52 m. ago Donna Jean Godchaux supplied steel and soul to the Grateful Dead in their prime

Godchaux sang on classics by Elvis and Otis Redding and had a long solo career, but it’s as a member of the Dead’s classic, acid-drenched 70s lineup – and as the band’s only female member – that she will be remembered• Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Grateful Dead singer, dies aged 78By her own admission, Donna Jean Godchaux was not a fan of the Grateful Dead when she arrived in California – then Donna Jean Thatcher – in 1970. Already a music industry veteran at 23, she had spent five years as a member of Southern Comfort, a group of singers regularly employed as backing vocalists at the renowned Fame studios in her native Alabama. But she was rigidly unimpressed with her San Francisco friends’ undying devotion to Jerry Garcia and co. She hated the band’s name and loudly opined that the only reason people liked them was because they were invariably out of their minds on drugs when they went to see them live. In fact, she could prove she was right: she offered to attend a Dead show sober...

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3 d. ago Girlbands Forever: this shocking history of 90s female pop is packed with gossip, scandal – and bangers

Strap in for a nostalgia-stuffed jaunt through musical classics, featuring honest interviews with stars – the details of which make the record industry look appalling Girlbands, then. Shimmering icons of empowerment or Pygmalion projects for middle-aged A&R men? Here’s a radical idea – they’re both. Two become one, baby. That’s the sense you get from Girlbands Forever (Sat, 9.20pm, BBC Two), the documentary executive produced by Louis Theroux charting the fortunes of 90s bands such as All Saints, Eternal, Atomic Kitten and Mis-Teeq through to 00s stars Little Mix. If that lineup speaks to your elder millennial soul the way it does mine, climb on board, carefully. I need some nostalgia, like I’ve never needed nostalgia before.Of course we want the gossip, fallouts and scandals. Band members interviewed for the three-part series are happy to supply. Kelle Bryan from Eternal reveals they were sent to a facility in the countryside and put on controlled diets to manage their weight (...

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3 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Russian attacks on substations are ‘nuclear terrorism’, says Ukraine

Ukrainian foreign ministry says deliberate strikes on civilian energy facilities violate international law as fears of a winter crisis grow. What we know on day 1,347Ukraine’s foreign ministry has denounced what it described as Russian attacks on substations critical to supplying external power for Ukraine’s nuclear power stations. Russia has carried out “targeted strikes on such substations”, a ministry statement issued late on Friday said. “Deliberate strikes on civilian energy facilities that directly affect the safe operation of nuclear installations bear the hallmarks of nuclear terrorism and constitute a grave violation of international humanitarian law,” it added.The foreign ministry referred to a statement issued on Thursday by the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, reporting military activity “that has led to damage to substations critical to nuclear safety and security in Ukraine”. The IAEA statement reported incidents near two nuclear plants – So...

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5 d. ago Trump is using the shutdown to make life tougher for millions of workers | Steven Greenhouse

Food stamps are in danger and hundreds of thousands of federal workers may go unpaid, as thousands more are laid offFor many Americans, government shutdowns are a painful experience, but in the current shutdown, Donald Trump – that supposed champion of workers – has gone out of his way to make things more painful for millions of workers and their families.As part of his effort to clobber the Democrats in the shutdown showdown, the US president has repeatedly treated workers like pawns by employing a callous calculus that the worse he makes things for workers, the greater the pressure on congressional Democrats to cry uncle and end the shutdown on his terms. Not only are several of Trump’s shutdown moves blatantly anti-worker, but legal experts say many of them violate federal law. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Controversial fun run criticised for banning females over 12

Controversial fun run criticised for banning females over 12  East London Advertiser

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1 week ago Tower Hamlets mayor backs 'inclusive sport' following row over ban on women taking part in Muslim charity run

The website claimed the event was ‘family friendly’ and ‘inclusive’, despite not being open to women and girls over the age of 12

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2 w. ago Welsh council may cut pension ties with firms linked to Israel

'This council believes: Public sector pension fund investments in Ceredigion and across Wales should not support war crimes, human rights violations, or breaches of international law, regardless of financial returns', says a councillor's motion

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2 w. ago Female teacher is banned from the classroom after swapping thousands of messages with boy pupil, 15, and meeting him outside of school

It was also revealed that the teenager had sent the teacher an explicit image of himself as well as a message containing pornography.

