32 m. ago Nineties pop legend shares exciting announcement as she posts video from the London pub where she works making burgers

The All Saints singer, 50, has taken a career turn as she has started working as a chef at The Londesborough pub in Stoke Newington, North London.

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32 m. ago Thrifty Brit's holiday to New York cost less than London day out

Owen Willis rushed to Heathrow after work and landed in New York at 11pm before partying all night, cramming in all the sights, and still making it into the office on Monday

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71 m. ago Tottenham: Cristian Romero drops huge transfer hint as he reveals preferred move amid Atletico Madrid links

Spurs keen to try “new places” as he cast doubt over future in north London

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1 hour ago British tourist is shocked to be charged extra for two ICE CUBES at Spanish bar

Brit Viv Proops, who visited the Havana beach bar in Estepona, took to social media to rant about the extra cost.

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1 hour ago Lottie Moss stuns in a glitzy backless top as she parties in the Saudi desert with Love Island star Tina Stinnes

Lottie Moss looked incredible as she headed to the destert in Saudi Arabia for a holiday with her Love Island pal Tina Stinnes.

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1 hour ago Ditch your Fire TV Stick today and you'll get something way better for less

Amazon is running a 'surprise' sale event on devices, including its best Fire TV Sticks and here's how to get even more money off when you trade in.

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2 h. ago Jeremy Clarkson shows off painful pickleball injury in gruesome blood

Jeremy Clarkson has showed off a painful injury on his hand after a workout went wrong as fans rushed to the comments to share their surprise at the gruesome injury

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2 h. ago Britney Spears baffles fans as she is spotted on holiday with 'creepy' plastic doll

Britney Spears was snapped getting off a plane in Mexico with one of her bodyguards, who was holding a plastic baby doll wrapped in fluffy pink swaddling blankets

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2 h. ago ‘Be playful, try new things!’ The Southbank Centre’s Mark Ball on his new festival, Multitudes

The arts centre’s artistic director is on a mission to bring new audiences to the joys of classical music. He explains why mixing it with circus, grime, poetry, and film might be the way to do itCan you name the UK’s top five most visited attractions? A 2024 survey placed the British Museum and Natural History Museum in the top two spots, then Windsor Great Park and the Tate Modern. No surprises there. But the fifth is perhaps less expected: the Southbank Centre, with 3.7 million annual visitors.“If you come down in the summer, it’s like a 21st-century version of the Victorian pleasure garden,” says its artistic director, Mark Ball. “It’s like the whole world is here. Skateboarders mixed with poets mixed with the classical musicians, mixed with the dancers – it’s what gives this space its vibrancy and why I love it so much.” Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Restaurant branded 'tourist trap' for serving $29 sandwich which would feed 'family of four in Europe'

Many weren't convinced by the steep price tag of the sandwich, with one person commenting: 'In Europe, that'd be a meal for family of four'.

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3 h. ago Show us your mussels! A mouthwatering trip to Vigo, Spain’s seafood capital

The Galician city on the Atlantic coast has the EU’s largest fishing port, which provides its many bars and restaurants with a spectacular trawl of oysters, clams and musselsRocks thrashed by Atlantic waves have famously bestowed names such as “end of the world” and “coast of death” on Galicia, Spain’s north-western region. But there is a calmer, more intimate side to this coastline, that of the many rias (inlets). Legend has it that they resulted from the imprint of God’s hand when he made the world, and, temptingly, they nurture superlative shellfish. This lures me to Vigo, the largest fishing port in the EU, which spills down a hillside into a sheltered estuary lined with marinas, industrial docks, jetties, a fishing port and a cruise terminal.The magic formula is the combination of fresh river water and salty seawater, which creates a nutrient-rich paradise for succulent crustaceans and cephalopods. I soon learn, too, that Vigueses are joined at the hip to the sea – and have bee...

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3 h. ago Man goes to Paris to buy £200 Louis Vuitton chocolate bag – one thing's surprising

A man travelled all the way to Paris after he found out that luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton were selling a chocolate egg shaped bag for Easter, and he gave his honest thoughts on the treat

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4 h. ago Coronation Street confirms Gary Windass future after 'disappearance' branded 'weird' by fans

The character first arrived in Weatherfield back in 2008, marking actor Mikey North's big break

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4 h. ago Action needed: social housing providers must be made accountable for the treatment of their tenants | Steve Bundred

Angela Rayner’s renters’ rights bill is admirable, but it won’t help those living in substandard accommodationSteve Bundred is a former Audit Commission chief executiveOn the tree-lined north London street where I live, scaffolders arrived seven years ago. Metal poles were erected around a housing association property next door to me, owned by the social housing provider Peabody, to allow for external refurbishment work to be carried out. But today, that scaffolding still stands – and those repair works have never been carried out.“This is yet another example of Peabody’s casual neglect of their residents. They do not respond to emails from me or senior council officers and have also ignored an enforcement notice served on them by planning officers,” the chair of Islington council’s planning committee, Martin Klute, recently told the Islington Tribune. Peabody owns more than 5% of Islington’s nearly 112,000 properties. And it has well below average performance on every key indicator...

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4 h. ago Joe Lycett’s gentle tribute to towns called Birmingham is modest in the best way

The comedian’s campervan trip to North America in search of places named after his home city proves that self-effacing charm is an exportable commodity, writes Phil Harrison

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5 h. ago Britney Spears' holiday with creepily lifelike plastic doll branded 'oddest thing'

Rumours circulated Britney Spears had become a mum again when eagle-eyed fans spotted what seemed to be a "baby’s foot" sticking out from beneath swaddling blankets, held by her bodyguard

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5 h. ago British man killed in Costa del Sol shooting as manhunt underway for gunman after car found torched

The murder happened in the popular British holiday resort of Calahonda between Marbella and Fuengirola as police believe the gunman fled the crime scene in a getaway car later found torched nearby

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5 h. ago My family and I were sound asleep – then a tsunami swept our house out to sea

When Pedro Niada awoke to find his house tilting and filling with water, he was confused. He soon realised he was in a race against time to save everyoneJolted awake at 4.30am, Pedro “Peter” Niada was certain a meteorite had fallen near his seaside home, lifting it from its foundations and sending it flying through the air. He took two steps down the stairs, felt water splash his feet and realised the house was sinking.Nothing made sense. Why was the house tilting? Why could he hear what sounded like a waterfall outside? The sound of breaking timber led him to pull back the curtain at The Flying Fish (El Pez Volador), the 12-bed tourist lodge he had built by hand. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago It turns out you’re never too old to go Interrailing around Europe | Phil Mongredien

Having missed out in my youth, I thought that was that – until I took a revelatory trip with my sons. We’re going again this yearYouth might not be wasted on the young, but for the longest time I thought Interrailing was. When I was a student, as the 1980s became the 1990s, many of my friends took the opportunity to discover Europe by train and they all returned with amazing stories of discovery. But for long-forgotten reasons, it was something I was always going to do but never actually got round to. And then suddenly I was in my late 20s and reluctantly resigned myself to never doing it, having been reliably informed by so many people that it was an opportunity only open to those under the age of 26.Fast forward a few decades to spring 2023 and I’m trying to decide where to take my teenage children for our first holiday in five years – a gap caused largely, but not wholly, by the pandemic. My most memorable childhood holiday had come in 1981 when, over the course of a few days, my...

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6 h. ago Russell Grant's horoscopes as Aries told they'll be offered a surprise promotion

Today's horoscopes, brought to you by Russell Grant.

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