13 h. ago Tesco fans are falling in love with nostalgic old carrier bags in bizarre new trend

It comes in the same week that Tesco announced it was to bring back its famous blue stripes. The bags were originally ditched in 2012. Bosses said the famous colouring because it ‘symbolised value at Tesco'

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41 h. ago 'Perfect' new Netflix romcom has viewers 'smiling from ear to ear'

Netflix has just dropped a romance novel adaptation and viewers have quickly fallen in love with it

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43 h. ago People We Meet On Vacation's Poppy and Alex aren't a perfect match

Netflix viewers are already falling in love with Poppy and Alex's friends-to-lovers romance but experts aren't convinced

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48 h. ago Belgrave Road by Manish Chauhan review – a tender tale of love beyond borders

This poignant debut about two strangers who fall in love offers a powerful portrait of the lived realities of immigrants in Britain“Love is not an easy thing It’s both the disease and the medicine,” a character says in Manish Chauhan’s meditation on modern love. This poignant and perceptive coming-of-age story, about two strangers who become star-crossed lovers, is a powerful portrait of the lived realities of immigrants in Britain, and of love as home, hope and destiny.Newly arrived in England following an arranged marriage with British-Indian Rajiv, Mira feels increasingly out of place as she finds out that Rajiv holds secrets and loves someone else. On the eponymous Belgrave Road in Leicester, entire days go by “without sight of an English person”, and Mira feels “disappointed that England wasn’t as foreign or as mysterious as she had hoped”. She takes English classes, finds companionship in her mother-in-law and fills her days with household chores, but nothing shifts her d...

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1 week ago McCullum must be held to account even if England end Ashes with another win | Barney Ronay

A 3-2 series scoreline may make it hard to change coach but you don’t reward a failure of planning because the players clawed a bit back when it was too lateThere’s a good origins-story-style video in the Sky Sports masterclass archive. Filmed at Edgbaston in 2016, it shows the blue-sky brothers, Brendon McCullum and Rob Key, back when the world was still young, looking sharp and chiselled, laughing and joshing on the outfield, and nominally discussing how to bat in T20 cricket.And yes, the chemistry, well, the chemistry is overpowering. It almost feels like a romantic intrusion, the viewer cast as gooseberry. This is Coldplay kiss-cam energy. This is like watching Bacall and Bogart fall in love on screen. You know how to whistle don’t you, Keysey? You just put your lips together and enter into a transcendent game state. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Soap stars announce their engagement years after falling in love on set

Sophie Dillman and her co-star Patrick O'Connor started dating after their characters Ziggy Astoni and Dean Thompson got together on Home and Away back in 2019

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3 w. ago Magical and serene Welsh country park with 'legendary' cafe is one of UK's most heavenly places

This is one of my favourite places in the UK, one of the most gorgeous landscapes I've ever set foot on. You might fall in love with it too

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3 w. ago Yael van der Wouden : ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy cured my fear of aliens’

The Safekeep author on her secret childhood reading, falling in love with Elizabeth Strout and why she keeps coming back to Zadie SmithMy earliest reading memory I had a children’s encyclopedia on the shelf above my bed – orange and brown, the cover old flaking plastic – but I retain nothing of what I read. I do remember a book of dirty jokes I was obsessed with at the age of eight. I was convinced it was off limits to me (it wasn’t) and so I waited until my parents were at work to shamefully steal it from the bookshelf. One time, my mother found it under my pillow and I was mortified. I recall her being confused and putting it back with a mumbled “I don’t judge” as she left the room.My favourite book growing up hat must have been one of Thea Beckman’s novels, most likely Hasse Simonsdochter. Beckman was the author for young adults in 80s and 90s Netherlands. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago People call me a gold digger but I wear it like a badge of honour – my lover’s friends insist he gets a prenup

A WOMAN who is 26 years younger than her fiance has revealed that his friends are demanding he get a prenup before they say ‘I do’. You can’t help who you fall in love with - and as if it were destiny, Paige, 29, and Jamie, 55, lived on the same parallel street before he...

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3 w. ago A warning for Keir Starmer: Brexit is falling apart, but if you are not bold on Europe, your Labour rivals will be | Tom Baldwin

Leave support is falling. That’s an opportunity the PM should seize before pro-Europe challengers for the Labour leadership doSeven years ago, it took just eight words to electrify the Labour conference and to show the party was falling out of love with its then leader. Although not exactly the kind of soaring oratory that gets reproduced on T-shirts, the words were greeted with wild cheering as most of the hall rose in spontaneous acclamation.As the commotion died down, Keir Starmer, then Brexit spokesman, stood at the podium, blinking in surprise. He wasn’t really accustomed to his speeches having such an effect. All he had said was: “Nobody is ruling out remain as an option.” But context is everything.Tom Baldwin is the author of Keir Starmer, The Biography Continue reading...

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