3 d. ago 'This is clever, generous modern cooking': TOM PARKER BOWLES reviews a proper, old

On a cold winter night in Newbury, Tom finds modern-British dishes to warm the soul

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9 d. ago 'This is food to make the senses whoop': TOM PARKER BOWLES reviews a Nepalese restaurant in Folkestone

Hunting the Nepali cuisine of the Himalayas, Tom intrepidly journeys to the Kent coast

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9 d. ago What links the basilisk lizard and the fishing spider? The Saturday quiz

From Clarissa Strozzi and Charles V to Tom Parker and Walt Disney, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 What did LA plumber George Holliday videotape on 3 March 1991?2 Named after a Greek god, what is Earth’s largest land biome?3 Abigail, in November 2015, was the first what?4 Which literary character says, “Come not, Lucifer! I’ll burn my books!”?5 Which Play School presenter sits in the House of Lords?6 What cricket fixture was played from 1806 until 1962?7 Which rescue organisation is based in Poole, Dorset?8 The Kanneh-Mason siblings are famous names in what field?What links: 9 Babington; Parry; Ridolfi; Throckmorton?10 Bleu; saignant; à point; bien cuit?11 Basilisk lizard; fishing spider; jacana; pond skater; Clark’s grebe?12 Virginia (8); Ohio (7); New York (5); Arkansas, California, Hawaii (one each)?13 Enhanced Fujita; Modified Mercalli; Saffir-Simpson; Torino?14 Ben Bradlee; Walt Disney; Jim Lovell; Colonel Tom Parker; Chesley Sullenberger?15 Clarissa Strozzi; Charle...

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2 w. ago TOM PARKER BOWLES goes to Wetherspoons: We challenged the Claridge's

We challenged our Claridge's-loving food critic to a night at the other end of the hospitality scale. This is what happened

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3 w. ago Kelsey Parker reveals she is trying for a baby in 2026 as she reflects on her 'really really tough' year after suffering heartbreaking stillbirth

The widow of The Wanted's Tom Parker, who died of glioblastoma in 2022 aged 33, confessed to Georgia Jones on their podcast, Mum's The Word!, that 2025 was 'really really tough'.

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3 w. ago Kelsey Parker reveals she is trying for a baby in 2026 as she reflects on her 'really really tough' year after she suffering heartbreaking stillbirth

The widow of The Wanted's Tom Parker, who died of glioblastoma in 2022 aged 33, confessed to Georgia Jones on their podcast, Mum's The Word!, that 2025 was 'really really tough'.

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3 w. ago Blue: Reflections review – a clunky rehash of their Y2K boyband heyday

(Blue Blood International/Cooking Vinyl)The four-piece try to tap into modern pop’s deep well of nostalgia but come off like Westlife on a bad day‘Blue’s in the house / Oh it’s party time!” muse the fortysomething man-band on Souls of the Underground, the penultimate song on this seventh album, and the fourth since their 2011 reunion. The British four-piece are keen to take us back to their early 00s heyday, a time of Met bar table service, where the ladies have “a little prosecco” and the guys have a “nice cold beer”. Musically, it’s a clunkier approximation of their (comparatively) harder-edged hybrid of pop, hip-hop and R&B; think 2002 “low ride” anthem Fly By II but on a Megabus budget.It makes sense that they would want to tap into modern pop’s deep well of nostalgia, but rather than recalling what made Blue originally stand out, Reflections often feels like a tribute to other evergreen boybands. For most of the album’s 13 tracks, the tempo is mid, with the dreary, Westlife...

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