73 m. ago Celebrate the new Lilo & Stitch Movie with the ultimate LEGO set and must

Fans of the new Lilo & Stitch movie will love this new Lego set - and will keep them quiet for hours.

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78 m. ago What is Britain's elusive 'national character'? The Ballad of Wallis Island might just tell us | Gaby Hinsliff

Rain, cardigans and puns: a melancholic new romcom set on a windswept island hints at a relatable British identityIt is, according to no less an authority than the romcom king Richard Curtis, destined to be “one of the greatest British films of all time”. But don’t let that put you off. For The Ballad of Wallis Island – the unlikely new tale of a socially awkward millionaire who inveigles two estranged former halves of a folk-singing duo into playing a private gig on his windswept private island – isn’t some floppy-haired Hugh Grant vehicle, but a reflection on our national character that is altogether more of its times.It’s a lovely, melancholic comedy about the acceptance of failure, loss and the slow understanding that what’s gone is not coming back: an ode to rain and cardigans, lousy plumbing and worse puns, shot in Wales on a shoestring budget in a summer so unforgiving that a doctor was apparently required on set to check for hypothermia. Its main characters have not only all...

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86 m. ago Dakota Johnson has been left feeling 'incredible pain' amid split from Coldplay's Chris Martin after eight years

Dakota Johnson has been left feeling 'incredible pain' amid her split from Chris Martin as the pair called time on their relationship after eight years together. 

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90 m. ago Dakota Johnson in 'incredible pain' after split with Coldplay star Chris Martin

The pair were in a relationship for 8 years.

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1 hour ago Adidas' divisive new Mary Jane take on its iconic Samba trainers has split fans opinions

Adidas has launched a divisive new shoe that's already got fashion fans talking, as the brand has combined one of its most iconic styles with a trending shoe style for 2025

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3 h. ago Sam Thompson's love life after Zara McDermott split and his response to girlfriend rumours

Sam Thompson and Zara McDermott split after five years together, with Zara now dating One Direction's Louis Tomlinson - who will be playing in Soccer Aid alongside Sam

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3 h. ago Noblewoman may have ordered brazen murder of priest outside St Paul’s in 1337

Historian mapping medieval murders has evidence John Ford’s stabbing was revenge hit by impenitent ex-loverAlmost 700 years ago, in a busy London street in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral, a priest called John Ford was brazenly stabbed to death in a crime notable both for its public nature and its ferocity.It was early evening, just after vespers on 4 May 1337, and the street in Westcheap would have been bustling with passersby. In full view of them all, one man sliced Ford’s throat with an anelace, a foot-long dagger, while two others used long knives to stab him in the belly. Was someone trying to make a very public example of the victim? Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Inside Sam Thompson's love life after Zara McDermott split as he joins Louis Tomlinson at Soccer Aid

TV personality Sam Thompson is due to complete an epic challenge for UNICEF ahead of this month's Soccer Aid and here we take a look inside his love life

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3 h. ago Disney fans creeped out to learn where they've heard Lilo's voice before

A Lilo & Stitch voice star went on to appear in an iconic horror film, with the two films releasing in the same year and surprising fans of the much-loved family-friendly animated film

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4 h. ago Dakota Johnson left feeling 'incredible pain' after split with Chris Martin

Dakota Johnson, who was in the popular Fifty Shades film series, was in a relationship with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin for nearly eight years until their split

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4 h. ago CMAT, pop’s gobbiest, gaudiest star: ‘Everyone else in music needs a kick up the hole!’

Playing stadiums and causing dance crazes, the Irish singer-songwriter is going supernova – and whether opining on trans rights, body shaming or capitalism, she’s more forthright than everCiara Mary-Anne Thompson, or CMAT as she’s professionally known, says she can clearly remember writing the song that changed her life. She was 22 and having moved from Ireland to Manchester, was working in TK Maxx and, at the weekends, as what she’s fond of calling a “sexy shots girl”: “Cash in hand, £8 an hour, 11pm to 3am, teetering up and down the stairs of a nightclub in the building where Joy Division shot the video for Love Will Tear Us Apart with a tray of Jägermeister shots they’d put a bit of dry ice in – burned your skin if you got it on your hands – selling them for three pound each. Terrible job. And just getting absolutely stoned out of my bin all the time, doing whatever drugs anyone would give me for free. I had absolutely no friends.”An attempt to get her musical career off the grou...

