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On the hunt for the perfect Mother’s Day gift? Filled with incredible beauty treats worth their weight in gold, the Boots Mother’s Day Box is sure to be a standout.

Available to shop now ahead of her special day, this beauty box from Boots is a gorgeous gift and won’t break the bank, despite assuredly winning you some serious brownie points.

Worth over £310 but yours for just £60, the Boots Mother’s Day Box is jam-packed with premium beauty favourites, including skincare, haircare, makeup and more she’ll love adding to her rotation.

Plus, with offerings from big brands like Fenty Beauty, Liz Earle, Phillip Kingsley and Grown Alchemist, it’s sure to bring some serious wow-factor.

Boots Mother’s Day Box

Worth over £310 but yours for just £60, the Boots Mother’s Day Box is jam-packed with premium beauty favourites, including skincare, haircare, makeup and more she’ll love adding to her rotation.

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Inside you’ll find 17 products, a whopping ten of which are full-sized, all displayed in a gorgeous ‘With Love’ box. Riffling through to explore every formula is all part of the fun.

One product we’re excited to see in the box is the Aveda Botanical Repair Intensive Strengthening Masque Light 150ml, a full-size best-seller from the iconic haircare brand.

Coined an ‘instant hair rescue’ by impressed users, this Aveda hair mask would usually cost £40 (almost the price of the whole box alone), and works to intensely repair and strengthen hair instantly, leaving it visibly healthier, softer and shinier after just one use.

The edit also features the Liz Earle Cleanse & Polish 100ml, which usually costs £18 and is loved for its gentle, skin-cleansing properties that help to leave you with silky-soft, hydrated and radiant skin.

Alongside more full-size heroes including the Philip Kingsley Elasticizer, Biodance Bio Collagen Real Deep Mask and Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb Lip Oil, there’s plenty for her to get excited about.

But the fun doesn’t stop at the full sizes – the Mother’s Day Box also contains seven travel-size beauty treats perfect for popping in your bag.

Fragrance lovers will adore the inclusion of both the Sol De Janeiro Cheirosa 68 Body Mist 30ml and Floral Street Sweet Almond Blossom Eau De Parfum 10ml – two top-rated scents for her rotation.

If she loves a spot of self-care then the NEOM Perfect Night’s Sleep Travel Candle will be a welcome surprise, usually costing £20 and designed to help relax the mind and body and promote a good night’s sleep.

With so much more discover, we just know this’ll be the gift that solidifies your ‘favourite child’ status.

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These days, London is fairly well served for shopping centres, with two Westfields and the new space at Battersea Power Station, to name a few. But back in the day, one outlet was completely unrivalled.

Brent Cross was opened in 1976 by the then-Prince Charles, and it was the first out-of-town shopping centre concept not just in London, but in the UK.

Local shoppers will fondly remember the John Lewis, the Fenwick store, and of course, the seemingly huge Waitrose.

If you’d been saving up for a larger purchase or investment piece, like a new coat or a piece of furniture, Brent Cross was the place – and all three of these original shops are, thankfully, still open today.

It wasn’t just higher-end purchases, though: Brent Cross was also full of normal shops to spend a Saturday in with your mates, like Miss Selfridge and Claire’s Accessories.

Now, a revamp is just around the corner, ready to restore Brent Cross to its former glory. We all know that it’s been a little bit lacklustre for a while, not least because of how it looks when you’re passing on the interchange. Brown and, well, slightly depressing.

The new plans will create space for up to 150 new shops (part of 2 million square feet of retail space), 50 restaurants, a cinema complex, and a hotel, all of which are set to be finalised in spring 2026.

The shopping centre isn’t the only thing that’s being refreshed in the area. It’s all part of the wider vision for Brent Cross Town, which, being a collaboration between Argent Related and Barnet Council, includes a new train station at Brent Cross West, as well as 47 new homes through L&Q.

