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Mr & Mrs Split Why should we care that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are divorcing? Because if a couple with global fame, talent, beauty and £300m can’t make it last, who can? Katie Glass September 25 2016, 12:01am,  The Sunday Times In Case You Didn't Know ??  Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, who met on the set of Mr & Mrs Smith, are divorcing When did love die? According to Vogue, it was five days ago, with news that Hollywood’s golden couple, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, have filed for divorce. Brangelina — perhaps the world’s clunkiest portmanteau — is no more. Fans flooded Twitter in a deep state of mourning. “Today has been cancelled,” one sorrowfully wrote. After 12 years as half of Hollywood’s hottest pairing, and just two years after tying the knot, Jolie, we learnt, had filed for divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences”. She is asking for custody of the six children, granting Pitt visitation rights, and is reportedly being ...

Clubbed to death Who is killing Britain’s nightlife? For one London nightclubber it was the exotic taps in the lavatory — there was a secret to making them work that instantly identified regulars. Another recalled asking a man for the time and his watch glowed the letters “NOW”. For yet another it was “dancin’ on a sofa upstairs”. The closure last week of the Fabric nightclub in central London prompted a remarkable outpouring of nostalgia, grief and anger at the death of a dance music institution. “R.I.P. Fabric”, read one note left outside the club near the Smithfield meat market in Farringdon. “You’ve gone to join the big club in the sky.” Nearby, as if at a wake, kids sat crossed-legged beside candles, drinking beers. People in Fabric T-shirts wandered up to take photographs of the club that closed for ever on Tuesday after its licence was ­permanently revoked. On social media, thousands of fans used the hashtag #fabricmoments to share memories of “cracking parties”, “...

Look, No Tents Camper vans give you the joy of life in the wild without the discomfort Think back to the days when you were single and camping meant a cosy tent at a rock festival or a grassy site in Dorset, as close as possible to a pub. Camping with the family, on the other hand, can seem like a lot of hard work, which, surely, defeats the object of a relaxing break. It involves buying a wincingly expensive tent that “is guaranteed to survive a storm on Everest, sir”, countless chairs that will take your fingers off, a table that will collapse, a stove that will barely boil a kettle, ineffective plastic cutlery and special wipes for your bottom. None of this will come close to fitting in your car, so it’s off to Halfords for a roof box. It doesn’t have to be like this, however. The alternative is a camper van (note: not a full-size motor home) that will double as a people carrier when you are not on holiday. For the same price as a premium car, you can get a vehicle that ...

Picture special: I’m ready for my close-up Wild Encounters: Iconic Photographs of the World’s Vanishing Animals and Cultures by David Yarrow Self-taught photographer David Yarrow has released coffee table book of 70 stunning monochrome images of animals in their own habitat. It's published in affiliation with the charity Tusk, which will benefit from a percentage of sales. The wildlife photographer David Yarrow travelled the world on the trail of endangered species. The resulting images showcase the beauty and wonder of their fragile existence Standing chest-deep in a crocodile-infested swamp is all part of a day’s work for David Yarrow. The London-based photographer has spent more than a decade putting himself in harm’s way to gain a staggeringly intimate view of the natural world. For the close-enough-to-touch portrait of an orangutan above, Yarrow had to immerse himself in swamp waters in the Kalimantan region of Borneo. With nothing more than his came...