15 h. ago Queen meets Peter Rabbit as she wishes reading charity ‘happy 100th birthday’

Camilla met authors and supporters of BookTrust including the charity’s president Sir Michael Morpurgo, Richard Osman and Dame Floella Benjamin.

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51 h. ago How Margaret Thatcher 'held the late Queen in awe' but the Palace 'slightly looked down on her', royal author claims

Today would have been Margaret Thatcher's 100th birthday. The Iron Lady was the most marmite of British politicians conjuring up feelings of admiration amongst some and deep disdain among others.

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67 h. ago Tories and Reform battle to be heirs to Thatcher’s legacy on her centenary

Gala dinner to remember Conservatives’ most successful leader puts spotlight on who will carry forward her ideasIt is a glittering annual dinner in honour of the Conservative party’s most successful leader and, on the 100th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s birth, one that is bigger than ever.Yet as Tory grandees, celebrity backers and wealthy donors prepare to sit down at a gala dinner at London’s Guildhall on Monday evening, a battle for her legacy is under way between the party she once led and the insurgent threat to its survival, Reform UK. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago My cultural awakening: ‘Kate Bush helped me come out as a trans woman’

As a not-yet-out trans teen, The Sensual World – the singer’s rejection of masculine influence – felt like an invocation of everything I was feelingIt wasn’t safe for me to discover The Sensual World, the eponymous track on what Kate Bush described as her “most female album”. The song was intended to be a rejection of the masculine influence that had unwittingly shaped the artist’s previous work, and an ode to something taboo within the female experience. Based on Molly Bloom’s soliloquy in James Joyce’s Ulysses – a stream of consciousness in which the character reflects on her experiences of nature, sex and love – Bush wanted to celebrate the experience of life inside a woman’s body, and the ways it gives her spiritual and sexual pleasure. I knew that, for someone like me, who was already being bullied, to openly love a song like this could make me an even more obvious target to those who saw femininity as a sign of weakness. More daunting than that, it might force me to ...

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5 d. ago Woman celebrates 100th birthday then dies when her clothes catch fire while cooking

Renata Gessini marked her centenary on October 4 with a celebration that included a cake, flowers, and congratulations from the mayor and local community in Carpineto Romano, Italy.

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7 d. ago Dick Van Dyke jokes about not making it to his 100th birthday in December: ‘It’d be funny’

The 99-year-old actor’s birthday is December 13

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7 d. ago Dick Van Dyke jokes 'it'd be funny' if he 'didn't make it' to upcoming 100th birthday

Ahead of his birthday on December 13, the silver screen legend showed off his still-sharp sense of humor while making an appearance at an event over the weekend.

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9 d. ago It is Thatcher – not Badenoch – who looms largest over the Tory party conference

The merchandise stall is selling mugs, Christmas baubles and bottles of whisky bearing their former leader’s face as the party celebrates what would have been her 100th birthday, write Millie Cooke and Archie Mitchell

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9 d. ago Man died after getting arm trapped in clothing bin after waiting hours for help

The 45-year-old father had apparently tried reaching back into a clothes recycling bin when his arm became trapped - he waited hours for help but was later found dead

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1 week ago Film Club: Aimee Lou Wood’s fantastical romcom is part Mike Leigh, part cosy family sitcom

The White Lotus star is an agoraphobic movie lover who puts on elaborate immersive screenings in her garage in this sweet tale of longing, anxiety and family bickering. But is it believable?I’m not sure where Aimee Lou Wood – the Stockport-born star of Sex Education and The White Lotus – got the idea for Film Club (Tuesday 7 October, 10pm, BBC Three), the new drama she has created with fellow actor Ralph Davis, but I’d be amazed if it’s drawn from her own life. Not because the fearlessly outspoken global celebrity plays a woman too scared to set foot outside her mum’s house in Manchester following a nervous breakdown, her only respite being a weekly movie night with uni friends in the garage. No. It’s the garage itself.Each week, unemployed, agoraphobic Evie somehow finds the wherewithal to transform her garage into a spectacular film set. For a screening of Alien, this one-woman Secret Cinema wallpapers it with tinfoil and hazard tape and fills it with smoke, strip lights...

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1 week ago Scarlett Moffatt shows off incredible weight loss after ditching fad diets

Former Gogglebox star Scarlett Moffatt has shown off her incredible weight loss after years of extreme dieting and body image battles, as she ditches her size 18 clothes

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2 w. ago David Attenborough shows no signs of slowing down as he bags TWO 'magical' new BBC projects ahead of 100th birthday

The broadcaster and biologist, 99, has bagged two 'magical' BBC projects ahead of his 100th birthday - despite worries from fans he'd soon stop making new series.

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2 w. ago Britain's oldest identical twins who celebrated their 100th birthday during lockdown pass away after 'spending their final years together'

Dorothy Silver and Kathleen Whitehead, from Rochester, both reached their 100th birthday in 2020, after Dorothy passed away in 2022, her daughter announced that Kathleen died on Sunday.

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2 w. ago Veteran who got 16,000 cards for 100th birthday set for France’s top honour

Dougie Shelley celebrated his 100th birthday at a tea party at the Royal Naval Association branch in Southend on Tuesday.

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3 w. ago Second World War veteran celebrates 100th birthday with 16,000 cards

Dougie Shelley, who was on HMS Milne on D-Day, celebrated his birthday at the Royal Naval Association branch in Southend, Essex.

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3 w. ago Celebrity Big Brother star sentenced after admitting groping woman at horror event

Hollywood actor Gary Busey pleaded guilty to inappropriately touching a woman in an incident which happened in 2022 at a horror movie convention

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3 w. ago Penny Lancaster: 'I’m the oldest woman Rod Stewart’s slept with

Penny Lancaster says hubby Rod Stewart still keeps her on her toes after two decades together

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3 w. ago Woman pulled up on stage by country star and is floored by what happens next

Country music fans who went to Riley Green's concert in Scotland this week cannot get over what happened when one meet-and-greet ticket holder was brought on stage unexpectedly

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4 w. ago Moonpig card launched as part of appeal to celebrate 100th birthday of WWII veteran

The Royal Naval Association is calling on the nation to help veteran Dougie Shelley celebrate his 100th birthday this month. To help well-wishers mark the occasion, Moonpig has released a collection of free birthday cards

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