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Keep your garden’s grass, shrubs and hedges neat and tidy this spring and summer with these cordless shears that shoppers have praised for being ‘very handy and lightweight’

If you’re looking for an easy-to-use and lightweight device that’s sure to be your best friend for getting your garden into tip-top shape without any hassle, look no further. Shoppers are singing the praises of these Garden Gear Shears, as their lightweight design and simplistic controls have made them a game-changer for trimming hedges, grass, and shrubs in a breeze. And what’s more, they won’t break the bank.

Currently up for grabs on Amazon (for £37.99), Suttons Seeds (for £39.99), Robert Dyas (for £38.99) and Thomas & Morgan (for £39.99), these shears are just the ticket for stress-free gardening this spring and summer. Wave goodbye to the hassle of not-long-enough or in-the-way cables and extension leads, as this beauty is battery-powered and cordless.

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Weighing just 900g, this tool can be used without strain or getting caught up in wires. It comes armed with an installed lithium-ion battery, a charger, and two blade guards to ensure safety and ease of use. Plus, this gadget is a 2-in-1 tool that can be used around the garden. The 90mm grass shear blade tidies up lawn edges, while the 8mm trimmer blade is just the thing for cutting hedges and other types of shrubbery.

These Garden Gear shears are ideal for controlling unruly hedges, bushes, and lawn edges. Equipped with a modern cordless design that includes an integrated lithium-ion battery, charger, and two blade guards, they provide not only safety but also precision and no trailing cables.

Your Trimming shears’ lightweight design means you don’t have to worry about back strain and makes perfecting your lawn light work. Garden shears have become a popular, common gardening tool in nearly every household, but with these Garden Gear cordless shears, you can rest assured that you’re up to date with the latest cutting product.

Available with an additional (£10) telescopic handle for convenience and ease of cutting from a distance, these shears typically start at £49.99 but are currently up for grabs for the handily reduced price of £37.99 on Amazon or £39.99 from Suttons Seeds.

Shoppers who have picked up these sheers can’t stop raving about their convenience and nifty design. One happy Amazon customer shares: “You must buy one of these; it really is a brilliant piece of kit. It is light in weight, easy to handle and changing the blades is easy and quick. I have a big garden and did the privet hedge on one battery charge and there was still power left if I’d wanted to carry on. It cut through branches without any jamming or stalling and was relatively quiet for this type of tool. Brilliant value for money, would highly recommend.”

Another buyer beams: “This is one of the best garden tools I have ever bought. It is light, easy to use, hasn’t run out of charge despite trimming everything in the garden. If ever it wears out (as it possibly might) I would definitely replace it.”

And third sings the shears’ praises, writing: “Couldn’t live without these garden implements, great for the edges around lawn and trimming hedges.”

The supermodel showed her daily skincare and makeup routine with products from Weleda, Embryolisse and more

Supermodel Bella Hadid recently shared her skincare routine and the makeup look she uses for her alter ego character, Belinda. The 28-year-old, who grew up in California, US, has worked with major fashion and beauty brands and fronted runways across the globe.

Although she has access to a plethora of luxury items, Bella swears by an affordable face cream that delivers what she calls a ‘dewy look’. Sharing on Vogue, she explained her day-to-day skincare routine – which includes the Weleda Skin Food Original Ultra Rich Cream. Shoppers can get her exact moisturiser in a twin pack for £29.90 LookFantastic.

“I’ve been trying to be an adult and do adult things like preventative creams,” she said. “Weleda Skin Food Original Ultra Rich Cream – I go throught eight of these, like, in a month and I buy them from CVS and I’m obsessed with them – I have the little versions, the big versions. So this is how I kind of get a good dewy look and I like to say this is really the best primer for me.”

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The Weleda Skin Food cream is also available in a ‘light’ version with a gel cream texture. The popular green bottle is microbiome-friendly to help restore the skin’s protective barrier thanks to organic rosemary, calendula and chamomile extracts.

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Not only does Bella praise the Weleda cream, Victoria Beckham, Adele and Julia Roberts also have it in their makeup bags. It offers more than a face cream, shoppers can also use it as a face mask, a highlighter, eyebrow fixer, hand and cuticle cream, and frizz tamer.

Beauty fans can find similar multipurpose products on the market, the Embryolisse Lait-Crème Concentré also serves similar benefits and a 75ml size is available on Amazon for £15.95. Michelle Keegan’s makeup artist swears by the product for hydrating skin.

While Bella is a huge fan, there are customers who have expressed their dislike for the scent of Weleda’s Skin Food Cream, with one adding: “I wasn’t aware that this cream has scent in it and unfortunately can’t tolerate and really bothers me as I use all unscented products, however my fiance loves it.”

The runway beauty then moved onto show her everyday makeup look and a more dramatic “Belinda” look. According to Bella, blush stops people knowing when she’s sick.

The star said: “My skin gets a bit off colour when I’m having a flare-up. People with immune system problems know it’s hard to explain, but when you have a flare up, you don’t know what day you’re going to not feel well. You’ll wake up and just look a lot sicker. I’ll put some blush on and people will think I’m not sick but underneath it all, I’m pretty sick.”

