Month: February 2025

Robert Pattinson has revealed he “kind of said yes” to being in Bong Joon-ho’s new film Mickey 17 before seeing the script. In the film the Twilight actor plays Mickey Barnes, whose body is continually regenerated after he dies while undertaking dangerous work assignments. Speaking to the PA news agency at the film’s world premiere, the 38-year-old said: “I wanted to work with director Bong so much and I kind […]

Scientists have discovered a new way to predict which cancer tumours will become aggressive before they spread – paving the way for treatments to stop the disease in its tracks. A new study, published in the journal Nature Communications, details how the surroundings of cancer cells help them break out of a tumour and begin their deadly march around the body. A structure called the extracellular matrix (ECM) holds tumours […]

An artist has added a touch of magic to used tea bags by painting scenes inspired from Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings on them. Caroline West, 50, from Waterlooville, Hampshire, has been painting on used tea bags since August 2023 as a way of turning something that is typically discarded into “something beautiful”. Hoping to capture the enchantment many feel when reading or watching fantasies, she decided […]

Singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor has said she found a trip to Poland to hear the stories of Ukrainian refugee children “truly inspiring”. The 45-year-old visited Warsaw ahead of the three-year anniversary of the Russia invasion of Ukraine in her role as an ambassador for Save The Children. She hosted a music therapy workshop with Ukrainian Roma children aged between three and 12 before meeting a group of 15 to 18-year-olds at […]

Regulators have proposed sweeping changes for the baby formula industry, after finding many brands cost more than the weekly value of people’s benefits, leading some parents to forgo food to buy the product. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said issues like high prices and branding in the industry are leading to “poor outcomes” for parents, who could be saving about £300 a year by switching to lower priced products. […]

A doll’s house which inspired the stories of children’s author Beatrix Potter is going back on display after 300 hours of conservation work. Seventy-three miniature items – including furniture, plates of food and even a small chandelier – were repaired and cleaned by teams of conservators at the National Trust ahead of the house becoming the centrepiece of a new exhibition at Hill Top, the author’s farm near Hawkshead, Cumbria. […]

David Lammy is set to meet G7 allies on Friday as the West reels from Donald Trump’s telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin. The Foreign Secretary will travel to the Munich Security Conference, where he is expected to attend a G7 meeting and a dinner with his counterparts from the US, France, Italy and Germany – the so-called “Quint”. But while he may have expected to discuss the Middle East and […]

More than half of the public intend to spend money on a spouse or partner this Valentine’s Day, with men marginally more likely than women to mark the occasion, a survey suggests. Just over a quarter of people (27%) intend to take their partner out for a Valentine’s Day meal, 19% will send a card, 10% will buy flowers or drinks out and 4% are planning a trip away, the […]

Kemi Badenoch has launched a formal bid to keep local elections scheduled for this May, as her shadow business secretary warned cancelling them was entirely wrong..