My real-life experience as a property guardian was anything but funny | Tom Zephyr
Housing Network This article is more than 8 years oldMy real-life experience as a property guardian was anything but funnyThis article is more than 8 years oldTom ZephyrChannel 4’s Crashing has been described as the comic voice of generation rent, but I soon tired of living in a dilapidated building with few legal rights Channel 4’s new sitcom Crashing, which follows six twentysomethings living as property guardians in a disused hospital, has been described as the comic voice of generation rent.
Slow loris: the eyes may be cute, but the elbows are absolutely lethal | Animals
ShortcutsAnimalsSlow loris: the eyes may be cute, but the elbows are absolutely lethalFor such an impossibly cute creature, the slow loris has it tough. The giant-eyed nocturnal primates, found across a belt of countries around Indonesia, are highly prized for their supposed medicinal and spiritual properties. As a result, the luckless lorises frequently find themselves roasted alive over wood fires while eager people catch the supposedly life-giving liquor that drips out.
10 of the best surfing beaches in the UK
Surfing holidaysThere’s no need to head to Biarritz or Bali – the UK coastline has plenty of great waves and our surfing expert knows exactly where to catch them
Portrush, County AntrimNorthern Ireland’s toned-down answer to Newquay has a cheerful holiday vibe thanks to the swarms of beginners splashing around in the waves, in contrast to the more serious nature of some of the wilder and more remote surf spots found in this part of the world – especially to the west in Donegal.
Alisha Aitken-Radburn on The Bachelors villain edit: I thought Id decimated my politi
Former Labor staffer and The Bachelor contestant Alisha Aitken-Radburn, whose new book The Villain Edit is out now. Photograph: Allen and UnwinFormer Labor staffer and The Bachelor contestant Alisha Aitken-Radburn, whose new book The Villain Edit is out now. Photograph: Allen and UnwinThe BachelorAitken-Radburn’s ‘spicy’ remarks were an attempt to win more airtime on Australia’s 2018 season. But then the DMs started rolling in …
Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email At first, Alisha Aitken-Radburn was excited to see herself as a contestant on Australia’s The Bachelor.
Kurt Cobain death-scene note disparages Courtney Love | Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain This article is more than 9 years oldKurt Cobain death-scene note disparages Courtney LoveThis article is more than 9 years oldLetter found at the time of Nirvana singer's suicide describes Love as 'a bitch with zits', raising doubts over its sincerity Update: Since this story was written, the full text of the letter has been released, which appears to show it was written by Courtney Love.
Seattle police have released a previously unrevealed note found in Kurt Cobain's wallet at the time of his death.
Lou Albano obituary | US news
US newsObituaryLou Albano obituaryBombastic American wrestler and actorThe appeal to teenagers of "Captain" Lou Albano, who has died aged 76, was a key factor in the ascent to the mainstream of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in the 1980s. Albano's appearance as Cyndi Lauper's father in the video for her worldwide smash hit Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1983) was a sensation in the early days of the cable music channel MTV.
My boyfriend and I have been together for nine months. Why wont he say I love you?
Ask Annalisa BarbieriRelationshipsEven if he says it, will it be enough for you, or is there something about him which makes you feel anxious?
My boyfriend (aged 39) and I (36) have been together for nine months. We live together, have met each other’s family and friends and are generally very committed to each other – but he still hasn’t told me that he loves me.
I’ve told him I love him, but nothing comes back.
Top 10 places to visit on the Ecuador coast
Ecuador holidaysAir Europa’s new flights from Madrid to Guayaquil start on 16 December, making an Ecuador trip much easier. Here, we highlight a coastline of great resorts, as well as tropical forest and wonderful wildlife
Santa Elena and Salinas
Just outside provincial capital Santa Elena is Museo Los Amantes de Sumpa. Around 200 skeletons were unearthed at this site in the 1970s, including the “Lovers of Sumpa”, a man and a woman found in an 8,000-year-old embrace.
Holly Willoughby complains to PCC over 'fake up skirt' photo | Press Complaints Commission
Press Complaints Commission This article is more than 11 years oldHolly Willoughby complains to PCC over 'fake up skirt' photoThis article is more than 11 years oldThis Morning presenter's lawyers accuse Sunday Sport of 'shoddy journalism' over habitual use of faked photosHolly Willoughby has complained to the Press Complaints Commission over a picture published by the Sunday Sport which her lawyers described as a "fake up the skirt photo".
Jonathan Coad of law firm Lewis Silkin, representing the ITV presenter, said the paper was known for its "
In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers by Chris Welles Feder
Biography booksReviewThe memoirs of Orson Welles's daughter expose his multiple complexities, says Simon CallowOrson Welles was, to put it mildly, multifaceted; to the degree, indeed, that his personality almost fails to cohere. The result is that there are many Orsons; everyone who came across him adds another, and each insists that theirs is the real one. To the swelling genre of what might be called "My Orson" books, In My Father's Shadow, by Welles's daughter from his first marriage, is a new and uncommonly valuable addition.