Tom Cruise fans were so eager to see his new Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning film that they queued for over six hours outside of the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday evening

Eager Tom Cruise fans were sat outside of the Cannes Lumiere Theatre over six hours before the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his new movie, Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning.

The movie premiered on Wednesday evening, with stars such as Eva Longoria, Bella Hadid and Andie MacDowell joining Tom, Hannah Waddingham and the rest of the film’s cast in walking the red carpet.

And while the A-list may have all casually rocked up for the 6:45pm kick off, many others got to the theatre that morning to get in the ‘last minute’ line – an area where those without tickets can wait and may be able to fill spare seats at the premiere.

But with the premiere’s strict black tie dress code, it meant the waiting fans spent all day under the French sun in tuxedos and gowns – with many sitting on the ground in their best ensembles.

On the other hand, the A-list guests were promptly escorted from their beachfront hotels – Hotel Martinez, JW Marriott, Carlton Cannes and Hotel Barrière Le Majestic Cannes, to name a few – in blacked-out BMW cars.

And while it may have looked glamorous from the glossy pictures, the red carpet wasn’t for the weak as crowds of fans flocked by the barriers to catch a glimpse of the celebrities.

Despite the carpet’s strict ‘no selfie’ policy, those lucky enough to get on there with the famous faces did sneak some snaps from the carpet.

Once they had walked the carpet and headed up the famous red stairs into the theatre, it was time for Tom and the rest of the cast to take their seat near the front of the screen, while successful fans who had waited outside for hours were escorted to the very back of the theatre.

The premiere came hours after the film’s cast gathered above the theatre for a photocall, with Tom waving to fans on his way into the building around 12pm.

Donning a burgundy co-ord, Tom smiled for pictures and said hello to the waiting crowds from a distance before chatting with his co-stars.

But making a much more understated departure, he and co-star Hannah Waddingham left through the side door and were promptly driven back to their hotels to prepare for the evening.

With a busy schedule, Mission Impossible is heading to London’s Leicester Square this evening for the global premiere. A number of famous faces are expected to attend, with Tom and the cast taking a quick trip from the Cote D’Azur to be there.

The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 continues this evening with its second semi-final which includes Miriana Conte representing Malta with Serving, originally known as Kant

Miriana Conte has revealed she was left vomiting over the reaction to her Eurovision Song Contest 2025 entry. The performer, who is representing Malta, has also discussed what it’s like to take part in the global contest.

The singer-songwriter, 24, will take to the stage of the arena St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, tonight in the second semi-final of this year’s contest. She will perform her song Serving, originally known as Kant, and is among the acts hoping to make it through to the grand final on Saturday.

Kant, as it was then known, was selected as Malta’s entry in the country’s national final back in February, which was won by Miriana. The song, which shared its title with a Maltese word for ‘singing,’ attracted much attention earlier this year, including over the lyric “serving kant” in the chorus.

It was considered a reference to “serving c***,” which can be used to represent someone expressing themselves in a powerful or bold way, and Miriana’s pronounciation drew comparisons to “c***” too. Amid controversy over the song, she shared in March that she had been told to change the lyrics by organisers and ended up removing the word ‘kant’.

Miriana reflected on the controversy and lyric change in an interview with the Mirror. Whilst speaking to us, she also gave an insight into the writing process and how she found the reaction once her song was released.

Asked about the initial reception to the song, which is understood to have gone viral on TikTok, Miriana told us: “Honestly, I spent the first two days after it was released puking because I was not expecting such good like reactions from people. My phone was blowing up, it was telling me that the device is too hot, literally. Notifications, messages.”

Miriana gave examples of receiving praise over the “word play” and people relating to the track. She then shared that following her performance of the song in Malta’s national final three months ago, she had “so many beautiful messages”.

She commented: “[They were from] people who haven’t like, for example, exited the house because they’ve been body-shamed or they’re not comfortable in their skin, and they told me ‘when I saw you on stage, I fully went out after two years locked in my house’. So that was beautiful, because that was my intention from day one. For people to like relate fully and feel comfortable within themselves.”

Recalling the writing process, Miriana – who is credited as a co-writer on the song – admitted that she wasn’t particularly keen on joining a writing camp for potential entrants. She said: “I am a very anxious person when it comes to like sort of breaking the ice, because I’m always scared I’m too much, I’m too loud, I’m too bubbly. However, this experience did change me a lot, so that was Miriana before!”

And speaking about her plan for the song, she revealed: “I was like ‘I want to be me completely’. So I don’t want to go into the dark, sexy vibe I usually go for. Because there’s so much more to me. I’m such a bubbly ball of energy.

“I’m all over the place. I’m the clown of the group. I’m the loudest person in the room and I wanted to write exactly about that. How growing up I always felt like I needed to wind myself down to match other people’s energies. [My co-writers] got the assignment fully and back then Kant was born.”

