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SUMMER holidays are upon us, but that does not mean your healthy lifestyle and fitness needs to fall off track.

In fact, holidays can be a great time to stay active in a more relaxed way while still enjoying your food, drinks and time away.

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A lot of people think fitness has to stop when they go on holiday. They switch off completely, then struggle to get back into routine when they return home.

The good news is, it does not have to be all or nothing. You can enjoy yourself and still look after your body at the same time.

The key is to keep things simple. You do not need a gym or structured workouts. You just need a bit of movement each day. Walking is one of the best ways to do this.

Whether you are exploring, heading to the beach, or just moving around more than usual, steps quickly add up without it feeling like exercise.

Swimming is another great holiday activity. It is easy on the joints and a brilliant full body workout without feeling like hard work. Even a short swim can help you feel refreshed and energised.

You can also do short bodyweight sessions in your room or outside. Ten minutes is more than enough to keep your body moving. Simple exercises like squats, lunges and press ups can help you stay on track without taking time away from your holiday.

One of the biggest mistakes people make is thinking they need to be perfect. Holidays are meant to be enjoyed. Food, drinks and treats are part of the experience. The goal is not to restrict yourself. The goal is to find balance.

A good approach is to focus on one healthy habit each day. It might be a walk in the morning, drinking more water, or doing a short workout before heading out for the day. Small actions like this keep you feeling good without taking away from your holiday.

Hydration is also important, especially in warmer weather. Drinking enough water will help with energy, recovery and how you feel day to day. If you are drinking alcohol, try to balance it with water throughout the day.

The main thing to remember is that holidays should not undo your progress. In fact, they can actually help you reset mentally. A bit of movement, fresh air and balance can leave you feeling better than when you left.

Enjoy your time away, stay active in simple ways, and you will come back feeling refreshed rather than needing to start again from scratch.

Lancashire Police said they were contacted at 8.31pm on Saturday by the ambulance service informing the force it was treating two people who had been recovered from the sea off Rossall beach in Thornton Cleveleys by the coastguard.

Police said that, currently, they understand the pair had got into difficulty in the water after entering to rescue their dog which had become stuck.

The woman in her 60s was treated at the scene near Fleetwood Beach Cafe but was pronounced dead later in hospital.

Inquiries to identify her next of kin are ongoing, the force added.

The man, also in his 60s, was taken to hospital where he remains in critical condition, while the dog was recovered safe and well.

Police said there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the woman’s death and a report will be passed to the coroner in due course.

Botham’s of Whitby, founded in 1865 by Elizabeth Botham, has become one of the town’s best-known businesses, with generations of visitors making a stop there part of any trip to the North Yorkshire coast.

The family-run bakery began when Elizabeth sold bread and cakes from a basket at Whitby market before eventually opening on Skinner Street, where the business still operates today.

Botham’s of Whitby on Skinner Street (Image: TRIPADVISOR)

Now run by the fifth generation of the Botham family, the bakery has built a reputation for traditional Yorkshire baking alongside sweet treats strongly connected to Whitby and the surrounding region.

Among its best-known products are Whitby Lemon Buns, lightly fruited teacakes topped with lemon icing that have been made for more than a century.

The buns have become so associated with Whitby that many visitors see trying one as essential during a trip to the seaside town.

One long-running debate even centres around how they should be eaten, with some insisting they should be sliced and buttered before being turned inside out like a sandwich.

Celebrity chef James Martin has previously aired his own views on the subject.

The bakery is also known for Yorkshire Brack, Shah Ginger Biscuits and its Chocolate Japonaise cakes.

Many of the bakes are inspired by Whitby’s heritage and maritime history.

Botham’s house blend Resolution Tea takes its name from HMS Resolution, the ship commanded by Captain James Cook during his Pacific voyages, while products such as Captain Cookies and Cobbled Road cakes draw inspiration from Whitby’s cobbled streets and seafaring connections.

Though steeped in tradition, Botham’s has continued to evolve over the years.

What started as a small market bakery now includes several shops and tea rooms across Whitby, Pickering and Sleights, as well as a nationwide mail-order business supplying Yorkshire hampers and baked goods across the UK.

The bakery’s original Skinner Street shop remains particularly popular with tourists and locals alike.

It currently holds a 4.4-star rating on TripAdvisor from more than 1,100 reviews, with visitors regularly praising the bakery’s fresh bread, cakes, sandwiches and traditional tea room experience.

One visitor wrote: “A visit here is of course when we are in Whitby.”

Another described the bakery as “a must during a visit to Whitby,” while others praised its “friendly service,” “excellent coffee”, and “scones to die for.”

Many reviews also mention the bakery’s famous lemon buns, with one customer calling them “high up on any Whitby itinerary.”

