32 h. ago Unique Mother's Day gifts from £10 to suit every mother figure in your life

Find that special something for your mum (or mother figure) with our pick of presents for all budgets, with fashion, beauty, chocolate, kitchen, garden and homeware buys from £10.95

Economics

34 h. ago The big picture: Sebastián Bruno brings an outsider’s eye to a wedding in Cardiff

The Argentine photographer spent more than a decade living in Wales and capturing community life there, including one bride’s big dayIsolate the three figures in the middle of this photograph by Sebastián Bruno and it could be the centre spread of a wedding magazine: the bride in a tiara clutching an effusion of white flowers, her veil extending out of shot; the two glamorous bridesmaids next to her in high heels, one resting a supportive hand on the bride’s left shoulder. But then restore the context – the modest front gardens, the satellite dishes and telephone wires – and we’re in a housing estate in Cardiff in summer 2020 under a glowering grey sky. To the side a flower girl, finger in mouth, fixes the photographer (whose shadow we glimpse at the bottom alongside that of his flash) with an interrogative scowl.Bruno had been living in Wales for a decade at this point but he shoots the scene – and others in his wonderful series Ta-ra – with an outsider’s eye, picking out heightene...

Politics

50 h. ago Abbott Lyon's sentimental jewellery pieces will make Mother's Day extra special

The jewellery brand's new collection makes it easy to find a thoughtful gift for the mother figure in your life

Politics

69 h. ago The best Mother’s Day gifts for 2025, from hampers to perfume

Spoil the maternal figure in your life, with these thoughtful present ideas

Politics

6 d. ago AI superintelligence will demolish society as we know it in one year, tech CEO proclaims

Dario Amodei is urging governments to wise up quickly and figure out how daily life will work when Artificial Intelligence is 'better than all of us at everything'

Science

8 d. ago Jade Thirlwall's 'husband' explained as pair make BRITs appearance

Jade Thirlwall dazzled at the 2025 Brit Awards as she appeared at the event with a larger-than-life figure - the 'music manager husband' from her Angel of My Dreams music video

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8 d. ago Jade Thirlwall's 'music manager husband' explained as they make BRITs debut

Jade Thirlwall stunned at the 2025 Brit Awards as she dazzled on the red carpet with a larger-than-life figure - the 'music manager husband' from her Angel of My Dreams music video

Culture

8 d. ago A Thousand Blows: The true story of Henry 'Sugar' Goodson from boxing career to family life

A Thousand Blows is streaming on Disney+ and tells the story of real-life 1880s figures, including boxer Henry 'Sugar' Goodson - but how much of the character is based on the man himself?

Politics

1 week ago The history of the Highland hunting lodge where fiend tortured women in dungeon

The chamber contains an empty coffin, “life-sized Egyptian figures and a metal bench”.

Politics

1 week ago Later life mortgage lending jumped in the 2024 fourth quarter, new figures show

Some 35,840 new home loans were handed out to older borrowers in the fourth quarter of last year, marking a 28.2% annual increase, according to UK Finance

Politics

1 week ago Boots' Mother's Day box saves shoppers over £221 on premium beauty brands

Treat the maternal figure in your life to this luxurious beauty haul that is packed with skincare, haircare, fragrance and more.

Economics

1 week ago The Last Showgirl review – Pamela Anderson dazzles as Vegas dancer hitting midlife

Anderson’s depiction of an older performer’s struggles, as youth slips away and family fractures, rivals Demi Moore’s in The SubstanceWarm and generous performances carry this good-natured movie from director Gia Coppola; it’s actually the sort of approachable, actor-led drama for grownups that pundits complain Hollywood doesn’t produce any more. Pamela Anderson stars as Shelly, a middle-aged Las Vegas showgirl and 30-year veteran of a cheesy spectacle called Le Razzle Dazzle, gamely putting on the feathers and the sparkly rhinestones and revealing costumes alongside dancers in their teens – all for dwindling audiences who are looking for novelties and more overtly sexualised shows elsewhere.Shelly is stunned to learn that the show is getting canned and must now figure out what to do with her life and how to repair relations with her grownup daughter Hannah (Billie Lourd), who always felt she came second in her mother’s life to the pseudo-glamour of her nudie showbiz vocation. It is...

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