Brigadier Simon Firth CBE, of Codford, near Warminster, died following a long illness. He was a committed supporter of the South West-based homelessness charity Alabaré for more than 30 years.

Simon Cowell has been dealt a major blow after ratings for his TV show Britain’s Got Talent fell to record lows this year. The long-running ITV talent show, which at its peak regularly drew between 12 ...

Britain's Got Talent star Paul Nunnari has revealed the motivation behind his gravity-defying aerial act, which earned him ...

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Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), and Duke University have proposed a neuroscience framework explaining how different types of ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

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Need a motivation boost to get through the cold months? Here are the tips our community swears by. We gathered real-life strategies from our community on how they stay motivated through the darker ...