13 h. ago Women's Prize for Fiction is 'greatest honour' as an intersex woman, says winner

The Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 went to Dutch author Yael van der Wouden for her debut novel, The Safekeep. The win, she says, is her "greatest honour" as an intersex woman

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30 h. ago Women’s Prize for Fiction ‘greatest honour’ as an intersex woman, says winner

Dutch author Yael Van der Wouden will receive £30,000 and a bronze statuette.

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37 h. ago Wimbledon lifts prize pot to £53.5m but tells players more money is no quick fix

All England Club says welfare concerns need different solutionWorld’s top players had asked for greater prize money at slamsThe All England Club has insisted that it has listened to the complaints of leading tennis players regarding prize money compensation but it believes the solution to player issues lies in greater changes to the structure of the sport.The prize money fund for the 2025 Wimbledon Championships, which begins on 30 June, will rise to £53.5m, a 7% increase on last year’s prize money and double the amount awarded in 2015. The men’s and women’s champions will receive £3m at this year’s edition, while players who lose in the first round will earn £66,000. Continue reading...

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45 h. ago Woman wins £2,000 after losing job because of war in Ukraine

She had worked for the company for two years

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66 h. ago Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way by Elaine Feeney review – a satisfying tale of memory and place

Stories within stories give fascinating depth to the prize-winning author’s third novel, about a woman’s return to her family home in the west of IrelandElaine Feeney’s third novel, following the success of her prize-winning debut As You Were and the Booker-longlisted How to Build a Boat, focuses on Claire O’Connor, a woman who has moved from London back to Athenry in the west of Ireland in the wake of her mother’s death. Her new life is disturbed when she finds her ex-partner Tom has moved in down the road. Or rather, that’s one thread in a story that becomes steadily more interesting than this simple set-up from the romance novelist’s playbook, as layers of family memory and trauma build up to form a portrait of the wider O’Connor family: all their history, the way it has shaped them and the traces it has left on the places around.Claire shows herself to be unusually attuned to the history of her home place, telling stories about nearby Thoor Ballylee, where Yeats lived; Lady...

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3 d. ago Martin Lewis issues warning as over 300,000 UK households could lose hot water access within weeks

A certain type of electricity meter is scheduled to switch off completely from June 30

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5 d. ago ‘I’m here to open doors’: Bernardine Evaristo on success, controversy and why she plans to donate her £100k award

The Girl, Woman, Other author has this week been awarded a one-off Women’s prize award for her outstanding contribution. She talks about her long road to recognition, and using her profile to support other writersBack in 2013, Bernardine Evaristo gave a reading in a south London bookshop from her novel Mr Loverman. Only six people showed up, a couple of them were dozing and she realised they were homeless people who had come to find somewhere comfortable to sleep. Last month, the hit TV adaptation Mr Loverman, about a 74-year-old gay Caribbean man set in Hackney, east London, won two Baftas, including leading actor for Lennie James, making him the first Black British actor to win the TV award in its 70-year history. “I checked Wikipedia!” Evaristo exclaims of this shocking fact when we meet in London.Evaristo’s long career is one of firsts and creating them for others. In 2019, at the age of 60, she became the first Black woman to win the Booker prize – shared with Margaret Atwood –...

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7 d. ago Pregnant accountant wins £30k payout after her 'spiteful' boss cut her hours when she called in with morning sickness before she was sacked in 'sham' redundancy

A pregnant accountant has won more than £30,000 after her boss cut her hours and sacked her the day after she called in with morning sickness.

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9 d. ago Fallon Sherrock announces break from darts in emotional statement: ‘I need to get myself well’

Sherrock became the first woman to win a World Championship match in 2019

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9 d. ago 'Noise sensitive' woman who told her sisters she needed mother's £420,000 home for her and her emotional support dogs loses inheritance row

Sharon Duggan launched legal proceedings against her sisters Brenda, 55 and Ann, 60, after their mother Agnes died in 2018 to block them from the inheritance.

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9 d. ago 'Noise sensitive' woman who told her sisters she needed mother's £420,000 home for her and her emotional support dogs loses inheritance row 

Sharon Duggan launched legal proceedings against her sisters Brenda, 55 and Ann, 60, after their mother Agnes died in 2018 to block them from the inheritance.

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9 d. ago 'Noise sensitive' woman who told her sisters she needed their mother's £420,000 home for her emotional support dogs loses inheritance row

Sharon Duggan launched legal proceedings against her sisters Brenda, 55 and Ann, 60, after their mother Agnes died in 2018 to block them from the inheritance.

Economics

1 week ago Queen of Ally Pally Fallon Sherrock quits darts for up to two years after worrying health update about her 'moon face'

The 'Queen of the Palace' has been a trailblazer for the sport since she became the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship in 2021.

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1 week ago Blake Lively's former director details her behavior during first acting job amid Justin Baldoni legal war

It's been 20 years since The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was released. The film was Blake Lively's first movie at just 16 years old.

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1 week ago 'My neighbours hate me... but I don't care!': Woman at war with whole village over her 'HS2 tunnel' house wins bitter planning battle

EXCLUSIVE: A farmer whose controversial new Teletubby-style eco home caused her own tight-knit village to ostracize her for 'bringing HS2' to their idyll has finally won her planning battle.

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2 w. ago Luke Littler's new female 'friend' is spotted cheering on darts sensation, 18, as he loses out on £275,000 prize pot in Premier League final

Littler fell to a narrow defeat against rival Luke Humphries in the final night of Premier League Darts on Thursday - with the latter clinching the final match 11-8.

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2 w. ago Florida woman accused of stealing family mementos from cemetery graves caught on camera

A Florida woman was arrested after being accused of stealing wind chimes from a grave site, which she admitted to having done before, police said.

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2 w. ago Phone theft victim loses £35,000 after ‘crypto mugging’ in Soho

Scotland Yard warns of organised gangs prowling central London after 292 arrests in a two-week crackdown

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2 w. ago French Open 2025: Sabalenka in action, Raducanu thrashed by Swiatek and more on day four – live

Live coverage from Roland Garros from 10am BSTMatch report: Swiatek dismantles Raducanu Send Daniel an email with your thoughtsAnisimova has a set point, leading 5-0 and 30-40 on Golubic’s serve. And an errant forehand from Golubic concedes the set. Victoria Azarenka served up an early double bagel yesterday; we could have another this morning.As for Zheng Qinwen, the last woman to win at Roland Garros, having claimed the Olympic singles title last summer, she’s 2-1 up on serve against Emiliana Arango, the 24-year-old Colombian. And Lorenzo Musetti, the Italian 8th seed who’s in fine form on the clay, he’s got himself an early break and leads another Colombian, the lucky loser Daniel Elahi Galan, 3-2. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Woman slams boy's head into plane window after he says she's 'too fat to fly'

Kristy Crampton is alleged to have punched a boy before slamming his head into a plane window as they were returning home from a group holiday to Disneyland in Florida

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