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Warnie ready to ‘join Tinder’ as Liz Hurley moves on

The actress and her new lover, David Yarrow, shared an embrace and a kiss as photographers snap away.

The pair indulged in a very public display of affection, despite the presence of paparazzi, as they returned from a charity function in the English suburb of Chelsea.

When spotting the cameras, Liz and her new man giggled like schoolkids before retreating inside.

But is was Liz’s former love that was more than a little shocked by the pictures, with Shane Warne tweeting: “Was just sent some pictures, wow, soem people move on quickly. Maybe now it’s time to take up my single friends’ suggestions & join tinder.”

Liz has been making the most of her new-found single life, catching up with friends and spotted on numerous dates over the past few weeks.

But Warnie has been doing a bit of moving on himself according to rumours several weeks ago that the former Australian cricketer indulged in a tryst with 42-year-old Ultimo boss, Michelle Mone, who he “wooed with champagne and roses”.

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Prince William reveals future baby plans

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge may be enjoying parenthood for the first time, but one royal baby is “enough” for now…

The pair, who shared their first joint engagement of the year visiting the Irish Guards at Mons Barracks for St Patrick’s Day on Monday, said they were enjoying parenthood.

When asked if there were any more royal babies on the way, Prince William replied: “Maybe one day. One’s enough at the moment.”

The royal couple, who are clearly smitten with their seven-month-old son, chatted happily to soldiers and their families about raising Prince George and even joked about getting him his own little uniform.

The pair told guardsmen Glenn Tierney that their little prince was “very busy crawling and eating”.

“It was amazing to meet them. I joked to William it’s nice to see a Villa fan with a smile on his face,” Glenn told the UK’s Daily Mail.

“I asked them all about George, I’m nosy like that. They said he’s doing really well and he’s very busy crawling and eating.

“They said they’re very busy sorting everything out for taking him to Australia. They’re very excited.”

The royal couple, who recently returned from a second honeymoon in the Maldives, are preparing to travel to New Zealand and Australia for their first overseas trip with their son.

Related video: Prince George accompanying parents on royal tour.

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Get naked, drink wine, have kids to live longer

The secrets to a long and healthy life have been revealed by a leading doctor and they’re not as impossible as you’d think

Brew some coffee, throw away your multivitamins and simply smile are some of the tips from Dr David Argus, a world renowned cancer specialist, to increase your longevity.

In his new book, A Short Guide to a Long Life, Dr Argus details how small changes can have a big impact on your health and vitality. You may have heard some of these before but others fly in the face of what we have been told for decades. You might be surprised…

Drink coffee

Tea and coffee in moderation is has positive health benefits.

Stop taking vitamins

Vitamin supplements have been linked to an increased risk of serious disease, including cancer.

Smile

Smiling boosts your mood and triggers the release of endorphins and seratonin, which reduce stress.

Get naked

Strip off and take a good, long look at yourself. Do this regularly and it will help you spot any oddities and signs of skin cancer, rashes or lumps and bumps that need to be attended to.

Have a wine

Alcohol in moderation, especially red wine, helps reduce the risk of heart disease.

Make babies

Statistics show people with children live longer than those without. This is partly due to the fact that children and grandchildren help keep us active and mentally challenged.

Opt for frozen fruit and veges

You may think fresh is best but by the time it reaches the supermarket, it has lost a lot of nutrients along the way. So unless you buy fresh local produce that in currently in season, go for the frozen varieties which are usually picked at their peak.

Give up your high heels

As sad as this is for most women, the benefits are many. Not only will you be much more comfortable and see the end of blisters and bunions, the inflammation of your feet caused by stilettos will subside. Inflammation is linked to a myriad of diseases and accelerated ageing so it might be time to ditch them Choos.

Related video: Take a look at the special island where people live longer than anyone else on earth. So how do so many people live to be 100 and still tend their olive trees, drink lots of red wine and dance the night away?

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Mick Jagger’s long time love L’Wren Scott found dead

Celebrated fashion designer and stylist L’Wren Scott has been found dead in her New York City apartment.

Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is reportedly preparing to fly back to New York from Perth following the death of his long-time girlfriend L’Wren Scott the New York Post reports.

His daughter Georgia May Jagger, who arrived in Sydney this morning ahead of the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival, was told the news upon her arrival.

She immediately booked a flight back to the US and is due to depart this afternoon.

“In light of the recent sad news, Georgia May Jagger will not be participating in Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival for the CAMILLA Grand Showcase,” a representative of the model confirmed.

“We ask that you respect Ms Jagger and her family’s privacy at this very difficult time.”

L’Wren was found by her assistant  at her luxurious ninth-floor apartment, following an apparent suicide.

Mick, 70, who was set to start his Australian tour with the Stones tomorrow is “completely shocked and devastated,” his representative said.

Just hours before learning of the tragic news, Mick tweeted a picture of himself on a Perth beach. The image has since been deleted from his Twitter account.

L’Wren, who was forced to cancel her London fashion show in January, reportedly owed more than $6 million to creditors and was distraught and “embarrassed” about her failing business.

Before her tragic death, L’Wren reportedly asked her assistant to visit her, sending her a text message at around 8.30am. When her assistant arrived, she found her body and called emergency services.

A New York City Police Department spokeswoman said: “A 49-year-old female was found this morning at 10.05am at 200 11th Avenue. She was unconscious.”

“She was pronounced dead on arrival by the emergency medical services. The investigation is ongoing. We are awaiting medical examiners to determine the cause of death.”

A representative for L’Wren confirmed her “tragic death”.

“At this devastating time for Ms Scott’s family and friends, we request that their privacy be respected,” she said.

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Prince William says one baby is enough – for now

It doesn't sound like Prince George will be getting a little brother of sister anytime soon!
Prince William and Kate Middleton

It doesn’t sound like Prince George will be getting a little brother of sister anytime soon!

While attending the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade in Aldershot, England, yesterday, Prince William said he and wife Kate Middleton are content with just one royal baby in the family at the moment.

When asked by Regimental Sergeant Major Ray Collister if the royal couple planned on more children, William admitted, “Maybe one day. One’s enough at the moment.”

“He said maybe when there’s time,” Collister added.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were attended the St. Patricks Day Parade in Aldershot and helped celebrate the day by presenting around 300 shamrocks to Irish guard. Kate (who looked lovely in a green coat, green hat and green shoes) and William chatted happily with soldiers and their families and also gave a toast.

Guardsman Glenn Tierney, who got the chance to chat with Will and Kate, told the Daily Mail, “It was amazing to meet them. I joked to William it’s nice to see a Villa fan with a smile on his face. I asked them all about George, I’m nosey like that. They said he’s doing really well and he’s very busy crawling and eating.”

The Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William

Kate, dressed in an emerald green trench coat with matching hat and heels was seen smiling and laughing and the pair looked fresh from their recent romantic getaway to the Caribbean.

The royal couple and seven-month-old baby George will travel to New Zealand and Australia next month.

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People, not numbers: The faces of MH370

Devoted Aussie grandparents on holidays with friends, teenage sweethearts starting school in Beijing, a couple with a baby waiting at home – they were all onboard the mysterious flight MH370 which disappeared without a trace 10 days ago.

Devoted Aussie grandparents on holidays with friends, teenage sweethearts starting school in Beijing, a couple with a baby waiting at home – they were all onboard the mysterious flight MH370 which disappeared without a trace 10 days ago.

In the feverish speculation about what happened to the plane, it’s been too easy to forget that the 239 souls who vanished with it are real people, with friends, families, hopes and dreams, just like any of us.

Here, we put some faces to the names of some of those missing people in an effort to remind everyone that they are somebody’s mother, father, son, daughter, husband, wife or best friend and not just another set of tragic statistics.

Australian grandparents Catherine and Robert Lawton.

Aussie couple Rodney and Mary Burrows were travelling with their friends the Lawtons.

Paul Weeks, a 39-year-old mechanical engineer from Christchurch, New Zealand, and proud father to two young boys.

