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Gin Festival 2017: How to buy tickets, when, what and where is it?

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(Picture: Gin Festival)
(Picture: Gin Festival)

When the first gin festival launch a couple of years ago – it was every gin lover’s paradise.

7 unusual gin cocktails to make with tea, rice cakes, fruit and vegetables

And after the success of last year, the gin festival is back once again with attendees able to try loads of new craft gins, take some masterclasses, learn about the history of gin and speak to distillers.

The festival will be held in London (17-19 February), York (24-25 February), Glasgow (3-5 March), Blackpool (10-11 March), Manchester (24 March… Read the full story


The best Golden Globe dresses and fashion statements on this year’s red carpet (and the amazing women who wore them)

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by REX/Shutterstock (7734773gr) Emma Stone 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards, Arrivals, Los Angeles, USA - 08 Jan 2017
Emma Stone wearing the dress that any nine year old would dream of. Picture: Rex

There’s something undeniably old fashioned about awards ceremonies. Having to get dressed up in something that costs more than the average person’s annual rent and walk slowly down a… Read the full story

What is your sleep animal? (Yes that’s a thing now)

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If you’re still feeling sleepy this morning then it might be because you’re not following your perfect sleep routine.

Carrots wrapped up like sweetsKid eats all the sweets, his cousin executes the perfect revenge

According to Dr Micheal Breus, a sleep specialist, there are four types of sleepers: dolphins, lions, bears and wolfs.

Each animal needs a different kind of sleep pattern, and the key to getting the right sleep for you is to understand which one you are. So which one are you?

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Dolphin

If you’re a light sleeper or someone with sleep issues such as insomnia, you might be a dolphin. Dolphins should wake around 6.30 and start the day with a work-out. They need to eat breakfast about an hour after waking up and are best suited to creative work between 10 and 12.

In… Read the full story

12 alternative ways to get your baby to go the f*** to sleep

Women are sharing their first date deal breakers and there sure is a lot to learn from

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Love at first sight (Picture: Getty)
Love at first sight (Picture: Getty)

We’ve all been on a crap date before.

It might be with that dweeb who has turned up and looks nothing like the hunk you matched with on Tinder. Sometimes they refuse to get a round in. And occasionally, they’re extraordinarily pushy and try to get you as bladdered as possible to be in with a chance of coming back for a midnight ‘coffee’.

It’s just an undeniable truth of dating that bad dates exist,… Read the full story

There’s now a vegan burger so realistic it actually bleeds

Covent Garden cafe lets you pay for your lunch with a 10 minute work out

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(Picture: David Lloyd)
(Picture: David Lloyd)

If you’re carrying more pounds round your waist than in your wallet, you might want to head down for lunch in Covent Garden.

Because a pop-up cafe is launching this week where you don’t have to spend a penny and they’ll help you get fit.

METRO GRAPHICSWomen are sharing their first date deal breakers and there sure is a lot to learn from

Rather than splashing your cash on lunch, you pay for food by exercising.

The Run For Your Bun Cafe claims to be ‘the first cafe that takes… Read the full story

Girl turns her Tinder profile into a hilarious ‘why you should date me’ PowerPoint

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(Picture: Grace Mauery)
(Picture: Grace Mauery)

Most Tinder users just use their best selfies or cheeky one-liners to ensure they get right swipes.

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But one girl has gone above and beyond to make sure every potential date gets to know everything about her before they make the big decision – by putting together a ‘Why You Should Date Me’ Tinder PowerPoint.

19-year-old Grace Mauery, from Lawrence, Kansas, was inspired to create the PowerPoint after seeing a similar profile that had been created on the Bumble app.… Read the full story


Man spends an entire year turning his garden shed into a life-sized Tardis

What were you taught to call your vagina?

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Say what? Picture: Metro & Getty Images

Parenting looks pretty tricky.

To start with you’ve got to keep them alive all the time. Then there’s the whole being responsible for their mental and emotional well being. And on top of those? There’s all sorts of thorny issues, like deciding what you’re going to teach a child to call their bits.

What is your sleep animal? (Yes that's a thing now)

Mumsnet, the parenting bible, currently has an on-going discussion… Read the full story

A new flavour of Cadbury’s creme egg exists and it’s already on sale in the UK

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(Picture: haohaodancer/Instagram)

You might think that the Creme Egg is one thing that just can’t be improved upon.

The wonderfully thick, chocolatey shell with that tantalisingly sweet fondant centre is just beautiful. Seeing those little purple and red foiled nuggets of happiness on sale in January is possibly one of the only things that get you through the winter blues.

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The Creme Egg is undeniably one of Cadbury’s greatest ever inventions.

Well, it turns out that there’s another equally delicious flavour exists and it’s here for… Read the full story

How to make your own G&T popsicles and gin sorbets

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(L&R) Damson and gin sorbet, gin and bitter lemon sorbet and G&T popsicles (Picture: Domestic Goths/A Dash of Ginger)

It might be winter right now, but it’s never to cold for sorbet and popsicles – especially when they contain gin.

These three recipes by food bloggers Domestic Gothess and A Dash of Ginger are perfect to serve up as a dessert.

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It is everything you could possibly want from a sorbet and popsicle – light, refreshing, and just that little bit boozy. Oh yeah and gin.

Depending on… Read the full story

Help the homeless in winter with this smart Airbnb parody

Girl posts photo with doppelganger online – and then finds out she has two others

The story of a woman’s first date with Donald Trump will make your skin crawl


People who’ve lived longer than 100 years tell us their secrets to long life

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(Picture: Reuters)
(Picture: Reuters)

After Japan, Spain is the country with the greatest life expectancy – with more than 17,000 people aged 100 or over.

Sensuous butcher #SaltBae has the internet licking its lips

According to the latest OECD statistics made available in 2013, the average life expectancy at birth in Spain is 83.2 – but many people have beaten that average, and they’re revealing their secrets.

Over a year, Reuters photographer Andrea Comas interviewed and photographed elderly Spaniards, all… Read the full story

Sensuous butcher #SaltBae has the internet licking its lips

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Have a butchers at this swarthy hunk of a man putting a prime piece of beef through its paces.

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Steak enthusiast Nusret Gökçe has become an internet sensation. Videos of his flamboyant knifework and trademark overarm salt-sprinkle earning him the immortal hashtag #saltbae. Because he salts things. And is quite the bae.

When he’s not doing unspeakable things to sirloin – a rare occurrence, as his day job is founder and chef at Turkish restaurant chain Nusr-Et Steakhouse – he’s often spotted hanging out at landmarks gazing moodily into the middle distance.

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However, Gökçe’s one million (and counting) Instagram followers mainly go wild for short clips of their raven-haired hero vigorously beating his meat.

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54% of us are suffering with Singlephobia

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(Picutre: Getty/Metro.co.uk)
(Picutre: Getty/Metro.co.uk)

Being single when you’re a student is ideal. You can get with who you want. You can come home when you want.

But when you get into your 20s and 30s, people start settling down and your family start asking questions about when you too will start seeing someone for longer than two months.

Apparently most of us now suffer from Singlephobia because we're afraid of being alone

There’s a pressure on not being alone – despite 90s single icons showing us all that earning money, living in unrealistically nice flats and… Read the full story

There’s nothing funny about these ‘hilarious’ sexual apology cakes

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