Television & radioFrom The Idol to Russian Doll, a wave of series is filling screens with characters that just love chainsmoking. But how has a habit whose days seemed numbered returned to television? If you were around to absorb 2000s pop culture, you will remember that smoking was considered cool, for a while. Kate Moss smoked. Alexa Chung smoked. The Olsen twins, famously, smoked. Smoking was something you did in big sunglasses while having a bitching session on the street or outside a club.

Rumour MillTransfer windowToday’s rumours have made an impressive start It wouldn’t be a transfer window without Chelsea trying to buy a Brighton player and here’s January 2024’s version. Yes, Evan Ferguson, still a teenager, is this year’s model and would cost a Boehly-busting £100m. It seems unlikely, doesn’t it? But in the search for a striker that continues eternally at Chelsea, something of a centre-forward’s graveyard then perhaps the Irishman is the latest candidate.

Fir-coated … a peaceful piste in MegèveFir-coated … a peaceful piste in MegèveGreat little ski resortsSki resortsFor those who want to avoid the crowds on and off the slopes, this small town offers peaceful pistes, great dining options and a top-notch jazz festival to boot Er, where? Megève is in the south-east of France, near the Italian and Swiss borders, and emerged as a popular ski destination for the rich and famous in the 1920s.

Geraldine Largay: ‘When you find my body, please call my husband George … and my daughter Kerry.’ Photograph: Maine Warden ServiceGeraldine Largay: ‘When you find my body, please call my husband George … and my daughter Kerry.’ Photograph: Maine Warden ServiceMaine This article is more than 7 years oldHiker who went missing on Appalachian trail survived 26 days before dyingThis article is more than 7 years oldA journal found with the remains of 66-year-old Geraldine Largay show that she tried in vain to send SOS messages but finally accepted she would die A hiker survived for 26 days after disappearing off the Appalachian trail and wrote desperate journal entries and text messages that have only recently reached her family, according to documents newly released by the Maine warden service.

The ObserverPsychedeliaHoney Ltd were signed to Lee Hazlewood's label in the late 1960s, but stardom eluded them. Now their 'lost' cult debut album is finally getting the chance it deservesIn the summer of 1968, four 19-year-old friends left their home city of Detroit for Los Angeles, hoping to swap Motown for California Dreamin'. Marsha Jo Temmer (now known as Temmer Darigan), Laura Polkinghorne (now Laura Creamer) and sisters Joan and Alex Sliwin were students at Wayne State University who had found each other and formed a girl group, working out harmonies and dance routines in their lunch break.