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Few frontwomen in British indie rock carry the quiet intensity of Ellie Rowsell. Since forming Wolf Alice in 2010, she has guided the band from a folk duo to arena-filling headliners, with four albums and a Mercury Prize win to their name. But beyond the stage, fans have plenty of questions about her personal life, … Read more

Every April, millions of casual viewers tune into the Grand National—a race built on spectacle, history, and danger that brought all three to the surface in 2026 when two horses died on the biggest day of the jumps calendar. This guide walks through which horses actually ran, who the favourite was, and what the two … Read more

For anyone who grew up in the ’90s, the voice of Andrea Corr is unmistakable — the lead singer of The Corrs helped define an era of Celtic-infused pop rock, but beyond the music, her personal life has drawn just as much curiosity: a marriage to the son of an Irish billionaire, two children, and … Read more

If you build a 6’4″ centre-back from scratch, you probably wouldn’t design him to be the fastest player in the Premier League. But Micky van de Ven isn’t typical — the Tottenham defender has clocked the league’s highest recorded speed of the 2024 season, and his combination of height, explosive pace, and recurring hamstring injuries … Read more

At 81, Angela Rippon moves with the kind of energy that makes people ask how she does it. The broadcaster who made history as the first woman to read the BBC’s national news in 1975 has spent five decades on British screens, but she’s kept her personal life unusually private. Between her disciplined fitness habits … Read more

There’s something about a British soap star who reinvents herself well into her 60s that audiences can’t resist, and Sherrie Hewson has done exactly that—moving from Coronation Street’s beloved Maureen Holdsworth to the outrageous Joyce Temple-Savage in Benidorm, and most recently bringing her energy to Hollyoaks. Along the way, she’s written bestselling books, opened up … Read more

You know a musician who uses his voice for more than just singing when he turns political activism into a core part of his identity. Serj Tankian, the unmistakable frontman of System of a Down, has built a career that’s as much about social justice as it is about heavy riffs. This article pieces together … Read more

Most teenagers spend their screen time on social media or video games. Carlo Acutis spent his building a digital catalog of Eucharistic miracles that would eventually help make him the first millennial saint. Birth: 3 May 1991, London, England · Death: 12 October 2006, Monza, Italy, age 15 · Cause of death: Leukemia · Beatification: … Read more

There’s a moment in every reader’s journey with The Hunger Games where Katniss Everdeen stops being just a character and starts feeling like someone you’d actually want beside you in a crisis—assuming you could keep up. She steps into the arena at 16, volunteers to die for her sister, and somehow reshapes an entire nation’s … Read more

Few fictional teenagers carry the weight of a revolution the way Katniss Everdeen does. When she volunteered for the 74th Hunger Games at age 16, she didn’t just trade her life for her sister’s — by the series’ end, she had endured more than 20 distinct traumatic incidents, a toll that left her psychologically fractured … Read more