6 h. ago Fury over 'sickening and racist' bonfire in Northern Ireland which has effigy of migrants in life jackets and a 'Stop the boats' sign at the top

A sign saying 'Veterans before refugees' was also put on the pyre in Moygashel, on the outskirts of Dungannon in Co Tyrone in Northern Ireland.

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6 h. ago Calls for removal of migrant effigies in boat on loyalist bonfire in Northern Ireland

12 life-sized mannequins in life jackets have been placed on the bonfire which will be lit in the next few days

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7 d. ago More than 400 media figures urge BBC board to remove Robbie Gibb over Gaza

Miriam Margolyes, Alexei Sayle and Mike Leigh among signatories to letter criticising Jewish Chronicle tiesMore than 400 stars and media figures including Miriam Margolyes, Alexei Sayle, Juliet Stevenson and Mike Leigh have signed a letter to BBC management calling for the removal of a board member, Robbie Gibb, over claims of conflict of interest regarding the Middle East.The signatories also include 111 BBC journalists and Zawe Ashton, Khalid Abdalla, Shola Mos-Shogbamimu and the historian William Dalrymple, who express “concerns over opaque editorial decisions and censorship at the BBC on the reporting of Israel/Palestine”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Police assessing videos of Kneecap and Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury performances

In the run-up to the festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, several politicians called for Kneecap to be removed from the line-up.

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1 week ago Kneecap lead Glastonbury crowd in chants against Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer

In the run-up to the festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, several politicians called for Kneecap to be removed from the line-up.

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1 week ago Kneecap's Glastonbury controversy explained as band will still perform despite axe calls

Kneecap will perform at Glastonbury on Saturday afternoon as they brush off the controversy surrounding them being on the lineup and calls for them to be removed

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1 week ago Popular crime writer calls on Goodreads to 'protect authors from online abuse'

Authors have called out Goodreads for failing to remove negative reviews of their novels before they've been released yet - with claims that it constitutes "online abuse"

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2 w. ago Outrage as famous actress accuses British Air India plane crash survivor of lying

Bollywood star Suchitra Krishnamoorthi has now removed her social media post calling for British man Vishwash Ramesh to receive "some serious punishment" for lying

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3 w. ago Kneecap get support from Johnny Marr amid calls for them to be axed from Glastonbury

Kneecap rapper Liam O hAnnaidh, 27, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday amid calls for his band to be removed from the 2025 Glastonbury line-up

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3 w. ago Calls grow for Kristi Noem to resign in the wake of Padilla incident

California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell leads calls for Homeland Security Secretary to step down after senator forcibly removed from her press conference on Thursday

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4 w. ago Brooke Shields podcast episode calling Meghan Markle ‘too serious’ quietly removed

Shields appeared on a recent episode of India Hicks’s podcast, where she addressed her awkward interaction with the Duchess of Sussex at the 2024 SXSW festival

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4 w. ago Love Island fans threaten to 'call Ofcom' as star could be removed from ITV villa

Love Island viewers have been graced with a brand new lineup but after ITV's first promised twist, fans at home have taken to social media to share their concerns

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4 w. ago A drop in the ocean: does experimental technology hold the key to saving the world’s seas?

Investment is pouring into companies promising to geoengineer a rapid change in the pH of our waters – but critics are concerned at the speed at which unproven methods are being adoptedIn October 2024, a US company called Ebb Carbon announced the world’s largest marine carbon removal deal to date, signing a multimillion-dollar agreement with Microsoft to try to help fix a very real problem in the world’s seas: ocean acidification.Ebb plans to use a method called electrochemical ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) to mimic the natural process of ocean alkalisation – in other words, it wants to add huge amounts of alkaline materials to ocean waters that scientists now know are acidifying at an alarming rate. Continue reading...

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last month King Charles' goddaughter India Hicks mysteriously deletes video from her website of Hollywood star Brooke Shields criticising Meghan Markle for being 'too precious'

India Hicks , who was a bridesmaid at Charles and Diana's wedding, has removed footage of Brooke Shields calling the Duchess of Sussex 'precious' from her personal website.

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