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“Have you written a book on defense?” Wendy, my club’s feminist, asked me. “Three, actually,” I said, “but they’re out of print. Look on eBay.” “I want one for Cy,” Wendy growled. “Playing with him is like having three opponents.” Cy the Cynic and Wendy were today’s East-West in a duplicate game, and she led […]

Temperatures have dropped this week and sweater weather is officially in full swing. 

So that means it’s time to start thinking about knitwear. 

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Knitwear season is here, shop the best of the bunch below[/caption]

With so many jumpers to choose from on the high street, the fashion team has scoured the stores in search of the best. 

From a viral Primark jumper that costs just under £17, to the knit in the colour of the season and a classic jumper that will last you a lifetime, there is a jumper for everyone. 

Plus our team show how they’re styling their jumpers, featuring cosy coats, the must have trainers and stylish accessories. 

Scroll down to find your Autumn knitwear inspiration. 

Abby McHale, 30, Deputy Fashion Editor

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Abby’s burgundy jumper of choice for an on trend autumnal look[/caption]

• Jumper, £67, Arket – BUY NOW
• Skirt, £89.95, Massimo Dutti – BUY NOW
• Necklace, £149, Never Fully Dressed – BUY NOW
• Trainers, £84.99, Adidas at Zalando – BUY NOW
• Bag, £45, M&S Collection at Marks & Spencer – BUY NOW

Even though we’re fully into the swing of Autumn, I’m not quite ready to let my summer midi skirts go. 

So instead of wearing them with a slogan t-shirt as I have all summer, I’m swapping them out for a jumper. 

Burgundy is the colour of the season and I love this jumper from Arket, plus the block colour means it’s versatile enough to go with most of my wardrobe. 

Adding some brown Adidas trainers which seem to be on everyone’s wish list currently, a charm necklace from Never Fully Dressed which I am obsessed with and a braided red bag from M&S.

I think I’m fully transitioned into the season ahead. 

Emily Regan, 25, Fashion Assistant 

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Emily loves her viral Primark jumper for just £17[/caption]

• Jumper, £17, Primark – RESERVE HERE  
• Skort, £25.99, Zara – BUY NOW
• Boots, £24, Primark – RESERVE HERE
• Jacket, £79.99, Zara – BUY NOW
• Bag, £35, M&S Collection at Marks & Spencer – BUY NOW

I’ve been eagerly waiting to switch over to my autumn wardrobe, and I’m fully embracing the warm, cool-girl tones that are trending this season.

I couldn’t resist picking up the viral knit from Primark in this gorgeous warm-beige, and I’m seriously impressed! I’ve worn it so many times already. 

Usually, I’d splurge a bit more on knitwear, but this one holds up so well after washing, and the quality is fantastic, a true Primark bargain.

You’ll need to act fast to snag one, though, as they’re selling out quickly. Pro tip: use click and collect to make sure you don’t miss out.

Last weekend, I tucked the knit into a Zara denim skort and paired it with dark suede boots, which are also on trend—Primark really nailed it!

Tracey Lea Sayer, 53, Fashion Director

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Tracey is a sucker for a good knit[/caption]

• Jumper, £89, And Other Stories – BUY NOW
• Coat, £160, Next – BUY NOW
• Jeans. £97, Arket – BUY NOW
• Boots, £440, Aeyde – BUY NOW
• Bag, £200, Arket – BUY NOW

I am a sucker for a good knit. 

Cosy season is one of my favourite times of the year and I hate being cold so it is knitwear all the way from me.

While everyone else in fashion land is wearing burgundy I have gone for an Ochre knit the colour of the falling leaves. 

This autumnal colour feels warmer on my older skin tone and gives my complexion a boost rather than draining it.

I have added in these gorgeous snake print boots from Aeyde that I have had my eye on for weeks, I know they’re a splurge item but they will go with everything in my wardrobe and last me for years to come. 

TO celebrate the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, a competition is being held where people will take part in challenges to win a house.

The catch is that the contestants won’t be the ones winning the property; instead, the recipient will be selected from one of their fans.

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Call of Duty will give one supporter enough to buy a small house[/caption]

Safehouse Challenge is a show hosted by Rowan Kemp, where three content creators, Angry Ginge, Ash Holme and Danny Aarons, will compete to win a house.

Viewers can register the support for their favourite creator online, and if that contestant wins, they’ll be entered into a pool to receive the prize.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 takes place in 1991, and sadly the money up for grabs is related to the house prices of the era.

The average house price in 1991 was around £58k, which, according to the Bank of England, is around £130k today, adjusted for inflation.

