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An eco-activist jailed for five years for paralysing the M25 has hit out at the judge who put him behind bars, branding him a ‘fanatic’. In a letter written from prison, Just Stop Oil co-founder Roger Hallam claimed his trial judge had refused to let the jury see ‘scientific evidence’ about climate change. Hallam, 58,…
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Although she might not remember all the MCU movies she appeared in, Gwyneth Paltrow will apparently always know Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark. The Academy Award winner reacted to the Russo Brothers‘ bombshell news that Downey Jr. will return to the MCU in Avengers: Doomsday (2026) as Victor Von Doom nearly seven years after…
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International model Jed Texas has been accused of duping his Australian girlfriend out of $150,000 while behind bars in an Indonesian prison. Texas, 34, real name Jed Texas Higgins, was released from notorious Kerobokan Prison on March 26 after spending three-and-a-half years banged-up abroad. But he allegedly continued to pretend he was in the Bali jail in…
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Team USA gymnast Simone Biles aggravated a lower left leg injury Sunday while warming up for her floor exercise during Team USA’s second rotation. Biles could be heard saying it hurts to push off and left the arena floor at one point, but stayed in the competition with a heavily taped calf. But she clearly…
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GPs have threatened to bring the NHS to a ‘standstill’ with unprecedented industrial action that includes slashing the number of appointments by a third. The British Medical Association is urging family doctors back the disruption – the first in 60 years – in a ballot that closes at midday today. Patient groups last night described…
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The International Olympic Committee has issued an apology after kicking off the 2024 Summer Olympics with an unfortunate error. IOC spokesperson Mark Adams addressed “deeply regrettable” error during a press conference on Saturday after announcers during Friday’s opening ceremony announced the team from the Republic of Korea (South Korea) as the Democratic People’s Republic of…
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After patrolling the same crossing for a staggering 55 years, not only is lollipop lady Irene Reid old enough to remember the grandparents of today’s pupils when they were little, but she actually escorted many of them to school. Indeed there are several families where three generations can all say Mrs Reid helped them cross…
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Edna O’Brien, whose books were initially banned in Ireland but gained international acclaim, died Saturday after a long illness. She was 93 and her death was confirmed by her publisher, Faber, and the literary agency PFD. “A defiant and courageous spirit, Edna constantly strove to break new artistic ground, to write truthfully, from a place…
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Chelsea Handler has thrown her hat in the ring in the drama surrounding resurfaced comments from JD Vance. Handler – in the midst of her Las Vegas residency – took to Instagram to issue her own response,after Vance told Tucker Carlson that the US, via ‘the Democrats‘, were being run by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are…
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Netflix It’s been just over four years since Gina Prince-Bythewood’s action-packed film adaptation of Greg Rucka’s “The Old Guard” comic was released on Netflix, and there have been rumblings about a potential sequel — and maybe even a third entry in the franchise — almost since the first movie debuted. That film,…