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Meghan Markle designed a bracelet for Kate Middleton and her bridesmaids

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Meghan has pretty much proved how kind and big-hearted she is, through her humanitarian work.

Now she’s shown that she’s a good friend too. Thanking Kate Middleton and six of her bridesmaids for their help at the royal wedding, Meghan designed bespoke gold bracelets for her nearest and dearest.

She commissioned California-based jewellers Zofia Day to create the Solid Gold Disc Bracelet, choosing the design for the delicate yellow trinket, fittingly called The Kensington.

And you can get it too.


Dog becomes stay-at-home dad for ducklings after their mum waddled out on them

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Fred the Labrador with his brood of adopted ducklings
‘Siri, show me a visual representation of “peace”.’ (Picture: Mountfitchet Castle / SWNS.com)

An old dog has become a stay-at-home dad for nine little ducklings after their mother abandoned them.

Fred the labrador stepped up after the duck mum upped and left last Thursday (17 May).

The ducklings were found wandering around lost and alone near the battlements at Mountfitchet Castle near Stansted, Essex, where the 10-year-old dog lives.

The staff member who found them was extremely worried about them fending for themselves but they needn’t have worried as Fred was never going to leave them flying solo.

In fact, he’s been babysitting the little… Read the full story

Why the Parliamentary Group on Prostitution is wrong to suggest criminalising the buying of sex

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What’s wrong with a safe and consensual transaction? (Picture: Ella Byworth for Metro.co.uk)

Another day, another flurry of media and morality where the world is convinced sex trafficking is around every corner.

This time it’s courtesy of a group of self appointed MPs who make up the ‘All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade’.

Spoilers – none of them are, or ever have been, actual sex workers. (As far as I know.)

Advertising online keeps sex workers safe – so why is the US trying to stop it?

A… Read the full story

Kate Middleton’s lace wedding dress beats Meghan Markle’s simple Givenchy design as royal gowns are compared

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FILE - In this Friday, April 29, 2011 file photo, Britain's Prince William, foreground left, and his wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, foreground right, during their wedding service at Westminster Abbey in London. With less than a month to go till she marries Prince Harry at Windsor Castle on May 19, Meghan Markle would most likely have chosen her wedding dress - though what it looks like is expected to remain a top secret until the last minute. Princess Diana???s 1981 wedding gown, with its puff sleeves, romantic ruffles and dramatic train, defined the ???80s fairytale bridal look. More recently, when Kate Middleton married Prince William in 2011, the long-sleeved lace… <a href=Read the full story

Video captures the moment a little girl had her tooth pulled out by her pet cockatoo

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A little girl has captured the moment her tooth was removed by her pet cockatoo.

Parrot-obsessed Kylee Bobbitt spent years begging her parents to let her have a cockatoo and saved up half of the £1,400 herself.

The 11-year-old now has an unbreakable bond with her beloved bird Penelope, who lives in a cage in her bedroom and has been taught to to hang off her finger, give kisses and even hold a pencil.

However, one thing the bird hadn’t been trained in is dentistry –… Read the full story

A Jenga food trend is happening on Instagram if you want to mess around with your lunch

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If you want to look super on trend then forget everything your mum said about not playing with your food.

That’s because the latest Insta craze is about stacking your food up high like Jenga blocks.

Bloggers have been sharing snaps of impossibly high towers made out of fries, cookies, brownies, churros and more.

Instagrammers have had to get creative, plopping them up horizontally and vertically just as they would in the game, and sharing their proud constructions online using the hashtag #foodjenga.

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Some opted for… Read the full story

This rosé wine keg holds the equivalent of 26 bottles

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Imagine having this rose wine keg at your next BBQ METRO GRAB taken from: https://www.instagram.com/p/BgwHUYwF9Vd/?taken-by=bridgelanewine Credit: Bridge Lane Wine/Instagram
Pour us a glass (Picture: Bridge Lane Wine/Instagram)

Move over boxed and bottled wine – ya boi keg is here to make you look like big old nerds.

