Any astrology rookie knows the feeling: You innocently open your horoscope, ready for news of the upcoming week. And then, just as you're digesting what the stars have in store, you encounter a sentence like this: "Neptune will turn retrograde in your 10th house of career." Record scratch. What on Earth (or any other planet, for that matter) are these houses your 'scope is always referring to?

The 12 houses of the Zodiac may be more intimidating than, say, the planets, but they aren't a totally opaque concept. And getting to know them a little better will deepen your understanding of your horoscope and your natal chart.

According to astrologer Annie Heese, the houses rule different areas of our lives, from the relationships we'll have with others to the personal milestones that we'll hit. That sounds pretty similar to the role that the planets play in our lives, but here's the difference: The planets represent different properties (such as action, affection, and communication) and the houses can tell us where in our lives we'll feel them most intensely (in our work, in our relationships, or in our personality, for instance).

Planets move through the houses in the same way they do with signs, imbuing the houses with their energy along the way. For instance, when your horoscope states that "Neptune is moving into your 10th house of career," that means that your work life, public image, and your sense of structure will be affected by Neptune, the planet of dreams, intuition, and spiritual healing. So you may feel more introspective about your work or concerned about how your job is fulfilling your larger life goals.

But if you check your chart or 'scope only to find that one of your houses doesn't have any planets in it, don't worry — an unoccupied house doesn't reflect any kind of deficiency in your life, only a lack of emphasis. One Redditor suggests thinking of an "empty" house as the opposite of having a stellium in your chart: Having zero planets in your second house of money isn't a signal that you'll go broke — rather, it suggests that financial matters just won't play a huge role in your life.

Before you can become an expert in interpreting the planets' placement in your houses, you need to know what each house represents. Ahead, we've consulted Heese's work and our very own Astrotwins to break down the significance of each house of the Zodiac.

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For a while, it seemed like coconut oil was the answer to our dreams. Beauty experts have been using coconut oil for everything from moisturising and removing makeup to the kind of bizarre practice of oil pulling, which claims to keep teeth clean and strong and aid with digestion.

But mostly, the oil has been touted as a healthy fat for all of our cooking needs, and a way to replace all of that butter in your life.

While coconut oil can have its moment in the kitchen — it can withstand extremely high temperatures, and is therefore great if you're deep-frying something — it isn't any healthier than other oils. In fact, it's worse.

The American Heart Association released a report Thursday recommending against using coconut oil for cooking, saying that coconut oil increased "bad" (LDL) cholesterol in seven out of seven controlled trials.

Coconut oil is made up of about 82% saturated fat, according to the data, which is far greater than most other oils, including butter, which has about 62% saturated fat.

Not all saturated fats are necessarily bad for you, of course, and like any other food group, you shouldn't cut them out completely. But saturated fats are thought to contribute to plaque build up in arteries, which can lead to serious heart disease over time.

"We think that flat fat gets laid down in the arteries much easier than fat that is crumpled up," Holly Andersen, MD, a cardiologist at New York Presbyterian Hospital, told us last year.

While the takeaway from the American Heart Association report is to stop using coconut oil in all cooking, we'd argue that you can keep your jar on hand for the occasional baked good or stir-fry. It only becomes a problem if you're exclusively using coconut oil any time you need oil.

Like anything else in nutrition, variety is key. And it's just more fun to switch up the type of oil you use, anyway.

Other fats like olive oil and yes, even butter, may be better to use for most of your cooking, but there's nothing wrong with adding a spoonful of coconut oil to your cookies every once in a while if you just like the taste.

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The initial support offered to people affected by this week's devastating fire in west London "was not good enough," the Prime Minister has admitted.

Theresa May's comments come as police have confirmed that 58 people are either dead, or missing and presumed dead, as a result of the fire which ravaged Grenfell Tower in north Kensington. This figure is expected to rise, the BBC reports.

May was widely criticised this week for choosing not to meet victims of the blaze in their local community. Both the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn visited the west London neighbourhood in the wake of the devastation to spend time with people affected by the fire. Officials claimed security concerns had prevented the Prime Minister from doing the same, but when the Queen and the Duke of Cambridge paid a visit to the Grenfell relief area yesterday, this excuse looked increasingly shaky.

This afternoon, May met some of the people affected by the fire in Downing Street. Shortly afterwards, she released a statement. "The response of the emergency services, NHS and the community has been heroic," the Prime Minister said. "But, frankly, the support on the ground for families who needed help or basic information in the initial hours after this appalling disaster was not good enough."

Explaining how she is now seeking to improve the victims' predicaments, the Prime Minister continued: "I can confirm that a £5million emergency fund that I announced yesterday is now being distributed on the ground so people can buy clothes, food and other essentials. If more funding is required, it will be provided."

May also said she has set a "deadline of three weeks" for everybody affected to be given a new home nearby. "I have ordered that more staff be deployed across the area, wearing high visibility clothing, so they can easily be found, dispense advice and ensure the right support is provided. Phone lines will have more staff," the Prime Minister added.

People from all over London have come together to support the north Kensington community as they try to deal with the fire's devastation. Find out how you can help here.

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Communities all over the UK are getting together this weekend to mark the one-year anniversary of Jo Cox's tragic death.

Cox, the Labour MP for Batley and Spen in West Yorkshire, was brutally murdered on the 16th of June, 2016, shortly before she was due to meet local residents at a constituency surgery. She was just 41 years old.

Organised in her honour, The Great Get Together is a series of neighbourhood celebrations taking place across the country to promote the sense of community solidarity that Cox believed in. People taking part are using the hashtag #MoreInCommon on Twitter and Instagram in a nod to Cox's first ever speech in parliament. "We are far more united and have far more in common than that which divides us," she told the House of Commons shortly after being sworn in as an MP in 2015.

Cox's husband, Brendan, who attended a Great Get Together event in their hometown of Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, told the BBC that his wife would have been "humbled" by the success of the initiative.

"She wanted to bring people together of different types and backgrounds and she would be incredibly humbled by the scale of the response," he told the BBC. "I think we know of about 120,000 events so far across the country. And I think what that shows is just the sense that the country's crying out for these moments of togetherness."

Below, check out pictures from a selection of Great Get Together events that have already taken place.

We have #MoreInCommon than that which divides us - celebrating Jo Cox's values at our Women's #GreatGetTogether. #OurSharedFuture

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Friends old and new enjoying their #greatgettogether today! #moreincommon #❤️

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This morning we came together with our friends and neighbours, the @national_gallery, to celebrate what we have in common as part of the #GreatGetTogether campaign. If you're visiting us this weekend, why not make a trip to both galleries and discover the common links between our collections. Head to Twitter (@ NPGLondon) where we've put together a few painting pairings to help inspire you.

A post shared by National Portrait Gallery (@nationalportraitgallery) on Jun 16, 2017 at 7:45am PDT

"We Are Far More United Than The Things That Divide Us" #Brixton #streetparty #jocox #greatgettogether #London #joyful #community #weekend #party

A post shared by Lindsay Harrod (@lmharrod) on Jun 17, 2017 at 10:59am PDT

Community. Because it matters, always. Groups gathering, picnicking in the dabbled shade. Sharing, communicating, togetherness. #moreincommon #greatgettogether #sherwoodgreatgettogether #hopenothate

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The Great Get Together is encouraging people to lay on neighbourhood celebrations however they see fit today and tomorrow (Sunday, the 18th of June). Street parties, bake sales, group walks, afternoon teas, and more are being organised. Find out when events in your local area are taking place on the website.