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on Trump and the law: a restraint on the executive is morphing into its weapon | Editorial

The indictment of critics including John Bolton rings alarm bells as the US president expands his power and seeks to use the justice system to exact revenge“He who saves his country does not violate any law,” Donald Trump posted after beginning his second term – emboldened, perhaps, by the supreme court’s bombshell ruling on presidential immunity last year, which many say gave the office-holder the powers of a monarch.Millions of Americans are expected to push back against the president’s growing power at No Kings protests across the US on Saturday. The demonstrations come as former intelligence and national security officials warn that the country is sliding towards “competitive authoritarianism”, in which elections and courts survive but are systematically manipulated by the executive. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago State attorneys general sue Trump administration for canceled solar program funding

The attorneys general of more than a dozen states on Thursday sued the Trump administration over the termination of $7 billion in funding intended for affordable solar energy projects across the U.S. The coalition argued in the lawsuit that the Environmental Protection Agency’s cancellation of the Solar for All program violated federal law governing federal agencies and constitutional doctrine on separation of powers

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3 w. ago Muslim Women’s Network says charity run could have been more inclusive

But the organisation said it was also ‘concerned about the disproportionate media attention given to the event’.

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3 w. ago Communities secretary is left 'appalled' by Muslim charity run which banned females over 12 from taking part

East London Mosque banned any woman over the age of 12 from taking part in Sunday's run in Victoria Park, despite being billed as an 'inclusive 5km race'.

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3 w. ago Minister ‘appalled’ at Muslim charity run in London that excluded women

Minister ‘appalled’ at Muslim charity run in London that excluded women  The Guardian

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3 w. ago Labour minister criticises ban on women and teenage girls taking part in London mosque charity fun run

The housing secretary said the decision by the East London Mosque was ‘inappropriate’

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3 w. ago Meta 'blacklisting' Brits as female adult stars and wrestlers are getting banned for 'no reason'

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Star has spoken to several female adult stars and other women about an apparent-Meta blacklist over content that doesn't break the T&Cs but is still getting accounts pulled

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3 w. ago Tower Hamlets council and equality watchdog probe mosque ban on women and girls taking part in charity fun

East London Mosque barred any females over 12 from taking part in yesterday's Muslim Charity Run in Victoria Park which was billed as 'inclusive' and 'family friendly' despite the gender bar.

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3 w. ago ‘I cringe when people say performance doesn’t matter if Scotland are winning – if we don’t improve we’ll get found out’

THERE haven’t been this many bullets dodged since Keanu Reeves defied gravity in The Matrix. All those chances Greece missed on Thursday night. A potentially catastrophic Belarus equaliser here chalked off for the flimsiest of fouls. Those many, many occasions on both nights when we were so, so, easy to carve open. If Steve Clarke...

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3 w. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Should Sadiq Khan take action against Muslim charity London park run that banned women and girls over 12?

After a Muslim charity run banned women and girls over the age of 12 from competing, we are asking Mail readers whether Mayor of London Sadiq Khan should take action against them?

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3 w. ago Muslim Charity Run that has banned all females over 12 from participating is being probed over potential equality law violations

The investigation comes after women and girls over the age of 12 were ruled out by a mosque from taking part in a charity fun run, as revealed by the Mail on Sunday.

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3 w. ago London mosque faces criticism over 'men and young girls only' charity fun run

East London Mosque sparks criticism over the charity run, open to men and girls under 12 only

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