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Edward and Sophie were the Harry and Meghan of their day but after their private careers became a well-publicised disaster, they rejoined the family and knuckled down to turn the public’s view of them around – could the Sussexes now follow their lead?

They were a young couple who wanted to be ‘half in, half out’ of the Royal Family but struggled after their plans ran into difficulties, causing them to be lampooned by the press.  No, not Prince Harry and Meghan, this is the story of the late Queen’s youngest son Edward and …

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Five stories from the south you may have missed

BBC The cameras were found shattered on the ground A story about a set of traffic cameras being cut down hours after going up was among our most read this week. We have picked five stories from the past seven days in Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Dorset, Berkshire and …

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The day Sophie Wessex was offered a job at Waitrose because she was so good at packing her weekly shop! As the Duchess of Edinburgh turns 60, palace insiders reveal the surprising reasons she’s fast becoming the Royal Family’s safest pair of hands

She’s widely seen as one of the monarchy’s safest pairs of hands, but should she ever decide on a change of career, the Duchess of Edinburgh would, I can confidently predict, be snapped up by her local Waitrose. Packing her bags on a supermarket trip with her great friend Mary …

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‘I thought my ex was going to kill me

A mum who was viciously attacked by her ex-boyfriend has urged women to ‘get out’ as soon as they see ‘red flags’. Lisa Gouldson said she was left in agony after former partner John Brown repeatedly punched her and another woman, leaving them both needing hospital treatment. Brown, 50, was …

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5 must-see moments for the Harry Potter series, Book 1

Having gone chapter-by-chapter with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, I’m looking forward to the adaptation of the books into a television series more than ever. I hope that they won’t skip these seven moments so we can get a more complete picture of the book as it was written. …

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