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Sophie Lancaster was walking home through a skate park after midnight in August 2007 when she was brutally attacked by a gang of kids she didn’t know. Her boyfriend, Robert Maltby, who was with her, was beaten unconscious and left for dead but lived to tell the tale. 20-year-old Sophie, who had tried to defend the man she loved, never made it home.

The unprovoked murder shook the nation. It was covered exhaustively by the media, which focussed on the fact that the pair were goths. Chances are you remember seeing their photos on the news. Their long, coloured dreadlocks and facial piercings made them outsiders in Bacup, their small Lancashire town.

The killing was one of a string of unconnected and unprovoked crimes committed by groups of young men in the mid-to-late 2000s. The young men were often known to police but not their victims, and the right-wing press and Conservative party seized on their crimes to paint a picture of widespread social decay in Britain. The Sun launched its notorious “Broken Britain” campaign in January 2008 and David Cameron swiftly began recycling this idea that our society was somehow “broken”.

It’s been 10 years since Sophie’s death and BBC3 has created Murdered For Being Different, a factual drama about the young couple’s bond, the horrific crime and subsequent police investigation. The hour-long dramatisation, produced by the team behind the Bafta-winning real-life film, Murdered By My Boyfriend, stars Abigail Lawrie ( The Casual Vacancy) as Sophie and Nico Mirallegro ( My Mad Fat Diary, Hollyoaks) as Rob. Rob, now 31, and Sophie’s family worked closely with the filmmakers to accurately portray the couple’s love story and the events that led to her death, including a graphic reconstruction of the attack.

Murdered For Being Different will stick with you long after the end credits have rolled. There's a harrowing disconnect between the delicate moments leading up to that fateful night and the attack itself. The tape rewinds to two years before and shows the pair sharing their first kiss, reading Harry Potter together, and Rob painting wings on his girlfriend’s back, telling her: “You’re an angel. You need wings.” The displays of tenderness between the couple make the scenes of Sophie being kicked and stamped to death even more difficult to watch.

Why did the filmmakers decide to dramatise the events in the first place? “True stories are always extremely interesting to me,” Paul Andrew Williams, the show’s director (who also directed Murdered By My Boyfriend), told Refinery29. “To explore what makes people do what they do, why they fall in love and ultimately why they make decisions that will affect them and others forever. Sophie and Rob's story is tragic and hopeful on so many levels. I was lucky to be entrusted with telling it.” He believes the pair were attacked because "they were the unknown," atypical, and therefore considered threatening.

Rob, who spent years recovering after the incident, recently criticised the media’s portrayal of it as a hate crime against goths, implying that it was effectively victim blaming. “I have never seen it as a hate crime,” he told The Guardian. “It was always like: ‘Sophie Lancaster was killed because she was a goth.’ No she wasn’t: she was killed because some arseholes killed her. Why can’t we ask what it is about them that made them want to murder someone? Not what it is about someone that made them be murdered.” Murdered For Being Different explores the alienation that may lead a teenager to commit murder.

The media's focus on the "goth" angle may have been excessive but hate crime against subcultures, and gang crime more generally, was and remains very real. Following her daughter's death, Sophie’s mum Sylvia created The Sophie Lancaster Foundation, a charity that campaigns for greater respect for and understanding of subcultures. In 2013, after much work on Lancaster's part, Greater Manchester Police became the first UK police force to extend the definition of a “hate crime” from racist and homophobic assaults, to subcultures, including goths and emos. Last year's EU referendum and the recent terror attacks in Manchester and London have led to a spike in hate crimes in the UK in recent months. Murdered For Being Different is sadly as pertinent in 2017 as it would have been a decade ago.

Watch 'Murdered for Being Different' on BBC3’s iPlayer channel from Sunday 18th June.

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The first time I was introduced to Rihanna's nipples was in April 2014. She was on the cover of the French magazine Lui, laid back with a drink in hand, a tattoo of the goddess Isis spreading her wings beneath Rih's suntan-oiled bare breasts, the right one erect with a barbell ring. It was the most striking magazine cover I had ever seen. I still pull that photo up on my laptop every now and then, eerily transfixed by the way the singer seems to be staring at me as if daring me to ask why she would pose topless.

Only two months later, the nipples of Lui were entirely forgotten by popular culture. But not by Rihanna, who, that June, sauntered into the CFDA Awards in New York to accept her Style Icon honour in an invisible gown covered with Swarovski crystals — a glittering number with mesh that did not even attempt to cover her nipples. I had never seen anything like it on a celebrity red carpet; conventionally, nipples and glamour don't go hand in hand, yet once again, Rihanna had managed to defy convention. The entire internet dropped jaws with a collective gasp — and then bowed down in awe. It was only a few hours before this GIF became visual shorthand for girls like me who needed to add some celebratory punctuation into their conversations:

Whenever Robyn Fenty's nipples have made a public appearance over the years, they've always arrived with little fanfare. Since the beginning of her career, she's often been photographed in sheer tops coming out of restaurants, lounging courtside at basketball games, perched front row at Paris Fashion Week, even in last year’s videos “Work” and “Needed Me,” her breasts almost nearly exposed. In every image that has circulated, she has made it very, very clear that she does not give one single fuck about the politics of exposure. Unlike Amber Rose's recent "Bring Back The Bush" effort (which, no shade — do your thing, Amber girl!), Rihanna has been more quiet with her trailblazing. When Vogue asked if she was part of the #FreetheNipple movement founded by director Lina Esco, the Bad Gal demurred: "I have always freed the nipple. It was never to get attention. The bra just fucked up my sheer shirt."

"I have always freed the nipple. It was never to get attention."

On Friday — amidst ridiculous media frenzy over her very slight recent weight gain — the singer decided once more to flaunt her body, her way. Strutting through Miami alongside DJ Khaled and Bryson Tiller in the music video for "Wild Thoughts" in a see-through off-the-shoulder peasant blouse, Rihanna croons, "I know you wanna see me nakey nakey nakey." Later in the clip, she rocks a turquoise chiffon dress that skims her nipple ring as she rolls around on a bed. Every time she glances at the camera, I see those same eyes taunting me yet again, challenging me to consider why I should even notice a body part that men show the world all of the time. (And to top it all off, the stomach-revealing crop top and curve-hugging Balenciaga pants feel like one big middle finger to her weight-gain critics.)

Perhaps for the Barbados native, going partially or completely topless really isn't something to pat yourself on the back for. After all, we Americans tend to make a much bigger deal out of nudity than other cultures; it's quite possible it's just a state that feels natural to her, not a grand statement for feminism or body positivity. Or that she's serving us a little French-style je ne sais quoi, exposing herself slightly while also remaining mysterious. Still, Rihanna's ease in her body, clothed or not, has always been both enviable and empowering. Every time she boldly brings out her girls, it's like she's granting permission to all of the women who have been told their nipples are two little secrets meant to be concealed.

In our culture, even an unintentionally aroused nipple — standing at attention thanks to a breeze or sudden brush of fabric — is deemed shameful or provocative. But the way Rihanna casually displays hers is a reminder that nipples don't have to be a symbol for sex — or they can be. It's up to us. Whether they're a pierced accessory intended to ooze sex appeal or just so happen to be visible through a tank top at a basketball game, Rihanna has shown us by example that our nipples are simply just that — nipples, something to either allow to exist or be proud of, not ashamed of. And they are body parts that we can own however we damn well please.

