13 h. ago The Scottish Highlands hike that ends at 'Scotland's cosiest pub'

The scenic walk ends up at an inn that serves incredible food.

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15 h. ago Liver King unmasked: Netflix’s explosive documentary reveals truth behind raw meat influencer’s £75m empire

Whether you’re fascinated, horrified, or just curious, this doc about the rise and fall of the star who ate raw liver daily and fooled millions is a must-watch

Economics

58 h. ago BBC presenter Yinka Bokinni reveals true horror of filming new P. Diddy documentary

BBC presenter Yinka Bokinni is fronting a powerful new documentary, P Diddy: The Rise And Fall, diving deep into the meteoric rise - and sudden unraveling - of hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs

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3 d. ago The extraordinary rise of bakery tourism: ‘People travel from all over the world. It’s mind

Beer crawls are out and bakery crawls are in, with people arranging whole days, weekends or even holidays around the search for the perfect loaf or croissantJust one day into a 225-mile hike across the width of Scotland last August, Dan Warren was feeling the burn, his old trail shoes wearing painfully thin. But neither sore feet nor swarms of midges would stop the librarian and his scientist wife, Dee Johnson, from reaching their goal: the promise of pastries at the Bakehouse in the west coast fishing town of Mallaig, a 14-day trek plus two ferry hops away from their home near Montrose.The pair are so-called “bakery pilgrims”, travelling significant distances in the pursuit of a fine loaf or bun. “Some of the time we were pushing through overgrown tracks, and there were lots of bogs,” Warren says of their journey. But their eventual reward was a soft brioche bun, filled with crème pâtissière and finished with crumble and berries. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Stock markets rise on signs of Trump tariff retreat; British Steel races to keep furnaces burning – business live

Chinese exports jump as official says ‘the sky won’t fall,’ despite warning from US officials that smartphone and laptop exemption from import tariffs on China will be short-livedMatt Britzman, senior equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said:Just when it seemed the tariff chaos couldn’t get any worse, tech investors have spent the weekend scrambling to make sense of a whirlwind of confusing - and at times contradictory - messages coming out of the White House. Despite the drama, European markets have taken an easing stance on US tech components as a positive in a broad-based rally this morning, with the FTSE 100 up 1.5% in early trading.This time, it’s chips, smartphones, and other tech components taking centre stage. While there were early signs on Friday night that some broad exemptions might be in play, it turns out tariffs are still very much on the table. But here’s the twist: despite the messy rollout, what’s caught investors’ attention is the news that these products won’t...

Economics

2 w. ago Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter review – kitchen tyrant’s story

Celebrity chef who took Chicago by storm in the 90s and noughties, but at a price, in solid if slightly unsatisfying documentaryA chef is yelling at an underling: “I will kill your whole family if you don’t get this right!” The chef is Charlie Trotter, but he is filmed not at work, but for a scene in My Best Friend’s Wedding; Trotter’s cameo in the 1997 movie played up to his reputation as a tyrannical perfectionist. He opened his eponymous restaurant in Chicago aged 27, swiftly becoming a rock-star celebrity chef. In 2012, Trotter dramatically closed the kitchen on its 25th anniversary and died a year later of a stroke aged 54. This documentary about him is a solid if slightly unsatisfying portrait, lacking real depth or flavour.Trotter was born into a wealthy family (raised on hotdogs and meatloaf, jokes his mother). Mostly self-taught, he got an education in gastronomy by eating his way around Europe. In 1987 he opened Charlie Trotter’s in Chicago, bankrolled by his father, Bob, ...

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2 w. ago The rise and fall of the glam prison boss who loved Jimmy Choo shoes, Chanel necklaces and gangsters

Staff at HMP Styal recalled how Kerri Pegg would turn up to work wearing gold hot pants

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3 w. ago The rise and fall of Scotland’s first ‘hike and ride’ ski contest

We may have seen the last of the Lawers of Gravity freeride event, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth celebrating, writes Roger Cox

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3 w. ago The rise and fall of Scotland’s first ‘hike and ride’ ski & snowboard contest

We may have seen the last of the Lawers of Gravity freeride event, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth celebrating, writes Roger Cox

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3 w. ago Twitter: Breaking the Bird review – how all the hate speech flooded in

This film shows how a ‘hallucinogenically optimistic’ vision descended into the hellscape we know today. Young, confident men really should not rule the internet It turns out that Mike Judge’s supposed sitcom Silicon Valley was a documentary after all. My bad, as the people young and in touch enough with the world to have known this all along may still say.Twitter: Breaking the Bird is a 75-minute CNN film chronicling the rise, fall and possibly end of the social media site that was launched by a group of eager young things in 2006 amid a widespread belief – at least in the Valley – in the power of the internet to remake the world in radically better ways. This, a co-founder or two has come to consider since, may have been a “hallucinogenically optimistic” view. Well, we were all young once. Although that feels – and in no small measure because of Twitter – like a very long time ago. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago WHSmith's rise and fall from high street icon to price fury and hospital shame

Henry Walton Smith opened the first shop - a newsagents week 230 years ago and this week announced the WHSmith name is disappearing from the High Street forever joining other axed brands Mothercare, Woolworths and C&A

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4 w. ago The peaceful Scottish river walk that passes colourful garden and 200

The scenic hike includes some of Scotland's most charming and idyllic villages.

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