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My Glastonbury hygiene diary: ‘I am just pushing dirt around my body’

With sweltering heat, pungent toilets and interminable queues for the showers, staying clean at Britain’s biggest festival is hard. Is it better just to fester?

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Streakers, heat seekers and all-star surprises: Saturday at Glastonbury 2023 – photo essay

Acts from Lizzo to Lewis Capaldi sweated it out under the baking sun – with on-stage guests ranging from Johnny Marr to Central Cee’s cute baby

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The Pretenders at Glastonbury review – Chrissie Hynde in the pocket with Johnny Marr and Dave Grohl

Hynde’s reliably resonant and calming roar finds new backing with surprise appearances from Marr, Grohl – and a shy Paul McCartney

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Foo Fighters, Fred Again and fabulous sunshine: Friday at Glastonbury – photo essay

Take a visual tour through the first big day at Glastonbury 2023, from an energetic Joe Wicks workout early in the day to a secret Foo Fighters set, a huge crowd for Fred Again, and headliners including Kelis and Arctic Monkeys

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‘I felt alone’: new UK play shows Black women’s experiences with breast cancer

Play highlights racial health inequalities in diagnosis, representation and care

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‘I still can’t handle the big ones’: the new wave of spider hunters scouring Britain’s heaths

Having already discovered the presumed extinct great fox-spider, Mike Waite goes hunting on MoD land armed with a pair of his wife’s tights, an old medicine syringe and plastic cups

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Tower Bridge steam-cleaned and a Kentish Serengeti: the River Thames, part three

The third part of Jill Mead’s look at a year in the life of the great River Thames takes in the waterway over the course of some of the colder months

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Dining across the divide: ‘I thought I was going to meet an awful Tory – but it was wonderful, we swapped numbers’

One is centre-right, the other a socialist. They disagreed on Thatcherism and nuclear weapons, but will being part of the same LGTBQ+ community save the day?

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My food revolution: how I learned to love a gluten-free diet

After years of pain, the diagnosis of coeliac disease was a crucial turning point for Lizzy Davies. She explains the changes it forced her to make – and how she learned to love food once again

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The resilience secret: 13 ways to stay strong and active – from the man who runs a marathon a day

Every morning this year, Aaron Robinson has arisen before dawn and run 26 miles before work. He explains how to turn an intimidating exercise plan into a simple habit

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‘You just have to keep trying’: the people helping Birmingham’s rough sleepers

Outreach and charity workers talk about the day-to-day issues they face when dealing with the city’s homelessness problem

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Rats, mould, damp: one woman’s story reveals the ugly truth about the UK’s biggest housing association

A mother of three’s struggle with Clarion over her squalid home reflects a system rigged to favour asset-owners while renters are abandoned, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Vicky Featherstone to step down as Royal Court artistic director after 10 years

Featherstone will leave her position later this year

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Squishmallows go from TikTok sensation to top Christmas toy

Sales of huggable pillow with a face, made popular by famous devotees such as Lady Gaga, up by 300%

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‘The Roding is sacred and has rights’: the hammer-wielding barrister fighting for London’s forgotten river

The unloved waterway that winds its way to the Thames has a staunch defender. Paul Powlesland has spent five years calling out polluters and keeping footpaths open – sometimes with the law, mostly with his bare hands

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Lively guinea pig and giraffe toys flagged as ‘Christmas bestsellers’

Toy Retailers Association selects likely ‘must-haves’ for British market with eye on strained budgets

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Benito Carbone: ‘I never wanted to leave Wednesday. It was my mistake’

Arriving in Sheffield set Benito Carbone, now 51, on a path to being one of the game’s biggest cult heroes, and now he tells Michael Butler of his hopes to manage in England

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‘Bring back Boris’: division rages in Tories’ Essex heartlands

In Castle Point, the party has a 26,000 majority but local members are horrified at the chaos and disagree about the remedy

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A year on the River Thames, part two – in pictures

The second part of Jill Mead’s look at a year in the life of the great River Thames over the course of a hot dry summer takes in the Jubilee, Henley Regatta, Swan Upping and the passing of the Queen

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Secret Cinema’s new owners want to be the Netflix of live events

TodayTix eyes global expansion for UK firm known for immersive film screenings, which took a Covid hammering

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London’s blooming: gardens flourish on the tube – photo essay

The In Bloom competition showcases the talents of green-fingered TfL staff, who have turned tube and bus stations across the capital into havens for plants and trees, and even fruit and veg

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‘Now we have her no longer’: the crowds on the Queen’s final journey

As the coffin made the short journey to Westminster Abbey before heading on to the palace then Windsor, many were determined to pay their respects

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A new start after 60: I was treated for cancer, ran a half-marathon and became a personal trainer

Simon Lord struggled to settle for most of his life. He found a new focus after being diagnosed with prostate cancer

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Will Butler-Adams: Brompton Bicycle’s evangelist-in-chief

The engineer is convinced that folding bikes can help solve global problems and improve our lives – and that they are reasonable value for money

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‘They’re like our children’: gooseberry growers compete at Yorkshire show

At Egton Bridge event running since 1800, growers come from far and wide to display their labours of love

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