43 h. ago Helen Flanagan issues a cryptic warning as she prepares to release a tell

The former Corrie star, 35, shot to fame as Rosie in the Cobbles in 2000 and has never left the limelight since.

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3 d. ago Cat Stevens postpones book tour of North America due to visa issues

Singer who now goes by Yusuf Islam was set to tour in support of his book, Cat on the Road to Findout, out in the US in OctoberCat Stevens, who now goes by Yusuf Islam, has postponed the North American leg of his book tour due to unspecified visa issues, the singer announced on social media Monday.The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member was set to tour in support of his book, Cat on the Road to Findout, which will release in the US on 7 October and was made available in the UK earlier in September. The book release won’t be impacted, Islam wrote, noting that “books don’t need visas!” Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Yusuf / Cat Stevens postpones book tour of North America due to visa issues

Singer who now goes by Yusuf Islam was set to tour in support of his book, Cat on the Road to Findout, out in the US in OctoberCat Stevens, who also goes by Yusuf Islam, has postponed the North American leg of his book tour due to unspecified visa issues, the singer announced on social media Monday.The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member was set to tour in support of his book, Cat on the Road to Findout, which will release in the US on 7 October and was made available in the UK earlier in September. The book release won’t be impacted, Stevens wrote, noting that “books don’t need visas!” Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Civil Aviation Authority issues statement after budget airline axes all flights

Passengers have been issued guidance on what to do if they have a flight booked with the airline

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4 d. ago California police stumped after trying to ticket driverless car for illegal U

San Bruno officers pull over Waymo but say a ticket wasn’t issued, as ‘our citation books don’t have a box for “robot”’If a driver makes an illegal U-turn, but no one is behind the wheel, does the car still get a ticket? A police department in California grappled with this existential question last week.During a DUI enforcement operation, officers in San Bruno pulled over a car without anyone behind the wheel after the autonomous vehicle made an illegal U-turn at a light. A post by the San Bruno police department on Saturday shows an officer looking into a Waymo – the leading autonomous ride-hailing vehicle in the San Francisco Bay Area – after stopping the signature white car. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Cat Stevens postpones North American tour and cites visa issues

Cat Stevens, who also goes by Yusuf, announced Monday that he has postponed the North American leg of his book tour due to unspecified visa issues

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8 d. ago Family 'heartbroken' as holiday park staff send them home after booking issue

Claire Williams and her family had been looking forward to staying at Sandford Holiday Park in Poole, Dorset, but were sent straight back home from the caravan park

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9 d. ago The Librarians review – the heroic women battling against book bans and censorship

Kim A Snyder’s documentary highlights the defenders of young readers’ rights to see their lives in print facing rightwing attacksThere is real and genuine fear about young people’s use of pornography; usually, that conversation is about exposure to porn online, not in libraries. But this excellent culture wars documentary tells the story of book-banning in red states such as Florida and Texas, where religious rightwingers are crusading to protect children from “obscene” books. Usually that means titles about LGBTQ+ issues or race, and books about girls getting their period aren’t safe either. In Tennessee, a school board banned Maus, the graphic novel memoir of the Holocaust by Art Spiegelman, for mouse nudity. The utter nonsense of it would be funny if it wasn’t so disturbing.The most recent purge began in 2021 with a list of 850 books circulated by Texas state representative Matt Krause (over 60% were books with LGBTQ+ themes). Rightwing Florida governor Ron DeSantis piled in, fol...

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2 w. ago Bjorn Borg reveals his 'shame' as a father and how he fled to London to battle drug issues in new extracts from his book

The 11-time Grand Slam champion is famously private. He has spoken rarely about his private life but now, in Heartbeats released on Tuesday, he bares all.

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3 w. ago ‘Print has become more powerful than ever’: Edward Enninful launches new magazine

Former British Vogue editor has mined his starry contacts book for first issue of 72, with Julia Roberts on the coverEighteen months after he wrapped up his tenure at British Vogue with a final issue featuring 40 famous women on the cover, Edward Enninful is back on newsstands.On Friday he released the debut issue of 72 magazine, a quarterly print title. It is the first project from Enninful’s new venture EE72, a media and entertainment company he set up in May with his sister, the talent agent Akua Enninful. On the magazine’s masthead Edward Enninful is credited as chief creative officer, cementing his pivot from editor to entrepreneur. Continue reading...

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