There’ll be 6,700 homes, office space to accommodate approximately 20,000 new jobs, community and health facilities, and extra green spaces that will amount to 21 acres.

Some of the new shops have already opened, the first being Co-op, which welcomed its first customers in November 2025.

There’s also an extra opportunity to get on board with one of London’s most of-the-moment fitness trends, padel, at The 108, which feels incredibly chic for Brent Cross.

For a while now, journeying to this 1970s shopping centre has felt like travelling back in time. And that’s not always a good thing.

A reviewer on Tripadvisor, known only as Oly said that it’s ‘not as enjoyable as it used to be’.

On Google reviews Kameliya Antova dubbed it ‘truly disappointing’ while Adam R claimed it has ‘no redeeming features’. Others have said it’s ‘very dated’, ‘showing its age’, and is the ‘worst place ever’.

Over on Reddit, @hawkisgirl said she’s nostagic for the version of Brent Cross that existed in the 1990s, throughout her childhood.

‘The big wooden animals outside Waitrose, the lovely forest green tiling in the public toilets, the faint smell of chlorine from the magnificent fountain in the central atrium…those were the days,’ she wrote.

@RaisedByRaccoons wrote of missing the three for £21 Hollister perfume deals, adding: ‘Without Victoria’s Secret, New Look or River Island, Brent Cross is so dead now. I spent so much time as a teen roaming the halls. Every time I go there now, it just depresses me.’

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Last year, the UK became the first country in the world to roll out a vaccine for gonorrhoea.

In trials, the breakthrough jab was shown to cut the risk of infection by more than 50%, and its introduction was hailed as a major milestone in sexual health.

Given diagnoses have more than doubled in the past decade and reached record highs in 2023, it was severely needed — but there are a few regions where it’ll prove especially vital.

To highlight where the vaccine could have the biggest impact, Condoms.UK analysed NHS data to uncover England’s top gonorrhoea hotspots, with one London borough taking the unwelcome crown.

In the City of Westminster, 749 diagnoses of gonorrhoea – otherwise known as ‘the clap’ or ‘drip’ – were recorded per 100,000 people throughout 2024.

With a population of 211,500, that translates to 1,586 Westminster locals overall. However, it’s also home to one of the country’s largest STI clinics, 56 Dean Street in Soho, so non-residents who head to the city centre location for testing may be skewing the figures somewhat.

Next on the list is Islington, with 724 cases per 100,000 people, while Archway is third but has a far lower prevalence at 397 cases for every 100,000.

Outside the capital, Liverpool has the highest rate of any regional city, followed by Nottingham and Manchester. All three are university hubs with large student populations and busy nightlife scenes, which may contribute to increased transmission rates.

Major cities like Newcastle and Leeds also feature in the top 10, but seaside resort Blackpool also makes the list, proving that smaller towns are not immune to the spread of infection.

What are the symptoms of gonorrhoea? Everything you need to know

Gonorrhoea symptoms usually start around two weeks after infection, but they can lie dormant for months, or you could even be symptomless.

For women, keep an eye out for telltale signs like yellow or greenish discharge, burning when you pee, pain in your abdomen, and bleeding between periods.

In men, it can cause sore testicles, fluid or discharge coming out of your penis and burning when you pee.

The STI is spread through unprotected sex – including oral – and can affect the eyes and mouth as well as the genitals.

Oral gonorrhoea symptoms include a sore or itchy throat, difficulty swallowing, swollen glands in the neck, and sometimes redness or white spots in the throat or mouth, while gonococcal conjunctivitis may present as redness, pain or discharge in the eyes.

Although some strains are more resistant than others, most can be treated with a simple course antibiotics, so visit your GP or local sexual health clinic if you’re concerned.

In terms of the vaccine, Bexsero (4CMenB) innoculations are currently being offered to people at highest risk of gonorrhoea – primarily men who have sex with men who have had multiple sexual partners and a bacterial STI in the last 12 months – but clinicians can also offer it to other patients if they’re assessed to be similarly vulnerable. 

