15 h. ago Welsh TV presenter Ruth Dodsworth collects King's honour she says is for 'every single person who held my hand'

Ruth has publicly spoken out about her own experience with coercive control at the hands of her ex-husband, and has now been awarded for her services to victims and survivors of domestic abuse

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44 h. ago Fears disgraced BBC presenter Huw Edwards is on 'comeback trail' after bold move

Disgraced Welsh BBC news presenter Huw Edwards has sparked speculation that he is poised for a public comeback, with a bold move on his social media that caused a flurry of speculation

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45 h. ago Fears disgraced Huw Edwards is on 'comeback trail' after bold move

Disgraced Welsh BBC news presenter Huw Edwards has sparked speculation that he is poised for a public comeback, with a bold move on his social media that caused a flurry of speculation

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2 w. ago He woke up from a coma and said girlfriend tried to kill him

Showing extraordinary determination, Daniel Waterman awoke from a coma long enough to make a shocking claim about the person he held responsible for his grave injuries, before sadly passing away at the age of just 22

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4 w. ago Welsh BBC presenter found dead days after being discharged from hospital

Lynda Shahwan was on a family holiday in Vancouver when she was involved in a car crash which saw the vehicle overturn

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4 w. ago One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson review – freewheeling reflections on life, art and AI

One Thousand and One Nights is the framing device for the author’s pithy and thought provoking takes on everything from eugenics to trouser suitsIn the framing device that opens the Middle Eastern folk tales collected in One Thousand and One Nights, King Shahryar avenges his wife’s infidelity by ordering her execution and marrying a new virgin every night, having each of them beheaded by sunrise so they won’t have time to cheat. When he runs out of victims, the young Persian queen Shahrazad volunteers but stalls her own murder by telling the king one captivating tale after another – and those become the stories we’re reading.As Jeanette Winterson puts it in her new book – a dizzying whirligig of memoir, history, philosophy, politics and self-help, loosely tied to commentary on the Nights – Shahrazad’s feat of creativity “refuses the present emergency – the contrived drama of a powerful man”. The echo of life in the Trump era is deliberate...

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