7 h. ago Drugs, guns and blackouts I was so addicted to alcohol I downed half pints of gin – then 10 words changed everything 

SEEING guns waved around and drugs changing hands, rather than panic, Kit took another swig from the bottle of rum she was holding.  The now-41-year-old, from Bristol, recalls the horrifying moment in the Caribbean as something she’s fortunate to have survived. An alcoholic for more than a decade, Kit has spent the last five years...

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34 h. ago Met Office issues amber 'danger to life' warning for Wales as entire country faces brutal 24 hours

The weather has been much better on Saturday than initially expected, but the respite will not for long with much worse to come on Monday

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39 h. ago The Guide #219:: Don’t panic! Revisiting the millennium’s wildest cultural predictions

In this week’s newsletter: The turn-of-the-2000s produced a frenzy of cultural crystal-ball gazing . Two decades on those bold forecasts reveal as much about us as they do about the era itself• Don’t get The Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereI love revisiting articles from around the turn of the millennium, a fascinatingly febrile period when everyone – but journalists especially – briefly lost the run of themselves. It seems strange now to think that the ticking over of a clock from 23:59 to 00:00 would prompt such big feelings, of excitement, terror, of end-of-days abandon, but it really did (I can remember feeling them myself as a teenager, especially the end-of-days-abandon bit.)Of course, some of that feeling came from the ticking over of the clock itself: the fears over the Y2K bug might seem quite silly today, but its potential ramifications – planes falling out of the sky, power grids failing, entire life savings being deleted in a stroke – would have sent anyone a...

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4 d. ago 2026 beer changes with higher prices and reduced alcohol content

Heineken UK has said it is lowering the alcohol content of a popular lager

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9 d. ago The hair thickening shampoo so effective, even shoppers in their 70s love it

"As someone who has battled thin, fragile hair my entire life, and more recently experienced significant breakage and hair loss due to aging, I can confidently say that the shampoo and conditioner are nothing short of miraculous"

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9 d. ago Why nuclear war is closer than ever: That's the chilling verdict of historian SERHII PLOKHY who reveals the FORTY countries which could blow the world apart... and the timebomb that could trigger ash

I was born and have lived my entire life under the threat of universal extermination that followed that summer's day in 1945 when, in the New ­Mexico desert, the first nuclear bomb was exploded.

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1 week ago Expert settles debate on how to properly eat a chocolate digestive

You've possibly been eating this biscuit the "wrong" way your entire life

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2 w. ago Man fighting for life in hospital after eating entire burger in one go for a 'joke'

The man is believed to have caused serious damage to his organs after attempting to pull a prank with his mates, but went horribly wrong and is now on a ventilator in hospital

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2 w. ago Diner, 22, fights for life after trying to swallow an entire burger whole ‘for a joke’ leaving him in intensive care

A MAN is fighting for his life in intensive care after attempting to swallow a burger whole "for a joke". Doctors say it will now take a “miracle” to save the 22-year-old, who has suffered irreversible damage. The man was attempting a dangerous social media challenge involving gulping down an entire burger without chewing when...

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2 w. ago Man, 22, fights for life after swallowing a whole burger without chewing it 'for a joke'

A 22-year-old man is fighting for his life in hospital after he swallowed an entire burger while having a meal with his friends 'for a joke'.

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2 w. ago Trapped review – rough and ready abuse story that piles bleakness upon bleakness

This occasionally nuanced tale of a woman’s tough existence has some raw power, but is stymied by crude production and ropey performancesRaye, played by Gina Jones is, as the title of the film suggests, trapped. She is trapped in a bleak job, in a bleak relationship and in a bleak house. The bleakest element of this trifecta of bleakness is the relationship: she is involved with the utterly unlovely Frank (Shane McCormick) who, as one character observes, is the sort of guy who throws his entire life away then lashes out in every direction, blaming everyone but himself for how things have turned out. It’s hard to fathom why she stays with someone so awful – except, well, that’s the way the world works sometimes. Their dynamic is an abusive one, and in modern therapeutic parlance, they share the trauma bond of unstable, abusive childhoods. It’s not that Raye doesn’t know Frank’s no good; it’s that she doesn’t believe she deserves better, or that better exists.While Trapped’s poster ar...

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2 w. ago You've been cooking chicken WRONG your entire life... and it's putting your health at risk

Health officials in the US and abroad are warning about a common kitchen mistake made by as many as one in seven Americans. The habit may be linked to serious illness and poisonings.

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3 w. ago Loose Women's Gloria Hunniford, 85, shares insight into her 'painful' grief and the prospect of finding love again

The veteran broadcaster, 85, wed the businessman in 1998, and said following his passing in August 2024 that he would leave 'the most enormous void, not only in my life, but our entire family'.

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3 w. ago Doctor died after staff at his own NHS trust gave him killer overdose while treating him for a cough

PROFESSOR Ray McMahon, a highly respected doctor, died after being given the wrong drug by staff at the NHS trust where he worked. The 68-year-old, who had dedicated his “entire life” to the NHS, suffered a cardiac arrest after what was described as a “cascade of errors” led to him being given a dose of...

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3 w. ago What man did to woman while high on cocaine and alcohol 'changed the course of my entire life'

The Recorder said the defendant had shown no remorse for what he did and the complainant's personal statement demonstrated the 'profound affect' Parsons' behaviour had on her

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3 w. ago Woman finds entire apartment hidden behind bathroom mirror with ‘signs of life’

Samantha Hartshoe donned a makeshift headlamp and mask before arming herself with a hammer and climbing into the hidden apartment, terrified of what she might discover

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4 w. ago I tried supermarket own brand tomato ketchup versus Heinz and found I've been wrong my entire life

As a ketchup snob, I have taken it upon myself to pin down the best - I thought I'd die on one particular hill, but I was so, so wrong

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4 w. ago What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism is more urgent than ever

With mystery still surrounding Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death, the poet and film-maker’s warnings of corruption and rising totalitarianism offer a chilling message for our timesPier Paolo Pasolini was murdered at around midnight on 2 November 1975. His blood-soaked body was found the next morning on waste ground in Ostia, on the outskirts of Rome, battered so badly the famous face was almost unrecognisable. Italy’s premier intellectual, artist, provocateur, national conscience, homosexual, dead at the age of 53, his scandalous final film still in the editing suite. “Assassinato Pasolini,” the next morning’s papers announced, alongside photographs of the 17-year-old accused of his murder. Everyone knew his taste for working-class hustlers. A hookup gone wrong was the instant verdict.Some deaths are so suggestive that they become emblematic of a subject, the deceiving lens through which an entire life is forever after read. In this weirdly totalitarian mode of interpretation, Virginia Wo...

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