A large fire that engulfed a block of flats in Dagenham has been brought under control with everyone accounted for, the London fire brigade (LFB) said, as attention turned to the role cladding played on a building with known fire safety issues. Emergency services were called to the fire on Freshwater Road in east London … Read more
For Hazel Wood, getting a beauty treatment is not just an occasional treat. The 28-year-old influencer spends about £500 a month on grooming appointments, including £80 on pedicures and manicures, £70 on eyebrow lamination (where a chemical solution is used to straighten and reshape brow hair) and £60 on her lashes. On top of this, … Read more
When Eddie Howe started explaining how he had fallen head over heels in love, everyone in the room knew he really meant it. Newcastle’s manager is a stranger to hyperbole, does not really do anecdotes and rarely reveals anything personal so this had to be something exceptional. It was last August and Howe was discussing … Read more
North-east Derbyshire and Redditch, in the West Midlands, are among the worst public “charging deserts” for electric vehicles in Great Britain, according to an analysis that found 9.3m households do not have off-street parking where they could install a charger. More than three-quarters of households that park their cars on the street do not have … Read more
Getty Images Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, a crowd favourite from 1995, was released again in cinemas during Valentine’s Day When Zakia Rafiqi, 26, heard that Laila Majnu, a 2018 Bollywood film, was being re-released in cinemas this month, she knew she had to watch it again. “In 2018, I was among a handful of people … Read more
One year since the unforgettable sight of her winning a first grand slam title after years of suffocating expectations, Coco Gauff returned to the US Open with a dominant first‑round win, easing past Varvara Gracheva of France 6-2, 6-0. It was a much-needed victory for Gauff after a difficult period. Despite being one of the … Read more
It’s still very early; the picture hasn’t cleared yet. Is what we are seeing happenstance or part of a pattern? Just one of those things or a definite flaw? A fluke or an identifiable characteristic? That’s one of the reasons there’s been so much talk about the chaos at Chelsea: the current shenanigans follow two … Read more
Spoiler alert: this recap is for people watching Sherwood on BBC One. Please don’t read it unless you have watched series two, episode two. Mission to Skegness Once again, we opened on an outlaw striding through the famous forest. This time it was crime family patriarch Roy Branson (Stephen Dillane) testing handguns with loose cannon … Read more
At the Rugby Football Union they like a project. Planning for a successor to Eddie Jones was known as “Project Everest” while the Six Nations’ move to aggregate broadcasting rights was billed as “Project Light” and it does not take a degree in management speak to figure out who came up with that. As Steve … Read more
Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a political backlash in Israel for the limited nature of Sunday’s airstrikes against Hezbollah, amid calls for a broader offensive in Lebanon. Some of the fiercest criticism came from the far-right wing of the prime minister’s own fractious coalition, which is also increasingly divided over the status of Jerusalem’s holiest site. … Read more