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Sustainable luxury fashion label Mother of Pearl creates first high street collection with John Lewis

Hardworking wardrobe staples from one of luxury fashion's coolest sustainability stars




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#DesignYourSuperBear: John Lewis and Waitrose launch soft toy design competition for UK kids

100% of the proceeds will go towards the NHS




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St George's Day 2020: Who was England's patron saint?

This year's celebrations will be a little different amid the coronavirus lockdown




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St George's Day 2019: Who was England's patron saint?

Get ready to wave that flag with pride




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New Balance 530 trainers are the fashion girl favourite for your daily stroll

The retro runner has made (another) comeback




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Colour codes: Instagram's rainbow challenge is daring us to embrace colour, but what do the shades symbolise?

Red and yellow and pink and blue, which one is most you?




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Community aid website urges more people to volunteer amid coronavirus crisis

CoronaBuddy.co.uk helps connect people in need with local volunteers in their area




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Meet the woman behind the Run For Heroes 5k challenge – that has raised over £5m

'I hoped to raise £5k with Run For Heroes ... now the total is over £5m'




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Stay Wild: meet the London-based female co-founders turning ocean plastic into sustainable swimwear

Stay Wild is on a mission to create truly sustainable and ethical swimwear that's well-designed and flattering for all women




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What is the Shopping Bag Challenge? Instagram's latest trend explained

Have you got bags of style?




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Smart tools to ensure your hair is Zoom-ready

Haircare just went hi-tech




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Wizz Air resumes London flights to European destinations despite lockdown

The Government has faced pressure from airline bosses, tour firms and passengers to offer certainty around refunds for cancelled Easter and summer holidays.




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Saint Laurent will no longer show at Paris Fashion Week

The brand has revealed that it intends to "take control of its pace"




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Sustainable sneaker brand Allbirds debuts its first running shoe

Constructed from renewable natural materials like eucalyptus tree fibre, Merino wool and sugarcane, could this be the sneaker to make our running more sustainable?




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Sustainable lingerie brands to see out lockdown in earth-loving style

Spice up your lockdown lingerie game with brands that are ripping up the rulebook




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Why you're probably relieved it's raining

Lockdown in London has turned some of us into pluviophiles




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Carine Roitfeld and Derek Blasberg to host supermodel-studded virtual catwalk show in aid of Covid-19

The show will be broadcast live globally on YouTube on Friday




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Google Meet video conferencing is now free with unlimited time for calls and AI noise minimisation

Video conferencing platforms are winning in the lockdown




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Are you Britain's 'funniest' family? Beano wants to know

Your family could be made into a Beano comic if you win




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Karlie Kloss, Usain Bolt and Eminem have all donated items to this raffle for Covid-19

Nab yourself some one-of-a-kind pieces




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Lockdown Letters: getting to know my brother all over again

In the latest in our series of reflection and tales of lockdown, Laura Hampson moves back in with her brother and discovers how much can change in a decade




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How to add the donation sticker on TikTok and Instagram to help raise money for charities

Going live on social media? Add a donation sticker while you're at it




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London after Lockdown: Swabs for passengers will be 'new normal' at airports

Passengers may have to collect sealed "grab and go" meal bags before they board planes to reduce their contact with cabin crew on flights under a range of options for the post lockdown era being considered by aviation bosses.




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Wizz Air flights resume from London Luton today

The government is still advising Brits not to travel abroad




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Nike trainer Nesrine Dally on fitness and fasting during Ramadan

The Muay Thai boxer has been training throughout Ramadan for years, here she shares her expert tips




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Twilight author Stephanie Meyer to release long-awaited novel Midnight Sun this summer

The new Twilight novel, told from Edward's perspective, will be released on August 1




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Twilight author Stephenie Meyer to release long-awaited novel Midnight Sun this summer

The new Twilight novel, told from Edward's perspective, will be released on August 4




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London after lockdown: Gyms to reduce class sizes and run open air sessions as part of 'new normal'

The number of high intensity "heavy breathing" work-out machines such as treadmills and cross trainers will be hugely reduced in gyms to help make them safe when the lockdown ends.