She shared that she loves both the original version and its current form, Serving, “so much”. Speaking about the controversy, she said: “Thank God it [happened], because one it got much more popularity and got much more people watching it, people were on the tips of their toes to find out what the word change was, when there wasn’t [one].” She added: “It was all very exciting. […] So if I had like relive the process and choose what to happen, I would still choose for this to happen.”

Miriana has promoted the song in the build-up to the contest itself, including at the London Eurovision Party last month. Speaking about meeting the UK’s act Remember Monday, she told us recently: “I love them so much.

“I was in a girl group twice during my career so when I sang with them, because we sang Serving together during the pre-party, my heart was like bursting with happiness that my girl group energy was coming back. They’re such nice girls. […] We’re very close this year, in general – like the contestants, we’re very like tight. So yeah, I honestly loved meeting them and I can’t wait to see them again now!”

Giving an insight into life as a Eurovision act, she teased: “You live the superstar experience, literally. Sort of you have to be on time, you have to go to press, you have to time when you eat, when you sleep. You have to be very strict. Very strict on time. You have to be strategic with a lot of things so you grow a lot as an artist. I believe Eurovision helps artists grow like to another extent.”

Looking ahead, Miriana – who said that, although she wants to make it through to the final, she will be “happy” as long as she has a “good performance” – told us: “I think what I’ve achieved with Serving is so much bigger than Eurovision because it’s touched so many people’s hearts and I think I’ve finally gotten my flowers. All I want now is to continue building on it and obviously achieve more things when it comes to my music and career.”

The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel, Switzerland, continues tonight with the second semi-final from 8pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK. This year’s grand final will air at the same time on Saturday night.

There’s a bizarre conspiracy theory spreading online around Zendaya’s iconic hats. But where on earth does it come from, why is it viral and what exactly does it mean?

The internet is rife with chilling conspiracies and dubious true crime tales, but this latest one has TikTok in over their heads. Tom Holland gone “missing”, Beyoncé’s involvement and incorrect anagrams: welcome to the weird world behind the viral ‘Zendaya hat theory’.

Over the past month, social media has been overrun with false yet hilarious claims that Zendaya is hiding Tom Holland in her “big hat”, that Zendaya is part of the horror Babadook universe and that Zendaya herself is somehow in on the whole conspiracy. The first thing you need to know (if you haven’t guessed) is that it is absolute nonsense. But the true story lies in where it comes from and – more importantly – how it spread.

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What are the origins of the Zendaya hat theory?

It all kicked off after the 2025 Met Gala. Zendaya showed up in one of the event’s most striking outfits: an all-white Dior suit, designed by Pharrell Williams for Louis Vuitton. But it was her white wide-brimmed hat that stole the show – and which triggered TikTok’s conspirators. See, it’s not the first time Zendaya has worn a statement hat. The last memorable time was in 2014. And, let’s just say, it was something.

The original hat in question was resurfaced on May 1 when TikTok user @thesnakebloxx posted a video of younger Zendaya to unsettling music (the clip has since gained 24.5 million views). An interviewer asks: “What’s your favourite song by [Beyoncé]?” and the Disney star makes a gagging expression. “That’s like an impossible question,” Zendaya replies. “It’s Beyoncé. I’m gonna have to go with everything .” The video then jumps to a blurry zoom-in of Zendaya in the hat.

The hat in question was first seen at the Teen Vogue Young Hollywood Party in 2014, one of Zendaya’s first major red carpet appearances – and one of her most memorable looks. She can be seen in a all-black suit with a, frankly, massive bowler hat on top of her head, which was a stark deviation from her more feminine looks.

A subsequent video by the same creator said: “Zendaya wore a big white hat to the MET gala. But what does this mean for the Zendaya theory? Her outfit was an exact opposite of the original black outfit.” They then showed Zendaya wearing a snake pin on the back of her suit jacket, claiming that this was a reference to their username: snakebloxx.

But what was the relevance of the Beyoncé clip? In 2020, a clip of Zendaya from 2015 being asked about Beyoncé was edited to make it look as though her smile glitched in an unsettling way, as reported by Vulture.

Why did it go viral?

The creator finished their follow-up video by stating: “We know the truth and we’ll tell you now. But, first, what do you think it all means? We definitely know but we just want to see if you guys can guess.”

But at this point, TikTokers themselves had already taken the reins. And let’s just say, the conspiracies that have developed from the original video have been outlandish to say the least. And a bamboozling number revolve around Zendaya’s boyfriend and Marvel co-star Tom Holland.

“Tom is in the hat,” one user stated, to hundreds of upvotes. Another video, which has 2.9 million views, said: “Guys.. I have a theory, stay with me here. The hat is black… Black has five letters… Tom has three letters… Five take away three equals two. There are two ‘a’s in Zendaya…” The video continues in a nonsensical way until it comes back to “Tom and Zendaya being two people, minus…the hat .”

Despite being quite transparently made up, the commenters have been expressing genuine unsettlement over the videos. “BRO THIS IS ACTUALLY GETTING SCARY,” one user wrote. “I’m shaking is this real…”