On holiday with my boyfriend recently, I began to complain about my strapless bra (every large-chested girl's worst enemy) before we even left the hotel room. His suggestion was simple: Just take it off! I started to open my mouth to protest. I couldn't possibly walk outside in a dress — with no bra! I have DD's! These twins need support, and they're of the size that if I'm not wearing anything at all, it will be immediately obvious to anyone with eyes.

But then, in that way that only a tropical location seems to have the power to do, I found myself relaxing. I mean, why did I need a bra, anyway? I was on holiday! Plus, my boyfriend has a way of making me feel spontaneous — as well as sexy and comfortable in my body. So, off came the bra.

Standing in front of the mirror, I examined the way my outfit looked sans brassiere. It was a little disorienting to see the outline of my nipples through my dress, to see them resting a little bit lower than they were when I had the bra on. And then, suddenly, I thought of that GIF. Rihanna, sashaying proudly in her Swarovski gown, boobs as liberated as she was. And just like that, I threw on my heels, stood up straight, and walked out the door, nipples leading the way.

Would I have ever had that same inhibition if I hadn't seen a woman I admire do it before me, in front of millions of people? I'm not sure. But I do know that that night, my nipples enjoyed the freedom. And so did I.

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It's solstice time! This Wednesday, June 21, the sun enjoys its longest day to shine. Each year, this solar event coincides with the beginning of Cancer Season as el Sol tucks into the cosmic crab shell for four weeks. Group hug! This sentimental cycle increases the warm-fuzzy feelings, especially with family and inner circle friends. From Wednesday to July 5, expressive Mercury and courageous Mars will also be in Cancer, giving us more courage to cop to our feelings. But mood management is a must, since Cancer time can make us s-s-s-sensitive to every perceived eye roll. (She was only adjusting her lash extensions, okay?!)

On Friday, the annual new moon in Cancer brings another wave of this family — and female — friendly energy. Unleash your inner Wonder Woman, as Cancer powers up the feminist spirit in us all. Claim your space: These moonbeams could spur a decor update both at work and home. Make your apartment feel like a sacred oasis and a place where you love to entertain. Connect to other women who are doing big things in your area. They'll inspire you to keep the spirit of progress alive.

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By 2017, you'd hope we'd have learned that there's no such thing as a "typical" mum or dad. After all, some of this year's most touching Father's Day cards are actually for mums. But some people evidently still think that a mum is supposed to look and act a certain way, and one blogger has clapped back brilliantly after being told she didn't seem like "the type" to be raising a child.

"It's played on my mind ever since," Gylisa Jayne, a mother of one from Cornwall, wrote on Facebook. "It's one of those common phrases, we label 'Mother' and have a stereotype in our heads."

"Mothers are meant to sacrifice every aspect of themselves, to fulfill their role," Jayne added. "Mothers aren't allowed expensive bags, or shopping trips out, or to have a fresh manicure every few weeks. Mothers aren't meant to have tattoos, or coloured hair or piercings. Mothers aren't supposed to have histories of being reckless, feckless or just plain fun. Mothers aren't meant to have had a colourful life of experiences before they bear children, they are expected to forget their identity to raise someone else."

Jayne then made a great point. "But how can we raise our children effectively if we haven't experienced a bit of life beforehand?" she asked. "Without navigating my own chequered past, how could I possibly hope to guide a new soul through similar times?"

Jayne concluded, hearteningly: "Motherhood isn't an exclusive club that you can only get into if you look or act the right way. It's full of women that all have lives and tales and colourful histories. Women of every type, from every background and every descent. Women that swear, women that don't, women that are real, and women that don't give a fuck about what you think....

"So I might not fit someone else's expectations of how I should be, but my daughter reckons I'm doing a pretty good job."

Jayne's Facebook post is a stirring reminder that parenthood isn't about adhering to norms, rules, and guidance imposed by society. It's about doing the best you can to prepare someone else for the world, however you see fit, and in whatever way feels right for you and your child.

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It seems like Beyoncé has been pregnant forever, walking around looking like the most perfect gestating human that ever lived, all glowy and glorious. The internet has been on Twin Watch and the amateur detectives of Twitter think Bey and Jay Z's twins may have arrived... or have they? Let's look at the evidence.

A woman was seen entering UCLA Medical Centre with two balloons — one welcoming a boy and the other, a girl — and flowers that had a card addressed to "B + J." The woman is seen talking on a cell phone and wearing dark sunglasses, which ups the "secretive celeb" look.

Wow! Did Beyoncé have a boy and a girl? A woman was seen carrying pink & blue balloons into UCLA Medical on Friday with a card for "B + J"! pic.twitter.com/PlSAK2s5Dt

— THE BEYHIVÉ (@TheBeyHiveTeam) June 17, 2017

With that, and a not-so-official announcement from publications like People, the internet was off and running with hilarious takes on what Bey must have looked like after giving birth, what the twins probably thought when they exited Queen B's body, and how the hospital staff must have been feeling following the delivery.

"How I picture # Beyonce walking out of the delivery room right after popping out twins!" one person wrote. Of course, it was like royalty. Bow down, indeed.

How I picture #Beyonce walking out of the delivery room right after popping out twins! 😂 pic.twitter.com/gW6gwTz7zU

— Mack (@MACKONTHERADIO) June 18, 2017

*Beyoncé gives birth to the twins*

Nurse: here are your babies, Bey!

The twins: pic.twitter.com/8XgkGrJn5r

— Beyoncé (@HiveUpdate) June 18, 2017

When Beyoncé's twins realise who they came out of: pic.twitter.com/rQfTyJhYIF

— 🌻🍁 (@lifeof__) June 18, 2017

This is probably how the hospital staff that helped #Beyonce give birth to the twins are feelin right now pic.twitter.com/oknSmqhPGO

— Grey Zayn (@zayn_grey) June 18, 2017

Some people are putting their excitement on hold until the official announcement comes from Beyoncé and Jay Z themselves. The couple is known for liking their privacy — and who wouldn't at a time like this? When Bey gave birth to Blue Ivy in 2012, it was rumoured that the couple rented out the entire floor of the hospital to ensure privacy. (The hospital denied the claim.)

Either way, people want cold, hard evidence before celebrated. You know, pics or it didn't happen. The Judge Judy gifs, though, make the wait for an announcement from Bey and Jay a whole lot easier.

Beyonce. I know you're in recovery, but where are the pics? We've been pregnant with you for too long pic.twitter.com/ReiG1mukjl

— b.b (@Benoo_Brown) June 18, 2017

If the twins really are here, it's a very sweet Father's Day present for Jay-Z, who recently announced he would be donating money to help bail fathers out of jail. It's admirable that he is thinking of all the dads who can't be around for their kids this weekend, even as he was on the brink of becoming a dad again himself.

when you're happy that Beyonce gave birth but you know we aint seeing those twins til 2024 pic.twitter.com/tpVeZxGqjC

— Zannie (@zanisdabomb) June 18, 2017

everybody: the twins are here.
me: I'll wait for Beyoncé to tell us FROM HER OWN MOUTH about Houston & Brooklyn. pic.twitter.com/eymGZMpyEO

— destiny's grandchild (@dstnysgranchild) June 18, 2017

Media: "Beyonce and Jay Z have officially welcomed twins, according to multiple reports"
Me: pic.twitter.com/g30FHTmWv7

— Eniafé Momodu 🐝 (@EniafeMomodu) June 18, 2017

What a wonderful way for Beyoncé and Jay Z to celebrate father's day by welcoming their twins. #HappyFathersDay Jay pic.twitter.com/bwFGBC9WMN

— Mel 🇭🇹 (@MellyMel320) June 18, 2017

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My mother did not teach me many useful beauty secrets — rather, I learned from her mistakes. Never use a magnifying mirror. Holding a glycolic acid exfoliating pad to your chin for an entire episode of Dancing with the Stars is a good way to give yourself a chemical burn, not get rid of a zit. Do not buy DVDs from the man who sells them in the back room of the salon where you get your spray tan; they are bootlegs. Instead, it was my dad who fielded my early beauty questions.

