87 m. ago Simon Cowell's painful health battle behind tinted glasses on Britain's Got Talent after serious back injury

The ITV talent show judge is back for the new series

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2 h. ago Daisy May Cooper in bitter £30,000 row with landlady over ‘dentist

A friend of Cooper's was quoted: 'It's all got nasty it's just a dispute that's got out of hand.'

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3 h. ago Arsenal v West Ham, Ipswich v Tottenham and more: clockwatch – live

Goal updates and key action from Saturday’s gamesLive scores | Tables | Fixtures | Email Will hereBournemouth (4-3-3): Arrizabalaga; Hill, Zabarnyi, Huijsen, Kerkez; Christie, Adams, Cook; Kluivert, Semenyo; Ouattara.Subs: Dennis, Brooks, Scott, Evanilson, Adams, Sinisterra, Soler, Jebbison, Winterburn. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago From the new Sambas to the best shoes for a soggy run – 64 trainers to tick every box

Want to know the best way to keep your kicks clean? Looking for a comfy pair that aren’t gross? We’ve got all your trainer questions answeredI bet you know very few people who don’t own a single pair of trainers. Even the most cursory glance at people’s feet on the street, in the office or, occasionally, on a red carpet (Spike Lee is never not in his Air Jordans) is proof that they have transcended their original purpose.But does that mean it’s OK to wear them to work – and if so, which ones? Does wearing black or white ones show your age, as much perhaps as how you wear your socks? What should you actually wear to run in – and, most burning of all, what is the new Adidas Samba in this post-Rishi world (clue: there’s more than one)? Continue reading...

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3 h. ago What Ruben Amorim learned as 'embarrassing' Man Utd salvage draw against Everton

Manchester United fought back late at Goodison Park to draw 2-2 with Everton - but Ruben Amorim won't be happy with his team's performance especially their defending

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4 h. ago ‘The bot asked me four times a day how I was feeling’: is tracking everything actually good for us?

Gathering data used to be a fringe pursuit of Silicon Valley nerds. Now we’re all at it, recording everything from menstrual cycles and mobility to toothbrushing and time spent in daylight. Is this just narcissism redesigned for the big tech age?I first heard about my friend Adam’s curious new habit in a busy pub. He said he’d been doing it for over a year, but had never spoken to anyone about it before. He had a furtive look around, then took out his phone and showed me the product of his burning obsession: a spreadsheet.This was not a record of his annual tax return or numbers he was crunching for work (Adam is a data scientist). Instead, it was a spreadsheet recording the minutiae of his life, with dozens of columns tracking every element of his daily routine. It all started, he told me, because of a recurring argument with his boyfriend. His partner didn’t think they spent enough time together, but Adam thought that they did. There was only one way to settle this, he decided: co...

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5 h. ago The late Gwen McCrae brought emotion to dance music like no one else

Spanning deep soul, disco and beyond, McCrae – who has died aged 81 – didn’t get the recognition she deserved for a discography charged with pain and wonderRockin’ Chair, 90% of Me Is You, All This Love That I’m Givin’, Keep the Fire Burning, Funky Sensation – Gwen McCrae, who has died after a long illness aged 81, sang all these soul-funk anthems and more. Songs that refreshed radio, songs that lit up discos and clubs, songs that saw her called “The Queen of Rare Groove”, songs that were covered and sampled and sound as fresh today as when she originally recorded them in Miami in the 1970s and early 80s.Gwen Mosley was born in Pensacola, Florida, and grew up singing in church before marrying a sailor she met the week before when he was on shore leave. Her new husband, once free from the navy, insisted they form the duo George & Gwen McCrae in 1963, with Gwen out front. Betty Wright, then a 14-year-old vocal prodigy, brought the couple to soul singer and label owner Steve Alaimo...

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5 h. ago Salvage Hunters star forced to flog antiques after burning through £200k on house restoration

Drew Pritchard had to flog antiques to save his house restoration

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5 h. ago Paint it black: London Fashion Week’s designers reflect dystopic doom with distinct lack of colour

As British designers showcase their latest collections, Olivia Petter examines what the dominant trend reveals about our current cultural climate

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6 h. ago Bong Joon Ho: ‘I wish I had Ken Loach’s energy, but I’m just thinking about nap time’

How do you follow up an Oscar winner like Parasite? If you’re the South Korean auteur, you make a sci-fi satire where Robert Pattinson dies over and over again. The director discusses the inspirational Loach and Mike Leigh and why it’s hard being a ‘middle-aged film-maker’We are in the run-up to the release of Bong Joon Ho’s latest, Mickey 17, and Warner Bros has got the Oscar-winning Korean director stashed away in what appears to be some kind of basement storage room, with grey-painted brickwork and exposed wiring. In fact, this room could pass for one of the “gritty and kind of nasty” cargo-container-packed cabins of his film’s spaceship setting.Not that anyone is complaining. Bong, who speaks good English but prefers to conduct interviews via his longtime interpreter Sharon Choi, appears cheerful throughout our conversation, taking occasional sips from a takeaway coffee cup, while dressed in his usual arthouse auteur uniform of a slate-grey blazer over a black T-shirt. He i...

