Emily Watkins

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

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

There’s something that people love to say about contemporary art: my five-year-old could do that. Unfortunately, Robbie Williams’ work at Moco Museum invites an even more damning reaction: if this was the best my five-year-old could do, I’d have to disown them. Luckily for my future children, no five-year-old could summon up the requisite combination of self-importance and self-consciousness to produce what the pop star has in his wincingly named solo show Radical Honesty.

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

Cold plunges and hot yoga. Meditation sessions and mindful crafting. While mere mention of these activities is generally enough to strike fear in my heart, I’m normally content to just avoid them. But as wellness-mania encroaches onto the previously purely feral territory of hen-dos, I can keep silent no longer. Keep your well-manicured hands off our shots and 2am kebabs, or else… and we all know who would win in a fight between a vodka’d up bridesmaid in a tacky sash and a Pilates princess.