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EATING OUT This Wiltshire haunt is a great pub, says Tom – but as a restaurant it needs to turn up the dial When it comes to reviewing restaurants, give me bad, give me good, but please don’t give me average. Because the language of disgust is far and away the most fertile, a festering … Read more
The £165 French Connection trench coat that you can wear three ways and will transform your wardrobe By Sophie Dearden For You Magazine Published: 12:07 BST, 30 September 2023 | Updated: 12:23 BST, 30 September 2023 You wouldn’t believe how many items of clothing I get pitched each week. All promise to ‘transform’ my wardrobe. … Read more
The other week I published my 16th novel, Absolutely and Forever. Primarily it explores one of the most popular subjects in the history of human life: young romantic love and heartbreak. In 1950s England, my heroine Marianne Clifford is only 15 when she falls for 18-year-old Simon Hurst, ‘the cleverest boy in Berkshire’. When fate … Read more
LIZ JONES:I wasn’t planning to expand on what happened on my birthday. I alluded to it in my Moans last Sunday: I was stood up when I had booked lunch under a pergola.
Q My son, a lovely, caring young man of 21, has a girlfriend who we are not keen on. They’ve been together a few months. She’s very needy but also overconfident and boastful. She is always bragging about how successful her parents are, how well her brother is doing at his elite school and so … Read more
I know the fashionistas among you will be rolling your eyes and (rightly) thinking that the 90s has had more comebacks than Bojo – but readers, Autumn 2023 is different. It sees the return of the 1990s trends that I love. Those sleek slip dresses as worn by a 20-something Kate Moss – accessorised with … Read more
David Beckham has revealed all – like weight-training with his wife Victoria, the perils of ageing and his love of Lego – ahead of his new Netflix documentary. Beckham, 48, said they are keeping fit by exercising together every morning. ‘We mostly do weights now. I don’t do a huge amount of running any more, … Read more
Eva Longoria put on a leggy display as she joined the likes of Kim Kardashian, Neelam Gill and Rose Bertram at Victoria Beckham’s fashion show afterparty on Friday. The stars all changed into glamorous ensembles after they sat and watched Victoria’s hotly-anticipated show during Paris Fashion Week. A whole host of huge A-list names descended on the … Read more
Commuters are facing a week of travel chaos as disgruntled train staff started their 46th strike today amid their bitter, long-running disputes over pay, jobs and working conditions. Members of the Aslef union at 16 train operators in England launched a fresh strike today and will do so again on Wednesday, coinciding with the annual … Read more
The family of the driver of the school bus crash on the M53 yesterday morning that tragically killed him and 15-year-old girl Jessica Baker have described him as a ‘loving, caring and thoughtful husband’ who leaves behind a widow in her early 30s and two young children aged eight and four. Stephen Shrimpton, 40, was … Read more