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16-05-2025
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Best UK dating sites and apps to help you find love in 2025
Looking for love online is one of the single-most popular ways to meet a new partner. Yet, with so many dating apps and sites available, it can almost feel impossible to find the one that's right for you, especially if you don't want an app that makes you swipe right or left to meet your match. We're here to play matchmaker and have rounded up the best UK dating websites to help you find love in 2025, from free services to those that use impressive personality testing. You can forget about incessant swiping, these websites are all about helping you find a meaningful connection. is perhaps the best known dating site, and it's certainly one of the more well-reputed in the field, honing its algorithm to identify long-term compatibility and facilitate countless first dates, serious relationships and successful marriages. Sign up now Since its launch in 2000, two million people have found love on E Harmony. Its 32-dimension personality test uses psychological truths to identify areas of compatibility between two individuals. The dating site's mission is to foster relationships that last, and every potential match will have a reason behind it. Sign up now Relying on findings from 40 years of research, Parship delivers you a selection of matches based on those it believes are best suited to you, with 9 out of 10 Parship couples still happily together. Sign up now Zoosk is a socially savvy dating site known for its diverse membership base and behavioural matchmaking system. Over 35 million singles in 80 countries have joined the network so far, and it is growing larger every day. The platform offers many different ways to communicate and express interest in members, so it's easy to form a fast connection here. Sign up now The dating site for like-minded singletons over 50, Our Time helps connect those with similar interests and puts on events (in real life!) where you can meet others on the app. Our Time dating services are ideal if you're looking for a no-nonsense approach to mature online dating. The app lets users join for free, but some features are only available with paid subscriptions. Sign up now In 2004, OKCupid's founders launched a free dating site, which delves into what personal attributes made relationships work. OKCupid members can send unlimited messages for free, or upgrade to make use of extra features that will help you gain more insight into prospective matches and really see who is drawn to you. Sign up now Plenty of Fish prides itself on being good for facilitating conversations. It supports 100% free and unlimited messaging for over 120 million monthly users in 20 countries. Sign up now EliteSingles uses a personality test to match users based on their compatibility. The test takes into account looks, personality (with questions on how optimistic and ambitious you are, your social skills, how friends would describe you and more), and what you're looking for in a partner - including whether or not you want children. Sign up now Tailored to matchmaking ambitious, career-savvy young professionals, Inner Circle global community of over seven million members. The app is free to download, but you can upgrade to premium packages. There are also exclusive members events that are set to resume post-lockdown for anyone who is tired of sitting online. Sign up now
BBC News
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Morley's chicken shop sign to be displayed in London Museum
The sign from the original Morley's chicken shop is to go on display in the London Museum's new sign will be part of the museum's new Hanging Out display, which celebrates the social spaces where London's communities come in 1985 by Sri Lankan-born Kannalingam "Indran" Selvendran, who moved to the UK in the 1970s, Morley's began as a single shop in Sydenham, south-east London, and has become a common sight across many of the capital's high Selvendran, Indran's son and Morley's chief executive, said having the firm included as part of London's history was the "most amazing thing that's happened to this business... and to a community that built us". Asked what his late father would make of the museum display, Mr Selvendran said: "I think he'd be stunned. You live for this kind of moment where everything you've worked for and effectively what he gave his life for is being celebrated in such a prestigious heritage driven place. "For us as a family, but also just as a community, it is quite honestly unreal." The sign was officially handed over to the London Museum by members of the Morley's team, alongside south London musicians and entrepreneurs Krept and Konan.A Morley's store served as a backdrop for both Stormzy's 2017 song Big For Your Boots, and Krept's 2019 track Morley's at the handover was Kannalingam Mahendran, Indran Selvendran's brother, who ran the firm's first Sydenham told BBC London he was "very proud" of the firm's history and how it had expanded across the capital and beyond. Mr Mahendran added that "everyone knows Morley's" and said he had become known by many people in the Sydenham area through working at the chicken shop over four decades. The sign will be on on display from 2026 as part of Our Time, a social space at the heart of the London Museum's new Smithfield site. Dhikshana Turakhia Pering, head of creative programmes at London Museum, called Morley's an "icon of London's high streets" and "part of the DNA and culture of London".She said acquiring the original sign had been high on the museum's wish list since the early inception of the Hanging Out display."[Morley's] evokes memories of after school hangouts and late-night stories for generations of Londoners," she added.
