25 h. ago Peter Andre hits out at ex Katie Price’s ‘lies’ in furious social media rant amid Princess feud

Singer’s tirade came hours after Price called for peace talks to end their feud over daughter Princess

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8 d. ago ‘We’ve got a lot less competitive’: Stanley Donwood on creating Radiohead’s iconic artwork

The artist has been collaborating with the rock group’s frontman Thom Yorke on their distinctive visuals since the mid-90s. As a retrospective opens in Oxford, he looks back on three decades with the bandIn the early 90s, Stanley Donwood was “at a loose end after university”, hitching around Britain and making a little money as a busking fire-breather. Fetching up in Oxford, he spotted a poster for a gig by a band called On a Friday. He recognised the name: a friend he’d met while studying at Exeter University’s fine art department called Thom Yorke was the lead singer.So he called Yorke up. An initial plan for Donwood to do his fire-breathing routine as the band’s support act was scuppered by the venue’s nervous manager, but the pair kept in touch. Some time later, after On a Friday had changed their name to Radiohead, Yorke called with a proposition. “They’d done really well with Creep, which I hadn’t heard, it wasn’t my thing at all; I liked bleepy-bleepy, thumpy-thump ...

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1 week ago BP announces 1,500 more staff cuts and signals further possible reductions

About 15% of BP's office-based workforce will now be cut by the end of the year

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1 week ago BP increases staff cuts to 6,200 and signals further possible reductions

The group said it was now axing more than the 4,700 roles and 3,000 contactor cuts announced at the start of the year.

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1 week ago One singer called me a f*****g b*****d. Another reduced my staff to tears. But nothing compares to obnoxious James Corden I've met scores of rude celebs

Celebrities never have to pay to enter a nightclub. They expect to be welcomed for free. But when I opened Nell's in New York, the entrance fee was $5... no exceptions.

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3 w. ago Trump’s EPA eliminates research and development office and begins layoffs

Administration’s move to cut thousands of agency jobs will be devastating for US public health, union warnsThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees. One union leader said the moves “will devastate public health in our country”.The agency’s office of research and development (ORD) has long provided the scientific underpinnings for the EPA’s mission to protect the environment and human health. The EPA said in May it would shift its scientific expertise and research efforts to program offices that focus on major issues such as air and water. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs

The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees

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