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7 h. ago Daisy May Cooper is embroiled in bitter £30,000 row with her landlady after painting her Farrow and Ball walls in Grade II

Rebecca Ferry, 46, who owns the seven-bedroom Gloucestershire home, claims Daisy May Cooper has painted a room in her Grade II-listed mansion an 'awful' shade of blue.

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7 h. ago Pub cleaner with bad neck wins payout after colleagues mocked her for struggling to use a mop

A cleaner afflicted by chronic neck pain who was mocked over her physical limitations by staff at the Lancashire pub where she worked has won her case for disability discrimination and harassment.

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9 h. ago What it means if you're sneezing and your throat burns this weekend

A change means there are symptoms you need to watch for in February and this weekend they could be worse

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9 h. ago Over 100 horses to be disqualified from horse racing as shocking cover

The US’s racing integrity body found that three horses died and 30 per cent never raced again as a result of an alleged conspiracy between a vet and 13 trainers to evade the rules

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10 h. ago I'm a vintage shopping expert and these are my 8 rules for bagging a great bargain, including the one mistake you MUST avoid

Serious savings can be made shopping for previously owned fashion online. Savvy second-hand seller April Salsbury reveals the eight tips every buyer needs

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10 h. ago Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for peazotto with pickled peas | The new vegan

The freshness of pureed peas and mint and the tartness of lemony pickled peas combine to give pasta ‘rice’ a perky, vibrant liftToday’s recipe is inspired by an Italian method of preserving, sott’olio, which translates to “under oil”. The most delicate of vegetables, such as peas, are picked at peak ripeness, plunged briefly in vinegar, then stored in oil to preserve them until desired. I’ll admit that my recipe wantonly uses frozen petit pois, which are then in part pickled and in part whizzed up to make a stock in which to cook the orzo; nevertheless, eating it brings its own warm and welcome Italian sunshine to my English kitchen in cold, dark February. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Toxic Town: Jodie Whittaker is absolutely flawless as she battles real

The hasty regeneration of Corby’s old steelworks poisoned a generation. Now the story of how it came to court is told in a harrowing, if slightly melodramatic, new Netflix seriesJack Thorne writes the kind of meaningful, worthwhile dramas that you definitely – no, honestly – do plan to watch but just maybe not tonight. Best Interests from 2023, about a distraught mother battling the NHS doctors who decide to allow her severely ill teenage daughter to die, was warm, miraculously funny, and as gripping as a thriller. It was also so traumatising that it could make the viewer feel as if they were in actual physical pain. Before that, there was The Accident, whose matter-of-fact title only hinted at the harrowing subject matter: the series covered the aftermath of a construction site explosion in Wales that killed eight children.Toxic Town (Thursday 27 February, Netflix) – Thorne’s new four-part series – could be considered a companion piece to The Accident: it also deals with a dea...

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11 h. ago ‘I forgive the girl and boy for what they’ve done. If I didn’t, the hate would eat away at me’: Esther Ghey on life after the murder of her daughter Brianna

Transgender teenager Brianna Ghey was stabbed to death by two 15-year-olds. The killers had been radicalised on the dark web, while the victim was trapped in an online world of her own. Now her mother has become friends with the parent of one of the murderersThe first thing I notice about Esther Ghey is a blossom tree trailing down her left arm to her hand. There is one pink flower on the tattoo. Pink was her daughter Brianna’s favourite colour. If Brianna had got her way, the whole world would have been pink. And just after she was murdered by two teenage schoolchildren in February 2023, Ghey says, the world did briefly turn pink. The local blossom trees filled with the blossomiest blossom she had ever seen. “It really felt she was with us and that she was sending us a sign she was OK,” she says.Now Ghey has written a book, Under a Pink Sky. It’s a memoir of her and Brianna’s lives, and a manifesto of sorts; a shocking exploration of how deadly smartphones and online spaces can be....

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12 h. ago Tim Dowling: ‘I’m happy to cook. It’s just the painful hand burns I object to’

My wife has developed an aversion to cooking while becoming increasingly fussy about what she’ll eat. Lucky me When the oldest one left home for the second time about six years ago, my wife made an announcement.“That’s it,” she said. “I’m never cooking again.” Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Shoppers 'stopped by a number of people' for compliments when wearing Roman dress

Roman's Fuchsia Floral Ruched Waist Midi Dress is a must-have for your wardrobe and has been described as 'fabulously flattering' by happy customers

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