Lauren Shirreff

Variety's Power of Women event on Wednesday night should have been all about the, well, women.

Far from a faceless army of opportunists stalking our streets, a small number of prolific offenders are driving Britain's shoplifting crisis, according to new figures.

“This is a final chance to change,” said Andy Burnham in his Makerfield by-election victory speech. He was referring to the Labour Party, but those who know him saw a delicious irony in that phrase.

Rory Welsh comes from a long line of bald men. His father started losing his hair in his twenties, as did his grandfather and his uncles, and just

The desperation that comes with a bout of poor sleep is like nothing else. Brain fog, extreme fatigue and constant irritability are all traits of the regularly underslept. In the long term, so are obesity, high blood pressure and low mood – and we’re increasingly aware of it. Scarcely more than a third of us say that the amount of sleep we get each night is “good”, a survey from Nuffield Health suggests.

Louise Haigh, the former transport secretary, was delivering a speech at Leeds City Hall on the day it became clear that someone was trying to snuff out her career.

Louise Haigh, the former transport secretary, was delivering a speech at Leeds City Hall on the day it became clear that someone was trying to snuff out her career. A story about her criminal record had been leaked to two news outlets. She resigned the morning after the news broke, on November 29, 2024, after just four months in the job.

The infamous internet personalities, brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, aged 39 and 38 respectively, are set to be extradited from the USA to the UK

For the Conisbee family, margins on their farm were already thin. Then, a raging blaze saw a whole year’s work go up in flames

If, at about this time in 2022, you had gone looking for tulip bulbs or a new trowel in a garden centre in Surrey , you might have spotted a friendly