Call of Duty is only giving its lucky winner £100k towards a house, but it will still give someone the opportunity that many people today will never have.

Even adjusted for inflation, house prices have skyrocketed over the past decade, with the average house price in England rising to over £300k.

As salaries have not risen in line with house prices, purchasing a home is a pipe dream for many young people.

Compared to the average house price, £100k may not feel like enough to buy a house, but there are still a few areas of the UK where it’s possible.

Towns in the North of England like Middlesborough and Hull, areas in the Welsh Valleys, and smaller towns in Scotland still offer starter houses for less than £100k.

Safehouse Challenge also claims the winner will receive additional funding towards solicitor and legal fees as well as money towards furniture.

If you want a chance to enter, you have to register for your favourite ‘Rogue Agent’ between October 4 and the finale on October 24.

Once the winning agent is announced at the finale, those who backed them will be entered into a draw.

The winner will be announced on November 1, and the prize will be life changing for that person.

If you want to read more about the game, check out our Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 beta review.

THEY were young women and thought that life in Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion was the ultimate dream, one that so many others could only dream of.

But Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt very soon realised that being a Playboy Bunny wasn’t so glamorous – and their life soon became a living nightmare.

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Holly, now 41, and Madison, now 51, spent seven years at the lavish pad[/caption]

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According to the TV personalities, ‘bulimia was so rampant’ they had to change the bathroom pipe system[/caption]

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For years, both Playboy models were one of Hugh’s original girlfriends on The Girls Next Door – but although for many fans it all seemed full of glam and glitz, the reality was darker.

Airing from 2005 to 2010, The Girls Next Door gave TV viewers an inside peek of the Playboy Mansion, starring Hugh Hefner’s then three main girlfriends Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson.

Bridget, 51, and Holly, 41, have since spilled the beans on what really was taking place behind the closed doors of Hefner’s mansion, where the late magazine publisher lived until his death in 2017.

The bubbly pair – both of whom have since become TV personalities – met at the multi-million property where they lived together for seven years.

In the early 2000s, Bridget recalled, the mansion ”was the place to be”.

”Everyone wanted to be there – every celebrity, every girl that I knew of wanted to be a part of it, wanted to be a playmate, go to the parties.

”They had the best parties in the world there.

”It’s the place that you wanted to go and you wanted to be seen, and you wanted to be a part of that whole lifestyle.”

During their time at the lavish California-based pad – which had a total of 29 rooms – the pals met some of the biggest A-listers, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz and George Clooney.

As no one was allowed cameras and there would be no paparazzi, ”people felt comfortable going there and partying”, Holly explained.

But whilst the big names in the showbiz industry were living the high life, Hugh’s girlfriends ”were required to sit at the table the whole time and ask if you needed to get up to go to the bathroom”.

”You could dance a little – but you were kind of greeting everybody […], so we definitely didn’t feel free.”

Just like the others living at the glam mansion, Holly and Bridget felt the pressure to stick to the trending beauty standards at the time – and ”eating disorders were really rampant”.

”There was a lot of bulimia in the mansion – to the point where people would end up in the hospital sometimes.

”To the point where the bathroom pipes had to be replaced.”

Bridget bravely confessed, being labelled ”the big girl”, that they would try to ”fat-shame” her -and to this day struggles with the nasty comments.

To land yourself at spot at the glam pad, which Hugh purchased for $1million, women also had to be of certain age – and there was a limit too.

”That was definitely thing at Playboy,” said Holly.

”I feel like the unspoken cut-off age for like a Playmate was 28.”

The grading system

Those who had made into the villa would also have Polaroids taken during the many star-studded bashes – which Hugh, who passed away at 91, would then grade from A to D.

”D – you’re not invited back, C – you’re maybe on the big party list, B – you’re on all the party lists, A – you get invited to the pool parties and stuff like that,” Holly revealed.

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The bedroom, the pair revealed, was the most ‘traumatising’ aspect of their life in the early 2000s[/caption]

But the graded snaps, the pair said in a recent podcast, were the least of their worries.

The 41-year-old blonde said: ”When I think about the worst thing, I just think about anything in the bedroom and just the fact that anyone would be invited in there.

”We didn’t get to agree on who got to come in and who got to watch, and who got to do whatever – and it was just traumatising.”

Bridget agreed, saying that it couldn’t get ”any worse” than what happened in the bedrooms.

”We had no voice during that time – it was really hard.”

”Looking back, it took me a few years to de-programme,” chimed in Holly who kept the dark secrets to herself after a few years of leaving the mansion for good.

A GP donned a disguise to trick his way into his own mother’s house to poison his step-dad while pretending to give him a Covid jab, a court heard.

