23 h. ago Summer cruise deals have just dropped for 2025 – these are the best to book now

From summer sailings this year to planning ahead, there are lots of cruise deals available for passengers to hit the high seas

Economics

45 h. ago British Airways announce huge sale on flights and holidays to Dubai, New York and European destinations

Book your trip before 20 May 2025 to take advantage of savings

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46 h. ago Annual leave dates to book off this May to make the most of UK weather

Scots should book these dates off work to maximise their annual leave in 2025 - surely you won't regret it

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48 h. ago New book prize to award aspiring writer £75,000 for first three pages of novel

The Next Big Story competition, run by writing school The Novelry, is encouraging entries from would-be authors ‘historically overlooked by the publishing industry’ A new competition is offering £75,000 to an aspiring writer based on just three pages of their novel.Actor Emma Roberts, Bridgerton author Julia Quinn and Booker-winning Life of Pi author Yann Martel are among the judges for The Next Big Story competition, run by online fiction writing school The Novelry. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Gruffalo to return with first new book in more than 20 years

Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler have announced they are working on a new outing for the monster in the deep dark wood, due out in September 2026He’s got knobbly knees, turned-out toes, a poisonous wart at the end of his nose and he’s back, for the first time in more than 20 years: Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler have announced they are working on a new Gruffalo book.Due out in September 2026, the as-yet-untitled picture book will return to the world of the bestselling stories The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Child, which were published in 1999 and 2004 respectively. The books are among the most popular children’s titles in the world, with The Gruffalo having sold 3.2m copies to date, and The Gruffalo’s Child 2.1m copies. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Arsenal book their spot in the Champions League final – Women’s Football Weekly

Faye Carruthers is joined by Sophie Downey, Ameé Ruszkai and Marva Kreel to discuss Arsenal’s win, Chelsea’s loss and latest action across the WSL and the ChampionshipOn this week’s Guardian Women’s Football Weekly, Faye is joined by Sophie Downey, Ameé Ruszkai and Marva Kreel. The panel discuss Arsenal’s 4-1 second-leg victory over Lyon, the north London side knocking out the eight-time European champions and securing their place in the final. However, it won’t be a full English affair after Chelsea’s dreams were dashed by a rampant Barcelona.The panel review the latest action across the Women’s Super League and the Championship as the season nears its conclusion and relegation spots are confirmed. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Marcus Rashford targets dream transfer as he doesn't want to play for Man Utd again

Marcus Rashford will push to join Barcelona this summer in a deal that could see the Manchester United take a drop in wages rather than play for Ruben Amorim again

Events

4 d. ago Asda’s kids café meal deal drops to 60p to kick start retailer’s 60th birthday celebrations

Asda’s popular Kids Eat for £1 café meal deal to drop to just 60p for the month of May in the UK, including Scotland. A family with four children can all get a hot meal for less than £2.50. Over six million £1 kids café meals sold to date – peaking at 40,000 per week during school holidays. The price is to celebrate 60 years of Asda offering great family value.

Economics

4 d. ago The best holidays to book for June 2025, from coastal Corsica to train rides through Canada

Whether walking the wild west coast of Wales or holing up in the Lazio countryside, there’s jet-setting and staycations to boot at the start of the summer season

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5 d. ago Here's how to get FREE flights to China and India for 2025 and 2026 with unmissable all

SHOPPING: Inspired by Race Across the World? Book a 2025/2026 tour to China or India with Wendy Wu Tours and save on flights - partners fly free and solo travellers get 50 per cent off.

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6 d. ago Celtic’s latest title triumph owes much to Brendan Rodgers’ frustrated ambitions | Ewan Murray

Scotland’s most powerful force needn’t be wildly praised for topping the pile yet again but the manager deserves respectTwelve months from now, Brendan Rodgers will either be preparing to bid farewell to Celtic for surely the final time or the manager will be embarking on phase two of this second tenure. Mystery around the more likely scenario means that what happens next to Celtic is far more intriguing than the comfortable retention of their Scottish title. Make that 13 in 14 years.Rodgers will already know his future plan. So, too, will Dermot Desmond. There may be no official board role for Celtic’s principal shareholder and no public utterances on all things Celtic, but Rodgers has been sure to drop in that he deals directly with the Irish billionaire as opposed to, say, the club’s chair, Peter Lawwell. If this feels structurally odd, it is the kind of thing that is ignored while the team keeps winning. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Han Kang Nobel prize lecture book sells 10,000 copies in first day online in South Korea

