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Toronto Star
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Toronto Star
Stephen King reveals why he almost trashed his latest novel — and why his dog may outlive him
Updated 8 hrs ago May 24, 2025 6 min read Save By Janet Somerville Special to the Star 'Sometimes the universe throws you a rope.' That's what cop-turned-private investigator Bill Hodges tells his colleague Holly Gibney in Stephen King's 2015 novel 'Finders Keepers.' As Holly returns in 'Never Flinch,' King's new book, out May 27, that wisdom becomes a touchstone in all of the narrative threads. The Dickens of our time spoke with me recently by phone from Florida where he winters with his wife of 54 years, the novelist Tabitha King, and their 10-year-old corgi, Molly, whom his social media followers will recognize by King's ironic nickname for her: The Thing of Evil. Throughout our conversation his generosity of spirit shone, reverberating, as Fitzgerald wrote, 'like a tuning-fork struck upon a star.' ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Janet Somerville is the author of 'Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love & War 1930-1949.' Related Stories 'Poison: A History' and a 100-year-old book signed by Tolkien: a peek at the library of bestselling fantasy novelist Guy Gavriel Kay Toronto novelist Linwood Barclay took a big risk with his latest book, 'Whistle': 'If it sinks like a stone, it will probably be the last of its kind' Forensic anthropology is mainly behind her, but Kathy Reichs is still dreaming up Temperance Brennan novels Report an error Journalistic Standards About The Star More from The Star & partners
Scottish Sun
06-05-2025
- Business
- Scottish Sun
Clothing chain with more than 100 UK stores suddenly closes city centre shop
A POPULAR high street fashion chain has suddenly shut a city centre store leaving shoppers dismayed. Yours Clothing, known for its plus-size fashion range, has been emptied with the signs of its Norwich outlet savagely ripped off after closing at the end of last week. 2 Plus size palace Yours is closing down its Norwich outlet Credit: Google The brand still has over 100 outlets nationwide. The St Stephens street store, stripped of its former iconic pink heart branding, is a shadow of its former self. Replacing the Yours iconic logos and mannequins in frilly frocks are new posters reading: 'For Sale! Store fixtures and equipment. 'Please ask in store for details.' The tragic closure of yet another high street outlet comes just weeks after Wilko and the former Poundland shuttered their windows. Empty stores now dominate the high street. Zoe London was devastated writing on social media: 'Why??? Now there is no reason for me to go in the city anymore, its the only shop in Norwich that do jeans that fit me. 'That's it, Norwich has gone downhill. 'I got my Mum a Yours voucher, what am I going to do now?' The closest Yours is in Great Yarmouth, which is an inconvenient 38-minute drive away. Scottish vintage clothing store launches huge closing down sale with 80% off Michelle Egan wrote: 'Let's hope they find another shop that's the only place I like and I won't be setting foot in Great Yarmouth.' However, the site might not be open for long, as the London fast food chain, Pepe's Piri Piri, has applied for planning permission to nab the spot. They plans were submitted to Norwich City Council earlier this year and include designs for new signage, a fancy new shopfront and extraction canopy. The council will make the decision imminently on May 8. But locals weren't too enthusiastic about the prospect of another fast food joint. Katheryn Shelsher argued: 'We have 3 cafes we don't need anymore. Terri Browne lamented: 'Another one!!' Teresa Mulligan chimed in, saying: 'Like we need another fast food place!'
