Day: August 31, 2024

Charlene White in 1985 and 2024.Charlene White in 1985 and 2024. Later photograph: Pål Hansen. Styling: Andie Redman. Hair: Lorraine Dublin. Makeup: Pauline Briscoe. Archive photo: courtesy of Charlene White Born in London in 1980, Charlene White is a journalist and broadcaster. She cut her teeth as a reporter for ITV and the BBC – joining Radio … Read more

Shaquille Joseph knew things were profoundly wrong, irreversibly so, when he heard the bubbling. The noise had no logical origin. It wasn’t the sound of a tidal wave, roaring towards his house, but a steady fizzing, like a pot of water boiling over in the next room. Moments before, Joseph had been ready to fall … Read more

Marie Macklin was on a Christmas shopping trip in Glasgow in 1997 when she collapsed in a store and was taken to hospital in severe pain. “My dad arrived and I told him, ‘I’m dying’,” recalled the businesswoman and entrepreneur. Macklin, then 32, turned out to be suffering from endometriosis, a disease in which cells … Read more

Shortly after seeing Chelsea scrape through a Europa Conference League playoff against the team sitting seventh in the Swiss Super League on Thursday night, a group of senior Stamford Bridge officials arrived in Naples with the ambition of finalising Operation Osimhen. Enzo Maresca, Chelsea’s new head coach, had asked for two positions to be strengthened … Read more

Tuesday Arrive at the Gare du Nord and go straight to the accreditation centre the other side of Paris. Am instantly reminded of how in difficult the metro is to get around with a heavy suitcase – too bad if you have a physical disability. It turns out that only 29 of the 320 metro … Read more

Getty Images US prosecutors say the actor was injected with lethal amounts of ketamine One of the doctors charged in the drug-related death of actor Matthew Perry last year has appeared in a US court. Mark Chavez was bailed at the hearing in Los Angeles on Friday during which he agreed to stop practising medicine. … Read more

Andy Street has spent the summer thinking hard about what went wrong – and about the future. It is almost four months since he lost his job as the Conservative mayor of the West Midlands, a post he had held for seven years. “Oh, how we were thwarted,” he groans, recalling the pain of a … Read more

The best way to view Ebbsfleet is from a low hill above the muddy banks of the Thames estuary. Here, between the chalk cliffs, ponds and scrubland, a new community is gradually taking shape in what was once a cement works. “As far as the eye can see, all the way out there, will be … Read more

Andy Street has spent the summer thinking hard about what went wrong – and about the future. It is almost four months since he lost his job as the Conservative mayor of the West Midlands, a post he had held for seven years. “Oh, how we were thwarted,” he groans, recalling the pain of a … Read more

BBC Jack Berman and a friend in a pub smoking section – which is under cover but also had fans Jack Berman takes a long drag and then exhales, slowly, in the covered terrace of a 150-year-old pub in a Sydney beach suburb. Around him are others like him: pub goers enjoying the winter sun, … Read more