5 h. ago Women’s prize winner Yael van der Wouden: ‘It’s heartbreaking to see so much hatred towards queer people’

The winner of this year’s fiction prize on growing up as an outsider, why we’re all guilty of complicity, and using her acceptance speech to reveal that she is intersexIt has been a dramatic couple of years for 37-year-old Dutch author Yael van der Wouden: her first novel, The Safekeep, a love story that deals with the legacy of the Holocaust in the Netherlands, was the focus of a frenzied bidding war and shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. Last night it won the Women’s prize for fiction.“I wrote this book from a place of hopelessness,” she says when we meet. “I was looking for a ray of sunshine.” This morning in London the sun is blazing. She could never have expected that her novel would see off shortlisted authors including Miranda July (of whose work she is a big fan) and Elizabeth Strout. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Air India passenger plane ‘carrying up to 242 people heading for London’ crashes in fireball near Ahmedabad Airport

Air India passenger plane ‘carrying up to 242 people heading for London’ crashes in fireball near Ahmedabad Airport  The US Sun

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5 d. ago 'I live in Benidorm and tourists make this same mistake every time they visit'

A Brit living in Benidorm has uncovered a popular questions tourists are asked - and in many cases there's an ulterior motive to pinch mobile phones from unassuming visitors

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6 d. ago Robbie Williams goes head to head with Beyonce in pop superstars’ North London derby

Robbie Williams goes head to head with Beyonce in pop superstars’ North London derby  The Sun

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6 d. ago Patsy Kensit admits real reason she turned down Real Housewives of London as full cast line

Patsy Kensit admits real reason she turned down Real Housewives of London as full cast line-up is revealed  The Sun

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8 d. ago PK Kemsley spotted 'all over' ANOTHER Real Housewife at London bar after divorce from Dorit

PK Kemsley spotted 'all over' ANOTHER Real Housewife at London bar after divorce from Dorit  The US Sun

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9 d. ago Fewer crowds and quiet hotels – why now is the best time to visit Santorini

Seismic activity shook Greece's most famous island earlier this year, but on a recent visit James Litston finds that it's back to business as usual

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1 week ago The Best Time to Visit London, for More Sun and Fewer Crowds

The Best Time to Visit London, for More Sun and Fewer Crowds  Condé Nast Traveler

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1 week ago UML hockey commit Austin Elliott leads London to Memorial Cup title

UML hockey commit Austin Elliott leads London to Memorial Cup title  Lowell Sun

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1 week ago Our favourite seaside towns that are less than 90 minutes from London with Banksy art and award

Our favourite seaside towns that are less than 90 minutes from London with Banksy art and award-winning beaches  The Sun

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1 week ago Freddy Brazier 'smokes joint' with gran Jackiey Budden in front of tourists in London fuelling feud with dad Jeff

Freddy Brazier 'smokes joint' with gran Jackiey Budden in front of tourists in London fuelling feud with dad Jeff  The Sun

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1 week ago British boxing great lines up fight to become Reform Mayor of London after friendship with Nigel Farage

British boxing great lines up fight to become Reform Mayor of London after friendship with Nigel Farage  The Sun

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1 week ago British citizens face fingerprint scans each time they visit Europe as EU delays new biometric travel checks

Car passengers entering the Schengen area must get out of their car to be fingerprinted and photographed

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1 week ago I visit a seaside town just an hour from London all the time — it's better than Brighton

I visit a seaside town just an hour from London all the time — it's better than Brighton  Daily Express

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2 w. ago British Airways steward found dancing naked in business class after 'drugs binge' before flight from US to London

British Airways steward found dancing naked in business class after 'drugs binge' before flight from US to London  The Sun

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2 w. ago ‘The brand is broken’: is there any way back from abyss for Tories?

Conservative party has repeatedly proved able to adapt and reinvent itself – but this time might be differentAt a carefully staged factory visit rich in pre-written lines, one part of Keir Starmer’s delivery felt entirely unscripted: his insistence that Reform is now his main electoral challenger, rather than a Conservative party “sliding into the abyss”.This was, one No 10 source said afterwards, “not posturing”, but simply an acknowledgement that under Kemi Badenoch there appeared to be no way back for a party slumping in the polls and that followed up a disastrous general election with almost equally bad local results at the start of this month. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Why shoulder season is the perfect time to visit Sicily: how to plan a late spring or autumn break

There’s less crowds, the produce is at its finest and it’s the ideal temperature for eating al fresco —now is the time for a Sicilian sojourn, says Rosalyn Wikeley

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2 w. ago Gangster from notorious clan in Trump crackdown arrested after London murder

Gangster from notorious clan in Trump crackdown arrested after London murder  The Sun

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2 w. ago Zelenskyy bound for Berlin with Merz boxed in by German coalition

The German chancellor’s desire to lift restrictions on longer range weapons for Ukraine has been frustrated by his SPD and Social Democrat partnersThe German chancellor’s drive to keep a campaign pledge of more robust backing for Ukraine is running into blocks within his own government as he prepares to welcome Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Berlin.Friedrich Merz made a full-throated declaration on Monday, hours before Zelenskyy’s one-day visit was announced, that Germany was for the first time lifting previous range restrictions on weapons supplied to Kyiv, along with Ukraine’s other main western supporters. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Luke Jerram’s Giant Sun Is Coming to Osterley Park This Summer

Luke Jerram’s Giant Sun Is Coming to Osterley Park This Summer  London On The Inside

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