As is said to be the case with many Russian Jews, not just the ones in my family, my dad is very superstitious. This ancestral trait has worked in his favor. Years ago, unreasonably paranoid that he would lose his job if he ever stopped using L’Occitane Green Tea Shower Gel, he purchased 30 bottles, just in case it was ever discontinued. It was — and he was prepared. He’s since switched to another body wash, but keeps the last bottle stashed in a dusty drawer, just to be safe. (Little does he know he could have made a quick £50 off it.)

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At any given time, my dad owns several different sunscreen formulas of varying degrees of SPF. “Do you want 15, 30, or 70?” he’ll ask. “Spray or lotion?” He considers an SPF lip balm, the kind that turns your lips white, a must-have, but he will get annoyed if you point it out. Proper sun protection is crucial, but some of his beauty beliefs are significantly less rational, like his insistence that he follow up every professional haircut with a few “tweaks” of his own. Some of them may even be illegal, or at least frowned upon, like hoarding prescription steroid creams and salves that you dole out to your adult children like candy when they complain of any skin ailment — a rash, a blister, a cut, a bug bite, a breakout. Topical corticosteroids for everyone!

Most importantly, my dad has been there during my biggest beauty emergencies. He was there when I tried to speed up the at-home bleaching process by holding a blowdryer directly to my hair, which made it sizzle and set off a smoke detector, at which point he came rushing in to hose me down with the handheld showerhead and also yell. Once, in a stroke of genius, he taped a maxi pad to my leg when I cut myself shaving and, I think, almost bled out on the Persian rug.

He also passed down perhaps the most important beauty rule of all: Don’t care too much about what you look like, because nobody is even paying attention — they’re too worried about themselves to notice if you have a pimple. But it still can’t hurt to stock up on Garnier Fructis Surf Cream pomade (the original, not the reformulation), because even if you're leaving the house in Ugg slippers and a pair of grey sweats you’ve had for a decade, there's no excuse for having bad hair.

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These days, many of us don't just mark Father's Day by sending a card and buying a small gift; we also pay tribute to our fathers - or people we view as father figures - by celebrating them in an Instagram or Twitter post. Celebrities never like to miss a social media trend, so today, they've obviously been sharing Father's Day posts like the rest of us. And here are some of the most touching ones we've spotted so far.

Earlier this year, Rio Ferdinand brought many of us to tears with his moving documentary about learning to cope after the sudden loss of his wife. Today, he shared a picture of the balloons their children left for him as a Father's Day surprise.

Woke up to these balloons & loads of lil thoughtful presents from my babies! Thank you for being a shining light in daddy's 🌎 #FathersDay pic.twitter.com/QGWpITNVh5

— Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5) June 18, 2017

Victoria Beckham shared a picture of David and their four children, calling her husband the "best daddy in the world."

The best daddy in the world!!! We all love u so,so much 💕💕💕 X kisses from us all x 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

A post shared by Victoria Beckham (@victoriabeckham) on Jun 18, 2017 at 6:42am PDT

David also shared a picture of him and the Beckham boys, then took the opportunity to pay tribute to "inspiring dads" all over the world.

The moments I share with my children are incredibly special. Whether that's laughing together when they tell me things about their day on the drive home from school, reading one of their favourite books to them at bedtime or spending time together on holiday. Through my work with UNICEF I've met so many inspiring dads around the world. Dads who want to ensure their children have the best start in life and will do anything to give them the support and love they need even when faced with huge challenges. Join me in supporting @unicef and share your super dad moment in a photo or video this Father's Day using #EarlyMomentsMatter

A post shared by David Beckham (@davidbeckham) on Jun 17, 2017 at 4:27am PDT

Michelle Obama shared a cute throwback snap of husband Barack and their two daughters, Malia and Natasha.

Happy #FathersDay @BarackObama. Our daughters may be older and taller now, but they’ll always be your little girls. We love you. pic.twitter.com/SGZMmXaQ3a

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) June 18, 2017

Model and actress Poppy Delevingne called her and Cara's father, Charles, a "true wonder of the world."

Happy Fathers Day to this true wonder of the world ✨ I am grateful for you every day Papa, I LOVE YOU with all my heart @charlesdeleprivate

A post shared by Poppy Delevingne (@poppydelevingne) on Jun 18, 2017 at 8:08am PDT

Meanwhile, singer Charli XCX praised her dad for being a "G."

my dad's a G.

A post shared by CHARLI XCX (@charli_xcx) on Jun 18, 2017 at 6:58am PDT

Naomi Campbell took the opportunity to thank three men in her life that she regards as father figures: legendary music producer Quincy Jones, record label founder Chris Blackwell, and fashion designer Azzedine Alaia.

So blessed to have 3 great father figures in my life @azzedinealaiaofficial @chrispblackwell @quincydjones how lucky am I ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾

A post shared by Naomi Campbell (@iamnaomicampbell) on Jun 18, 2017 at 9:35am PDT

In a rare Instagram post, Girls Aloud singer Cheryl called partner Liam Payne "the most amazing daddy." The couple just welcomed their son, Bear, in March.

Happy 1st Father's Day Liam.. You are the most amazing daddy and the best example for our son. The way he looks at you says it all. Your relationship melts my heart. You are the centre of his world & We adore you 🐻🌎💙

A post shared by Cheryl (@cherylofficial) on Jun 18, 2017 at 8:09am PDT

And finally, the eternally goals Goldie Hawn shared a picture of herself with partner Kurt Russell, praising him for being "the best pa ever."

Happy Father's Day to the best Pa ever! And all the rest Of our dads! #cherishthem

A post shared by Goldie Hawn (@officialgoldiehawn) on Jun 18, 2017 at 5:16am PDT

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In the wild world that is the meeting point of fashion and politics, it seems there are two distinct perspectives these days. On one hand, you've got the fashion clan at large: artistic, innovative, progressive, liberal, boundary-pushing, often queer, etc. These are the folks — Zac Posen, Sophie Theallet, Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs, and Derek Lam, to name a few — who are creating and wearing fashions emblazoned with "Black Models Matter" or "Fuck Trump." The ones who are refusing to dress the First Lady.

On the other hand, you've got Dolce and Gabbana, the only major designer label to endorse Melania Trump. D&G has tried to assure us that it's not about politics at all, but that's a tough argument for a fashion brand with that much pro-Trump PR to make. And Miley Cyrus, for one, is not having it.

The singer-songwriter-actress-activist took to Instagram to congratulate her brother Braison on walking in the D&G menswear catwalk show. "Congrats @braisonccyrus on walking in your 1st runway show," she wrote. "It's never been my little brother's dream to be a model as HE is one of the most talented musicians my ears have ever been given the gift of hearing...BUT it is a Cyrus family trait to try everything once (within reason HA) and to embrace opportunities that encourage you to step out of your comfort zone!"

Cyrus could have left it at that, but after all, silence is compliance — so Miley couldn't miss the opportunity to let D&G know she is not a fan of the brand's White House affiliation. "PS D&G, I STRONGLY disagree with your politics...but I do support your company's effort to celebrate young artists & give them the platform to shine their light for all to see!"

