51 m. ago Disney+ drops to £1.99 in rare deal Netflix and Amazon can't beat

Disney Plus has brought back a mega monthly deal that shaves 60% off its usual price and makes it the cheapest streamer compared to Netflix, Prime Video and Apple TV+

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98 m. ago Greta Thunberg touches back down in Sweden after being deported from Israel and vows to RETURN after failed 'freedom flotilla' mission

The 22-year-old activist spoke to reporters in Paris just hours after being forcibly removed from Israel alongside a group of 11 other international activists who had been on board the 'freedom flotilla'.

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4 h. ago Trump to restore Confederate generals like Robert E. Lee to military bases after Biden changed them

Congress mandated removal of Confederate traitors from base names in late 2020

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4 h. ago The 10 common blunders people make when they move home revealed by experts

Buying and selling a home is an expensive business even before you take into account stamp duty , removal costs, a surveyor and estate agent fees.

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5 h. 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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6 h. ago Sydney Sweeney survived freezing cold lakes and emotional breakdowns for Echo Valley — and says it was a dream

The actress was in London on Tuesday night for the UK premiere of Echo Valley, Apple TV+’s new psychological thriller in which she stars opposite Julianne Moore

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8 h. ago Disney fans still angry over beloved attraction removed from park: 'I miss it so much'

Disney fans recall how much they enjoyed Toontown in Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.

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9 h. ago Falkirk cemetery memorial marks almost 1500 people given 'paupers' burial'

MP Euan Stainbank and Strathcarron singers were among those who attended the ceremony

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11 h. ago Orlando Bloom pays £10k to 'clean' blood and get plastics removed from his body

Orlando has paid to get the ‘micro plastics’ removed from his body and blood stream in a posh London clinic after saying he wanted to 'rid his body of chemicals'

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11 h. ago Anger and confusion in community cut off from mountainside as gates remain in place

People in Cwmparc had hoped that the controversial gates would be taken down after the council ordered their removal, but there has been a new twist

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13 h. ago Dad fell to his death while on holiday in Turkey after being removed from flight

Ben Crook, 32, was reported missing after he flew out to Antalya with partner Jess Jenkins and their two children on September 23.

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13 h. ago Driver, 42, 'deliberately removed black box' before hitting and killing schoolgirl, 15, at zebra crossing, court hears

Christopher West was allegedly speeding in a 30mph zone when he struck schoolgirl Keely Morgan, 15 in Heol Trelai in Caerau, Cardiff, in May 2023.

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14 h. ago Why is this Indian state asking to kill protected wild animals?

Kerala wants federal government to declare wild boars as vermin, remove bonnet macaques from protected list, and permit killing of all animals identified as maneaters

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14 h. ago US universities are moving to the right. Will it help them escape Trump’s wrath?

Harvard, Columbia and other higher education institutes are facing funding cuts over their policies, but reform may not be the administration’s goalIn 2018, a teaching hospital at Harvard took down 30 portraits of distinguished doctors and researchers affiliated with the hospital. The portraits reinforced a perception that “white men are in charge”, a professor of medicine told the Boston Globe, and were relegated to less prominent areas of the hospital. Some students and faculty welcomed the decision, or were indifferent.Others were disconcerted. They saw the portraits’ removal as the impulsive reflex of a university whose political atmosphere, already liberal leaning, seemed to continually lurch further left. Continue reading...

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15 h. 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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15 h. ago Juliet & Romeo review – Rebel Wilson and Jason Isaacs cameo in syrupy Shakespeare musical

With bare-faced cheek, this bardless take replaces all the original language with olden-days-effect prose – adding singing, dancing and a pointlessly starry castDirector and former stage actor Timothy Scott Bogart is best known for having made Spinning Gold, a biopic of his father Neil Bogart, the New York music producer and founder of the 70s disco-era label Casablanca Records. Now he has confected a syrupy new musical take on Romeo and Juliet, with music by his brother Evan Kidd Bogart (who won a Grammy for his work on Beyoncé’s single Halo).Bogart retells the basic story but with Shakespeare’s language all removed and replaced with olden-days-effect prose: a kind of bardless Baz Luhrmann. Ultimately – with what I do have to admit is some amiable cheek – Bogart contrives to do for this play what Nahum Tate did for King Lear. It’s really pretty bland, and with each turn in the plot you have to ask what the point of it actually is. Continue reading...

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15 h. 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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17 h. ago Ed Miliband says Reeves deserves credit for winter fuel payment U

Energy secretary says chancellor did not make mistake in initial decision to remove benefit from most pensionersUK politics live – latest updatesRachel Reeves deserves credit for her U-turn on winter fuel allowance, Ed Miliband has said while denying that it was wrong to make the initial cut.The Treasury announced on Monday that it would restore the allowance to all pensioners with an income of £35,000 or less a year, amid public outrage over the cut, which was the first act of the Labour government. Reeves had previously removed the benefit from all but the poorest pensioners – those on pension credit. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Orlando Bloom undergoes £10k treatment to remove microplastics and toxic chemicals from his blood

Orlando Bloom underwent a £10k treatment to remove microplastics and toxic chemicals from his blood at Clarify Clinic on Monday.

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18 h. ago Once again, British politicians want to ‘ban the burqa’. But this time, I’ve never felt so afraid | Nadeine Asbali

Since the riots last summer British Muslims have felt a deep unease in our own countryHere we are again, debating the right of Muslim women to wear what they want. Last week, the Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin asked the prime minister, Keir Starmer, if he planned to follow other European countries and prohibit burqas.Then the leader of the opposition, Kemi Badenoch, called for bosses to be able to ban the burqa in the workplace. Following the example of the former Labour minister Jack Straw, who in 2006 sparked the first burqa debate by asking constituents at his surgeries to remove their face coverings, she stated that she does not see constituents at her surgeries if they have their faces covered, “whether it’s a burqa or a balaclava”.Nadeine Asbali is a secondary school teacher in London and the author of Veiled Threat: On Being Visibly Muslim in Britain Continue reading...

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