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Monthly head shaves and daily two-hour chants: Meet the monk living at a monastery in Mongolia that survived Stalinist repression to become one of the country’s oldest The Shankh Monastery, founded in 1647, is located 224 miles from Ulaanbaatar It closed in 1937 during Stalinist repression – many of the monks were executed After the revolution in … Read more
Susanna Reid reunited with her former BBC co-host Bill Turnbull on Wednesday’s Good Morning Britain after he stepped in for Piers Morgan. And it wasn’t long until Ranvir Singh joked that the presenter, 49, was ‘living her best life’ as she presented with Bill again six years after they co-hosted BBC Breakfast. Ranvir, 42, quipped: ‘I came … Read more
Campaigners call for a fund to help people trapped living in unsafe buildings in wake of Grenfell tragedy By Miles Dilworth For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 25 February 2020 | Updated: 00:22 GMT, 26 February 2020 The Association of Residential Managing Agents has written an open letter to Rishi Sunak demanding a multi-million-pound … Read more
A surprising new survey has revealed how Oxford Street is slowly turning from the capital’s shopping hub to a residential address. Currently one of London’s top tourist destinations, it has attracted visitors from across the world for hundreds of years, and boasts famous department stores Selfridges and John Lewis alongside an array of chain shops. … Read more
Women are living longer but men are catching up as females’ lifespans are now growing at a slower rate than those of their male counterparts Women’s lifespans are growing more slowly than men’s, a study found yesterday Average life expectancy still rising for both sexes, but at slower rate for women May be down to … Read more
A British student evacuated from Wuhan has today documented his journey from ‘living in fear’ and suffering panic attacks in coronavirus-hit China to life in quarantine in a Milton Keynes hotel with free Netflix. Camryn Turner, 27, was in the middle of a music course in the virus-ravaged city when the outbreak, which has now claimed more … Read more
MEMOIR MY PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY by Zeba Talkhani (Sceptre £9.99, 200pp) Zeba Talkhani’s mother was preparing for one of her many extravagant dinner parties when her daughter heard a scream. ‘Mama’ had caught her hand in the blender. Blood spattered everywhere. She was taken to bed, where her body began to convulse. Zeba … Read more
People who have experienced homelessness are sharing the things that took them by surprise about living on the streets – from deadly motels to not accepting food from strangers. Writing on an eye-opening Quora thread, people across the US told how they were arrested for walking through rich, well off neighborhoods and struck by the fact … Read more
MEMOIR DEAR LIFE by Rachel Clarke (Little Brown £16.99, 336 pp) Growing up in the 1970s, Rachel Clarke loved hearing her father’s tales of his career in medicine. But one story, — from his days as a naval anaesthetist — lingered uncomfortably in her mind. He was only a young man himself when an explosion … Read more
Return to the chateau! Dick and Angel reflect on ‘living the dream’ and how their stunning French home has been transformed since 2015 in new TV special Escape to the Chateau’s Dick and Angel return to our TV screens this Sunday for three special episodes Their new series looks back at their biggest renovation projects … Read more