When is the London Marathon 2017? Date, timings, start position and where to watch
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World Autism Awareness Week: How to calm down an autistic child in meltdown
An autistic meltdown is different from the temper tantrums many children will throw when they’re not getting their way.
Meltdowns happen when an autistic person is experiencing a sensory overload – the way they perceive the world around them means that bright lights, loud noises or certain patterns of movement can quickly become too much to bear.
How is an autistic meltdown different to a temper tantrum?
When a child throws a temper tantrum, they are in control of their surroundings.
They will be acting out because they want to get their own way, and will be able to stop doing so once they’re… Read the full story
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Peel-off lip stain is the latest bizarre beauty trend
Peel-off lip stain sounds equal parts amazing and baffling.
This stylish hospital clothing makes cancer patients look as well as feel better
It looks a little like lip gloss but, to apply it, you spread it on, wait for a few minutes and peel it off – leaving your lips tinted underneath.
If it’s anything like a peel-off face mask, it must be super satisfying to take off.
So it isn’t surprising that it’s been such a hit among beauty vloggers that, if you fancy it, you can watch… Read the full story
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This stylish hospital clothing helps cancer patients look as well as feel better
Cancer treatment is no easy process.
People and their dogs join Billie the terrier for his last ever walk on the beach
And whether it’s routine tests, chemotherapy or surgery you’re having, you should be able to focus all your energy solely on your recovery.
But with treatment comes hospital visits, and with hospital visits, hospital gowns.
Instead of wearing something familiar and that makes you feel like ‘you’, you end up wearing the same, flimsy gowns that are far from… Read the full story
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Trans man posts eye-opening side-by-side before and after photos to stop people ‘judging a book by its cover’
A man named Jaimie Wilson has shared his before and after photos, which see him transition from female to male, in hope of stopping people ‘judging a book by its cover’.
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In a set of side-by-side photos, Jaimie wanted to show his 106,000 followers that not all of those who hope to transition show ‘signs’ of being transgender.
In the left photo, Jaimie shared a photo of himself as a woman,… Read the full story
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This girl hilariously edited her friend out of her photo after they fell out
Most of us own photos that were taken with people we no longer get on with.
Scientists are urging us to all take an afternoon nap to deal with the clocks changing
That’s just life, people change, but photos remain the same – and there’s nothing we can do about it.
Well, at least most of us would think so, anyway. But for one girl, she… Read the full story
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9 reasons why Bermuda should be your next fitness holiday destination
Before I went to Bermuda, I’d only really associated the island with shorts, plane disappearances and Merlin (who goes there on holiday at the end of Disney’s Sword In The Stone – a niche cultural reference, granted).
As a result, it’s never been on my travel bucket list, and definitely not on the top of my fitness agenda. And it’s probably not been on yours either.
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How silly of us.
This sub-tropical paradise in the Atlantic – 650 miles east of North Carolina – is… Read the full story
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23 questions all parents who have overdosed on Paw Patrol want answered
Paw Patrol are on a roll – and never off the television.
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If you have a little one you probably know all about Chase, Zuma, Skye, Rubble, Marshall and Rocky as they save Adventure Bay from disaster and give you 20 blissful minutes of peace while your child is glued to the TV – unless you’ve become strangely hooked on the show too.
But I bet your children’s favourite show has left you scratching your head and asking a few questions.
Such as…
Why is Ryder, a boy surely no older… Read the full story
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Vlogger mum live streams smear test to debunk myths
Right up until we’re almost 25, we wait for the day we’ll receive the letter.
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That is, the one sent to us by the NHS encouraging us to book a smear test.
We’re not waiting due to excitement, of course, more so because we’ve all heard – or imagined – the horror stories; that the tools will be metres long, that the doctors will be horrified by the sight of our vaginas.
Which is why one vlogger decided to undergo a smear test and live stream… Read the full story
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Bon Appétit tried to introduce the world to ‘hand salad’ and people aren’t having it
Today in people doing truly appalling things to do the very concept of food, meet ‘hand salad’.
‘Hand salad’ is a new dining experience created by Bon Appétit.
They tried to subtly introduce it to the world yesterday, with a tweet telling people: ‘It’s called a “hand salad” but let’s not focus on that.’
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To which we say: seriously? You think we’re not going to focus on the name ‘HAND. SALAD’?
‘Hand salad’, to be clear, is salad that you eat with your hands like a ravenous beast forced to eat lettuce instead of carbs.
But it’s not… Read the full story
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Winnie Harlow wants people to stop shaming those who want to hide their imperfections
We’re becoming increasingly used to seeing more diversity in beauty and fashion.
Women are being encouraged to embrace their skin-deep differences, from vitiligo to freckles.
These half-marathon runners helped an exhausted runner cross the finish line
But in an era where we tell women that they should be proud of what makes them unique, often we can end up shaming those who want to blend in.
And last week, Winnie Harlow reminded us all that it’s possible to embrace our natural ‘flaws’ and do what we need to in order to feel confident and happy.