Congrats @braisonccyrus on walking in your 1st runway show.... It's never been my little brothers dream to be a model as HE is one of the most talented musicians my ears have ever been given the gift of hearing.... BUT it is a Cyrus family trait to try everything once (within reason HA) and to embrace opportunities that encourage you to step out of your comfort zone! We believe in trying something new everyday! I love you Prince Suga Bear and seriously congratulations on your experience! I am so proud of you always.... From Nashville to Italy! 👑❤️👑❤️👑❤️ PS D&G, I STRONGLY disagree with your politics.... but I do support your company's effort to celebrate young artists & give them the platform to shine their light for all to see!

A post shared by Miley Cyrus (@mileycyrus) on Jun 17, 2017 at 8:00am PDT

As far as public statements of political disagreement go, this one seems pretty mild — even respectful. Stefano Gabbana, however, didn't seem to think so. The Cut reported that Gabbana commented on Cyrus' post by threatening to sever his brand's relationship with Braison: "For your stupid comment never more work with him."

Gabbana also hit Instagram with his own post. "We are Italian and we don't care about politics and mostly neither about the American one! We make dresses and if you think about doing politics with a post it's simply ignorant," he wrote. "We don't need your posts or comments so next time please ignore us!! #boycottdolcegabbana." He followed that hashtag with plenty of laugh-cry emoji for good measure.

Props to Miley for continuing to #resist even during moments of praise. Let's just hope her comments don't cost Braison his next modelling gig. Though, as yet another multi-hyphenate Cyrus artist, he's probably got plenty of other options.

#Repost @mileycyrus Noi siamo italiani e della politica non ci interessiamo di quella Americana ancora meno !!! Noi facciamo abiti e se tu pensi di fare politica con un post sei semplicemente un'ignorante. Non abbiamo bisogno dei tuoi post e dei tuoi commenti. La prossima volta ignoraci x favore!! #boycottdolcegabbana 😂😂😂😂❤️ We are Italian and we don't care about politics and mostly neither about the American one! We make dresses and if you think about doing politics with a post it's simply ignorant. We don't need your posts or comments so next time please ignore us!! #boycottdolcegabbana 😂😂😂😂❤️

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Anyone still holding out for Barb's return to Netflix' Stranger Things is about to get hit hard with a major dose of reality courtesy of the show's executive producer. The AV Club reports that Shawn Levy confirmed Barb's fate during a Facebook Live event, saying that the show's team sought to specifically avoid "fan service-based decisions" in the second season.

Unfortunately for those still seeking justice for Barb, Levy says that the show's first season made it pretty clear that she didn't survive her jaunt to the Upside Down. The footage of Barb's untimely end doesn't stop fans from approaching Levy and questioning the character's fate, however.

"I've had a lot of people — some huge celebrities come up to me at these awards shows and are like, 'So between us, Barb's coming back, right?'" Levy explained during the event. "I'm like, 'No. You saw. She had like a creature-slug-worm-snake coming out of her mouth! I don't know that there's a bounce-back from that!?'"

That's a big blow to fans that had their hearts set on Barb's return this Halloween (rethink those trick-or-treating plans, because that's when the show 's next season will hit Netflix), but Levy says that it's all for the sake of storytelling. Perhaps another epic show (ahem, Game of Thrones) has desensitised viewers to the permanence of death with its resurrections and fake-outs? Levy insists that none of that's at play in Hawkins, Indiana. What's done is done — Barb included.

Instead of changing things to fit fans' fickle whims, Levy explained that he simply wanted the Duffer Brothers to tell the story that they set out to tell. No compromise and no changes just because the show's loyal legion of viewers want something. Those '80s homages, the amazing soundtrack, and the creepy moments? Those are all the Duffers' visions, not them pandering to anyone. So pour one out for everyone's favourite underdog. Here's hoping that season 2 brings fans another character to rally behind.

Check out Levy's full interview, below.

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When the media’s focus – the headline-friendly ‘Calais Jungle’ – was destroyed in October 2016, coverage receded massively, and front pages turned to Trump, snap elections and the EU. Did we think that, maybe, the camp being set on fire had forced a change? That the French government, or the British government – someone, anyway – had stepped up and housed people and that they were steadily processing their claims? Did we think the French police had stopped firing pepper spray into teenagers’ eyes at night because it wasn’t on our Facebook feeds anymore? Or did we just tell ourselves that, so we could turn a blind eye?

The reality of Calais, and Dunkirk, and now overwhelming Paris, is that the situation is still as bad, if not worse, than it was last year. That’s the update.

“In theory, of course refugees have rights,” says Annie Gavrilescu, 26, who’s working on the ground in Calais for the grassroots organisation Help Refugees. “Every person, whether they are documented or not, has the same fundamental rights: They have the right to not get diseases because of the conditions they live in. They have the right to food. They have the right to water. They have the right to shower. They have the right to not be beaten up. In practice, however, there is very little to no accountability for the French police. If a refugee would like to make an official complaint about what’s happening to them, they would have to complain to the police, about the police. The situation is impossible.”

After speaking to long-term volunteers and grassroots organisations based in northern France over the last week, here’s what we know.

1. The living conditions are inhumane

Labour MP for Hackney North, Diane Abbott visited the areas in Paris in April – where many refugees went after the Jungle burned – and wrote about what she witnessed for the Huffington Post, stating that “Conditions in the unofficial Paris encampment are dreadful. In some aspects even worse than the conditions were in the Calais jungle. There is no running water, no sanitation, and no services of any kind, no cooking, heating or washing facilities and many of the inhabitants of the unofficial encampments have diseases like scabies. They are entirely at the mercy of the police who, when they can find them, chase them away and beat them up.”

The flow of refugees arriving in France hasn’t slowed down either. “In Paris up to 40 minors [children] arrive every day, and from that we get maybe a dozen, or a couple of dozen, coming to Calais,” Annie explains. “There are currently about 600 refugees in Calais and at least a third are children. The vast majority are young boys or young men; there are maybe a few dozen girls and young women.”

This number of people – among them unaccompanied children – are sleeping rough every night on the ground with a blanket in the woods. “And the police go into the woods every night and pepper-spray them,” Annie explains. “They even pepper spray their sleeping bags and all of their possessions so they can’t use the same items again, because once an item has been pepper-sprayed it will continue to cause the reaction that pepper spray causes.” Which, if you’ve never been pepper-sprayed, is: swelling of mucous membranes of the eyes, nose and throat, nasal and sinus discharge, coughing, shortness of breath, drying of eyes, painful burning of the skin, hyperventilation, fear, anxiety and panic. The first article the internet throws up on pepper spray says it is used in defence against dogs and bears.

“The police have a mandate to ‘deter and prevent’ any people from settling in the region,” Annie levels, “but that translates into pretty horrific behaviour against the refugees and quite a lot of harassment against the volunteers too because we are seen to be enabling people to stay. As much as I’m trying to understand their point of view, the fact that we give refugees a meal and a blanket every day, does not make people come to Calais. That is not any kind of pull factor, we’re just helping them survive.”

Partnering with L’Auberge des Migrants, and with other French organisations, Help Refugees is taking the local government to court. “We’re demanding minimal provisions for sanitation, hygiene, water and food,” Annie says, “and access to protection for minors. We basically have to force the authorities on both sides of the channel to uphold their responsibility to protect people’s fundamental rights and unless we do that, nothing will change.”

