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2+ day, 2+ hour ago (409+ words) Emma Joyce lives in Gorham. Her calligraphy is tidy, her aprons are charming, her smile shines. She dries and presses dainty flowers to make jewelry and bakes fresh sourdough. The flourishes of her kitchen and garden seem straight from a fairytale. She is Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and she is imparting her home lifestyle methods to a woman who can't precisely remember the last time she showered. As I watch "With Love, Meghan" on Netflix, the lavender plant I bought on a whim last summer slowly dies. The apples on my counter, picked a month'ago, cry, "But you promised you'd eat us right after the orchard." The Halloween decorations are still up. It's Nov. 25. Will I be whipping up a tart with some puff pastry from my freezer this morning? No, dear reader, I must confess that I have not…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago (816+ words) Marielle says being recorded is part of being her friend, but Beth is fed up of being a muse. Who should reel it in? Get a disagreement settled or become a YBTJ juror Sometimes she films me while I'm eating. I'll see myself on her Instagram " it's like a jumpscare My best friend of 10 years, Marielle, calls herself the "content queen. It's'fun for a bit, but it weighs on our'friendship. I'm grateful that Marielle has helped me with my career in design, but I don't want our friendship to become just a ledger of favours. I don't feel she's fake or inauthentic, but sometimes I feel that if the camera is out, we will start performing in a way that makes us look good for her vlog. She will say, "OK, look happy! and'film me laughing with someone. It's so…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago (337+ words) EXCLUSIVE: Californian influencer biz Made By All is launching a studio arm aimed at connecting its creators directly with brands. Made By Us is being billed as a "social-first creative and cultural marketing studio that helps brands and traditional talent operate like creators." Former Tastemade and Freeform creative chief Nic Satnich has been named President, reporting to Leanne Perice, the founder and CEO of Made By All, which is a digital influencer management and entertainment group. Made By Us will launch with a client roster including Keurig Dr Pepper, Unreal Snacks, and OWM, a platform enabling creators and businesses to structure equity deals. Each will work with Made By All's creative network to create content and launch campaigns. Anna Kendrick has starred in a campaign for Keurig's K-Mini Mate coffeemaker, while Made By All creator and online comedian Hannah Stocking…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago (690+ words) After a lifetime of working for others, Rich Baker threw caution to the wind. The result was a national award for his pizza and a surprising surge in confidence When his kimchi fiorentina pizza won a national award, Rich Baker knew he was turning a corner. It was 2023. Baker was 60. He and his wife, Sarah, had made the kimchi themselves and their win put Flat Earth Pizzas, the east London restaurant they had launched the previous year, on the map. "My life has changed so much," Baker says. "A lightbulb has lit up inside and given me energy, and that energy has given me something that is quite amazing: a sense of confidence and a sense of fulfilment." Three years ago, when they opened, times were hard. "The first year was absolute hell," says Baker, and he contemplated putting the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago (683+ words) This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Petey Stathopoulos, 29, owner of Peteys World Cafe, a coffee cart in New York City. It has been edited for length and clarity. I run a coffee cart in Midtown New York City, but it wasn't the life I'd planned for, nor a life I want to keep up long-term. My dad's been in the food truck business since before I was born and always told me, "Don't ever get into this business. This is the hardest and the worst business in the world. You'll destroy your life." During COVID, I was going through a major depression. I was out of a job, and I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. I just stayed home at my parents' place with my wife and kid and was kind of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago (495+ words) A Swindon marketing company is expanding its team and taking on more clients thanks to a "25,000 loan from the South West Investment Fund via SWIG Finance. Sara Witham launched Evil Empire Marketing in 2019 in a bid to find a flexible work-life balance that could work around family life. As business took off, she realised an extra pair of hands was needed and the loan enabled her to take on multi-skilled Jess Edwards two days a week. Part of the government-backed British Business Bank, the "200m South West Investment Fund covers the entire South West region and provides loans from "25k to "2m and equity investment up to "5m to help small and medium sized businesses to start up, scale up or stay ahead. Witham is now working on a job description for a second, full-time member of staff, as well as supporting and extending…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago (21+ words) Citrus-Lime has expanded to global markets with a US base Multimillion-pound BGF funding support for Cumbrian retail technology provider...

2+ week, 2+ day ago (974+ words) This was not a Budget for public services Lancashire CC's pause and reflect fostering programme won the award for innovation at the LGC Awards 2025. Objective: Address critical strategic challenges relating to the availability, choice and cost of homes for our children in a crisis and to manage foster family resource effectively in a time of national shortage. Timescale: From concept in 2022 to launch of delivery February 2024, It is now embedded part of fostering offer in Lancashire Cost to authority: Saving made for each PAR arrangement No. employees working on project: At any given point in time at least 10 for each PAR arrangement made Lancashire CC's pause and reflect (PAR) fostering arrangements ensure the council's fostering service can meet its duty to provide the right homes for children, regardless of the complexity of their needs, amidst a national foster carer shortage....

2+ week, 2+ day ago (954+ words) Taking charge of future retirement plans can feel daunting, but you don't need to be an expert In our'weekly series, readers can email any question about their finances, to be answered by our expert, Rosie Hooper. Rosie is a'chartered financial planner'at Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning and has worked in financial services for 25 years. If you have a question for her, email us at'[email protected]. Question: I'm self-employed and therefore need to open a personal pension, but I don't know anything about investing. What are the best options for someone who wants their money managed by someone else? And are the fees likely to be very high? Answer: 'Starting out as self-employment can feel like a mix of freedom and responsibility. You finally have control over your work, although the flip side is taking charge of the benefits that…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago (384+ words) I will be honest: my September column on the suggestion made by a German economist that pensioners should be enlisted into national service to alleviate staffing shortages, unsurprisingly, did not fin I will be honest: my September column on the suggestion made by a German economist that pensioners should be enlisted into national service to alleviate staffing shortages, unsurprisingly, did not find universal favour. But the question of "older workers" (and we'll come back to that term) surfaced again recently, at the New Statesman's Politics Live conference on 19 November. We all know Britain has an ageing population; the key statistic to keep in mind is that while one in three UK workers is over 50, four million people in the 50-65 age bracket are "economically inactive". An estimated "31bn per year is lost to the economy from people retiring before 66: that's 50 per cent…...