4 d. ago Graham Linehan calls Father Ted star Ardal O'Halnon 'a coward' in transgender row

The Irish comedy writer also accused the actor, who played Father Dougal McGuire in the Channel 4 comedy, of letting down his wife and daughters over his stance.

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6 d. ago Gerry McCann calls for stronger press regulation as he recalls ‘monstering’

Parents of Madeleine McCann among dozens to sign letter to PM urging him to revive second part of Leveson inquiryMadeleine McCann’s father has called for greater scrutiny of the UK media as he told how “monstering” by sections of the press had made him feel like he was being “suffocated and buried”.Gerry McCann said his family was tormented by press “abuses” and that the media had “repeatedly interfered” with the investigation into his daughter’s disappearance in 2007. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Madeleine McCann’s father calls for greater scrutiny of UK media

Gerry McCann said his family were subjected to ‘monstering’ by sections of the press and are lucky to have ‘survived’.

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8 d. ago Student stabbed girlfriend to death in ‘savage’ attack ‘then called his father for a lawyer’

Joshua Michals, from Chicago in the US, and Chinese national Zhe Wang had an on-and-off relationship in London that ended in murder, a trial heard

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8 d. ago American Goldsmiths student stabbed girlfriend to death in ‘savage’ attack ‘then called his father for a lawyer’

American Goldsmiths student stabbed girlfriend to death in ‘savage’ attack ‘then called his father for a lawyer’  The Independent

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8 d. ago American Goldsmiths student stabbed fellow student to death ‘before calling his father for a solicitor’

Joshua Michals and Zhe Wang began an on-and-off casual relationship in 2023

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8 d. ago Wealthy American Goldsmiths student, 26, who stabbed his girlfriend then called his father asking for a solicitor as she lay dying is found guilty of murder

Joshua Michals was found guilty at the Old Bailey today, after saying he attacked fellow student Zhe Wang in self-defence.

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8 d. ago Duchess of Sussex calls hospitals in the Philippines in search for estranged father Thomas Markle

Mr Markle has said he does not want to die distanced from his daughter after his leg was reportedly amputated below the knee

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1 week ago Hannah Waddingham pulls out of Kate's carol concert at last minute over 'compromised' health

The Ted Lasso star, 51, had been set to sing in front of members of the royal family at Princess of Wales’ annual concert

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1 week ago Hannah Waddingham pulls out of performance at Kate's Christmas carol service as Ted Lasso star left with 'compromised' singing voice from 'exhausting filming schedule'

The 51-year-old Ted Lasso actress was due to sing the much-loved carol In The Bleak Midwinter to 1,600 guests including Royal Family members at Westminster Abbey.

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1 week ago All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles review – a deliciously sweary, prize

The actor Paul Hilton brilliantly inhabits the character of a ranting working-class academic in this debut novelSome books feel so suited to the audio format that they could have been written with the voice in mind. All My Precious Madness is one of those. Mark Bowles’s debut novel, which won the audiobook fiction category at the inaugural British Audio awards (where, full disclosure, I was a judge), is a deliciously sweary monologue from a middle-aged malcontent.A sideways reflection on working-class identity and masculinity, the novel gives voice to Henry Nash, a man of little patience. Sitting in a London coffee shop and trying to write a monograph of his father, he rains judgment on the other patrons whose obnoxious phone calls he can’t help but overhear. An Oxford graduate turned writer and academic, Nash lives in a Soho flat where he has been known to furtively drop eggs on passersby who disturb him with their drunken racket. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘Bad girls’ is how society labels women in prison. But what if that label is a lie? | Sabrina Mahtani

Incarceration should be a last resort, yet this broken and brutal system punishes marginalised women, most of whom are inside for non-violent crimes‘When you imprison a woman, you imprison a family,” a young woman in Sierra Leone told me, cradling her small baby in a damp cell. My mind flashed back to being a teenager, hearing my mother sob after receiving a phone call to say that my father had been arrested in Zambia for political reasons.I understand how children are collateral damage of imprisonment, and over 20 years as a lawyer, I know that is even more true when women – primary caregivers – are arrested. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Son of murdered detective pleads with UK Government to recognise father's bravery

Adrian Hunt has called on Downing Street to finally recognise his detective father's bravery after he was murdered 42 years ago while helping colleagues make an arrest.

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2 w. ago Chris Eubank Jr releases shocking footage from hospital: Fans call for boxer, who is set to be a father to twins, to retire after 'a lot of health issues' at 36

Chris Eubank Jr has shared shocking footage of himself seemingly unconscious in hospital, with fans calling for the boxer to hang up his gloves for good.  

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2 w. ago Utah dad charged with child torture after taking his small children on mountain hike, ending with two of them unconscious

A now-deactivated GoFundMe page initially called Utah father-of-three Micah Smith a hero for saving his kids during a storm on their dangerous hike

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3 w. ago Father Ted creator Graham Linehan hits out at 'dangerous men' who 'bully women and girls' as he is cleared of harassing trans activist 

Graham Linehan, pictured outside Westminster Magistrates' Court, where he was on trial accused of harassing a trans activist called Sophia Brooks.

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3 w. ago Graham Linehan 'proud to stand up to trans activists' after he's cleared of harassment but guilty of phone damage

Linehan is expected to appeal against his criminal damage conviction, his lawyer told the court

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3 w. ago Father Ted creator Graham Linehan found not guilty of harassment after row with trans activist

Graham Linehan, pictured outside Westminster Magistrates' Court, where he was on trial accused of harassing a trans activist called Sophia Brooks.

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3 w. ago Graham Linehan: 'Angry and fed up' TV writer cleared of harassing trans activist but guilty of phone damage

Linehan is expected to appeal against his criminal damage conviction, his lawyer told the court

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3 w. ago Father Ted's Graham Linehan wins legal fight after being cleared of harassing trans activist

Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has been cleared at Westminster Magistrates' Court

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