2. Refugees trying to claim asylum are set up to fail

Tamsin Koumis, 24, started volunteering in Dunkirk in February 2016. Then, with a friend (Toto) and a couple of other volunteers, she set up Dunkirk Legal Support Team – initially just to “bring legal information into the camp, because people didn’t know what their basic rights were and some had legal letters but they didn’t know what they meant – papers showing results of appeals or documents from the UK and there was no one to give advice on any of that.”

Tamsin continues: “You really need an organisation or volunteers to help you – you need someone who’s basically going to make it happen. The kids wouldn’t understand the legal system, let alone have any idea how to find a lawyer. And the lawyers of course are based in an office in London or Paris, and they’re not going to spend their time searching a camp for a kid or woman to get her to sign a letter.”

The process, broadly, is that when refugees arrive in France and ask for asylum in the UK, they are given two interviews, which are supposed to take place within a month of arrival, but rarely do. “If you so much as get one fact wrong between those two asylum interviews,” Tamsin explains, “they’ll say you’re ‘uncredible’ and refuse you on that basis. That happens a lot. And often, refugees won’t know the date that they crossed from one country to another, because it’s such a blur, so they’ll say one date in the first interview and then forget it in the second and be struck off on that basis.”

Even if children have family legally resident in the UK, and have a legal right to join them, it’s still a lengthy process getting them there and can take over seven months. “There has been an emphasis in volunteer groups trying now, more than ever, to give people the idea that perhaps France really is the best option”, Tamsin says.

3. The vulnerable children we thought were coming to the UK via the Dubs Amendment Act were stopped in their tracks

Diane Abbott explained this simply in her Huffington Post article, saying:

“British Home office officials visited the children in French centres after the demolition of Calais to determine whether they were eligible to come to Britain either under family reunification provisions or under the ‘Dubs Amendment’ which applied to children who were particularly vulnerable. The public expected thousands of refugee children to enter Britain by this route. But the government closed the scheme in December having accepted a few hundred children. But, since the closure of the Dubs scheme, there has been a surge in child refugees returning to Calais and Dunkirk. There they are vulnerable to people traffickers and sexual exploitation.”

Tamsin further explains that the UK made a commitment to take a number of vulnerable ‘unaccompanied’ children,understood by the public to have been 3000 children, but they closed the scheme in February 2017 after committing to offering sanctuary to only 350 children. Despite new guidance released in March 2017 and an extra 130 places being announced in April following an ‘administrative error’, it is still not clear that vulnerable children are able to access this route.“It now seems like children may only be referred to the Dubs Amendment Scheme if they’re already in protective accommodation such as hostels, which, thankfully, some are. But it’s such a false logic, because the most vulnerable kids are not in protective accommodation [they’re sleeping rough.] It’s so frustrating because the systems and laws they put in place exclude the people who need them most.”

Evelyn McGregor, 67, is a former lecturer in child psychology at Edinburgh University. She started volunteering with Calais Kitchens in January this year, then decided to go back but do something different “because what seemed to be the problem in the camp was that people were just stuck there, and they needed legal advice, they needed to know how to get out”, so she found Tamsin and Toto’s organisation and has worked with them in Calais for the last five months.

“For the kids who are in the hostels, there’s not much for them to do,” Evelyn explains, “they’ve been independent… and wandering… for a long time, so they get very frustrated that nothing seems to have happened with their papers, so then they head off to somewhere else and text us to say they’re in some other part of France and they don’t know what to do. Or else they get themselves to Paris, where they tend to get into problems, and then come back and aren’t allowed back into their hostel. There are a lot of young boys wandering around, not quite sure what to do.”

There’s limited space in the hostels, Evelyn explains, and apparent unwillingness to expand capacity, hence the volume sleeping in the woods. “So we [Evelyn and another volunteer] go to evening food distribution and look out for minors who want accommodation, and then take them to the police station in Dunkirk and say ‘they need a bed’ and the police laugh at us – if they even let us in the door. When the police turn us away, we try to persuade the kids to let us fill out a form to take to the children’s judge to ask for accommodation – which is likely to succeed. But often, the boys don’t want to go to the police station because they’re very frightened of the police and so they go back into the woods.”

In addition to trying to secure accommodation for the boys, and following up on the status of their claims, Evelyn supports them as best she can. “A few boys keep in regular contact with me,” she says, “and I’ve encouraged that, because it’s so difficult for them. There’s a couple who haven’t seen their families for several years – they’ve been refugees in other countries before France. As a psychologist, it’s quite stunning to see, on the one hand, how well they cope, but, on the other... what is the impact of this? What’s it going to be in the years to come?”

“I get a lot of texts about feeling alone,” Evelyn says. When asked how she responds to these texts, she says, “Well if it’s not too late... if I’m awake... then I phone them. We talk things through... but that’s all you can do. You want to just take them all in… but you can’t… so you have to be pragmatic, and talk them down and you, personally, have to accept what you can do and what you can’t.”

Evelyn says the hardest thing is explaining to the boys why there’s been no word on their asylum application in the UK. “They ask very logical questions, they don’t understand what’s taking so long, and so you have to get into the politics of ‘Well actually the UK government isn’t that excited about getting lots of refugees and so they may be finding other things to do in their office rather than processing applications, or there may be a backlog…' You try to explain the ‘real people world’ to them and they struggle to cope with that.”

Evelyn, Annie and Tamsin are all directly – or indirectly through the organisations they work for – involved in legal action being taken against the Home Office. “We have a court date on Tuesday 20th June,” Annie explains, “this is the last chance for the Dubs Amendment. If we don’t win this, it’s over.”

4. Protection, provisions and aid is reliant on grassroots organisations and individual volunteers

Bear in mind that Dunkirk Legal Support Team comprises just three people in France, and two in London – and they’re actively helping tens of children. Help Refugees has five staff in London, funded entirely by donations with no government support, and two coordinating the efforts in northern France. As Diane Abbott put it in her piece, “they [the refugees] camp in the street in Paris, hoping against hope that some voluntary organisation will help them with their asylum claim.”

“The local government in Calais and Dunkirk have specifically said there will be no more humanitarian action from their part of the state,” Annie confirms, “which means everything is left to us.”

It’s grassroots organisations and individual volunteers that are helping these people survive. On the ground, they are fighting for human rights and being met with an aggressive police force. And behind the scenes, they are tirelessly lobbying the government, appealing to lawyers and law firms, trying to make the people with the power to effect change take notice.

Organisations such as Refugee Kitchen make and distribute 2,000 portions of food every day. The Refugee Youth Service leads the multi-agency child-protection scheme with which Help Refugees works, alongside Safe Passage, who work specifically on trying to get minors to the UK safely and legally. Utopia 56 is a small French organisation who do nightly outreach to make sure people have enough food, especially if they are observing Ramadan. Doctors Without Borders is very present in Paris, where there is currently most need, while MDM (Médecins du Monde) is still coming to Calais as often as possible (once a week) to do medical work.

The individual effort, too, is staggering. At 67 years of age, with “a lot less on my plate now”, Evelyn decided to move to Calais while she “still had the energy”. Asked about her motive for doing this, she says, “Well, I’m not responsible for anyone anymore, so I can do things that I might not have done when I was younger and had young children.” Asked if she ever feels vulnerable in her work, she says, “Generally, no. There was a gun episode quite early on… and I weighed it up and thought ‘I’m much more likely to be killed on the French autoroute than I am by somebody with a gun'.”

5. There are a lot of different ways you can help

The positive side to this effort being run by grassroots organisations and not multinational NGOs is that you can donate to them, or volunteer with them, and it has a direct if not immediate effect.