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ASOS is now selling a deeply confusing T-shirt covered with a giant ruffled sash
ASOS has done many strange and wonderful things to the world of fashion.
They introduced us to the perfect accessory for every occasion: the dinosaur tail. They gave men the chokers their necks were begging for.
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And now, they’ve taken the classic, cool person piece to new heights. By adding a f***ing massive ruffled sash. Sure.
ASOS’s latest ‘seriously, guys?’ item, as first noticed by Racked, is the ‘ASOS T-shirt with washed band print and exaggerated ruffle’.
This is a band T-shirt – not… Read the full story
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Woman dares to show emotion in beauty pageant – becomes viral meme
Do you have any idea how hard women have to work for a place in a beauty pageant?
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There are rigorous exercise and diet regimes, beauty and grooming protocols, not to mention all of the costs involved. Sure, it’s not a career for everyone but there’s no denying – it’s a lot of work.
Now imagine that you’ve spent all that energy and money, you’ve made it to the semi-finals and you place second.
It’s not the end of the world but in that moment, when you hear the final result, no matter how gracious… Read the full story
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Pret a Manger is opening a second all-veggie shop serving vegan mac ‘n’ cheese
Vegans and vegetarians, rejoice. If you’re one of those cool kids who works in Shoreditch, your work lunches are about to get loads more exciting.
These half-marathon runners helped an exhausted runner cross the finish line
Pret a Manger has just announced that they’ll be opening a second all vegetarian and vegan shop in London.
It’ll be just like their first Veggie Pret (which started as a popup but became permanent following a very positive reaction), serving up only vegan and vegetarian food and drinks.
This one will be permanent from the get-go, and will be located on Great Eastern Street in Shoreditch – thanks to… Read the full story
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Marathon training week 10: running through the pain
There’s less that one month to go before the London Marathon and that means only one thing – upping the mileage.
In the earlier part of the week, I did a few short runs (clocking up about 20k overall by Wednesday) before a hefty Tabata session.Tabata, ICYMI, is the hellish interval training favoured by my PT.
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It involves four different kinds of movement for four minutes, which you do in eight rounds. We started with cycling before moving onto squat jumps and burpees, bear crawls and frog squats and ending on kicksits.
Apart from feeling like my lunch was going to come back up on several occasions, that session absolutely torched my hamstrings for the next few days. I can’t actually remember a time when I was so stiff after a gym session.
But by the weekend, that had sort… Read the full story
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Trust me, these photos will make you want to visit Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu is at the top of most people’s travel bucket-list. Wisely so, because it is, simply put, spectacular.
It is widely thought to have been built in the fifteenth century, abandoned when the Inca Empire was conquered by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century and not made known to the outside world until 1911.
Today it is one of the world’s most famous archaeological sites and a World Heritage Site, as designated in 1983 by UNESCO.
Walking around it today still makes it difficult to fathom what it was like for explorers. The American Historian Hiram Bingham was guided to the ruins by locals in 1911. At that time the ruins were barely visible and covered by thick vegetation. His team had to return in 1912 and 1915 to start the arduous task of clearing the wilderness that has grown above and around the citadel. So, as you can imagine, it looked very different to the site we are so… Read the full story
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Women with endometriosis aren’t being diagnosed quickly enough or receiving adequate treatment
Finally, women’s complaints about how their endometriosis has been handled by doctors has been vindicated.
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Women aren’t exaggerating their pain. They’re not overreacting. Their pain is real and doctors aren’t doing enough to help them with it.
BBC Newsbeat reports that MPs have called current treatment of endometriosis ‘unacceptable’, noting that women with endometriosis are not getting diagnosed quickly enough.
They report that 2,600 women spoke to the All Parliamentary Group on Women’s Health, with 40% saying they had seen a doctor ten times before… Read the full story
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We went to Dublin to find out all about St Patrick’s forgotten wife
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This teacher wore her hair in bunches to support a bullied pupil
Kids can be cruel – particularly if you look slightly different to the majority.
They don’t understand racial differences or cool hairdos, they just know that if you stand out, you’re probably not doing something right.
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Which how one child in Ana Barbara Ferreira’s class came to be bullied by a boy who said that her hair was ‘ugly’.
Her student had her afro hair tied back in bunches and was ‘sad’ after being ridiculed for it.
In a Facebook post which has now been shared over 30,000 times, Ana says… Read the full story
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People are not happy about the names of Kylie Jenner’s blusher range
Kylie Jenner is no stranger to controversy, and like most teenagers, she’s no stranger to pushing boundaries.
When we were teens it was mostly about wearing eyeliner to school or experimenting with being Wiccan. For KJ? It’s naming giving her cosmetic lines slightly less than innocent names.
Her latest blusher range features such gems as ‘hot and bothered’ ‘virginity’ ‘barely legal’ and ‘x rated.’
Unsurprisingly, these names have got people rather hot under the collar. On a thread on Mumsnet, comments such as… Read the full story
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