Dr Amanda Doyle, NHS National Director for Primary Care and Community Services, said: ‘This vaccine is already used to protect against Men B and is proven to be effective against gonorrhoea, preventing the spread of infection and reducing the rising rates of antibiotic-resistant strains.

‘That is why it is so important that everyone eligible takes up the offer through sexual health services alongside existing jabs for mpox, hepatitis A and B, and HPV, helping to ensure we keep each other safe.’

Even if you’ve had the vaccine though, it doesn’t eliminate your risk of contracting gonorrhoea entirely, so you should still use condoms and get regular STI tests.

 This article was first published on August 27, 2025.

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‘Every little helps’.

Those three words are as synonymous with Tesco as the retailer’s iconic blue-and-white stripes.

So ingrained are these words in our brains that they were even named the UK’s most memorable brand slogan by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in 2025.

The iconic slogan first debuted in 1993, so it’s no surprise it’s so popular, as we’ve had 33 years to get used to saying it.

But that’s all about to change, as Tesco has just introduced a new slogan: ‘Need anything from Tesco?’

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Now, before you panic, Tesco isn’t doing away with every little helps; it’s been confirmed that it will remain the official brand slogan of the supermarket.

And if you look closely at the new advertising campaign (in partnership with BBH), the iconic line is still featured on the Tesco logo. 

Need anything from Tesco is instead being used to ‘bring life’ to every little helps, giving the OG slogan a ‘renewed relevance’, according to the retailer. 

Tesco says the campaign transforms the ‘everyday colloquialism’ into a vehicle for their mission, showing how they are there to ‘help the nation get the groceries they need, and so much more’.

As such, new billboard adverts for Tesco proclaim that the retailer is for ‘when you need more than groceries’ and feature different items you can get from the supermarket, including own-brand products, free nappies for premature babies, £2.50 cinema tickets every Tuesday, and even just a quiet hour to shop in peace.

Ashwin Prasad, Tesco’s UK CEO, said: ‘At Tesco, “Every little helps” has always been rooted in the real actions our colleagues take every day to support customers, whether that’s going the extra mile in store to support a customer who needs it or supporting hundreds of schools to access free fruit and veg for their pupils. 

‘The new “Need anything from Tesco?” platform is intended to build on that as we continually work towards new, thoughtful ways to do more for our customers and local communities, whilst still providing great quality food at the right price. 

He adds: ‘I am excited to see where the campaign takes us as we start to actively ask the question: Need anything from Tesco?’

This comes after Tesco recently revived its iconic blue-and-white Tesco Value stripes as part of a marketing campaign for ‘everyday low prices’.

The popular 90s value range was axed in 2012, but the stripes were brought back in January in a bid to ‘symbolise value’ for shoppers.

However, Dr Sabrina Gottschalk, a lecturer in marketing at Bayes Business School, warned Brits to be wary of them.

She explained that bringing back the Value logo is a ‘nostalgia-based marketing strategy’, which is designed to feel ‘familiar’ and ‘reassuring’ at a time when many customers are ‘especially sensitive’ to pricing.

Nostalgia, as we know, can evoke positive emotional associations for many, and in this case, it’s likely causing Brits to fondly reminisce about a time when groceries were much cheaper, and Tesco Value prices still existed. 

‘The branding works by making Tesco feel more affordable, drawing on shared cultural recognition and a light sense of playfulness,’ Dr Gottschalk continues.

‘Importantly, Tesco has paired the stripes with the Everyday Low Prices messaging and [made some] visible price cuts, which helps to ground these emotional cues in real pricing actions.’

As such, shoppers might find themselves ‘at risk’ of spending more than necessary, especially if the retro branding is applied too broadly across supermarkets.

‘The stripes may act as a broad value cue, encouraging shoppers to over-generalise perceptions of affordability,’ Dr Gottschalk added.

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