13 h. ago Police announce £20k reward for information over fatal shooting of north London father

Met police believe it was a case of mistaken identity and want to speak to two people in connection with the incident

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13 h. ago Police announce £20k reward over fatal shooting of north London father

Police announce £20k reward over fatal shooting of north London father  The Independent

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8 d. ago Princess Beatrice hosts intimate christening for daughter Athena in London as father Andrew Mountbatten

Princess Beatrice hosts intimate christening for daughter Athena in London as father Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor resurfaces - all the photos  HELLO! Magazine

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1 week ago Anna Maxwell Martin looks back: ‘I was bullied a little bit, but it didn’t affect me because I was a happy weirdo’

The actor on being an introverted extrovert, performing as a pearly queen, and becoming a single mother when her husband diedBorn in Beverley, East Yorkshire, in 1977, Anna Maxwell Martin studied at the University of Liverpool and trained at Lamda. She made her name with a Bafta-winning performance in the BBC’s Bleak House and has since starred in Line of Duty, Motherland and Midwinter of the Spirit, as well as numerous stage productions. She lives in London with her two daughters. Their father, the director Roger Michell, died of a heart attack in 2021. Maxwell Martin is an Action for Children ambassador and stars in their Christmas short film, Santaland. To donate, visit iamsanta.org.uk.I am five and having my picture taken at school. On my eye is a medical patch. That’s what they did to you in the 1980s if you had a squint. My dad cut my hair using a bowl, which is why it is such a tragedy. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles review – a deliciously sweary, prize

The actor Paul Hilton brilliantly inhabits the character of a ranting working-class academic in this debut novelSome books feel so suited to the audio format that they could have been written with the voice in mind. All My Precious Madness is one of those. Mark Bowles’s debut novel, which won the audiobook fiction category at the inaugural British Audio awards (where, full disclosure, I was a judge), is a deliciously sweary monologue from a middle-aged malcontent.A sideways reflection on working-class identity and masculinity, the novel gives voice to Henry Nash, a man of little patience. Sitting in a London coffee shop and trying to write a monograph of his father, he rains judgment on the other patrons whose obnoxious phone calls he can’t help but overhear. An Oxford graduate turned writer and academic, Nash lives in a Soho flat where he has been known to furtively drop eggs on passersby who disturb him with their drunken racket. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago How Cynthia Erivo's fiery defiance as the Wicked Witch in the new Oz sequel was shaped by the moment her father abandoned her at a London Tube station

She was 16 and standing on a London Underground platform, when he told her he never wanted to see her again.

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3 w. ago Father takes daughter to Lanzarote for a CHEAPER day out than shopping in London

When Wiktoria, 19, asked her father, Aleksander Sikora, 41, for a day out shopping in London , the plans unexpectedly changed.

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