Charente-Maritime is a more affordable, less manicured family destination than nearby Île de Ré ...

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A bereaved young customer was baffled by the wildly fluctuating balances the energy supplier claimed on a family’s account ...

Memoir merges with fiction as the author reflects on failed love, ageing and the end of life in this last instalment to his writing career ...

Shot in black-and-white over seven years, Brittany Shyne’s film is poetic and political in its portrayal of families fighting to maintain a vanishing way of life ...

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A big shark began to nuzzle the fishermen’s boat as they stowed their lobster pots ...

She started out performing in her living room, charging £1.50 a ticket. Now, having blazed through Love Island and silenced her Strictly haters, the Welsh sensation is really hitting the big time ...

The author has been explaining Sichuan cuisine to westerners for decades. But ‘Fu Xia’, as she’s known, has had a profound effect on food lovers in China, tooBy Leslie T Chang. Read by Ginnia Cheng ...

The newly inaugurated mayor of New York City put an extraordinary game on in a classic location, a formula he aims to mimic later this year ...

Negotiations between prime minister Anthony Albanese and opposition leader Sussan Ley are ‘constructive’, sources say ...