathering in Sumy as he visits Merz in Berlin

German chancellor expected to announce new plans to aid Ukraine and focus on efforts to bring about ceasefireRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesVolodymyr Zelenskyy has said Russia has amassed 50,000 of its troops in the Sumy region before a planned large-scale offensive. The Ukrainian president and the German leader, Friedrich Merz, have convened for an “emergency meeting” in Berlin.Zelenskyy said Russia’s “largest and strongest forces are right now at the Kursk front in order to push our troops out of the Kursk region and to prepare offensives against the Sumy region”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'I never thought I'd need help like this, but this one service has been a lifeline'

A recent trip to the supermarket was eye-opening says one single mum

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2 w. ago The unbelievably subtle 'spot' on woman's nose that turned out to be cancer

A single mum has shared the incredibly subtle sign of her skin cancer that struck twice, and resulted in a 'big gaping black hole' in the side of her nose.

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2 w. ago Supermum of three works just 16 hours a week and enjoys multiple holidays a year

A savvy single mum of three young boys works just 16 hours a week but manages to save enough for multiple holidays a year, all while balancing family life, experiences, and her finances

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2 w. ago Single mum who scrimped and saved for Disneyland trip loses £2,500 in 'heartbreaking' way

The single mum had saved up to take her daughters on the once in a lifetime trip, but found themselves targeted by cruel scammers

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3 w. ago 'Incredibly addictive' crime drama starring Hollywood legend finally made free to stream by ITV

It follows the story of four British citizens who get wrapped up in a criminal investigation after the son of a wealthy American business mogul (Thurman) is kidnapped from the hotel they are staying at.

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