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For people looking to press pause on ageing, it hasn’t always been as easy as it is today. Throughout history people have used all sorts of outlandish anti-ageing skincare techniques – such as bathing in donkey’s milk as Cleopatra supposedly did, or applying mercury directly to the skin, as the…

Our reporter spent the Bank Holiday weekend at Pontins and said it has stood the test of time

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A stylish novel about an impulsive marriage, female reflections on the single life and an entrancing escape to the far north

The colour of the lake reminds me of a film in which a group of elderly people are rejuvenated by aliens via a swimming pool