75 m. ago Pretty Welsh village the ideal escape from the city that’s like holidaying in the Alps

This pretty village in North Wales could’ve been plucked straight from the Alps.

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8 h. ago Aston Villa ‘motivated and excited’ for Paris St Germain clash – Unai Emery

Villa head to the French capital on the back of seven straight wins.

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8 h. ago José Mourinho fined and banned for pinching rival manager’s nose

Incident took place after Fenerbahce’s Turkish Cup lossGalatasaray coach collapsed on pitch holding his faceJosé Mourinho has been banned for three matches and fined around £6,000 for grabbing the nose of the Galatasaray coach Okan Buruk after Wednesday’s dramatic Istanbul derby.Mourinho, coach of Fenerbahce, approached Buruk at the end of the Turkish Cup quarter-final in the wake of a mass scuffle, and was seen on camera pinching Buruk, who fell to the ground clutching his face. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Jose Mourinho BANNED after grabbing rival manager's nose in angry bust

Fenerbahce boss Jose Mourinho was involved in a bitter argument with Galatasaray manager Okan Buruk during the two club’s most recent meeting and the Portuguese has now learned his fate

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10 h. ago Vitor Pereira likes what he sees as Wolves hit back to seal a big win at Ipswich

Wanderers are 12 points above the Suffolk side following the success at Portman Road.

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12 h. ago Lil Nas X 'able to exist again' as he goes unnoticed as he jokes about 'flop era'

Lil Nas X gave the world the biggest hit of 2020, but five years on he's failed to match the dizzying success of Old Town Road - not that he seems to mind as he enjoyed a relaxing stroll around New York

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12 h. ago Nick Rockett holds off I Am Maximus to win thrilling 2025 Grand National – live reaction

Willie Mullins-trained horse ridden to victory by sonTom Jenkins’s best pictures from AintreeAnd send Simon an email with your thoughtsWilliam Hill Handicap Hurdle (1.20pm)And they’re off Jipcot, always held up in the past, is up there in the very early stages Building Bridges has taken over the lead Dartan and Timmy Tuesday are also prominent Act Of Authority and Double Powerful are at the back no fallers with a circuit to go and not much change in the running order for now but Bill Joyce has gone at the first hurdle in the back straight he’s up and going on riderless Building Bridges has kicked clear with Dartan who is under pressure Timmy Tuesday comes with a challenge Deep Cave comes late and gets there close home.I love that ITV still open up their National day coverage (as the Beeb used to) with the theme music from the 1984 film Champions based on the victory of Bob Champion and Aldaniti in 1981. I still haven’t seen the movie but I found it for a quid last year on DVD. Conti...

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12 h. ago Nick Rockett: Willie Mullins left in tears as son Patrick wins Grand National on 33

Legendary owner Willie Mullins scooped victory at the Grand National on Saturday with his son Patrick the winning jockey in what was a stunning success at Aintree

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13 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing Craig Revel Horwood's emotional tribute to pal on stage

Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood was almost in tears on stage as he remembered Drag Race legend, The Vivienne who died earlier this year

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14 h. ago Wrexham wins again and closes in on a third straight promotion under Hollywood owners

Wrexham looks to be closing in on a third straight promotion and a place in the second-tier Championship

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14 h. ago Legendary jockey, 42, retires with immediate effect as she announces she is pregnant with her first child

Her last winner came last week at Southwell, while she has also enjoyed success at Royal Ascot four times, and was in her second stint in the sport having initially retired in 2015.

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14 h. ago The hidden garden shaped like a teddy in one of Cardiff's best parks

Uncover Cardiff’s hidden jewel – a perfect family day out in the Welsh capital

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17 h. ago Beckenham Park lake search called off as body found in hunt for missing boy, 15

A body has been found in the search for a 15-year-old boy who went missing yesterday while swimming in a lake at Beckenham Place Park in Lewisham, London at around 3pm

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17 h. ago Ceferin gives little away over Uefa future while Infantino has wind in his sails

Uefa’s president could yet do a volte-face and run for office in 2026 as he enjoys success of new-look Champions LeagueAs Uefa’s delegates filed into a long, low-ceilinged room it was tempting to wonder what difference a year makes. Sava Centar in Belgrade places function ahead of form and there was little of the Parisian grandeur that adorned the governing body’s annual congress in 2024. Nor were there as many fireworks on display, although plenty of the issues that will define European football over the second half of this decade flickered persistently around the edges.Last year’s event turned into the Aleksander Ceferin show, the Uefa president drawing a scandalised reaction by pushing through an extension to the term limits for his role before pulling the rug away by announcing he would step down in 2027 anyway. Uefa had already been rocked by the acrimonious departure of its head of football, Zvonimir Boban, and the sense was that internal posturing risked diverting focus from ...

Sport

19 h. ago Rachael Blackmore's Grand National horse and prediction after scary Aintree fall

Rachel Blackmore is bidding to win her second Grand National on Saturday, but will have to recover her confidence having suffered a scary fall earlier this week

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19 h. ago ‘Too sticky. Too saucy. Too weird’: could I persuade my son to eat the food of my heritage?

Before she became a mother, Samantha Ellis secretly judged other parents who let their children subsist on white bread and pesto-pasta. And when her son was born she couldn’t wait to share the Iraqi Jewish food of her ancestors. Unfortunately, he had other ideas My family takes food very seriously. So seriously that when my mother’s family left Iraq in 1971, limited to 20kg of luggage each, they found room for not one but two rolling pins. The truth is that, having used the rolling pins, I think they were right. Born in England, I grew up on my father’s stories, too, of going to a Baghdad street stall to buy hot samoon, Iraqi bread shaped like a teardrop, with a puffy middle and a crunchy crust, with amba (mango pickle) oozing out of it. But he left Baghdad even earlier, in 1951, in a mass airlift along with most of Iraq’s Jews. I grew up in Britain, homesick for a place I’ve never been to, and will probably never see. There are now just three Jews left in Iraq.Scattered across the ...

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19 h. ago 'Meghan Markle used common tactic to drive As Ever sales but it can quickly fall flat'

Meghan Markle finally launched her first batch of products from her As Ever lifestyle brand and they sold out in minutes - and an expert has weighed in on how she can ensure similar success in the future

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21 h. ago Streaming: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and the best older women age

The recent Bridget Jones sequel, a big hit at the UK box office, celebrates the romance between its middle-aged star and her gen-Z lover, but from Babygirl to The Mother, how do women on screen with younger partners usually fare?At this admittedly early stage of 2025, with all the noisy blockbusters of summer still ahead of us, the UK’s box-office report tells a nostalgic story. The year’s highest-grossing new release, raking in more than double its nearest rival, Captain America, is Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy – a sequel in which its American distributors had so little confidence that they booted it straight to streaming. Brits who missed it in cinemas can finally access it on VOD this week. The film itself is something of a pleasant surprise too: a tender-hearted, flannel-cosy romcom – easily the best in the series since the first, 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary – now suffused with the gentle melancholy of middle age.Age, of course, is a critical concern of this instalment, whi...

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21 h. ago I went swimming with my dog at Manchester's indoor doggy swimming pool

"I'm full aware it's not everyone's cup of tea"

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21 h. ago Sierra Leone declared an emergency over a powerful synthetic drug but women were left behind

A year ago, Sierra Leone's government declared a public health emergency over the cheap synthetic drug called kush

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