A winery in Long Island, USA, has come up with the genius way of storing and serving large quantities of wine.

Bridge Lane Wines has launched wine kegs, which contain 19.5 litres of wine, which is the equivalent of 26 bottles, or 130 glasses – if you stick to standard glass sizes.

The kegs come in five different varieties – dry rosé, a red blend, white Merlot, unoaked Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.

Unopened,… Read the full story

A fox has been rescued after getting her head stuck in a watering can

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A fox has been rescued after getting its head stuck in a watering can in Glasgow. See Centre Press story CPFOX; The Scottish SPCA rescued the animal on Wednesday after a concerned member of the public noticed that she had become stuck in the early hours of the morning. Elizabeth Lindsay, Scottish SPCA animal rescue officer, said: "The fox couldn?t see me coming so I was able to get the watering can off very quickly to limit the stress caused. "Apart from being a little bit shaken up, she was unharmed and quickly became very active and wild as soon as she was free, which is a really good sign. "This little… <a href=Read the full story

Newborn baby becomes fifth generation of girls born into her family

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(left to right), Great great grandmother Brenda Whittle, 76, great grandmother Tina Brown, 57, grandmother Lisa Lowe, 39, Leah Compton 20, and baby Evie-Jae Pye, 3 weeks, make up an incredible family in Wigan, Lancs. Along the matrilineal line, all of the first born children for five generations are female and still alive. See Ross Parry story, RPYFIVE; A newborn baby won?t have to worry about having female roles models to turn to as she grows up after becoming the FIFTH generation of girls in her family. The age difference between baby Evie-Jae Pye and her great great grandmother Brenda Whittle is 76 years. The one-week-old little smasher becomes the 11th girl… <a href=Read the full story

Iceland trials reverse vending machine which pays you to recycle

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Iceland's reverse vending machine for recycling plastic bottles
‘Just act natural and pretend you’re a regular customer, Steve’ (Picture: Iceland)

Frozen food bae Iceland has launched a reverse vending machine in its Fulham store, which rewards you for recycling.

The machine accepts any plastic drinks bottle bought from Iceland (it can tell if it’s from Iceland from the barcode, so don’t even think about it, you snakes), and gives customers a 10p voucher to spend in store for each item deposited.

This comes after the government announced plans for a bottle deposit scheme, where consumers would pay an upfront deposit every time they purchase a drink in a container.

The machine… Read the full story

The royal wedding was a display of black culture and I’m here for it

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‘This colourful display of black culture at the wedding was a symptom, a great big fanfare, of Meghan’s entrance into the Royal Family’ (Picture: Gareth Fuller – WPA/Getty Images)

I never expected to see what I saw on Saturday.

The royal wedding had its expected pomp, tradition and ceremony, and rightly so.

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But what I never expected to see were so many elements of black culture interwoven into the wedding of the year with millions around the world there to experience it.

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Stop blaming women for men’s homicidal behaviour

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As yet another deadly shooting devastates an American school, women are being blamed for the homicidal behaviour of a man. Again.

The 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis stormed Santa Fe High School in the Houston area of Texas with a shotgun and pistol, murdering 10 people.

One of Pagourtzis’ victims, classmate Shana Fisher, was gunned down after having ‘four months of problems’ from the shooter, according to Fisher’s mother in a message to the Los Angeles Times.

Fisher repeatedly rejected his advances, embarrassed him in class and ‘a week later he opens fire on everyone he didn’t like’. Rodriguez names her daughter as the first victim of Pagourtzis’ murderous rampage, although it’s unclear how she would know this.

Even mentioning Shana Fisher’s actions as a factor in the massacre in Houston simply taps into the toxic notion that women are responsible for keeping the men around them placated and happy or else they’ll face consequences.

As long as men and boys are taught that… Read the full story

Once and for all: your vulva isn’t meant to look good

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Dead vagina syndrome
No one should be ashamed (Picture: Ella Byworth for Metro.co.uk)

Body dissatisfaction in bed is to women what performance anxiety is to men: inevitable for the majority of us.

