9 h. ago The ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ is back after a decade but with a powerful new message

The Ice Bucket Challenge has made a return, but this time to raise awareness about the importance of mental health, with James Charles and other celebrities joining the challenge

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29 h. ago UK’s clean power push ‘route to energy security’, says Ed Miliband

The Energy Secretary also shared a message from King Charles which said green energy would make countries’ power systems ‘more resilient and secure’.

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3 d. ago Crowds cheer Royal Navy's £3.5bn flagship HMS Prince of Wales as it begins eight

Crowds cheered as HMS Prince of Wales departed her home of Portsmouth to lead an international strike group which aims to send a 'powerful message' that Britain 'means business'.

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3 d. ago Pope Francis hailed as ‘unflinching global champion’ on climate crisis

Officials and campaigners from around world pay tribute to pontiff who put environment at heart of his papacyPope Francis, groundbreaking Jesuit pontiff, dies aged 88He declared destroying the environment a sin, warned that humanity was turning the glorious creation of God into a “polluted wasteland full of debris, desolation and filth”, and located the cause of the climate crisis in people’s “selfish and boundless thirst for power”.The messages Pope Francis delivered on the climate and environmental crises were forceful and direct. He called the leaders of fossil fuel companies into the Vatican to hold them to account; declared a global climate emergency, in 2019; and in his final months, held a conference on “the economics of the common good”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Parents in Wales being warned of 'very real danger' to children from drug gangs in powerful message

A critically-acclaimed play explores how 'chicken shop gangs' are recruiting children to deal drugs and be part of organised crime gangs, with the offer of free food

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3 w. ago Kevin De Bruyne announces decision to leave Man City at the end of the season: 'It's time to say goodbye'

De Bruyne will seek a new challenge after a decade of service to Man City

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3 w. ago ‘I’m welling up thinking about it’: how a comedian used humour to beat trauma – and made it into a podcast

After Mark O’Sullivan’s My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom helped him move past his childhood trauma, he’s launched a tearful, joyful new show – about creativity’s power to rebuild livesMark O’Sullivan is still buzzing from winning a Royal Television Society (RTS) award for his documentary, My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom. “I’m grinning like a mid-party Michael Gove,” he chuckles. “It’s lovely for it to be recognised as an important and powerful piece. I just got a message from someone I knew years ago to say they’d seen the news about the award, watched the show and finally felt able to say they were also abused. That moved me to tears. Again!”Comedian and writer O’Sullivan – co-star of cult Channel 4 sitcom Lee & Dean and creator of ITV teen drama Tell Me Everything – is now launching the weekly podcast Making Lemonade. It explores the healing power of creating something positive out of negative experiences, after his own life was radically transformed by his deeply personal film, confro...

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3 w. ago Volodymyr Zelensky's powerful message to Donald Trump after President lashes out at Putin

Donald Trump had said he was "p*ssed off" with Vladimir Putin as their cosy relationship took a wrong turn on Sunday, a remark which has spurred on Volodymyr Zelensky to make a point of his own

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3 w. ago Kate Middleton breaks from tradition as she shares powerful message for Mother's Day

Royal watchers will have been delighted to see that the traditional Mother's Day photo shared by the Princess of Wales annually has been replaced with a video this year.

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4 w. ago Inside Duffy's mysterious return to spotlight and hidden message that speaks volumes

Duffy has returned to the spotlight for the first time in 10 years after bravely sharing her horrific kidnap ordeal. And two celebrity PR experts believe she shared a powerful hidden message in her new video

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