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Everyone loves a good bit of motherly advice and, now that it's nearly Mother's Day, here's some of the best advice given to celebrities by their (very wise) mothers!

Valentine's Day is for flowers, chocolates and celebrating love. But, as with so many things, it was a whole lot weirder a couple of hundred years ago...

The wedding dress. Let’s face it, it’s really only a one day thing; you can’t exactly keep it for cocktail parties and christenings. That’s why, after the ceremony is over, hundreds of women are deciding to trash their dresses. Here are some of our favourites!

Don't want to splash out on an advent calendar this year? Caroline from Caroline Makes is here to show you how to bake one instead!

Christmas is many children's favourite time of year and there's plenty you can do to make the holidays even more special for little ones. Here are our top ten ideas for bringing that extra touch of magic to your Christmas.

There's always one, that person who's almost impossible to buy for, but this year you don't have to revert to socks and gift vouchers. We've put together some gift ideas that are a little out of the ordinary, so you can get a thoughtful Christmas present for the hard-to-buy-for friend in your life.

We all know about Santa Claus: that jolly, round-bellied man who comes down our chimneys and brings us Christmas gifts every year. But did you know that he's based on a Norse god and is even richer than Bill Gates? Here are some strange but true facts about the legend himself!

Hundreds of Christmas gifts compete each December to be the item that shoppers must get their hands on, often reducing parents to fighting in the aisles. These crazes sometimes get out of hand and are regularly just passing fads, but the must-have gift becomes something you'll always remember fondly, especially if you were a kid when it came out.