13 h. ago Coronation Street star Lisa George terrified as she's hospitalised after losing eyesight

Coronation Street actress Lisa George opens up on her scary health battle and settling into life after playing Weatherfield's Beth Tinker for more than a decade

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13 h. ago Coronation Street's Lisa George terrified as she's hospitalised after losing vision

EXCLUSIVE: Coronation Street actress Lisa George opens up on her scary health battle and settling into life after playing Weatherfield's Beth Tinker for more than a decade

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14 h. ago Street battles, invented languages and gigs in psychiatric hospitals: France’s lost rock revolution of 1968

Bands such as Magma and Art Zoyd provided a soundtrack for the student protests that shook the country. Little remembered now, a new book reveals their decisive influence on later successes such as Air and Daft PunkThe seismic shock that May 1968 had on the French way of life has been widely documented. The student protests, which erupted at the Sorbonne before spreading around the country, hastened the end of the Gaullist regime, politicised French philosophy, and spawned a wave of radical films such as Jean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore.Much less is known – outside France, at least – about how the revolutionary ideas of 1968 expressed themselves in music. Australian musician and journalist Ian Thompson, for one, knew little about French underground rock when he stumbled upon a box of old vinyl, labelled “French prog-rock” on a pre-Covid trip to Paris. He was blown away. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Dwayne Johnson happy to 'not look pregnant' after losing weight to play 75

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has lost 30lbs in the space of a month as he prepares to play a 75-year-old man in a new movie, and he feels 'much better' after shedding the weight

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5 d. ago Soaps spoilers next week: Corrie affair 'exposed' and EastEnders favourites return

This week in Soapland will see Callum Highway face a big dilemma in EastEnders, while Coronation Street and Emmerdale have mental health battles to contend with

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5 d. ago Coronation Street's Debbie Webster makes tearful prediction amid dementia battle

Coronation Street's Debbie Webster made a tearful prediction about the future at the end of Monday's episode after trying to get to the bottom of a family scandal

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8 d. ago Coronation Street's Debbie Webster discovers horrifying family truth amid dementia battle

Coronation Street's Debbie was dealt with a shocking family truth during Friday's episode of the ITV1 soap as she caught Abi and Carl in a compromising position

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9 d. ago Evil ninja squirrel 'comes out of nowhere' and sends two victims to the hospital

An unnamed squirrel has been preying on people in the San Francisco Bay Area, having already sent two victims to hospital after tearing them to shreds in a brutal attack

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1 week ago Vicious squirrel puts two in HOSPITAL as terrified neighbourhood on high alert

At least five people have been targeted by a spiteful squirrel in the Lucas Valley neighbourhood of San Rafal, San Francisco - with two of them needing hospital treatment

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1 week ago William Shatner health battles in full as Star Trek actor rushed to hospital

Star Trek icon William Shatner, who played Captain James T Kirk in the sci-fi franchise, experienced a medical emergency and was rushed to the hospital

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1 week ago Germany makes plans to deal with 1,000 wounded troops per day in case of war with Russia after France ordered its hospitals to be prepared amid growing WW3 fears

Germany's armed forces are planning how to treat a potential 1,000 wounded troops per day should a large-scale conflict between NATO and Russia break out. 

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2 w. ago Chris Froome seen for the first time since horror crash that left him with a collapsed lung, five broken ribs, and a broken back in near

Froome, 40, was left with a collapsed lung, five broken ribs, and a broken back and had to be airlifted to a hospital in Toulon after a crash near Saint-Raphael in France.

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2 w. ago France faces day of strikes as disruption to hit travel, hospitals and schools

Unions continue to denounce Macron’s pension reform that raised the minimum retirement age from 62

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3 w. ago Kirkcaldy fire: Scottish high street closed off as fire crews battle blaze

Emergency crews at the scene

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4 w. ago Chris Froome breaks silence after tearing open his HEART in horror crash which saw him fly into a road sign at 30mph

The four-time Tour de France winner was airlifted to hospital in France on Thursday after the incident, which saw him clip a kerb, hit a road sign at 30mph and resulted in a heart injury.

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4 w. ago Coronation Street favourite makes return after nearly six months away

Evelyn Plummer, the soap battle axe played by Dame Maureen Lipman, returned to Coronation Street on Friday after several months away as she helped celebrate Swarla's engagement

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