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• ‘Bright, glossy and rotund’ – the best supermarket strawberries, tasted and rated

  20-06-2026 14:00 via theguardian.com
  We’re well into strawberry season now, but which punnets are the pick of the crop and which hit a sour note?• The best supermarket strawberry jams, tasted and ratedBack in 1994, I used to pick strawberries in Dorset to earn extra pocket money. It was gruelling but delicious work. We’d shuffle on our hands and knees down furrowed rows of plants, picking those beautiful, fat red berries and trying not to eat too many along the way. We were paid by the punnet, which at my picking s
  
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• Salerno: the charming and affordable gateway to Italy’s Amalfi coast

  20-06-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  The vibrant port city offers a more relaxed and budget-friendly base for exploring this beautiful coastline by train and ferryThe ferry from Salerno to Amalfi town was set to take about 35 minutes, and we were debating whether to risk the windswept top deck, fearful our packed lunches might fly into the Tyrrhenian Sea. (My father and I were taking a pragmatic approach on our Italian holiday, opting for light midday meals to save space for the primo and secondo courses at dinner, and ample lemony
  
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• Great British summer savings: grab family deals on days out, films and more

  20-06-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Government’s temporary VAT cut aims to ease cost of living for families this summer – here’s what’s on offerFrom Thursday families can enjoy a cut-price trip to Legoland or the cinema to watch Toy Story 5 as the government’s school holiday discount scheme Great British summer savings gets under way.Billed by Rachel Reeves as a way to “support families with the little treats in life”, the temporary VAT cut will reduce ticket prices at family attractions s
  
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• David Guetta and Sia’s song Titanium got me through my fertility treatment

  20-06-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Hearing their in-your-face banger was a turning point for me – and I’ve never looked backAt the end of 2011, party season was under way but I was in no mood for festivities. Two years into fertility treatment, my body was pumped full of synthetic hormones and felt like a pin cushion, while my head was filled with both the fragile hope of having a baby, and the exhaustion of failed clinical attempts to do so.I was in my late 20s. I met my husband when I was 22; we got married when I w
  
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