Hebei native Zhao Peng, 24, was a construction worker who completed his contract and was on his way home to China to see his wife and year-old son.

Canadian passengers Muktesh Mukherjee, 42, and his wife, Xiaomo Bai, 37.

Junaidi Mohd Kassim, 37, has been a flight steward since 1997 and is the proud father of two children aged nine and 11.

Mr Mohamad Sofuan Ismail, 33, a diplomatic officer with Malaysia’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry, was supposed to have been on a different flight.

Wong Sai Sang, 52, would not have been on board if not for an earlier missed flight.

IBM employee Philip Wood, 50, was the only American adult on board MH370.

Firman Chandra Siregar who had just got his dream job with a major oil company.

Malaysian couple Norliakmar Hamid, 33, and Razahan Zamani, 24, were on their way to Beijing for a holiday to celebrate their two-year wedding anniversary.

Madam An Wenlan, 65, one of a group of 24 Chinese artists who had been in Kuala Lumpur to attend an art exhibition.

26-year-old Yue Wenchao who was flying to Beijing to meet his beloved girlfriend.

Three-year-old Hu Siwan and her parents were on the flight.

It was possibly the first overseas trip for Wang Moheng, who is just shy of his second birthday.

Flight attendant Wan Swaid Bin Wan Ismail with his family.

Flight attendant Foong Wai Yueng.

19-year-old Tony Tan Wei Chew (left) of Malaysia.

French teenage lovers Hadrien Wattrelos, 17, and Zhao Yan, 18, were heading for school in Beijing.

Penang-born engineer Guan Huajin, 34, who was on her way to Beijing on a business trip.

Andrew Nari, the flight’s chief steward.

Suhaili Mustafa from Shah Alam, Malaysia.

Sugianto Lo from Meden Indonesia.

Flight attendant Ng Yar Chien.

Swanand Kolekar from India.

Tan Teik Hin of Malaysia.

Chen Wei and Tan Sioh Peng.

Chew Kar Mooi

Ferry Indra Suadaya

Herry Indra Suadaya

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Why you shouldn’t keep your mobile in the bedroom

Not getting enough sleep or waking up in the middle of the night – thanks to your smartphone – is doing you serious damage

Do you ever find yourself saying goodnight, turning off the light and jumping into bed ready for eight solid hours of sleep, only to lay awake for the next hour (or more) looking at Facebook, Twitter or the web on your smartphone?

Or maybe you’re one of the people that can actually put your head to the pillow and fall straight asleep, only to be woken up by the ping of a received text, Facebook message or invitation to the next level of the game you are currently obsessed with.

Either way, you’re not alone. New research states that eight out of 10 of us keep our phones on overnight and around half use mobile phones as alarm clocks.

But what you may not realise is that not getting enough sleep or waking up in the middle of the night – all thanks to your smartphone – is doing you some serious damage.

Keeping the phone beside us at bedtime keeps us ‘hypervigilant’ so our sleep is more likely to be disturbed, which can trigger all kinds of other problems, according to an insomnia expect.

Dr Guy Meadows, from The Sleep School in London, says it’s best to keep the bedroom free of mobile phones and all other electronic devices for that matter.

He says the main problem is the bright screen which lights up the room and effects the body’s natural rhythm and tricks it into thinking it’s daytime. That is also why reading an eBook on a phone or tablet before bed is more likely to keep you awake than help you nod off.

Sleep experts advise that screen time should end about two to three hours before you hit the hay.

Dr Meadows says that because we sleep in cycles of 1½-2 hours, with brief moments of waking in between that normally go unnoticed, “a flash of light or vibration of your phone from a text message at the wrong moment could make you fully conscious”.

“If you then check your phone, you’ll be stimulating the cognitive parts of your brain, too – which will really stop you sleeping.”

Then there is the concern about whether keeping a device that emits radio waves beside you while you sleep could be a future health issue.

Mobile phones do use electromagnetic radiation and there is some evidence that suggest it may affect the electrical activity in our brains while we sleep.

