4 h. ago Hollyoaks star Callum Kerr calls on late mother’s friends not to attend stepfather’s funeral

“Please do not attend Andrew’s service if you were a friend of our mother"

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4 h. ago Hollyoaks star calls on late mother’s friends not to attend stepfather’s funeral

Andrew Searle and Dawn Kerr, who were both aged in their 60s, were found dead in their home in the south of France in a suspected murder-suicide.

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6 h. ago Hollyoaks actor Callum Kerr whose 'mother was killed by her husband in murder

Andrew Searle, 65, and his wife Dawn, 56, were found dead at their home in Les Pequies, south west France by a horrified neighbour on February 6 this year.

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6 h. ago Hollyoaks' Callum Kerr makes desperate funeral plea to friends of 'murdered' mum

Hollyoaks actor Callum Kerr, whose mother and stepfather were found dead in France earlier this year, has begged friends of his mum "please do not attend" his stepfather's funeral

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7 h. ago Hollyoaks star begs pals of Scots mum 'murdered' in France to avoid stepdad's funeral

Andrew Searle and his wife Dawn Kerr died at their property in rural France earlier this year sparking headlines across the world.

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8 h. ago Hollyoaks star Callum Kerr begs friends of 'murdered mum' not to attend stepdad's funeral

Callum Kerr and his sister Amanda Kerr issued a joint statement today where they said for friends of their mother Dawn Kerr to not attend the funeral of her husband Andrew Searle

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40 h. ago Trump calls Democratic senator ‘unattractive,’ touts new White House flags, in late

President ricochets from one topic to another on Truth Social ahead of latest pivotal Ukraine talks

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5 d. ago Yorùbá Boy Running by Biyi Bándélé audiobook review – from enslaved teenager to celebrated preacher

The novelist’s final work tells a remarkable tale of resilience, based on the life of Samuel Àjàyí Crowther, who was kidnapped by slavers but won his freedomSet in 19th-century Òsogùn in what is now Nigeria, Yorùbá Boy Running opens with 13-year-old Àjàyí reporting a premonition to his mother about dark days ahead. A week later, the town is surrounded by Malian slave raiders and Àjàyí is kidnapped along with his mother, sister, best friend and neighbours. He is taken to Lagos and sold to Portuguese slavers preparing to ship their human cargo to the Americas. But they are intercepted by the British navy, which releases Àjàyí in Sierra Leone, where he is recruited by missionaries. From there, he is put on a path that leads to him to study at Oxford and become a celebrated preacher, linguist and abolitionist who meets Queen Victoria.A remarkable tale of barbarism and resilience, Yorùbá Boy Running is the final work by the Nigerian novelist and film-maker Biyi Bándélé, who died in 2022 ...

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6 d. ago Hollyoaks star announces she’s engaged as she shows off ring after sharing pregnancy news

Former Hollyoaks star Roxanne McKee has announced that she is engaged, one day after revealing that she is pregnant with her first child. The actress, 45, shared the happy news on social media

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7 d. ago Hollyoaks star Roxanne McKee, 45, reveals she is pregnant with her first child

Former Hollyoaks star and Game of Thrones actress Roxanne McKee took to social media to reveal she is pregnant with her first child as she uploaded a trio of sweet snaps

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7 d. ago Cristiano Ronaldo's VERY extensive dating history as it's revealed he'll finally say 'I do with' Georgina Rodriguez

From a Russian supermodel to a Hollyoaks star and Hollywood A-listers, Cristiano Ronaldo has an extensive dating history.

