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'Every time I close my eyes, he is with me': A former nurse on life after a manslaughter conviction
Jack Adcock was a lively little six-year-old, who loved dancing and football, and should never have died.
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How the Lionesses can change the lives of England’s daughters
On Sunday night, when 24-year-old Chloe Kelly scored the winning goal for England against Germany at Wembley, crowds roared, hearts burst – and young girls all over the country realised that they too could play football. Not just for their village team, as increasing numbers of them are starting to do, but in front of sold-out stadiums.
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How the Lionesses' Euro 2022 win could change women's football
The Lionesses win could be the game-changing moment women’s football has been waiting for, but we must seize the momentum.
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The five rules to follow to look good in your holiday snaps
“The photographs are bad. You look insane in half of them. Please don’t look at them on your own.” It wasn’t the message I wanted to receive from my new husband when he opened the gallery the photographer sent of our recent wedding – but it’s the one I got earlier this summer.
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I want to invite my ex-boyfriend to my wedding, but my fiancé said no. What should I do?
I’m getting married in six months and I want to invite my ex-boyfriend, who is a family friend. We broke up long before I met my fiancé and I no longer have any romantic feelings towards him, but my husband-to-be has asked that he isn’t invited to the wedding.
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Why Rishi Sunak’s ‘mansplaining’ can’t be helped
I struggled to watch the first instalment of Our Next Prime Minister: The Build-Up on Monday night, on account of what critics have described as Rishi Sunak’s “mansplaining” to Liz Truss on the economy. It was hard, nay impossible, to stomach. Sunak is a geek and a scholar, yet he felt the need to respond to Truss with asinine stories from his childhood and patronising explanations of why he was right.
The Telegraph‘Help! My colleague keeps borrowing money from me’
My colleague keeps borrowing money from me – but never pays it back and it’s driving me mad. It’s the odd £10 here for lunch because ‘I’ve forgotten my wallet’ or ‘Can you put £5 in the leaving card for me, I’ll owe you?’ But she never does. She’s a nice person, but I’ve added it up and it’s now £100. I don’t want to appear tight, but how do I approach the subject of paying it back?
- Yahoo Life UK
Sexual harassment on trains: Nearly 200 women share stories as part of new campaign
Nearly 200 women have shared written reports of being groped, verbally harassed, upskirted and more in a new campaign to help improve safety on trains.
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Meet Camilla’s new style weapon –the kitchen-table entrepreneur who never advertises
Sophie Dundas was in bed at home, near Lewes in East Sussex, when news trickled through. A friend called to say she should have a look at Clarence House’s Instagram, the official account of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.
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Nancy Dell’Olio: ‘Britain hasn’t seen the worst of Brexit yet’
For a while in the early noughties, there were few women so associated with football in this country as Nancy Dell’Olio. She wasn’t a player, of course, rather what some came to call “the Godmother of the WAGs”, thanks to her long and storied relationship with the puzzlingly randy England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson.
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The hidden meaning behind Harry and Meghan’s public display of affection
For followers of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, seeing the pair hand in hand is nothing new. Since they were first pictured together back in 2016, Harry and Meghan have been glued together at the hand, arm, upper body, cheek and even foot, whenever they are out in public. Head to head, elbow to elbow, it seems there is not a body part that has remained uninhibitedly bumped.
- Yahoo Life UK
Safe spaces for women and girls trialled in UK seaside town
The new safe space initiative in Weymouth aims to protect women with help from local businesses.
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I was forced to give my baby away at 16 – now, for the first time, I don’t feel ashamed
Jill Killington, 72, lives in Leeds with her husband, Richard, 76. A retired university administrator, she was forced to give up her first baby, a boy, for adoption in 1968. She has two other children, a son and daughter aged 47 and 46.
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It must be terribly difficult being the only one in the village with a pool
Do you have a swimming pool? I’m not talking about one of those giant adult paddling pools you buy from the garden centre. I mean a proper, dug-down swimming pool that costs roughly £9 million a year to run (and rising) and which you use for three days in July.
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How Ivana Trump became the queen of the 1980s
Ivana Trump’s life reads like the plot of a particularly colourful Jackie Collins novel. Who could be a better protagonist for an Eighties bonkbuster than a beautiful, big-haired champion skier with a difficult background? Particularly one who catches the eye of a billionaire New York playboy and inspires him to change his ways and settle down.
- Yahoo Life UK
What is 'downblousing' as calls come to make it a criminal offence?
The Law Commission is calling to make the act of taking photos down a person's top without consent illegal.
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It's been a chaotic two years - but I've no regrets
The kind older lady, Betty, on whose land I once lived in my caravan (while I was waiting for the purchase of my cottage to go through) gives me a pile of her vintage, 1950s women’s magazines. Sepia-edged, with curled corners. Inside, they have beautifully illustrated articles with headlines written in swirling calligraphy and advertisements – for Babycham, Bird’s Custard, Palmolive and TCP – that look like they were designed by Mad Men.
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Why the ‘right to abortion’ doesn’t actually exist in Britain
Ripples from the US ruling on Roe v Wade can already be seen on this side of the pond, with campaigners pointing out that UK abortion laws are not as watertight as many assume them to be.
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This is what it’s like being single in the county that’s full of men
My first proper boyfriend was a farmer’s son, whose family home overlooked some of Rutland’s most bucolic countryside, through which we used to quad bike together. He wore a flat cap, served me milk fresh from his cows for breakfast, and when he dumped me, I bawled my eyes out.
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My husband's best friend is dating the girl who bullied me at school. Should I confront her?
My husband’s best friend has started dating a girl who used to bully me badly for the first two years of secondary school. My husband is hoping we can all hang out as a foursome and they are busy planning holidays, but I feel incredibly stressed about it.
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If only mental health issues were as easy to fix as my cottage
I try to stay upbeat in this column. I try to stay upbeat in life. I find (where possible) when you’re going through a crisis a positive attitude helps. Still as optimistic as I am, and honest as I try to be here, there are things I’m struggling with that I also struggle to write about.
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Priti Patel: ‘My son sees what I put up with – I tell him to turn off the news’
We are hurtling along the East Coast Mainline when Priti Patel reveals a side that I have never seen before. We are discussing her 13-year-old son, Freddie, when suddenly the Home Secretary’s eyes start to well up.
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Joanna Scanlan: ‘I have called myself an alcoholic at times’
When Joanna Scanlan won the Bafta for Leading Actress at the beginning of the year, she made an acceptance speech that was so moving it reduced fellow thesps to tears. “Some stories have surprise endings, don’t they?” said the 60-year-old, in front of an audience of Hollywood luminaries that included Benedict Cumberbatch and Salma Hayek.
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First woman to run a major bank: 'It's utter nonsense you can't have children and a career'
The cost to the UK economy of not supporting female entrepreneurs has been calculated as £250 billion.
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Why you’re happier if you make friends at work
The idea of making friends at work is, when you think about it, deeply weird. You’re essentially being paid to pass hours on end with people you’d never have chosen to see more of than your own loved ones.
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I’ve signed up to a ‘country life’ dating app – and it’s everything I could hope for
It’s spring, and spring means love. The sun has emerged, bringing bluebells, cow parsley and wild garlic with it, and everything, including me (after a winter of hiding and becoming weirdly obsessed with boilers and grouting), has come to life. The tulips bloom like red hearts in the fields and I feel like falling in love. ’