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Six rain conversations to have with friends, family, total f**king strangers, anyone, this week

RAIN is coming, and the drought which has afflicted traditional conversations about weather is almost ended. Overexcited Britons will be having these dialogues.

Woman merges with pleather sofa

HEATWAVE temperatures have made a woman become a single entity with her ‘pleather’ sofa. 

Six alternative uses for your dusty, dried-out local park

SO much for the saying ‘the grass is always greener’. If your local park is now a useless, arid wasteland, here are some alternative purposes for it.

So apparently we weren't meant to look directly at the sun?

OKAY, apparently I missed something in yesterday’s eclipse coverage? Why did nobody mention it was a bad idea to stare directly into the sun for 90 seconds?

Partial solar eclipses 'crap', scientists confirm

ECLIPSES of the sun which are less than total are underwhelming and not worth looking at, scientists have confirmed.

What caused the Suffolk wildfire, by a climate change denier

ONLY an idiot would think that the myth of climate change sparked the Suffolk wildfire. Armchair expert Martin Bishop explains the real causes.