Still Floating review – poignant and troubling return to an island adrift
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In many ways, 2006 feels like a long time ago. Pre-credit crash, pre-Brexit, pre-pandemic – a different world. It’s understandable, then, that Shôn Dale-Jones was initially reluctant when he was invited to remount his...
How Ireland’s Hare Krishna Island went from dream to folly to recovery
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In the early 1980s Ireland’s tiny Hare Krishna community made a bold decision: it bought an island. Inis Rath, a nine-hectare (22-acre) wooded island on Lough Erne, just inside Northern Ireland, was available for £125...
Love Island winner Ekin-Su signs £1m deal with fashion brand Oh Polly
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The Love Island winner Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu has signed a deal to work with the fashion brand Oh Polly. The deal is said to be worth about £1m – thought to be the biggest in the show’s history. The Sun reported that Cülc...
‘You’ve got to remove every rat’: the race to protect Round Island
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As the boat weaves between the jagged rocks of the Scilly archipelago off the coast of Cornwall, Round Island, uninhabited but for a lonely Victorian lighthouse, comes into view. Those on board preparing for their vis...
John Legend reveals trauma of losing child in Desert Island Discs
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The musician John Legend said he was “hesitant” to publicly share images of his late baby son, Jack, who was stillborn two years ago. The black and white photographs, which were posted on Instagram shortly after Legen...
Taiwan says China making simulated attack on main island
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China’s military has pressed ahead with its largest ever military drills, targeting Taiwan with what the island’s government called a simulated attack, including further incursions over the median line and drone fligh...
Wanted: desert island resort in Maldives seeks barefoot bookseller
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White sands, blue skies... and lots of books. Applications have opened for what might just be the best job in the world: running a bookshop on a luxury desert island in the Maldives. Passionate lovers of books – who a...
Man hospitalised without Medicare after being set ablaze shows precarity of Pacific Island fruit pickers
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A Pacific farmworker who left his fruit picking job to work for a labour hire company ended up in hospital, without access to Medicare, after he was allegedly set alight by another worker. Sione Lavalu spent 74 days i...