Lily Allen has revealed she debated taking heroin when she ‘hit rock bottom’ during her 2014 supporting stint on Miley Cyrus’ Bangerz tour. The Smile songstress, 35, spoke to DJ Fat Tony on his The Recovery podcast about her own sobriety journey, including her personal lowest point, as she touched on the tour and how … Read more
The thrill of a win, the flashing lights, and a catchy soundtrack, together with inciting ‘free spin’ offers, can create a powerful lure in the world of online gambling – but as the old saying goes: ‘The house always wins’. In fact, the UK gambling industry doesn’t just win, it wins big every single year. … Read more
WHO THEY WAS by Gabriel Krauze (Fourth Estate £14.99) LITERARY FICTION ANTHONY CUMMINS WHO THEY WAS by Gabriel Krauze (Fourth Estate £14.99) I’ve had more conversations about this novel than any other this year. Drawn on the author’s troubling past as a university student running with London gangs, it’s thrillingly visceral and endlessly rich. Longlisted for … Read more
Although readers are captivated by the dragons, gruesome battles and the unforgettable Red Wedding in the fictional ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ book series, a new study finds the novels are more realistic than they lead on. Mathematicians from the UK and Ireland analyzed the five books, which were used to create the popular … Read more
Lymphoma is a cancer of the lymph nodes, which is the body’s disease-fighting network. That network consists of the spleen, bone marrow, lymph nodes and thymus gland. There are various types of lymphoma, but two main ones: non-Hodgkin’s and Hodgkin’s. Both have much better prognoses than many types of cancer. WHAT IS HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA? Hodgkin’s … Read more
Rishi Sunak’s £9bn Job Retention Scheme won’t save jobs because there’s ‘little incentive’ to pay the wages of staff not in work, an influential think-tank has warned. Business bosses have today stuck the boot into the Chancellor’s much-trumpeted plan to keep people in work, while the chief executive of Next suggested Britain’s economy risks ‘becoming … Read more
We DID need a bigger boat! Fisherman believes he hooked Britain’s BIGGEST shark… but ‘1,200lb’ 11ft monster was too vast to bring ashore in 32ft vessel Fisherman Rob Rennie thinks broke record for catching largest mako shark in UK The 49-year-old caught 11ft shark off Wales’ West coast with help of his friends Makos are … Read more
Mortimer And Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Rating: National Trust Unlocked Rating: Lime marmalade — that is the correct answer. Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse were having a fervent debate about the world’s best jam, one of them waders-deep in a Scottish salmon river and the other lying on the bank fiddling with his phone. Paul argued … Read more
Mortimer And Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Rating: National Trust Unlocked Rating: Lime marmalade — that is the correct answer. Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse were having a fervent debate about the world’s best jam, one of them waders-deep in a Scottish salmon river and the other lying on the bank fiddling with his phone. Paul argued … Read more
It’s early evening, and I’m in town to meet a friend. I catch sight of my phone – it’s 6pm. I root around in my bag, for the reassuring metal-foil feel of a blister pack of tablets. I can’t find them. Panic rising, I practically empty my bag on to the pavement. The tablets aren’t there. … Read more