The experts all agree that taking your phone to be with you is not going to help you sleep and if you really want to turn off and catch some zzzs, switch it off.

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My own body is trying to kill me

A lupus sufferer with typical facial scarring.

A lupus sufferer with typical facial lesions.

For the past three years, Cassie Ginns, 24, has been living in agony as her own body relentlessly attacks itself. Here, the South Australian girl explains the horrors of living with lupus – a potentially fatal disease most people have never even heard of.

My battle with my own body started innocuously enough – I was in the bath shaving my legs when I noticed three pink spots on my ankle.

They didn’t hurt so I didn’t worry about them too much and went straight to bed. By the next morning, my feet were swollen and painful – every step I took felt like walking on a bed of nails – and the spots had spread, now covering my legs and stomach.

I was worried but tried not to panic, convincing myself I was having an allergic reaction to my new soap.

I went to work and battled through my shift, feeling worse every minute. The last thing I remember is making a coffee for a customer at around 1am – I must have passed out because the next thing I knew, I was in a car being rushed to the nearest hospital.

My memory of the next few hours is foggy at best – people were asking me my name, my birthdate, but I couldn’t remember a thing. I can only recall thinking, “This is it. I’m going to die.”

After what seemed like hundreds of tests, my doctors were bewildered – my body was shutting down but they couldn’t tell me why.

Cassie Ginns has been fighting lupus for three years.

I spent a few days in hospital before they let me go home but my old life had disappeared. I used to spend my time dancing, jogging and working – now my life was reduced to doctors’ visits, blood tests, crying and sleeping. I tried to keep working but could barely make it through a shift and regularly called in sick because I was in too much pain. The bills started piling up and without a wage, I couldn’t afford any medication to ease my suffering.

Before long, I fell into a black hole of depression. I wanted to die, convinced my life was over.

After three seemingly never-ending months, I got a diagnosed: I had lupus, a rare autoimmune disease which meant my body was literally attacking itself.

Any stress could cause a flare up, as I discovered six months later when I ended my six-year relationship. The strain nearly killed me. I went into renal failure and ended up in hospital having a platelet transfusion and kidney biopsy.

I knew I had to change my life or risk it being taken from me by this disease and I’m thrilled to report that two years on, I’m like a different person.

I’m in a new relationship with an amazing man and I’ve got some incredible friends – in short, I’ve surrounded myself with a network of people who understand my condition and support my through the hard times, of which there are many.

They don’t complain if I leave a party early, that I drink water instead of champagne. They’ve taught me that I shouldn’t be ashamed of having a disease I can’t control.

Singer Seal is a famous lupus sufferer.

Lupus has changed my life but not necessarily for the worst. Before I had lupus I took things for granted – I didn’t appreciate my life. Now, every moment is precious. Every day I wake up feeling okay is a blessing.

Sometimes I still cry with pain, want to scream in agony, but the support of the people who love me gets me through.

Life with lupus isn’t easy – it’s unbelievably hard. I’m constantly tired and sore, my joints ache, my memory gets foggy – even washing my hair is tiring. I have three or four naps every day and drink six coffees a night at work just to get through a shift but I’m alive. I can walk. I can talk. There are so many people worse off than me.

I have lupus but lupus doesn’t have me – it may take my body but it’ll never take my soul.

To help Cassie and other Australian lupus sufferers, you can visit the Fighting for a Lupus Cure Facebook page and the Auto Immune Disease Fighters page.

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Is your environment ageing you?

Ageing of the skin is a difficult battle to fight, especially with environmental factors that lead to free radicals damaging to the skins cells.

Ageing of the skin is a difficult battle to fight, especially with environmental factors that lead to free radicals damaging to the skins cells.

Think of your skin like an apple — if you peel away the skin and leave it for a short while the apple turns brown and shrivels. Your skin is the same, so it’s important to protect your body’s layer and also understand some factors in your own environment that may be deteriorating and ageing your skin. Take control of ageing now.