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7 d. ago Hollyoaks Mercedes McQueen star Jennifer Metcalfe's forgotten Emmerdale role revealed

Hollyoaks legend Jennifer Metcalfe has played Mercedes McQueen in the Channel 4 soap so almost 20 years but some fans may not know she previously appeared in Emmerdale

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8 d. ago My beautiful French detour: the belle epoque charm of the Pays de la Loire coastline

This tucked-away corner of north-west France is home to beautiful beaches, salt marshes and ciderThe saying goes “curiosity killed the cat”, as if being nosy is a bad thing. As I stood knee-deep in the cool Atlantic Ocean, marvelling at the beauty and emptiness of the Plage de Port Lin, I decided this was nonsense: without this little detour, “just to have a look”, I’d never have discovered Le Croisic, on the Guérande peninsula. The downside is that time isn’t on my side: it’s past 5pm and I’m supposed to be at the big resort, La Baule-Escoublac, six miles east by now. But the presqu’île (a “nearly island”), as the French call it, tucked in the corner where Brittany meets Pays de la Loire, is calling out to be explored.First, though, a late afternoon dip in the sea is too hard to resist, and I wade into the water, sharing a delighted smile with fellow swimmers. Two elderly women in flowery swimming caps nod a cheery “Bonsoir” as I take my first strokes. Afterward...

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9 d. ago I told my mum I was unsure about having children. Her reply opened my eyes | Michaela Makusha

My mother’s own dedication to parenthood has always floored me, but I realised I hadn’t understood where it came fromTo me, my mother is Mummy and Mum; the fount of all knowledge and the source of love; the keeper of the rulebook and the holder of the cheerleader’s pompoms. She’s all of those things, but she is also a madwoman, who on her first night out in England from Zimbabwe was shocked by how cold it was after leaving her flat in a short skirt and heels, no jacket. She was pushed into hockey, literally, by her friend, who shoved her out of the line when the coach asked for a volunteer. I am named after that friend. My mother is both a protester and a nurturer; she has been teargassed at least twice (that I know of) while protesting in the name of human rights. Her life is a series of near misses and question marks, which I enjoy learning about and am sometimes horrified by.Given the obvious richness of her experience, I have asked her many times why she decided to have children...

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1 week ago ‘I had her right in front of me. And now she’s gone’: how one mother lost her daughter to mental illness

Studying in London before taking up a high-flying job in New York, Naina Mishra seemed set for a bright future – until she began retreating from friends and family into a paranoid spiral even her mother couldn’t break. What does her story reveal about the dangers of young adult estrangement?Naina Mishra seemed to turn up at the yoga studio in Euston, north-west London, out of nowhere. She wasn’t referred by anyone; she didn’t come with a friend. A 21-year-old woman of Indian heritage with an American accent who grew up in Hong Kong and had recently arrived in London, Naina just “fell in” off the street in January 2022, say her yoga teachers, Hamish Hendry and Louise Newton. But it became part of her daily life. Every morning, she returned to practise there.Chatting after class, they learned that Naina had just graduated from university in the US and had been interning at the investment bank Goldman Sachs and the consulting firm McKinsey. She was studying in London before beginning a...

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1 week ago InfoWars’ Alex Jones says he’s in a ‘conundrum’ over Trump’s refusal to release the Epstein files

Conspiracy theorist admits he’s still struggling to make sense of president’s position after he called furore over the late pedophile ‘total bulls***’

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1 week ago Hollyoaks Craig Dean star 'unrecognisable' as he lands new role in huge US TV series

Former soap star turned Hollywood actor Guy Burnet is now a world away from his time starring in Hollyoaks

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1 week ago Nikki Sanderson and her mum told 'you look like twins' as they pose for glam snaps

Former Hollyoaks and Coronation Street star Nikki Sanderson has been enjoying a week of catch ups with her loved ones and shared a series of snaps on social media

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1 week ago Hollyoaks star speaks out over sudden exit and says it's a 'massive shame'

Hollyoaks viewers were in for a surprise today as the latest episode confirmed that Robbie Roscoe had been killed by Jez Blake weeks ago despite appearing to be alive since then

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1 week ago ‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in EuropeOne afternoon in late 2021, Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, met with the commander of Israel’s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200. On the spy chief’s agenda: moving vast amounts of top secret intelligence material into the US company’s cloud.Meeting at Microsoft’s headquarters near Seattle, a former chicken farm turned hi-tech campus, the spymaster, Yossi Sariel, won Nadella’s support for a plan that would grant Unit 8200 access to a customised and segregated area within Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Continue reading...

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