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Women are told to adhere to impossibly narrow beauty standards on a daily basis, and unbelievably this applies to our genitals as well.

We grow up with the idea that our vulva – what most people mean when they mistakenly refer to it as “vagina” – should look a certain… Read the full story

Fussy teen ate nothing but sausage rolls for 15 years

Mum has her face painted to match her son’s birthmark so she can see what life is like for him

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Carolina Giraldelli had her face painted to match her son’s birthmark, so she could experience what life is like for him for a day.

Her son Enzo, one, was born with a dark birthmark covering his forehead and stretching down one side of his nose.

He’s young enough not to notice any stares or comments, but Carolina wanted to feel firsthand what her baby experiences.

She asked a makeup artist, Elaine Ricci, to replicate Enzo’s birthmark on her face, then… Read the full story


An open letter to anyone who watched the royal wedding and worries that they’ll never get married

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Prince William (left) watches Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during their wedding at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Saturday May 19, 2018. See PA story ROYAL Wedding. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire
What if it never happens for me? (Picture: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire)

The royal wedding was always going to bring up a wide range of emotions, such as joy, and pride, and abject terror.

For every person waving a flag on the front lines at Windsor, there was someone watching on TV, alone, at home.

LISBURN, NORTHERN IRELAND - MARCH 23: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle visit the… <a href=Read the full story

Eating an egg a day could lower your risk of stroke and heart disease

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Here’s that excuse you were waiting for to have daily brunch: An egg a day is a seriously good health choice, according to new research.

Load up on poached, scrambled, or boiled to lower your risk of strokes and heart disease.

A study of 416,213 people in China found that people who consume an egg daily had lower rates of strokes and heart disease compared to those who do not eat eggs.

Participants in the study were monitored over a period of nine years.

13.1% of the people reported daily consumption of eggs, while 9.1% said they never or rarely ate eggs.

It was found that those who ate an egg a day… Read the full story

Get ready to question everything you thought about the human body with these amazing photos

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Function 1, 3 (Picture: ©Chloe Rosser Courtesy of L A Noble Gallery)

The classical ‘nude’ has been a cornerstone of art since the ancient Greeks started chiseling divine abs out of stone.

London-based photographer Chloe Rosser, however, is trying to make you question everything you thought you knew about the undressed human form.

She’s been snapping beguiling images of human bodies in all their naked glory and contorting them into fleshy geological forms.

In her series Form and Function, the body becomes almost inhuman – a mindless mass of flesh.

Often wrapped in foetal positions, these torsos are photographed in contrast to the ‘ideal body’.

In fact, the positions look almost impossible to get in; with any… Read the full story

Why North Carolina should be your next American adventure

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The United States is brimming with travel hotspots but few states can match the diversity, charm and beauty on offer in North Carolina.

Quintessentially southern, North Carolina is rich in history and steeped in tradition.

It may not grab the limelight like New York or Florida but don’t be fooled: North Carolina’s on the rise and offers a true taste of the real America.

From the majesty of the Blue Ridge mountains to the 300-mile long coastline, there’s something for everyone in this easy-going, food-loving state.

Why North Carolina?

The stunning Blue Ridge mountains (Picture: Getty)

Beautiful food, a stunning landscape and a rich history: North Carolina is the California of the east coast.

The Tar… Read the full story

Man explains why you should always ask before you help someone who has a disability

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It’s perfectly natural to want to rush in to help someone who you think is struggling.

It’s basic human instinct. There’s no maliciousness there, and it’s lovely that you want to help out.

But before you go for it, ask the person if they’d actually like your help.

That’s the message Julian Gavino, 22, wants to spread.

Julian has Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder that causes him issues including heart problems, mobility issues, and trouble hearing.

Because he uses a wheelchair, people often assume he’s unable to do certain tasks, and quickly help out – opening doors, reaching things from shelves, and so on.

Julian appreciates the intent, but he’d much rather… Read the full story

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