90 m. ago David Attenborough's remarkable seven decade career and life behind screens as icon set to turn 99

David Attenborough is set to turn 99-years-old next week on May 8 with his new film Ocean set to premiere in cinemas the same day but many don't know much about the iconic broadcaster's life behind screens despite his lengthy television career.

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1 hour ago Charlotte Tilbury’s new sculpting face palette made me rethink filler

The makeup artist calls it her ‘face lift filter’

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2 h. ago Hollyoaks announce 30th anniversary tour with iconic cast members ahead of milestone

Hollyoaks: The 30th Anniversary Tour, the live in-conversation event, will take place in October with several iconic cast members taking fans back through the past three decades

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2 h. ago ‘Do something with your actions. Don’t just write a cheque’: Bonnie Raitt on activism, making men cry and 38 years of sobriety

Going back out on tour, the 13-time Grammy winner recalls stark inspirations and steamy studio sessions as she answers your questionsYou’ve had a decades-long career. When did you first feel that you had “made it”? LondonLuvverI wasn’t expecting to do music for a job. I was into social activism in college, and I just had music as a hobby. My boyfriend managed a bunch of blues artists and I asked if I could open for some of them – just to have fun and hang out with my heroes. Unbeknown to me, there really weren’t any women playing blues guitar and doing the mix of songs [I was], and I immediately got more offers of gigs and even a record company offer within about a year. That first gig I got under my own name, when I was 19, was a total surprise: that’s when I felt I had made it.How was it growing up with a father [John Raitt] who was such a big Broadway star? Abbeyorchards7He had hits in the 1940s with Carousel, and in the 50s with The Pajama Game. By the time I was 10 or 11, he wa...

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2 h. ago A plea to the West: help us save America’s democracy | Anonymous

Countries from Canada to Japan must take steps to isolate the United States in world diplomacyDonald Trump and his political allies in Washington have undertaken far-sweeping actions to undermine the foundations of American democracy, while simultaneously pursuing policies that erode and disrupt eight decades of trust and cooperation with democratic allies in Europe, North America and Asia.While leaders in these countries grapple with what is happening in Trump’s America, they must now ask themselves a new and critical question of immense relevance – one that has never been asked before in the modern era: Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Police to protect Madeleine McCann's parents at prayer vigil after 'stalking' incidents

Kate and Gerry McCann, who were allegedly stalked by two women last year, are set to attend Saturday's vigil in Rothley to mark the 18th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance

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4 h. ago Topshop's official return date to the high street confirmed – and it's just days away

The return of the brand that disappeared from the UK's high street in 2021 is set to happen in days, but fashion fans might be left disappointed in their attempts to get their hands on some clothes

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4 h. ago Magic wands: 9 of the very best mascaras according to makeup artists

Rose Beer reports on the best-of-the-best mascaras about

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4 h. ago Magic wands: Nine of the very best mascaras according to makeup artists

Rose Beer reports on the best-of-the-best mascaras about

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5 h. ago Kneecap row: police assessing ‘kill MP’ and ‘up Hamas, up Hezbollah’ footage

News comes as artists including Pulp, Paul Weller and Primal Scream defend Irish rap trio from criticismCounter-terrorism police are investigating footage that appears to show Kneecap calling for politicians to be killed, and shouting “up Hamas, up Hezbollah”, while dozens of artists – including Pulp, Paul Weller and Primal Scream – have defended the Irish rap trio from staunch criticism from politicians on both sides of the Commons benches.On Thursday, detectives said videos of the two incidents had been brought to their attention in late April, and had been referred for assessment by specialist counter-terrorism officers. They had “determined there are grounds for further investigation into potential offences linked to both videos”, officers said. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Delays expected when resurfacing begins on major Dumfries and Galloway road

Overnight convoys will be introduced while Amey resurfaces a stretch of the A75.

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6 h. ago Move fast and destroy things: 100 chaotic days of Elon Musk in the White House

From mass firings to unprecedented influence, Musk has left little of the federal government untouched in Doge roleOne hundred days after Elon Musk entered the White House as Donald Trump’s senior adviser and the de facto leader of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), the Tesla CEO has left little of the federal government unscathed. Over the course of just a few months, he has gutted agencies and public services that took decades to build while accumulating immense political power.Musk’s role in the Trump administration is without modern precedent. Never before has the world’s richest person been deputized by the US president to cull the very agencies that oversee his businesses. Musk’s attempts to radically dismantle government bureaus have won him sprawling influence. His team has embedded its members in key roles across federal agencies, gained access to personal data on millions of Americans and fired tens of thousands of workers. SpaceX, where he is CEO,...

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6 h. ago Artist’s works resurface nearly five decades after disappearing from Berlin studio

Exclusive: British Caribbean artist Winston Branch was distraught at loss of paintings – taken because he could not pay rentTwenty paintings by the Caribbean British abstract painter Winston Branch have been recovered after they disappeared without trace nearly five decades ago.“Those works were stolen from his studio because he wasn’t able to pay the rent back in the 1970s,” his agent, Varvara Roza, told the Guardian. “This is shocking, isn’t it?” Continue reading...

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6 h. ago ITV Corrie legend admits they couldn't do soap now almost three decades after exit

Thelma Barlow has opened up about her iconic role as Mavis Riley on Coronation Street and the reasons she decided to leave the cobbles almost three decades ago.

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7 h. ago Micah Richards walks out of TV studio after Inter Milan star destroys him over his suit

Micah Richards interviewed Inter Milan star Denzel Dumfries following their 3-3 draw with Barcelona in the Champions League semi-finals and it ended up being a hilarious moment

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8 h. ago Beware the used car buying scam that makes your vehicle appear faulty...

The 'dirty oil trick' has been used for years by con artists who'll trick you into thinking your engine is broken and try and get you to sell your car cheap for scrap.

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8 h. ago Coronation Street icon, 95, says why she 'couldn't be' in ITV soap now almost three decades after exit

The 95-year-old actress played Mavis Riley in the ITV soap from 1971 until 1997

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8 h. ago Arctic plant study reveals an ‘early warning sign’ of climate change upheaval

A warming tundra has seen unexpected shifts, raising the alarm about fragile ecosystems and those who rely on themScientists studying Arctic plants say the ecosystems that host life in some of the most inhospitable reaches of the planet are changing in unexpected ways in an “early warning sign” for a region upended by climate change.In four decades, 54 researchers tracked more than 2,000 plant communities across 45 sites from the Canadian high Arctic to Alaska and Scandinavia. They discovered dramatic shifts in temperatures and growing seasons produced no clear winners or losers. Some regions witnessed large increases in shrubs and grasses and declines in flowering plants – which struggle to grow under the shade created by taller plants. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Perfume Genius: ‘America was built on racism and violence and fear. Right now is a very public demonstration of that’

The avant-garde pop artist is back with his superb seventh album, ‘Glory’. He speaks with Roisin O’Connor about addressing his avoidant tendencies through his music, Trump’s attacks on LGBT+ rights, and his shifting relationship with his own body

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11 h. ago 'The untouchables' Directors behind £6m NHS corruption scandal 'thought they would walk free'

'Swaggering' telecoms chiefs Adam Sharoudi, 41, and Gavin Brown, 48, are behind bars and facing jail after a decade-long investigation into lucrative NHS contracts awarded to their Ayrshire-based firm Oricom.

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