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  • Belfast Telegraph

Past articles by Laura:

Morrisons combines classic bourbons with a custard cream filling

Morrisons has released bourbon biscuits but replaced the classic chocolate in the middle with a custard cream filling. → Read More

Care home residents get 'inking and drinking' day with tattoos and beer

The tattoos were temporary but care home staff played the sounds from a studio to add to the atmosphere. → Read More

Thousands bid for chance to win rejected table with penis shaped knot

Samuel Moseley and Rhys Shackell-York run Grain and Frame and are raffling a table with a penis shaped knot for Orchid. → Read More

Baby who slipped out of uterus into mum’s abdomen and was starved of oxygen defies the odds to walk and talk

Doctors had no idea her uterus had ruptured until the emergency caesarean. → Read More

Gordon's releases pink gin birthday cake for £12

You'll be able to pick one up for £12 at Asda from July 25, and from Tesco after September 6. → Read More

Butcher creates Kinder Bueno sausages and people are perplexed

Larmer's Butchers in Monaghan, Ireland, decided to mince up Bueno and sausages. → Read More

You could get free stays and £2,000 salary to review hotels this summer

One hotel brand wants a new CEO - a chief exploring officer. → Read More

Teenager gets offered £10,000 by Doritos for finding rare puffy crisp

Rylee Stuart, 13, from Queensland, Australia, found a puffed crisp and put it on eBay but then they brand offered her cash. → Read More

Meet Paddy – the cat who leads a secret life comforting people who are grieving

He's been there for hundreds of strangers at difficult moments. → Read More

Florists warn against hack to put vinegar in the water for your blooms

Apparently putting vinegar in your water is actually a bad idea → Read More

Beefeater’s daughter reveals what it’s like living in the Tower of London

Megan Clawson seemed to get a pretty great deal when her dad suggested she lived with him - because he has a place in the Tower of London. → Read More

Is the Sugar Coated leg hair removal kit worth the faff?

We tried the Sugar Coated sugar wax kit and decided if it is worth the faff as part of our weekly review series. → Read More

Disabled and vulnerable people explain their fears around all Covid restrictions lifting after July 19

Four people talk about the impact of the easing of mask wearing and social distancing after July 19. → Read More

Rescue dog raises seven kittens found without their mum

One-year-old Bertie became an unexpected father figure. → Read More

Lawyer swaps office for trekking Arctic Circle and climbing Kilimanjaro

Originally from Sheffield, Lucy, of Knebworth, Hertfordshire, gave up her job as a lawyer to take on epic adventures across the world. → Read More

Teen carries out random act of kindness for every day of the pandemic

Sebbie Hall has been doing over 1,600 kind things since March 2020. → Read More

M&S is giving away free Colin the Caterpillar cakes today

M&S wants customers to pick up a free mini Colin cake today, as part of Thank You Day. → Read More

Woman, 24, plans to marry man she met while volunteering – despite 44 year age gap

When Conni Cotten, 24, started volunteering at a homeless shelter in 2018, she met Herb Dickerson, 68, and they fell in love. → Read More

Haunted Scottish village with its own private beach on sale for £125,000

The Old Village of Lawers, on the north shore of Loch Tay in Perthshire, is currently for sale. → Read More

Kellogg’s rolls out accessible cereal boxes for blind and partially sighted people

It uses a code which can be picked up by a smartphone from up to three metres away. → Read More