22 h. ago Tell us: has a chatbot helped you out of a difficult time in your life?

We would like to hear from people who have used chatbots for companionship or mental health supportAI Chatbots are now a part of everyday life. ChatGPT surpassed 800 million weekly active users in late 2025. Some people are forming relationships with these chatbots, using them for companionship, mental health support, and even as therapists. Has a chatbot helped you get through a difficult period in life? If so, we’d like to hear about it.If you’re having trouble using the form click here. Read terms of service here and privacy policy here. Continue reading...

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48 h. ago ‘I was told I wouldn’t walk again. I proved the doctors wrong’: the bike

In 2021, Harold Price, now 82, broke a vertebra while cycling with a friend, leaving him barely able to use his legs. Then a chance recommendation changed his life• ‘It took time to love my soft, larger shape’: the body-positive writer who recovered from an eating disorderBefore the accident, Harold Price, 82, loved being on two wheels. A retired engineer from Griffithstown in Wales, he cycled about 95 miles a week on his road bike. “Not bad for 78,” he says. On other days he’d be out on one of his restored motorbikes, as he was in June 2021, with a friend. They were riding at 10 miles an hour on a narrow road when his friend pulled out in front of him. “I had nowhere to go,” Price says. He remembers his head snapping back into his helmet before he blacked out.Price spent months in hospital. He had broken the fifth vertebra in his neck, resulting in compression of his spinal cord. He was told he wouldn’t walk again. “That was a bit of a downer, obviously,” he says. He was determined...

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55 h. ago 'I ditched UK for Australia but now desperately want to return due to three problems'

Luke Tweddle is a 25-year-old Brit who has been living in Australia for almsot three years and despite having the time of his life he is now preparing to move back home

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69 h. ago How 'fun time' Frankie Dettori squandered his £20million fortune on the good life

The charismatic jockey made Royal Ascothis playground, rode seven winners in a single afternoon and turned his success into a global brand worth millions.

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3 d. ago Shamed sports icon Boris Becker's new life after prison stint and 10

German tennis legend Boris Becker is rebuilding his life in Milan after serving prison time and being deported from the UK with a 10-year ban

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4 d. ago Strictly's Katya Jones admits 'it's been that long' in 'pivotal' update

The dancer shared a 'pivotal' time in her life as she marks a huge Strictly Come Dancing milestone

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5 d. ago Lottery results LIVE: National Lottery Set For Life draw tonight, January 15, 2026

THE National Lottery Set For Life numbers are in and it's time to find out if you've won the top prize of £10,000 every month for 30 years. Could tonight's jackpot see you start ticking off that bucket list every month or building your own start-up as a budding entrepreneur? You can find out by...

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5 d. ago After decades of red wine, no exercise and 15 cigarettes a day, these are the super

For more than 25 years, I smoked 15 cigarettes a day. I loved smoking. It was the one thing in a busy, stressful life of work and motherhood that gave me a little 'me time'.

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5 d. ago The Viagra diet: Forget those little blue diamonds, I'm 62 and have the sex drive of a 20

There comes a time in a man's life when he reluctantly admits defeat over his dad bod, accepts his aches and pains and waves a bittersweet farewell to his sex drive. Not in Phil Escott's case.

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5 d. ago The Traitors star unrecognisable as she unveils glam transformation after break

A former Traitors star has made some big life changes since her time on the BBC show

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7 d. ago My Emmerdale star mum doesn’t know I’m pregnant after OnlyFans feud – she’d be an amazing grandma, says Mia Winward

POSING proudly as she caresses her blooming baby bump, our exclusive photo shoot with Mia Winward should be one of the happiest moments of the first-time mum’s life. But her special milestone is tinged with sadness. Her own mum, Emmerdale legend Sammy Winward, has no idea she is expecting – and it’s all down to...

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7 d. ago I'm taking eight months' paternity leave – and it's changing my relationship with my children | Ilyas Nagdee

I’ll never tire of witnessing many ‘firsts’ for my second-born, but this is a luxury that should be afforded to everyone, not just those who can pay for itWhen I told people I was taking more than eight months of parental leave, the main reactions I got were: “What are you going to do with all that time?” and “won’t you get bored?” These questions came from every direction – including health professionals involved in my wife’s pregnancy and the arrival of our second child.More than halfway through my leave, I’ve been reflecting on what good parental leave looks like: leave that allows families to take the time to adjust to the new rhythms of family life. Thanks to a new policy at my work that gives parents six months of paid parental leave, in addition to annual leave, I will be returning to work not when our newborn is still tiny, our toddler is adjusting to a sibling and their mum is recovering from birth, but when our son is eight months old. This is markedly different to when ou...

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8 d. ago The 5 things too much screen time is doing to your child’s brain

Screen time for young people can have a number of cognitive effects

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1 week ago My favourite family photo: ‘I can still feel my mother’s arm around my shoulder’

I love the way we are both looking in astonishment at my son. It shows the unwavering support she gave me when he was bornThis picture of my mother, me and my eldest son, Theo, was taken the morning after he was born in May 2002, in University College Hospital, London.There are a lot of things I love about it. I love the fact my mother is exquisitely dressed – she’s wearing her pearls! She always looked very elegant at this time in her life and enjoyed clothes (we bought that suit on a day out together). I love the composition too – our three dark heads, faces in profile and the way our three hands are aligned. I love the miracle of my son’s intricate little shell of an ear, the nose (his dad’s) and lips (mine) still visible now in his 23-year-old face. Continue reading...

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1 week ago My favourite family photo: ‘I was six, with mumps and diarrhoea – and having the time of my life’

When I went to Saudi Arabia in the 1980s to see my Dad it felt like visiting another planet. But beyond the scale and shininess of the country was the feeling of my family finally being togetherIn the 1980s, the British construction industry was hit hard by recession. At the same time, Saudi Arabia had the opposite problem; lots of money and a desire to build infrastructure, but not enough skilled workers. As a result, thousands of British labourers found it was the only place where they could earn a wage. My dad – freshly out of work with a young family to support – was one of them. We travelled out to see him twice, once to Riyadh and once to Jeddah.Objectively, the Riyadh trip was better. Dad lived on a worker’s compound, and there was a pool and a restaurant and loads of room to run around. Jeddah, less so – but that’s where this photo was taken. Dad shared a tiny flat on the city’s noisy Palestine Street with one of his colleagues. I caught mumps basically upon landing and (acc...

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1 week ago Rightmove reveals 10 most viewed homes including £2.5million 8

Property websites typically see heavy traffic on Boxing Day, which is said to be down to people having time to think over big life decisions - including where they live - over the Christmas period

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1 week ago Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life | Hayward Gallery | Art in London

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2 w. ago Peers resume battle over 'unsafe' assisted dying laws as supporters demand more time to force it through the House of Lords

Lord Falconer, the ex-Labour minister and a key backer of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, will request 'further time' for debate in Parliament's upper chamber.

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2 w. ago How you can stay in the beautiful farmhouse featured in Hamnet

Staying in this 17th-century farmhouse set along winding lanes in the Welsh Marches is the closest you can get to travelling back in time and experiencing rural Elizabethan life.

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2 w. ago Jesy Nelson says doctors initially dismissed her fears for twin babies 

The former Little Mix star said ‘it’s been the most heartbreaking time of my life’ after revealing her daughters Ocean Jade and Story Monroe have been diagnosed with a devastating genetic disease

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