As well as attracting tourists, Botham’s remains closely tied to the local community and Yorkshire traditions.

The company continues to work with Yorkshire suppliers and still produces many traditional regional favourites, including Yorkshire Curd Tarts, Simnel Cakes and seasonal fruit loaves.

For many visitors, Botham’s represents more than just a bakery.

It has become part of the Whitby experience itself, a business rooted in the town’s history, where generations of families have continued baking recipes linked to Yorkshire’s coastal heritage for more than a century and a half.

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The Light That Failed was based on a Rudyard Kipling story about an artist who is losing his eyesight as a result of a wound sustained fighting on the frontiers of Queen Victoria’s empire.

The film was made in Hollywood in 1939, starring Ronald Colman and Ida Lupino, but it was considered too depressing for wartime Britain, and so it didn’t appear on British cinema screens until 1946.

On the evening of Wednesday May 29, it was showing to a full house – around 2,000 people – at the Union Street Odeon.

The cinema was much bigger then that it was in more recent times before it closed. What’s now a Lidl supermarket was then the cinema foyer. As well as a huge single auditorium, it also had a restaurant.

The film started showing at 6.25. Early on in the film, the gunshots rang out onscreen.

It’s passed into local legend that the shots in the film masked the sound of real gunshots in the cinema manager’s office. The earliest reference to this is a newspaper report that there were five shots on the soundtrack followed by a sixth in the office. Actually there are loads of gunshots in the film, and in the manager’s office two bullets were fired.

Between 6.40pm and 6.45pm, the supervisor of the cinema’s cafeteria entered the office of the manager, Robert Parrington Jackson, to ask him if he was ready for his tea. She went into shock as she found him lying on the office floor bleeding from a wound in the head.

The police were called and detectives came running from the Bridewell station close by.

Two uniformed constables guarded the office door, but the screening continued. Aside from a message flashed up on the screen asking if there was a doctor in the house, the audience knew nothing until later.

Robert Parrington Jackson died at the BRI the following morning without having regained consciousness.

He was 33 years old, and a glamorous figure. He had tried his hand at acting, car racing and had briefly been a radio presenter. He had taken over the running of the Odeon in 1939, but left almost immediately for wartime service in the Royal Navy.

He had only been back in his old job for a few weeks when he died. He was married with a wife and four-year-old son.

Superintendent Fred Carter of Bristol Constabulary took charge of the case and started looking for a motive.

Shortly before being shot, Jackson had put the day’s takings into the office safe. By one account this was around £800. If true, this was a huge sum – the equivalent of £40,000-£50,000 today.

Yet the keys to the safe were still in Jackson’s pocket, and the money in the safe was untouched.

Suicide was ruled out. There was no gun beside his body, and besides, Jackson had been laughing and joking with the staff shortly before he was shot.

Two shots had been fired. One missed. Both came from a US Army issue Colt.45 automatic pistol, and a search for the weapon was launched immediately. For a time it was thought that the same gun had been used in the murder of a 12-year-old girl in south Wales.

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A few days after the killing, an anonymous note to the police gave them a description of a possible suspect. Aged 30-35, clean-shaven, about five foot seven tall, medium build, dark suit, white shirt, dark tie.

Police also said they were looking for a second suspect, a possible accomplice, a younger man who had been seen looking shifty and nervous in the Odeon restaurant just before the murder.

Police questioned one man in Bristol, while at their request a former American soldier was questioned by US military police in Britain. Both men were cleared.

The murder weapon was found later that summer. It had been thrown into a water-tank, one of the many which had been set up around town during the war to ensure water supplies for firefighters during the Blitz and which had still not been dismantled.

The case generated a lot of media attention, though perhaps it was not as sensational as we might expect. The post-war years saw a massive crime-wave across Britain generated by the black market (because everything was still rationed), and the ready availability of firearms, whether stolen from the armed forces or as “souvenirs” brought home by returning servicemen.

Added to this was the widespread view that many young men had grown up without the influence of fathers who were away fighting and succumbed to the temptations of a life of crime. Whatever nostalgic view we might have of the time, crime was rife.

The trail went cold, though the police maintained that they were seeking two men whose likely motive was robbery.

In the years that followed, though, the mystery generated more press coverage locally than it had done in the weeks after the murder. All manner of stories and theories were traded around town. Many centred on Jackson’s love-life; he’d supposedly been shot by a jealous lover, or the boyfriend of an usherette who had become pregnant by him, or something along those lines.

In the mid-1970s, a man living in Bristol’s Salvation Army hostel, Fred Jesser, told the Post that he’d told police in 1946 that he believed Jackson was killed because he was over-familiar with his female staff.

