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If you’ve needed to have a passport photo taken in recent years, you’ll know how difficult it is – for good reason – to get it right.

This is being written having just watched the first episode of the new series of The Jump on Channel 4 #TheJump2015. On paper it’s a great concept, with celebs battling it out at different winter sports, but it’s definitely dividing viewers opinions as to whether they love or loathe it. Either way it’s hard to deny that once you start watching this celebrity sports show, it’s strangely addictive.

There has been a national outcry over news that Dippy, the diplodocus skeleton which has been in the entrance hall at the Natural History Museum in London, is to be usurped by a blue whale.

One poor cat has taken the nine lives theory to the limit after seemingly coming back from the dead – after being buried.  Poor pet moggy Bart was run over by a car, found battered and lifeless at the side of the road and buried in a shallow grave. But five days later the phenomenal feline was seen wandering around near his home in Tampa Bay, Florida.

If you’re one of the many taking part in dry January this month you may find yourself twiddling your thumbs by the third alcohol-free weekend.

Never mind big brother, it could soon be the High Street shops that are watching you.

What is it about breastfeeding that causes so much controversy?  This subject has been in the news on numerous occasions in recent weeks, with local cafes, Claridge’s and Ukip leader Nigel Farage being among those under fire for demonstrating varying levels of disapproval or unease around breastfeeding mums.

Recent falls in worldwide oil prices have combined with competition between supermarkets to bring petrol prices down to their lowest value since 2010, with more price cuts to come.  As traditional supermarkets face competition from budget shops such as Aldi and Lidl, it has been suggested that a litre of fuel could soon cost as little as £1 or even less.