Josie Copson

London

Senior Features Writer at Metro (UK)

👩🏽‍💻 Metro. Previously OK! and Cosmopolitan.

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'Restaurant-quality' London food trucks including one in an old fire engine

2 weeks ago | metro.co.uk | Kitty Chrisp |Josie Copson |Beatrice Aidin |James Besanvalle

Have you arranged your Father's Day 2025 present yet? Fear not, as we have some great ideas for you this week which will ensure you're the favourite child in the family. There's a restaurant offering free Old Fashioneds, a hands-on cooking experience and every dad's dream: a BBQ buffet. We've also found an Indian restaurant to rival Dishoom, a meal that has been called the savoury version of the viral Dubai chocolate bar and Nepalese dumplings good enough to cure any heartbreak.
Long lost love and bitter breakups

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Josie Copson

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Long lost love and bitter breakups

3 weeks ago | metro.co.uk | Josie Copson

25 years ago, tweeting was something only birds did, an influencer was not yet a job title, and Facebook could be mistaken for something that might happen if you fell asleep while reading. Social media was very much in its infancy, but one groundbreaking website called Friends Reunited provided an early premonition of the power it would soon hold in our lives.
The rise of the jacket potato

4 weeks ago | msn.com | Josie Copson

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The rise of the jacket potato

4 weeks ago | metro.co.uk | Josie Copson

Favoured by parents on a busy evening, the baked potato has always been an 'easy dinner' or 'quick tea' - depending on which part of the country you are from - that requires little effort while guaranteeing a low-cost, reliable taste. More recently, though, it's managed to shake off its dreary shackles and rise up the food chain at an astonishing rate to become an elite foodie option.
The rise of the adult sleepover

1 month ago | msn.com | Josie Copson

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The rise of the adult sleepover

1 month ago | metro.co.uk | Josie Copson

Don't grow up, it's a trap. The cheesy slogan usually found on canvases in the heavily discounted section of Homesense alongside the Live Laugh Love mirrors may be clichéd, but they could have a point.
A deadly moment etched in history forever

1 month ago | msn.com | Josie Copson

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Five years on from the murder of George Floyd, has anything changed?

1 month ago | msn.com | Josie Copson

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Five years on from the murder of George Floyd, has anything changed?

1 month ago | metro.co.uk | Josie Copson

9 minutes and 29 seconds. That's the amount of time Derek Chauvin's knee was on George Floyd's neck. Three other police officers watched as George, who was Black, said 'I can't breathe' more than twenty times, called out for his late mother and asked that his kids be told that he loved them. In the 46-year-old's final moments, George informed Derek: 'I'm about to die.' He still didn't move.