31 h. ago My best friend of 50 years knew me better than anyone. But when she died, no one seemed to take my grief seriously

Friends know you differently from family, but where do you sit in the pecking order after they die? Below immediate relatives, ahead of a cousin, behind a workmate?I don’t remember a time in my life when Chrissy wasn’t in it. We were born 11 days apart and were both one when our families moved on to the same street in Geelong, a port city an hour south-west of Melbourne. We had a very Australian childhood; summers spent in our bathers, running through sprinklers; swimming in back yard pools; eating sausages in bread on New Year’s Eve, when we were allowed to stay up late while our parents drank cask riesling with the neighbours, and we’d lie on the cool evening grass listening to crickets.During those blisteringly hot summer days of our childhood, we lived at the beach, where shark alarms were constant and the waves dangerous. Occasionally, Chrissy would paddle out on her inflatable red and blue raft to the big waves out the back where the serious surfers were. Sometimes, I’d panic ...

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58 h. ago London's Knight Club brings chess and chatter to a new generation

London's Knight Club brings chess and chatter to a new generation  Reuters

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58 h. ago London's Knight Club brings chess and chatter to a new generation | World News

London's Knight Club brings chess and chatter to a new generation | World News - Hindustan Times  Hindustan Times

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62 h. ago CMAT, pop’s gobbiest, gaudiest star: ‘Everyone else in music needs a kick up the hole!’

Playing stadiums and causing dance crazes, the Irish singer-songwriter is going supernova – and whether opining on trans rights, body shaming or capitalism, she’s more forthright than everCiara Mary-Anne Thompson, or CMAT as she’s professionally known, says she can clearly remember writing the song that changed her life. She was 22 and having moved from Ireland to Manchester, was working in TK Maxx and, at the weekends, as what she’s fond of calling a “sexy shots girl”: “Cash in hand, £8 an hour, 11pm to 3am, teetering up and down the stairs of a nightclub in the building where Joy Division shot the video for Love Will Tear Us Apart with a tray of Jägermeister shots they’d put a bit of dry ice in – burned your skin if you got it on your hands – selling them for three pound each. Terrible job. And just getting absolutely stoned out of my bin all the time, doing whatever drugs anyone would give me for free. I had absolutely no friends.”An attempt to get her musical career off the grou...

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3 d. ago Maple Leafs invite standout London Knights goaltender Austin Elliott to training camp

Maple Leafs invite standout London Knights goaltender Austin Elliott to training camp  The Leafs Nation

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5 d. ago UML hockey commit Austin Elliott leads London to Memorial Cup title

UML hockey commit Austin Elliott leads London to Memorial Cup title  Lowell Sun

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6 d. ago Man who burned Quran outside Turkish consulate in London guilty of religiously aggravated public order offence

Hamit Coskun, 50, held the flaming Islamic text aloft before being attacked by a passerby

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6 d. ago Man who burned Koran guilty of religiously aggravated public order offence

Hamit Coskun, 50, held the flaming Islamic text aloft in London on February 13.

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6 d. ago ‘I’m in pain from smiling so much’: JoJo Siwa on surviving Mickey Rourke and finding love on Celebrity Big Brother

At 22, the singer and reality TV star has lived most of her life in the limelight. What’s it like to be managed by your mother, run a billion-dollar business in your teens and be dismissed as ‘the lesbian’ by a Hollywood legend?A week before JoJo Siwa entered the Celebrity Big Brother house, she had a presentiment about it. “Something feels different,” she told her mother (and manager) Jessalynn. “I don’t think I’m gonna win, but I think I’m gonna change.” Siwa’s initial hunch was that the transformation would be in her career, she says. “Little did I know it was going to change my personal life so much. By a landslide, it is the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”Siwa may be only 22, but it’s still quite the statement. As the breakout talent of the American reality TV series Dance Moms, she was arguably the biggest child star of the 2010s, at 11 years old instantly memorable for her larger-than-life personality and equally outsized hair bow. By the time she turned 15, in 2018, ...

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6 d. ago 2025 Memorial Cup Final highlights – London vs Medicine Hat – June 1

2025 Memorial Cup Final highlights – London vs Medicine Hat – June 1  Canadian Hockey League

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6 d. ago Sharks prospects help London win Memorial Cup; Is this first

Sharks prospects help London win Memorial Cup; Is this first-rounder NHL-ready?  The Mercury News

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6 d. ago London Knights celebrate 3rd Memorial Cup win: 'Gonna remember this for life'

London Knights celebrate 3rd Memorial Cup win: 'Gonna remember this for life'  CBC

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6 d. ago Memorial Cup Final takeaways: London Knights defeat Medicine Hat Tigers, win third CHL crown

Memorial Cup Final takeaways: London Knights defeat Medicine Hat Tigers, win third CHL crown - The Athletic  The New York Times

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6 d. ago Denver Barkey helps lead London Knights to a Memorial Cup championship

Denver Barkey helps lead London Knights to a Memorial Cup championship  Broad Street Buzz

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6 d. ago London Knights cruise to Memorial Cup Final win vs. Medicine Hat Tigers

London Knights cruise to Memorial Cup Final win vs. Medicine Hat Tigers  theScore.com

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6 d. ago London Knights capture third Memorial Cup title with dominant 4

London Knights capture third Memorial Cup title with dominant 4-1 win over Medicine Hat Tigers  Toronto Star

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6 d. ago Champs! London Knights win third Memorial Cup in last 20 years

Champs! London Knights win third Memorial Cup in last 20 years  London Free Press

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6 d. ago London Knights claims third Memorial Cup title with dominant victory over Medicine Hat Tigers

London Knights claims third Memorial Cup title with dominant victory over Medicine Hat Tigers  TSN

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6 d. ago London Knights defeat Medicine Hat Tigers to win Memorial Cup

London Knights defeat Medicine Hat Tigers to win Memorial Cup  Sportsnet.ca

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6 d. ago Judge set to pass verdict after trial of man who burned Koran

Hamit Coskun, 50, was on trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court last week.

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