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Hyundai raised IONIQ 5 lease rates, but it’s still a great deal

Hyundai raised IONIQ 5 lease rates, but it’s still a great deal

Hyundai’s electric SUV is still one of the most affordable EVs available, starting at $35,000. The IONIQ 5 is a bit more expensive to lease this month, but it’s hard to pass up with 0% APR financing or up to a $5,000 discount. Hyundai IONIQ 5 September deals and discounts The IONIQ 5 has remained one of the most popular EVs, largely thanks to the value that it offers. In the first half of 2026, the Hyundai IONIQ 5 was the best-selling electric vehicle in the US outside of a Tesla model. After the $7,500 federal EV tax credit expired last September, Hyundai responded by cutting prices on the 2026 IONIQ 5 by nearly $10,000 on some trims. The 2026 Hyundai IONIQ 5 starts at $35,000, making it one of America’s most affordable electric cars, alongside the new Chevy Bolt EV, Nissan LEAF, Toyota bZ, and now, the Kia EV3. Advertisement – scroll for more content When it comes to deals and discounts, Hyundai beats the competition. The IONIQ 5 is available this September with …

The Great British Sewing Bee 2026 winner revealed in season 12 finale

The Great British Sewing Bee 2026 winner revealed in season 12 finale

After 10 tough weeks, the winner of The Great British Sewing Bee has been revealed and crowned Britain’s best amateur sewer of 2026. Throughout the series, 12 talented home sewers were tasked with creating beautiful garments under the watchful eyes of judges Esme Young and Patrick Grant – but only one could emerge triumphant. In the grand finale, Emma, Beth and Anna went head-to-head in an incredibly close, nail biting episode, But it was 27-year-old Anna from North Yorkshire was crowned the winner who, across the competition, also won garment of the week three times! Anna said: “Oh my god I can’t think of words to say that aren’t just screaming. If I could think of myself applying for the show, and then show myself now – oh my gosh I am going to cry. I never saw this coming and I have learned so much and met so many amazing people. It’s just so incredible!” Anna grew up in Surrey, moving to Manchester for university where she met her boyfriend Sebastian at a gig. …

Nigella Lawson admits her hesitations to join Great British Bake Off

Nigella Lawson admits her hesitations to join Great British Bake Off

Nigella Lawson has admitted that she was hesitant to take up the mantle of new judge on The Great British Bake Off – because she didn’t feel worthy of it. The wholesome Channel 4 favourite announced last year that bestselling author and internationally renowned chef Nigella taking over from Prue Leith in the iconic Bake Off tent, joining Paul Hollywood as judge. But with such big shoes to fill, Nigella confessed that, while it was an easy decision to say yes, she was uncertain she would be able to rise to the challenge. Speaking to RadioTimes and other press ahead of the series launch, Nigella said: “I actually did worry that I didn’t deserve the honour to be honest, and I did speak to Paul. Paul and I met up and we chatted. “‘You know what kind of baker I am!’ I love baking, and I’m a bit more ramshackle than Paul, but that’s good to have all kinds of baking represented. “But I just wanted to make sure because I… you know I did …

I’ve Been Using iOS 27 for Months. Here’s What’s Great and What Needs to Change

I’ve Been Using iOS 27 for Months. Here’s What’s Great and What Needs to Change

The latest iOS update is out now. Apple released iOS 27 on Monday, Sept. 14 (just as I predicted). You’d be forgiven for thinking Siri AI is the only new addition, but the OS includes several other features — even if they aren’t especially groundbreaking. You can download iOS 27 now by going to Settings > General > Software Update > Update Now and following the prompts on your screen. I’ve been using iOS 27 betas since June, and found a handful of useful new features, including a new Liquid Glass slider, and even started testing the revamped Siri after avoiding the digital assistant for a decade. Overall, my phone feels snappier and opening apps is almost instantaneous.  Apple’s iOS 27 brings a lot of quality of life upgrades to your device without as many standout new features as previous iOS updates — similar to Liquid Glass in iOS 26. There are also a few questionable changes, such as a new way to access your Notification Center, which isn’t unusual for these annual upgrades. Overall, …

The great ones recover, Wolff says of Russell after latest beating

The great ones recover, Wolff says of Russell after latest beating

MADRID, Sept 14 : Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has assured George Russell he will have the team’s full support to unleash his talent and fight for Formula One championships despite being eclipsed by 20-year-old teammate Kimi Antonelli this season. Russell, 28, started the campaign as title favourite, but has won just twice to the Italian’s eight in the 14 rounds to date. Still second in the championship, the Briton finished fifth at the new Madrid circuit on Sunday while Antonelli celebrated victory in the first Spanish Grand Prix held at Madrid’s new circuit and went 81 points clear in the standings. “When it comes to George, you can have good races, bad races. Good years and bad years. But we’re talking about the driver that has won everything that you could have potentially won before,” Wolff told reporters at the Madring. “Every single karting championship, Formula Three in his rookie year, Formula Two in his rookie year, (he) went into the Williams (team). I mean, we’re talking about a top driver.  “We need to find …

