7 d. ago Liverpool handed injury boost as forgotten star claims 'hardest part is over'

Liverpool suffered a significant injury blow earlier this season and now Giovanni Leoni has spoken out about his recovery after an early setback in his career with the Reds

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1 week ago US justice department reportedly reviewing more than 5m pages of Epstein files

Figure represents significant expansion on earlier estimates as effort draws resources away from other DoJ cases The US justice department is believed to be reviewing more than 5m pages of documents relating to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein – an effort that is drawing resources away from existing cases, according to the New York Times.The figure represents a significant expansion on earlier estimates, which drew on calculations based on 300 gigabytes of data, papers, videos, photographs and audio files held within FBI archives that relate to investigations in Florida and New York. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Community council proposals go out to consultation for third time

The proposed scheme has been whittled down significantly since it first went out earlier this year.

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3 w. ago I thought my drinking was normal despite my nightly wine habit, says NICKY WAKE. Then, at 52, I hit rock bottom and realised I was an alcoholic. I wish I'd seen the 6 subtle signs earlier

December used to be my own personal endurance test. While the rest of the year I'd get through a bottle of a wine a night, during December that easily doubled.

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3 w. ago Deadline nears for release of Epstein files – what we know so far

Justice department must release most documents by Friday, and failure to do so would provoke a firestormIn less than 48 hours, Donald Trump’s justice department must release most of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein in its possession. Last month, Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which required the release of those materials by 19 December, except in narrow cases where they would jeopardize current investigations, harm national security or foreign policy goals, or reveal information about Epstein’s victims.Since Trump signed the legislation, his administration has been silent on its progress. Earlier this month, a bipartisan group of lawmakers asked Pam Bondi, the attorney general, for a briefing on the department of justice’s progress, but she did not provide one. Two Democratic senators among that group subsequently pledged to block some civilian nominees, because they were concerned the administration “is gearing up to disregard the law we led the fight in th...

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3 w. ago Revealed: Exactly what a week of drinking is doing to you. HARRY WALLOP took heart, liver, brain and blood tests to find out the truth. Read this before you pick up your next glass

December is a time when many of us drink more than normal - that extra glass of mulled wine after the carol concert, the office party involving shots and lurid cocktails, the annual meet-up with friends.

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3 w. ago My white wine habit almost killed me. Weeks after my last drop, I received the diagnosis every woman fears

Kathryn Elliot had finally had enough in 2019. But 55 days after pouring her bottles of chardonnay down the drain, her life changed forever.

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3 w. ago My nightly white wine habit almost killed me. Weeks after my last drop, I received the diagnosis every woman fears

Kathryn Elliot had finally had enough in 2019. But 55 days after pouring her bottles of chardonnay down the drain, her life changed forever.

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3 w. ago Dame Judi Dench greeted with overwhelming reaction after realising ‘dream’ with rock star

‘I’ve been working in the theatre for nearly 60 years and I’ve never known a moment quite like it,’ says friend Gyles Brandreth

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