Every winter, households across Britain get misty-eyed at the latest Christmas advert from John Lewis. From 2021's'Unexpected Guest' featuring an alien crash-landing on Earth, to 2016's'Buster the Boxer' starring a dog leaping on a trampoline, these adverts pull on our heartstrings like no other. While there's still four months to go until Christmas rolls around, some people are already so excited for the advert that they're speculating what it could be about. Its script features a pocket watch left in a cozy coffee shop in a picturesque snowy village - but does it live up to John Lewis' reputation? The ad opens on a snowy village with a cozy coffee shop at the heart.

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to create'ideal' pageant queen candidates as part of a study to explore the beauty standards of Miss United Kingdom and other global contests. The experts at Great Green Wall used online image generator Midjourney to do this, which gave a surprising variety of results for each country. While Miss United Kingdom was thought to have been influenced by Princess Diana, other nations were inspired by athletes, Bollywood and even Marilyn Monroe. Yet these images often included'highly unobtainable body proportions', researchers said, with'supermodel-like facial structures that can only be achieved through cosmetic surgery or genetics'. Founder of Great Green Wall, Sam Phoenix, wrote: 'Beauty standards can vary drastically from country to country, so it was fascinating to see how well the AI was able to recreate those unique beauty standards within a "pageant" setting.