Scottish Sun
30-04-2025
- Business
- Scottish Sun
High street fashion retailer with 100 stores to close branch as fast food chain plots takeover
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) A MAJOR fashion retailer, with over 100 stores, is set to close its high street branch for good. The store will be taken over by a popular fast food chain. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 1 Yours Clothing, in Norwich, will be closing its branch on St Stephens Street Shoppers in Norwich were shocked to see signs appear in the window of Yours Clothing on St Stephens Street, confirming the store will soon shut for good. The posters read: 'Sorry, we are closing down. Your nearest store is Great Yarmouth and we are always open at Thank you for shopping with us, we'll see you soon!' The move paves the way for chicken chain Pepe's Piri Piri to take over the prime city centre site, after the brand submitted plans to Norwich City Council in March. The application outlines plans for a new shopfront, updated signage and an extraction canopy - a clear signal that sizzling grills and spicy wraps could be on the way. If the plans are approved, the new branch would join Pepe's 220-strong army of restaurants across the UK, Ireland, the UAE and Morocco, known for their grilled chicken, wraps and quesadillas. Despite the planning notice taped to the building's wall, staff at Yours say they've been kept in the dark. Yours Clothing, which caters to sizes 14 to 40, is owned by AK Retail Holdings, the firm behind other fashion brands like BadRhino and M&Co. It currently runs more than 100 stores across the country. It's another blow to Britain's high streets, with fashion retailers continuing to feel the squeeze as food outlets muscle in on city centre spaces. Pull&Bear Opens New Flagship Store at Silverburn: Fashion Fans Celebrate in Glasgow! Locals were quick to hop online and share their disappointment on Facebook. One user said: "It's so sad to see these stores closing, soon the high street will be empty." Another shopper said: "I loved that there was a shop for us plus size girlies". A third added: "So sad, another blow top the British high street." It comes just weeks after Yours closed its branch in the Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham. Last year, Yours also pulled the shutters down on its branch in the Vicar Lane shopping centre in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. TROUBLE ON THE HIGH STREET High street retailers are continuing to shut up shop as shoppers increasingly turn to online alternatives and face mounting economic pressures. The burden of soaring business rates and rising operational costs has left many stores struggling to survive. On top of that, inflation has eaten into household budgets, meaning fewer people are heading to the high street to spend. According to fresh figures from the Centre for Retail Research, a staggering 13,479 stores closed their doors for good in 2024. That's the equivalent of 37 shutting down every single day. Independent retailers took the biggest hit, with 11,341 closures, while larger chains accounted for 2,138 shutdowns. Over half of those closures were linked to insolvency, where businesses were forced to take formal steps to manage mounting debt. And the trend is far from over, 2025 is already shaping up to be another tough year for bricks-and-mortar shops. Fashion giant New Look faced a wave of closures following the Government's National Insurance hike in April. Roughly a quarter of its 364 stores are at risk. That's around 91 stores and potentially thousands of jobs on the line across its 8,000-strong workforce. The chain has already slimmed down its store estate significantly, shrinking from around 600 UK outlets in 2018. It also exited Ireland altogether, closing all 26 of its stores there after more than 20 years of trading.
The Sun
30-04-2025
- Business
- The Sun
High street fashion retailer with 100 stores to close branch as fast food chain plots takeover
A MAJOR fashion retailer, with over 100 stores, is set to close its high street branch for good. The store will be taken over by a popular fast food chain. 1 Shoppers in Norwich were shocked to see signs appear in the window of Yours Clothing on St Stephens Street, confirming the store will soon shut for good. The posters read: 'Sorry, we are closing down. Your nearest store is Great Yarmouth and we are always open at Thank you for shopping with us, we'll see you soon!' The move paves the way for chicken chain Pepe's Piri Piri to take over the prime city centre site, after the brand submitted plans to Norwich City Council in March. The application outlines plans for a new shopfront, updated signage and an extraction canopy - a clear signal that sizzling grills and spicy wraps could be on the way. If the plans are approved, the new branch would join Pepe's 220-strong army of restaurants across the UK, Ireland, the UAE and Morocco, known for their grilled chicken, wraps and quesadillas. Despite the planning notice taped to the building's wall, staff at Yours say they've been kept in the dark. Yours Clothing, which caters to sizes 14 to 40, is owned by AK Retail Holdings, the firm behind other fashion brands like BadRhino and M&Co. It currently runs more than 100 stores across the country. It's another blow to Britain's high streets, with fashion retailers continuing to feel the squeeze as food outlets muscle in on city centre spaces. Pull&Bear Opens New Flagship Store at Silverburn: Fashion Fans Celebrate in Glasgow! Locals were quick to hop online and share their disappointment on Facebook. One user said: "It's so sad to see these stores closing, soon the high street will be empty." Another shopper said: "I loved that there was a shop for us plus size girlies". A third added: "So sad, another blow top the British high street." It comes just weeks after Yours closed its branch in the Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham. Last year, Yours also pulled the shutters down on its branch in the Vicar Lane shopping centre in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. TROUBLE ON THE HIGH STREET High street retailers are continuing to shut up shop as shoppers increasingly turn to online alternatives and face mounting economic pressures. The burden of soaring business rates and rising operational costs has left many stores struggling to survive. On top of that, inflation has eaten into household budgets, meaning fewer people are heading to the high street to spend. According to fresh figures from the Centre for Retail Research, a staggering 13,479 stores closed their doors for good in 2024. That's the equivalent of 37 shutting down every single day. Independent retailers took the biggest hit, with 11,341 closures, while larger chains accounted for 2,138 shutdowns. Over half of those closures were linked to insolvency, where businesses were forced to take formal steps to manage mounting debt. And the trend is far from over, 2025 is already shaping up to be another tough year for bricks-and-mortar shops. Fashion giant New Look faced a wave of closures following the Government's National Insurance hike in April. Roughly a quarter of its 364 stores are at risk. That's around 91 stores and potentially thousands of jobs on the line across its 8,000-strong workforce. The chain has already slimmed down its store estate significantly, shrinking from around 600 UK outlets in 2018. It also exited Ireland altogether, closing all 26 of its stores there after more than 20 years of trading. RETAIL PAIN IN 2025 The British Retail Consortium has predicted that the Treasury's hike to employer NICs will cost the retail sector £2.3billion. Research by the British Chambers of Commerce shows that more than half of companies plan to raise prices by early April. A survey of more than 4,800 firms found that 55% expect prices to increase in the next three months, up from 39% in a similar poll conducted in the latter half of 2024. Three-quarters of companies cited the cost of employing people as their primary financial pressure. The Centre for Retail Research (CRR) has also warned that around 17,350 retail sites are expected to shut down this year. It comes on the back of a tough 2024 when 13,000 shops closed their doors for good, already a 28% increase on the previous year. Professor Joshua Bamfield, director of the CRR said: "The results for 2024 show that although the outcomes for store closures overall were not as poor as in either 2020 or 2022, they are still disconcerting, with worse set to come in 2025." Professor Bamfield has also warned of a bleak outlook for 2025, predicting that as many as 202,000 jobs could be lost in the sector. "By increasing both the costs of running stores and the costs on each consumer's household it is highly likely that we will see retail job losses eclipse the height of the pandemic in 2020."