George Lucas’s Next Great Epic Is an Art Museum

George Lucas’s Next Great Epic Is an Art Museum

What’s your story? The story that you live by, that your cells are geared to, even or especially when you’re not thinking about it? Do we create our own meaning, or should we be trying to discover the meaning that created us? Is it the tractor beams of heavenly love that hold us here, like God’s guy ropes, or are we adrift? Explore the October 2026 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. View More When George Lucas, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, began writing the screenplay for Star Wars, he had a copy of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Faces clamped, so to speak, between his teeth. For Campbell, a professor with a popular touch, life was nothing more or less than a summons to greatness. Across cultures, and across the history of the human imagination, he had discerned it, “the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story”: the hero’s journey. Departure, initiation, return. Living is a heroic business, Campbell insisted. …

📚 A great deal of pleasure

📚 A great deal of pleasure

Shaun Tan is a bestselling and Academy Award-winning author-artist of The Arrival, among many others. His newest graphic novel is Hometown, out tomorrow from Levine Querido Books. Below, he discusses 20 years of his career creating art about belonging. Twenty years have passed between creating The Arrival and Hometown, and, as in real life, some things are different, and some are the same. Since 2006, I’ve gotten married, become a parent, moved house several times, worked on various unusual art projects, all with the usual ups and downs, joys, anxieties, and challenges. Where The Arrival is about a character venturing forth into an unknown world to begin a new life, Hometown is about someone very much at peace already: a teenage girl with a loving family, a comfortable home, and a secure sense of meaning. Where The Arrival presents a search for humanist sanctuary, Hometown presents a humanist sanctuary taken for granted. Well, not really, because there are no humans in this sanctuary. Except for the girl, of course, blissfully unaware of her genetic identity …

Two men aged 25 died during the Great North Run | UK News

Two men aged 25 died during the Great North Run | UK News

Two men died taking part in the Great North Run, race organisers have said. The two men, both aged 25, collapsed during Sunday’s event, which involved 63,000 runners. Both men, who were from the North East, were competing in the 13.1-mile route, the Great Run Company said. The event organisers said the two runners died despite the “very best efforts” of medical teams. The cause of death has yet to be determined. The organisers said no further details will be released out of respect for the men’s families. The Great Run Company said: “Everyone involved in organising the Great North Run extends their heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of the two participants. “We are continuing to support their families during this incredibly difficult time, and our thoughts and sympathies are with all those who loved and knew them.” Read more from Sky News:Hillwalker missing in Scottish HighlandsIs Reform UK ‘the new establishment?’ The event, which is the world’s biggest half marathon, was the 45th staging of the Newcastle to South Shields run. Andy …

The Great Celebrity Pottery Throw Down 2026 line-up: Meet the contestants

The Great Celebrity Pottery Throw Down 2026 line-up: Meet the contestants

The Great Pottery Throw Down is back on screens this weekend, joining a wealth of cosy programmes for audiences to get stuck into as we get closer to autumn. Kicking off tonight (13 September), the celebrity spin-off series takes six famous faces with little to no ceramics experience and hands them the clay for the first time. In a twist on the original format, there is no weekly elimination and instead, the celebrities will be given the time and space to learn and develop over five episodes, earning points across a run of challenges before four of them battle it out in a grand final for the title of champion. Hosting proceedings is Liza Tarbuck, in her first major gig since leaving BBC Radio 2, with expert judging from Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller. Read on below for a guide to the contestants taking part. Lucy Beaumont Lucy Beaumont. Channel 4 Age: 42 Job: Comedian Location: Hull Instagram: @the_one_from_hull Lucy Beaumont is a comedian and actor best known for her observational stand-up and her BAFTA-nominated …

Making The World Great One Nation At A Time

Making The World Great One Nation At A Time

Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, What we call “globalism” has been on the march for eighty years. A system that embraces centralized markets, bureaucratic regulation, international institutions, and so-called non-governmental organizations (predominantly funded by governments), globalism places significant power in the hands of a small collection of wealthy and powerful stakeholders from the planet’s top investment houses, corporations, law firms, universities, central banks, and government bodies. Globalism speaks in the language of “democracy” while ignoring – or even criminalizing – the will of the people. Across the West, citizens have opposed open border policies that have flooded their nations with unassimilable, foreign immigrants. Globalists have categorized this dissent as “hate speech,” censoring – and even prosecuting – citizens for their social media posts and public speech. Globalists insist that there must be limits on free speech. They seek to punish “thought crimes.” They label opposing points of view “disinformation” or “misinformation.” In practice, globalists protect governments and institutions from public criticism. Globalism also speaks in the language of “free markets” while heavily regulating …