4 h. ago Party Rings unveil a major change to shape of popular biscuit

ASDA customers emptied shelves after Party Rings changed shape for the first time in 42 years. Fox's Burton's Companies unveiled the change for its biscuits, with fun fish shapes now on offer.

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7 h. ago ‘Not much zoology – apart from the rabbit!’ Desmond Morris on his secret surrealist love romp film

The zoologist, now aged 97, is about to unveil Time Flower, his fantasy-fuelled film in which he pursues a woman called Ramona – who gave such a brave performance leaping off the bonnet of a car that he proposed to herIn the opening scene of Time Flower, a surrealist film by the zoologist Desmond Morris, a woman is lying facedown on the ground, clutching the grass with manicured hands and shaking her head. She is about to start running across a Wiltshire moor in elegant black heels, chased by Morris in a shirt and tie, her eyes wide, her lipstick dark, the angle of the shot emphasising her perfect, parted, panting mouth. Just before she trips and falls, a wild rabbit will stare straight at the camera – and flee.This 10-minute black-and-white film, which Morris made in 1950 while he was a 22-year-old student at Birmingham University, has lain untouched in his archive for nearly 75 years. Created in response to Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou, it is a testament to Mor...

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9 h. ago The shortlisted designs have been revealed for London’s Queen Elizabeth II National Memorial

The shortlisted designs have been revealed for London’s Queen Elizabeth II National Memorial  Time Out

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25 h. ago Touching designs for major memorial to Queen Elizabeth unveiled for first time

Five early concept designs for a new landmark memorial to the late Queen, who died in September 2022, in St James Park in the heart of London have gone on display

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25 h. ago Giant lily pads and a bronze tree are among designs for Queen Elizabeth II's memorial

What could be a better memorial to Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, than a pod of faintly psychedelic giant lily pads

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27 h. ago Statues, bridges, soundscapes: Queen Elizabeth II memorial designs unveiled

Giant canopy of stone lilies and exact cast of Windsor oak tree among ideas for commemoration in St James’s ParkHow best to capture the enduring essence of Queen Elizabeth II is the question behind innovative designs shortlisted for a national memorial planned for Britain’s longest-serving monarch.An exact cast of a Windsor oak tree, a giant canopy of stone lilies and a “graceful and strong” stone bridge symbolising her as the bedrock of the nation are among shortlisted designs on which the public is now being consulted.A “tranquil family” of royal gardens linked by a natural stone path, by Norman Foster of Foster + Partners with the artist Yinka Shonibare, the ecologist Prof Nigel Dunnett and the landscape architect Michel Desvigne. It includes a statue of the queen alongside Philip, a wind sculpture for reflection, audio installations of the queen’s voice, a digital conservatory and a unity bridge.A memorial walk inspired by the idea of “togetherness” with 70 lily pad stepping sto...

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28 h. ago First look at stunning shortlisted designs for the Queen Elizabeth II national memorial

Ideas for the memorial to Queen Elizabeth II at St James's Park in London include a bronze cast of a Windsor oak tree, a giant canopy of stone lily pads and a statue of her next to Prince Philip.

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29 h. ago Shortlisted designs for Queen Elizabeth II memorial in St James's Park are unveiled

The design concepts include a bronze cast of a Windsor oak tree, a giant canopy of stone lily pads and a statue of the late Queen next to Prince Philip

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29 h. ago First look at stunning designs for the Queen Elizabeth II national memorial

Ideas for the memorial to Queen Elizabeth II at St James's Park in London include a bronze cast of a Windsor oak tree, a giant canopy of stone lily pads and a statue of her next to Prince Philip.

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3 d. ago UK marks VE Day 80th anniversary with large crowds and military pomp

Royal family and war veterans watch 1,300-strong military procession in London while street parties held around UKAs Big Ben chimed at noon and with the Cenotaph, the symbol of sacrifice, draped in the union flag for the first time since its unveiling in 1920, the UK marked the 80th anniversary of VE Day with military pomp before large crowds who had gathered in central London.Buckingham Palace may have served as the centrepiece of Monday’s spectacle before Thursday’s anniversary of Victory in Europe Day. At the event’s heart, however, were the VVIP second world war veterans, those remaining few who bore actual witness then and who today serve to remind. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Michael Jordan out earns every athlete in the world for another year as eye

The 100 highest-paid athletes of all time were unveiled this week with the wealthiest men and women to ever grace the world's top sporting stages making a combined $6.2 billion last year alone.

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3 w. ago ‘That serene Scandinavian facade, yet there’s terror underneath’: artist unveils design for Norwegian national memorial to 22 July attacks

A 12-metre high mosaic will show the reflection of a wading bird native to Utøya island, where Anders Breivik murdered 69 people in 2011Fourteen years ago, the heart of Oslo was reconfigured by hate. On 22 July 2011, Norwegian neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik detonated a car bomb outside the office of the then prime minister Jens Stoltenberg, killing eight people and damaging surrounding buildings, before murdering a further 69 people on the nearby island of Utøya.But now the same site is to be reconfigured by hope. Last week, after a multi-round, three-year-long selection process, a jury of curators, politicians, artists and representatives of the victims and survivors of the attacks announced the winning design for a new Norwegian national memorial to be unveiled in time for the 15th anniversary in 2026. Continue reading...

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