Dr Thomas Kwan, 53 posed as a community nurse as part of an elaborate plan to murder Patrick O’Hara so he could inherit mum Jenny’s estate, it was said.

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The crime scene in Teesside[/caption]

It was so successful that even she was fooled by his surgical mask, hat and dark glasses, the jury was told.

Moments after he had been given the injection, Mr O’Hara, 72, fell ill as the deadly flesh-eating disease Necrotising Fasciitis began to overtake his body.

Kwan fled in his Toyota Yaris car fitted with false number plates in a bid to evade police cameras, Newcastle crown court heard.

He was arrested two weeks later and cops uncovered the full extent of his alleged murder plot which included inventing a fictitious NHS department and doctor to trick Mr O’Hara into having the supposed Covid vaccine.

Prosecutor Mr Peter Makepeace KC told jurors: “Sometimes the truth really is stranger than fiction.

“The case you are about to try, on any view, is an extraordinary case.

“Thomas Kwan, the defendant was in January of this year a respected and experienced medical doctor in general practice.

“From November 2023 at the latest, and probably long before then, he devised an intricate plan to kill his mother’s long-term partner, Patrick O’Hara.

“That man had done absolutely nothing to offend Mr Kwan. He was, however, a potential impediment to Mr Kwan inheriting his mother’s estate upon her death.

“Mr Kwan used his encyclopaedic knowledge of poisons to carry out his plan to disguise himself as a community nurse, attend Mr O’Hara’s address, the home he shared with the defendant’s mother, and inject him with a dangerous poison under the pretext of administering a Covid booster injection.

“It was a very carefully planned scheme. It involved Mr Kwan forging NHS documentation to lure Mr O’Hara into his plan; personal disguise to shield his identity from his victim and his mother.

“It involved him falsifying the number plates on his car and using false details to book into a hotel.

“It was an audacious plan, it was a plan to murder a man in plain sight, to murder a man right in front of his own mother’s eyes, that man’s life partner.”

Mr O’Hara and Kwan’s mother Jenny Leung, 73, were in a stable relationship for more than 20 years and lived in a house in Newcastle city centre owned by Ms Leung.

Kwan has admitted administering a noxious substance to Mr O’Hara – who survived – but denied attempting to murder or inflict grievous bodily harm with intent on January 22 this year, claiming he only meant to cause him “mild discomfort”.

The case continues.

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HE might be wowing in a new drama series, but AppleTV+ viewers will be treated to a second season of crime drama Sugar.

Colin Farrell first appeared as Los Angeles PI John Sugar earlier this year, but fans have already been bowled over the series.

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Colin Farrell will return as John Sugar in the Apple TV+ series for season two.[/caption]

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The actor wowed fans with the first season of Sugar, released earlier this year.[/caption]

Apple has confirmed that Detective Sugar will be back for a second season, with more drama set to follow.

The first season of the detective drama saw Farrell play John Sugar, a private investigator hired by Hollywood titan Jonathan Siegel, played by James Cromwell, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his granddaughter, Olivia, played by Sydney Chandler.

The first season also included Amy Ryan, Anna Gunn, Dennis Boutsikaris, Nate Corddry, Sydney Chandler, Alex Hernandez and Kirby, formerly known as Kirby Howell-Baptiste.

Viewers were left reeling at the end of series one as they discovered Farrell’s character wasn’t just an average private investigator, but is in fact an alien.

The second season will likely pick up from this jaw dropping moment, but it’s one that creator Mark Protosevich doesn’t see as he isn’t joining series two.

The second season has been joined by Sam Catlin who has worked on Preacher.

Catin is expected to guide Farrell’s Sugar on his path as he continues to search for his missing sister.

Season two is also likely to include a face off against her kidnapper Henry Thorpe, played by Jason Butler Harner.

Discussing the season renewal in a statement, executive producers Audrey Chon and Simon Kinberg said: “It has been incredibly exciting to see audiences around the world embrace Sugar, and we are thrilled to return for a second season.

“We’re so grateful to our partners at Apple for their support, our showrunner Sam Catlin, the brilliant Colin Farrell, and of course, our viewers. We can’t wait to get John Sugar back on the case.”

Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+, added: “Since its premiere, audiences have been gripped by the mysteries and twists of Sugar, with an incredible performance by Colin Farrell at the center.

“Colin, Simon Kinberg, Audrey Chon and the entire team behind this series have brilliantly blended genres to create a compelling, can’t-miss series that keeps viewers guessing, and we cannot wait to see where Detective John Sugar finds himself in season two.”