5 h. ago ‘World’s most beautiful island’ is a hidden gem for fine dining and it’s cheapest in May

This Caribbean island was recently named the world's most beautiful island – and we found it also had some of the best food and drink we've ever tasted

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6 h. ago ‘I visited “world’s most beautiful island” and May is the cheapest time to travel here'

We discovered fine dining and learned new skills on a trip to a luxury resort on this idyllic Caribbean island, recently listed as the 'world's most beautiful'

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3 d. ago Demi Moore opens up about ‘torturing’ her body as she’s named People’s Most Beautiful Person

Oscar-nominated actor revealed she used to ‘punish’ herself to ensure she looked good physically

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3 d. ago Britain's 'Incest Island' Pitcairn where cousins marry and hidden deviancy rules

As Kanye West admits to having an incestuous relationship with his cousin, The Mirror takes a look at the Pitcairn Islands - a British Overseas Territory where cousins marry and everyone is related

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5 d. ago Love Island star reveals hidden disability – ‘People think I’m lying’

Love Island contestant Tyrique Hyde opens up on how being born without hearing in one ear has shaped him growing up - and how his openness is helping others feel 'seen'

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5 d. ago Love Island star shares hidden disability – 'People think I'm making it up'

Love Island’s Tyrique Hyde has opened up about the hidden hearing loss he’s lived with since birth – and how people still question if it’s real...

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5 d. ago Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark by Dan Richards review – night owls of all feathers

This immersive exploration of how we experience the nocturnal world is beautifully illuminatingAs children, we’re primed by literature to think of the night as a time for adventure as well as rest, but by early middle age, we’ve mostly ringfenced its darkness for sleep (or, for the insomniacs among us, anxieties about sleep’s absence). Author Dan Richards is no exception, and it took a nuit blanche stranded 3,600 metres up a Swiss mountain to reawaken his sense of night-time’s vast and varied potential. Hopelessly lost, he drew comfort from the occasional blips of aircraft in the sky above and from moving lights in the town below: others, too, were out and about, albeit in less of a fix. What could they all be doing?Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark details his subsequent investigation into “the who and the how of the nocturnal world”. Its pages, immersive and personal, span encounters with night owls of all feathers, from the heroic (Richards hears tales of ...

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8 d. ago 'World's most beautiful small town' in France looks like it's from a fairytale

The small hilltop village of Gordes in France has been named the world's most beautiful small town - and it's not hard to see why with its fairytale-like scenes

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1 week ago Hidden beach with breathtaking island views is just 45 minutes from Glasgow this Easter

Wide sandy stretches and tide-out rock pools make this beach perfect for family fun

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1 week ago It’s official: one of the world’s most beautiful airport landings is in London

It’s official: one of the world’s most beautiful airport landings is in London  Time Out

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2 w. ago 'I live in one of the world's most beautiful towns but tourists are ruining it'

Tourists have taken to Reddit to share the times they've accidentally wandered into a local's home after mistaking it for a tourist attraction - and the locals are furious

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2 w. ago Scottish region among 'most beautiful' in the world as Time Out hails 'atmospheric' landscapes

Time Out magazine was effusive in its praise of the area's breathtaking beauty.

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2 w. ago Incredible UK seaside town so well rated it keeps being ranked 'most popular'

Located in Suffolk, Southwold has been named in multiple occasions for being a 'world-class destination', with beautiful beaches and one of the best hotels in the UK.

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3 w. ago Most beautiful plane landing in the world gives breathtaking views of a turquoise sea

The world’s most beautiful airport landings have been revealed and you have probably never heard of the one that scored the top spot — and it is in the middle of the ocean

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3 w. ago ‘Cathedral of crap’: is this the world’s most beautiful sewage treatment plant?

Its lab buildings have a rusticated air while its sleek, paper-thin louvre windows are reminiscent of a luxury ocean-liner. More importantly, the people of Arklow in Ireland can finally go swimming without fear of floatersIt is not often that the arts section of a newspaper finds itself concerned with the aesthetic merits of a sewage works. But then there are few facilities designed with the finesse of the new €139m (£117m) wastewater treatment plant in Arklow, which stands like a pair of minty green pagodas on the edge of the Irish Sea. Nor are there many architectural firms who have thought so deeply about the poetics of effluent as Clancy Moore.“There’s a wonderful passage in Ulysses,” says practice co-founder, Andrew Clancy, summoning James Joyce as we tiptoe along a metal gantry above a gigantic vat of bubbling brown sludge. “The narrator turns on the tap to fill a kettle, sparking a lengthy rumination on where the water comes from, how it flows from reservoirs, through aqueduc...

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3 w. ago Indonesia's Padar Island viewpoint named most beautiful spot in the world

A viewpoint in a UNESCO National Park has been named the most beautiful place in the world according to Time Out and it features pink, black and white-sand beaches

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3 w. ago More than beautiful: the beloved monarch butterfly is one of the world’s great migrators

The hardy travellers can fly for 3,000 miles from the north-east US and Canada to roost in their millions in MexicoMore invertebrate of the year nominationsImagine your body was the weight of a raisin, supported by just a pair of flimsy, gossamer wings. Now imagine that you had to fly for 3,000 miles, avoiding storms, highways and predators, to ensure your species continued.Could you do it? Unless you’re a monarch butterfly, fortunately you won’t have to face such a challenge.Between 24 March and 2 April, we will be profiling a shortlist of 10 of the invertebrates chosen by readers and selected by our wildlife writers from more than 2,500 nominations. The voting for our 2025 invertebrate of the year will run from midday on Wednesday 2 April until midday on Friday 4 April, and the winner will be announced on Monday 7 April. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'Beautiful' Brit superyacht worker dies while snorkelling on his day off in Fiji

An inquest into the death of Christian Bogle, 26, heard that the Brit joined other members of the yacht's crew to go snorkelling at a beach where the conditions were perfect

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3 w. ago Incredible EU town named among world's most beautiful is filled with tiny houses

This quaint town in the Istria Valley is one of only a few in the region that preserved their traditional dry stone huts. Today, travellers are welcome to stay overnight in one of these famous gems

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4 w. ago Europe's hidden gem island looks like Caribbean dream but there's a catch

Despite being nearby several insatiably popular holiday hotspots, this tranquil island has somehow managed to escape the tourist spotlight

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