Can Valentine s Day dinner in a box live up to the restaurant experience? As doors remain shut, FEMAIL tries gourmet DIY kits costing up to £150 to find out which meals are worth the money and what leaves a bad taste
Restaurants will remain closed on Valentine s Day this year due to UK s lockdown
As an alternative thousands of Brits will be ordering restaurants kits at home
So, can the DIY kits ever compare to the real deal? Here Femail taste tests the most popular kits to try at home
27 January 2021
Crystal Palace have joined the wider footballing community in marking Holocaust Memorial Day by calling for the nation to ‘Light the Darkness’ this evening (27th January).
Footballers across the nation are calling on people to light a candle and place it safely in their windows at 20:00 GMT tonight, to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and stand against prejudice around the world.
Crystal Palace Football Club are proud to take part in the #LightTheDarkness national moment today.
On #HolocaustMemorialDay, light a candle and safely place it in your window at 8pm on 27 January. To remember, and to stand against prejudice in the world today. @HMD UKpic.twitter.com/Ir2n94LCRq
15 January 2021
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Crystal Palace Women cruelly fell to a last-ditch 1-0 defeat against Leicester in a historic Continental Cup quarter-final at Hayes Lane on a drizzle-soaked Thursday evening.
In summary:
Aoife Hurley scooped a half-volley narrowly over for the hosts
Leicester striker Natasha Flint slams a shot straight at Emma Gibbon
HT: Crystal Palace Women 0-0 Leicester
Flint again forces a fine reaction stop from Gibbon as Leicester grow in confidence
Talismanic forward Flint strikes powerfully from an indirect free-kick (88)
FT: Crystal Palace Women 0-1 Leicester
Crystal Palace had impressed in the previous rounds of the FA Continental Tyres League Cup, coming second in Group F to qualify for the quarter-finals for the first time, becoming the first ever part-time side to do so.
Lucy Fitzgerald’s curling effort is saved by Chloe Morgan in the 32nd-minute.
Half-Time: Crystal Palace 0-0 London City Lionesses
Amber Stobbs is shown a red card in the 60th-minute.
Florence Fyfe has a dangerous chance in the final moments.
Full-Time: Crystal Palace 0-0 London City Lionesses
Palace were hoping to get the New Year off to a good start when they travelled to Princes Park on Sunday afternoon, with both the Eagles and Lionesses on equal points as they entered their first game of 2021.
The visiting south Londoners enjoyed the first chance of the game, with Cherelle Khassal through on goal for the visitors in the seventh-minute. However, a firm tackle by City’s Hannah Short prevented her from taking her shot.
31 December 2020
2020: it s not been an easy one.
For the first time in most of our lives, football was suspended across the country for months. We had to wait 106 days between defeating Watford in March and trumping AFC Bournemouth in June and many of us will never have endured such a prolonged period without backing the lads in person.
But, if one thing has become clear, it s football s ability to provide a welcome break from whatever is happening off the pitch. It s one of the primary reasons the sport resumed at all, and its return brought relief for many supporters - even if it came through a TV screen.