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4 h. ago Experience: I travelled the world delivering letters to strangers

In Galápagos, travellers leave post in an old barrel in the hope it will be picked up – I decided to help outI have always loved travelling, and have spent most of my adult life either on the move or planning my next adventure. In 2014, I was living in London when my dad, Eric, was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND). I immediately moved back to my home town of New Plymouth in New Zealand, to help and spend time with him.When he passed away in October 2022, I wanted to find a way to process my grief, and I was desperate to get back out into the world. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago I love the graffiti I see in Paris – but tagging is just visual manspreading | Alexander Hurst

Call me a middle-class ‘bobo’, but inspired street art has nothing in common with sprayed-on assertions of ‘me, me, me’Among the layers of life in Paris that energise me, I might list: peeling back the city’s music scene all the way to figuring out where, and when, the musicians go to jam together; the unassuming flair of even a basic brasserie; the way one can pivot, in the span of a week, from an art gallery opening to a friend’s concert to another friend’s restaurant to discover his Corsican-influenced menu, and end it by lingering on a terrace, “remaking the world” with others who challenge you – calmly – to see something a different way.Among the things about this city that exhaust me are the people who cram their way into the Métro without letting you step out first (seriously, what neurons are misfiring in the heads of these people?), and the sheer prevalence of tags. It’s when you leave Paris for a bit and come back that you realise how many tags there are. How swaths of a c...

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4 h. ago Spanish police’s plea for respect backfires over photo of old women alfresco

Andalucían police used shot of women sitting on chairs on pavement in request to keep public right of way clearSomewhere towards the very top of the long list of unspoken Spanish rules – gin and tonic should not be drunk before a meal, chorizo has no place in the vicinity of a paella and children’s bedtimes cease to apply in the summer – is the silent injunction that forbids any attempts to alter the habits of the country’s cherished older people.It was unfortunate, then, that police in the small Andalucían town of Santa Fe chose the photo they did to accompany a request for people not to disturb their neighbours by sitting around the streets late at night. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago My sister is unhappy with her life but does nothing to change it. What can I do? | Leading questions

Is your sister saving up her complaints just for you, advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith asks. Perhaps your listening is exactly the help she needsRead more Leading questionsI love my sister dearly. However, we could not be more different. I approach things head on: if something is a problem, I start working on it. She, on the other hand, is very passive. For the last 10 years three issues have been bothering her – her weight, her marriage and her dissatisfaction with her job. But she does nothing about any of them.I tried to help her in many different ways: direct advice – she gets offended and feels judged. Then I tried “tiptoeing” around her. For each suggestion, she always has an excuse why it won’t work. Additionally, she often has a victim complex, as if things are just happening to her and that she has no personal agency. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Gardeners 'banned' from installing artificial grass for two stark reasons

Artificial grass has become increasingly popular in the UK, with people seeing it as a low maintenance alternative to managing a real lawn, that requires no weeding, mowing or re-seeding

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7 h. ago A top MAGA defector has told me the REAL revenge Elon's plotting... it could destroy Trump's legacy: KENNEDY

If you thought the Dakota Johnson-Chris Martin split was the heartbreak of the week, hold onto your black MAGA hat, because we're witnessing The Great Divorce.

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7 h. ago Billionaire oligarch's lover is thrown out of her home with her kids while a sports presenter hits back at 'horrific' criticism about her weight: RICHARD EDEN'S DIARY

As the girlfriend of Russian oligarch Sergei Pugachev, Alexandra Tolstoy lived a billionaire's lifestyle, enjoying a multi-million-pound home in Chelsea.

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7 h. ago My drunken night with Chris Martin that explains exactly why he's split from yet another A

The basement of a slightly trashy Soho nightclub, usually frequented by low-rent Chelsea footballers, was an unlikely setting for the A-list gathering held to celebrate Jay-Z's sell-out Royal Albert Hall gig.

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8 h. ago Feminism made me ashamed to be a mother. Now my children are teenagers, I bitterly regret wasting their baby years: JULIE COOK

There are times I look at my children and feel so proud I could burst. Alex, 16, has just taken his GCSEs and Adriana, 11, is a keen little actress and loves performing.

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