“Jacko was the sort of bloke who would always greet his usherettes, waitresses and kiosk girls with a hug or a kiss,” he told a reporter.

“It was nothing more than well- meant fun but I believe it led to one of their boyfriends becoming jealous. Something happened to one of the girls in the kiosk and although Jacko had nothing to do with it, he apparently got the blame.”

One of the detectives working on the case interviewed 30 years ago said that the police never took the jealous lover theory seriously.

Then came the ghost stories. The cinema was haunted by the manager, but he only ever appeared to female members of staff. In the 1990s, the then-manager told a local magazine that the ghost had appeared to a cleaner late at night. It was a hot summer evening, the cleaner said, but suddenly the auditorium went freezing cold, she saw a man, and then he wasn’t there.

The Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe, a minor TV celebrity investigator of the paranormal, visited the cinema with an exorcist.

Finally, in later 1993, came a resolution of sorts … That year, a man named Jeff Fisher walked into a police station in Cardiff and announced that his father was the killer.

Billy “the Fish” Fisher had been a petty crook in the 1940s. He and his mate Dukey Leonard had travelled to Bristol from south Wales that day in 1946 with the intention of robbing the cinema.

They had panicked, he said, when the manager walked into his office when they were trying to open the safe, and Fisher shot him.

He confessed his crime to his son when he was on his deathbed in 1989. Jeff Fisher told the police he believed that his father may have murdered more than once.

But for official purposes, the case is still unsolved.

Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy star in this acclaimed wartime drama about London screenwriters during the Blitz — viewers are calling it a ‘delight from start to finish’

Enthusiasts of period dramas seeking the ideal film should search no further.

The historical picture Their Finest unfolds in wartime London and features former James Bond star Gemma Arterton as Catrin Cole, a screenwriter who unwittingly battles gender discrimination in Britain’s film industry.

Set in 1940, Catrin secures employment creating a propaganda film designed to lift spirits, featuring declining star Ambrose Hilliard, portrayed by Bill Nighy, who initially resists the project.

Teaming up with co-writer Buckley (Sam Claflin), the threesome embarks on producing a picture intended to inspire the nation while captivating American audiences.

Their Finest draws on Lissa Evans’ novel Their Finest Hour and a Half, presenting a romantic, humorous, yet poignant depiction of a young woman discovering her path and voice amid wartime chaos, reports the Mirror.

Following its release seven years ago, Their Finest has garnered an exceptional 90% score on Rotten Tomatoes alongside numerous glowing critiques.

One admirer described the picture as “escapism”, noting: “There’s a sweet love story and some wonderful work by an array of British actors. My heavens, this is charming, rib-tickling escapism.”

Another viewer observed: “It feels inappropriate to be moved by a film about propaganda during an era of ‘alternative facts’. Yet I found my soul soothed by Their Finest.”

A third remarked: “A delight from start to finish, except for the part where the film rips your heart out.” Another viewer admitted: “Love this movie so much, I’ve watched it at least 4 times. Give me more.”

“Tremendous, witty, moving”, one viewer simply commented, while another shared similar praise: “This is one of the most beautiful movies I’ve seen. Great story, great message!”

Who stars in Their Finest?

• Gemma Arterton as Catrin Cole
• Sam Claflin as Tom Buckley
• Bill Nighy as Ambrose Hilliard
• Helen McCrory as Sophie Smith
• Jack Huston as Ellis Cole
• Eddie Marsan as Sammy Smith
• Claudia Jessie as Doris Cleavely
• Jake Lacy as Carl Lundbeck
• Richard E Grant as Roger Swain

Where can I watch Their Finest?

Their Finest is presently available to stream on BBC iPlayer, though it won’t remain online for much longer. It’ll be accessible until Monday, 15 June, meaning fans must act swiftly.

The reality TV star and Kiss breakfast show host surprised Soccer Aid viewers during her England debut

Soccer Aid fans said Love Island star Chloe Burrows was ‘robbed’ after delivering the ‘best ball of the match’. The star-studded football match returned for 2026 on ITV on Sunday (May 31) with footballing legends and celebrities joining together to raise money for UNICEF.

The game sees England take on a World XI, with both teams aiming to lift the trophy. World XI won last year, reclaiming the title back from England after the team’s sixth win in the last seven years.

Playing for England this year were former professionals Wayne Rooney, Jermain Defoe, Jill Scott and Jack Wilshere, who were joined by celebrities such as Tom Hiddleston, GK Barry Danny Dyer, Jack Whitewall, Olly Murs, Chloe Burrows and Joe Marler.

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Jordi Alba, Leonardo Bonucci, Dimitar Berbatov and Nemanja Matic played for the Rest of the World XI, joined by the likes of Nicky Byrne, Dermot Kennedy and Nitro (Harry Aikines-Aryeetey) from Gladiators.

