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How to make gambas al ajillo – recipe | Felicity Cloake’s Masterclass
As a devotee of the small, sweet and winningly cheap cold-water prawn, I don’t often find myself at the court of the king variety, but as a way to...
‘We were able to live their experiences with them’: the ripple effects of our series about life in coastal towns
Our journalists always try to spend as long as they can in places to more fully understand things and explain what’s going on. But they don’t often get the...
Decades on from the US’s disastrous campaign in Afghanistan, Trump is making all the same mistakes | Simon Tisdall
It’s five years this month since the chaotic retreat of US forces from Kabul. The Nato-backed invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, launched after the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks...
Attack of the birthdayzillas: the people turning their big days into epic events – at huge cost to their guests
MikeFest takes place every year, over the August bank holiday weekend, in a large leafy garden on the Cornish coast. Birthday boy Michael’s nearest and dearest turn up in...
Why we’re all obsessed with Jimothy the raccoon, the internet’s animal of the moment | Elle Hunt
Anyone who enjoys memes (who doesn’t?) has surely by now accumulated a mental menagerie of internet-famous animals. Mine include: Grumpy Cat, the Ikea monkey, Moo Deng the pygmy hippo,...
July set to be driest on record for England and Wales after relentless heatwaves
Half of England and the whole of Wales are officially in drought and July is set to be the driest month on record as extreme heat intensified by the...
‘She showed love for everyone’: how did Daphy Michel end up frozen to death in a Pittsburgh bus shelter?
On the night of 26 February this year, the Michel family in Pennsylvania expected to see their loved one, Daphy, again very soon.After she had spent six months in...