2 w. ago Netflix’s ‘addictive’ series that is guaranteed to ‘leave you screaming’ is finally back

The show is Netflix's biggest hit of all time and is finally wrapping up the gripping story this week

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2 w. ago The Bear season four review – finally becoming the show it was always destined to be

It’s outgrown the ‘Yes chef’ rages and screaming matches in the pantry and morphed into something more tender, beautiful – and endlessly moving. Let the happy tears flowRecalibrate your palate: The Bear is not the show it used to be. The relentless drama you were stunned by in season two – when you finished an episode and said it was the best show you had ever seen, then played the next one and said it again – is not coming back.Season four starts with Uncle Jimmy (Oliver Platt), the family friend who has invested in the fledgling Chicago eaterie The Bear, installing a countdown clock that says the business has 1,440 hours to save itself. But much of the new run isn’t even about the restaurant. The show is outgrowing its premise, leaving behind “yes, chef!”, lingering closeups of seared beef and screaming matches in the pantry in favour of a different intensity, one that draws even more deeply on the characters and how they fit together. Indulge it – and you will have to indulge it,...

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2 w. ago Scientists criticise cut in UK funding for global vaccination group

Five-year £1.25bn pledge to Gavi is 40% cut in real terms, which experts say will cost lives in developing countriesThe UK has cut its funding to a leading global vaccination group by a quarter, a move that experts say will directly lead to the avoidable deaths of many thousands of children in developing countries.The Foreign Office billed the £1.25bn commitment over five years to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi) as a major boost to the group’s work as well as to the UK’s status as a developer of vaccines. A series of aid agencies praised the decision. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Secrets of the Bezos wedding exposed: Outrageous dinner plans. Who's in and who's out. The dress designer. And the REAL cost. Insiders spill every jaw

There will be around 200 millionaires and billionaires, gathering on long tables in the vineyard, amid 'Presidential-level security', to attend the Bezos's wedding.

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3 w. ago The REAL cost of forgiving my husband's affair. My body was screaming to leave, but I took him back... then his lover sent me a video so cruel I'll never be the same

When you hear about someone who stays with their cheating husband, it's easy to judge. I probably would've too, once. Before it happened to me.

Culture

3 w. ago Tech taxes: the real cost of being missold ‘digital transformation’

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4 w. ago I left my husband for the man I had an affair with and now my MOTHER won't forgive me: CAROLINE WEST

My mother is still furious with me nearly a year after I left my husband for my lover. I know it touches a nerve, as my father had an affair when I was a teenager.

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