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Michelle McManus says ‘not being attractive to men’ sabotaged her pop career

3+ hour, 5+ min ago  (567+ words) Michelle McManus has said she believes her pop career was held back because she was not considered "attractive to men" at the height of her fame. The singer, 45, who won the second series of Pop Idol in 2003, made the comments…...

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100 years after his death, Gaudí’s Barcelona is as vibrant as ever

59+ min ago  (737+ words) When the Antonio Gaud" died in 1926, the story quickly became the stuff of legend. Crossing the street, the 73-year-old man was struck down by a tram. Lying in the road in his shabby clothes, people initially mistook him for a…...

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Matt Tebbutt reflects on sacking from top London restaurant

3+ hour, 15+ min ago  (733+ words) Matt Tebbutt has recalled being fired by his chef mentor Marco Pierre White from his first job out of culinary school. The Saturday Kitchen presenter - who recently left MasterChef - revisited the time during an appearance on BBC's The One Show…...

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This is the exact watch the crew are wearing aboard Artemis II

3+ hour, 39+ min ago  (575+ words) Shopping | ES Best Home | Fashion | Accessories It's been more than half a century since the world saw a manned space mission to the moon. This 10-day test flight, during which the crew will orbit the moon but not actually land…...

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Oxford Street: two new bike routes for cyclists banned from pedestrianised area

32+ min ago  (667+ words) Two new cycle routes have been proposed as alternative ways to ride across central London after Oxford Street is pedestrianised. Cyclists will be banned from the traffic-free section of Oxford Street once its western section " between Ikea and Selfridges " is…...

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Finsbury Park is not the place to rehabilitate Kanye West's career

32+ min ago  (742+ words) All news is local, but it's not every day that a disgraced American musician and reformed Nazi sympathiser attempts to plot his comeback tour in your back garden. Then the antisemitic conspiracy theory peddling began, culminating in West getting locked…...

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JLR car sales recover after production restart following cyber attack

6+ hour, 58+ min ago  (310+ words) Car giant JLR has revealed a recovery in sales over the past quarter after restarting production following the impact of a major cyber attack. The UK's largest car manufacturer said it sold 95,300 vehicles to dealers in the three months to…...

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Chocolatiers make the world's largest mini egg

26+ min ago  (402+ words) It is the time of year where it is all things chocolate - and experts in one confectionary world has not disappointed. The world's largest Cadbury Mini Egg " the Mega Mini Egg - has been unveiled as a rather egg-squisite choco creation....

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A record has been broken for the most expensive bottle of wine sold

32+ min ago  (490+ words) A bottle of wine has made history after selling for a record-breaking $812,500 (614,814) at auction in New York, setting a new benchmark for collectors and connoisseurs. The bottle, a 1945 Domaine de la Roman'e-Conti, was sold last weekend at the annual La…...

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Bob Dylan draft lyrics found inside book expected to sell for up to £40,000

32+ min ago  (468+ words) Lyrics written by Bob Dylan and found tucked inside a poetry book will go up for auction and could sell for up to "40,000. The torn page contains type-written draft lyrics with a number of amendments to Dylan's song I'm Not…...