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Marianne's style: How to dress like Daisy Edgar-Jones' character from Normal People

Hers is a style so good that it's far from normal




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Connell's chain: Normal People's protagonist has kicked off a major men's jewellery trend

Don't pretend you didn't notice it: that whisper-thin necklace glinting against Connell's chest




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Peanut raises £9.6 million to fund its mission to become the leading social network for women

The app now counts 1.6 million users




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You can rent Normal People's Italian villa on Airbnb

And it's just £35 per night




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An expert guide to at-home hair removal

Making fuzz-free fuss-free




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The rainbow jewellery under £100 guaranteed to brighten your mood

These snazzy steals are guaranteed smile-inducers




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The best stretches and exercises for back pain, according to a physio

How to look after your body physically while WFH




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Michelle Obama explains how her fashion has changed since leaving the White House in Netflix's Becoming film

The former First Lady has always been a believer that being highly educated and having an interest in high fashion don't have to be mutually exclusive




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Happity at home: the platform keeping toddlers entertained with live-streamed classes

From learning Spanish to playing music, Happity is helping to keep toddlers occupied at home




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Photographers team up to capture lockdown London on doorsteps to raise for NHS heroes

"All of my work has been cancelled [because of the crisis] and I was just missing shooting people and thought it would be a nice way for the community to come together and have a memory of this time.




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X Factor star Danny Tetley jailed for sexual exploitation of boys

Singer imprisoned for nine years for getting teenagers to send him explicit pictures

A former star of The X Factor has been jailed for nine years for sexually exploiting seven teenage boys.

Danny Tetley, from Bradford, was described as “a despicable creature with very few redeeming features” for encouraging the youngsters to send him explicit pictures in exchange for money.

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Kojo Anim review – BGT star on fame, faith and fatherhood

Fairfield Halls, London
In his show Taxi Tour, the comic from last year’s Britain’s Got Talent offers only standard-issue middle-aged standup

Kojo Anim was a star of the black standup circuit for years, but “Britain’s Got Talent changed my life,” he tells his Croydon crowd. The Londoner has booked his Taxi Tour off the back of an appearance in last year’s final, and recounts how that brush with fame – and his Christian faith, and new fatherhood – picked him back up after a grim period in his life. The emotional honesty is refreshing, but plays only a cameo role in an otherwise unadventurous show. Anim certainly does have talent, but – on this evidence – it’s for performing, not for writing distinctive material.

The show opens with a justification for appearing on BGT, and an account of his experience of overnight celebrity. But it soon devolves into standard issue middle-aged standup comparing his unglamorous childhood with that of today’s pampered youth. His parents play their expected role, giving their son broad accents to mimic when not walloping him for the slightest impertinence. “Only an African parent,” reports our host ruefully, “will beat their own child when they see another child doing something.”

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Covid-19 leaves news and entertainment industries reeling

TV and news website audiences are sky-high but, with few ads or new shows, future looks fraught

From TV channels running out of shows, to newspapers facing the threat of closure, the British media industry is facing a financial shock that will permanently reshape how we consume news and entertainment.

Media analysts and insiders warn the pandemic will have a long-lasting impact on the country’s cultural life, predicting that changes in consumer behaviour expected to take more than five years may have happened in five weeks, with many people unlikely to entirely return to their pre-lockdown habits.

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BBC could quarantine actors and crews on dramas to aid filming

Broadcaster considers plans to restart production on many TV series halted by pandemic

The BBC could put actors and directors in quarantine and remove the studio audience from Strictly Come Dancing under plans to help restart television production after the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the industry.

The proposals, which could affect everything from EastEnders to light entertainment and high-end dramas, are being considered as broadcasters face up to the prospect of enormous gaps in their schedules after much of British television production was stopped dead in mid-March.

Related: No Señor Agüero, but BBC Bitesize kicks it out of the park

Related: How TV news hosts get camera-ready in lockdown

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Coronavirus poses huge threat to entertainment industry

The sector is wrestling with issues such as staging plays with social distancing, or running rollercoasters half full

The row between cinema chains and Universal Studios over the digital-only release of Trolls World Tour is one of may crises racking the entertainment industry during the coronavirus lockdown. The challenges range from working out how to stage live performances to managing social distancing in queues for rollercoasters. Here are some of the issues they face.

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SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Fury Unleashed’, ‘Stone’, and Today’s Other New Releases, the Latest Sales Featuring ‘Saints Row IV’ and More

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for May 8th, 2020. Today was basically a nightmare scenario for …





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Down’s Syndrome student wins compensation after school sent letter to parents detailing violent behaviour



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US death projection doubles in leading model as Dr Fauci warns against opening too soon