The World XI team looked set to equalise at the last minute, but Lukas Podolski opted to square the ball instead of take a shot at Joe Marler. Not long after, the referee blew the whistle to signify the end of the match and England were victorious. The final score was England 3-2 World XI.

For the second year in a row, Angry Ginge was handed the man of the match award. The YouTuber has put in another impressive display, playing the full match and making one crucial clearance of the line earlier in the game.

More than £16million has been raised for UNICEF this evening, taking the historic total from the event to around £137million.

But viewers appeared to be impressed by Chloe Burrows, who came on in the second half. Chloe rose to fame on the seventh series of Love Island in 2021, and now has her own podcast Chloe vs The World and co-presents the Kiss breakfast show alongside Tyler West.

The Love Island and Celebs Go Dating star exclusively told Mirror that she played at semi-pro level ahead of making her debut at Soccer Aid for England.

Impressed by her play, Soccer Aid fans took to X as @kiyburkeera said: “Chloe burrows I wasn’t familiar with your game fair play c money !!!,” as @Si_23Q said: “Chloe Burrows robbed of a superb assist #SoccerAid.”

@svnxvx wrote: “All the talent on the pitch and Chloe Burrows played the best ball of the entire match. Shame it fell to Theo Walcott #SoccerAid.”

@Larsson_Maeda said: “Chloe Burrows should’ve had assist of the match, Theo Walcott finishing is atrocious #SoccerAid.”

@LJ1862 wrote: “Chloe Burrows putting Kouhyar to shame tonight #socceraid,” as @occfox added: “Chloe Burrows has got a kick on her you know fair play- me with minimal ball knowledge #socceraid.”

@iGeorgiaWalton also said: “What a knock that was from Chloe Burrows‍ #socceraid,” as @Makka_pakz added: “Chloe Burrows pinging a ball to Theo Walcott was not on my 2026 bingo card #socceraid.”

@Siiel12 also wrote: “Chloe Burrows came on and said ‘what am I doing?’ then made that outrageous pass #socceraid,” as @gbenson77 echoed: “Can we all just appreciate that through ball by Chloe Burrows #socceraid.”

Leicester: Pearson; Radwan, Wand, Bailey, Hassell-Collins; Titcombe, Van Poortvliet; Smith, Blamire, Heyes, Martin, Chessum (c), Liebenberg, Reffell, Moro.

Replacements: Clare, Van der Flier, Hurd, Henderson, Watson, Cracknell, Whiteley, Kata.

Exeter: Woodburn; Feyi-Waboso, Slade, Ikitau, Ridl; Skinner, Varney; Sio, Norey, Iosefa-Scott, Jenkins (c), Zambonin, Hooper, Roots, Fisilau.

Replacements: Dweba, Burger, Tchumbadze, Tuima, Tshiunza, Cairns, Wimbush, Brown-Bampoe.

Sin-bin: Woodburn (58).

Referee: Anthony Woodthorpe.

According to new analysis by Rightmove, these towns still have relatively affordable homes compared to many other areas.

Peterlee took the top spot as the cheapest seaside town, with average asking prices of £120,657, while Seaham secured the tenth place in the list with an average price of £157,994.

These figures are well below the UK’s May average market price of £378,304, suggesting that coastal living remains affordable in several parts of the country.

Rightmove’s analysis looked at around 100 seaside towns across Britain, and found that coastal towns still offered better value for money than other parts of the country.

Here are the top 10 cheapest seaside towns in Britain, with the average asking price:

1. Peterlee, County Durham, £120,657

2. Grimsby, Lincolnshire, £133,706

3. Ashington, Northumberland, £133,775

4. Bootle, Merseyside, £141,680

5. Blackpool, Lancashire, £142,277

6. Fleetwood, Lancashire, £147,910

7. Birkenhead, Merseyside, £148,942

8. Workington, Cumbria, £155,013

9. Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, £157,754

10. Seaham, County Durham, £157,994

In other parts of the analysis, seaside towns in Merseyside and Wales were named as coastal hotspots where house prices are rising the fastest, outpacing the wider UK market.

Bootle in Merseyside topped the chart with an 11 per cent increase in average asking prices, yet remained below the national average at £141,680.

Properties in Sandbanks, Poole commanded the highest average price tag at £1.12 million.

Rightmove’s property expert, Colleen Babcock, said: “The fastest-growing seaside markets this year show that demand for coastal homes remains resilient, even as overall price growth across the UK stays more modest.

“While some locations are seeing strong price increases, there are still many areas where living by the sea is more affordable, giving buyers a wider range of options depending on their budget.

“We’re also seeing that homes priced realistically continue to attract interest, particularly in locations where price growth is being supported by buyer demand.”