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450g icing sugar Credit: Michael Chakraverty/Alzheimers Society Alzheimer’s Society’s Cupcake Day is back for its sixth year running on June 17. Time to heat up your oven, set out your cupcake trays and get involved! Whether you organise a delivery ‘drop off’ to neighbours, host a driveway bake sale or have a virtual bake-off with colleagues, friends and family, you’ll be helping to support the 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK through services like the Dementia Connect su...

Updated: 20 Apr 2021, 0:47 IN the Great British Cake Off only one caterpillar can emerge triumphant. It emerged last week M&S has begun legal action claiming Aldi’s Cuthbert The Caterpillar cake infringes its Colin the Caterpillar trademark. 10 Thea Jacobs has given her verdict on the best supermarket caterpillar cakesCredit: Louis Wood News Group Newspapers Ltd Cuthbert is mysteriously missing, with no cakes available in Aldi stores. Aldi said it was because it was a “seasonal product�...

Young, free and Scottish - Meet the nations best singletons looking for love on the road to fame and fortune This Valentine’s Day, we scouted some of the best single newcomers making waves on the road to fame and fortune. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice It’s no secret that Scotlan...

‘It’s OK to give them cheese sandwiches every day’ – the parenting lessons we’ve learnt in lockdown As Angelina Jolie reveals her parenting experiences during the pandemic, we asked other parents what theyve picked up while at home Angelina Jolie has been talking about her experiences in lockdown Credit: Richard Shotwell/ AP/Invision Spare a thought for Angelina Jolie. Locked down in Los Angeles with her six children, she told British Vogue that all this time at home has made her rea...

Lanre Bakare, arts and culture correspondent TV has traditionally been seen as one of the poorer arts. Derided as something that’s on in between adverts, the prestige of the big screen simply didn’t apply to its smaller cousin. But those boundaries and prejudices – already beginning to fragment before the pandemic – have been shattered during Covid-19. The line between film and TV has completely blurred. Think of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe: was it a TV show or a series of films? Does t...

Comedy podcasts round-up 2: from home and abroad | reviews, news & interviews Comedy podcasts round-up 2: from home and abroad Comedy podcasts round-up 2: from home and abroad Lively chat, masterful spoofing and behind-the-scenes fun by Veronica LeeWednesday, 06 January 2021 Angela Kinsey (left) and Jenna Fischer are your guides to the US version of The Office Were still some way off being able to see live performances in actual clubs and theatres, but here are some more comedy pod...

YouTube, Gmail and Other Google Services Down Prompts Flood of Jokes, Memes On 12/14/20 at 8:42 AM EST Google and its services, such as YouTube and Gmail, all crashed on Monday morning and the internet couldnt handle it, flooding Twitter with memes and jokes. The widespread outage, which has since stopped, saw not just Gmail and YouTube that went down but other Google services such as Home, Cloud, Calendar, and the Google Play Store. The problem with Google seemed to occur early on Monday morni...