“You can help by donating in whichever form you can to one of the organisations,” Annie says. “You can help us lobby the authorities too by showing your support at the High Court on Tuesday 20th June. And by talking about it on every possible means of social media. And by writing to your MPs, especially new MPs. And you can come to volunteer. Come to witness the situation.”

The refugee crisis 'on our front doorstep' is as critical as it was, and growing worse every day – losing support, losing public interest (and with that, donations), and losing hope. Volunteers and tiny organisations are fighting for the most basic human rights and being met with closed doors, hostility and violence. If the Dubs Amendment doesn't get reinstated tomorrow, our government must be held accountable for the hundreds of children whose lives they are point blank refusing to save.

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Cast your mind back, if you will, to some of the more baffling fitness fads of yesteryear.

Obviously there's the questionable fashion sense that came along with the aerobics movement. Then there was the shake weight, the much-chuckled-about tool which had the misfortune, when used, of emulating a very specific sex act. And let's not forget those trainers which were meant to tone up your bum while you walked.

Perhaps the most interesting fitness fad of old, though, is the vibrating belt. Your friend's mum definitely had one when you were little. The premise was too good to be true: strap it on, sit back, watch the telly, and end up with rock-solid abs.

Of course, people didn't end up with rock-solid abs. Or we'd all be wearing vibrating belts all day, every day.

So when a company called E-Pulsive reached out and asked me to try their vibrating fitness class I was intrigued, and yet sceptical.

E-Pulsive relies on EMS or "Electrical Muscle Stimulation" and the company claims that a 20-minute EMS workout "equates to a 90-minute high-intensity gym class."

Essentially, EMS engages your muscles more than in a regular workout. It works them harder. They claim that EMS allows for 98% muscle engagement, compared to the 50% a normal workout would entail. E-Pulsive reckons this means that attending the sessions regularly can result in "a reduction in body fat", "an increase in strength and muscular endurance" and "a decrease in back and joint pain."

A post shared by E-Pulsive (@epulsive) on Mar 28, 2017 at 5:37am PDT

Did I mention each session only lasts 20 minutes?

So yeah, sign me up.

E-Pulsive's studio is in a basement in London's Kensington, an area that tends to give me the heebie-jeebies on account of the coffee prices and the absurdity of the various school uniforms you're likely to encounter. Although after the election, perhaps I'm more welcome there than I thought.

I showed up to the studio in gym gear which, it turns out, was unnecessary as the first thing that happens is you're given a set of long johns to put on. "Keep the bra on" I was told, which should probably be a rule of thumb when it comes to strapping yourself into a vibrating suit. All support is good support.

Once in my long johns, I am strapped into my suit. Various Velcro fittings are sprayed with water and strapped around my thighs, my arms, my abs and, most interestingly, my bum. I look like the Michelin Man.

Then, wires which run from the machine itself are plugged into my suit. I am literally attached to a machine that administers electric pulses. Voluntarily. What is going on.

I should note that, during all of this, I had been laughing at what I perceived to be an absurd situation. Perhaps not taking it as seriously as I should have been. My trainer assures me that I will not be laughing once the workout starts. Also, he tells me that there is a shower on the premises for afterwards. I laugh some more. How could doing squats for 20 minutes make me sweat enough to warrant a shower?

We decide I'll do 10 minutes of cardio and 10 minutes of toning. And with that, my trainer turns the machine on. If any of you had the pleasure of growing up in the countryside in a place that favoured electric fences, you'll know the feeling (albeit much muted) I got in all areas of my body; a dull, rolling tightening in my arms, legs, abs and bum.

Not only did I sweat, actual droplets of water were splashing onto the floor. My face was redder than Jeremy Corbyn's tie.

The cardio was brutal. The trainer had me do things like star jumps, running on the spot, side lunges with hops in between – pretty basic PE stuff but, when your muscles are being forced to work much harder, these simple steps suddenly become really tough. Not only did I sweat, actual droplets of water were falling from my body and splashing onto the wooden floor. My face, when I caught sight of it in a mirror, was redder than Jeremy Corbyn's tie. In 10 minutes, I got sweatier than I had in three years of attending the gym and classes on the regular.

I thought the toning 10 minutes would be a welcome respite after cardio but no. The trainer again whacked up the intensity of the pulses (this happens constantly throughout); at one point the pulses were pummelling my abs so hard, I cried out. He quickly readjusted the intensity.

For this section we work on things like squats, lunges, arm raises, bicep curls and all the other stuff I'd usually use weights or a kettle bell to do. Here, in the suit and minus the kettle bells, it's so much harder – even bending my elbow to bring my fist to my shoulder is a big ask.

When I am finally done, 10 minutes later, I eat a lot of humble pie. "That (gasp) was (gasp) so (gasp) intense" I manage, before being directed to the shower to try to do something about my beetroot of a face.

The next day, I've got DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness), big time. I walk downstairs bowlegged; lifting my arms above my head is best done slowly.

On the upside, though, I feel like my muscles are next level and they seem pretty darn solid (through my normal padding, that is). I honestly think I look more toned after just one go. E-Pulsive say to allow four sessions to see a difference, and I actually believe them.

I wouldn't replace my regular gym-going and running completely with E-Pulsive – I'd miss the duration and mindful aspect that longer workouts give you. Also, it isn't exactly cheap – E-Pulsive's three-month package works out at £50 a class, although there is the possibility of training with a friend to cut costs.

For weeks when you're short on time, though, in the heady days after payday, it's certainly worth giving it a go. If for the novelty factor alone.

E-Pulsive, Kensington, London. For more information or to book a class, click here.

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Colourful and graphic makeup was seen everywhere on SS17's catwalks. Maison Margiela served space-age beauty with metallic silver lips and accented eyes, while MaxMara gave models flashes of red across the temples. In fact, colour was brushed over eyelids across the board – just see Hermès' fuchsia, Sportmax's mustard, and Kenzo's fluorescent orange.

If you are tempted to get your sparkle on, keep it to lips à la Topshop, Fendi and DKNY, or reach for a stay-all-day metallic liquid lip. Either way, festival makeup is looking bold, bright and colourful. Click through to see our pick of this summer's products, which will keep you looking fresh, even when you're knee-deep in mud.

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Update, 10:o0 am 19 June: London Mayor Sadiq Khan said extra police will be deployed to protest Muslim communities in light of the attack. He condemned the “horrific terrorist attack”, praised the emergency services and advised "all Londoners to remain calm and vigilant," reported the Evening Standard.

Update, 7:25 am 19 June: The BBC reports that a man has died and 10 people have been injured after a van mounted the pavement and struck a group of people just after midnight near Finsbury Park Mosque in Seven Sisters Road. A 48-year-old man has been arrested.

Prime Minister Theresa May said police were treating it "as a potential terrorist attack".

Eyewitness Abdul Rahman said the driver said he wanted to "kill all Muslims". Mr Rahman told the BBC he struck the man and helped subdue him.

Original story: London is once again reeling from a horrific attack after a vehicle rammed into pedestrians on Seven Sisters Road in Finsbury Park early Monday morning.

Metropolitan Police say that they've arrested one suspect and report there are "a number of casualties being worked on at the scene."

Police are on the scene and are dealing with a major incident in Seven Sisters Road https://t.co/eYPjbVvlZG pic.twitter.com/BzVdQUNfw8

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) June 19, 2017

London Ambulance has also tweeted a message stating they've "sent a number of resources to an incident in Seven Sisters Road" and that they'll share more details as they acquire more information.

We have sent a number of resources to an incident in Seven Sisters Road. More information will follow when we have it.