Yahoo
27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Camila Cabello Trolls Katy Perry's Space Stunt With Zero-Gravity TikTok
just launched her "Yours, C" tour in the most Camila way possible, by throwing some cheeky shade at 's recent trip to space. The 'I Luv It' singer took to TikTok to share her version of a tour announcement, which has garnered attention from Camila Cabello's fan base. Cabello is seen standing in front of a red wall, holding a poster with her tour dates while floating in slow motion. 'Didn't have the budget to fly to space to promote my tour dates, so I made this TikTok instead,' she quipped in text over the video, mimicking zero gravity. She added a playful caption aimed directly at Perry, '@Katy Perry hehehe ily.' The post is a not-so-subtle jab at the "Firework" singer's headline-making 11-minute Blue Origin space ride on April 14, where Perry unveiled a butterfly-shaped paper that supposedly revealed her "Lifetimes" tour setlist. Fans couldn't hold back after seeing the video, with one of her followers expressing, "not her moving like she was in space [skull emoji]." Another said, "Girl, you ate," as a third wrote, "You're too funny." A fourth commented, "This is so funny, welcome back Camila." Cabello's video landed just as her "Yours, C" tour gears up to kick off June 21 at the Starlite Occident Festival in Marbella, Spain. She'll hit Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America before wrapping things up on September 14 in São Paulo, Brazil. The tour supports her 2024 album "C XOXO," which features singles like 'He Knows' and 'Hot Uptown," and marks her first tour in over seven years. While Camila kept things lighthearted, Perry's space antics haven't exactly been received with open arms. The 'I Kissed a Girl' hitmaker was part of an all-female crew that included Lauren Sánchez and Gayle King, but her emotional post-flight display, where she kissed the ground, waved a daisy, and declared she felt 'super connected to love," has drawn some serious side-eye. 'It's not about singing my songs. It's about a collective energy in there. It's about us. It's about making space for future women and taking up space and belonging,' Perry said in a flowery post-flight interview. 'This is all for the benefit of Earth.' Critics weren't having it, especially in light of two NASA astronauts who were actually stranded in space for nine months. PR expert Eric Schiffer didn't mince words when speaking to Daily Mail, claiming Perry's brand 'is vibe surfing the toilet drain faster than Blue Origin re-entered the atmosphere.' 'Katy went to space, but she still couldn't find her lost fanbase,' he added. 'She may soon need a telescope to see her career from here.' Model went off on TikTok, saying, 'That space mission this morning? That's end time sh-t. Like, this is beyond parody.' And she wasn't alone. reposted a scathing Guardian op-ed titled, 'The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism,' while straight-up questioned the point of the whole thing. According to insiders, Perry is now reportedly 'regretting' the whole kissing-the-ground bit and those in-capsule camera moments where she held a daisy to the lens, teased her tour setlist, and sang 'What a Wonderful World' while floating in microgravity. Katy Perry just launched her "Lifetimes" tour, and she didn't waste any time firing back at the critics who slammed her Blue Origin space flight. The pop star took her opening night in Mexico City as a chance to reclaim her narrative, and she did it in full intergalactic glam. The 40-year-old 'Dark Horse' singer strutted onto the stage in a reflective silver bodysuit, channeling full space diva energy as she soared above the crowd, snapped selfies with dancers dressed in NASA-blue suits, and recreated scenes inspired by her real-life space voyage. And in case fans thought she was going to ignore the controversy, Perry grabbed the mic and asked the crowd directly, 'Has anyone ever called your dreams crazy?' a not-so-subtle nod to the online firestorm.
