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Top coats: 10 of the best lightweight jackets for rain or shine
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Here’s the rub: facial massage can have benefits but not for your skin
Touted as an anti-ageing treatment on social media, it is relaxing, but dermatologists say other claims are ‘fundamentally mythological’Whether it’s with a jade roller, a gua sha or simply your fingers, facial massages are all over social media, from T…
‘For comfort viewing, it’s quite rock’n’roll’: Why Changing Rooms is back
The flamboyant home makeover show has returned after 17 years and is one of a host of similar shows designed to cheer up the nationA sex swing inspired by the floating palace hotel in Udaipur – it was what Swansea had been calling out for,” says Lauren…
Top dips: synchronised swimmers snapped by Eva Watkins – in pictures
“I dreamed that I was a synchronised swimmer performing with a group of people,” says London-based photographer Eva Watkins, who often gets inspiration for projects while half-asleep or dreaming. The reverie sparked a new series taken at Bristol’s Henl…
Dear Diary: how keeping a journal can bring you daily peace
Writing a diary is a great way to offload – and, if memory fails, it’s a wonderful window on the pastI still get funny looks from people when I mention that I keep a diary. Maybe the practice strikes them as shifty or weirdly old-fashioned. It’s true t…
Labour of love: a Victorian workhouse gets a fresh start
Renovating this old workhouse is a chance to let a designer’s imagination run freeAs Victorian workhouses go, St Clement’s in Bow, east London, is unexpectedly beautiful. A grand ode to Italianate architecture, the building, which was also a former psy…
Patsy Kensit: ‘You don’t have to marry all your boyfriends’
The actor, 53, talks about her charming dad, never reading her reviews in the papers, staying strong and eating nothing but shepherd’s pieWe grew up without money: two rooms and an outside loo. I remember shyly cowering behind the coal shed as Mum trie…
How to win at life: what sports psychologists can teach us all
The lessons top athletes are learning about stress and mental health can help us handle pressure in our own livesIt was going to be the Pandemic Olympics; the cheerless games that would inspire ambivalence at best. And then sport did its thing. Despite…
Disinfection robots and thermal body cameras: welcome to the Covid-free office
A workplace in Bucharest filled with anti-virus innovations could become the new normal in office design, its creators hopeExplainer: what are UK workers’ rights when asked to return?Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNot so lo…