‘Hidden’ fridge button that’s often missed but helps keep food fresh
There’s a ‘hidden’ button in your fridge that can help keep your food fresh for longer, but many Brits often overlook it. Have you ever forgotten about something in your fridge and found it mouldy? Well there’s a secret button that can stop this from happening. This button is in all fridges, but many people […]
Team sports for kids and yoga in your 50s: exercises to help you stay flexible for every life stage | Fitness
Children and adolescents Children’s bones aren’t fully set, which makes them much less likely to suffer long-term problems after injury, even breaks. “They’ve got growth plates, which allow bones to get longer and develop,” says Mehmet Gem, a specialist hip physio and regional lead at Pure Physiotherapy in Exeter, speaking via the Chartered Society of […]
Forget the plunging neckline â show some shoulder instead | Fashion
Cleavage dates you. It shows your age. Not that Iâm shaming you for less than youthful skin on your décolletage â surely you know me better than that. And you may well be immaculately well preserved under the collar, as it were, if youâve been using your lotions and potions right down to your bra, as […]
John Wayne’s The Searchers co-star enraged John Ford for what he did to Duke | Films | Entertainment
John Wayne and John Ford collaborated on some of the Hollywood Golden Age’s best-loved Westerns from She Wore a Yellow Ribbon to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Perhaps their most famous was 1956’s The Searchers which saw Duke play a Civil War veteran spending years searching for his abducted niece, played by Natalie Wood. […]
Man Utd face test of mettle as ‘£75m Marcus Rashford offer’ set to be tabled | Football | Sport
Rashford was the subject of real interest from PSG as he struck a career-best 30 goals last season, contributing to a successful start to Erik ten Hag’s reign as manager. The 26-year-old reportedly could have landed a mouth-watering £400,000-a-week contract in Paris but decided to snub a switch to the French capital. Instead, he penned […]
A waterworld with a boiling ocean and the end of dark matter? The week in science â podcast | Science
Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss some of the science stories that have made headlines this week, from a new theory challenging the existence of dark matter to an alarming study about the possible impact of microplastics on our health and a glimpse of a âwaterworld with a boiling oceanâ deep in space […]
Russia ready to use nuclear weapons if threatened, Putin tells state media
President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if there is a threat to Russian statehood, sovereignty or independence, but said he hoped that the U.S. would refrain from actions that could trigger a nuclear conflict. Putin’s statement was another blunt warning to the West ahead of a presidential vote this […]
‘Game-changing’ 35p staple leaves dirty windows streak-free in seconds
There’s nothing worse than streaky, smudged windows, especially when the sun is shining through them. While it may be tempting to grab a cloth and some kitchen spray, this could make your windows look worse. Instead, the cleaning experts at window company, Plan-It Windows, suggested using white vinegar to make windows “streak-free” in seconds. White […]
A moment that changed me: I held up a protest sign and it turned my life upside down | Media
In October 2012, I attended my first ever protest. It was held outside the News International office in Wapping, east London, and was organised by No More Page 3, a campaign calling for an end to the images of topless women printed in the Sun newspaper. I was 31 and had gone on a whim, […]
âTap water is boring, so they invent new productsâ: how did humble H2O become such big business? | Life and style
Towards the end of 2009, Camper English achieved a major breakthrough in his kitchen in San Francisco. After months of experimentation, English, a drinks industry consultant, created the perfect piece of clear ice: a cube with minimal fissures and microbubbles, as transparent as air. His method for making clear ice â freezing water in an […]