84 m. ago Having a child has been both the most transformative and mundane experience of my life | Rebecca Varcoe

Parenthood has opened the door to a new kind of love – one not necessarily more sacred or pure than the love for my friends, parents and husbandGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailTwo years ago I fell pregnant and within five weeks I was diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum, a medical condition that causes extreme nausea and vomiting. It lasted my entire pregnancy and that year was (almost) the worst of my life. Now, I keep being told the relief of no longer being sick is the main reason I enjoyed the first year of my child’s life so much.Shortly after my baby was born, I started seeing social media content about Charli xcx’s song “I think about it all the time” and its articulation of the apprehension many women have about becoming mothers. I have recently started back at work and miss my child terribly. It’s the unhappiest I have been since she was born, around the same time Chappell Roan said none of her friends with children were happy.Sign up for the fun stuff with our ...

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5 h. ago Mercedes promise 'sexy' car upgrades to build on dominant start to F1 season

George Russell's run of podiums and a strong start to life in Formula 1 for Kimi Antonelli have helped Mercedes to a strong start to the 2025 season, though they have been cut adrift of leaders McLaren

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29 h. ago Energy customers entitled to £150,000 compensation after Ofgem findings – check if you’re eligible

Thousands of customers were affected over a nine-year period, regulators said

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30 h. ago Energy company pays customers £150,000 in compensation after Ofgem finds billing issues

Thousands of customers were affected over a nine-year period, regulators said

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32 h. ago Ofgem makes Good Energy pay out £150,000 to customers for billing failures

The energy company failed to give final bills and refund credit to more than 2,000 prepayment meter customers over nine years, regulators said.

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33 h. ago Energy firm pays out £150,000 after major error with customer bills

Ofgem found some prepayment customers who switched to another supplier or ended their contract did not receive their final bills within six weeks, as per rules set out by the energy regulator

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62 h. ago Diddy was once a ‘Bad Boy for Life’ and ran an empire. At the start of his trial, he was just a meek defendant

The music mogul confessed he was ‘nervous’ as jury selection for his highly anticipated trial kicks off

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3 d. ago Celebrations in the smoke! 150,000 Leeds fans turn out for their Premier League promotion parade, climbing bus stops, trees and traffic lights for a glimpse of heroes in fumes of flares

Bank Holiday Mondays are proving to be days of celebration for Leeds United and that was the case again in the first week of May.

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3 d. ago Pub is forced to pay family £75,000 after wrongly accusing them of 'dine and dash' over £150 restaurant bill

Peter and Ann McGirr were maligned by bosses at the Horse and Jocket in Tideswell who condemned them for their 'shocking behaviour' in a public Facebook post.

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4 d. ago What Lewis Hamilton isn't getting from Ferrari as Michael Schumacher point made

Seven-time F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton has had a tough start to life as a Ferrari driver, and Ralf Schumacher believes the Brit may walk away from the sport if his luck doesn't change

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4 d. ago The former Cold War building in a remote Scottish village on sale for offers over £150,000

Remote cluster of buildings was built by Ministry of Defence

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5 d. ago Ronnie O’Sullivan plans new life in Middle East after sorry semi

‘I’m moving out of the UK – a new life somewhere else’Williams leads Trump 13-11 after morning sessionRonnie O’Sullivan is preparing to start “a new life somewhere else”, revealing he will soon be moving to the Middle East after crashing out of the World Snooker Championship with a heavy semi-final defeat.O’Sullivan’s bid for an eighth Crucible crown ended in a humiliating 17-7 loss to Zhao Xintong with a session to spare on Friday after the Chinese star won all eight frames in the morning before finishing the job in the evening. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Former boss Toto Wolff insists Lewis Hamilton has not lost any of his magic

Hamilton has described his start to life with Ferrari as painful as he struggles to get to grips with his new machine following 12 years at Mercedes.

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6 d. ago Blink 182's Mark Hoppus thought he was going to die after cancer diagnosis

Blink-182 star Mark Hoppus has revealed he had started planning for his family to 'move on' with their life without him following his cancer diagnosis four years ago

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7 d. ago More than 300,000 homes at risk of electricity disruption from start of July

An estimated 150,000 households in Scotland are at risk of higher energy bills due to RTS switch off next month.

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9 d. ago Roxanne Pallett now from CBB's 'most hated' to famous husband and fleeing UK

Roxanne Pallett's turn on Celebrity Big Brother saw her career take a nosedive after her shocking allegations against Ryan Thomas, and the star quickly fled to New York to start her life over

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9 d. ago Lewis Hamilton could retire before contract expires as Ferrari struggles 'no fun'

Lewis Hamilton has endured a nightmare start to life with Ferrari and has been warned by Ralf Schumacher that he could soon walk away from the sport

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1 week ago A new start after 60: I built a new life 10,000 miles from my husband – and we’re still happily married

Margaret Murphy left her family in Brisbane to make a career for herself in London. Fifteen years on, she and her husband Peter have both grown – but they haven’t grown apartMargaret Murphy had a lovely house in Brisbane, Australia, and four children when she noticed “a cumulative feeling” that she wanted a different sort of life from that of her husband, Peter. They had been happily married for 30 years but their children had grown up, and in the emptier house their “different expectations” became more pronounced. “I wanted to see the world before I got too old, and have adventures,” she says.So, at 56, Murphy travelled alone to the UK, where she knew no one, and at 60 started the first full-time job of her life. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Lewis Hamilton could retire before Ferrari contract expires as 'he's really slumped over'

Lewis Hamilton has endured a nightmare start to life with Ferrari, with one former F1 driver claiming the seven-time world champion could retire ahead of his contract expiring

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1 week ago ‘Beyoncé and Solange tell me off all the time’: Tina Knowles on raising superstars, surviving cancer and growing up under segregation

Pop’s top matriarch is finally getting the credit she’s due. She talks about her shock diagnosis, conspiracy theories about her family, and the Instagram posts that get her in trouble with her kidsIt’s been a decade since Tina Knowles started dictating her life story into her phone for her grandchildren and future great-grandchildren. She wanted them to know their history – her early life and world were so different from theirs, she might as well have been from another planet. Knowles, the youngest of seven, born to a docker and seamstress, grew up poor in segregated Texas. Her grandchildren, born to Knowles’s superstar daughters, Beyoncé and Solange, are growing up in Los Angeles and New York with unimaginable wealth, but under unimaginable scrutiny.A couple of years ago, Knowles started writing a book that was supposed to be her behind-the-scenes take on the outfits she had created for her daughters’ music careers – the dazzling triple-denim looks she had cobbled together from fab...

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