Emily Watkins

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Watkins

To coincide with her daughter Lilibet’s fourth birthday, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has released a photograph of them together: seemingly on a boat, the picture shows the little girl slumped in her mother’s arms, heavy with the total surrender to safety that parents everywhere will recognise. It’s a beautiful image – beautiful enough, you’d hope, to pull the public up short in their ongoing crusade against the duchess. But while I’m crossing my fingers, I’m not holding my breath.

4 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Watkins

Times, they are a-changin’. When I left home nearly 15 years ago, smoking was par for the course, no-one but fanatics went to the gym, and socialising was invariably conducted over a drink or four. Since then, our cultural priorities have skewed health-wards, changing beyond recognition – yet as we collectively kick vice after vice, there’s a danger of throwing the baby out with the boozy bathwater. In 2025, health is wealth, and young people are leading the glossy vanguard.

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Watkins

Weddings are more expensive than ever – the average bill stands at more than £23,000 – but so is the cost of living, with 91 per cent of people saying they’re struggling in 2025. Enter Tesco, and their selection of budget wedding gift packages: from a £39 tea and biscuits bundle to their £72 package of dine-in meal deals and wine. They might not be as glamorous as classic gifts like crystal glassware, but they’re far more in-keeping with the financial reality of most newlyweds.

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Watkins

Just days before Christmas in 1988, the worst terrorist attack ever on British soil unfolded when a plane bound for New York from London Heathrow exploded over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing 270 people. As the world looked on in horror, investigators from Scotland, England and the US scrambled to understand what had happened.

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Emily Watkins

Channel 5’s crime dramas are a genre unto themselves, made up of 20 per cent grit, 30 per cent heavily foreshadowed twist, and 50 per cent cosy intrigue. You could call them formulaic, or you could cheer up and – literally – get with the program(mes). In that spirit, and although 5’s latest offering The Game – about a detective who reopens a cold case, starring Jason Watkins and transfixing the nation over the past week – has finally come to an end, there’s no need for the criminal fun to stop.