Korean retailers report strong sales for Light and Thread, featuring speeches, essays and poems by novelistA book featuring Han Kang’s Nobel prize lecture sold 10,000 copies in its first day on sale online.Light and Thread, which takes its title from Han’s December lecture, is her first book to be published in South Korea since she was announced as the winner of the Nobel prize in literature last October. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Top Tech: Sky's best broadband deals as price drops to cheapest ever in flash sale

Sky has launched a surprise Easter sale that's seen its broadband offerings get cheaper and faster, all while beating Virgin Media and BT's prices

Economics

9 d. ago Stock markets rise as Trump backtracks on high China tariffs and firing Fed chair

Weeks of tough talk from the US president, who now says he will be ‘very nice’ to China, had rattled investors Stock markets have risen around the world after Donald Trump said his tariffs on China would come down “substantially” and he had “no intention” of firing the chair of the US central bank, Jay Powell.Weeks of tough talk on trade from White House officials have rattled investors and Trump now appears to be softening his tone. The president told reporters in Washington on Tuesday he planned to be “very nice” to China in trade talks and that tariffs could drop in both countries if they could reach a deal, adding: “It will come down substantially, but it won’t be zero.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Adventurer, horse photographer, killer: Eadweard Muybridge’s extraordinary life told in a comic book

He is famed for being a pioneer of the moving image – but there was so much more to Muybridge than that. The great graphic novelist Guy Delisle explains why he turned his life into a rollicking readIt was one of the biggest talking points of the 19th century: whether a galloping horse lifted all four hooves off the ground simultaneously. Painters struggled with the notion, often wrongly depicting the animals doing a sort of leap, their limbs outstretched front and back. Then, in the 1870s, the great British adventurer Eadweard Muybridge closed the debate, devising photography with quick enough exposure times to isolate the horses in motion – and airborne.“Lots of people didn’t accept it,” says Guy Delisle. “When they saw a photograph of the horse gathering its hooves, they said it looked like a dead spider. But when the photographs were projected in sequence, they said, ‘It’s true!’” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'My face never tans but Iconic's new bronzer made me look like I'd spent two weeks in the sun'

With summer on its way, Mirror's shopping writer Grace tests out Iconic London's new bronzing elixir to see if she can get a natural, sunkissed complexion without sitting in the sun

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2 w. ago The devastating legacy of Native boarding schools: ‘no way people can apologize it away’

Mary Annette Pember’s expansive and shocking book Medicine River looks at the many ways that the US has tried to dehumanise and eradicate Native familiesMary Annette Pember will publish her first book, Medicine River, on Tuesday. She signed to write it in 2022 but feels she really started work more than 50 years ago, “before I could even write, when I was under the table as a kid, making these symbols that were sort of my own”.A citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe, Pember is a national correspondent for ICT News, formerly Indian Country Today. In Medicine River, she tells two stories: of the Indian boarding schools, which operated in the US between the 1860s and the 1960s, and of her mother, her time in such a school and the toll it took. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Top Barcelona villas and hotels still available for Primavera Sound festival

Festival ticket? Check. SPF? In the bag. Party villa? Don’t worry, we’ve found the perfect rentals you can still book for Primavera Sound 2025

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2 w. ago Amazon drops Fire TV Max Stick to £45 as shoppers tell others 'ditch your TV package'

In limited time deal, Amazon has dropped the Fire TV Stick range down to spring sale prices.

Economics

2 w. ago ‘Book brigade’: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one

A small Michigan community banded together to help a beloved local bookstore move its stock to a new storefrontResidents of all ages in a small Michigan community formed a human chain and helped a local bookshop move each of its 9,100 books – one by one – to a new storefront about a block away.The “book brigade” of about 300 people stood in two lines running along a sidewalk in downtown Chelsea on Sunday, passing each title from Serendipity Books’ former location directly to the correct shelves in the new building, down the block and around the corner on Main Street. Continue reading...

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