Free radicals

Caused by cigarette smoke, pollution and sunlight, free radicals are unstable molecules created by the body that build up over time, damaging the skin cells and causing the skin to lose elasticity and wrinkle. The best way to fight free radical damage is to cleanse your skin morning and night, boost your antioxidant intake and always use a nourishing protective barrier on your skin.

Pillowcases

Do you always sleep on the same side of your face and find fine lines or creases in the morning where your face was pressed again your pillow? Research has found sleeping on a cotton pillowcase may cause permanent damage overtime. To combat, try sleeping on your back or switching to a silk case to soften the blow.

Drinking from straws

Regular pursing of your lips to drink from a straw has been found to cause premature ageing of the skin. Repeated facial expressions have been found to form fine lines and creases around the mouth over time. A glass is a fail-safe option.

Air conditioning

Office air conditioning dries out the skin, which can lead to dehydrated cells and flaking. To avoid this, drink plenty of water throughout the day, use a nourishing moisturiser, lip balm and hand cream. Also, keep a hydrating rose water spray on your desk for moments when your skin feels tight.

Soap

Cleansing the skin is super important to wash away free radicals and dirt that can build up on the skin. But, some soap can also strip away the protective barriers (the acid mantle) from the skin, and cause drying and dehydration on the surface.

“Over cleansing the skin will strip the acid mantle the precious oil and water barrier that protects the skin, it is referred to as the skins first line of defence, it protects the skin from bacterial invasion, it contains natural anti-inflammatory properties and it waterproofs the skin, stopping Trans Epidermal Water Loss (TEWL) or what is more commonly known as dehydration,” said Debbie Dickson, DMK Danné Skin Care.

“Over cleansing will cause the skin to become red and reactive, rough and flat in appearance, fine lines and wrinkles can start to form. A youthful skin is plump and supple.” Try a chemical-free face and body cleanser that are both PH-neutral.

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Is your environment ageing you?

Ageing of the skin is a difficult battle to fight, especially with environmental factors that lead to free radicals damaging to the skins cells.

Think of your skin like an apple — if you peel away the skin and leave it for a short while the apple turns brown and shrivels. Your skin is the same, so it’s important to protect your body’s layer and also understand some factors in your own environment that may be deteriorating and ageing your skin. Take control of ageing now.

Free radicals

Caused by cigarette smoke, pollution and sunlight, free radicals are unstable molecules created by the body that build up over time, damaging the skin cells and causing the skin to lose elasticity and wrinkle. The best way to fight free radical damage is to cleanse your skin morning and night, boost your antioxidant intake and always use a nourishing protective barrier on your skin.

Pillowcases

Do you always sleep on the same side of your face and find fine lines or creases in the morning where your face was pressed again your pillow? Research has found sleeping on a cotton pillowcase may cause permanent damage overtime. To combat, try sleeping on your back or switching to a silk case to soften the blow.

Drinking from straws

Regular pursing of your lips to drink from a straw has been found to cause premature ageing of the skin. Repeated facial expressions have been found to form fine lines and creases around the mouth over time. A glass is a fail-safe option.

Air conditioning

Office air conditioning dries out the skin, which can lead to dehydrated cells and flaking. To avoid this, drink plenty of water throughout the day, use a nourishing moisturiser, lip balm and hand cream. Also, keep a hydrating rose water spray on your desk for moments when your skin feels tight.

Soap

Cleansing the skin is super important to wash away free radicals and dirt that can build up on the skin. But, some soap can also strip away the protective barriers (the acid mantle) from the skin, and cause drying and dehydration on the surface.

“Over cleansing the skin will strip the acid mantle the precious oil and water barrier that protects the skin, it is referred to as the skins first line of defence, it protects the skin from bacterial invasion, it contains natural anti-inflammatory properties and it waterproofs the skin, stopping Trans Epidermal Water Loss (TEWL) or what is more commonly known as dehydration,” said Debbie Dickson, DMK Danné Skin Care.

“Over cleansing will cause the skin to become red and reactive, rough and flat in appearance, fine lines and wrinkles can start to form. A youthful skin is plump and supple.” Try a chemical-free face and body cleanser that are both PH-neutral.

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