— London Ambulance (@Ldn_Ambulance) June 18, 2017

According to BuzzFeed News, the UK Muslim Council of Britain has tweeted that the attack appears to have targeted worshippers at a local mosque.

BREAKING: We have been informed that a van has run over worshippers as they left #FinsburyPark Mosque. Our prayers are with the victims. https://t.co/FSE5m3bFpo

— MCB (@MuslimCouncil) June 19, 2017

"We have been informed that a van has run over worshippers as they left #FinsburyPark mosque," the Muslim Council tweeted from its official handle. "Our prayers are with the victims."

BuzzFeed News also reported that the incident took place near the Finsbury Park Mosque, "where prayers were scheduled to be held shortly before 11 p.m." Muslims are currently celebrating Ramadan, the 29-day holiday which ends this year on June 24.

DEVELOPING: London police investigating amid reports of a vehicle colliding with pedestrians. One person arrested. https://t.co/6GFXUJhQ4R pic.twitter.com/8rs6JTUjHi

— ABC News (@ABC) June 19, 2017

At this time, authorities have not released a clear explanation of the night's tragic events, which are the latest in a string of violence and horror in England, with terror attacks at a concert in Manchester and on a London bridge and a horrific blaze at Grenfell Tower Apartment that has reportedly killed at least 58 people.

Updates and more information to follow throughout the night.

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First announced back in October 2016, Zayn Malik's capsule collection for Versus has landed at long last. The sporty collection designed by the former One Direction star turned solo crooner comprises 10 pieces each of men’s and womenswear, including zip hoodies with Versus graphic logos, jeans with lateral lace-up details, sporty slip dresses, sweat tops, a leather jacket, a parka coat and bombers, all in Zayn's preferred colour palette of khaki green, wine, black and white, with splashes of red.

A reasonably casual dresser (certainly in comparison to former bandmate Harry Styles, who has embraced the world of high fashion, frequently wearing brands like Gucci and Charles Jeffrey), why has Zayn now turned his hand to design? It was actually girlfriend Gigi Hadid who introduced Malik to designer Donatella Versace. In an interview with The New York Times, Versace reflected on the first time she met the singer, admitting that she "was not exactly a fan of that band. But then I met him again when he started to date Gigi, who I work with all the time. And he impressed me very much— he was so mature, so thoughtful, treated her like such a gentleman. They are very nice young people, a lovely couple, in fact. And then he told me how much he loved fashion. It was then I knew he was the right face for what I had in mind."

In March, Malik starred in the Spring 2017 campaign for Versus alongside Adwoa Aboah, photographed by Gigi, whetting our appetite for his upcoming collaboration. And on Saturday, Zayn finally revealed some teaser images from his own Versus Versace line. The "Pillow Talk" singer shared pictures on his Instagram and Twitter accounts, featuring himself and Bella Hadid, his girlfriend's sister, modelling the collection which is available from today. Both wear athleisure-inspired outfits in the teaser, with Bella in a purple bomber jacket, logoed bra top, jogging bottoms and perforated heels. Zayn wears a khaki parka coat, distressed jeans and a black top. The full campaign, released today, shot by photographer Greg Harris features a broader range of streetwear looks plus accessories such as a cap and cross-body bag.

"When I was a kid growing up in Bradford, England, wearing knock-off Versace, I never thought that one day I would actually be designing my own collection. Thanks so much to Donatella Versace for allowing me to do the coolest thing ever," Zayn revealed in a press statement. "When I see this collection, I see Zayn. His attitude, his energy and his individuality are in every single piece. I am so proud of what we have achieved together. The campaign defines everything I love about the new generation today," Donatella Versace added.

The collection debuts on 19th June at versusversace.com and in UK stores on 22nd June. A percentage of the net profits will be donated to charity.

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The mayor of London has condemned both the government and Kensington and Chelsea council over last week’s fire at Grenfell Tower, which he called a “preventable accident” caused by “years of neglect”. At present, 79 people are either dead, or missing and presumed dead.

After attending a church service for the victims yesterday, Khan paid tribute to the "brilliant" local community for its resilience and said some of the stories would “stay with [him] forever.”

He said the anger following the tragic incident was understandable, adding that people were “angry, not simply at the poor response in the days afterwards from the council and the government, but at the years of neglect from the council,” the BBC reported.

He continued: "There's a feeling that the council and government don't understand their concerns and don't care," saying people were “sick to death of platitudes from politicians”.

Humbled to hear the heroic stories of strength & courage of local residents at St Clement's Church. #GrenfellTower pic.twitter.com/R8Clf2dudd

— Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) June 18, 2017

He also took on those who consider health and safety regulations as unnecessary "red tape", saying: "To those who think rules, regulations, health and safety, investment, are a bad thing, I say come to Grenfell Tower.

"Come and meet the wonderful people that I've met. Or remember those who have lost their lives in a preventable accident that didn't need to happen. The tragedy we're seeing is because of the consequences of mistakes and neglect from politicians, from the council, and from the government."

Khan added that, "As the mayor of London I will do my bit to be the advocate, to be the fighter, and to be the champion of these people."

Prime Minister Theresa May has faced intense criticism for her response to the tragedy. She faced jeers on a visit to the estate on Friday, and protestors marching in the area on Friday and Saturday called for her to resign.

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Update, 19th June: The weather forecast is still looking good. The Met Office is forecasting sun and a 29-degree temperature for Wednesday (21st) – so you'll definitely deserve a cold one after putting up your tent. It won't be sunny on Thursday (22nd) but it won't rain and will be about 20 degrees. Friday (23rd) will also be overcast and a little cooler at 18 degrees but, still, no rain. Saturday (24th) isn't looking sunny either, but will be still warmish at 17 degrees. Sunday (25th) is looking a bit brighter than the few previous days, warm at 18 degrees and still, NO RAIN is predicted. Don't forget your SPF.

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Original story, 15th June 2017: If you were at last year’s Glastonbury festival, the memories of the thick and almost dangerously viscous mud, which many said was unprecedented, may still give you nightmares. And if you're anything like us, your wellies are probably still caked in it.

But luckily, the weather at this year’s festival looks set to be nowhere near as treacherous and according to the latest forecasts, there will even be sun. Although, it being Glastonbury, you’d be a fool not to bring wellies and a trusty mac.

Weather forecasts are obviously always subject to change, especially this far in advance, but so far it’s looking good. The Weather Channel is currently predicting no rain throughout the whole weekend. On Wednesday (21st) it’ll be partly cloudy and warm at 24 degrees Celsius, and the Thursday (22nd) will even be mostly sunny and also about 24 degrees.

It's so dry on site they're having to make the tracks wet!! pic.twitter.com/YnNa527lEK

— Glade Cafe & Bar (@GladeCafeGlasto) June 12, 2017

The Friday (23rd), when the festival starts, will be mostly cloudy and slightly cooler at 20 degrees max, while Saturday (24th) looks a bit nicer. Cloud is predicted in the morning but the afternoon will brighten up and it will be about 20 degrees.

Sunday will also be partly cloudy and similarly warm. A lack of blazing sun means you’re less likely to suffocate to death in your tent, at least. So, swings and roundabouts.

Monday (26th), when most people pack up and head home, looks like it’ll be rainy in the morning, so it may be worth waiting a few hours to pack up (or just do it the evening before).

Plenty of space people pic.twitter.com/9FuJoDSqhR

— Pennard Hill C C (@PennardHill) June 14, 2017

Will this year's Glastonbury be uncharacteristically dry? In these unpredictable times, anything could happen.

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