15 h. ago Texas death toll reaches 134 as new flash flood watch issued

Authorities admit ‘we don’t know how many we lost’ as local officials receive death threatsAt least 134 people have now been confirmed to have died during the Texas Hill Country flooding on 4 July, according to an ABC News report.Crews are continuing to search for the 101 people still missing. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Conservative leader faces calls to resign after 'disgusting' Keir Starmer WhatsApp group 'joke'

It comes two week after he complained at a Bolton council meeting that he and other colleagues had received death threats

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2 w. ago Lessons for Young Artists by David Gentleman review – secrets from the studio

The much-loved painter, designer of stamps and creator of anti-war posters shares tips from a 90-year careerYou know the art of David Gentleman even if you don’t know you know it. Anyone who’s passed through London’s Charing Cross tube station has seen his life-filled black-and-white mural of medieval people, enlarged from his woodcuts, digging, hammering, chiselling to construct the Eleanor Cross that once stood nearby. His graphic art has graced everything from stamps to book covers to Stop the War posters in a career spanning seven decades. He says he’s been making art for 90 years, since he was five.His parents were also artists, and in his latest book he reproduces a Shell poster by his father to show he follows in a modern British tradition of well-drawn, well-observed popular art. Perhaps it is because he learned from his parents as naturally as learning to speak – “Seeing them drawing tempted me to draw” – that Gentleman dislikes pedagogy. He’s proud that...

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2 w. ago Sir Andy Murray makes claim about his children as big worry outlined

Murray is the latest high-profile player in the sport to open up about the topic, following Katie Boulter's revelation that she receives vile social media abuse, including death threats.

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3 w. ago Aimee Lou Wood calls out 'vile threats of violence and death' after sharing anti

The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Woods reveals she was on the receiving end of violent death threats after posting a famous anti-war speech by British politician Tony Benn

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3 w. ago Aimee Lou Wood says she received death threats after sharing anti

‘Love getting vile threats of violence and death just for saying I'm against war and innocent people dying,’ Wood posted on Instagram

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3 w. ago Aimee Lou Wood reveals she has been sent 'vile death threats' after sharing clip of Tony Benn's famous anti

Aimee Lou Wood has revealed that she has been sent 'vile death threats' after sharing a clip of Tony Benn's famous anti-war speech following US strikes on Iran.

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4 w. ago Air hostess, 30, 'on holiday with Lamine Yamal', 17, sent death threats over 'relationship'

Fati Vazquez - a social media influencer and air hostess - has received death threats after online sleuths placed her on holiday with teenage Barcelona prodigy Lamine Yamal

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4 w. ago Katie Boulter: The toxic death threats received by British tennis star and what Judy Murray says about abuse

Katie Boulter, Britain’s world no.2 tennis player, has opened up on the detail of toxic messages received online.

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4 w. ago Katie Boulter reveals reply to online troll after receiving death threats

The British No 2 has detailed the extent of online abuse following her second round match at the French Open in an ever-increasing issue in tennis

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4 w. ago Katie Boulter opens up over ‘awful’ online abuse sent to tennis players

British player talks about receiving toxic messages‘I don’t think there’s anything off the cards now’The British tennis No 2 Katie Boulter has lifted the lid on the level of abuse aimed at some players and revealed she and her family have received death threats.Boulter shared her experiences with BBC Sport to highlight the issue of players receiving toxic messages online. The 28-year-old’s examples included a message telling her to buy “candles and a coffin for your entire family” with a reference to her “grandmother’s grave if she’s not dead by tomorrow”, one stating she should “go to hell” as she had cost the poster money, and another stating “hope you get cancer”. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Katie Boulter reveals online abuse sent to her and other tennis players

British player talks about receiving toxic messages‘I don’t think there’s anything off the cards now’The British No 2, Katie Boulter, has revealed the level of abuse aimed at some players and said she and her family have received death threats. Boulter shared her experiences with BBC Sport to highlight players receiving toxic messages online.The 28-year-old’s examples included a message telling her to buy “candles and a coffin for your entire family” with a reference to her “grandmother’s grave if she’s not dead by tomorrow”, one stating she should “go to hell” as she had cost the poster money and another stating “hope you get cancer”. In 2014, Boulter detailed the harassment that can accompany a higher profile in the game. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Wimbledon British hopeful Katie Boulter reveals she receives 'astronomical levels' of death threats and unwanted messages about how she looks

The 28-year-old British number two explained how most of the abuse she receives comes from 'people who are betting on the tennis'.

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