From the moment we met and gave each other a hug it felt so comfortable,’ says Tracey Pescod, describing meeting Judy Coutinho for the first time a couple of weeks ago.
‘We’d been messaging each other a lot but actually to meet her in person was something I will never forget,’ says Tracey, still tearful at the memory.
Like any new friends, ‘we talked about our children and showed each other photos’. But this interest in each other’s family went
Travel writer Jo Kessel filmed the ultimate polar bear cruise aboard Hurtigruten’s 220-passenger expedition ship MS Spitsbergen. The film shows what expedition life is like, with passengers exploring on foot and in inflatable zodiac boats as they scout for wildlife and glaciers. Plus, there’s exclusive footage of Jo being attacked by an Arctic tern, kayaking at the North Pole’s ice edge and finding one very well-fed polar bear.
There are many animals most of us will only ever expect to
On a drizzly Friday morning, Sara Sutherland wakes up smug in the knowledge that today she won’t have to drag her children out of bed for the rigmarole of the school run.
Instead, she and seven-year-old twins, Charlotte and Harriett, will be flying to Barcelona for the day.
But unlike other parents who dare pull their children out of school for a family holiday, Sara won’t be receiving a fine from the local authority for non-attendance.
For the scientist, from
‘I never expected to live so long, and I don’t take it for granted, even now,’ says Lea Glaskie who will celebrate her 106th birthday in February.
Born in 1918, a year before the first commercial flight in Europe (from London to Paris, taking two and a half hours) and in an era when central heating, double glazing, fridges and washing machines didn’t exist, and most houses only had outside toilets, she has lived through seismic changes in British society
Der charmante Held Nithiin ist derzeit mit seinem nächsten Projekt mit dem Titel EXTRA – Ordinary Man beschäftigt. Nachdem sie das Publikum mit den faszinierenden Postern und der ersten Single beeindruckt hatten, veröffentlichten die Macher heute den mit Spannung erwarteten Teaser zum Film.
Nithiin wird in der Junior-Künstlerin zu sehen sein, einem zusätzlichen Mitglied bei den Dreharbeiten zum Film. Aber der Teaser beginnt, seine gewaltige Action zu zeigen, was die Intrige um seinen Charakter weckt. Der Actionteil ist stilvoll und
Stephen Fry was admittedly left taken aback when he learned that his prison cellmate was illiterate.
The 65-year-old English actor spent four months in prison whilst on remand when he was 17.
The actor and broadcaster was sent to prison after stealing a credit card and “embarking on a countrywide spending spree”.
Speaking in a new interview with Radio Times, Stephen said he shared his cell with a “young Welsh man” who to his own disbelief was “illiterate”
He said:
Alan Shayne wasn’t surprised that his “arrogant” classmate went on to become an Oscar-winning star.
It was the spring of 1943 when Marlon Brando followed his sister Jocelyn to New York City.
While taking on odd jobs, including that of an elevator operator, he enrolled in The New School for Social Research. Shayne, who would later become a top executive at Warner Bros. Television, was in Brando’s class with his own big dreams of becoming an actor.
Shayne detailed his
The Aztecs are today revered around the world, despite their civilisation having been gone for hundreds of years.
They were at one point in history the most advanced humans on the planet, leading the way in science and medicine, building great cities for hundreds of thousands of people in jungle and desert landscapes across Mexico.
Many of their cities contained complex irrigation systems that wouldn’t be seen anywhere else in the world for hundreds of years.
But, when Europeans arrived
Bored by the same old staycations every year? Swap tired holiday cottages and charmless rentals for something extraordinary.
England is dotted with unusual places to stay, from treehouses in vineyards to 18th-century follies.
Here are 11 of the most incredible that step away from the well-trodden tourist track, swerve the coach trippers and explore the country’s more secretive sights, seeking the understated, unexpected and unusual.
FOLLY IN YORKSHIRE
With views across the landscape at Hackfall and beyond, The Ruin in
It is a breathtaking image that offers a glimpse of what our sun might look like when it dies.
Taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the picture reveals the intricate and ethereal beauty of the iconic Ring Nebula in never-before-seen detail.
Also known as Messier 57, the mesmerising object is around 2,600 light-years away from Earth and was born from the remnants of a dying star.
It is this expulsion of stellar material that gives the cosmic masterpiece
