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Mary Berry: Nigella and I both love a big mouthful
Responding to criticism that the new Bake Off judge’s bites of cake are too big, Berry said she also “always took a proper mouthful”
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James Bond is more “cocktail” than “tea” - and really not very British, the series’ new author has said.
Charlie Higson said his protagonist is too “glamorous” to be British, unlike spy worlds created John le Carré
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Craig Revel Horwood will play the evil fairy in a Sleeping Beauty has been altered to avoid a non-consensual kiss that awakens the princess
Sleeping Beauty “can’t consent when she’s asleep”, the Strictly judge said
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I’ve been reporting from the Cheltenham Literary Festival for the past few days, and this was one of the highlights.
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Bayeux Tapestry will ‘never be seen hanging again’
The embroidery hung vertically in Normandy before it came to the UK - but won’t be seen again like this in your lifetime, a British Museum curator has warned
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More than 600 inmates are being freed from prisons across England and Wales in the second wave of Labour’s early release scheme.
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Some 650 prisoners to be freed today – as some are released after a third of their sentences
It's the second wave of Labour’s early release scheme, as they grapple with a jails overcrowding crisis
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Marriage rates in general have fallen to record lows.
Young people are marrying later than ever before. In 2023, the median age of newly married men and women exceeded 33.
Couples now tend to marry 10 years later in life than they did 50 years ago
Overall divorce figures remain lower than in the 1980s and 1990s.
Some 8.4 per 1,000 opposite-sex couples split in 2025, down from a peak of 14.2 in 1993
David Lister, a divorce lawyer with Vardags, said: “We’re not in a happy situation in this country at the moment.
“For many, the house is the principal asset. If you’re not sure you can sell that, you’re stuck there”
Some couples were thinking of affairs as a “starting point of a new and better relationship, rather than the end”, Karen Doherty, a relationship therapist, said.
Marriages usually begin to break down at least three to five years before a divorce, Ms Doherty said
Spouses who will eventually split manage an average of 13 years before they get divorced, ONS figures show.
It’s the longest couples have lasted before divorcing since records began in 1963. It is also up from a low of 8.9 years in 1985
Couples are staying together for record durations before divorce. But it’s not because relationships got better
Spouses turn to therapy and forgive infidelity, rather than press the “nuclear button” in a bleak financial landscape, experts have said
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An air traffic control failure has delayed flights just weeks after another glitch caused chaos.
Manchester airport is reporting delays caused by an issue affecting airspace in northern and central England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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Primary school PE teachers are set to be let go ahead of Labour’s drastic sports funding cuts in January
Schools are starting redundancy rounds as they brace for potentially slashed sports budgets
The cuts are a ‘massive’ mistake, headteachers warn
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LIVE: Flights grounded across Britain
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Gene-edited strawberries and tomatoes are set to be sold on British shelves for the first time.
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Jason Arday has cancelled a series of events promoting his forthcoming memoir.
A bookshop event and a conference speech featuring the former Cambridge University professor have been quietly called off.
His memoir, titled Great and Unfortunate Things, is expected to hit American shelves on Tuesday and British bookshops on Aug 27.
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