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Why it’s time to celebrate TV’s most neglected relationship: the straight best mate
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I went to my first Pride with a straight best mate. Eddy rocked up wearing the 2013 lad’s lad weekend uniform: navy jacket, navy chinos, navy cap and a Newcastle United 2008 away top (available in navy) while I “darin...
It’s too soon to celebrate Putin’s losses – the hard miles are yet to come for Ukraine
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There is near euphoria, currently, among supporters of Ukraine at the continued military reverses it is inflicting on Russian forces. But the truth is that Ukraine has a long way to go before it can achieve any kind o...
‘Surreal’: Gloucester couple celebrate record-breaking £184m lottery win
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A little over a week ago, Joe and Jess Thwaite were facing months, maybe years, of renovating what they thought was their dream home – a house in the Gloucestershire countryside with a bucket in the hall to catch the ...
Greens celebrate ‘phenomenal’ gains in local elections across England
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The Green party has hailed what it has described as “phenomenal” local election results, as it headed above 60 gains in areas including South Tyneside, Cumberland, Oxford and Worcester. Following the pattern of recent...
Wales Coast Path walkers celebrate 10 years of inspiration and challenge
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Some have walked the path for the challenge or the adventure while others tackled it in search of beautiful vistas and amazing history. Those who have completed the whole route slip off their walking boots or training...
‘Judge Jackson stands on the shoulders of giants’: women of color on a day to celebrate
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Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the US supreme court has passed the Senate and she will now become the first Black female justice on America’s highest legal body after being nominated by Joe Biden earlier this y...
Taking back control: Charli XCX and Olivia Rodrigo’s films celebrate craft, not drama
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Moments into Olivia Rodrigo’s documentary Driving Home 2 U, we see her turn on a camera in the shoebox-sized home studio of her producer, Daniel Nigro, state the date – March 2021 – and squirm as he plays the first so...
‘This is historic’: pro-choice campaigners celebrate legal abortion in Colombia – video
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Pro-choice supporters danced outside Colombia's constitutional court in downtown Bogotá, the capital, after it decriminalised abortion during the first 24 weeks of pregnancy.Judges ruled five against four to decrimina...
Chagossian exiles celebrate emotional return as UK tries to justify control
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Standing in the hospital room where she gave birth to her first child, Rosemonde Bertin looked around in despair. The roof had collapsed, trees grew through the floor and a rusting, enamelled bedpan lay half concealed...
‘We get to breathe’: Chicagoans celebrate as city blocks metal shredder
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A year after a hunger strike brought national attention to a potentially toxic metal shredder in a majority Latino neighborhood in Chicago, the city has announced it will not issue the final permit necessary for the p...
‘Do not celebrate. Legislate’: Martin Luther King family on voting rights – video
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The family of Martin Luther King Jr has called for the passage of a law to protect voters from racial discrimination, while the vice-president, Kamala Harris, said the right to vote in the US was 'under assault'. As p...
Four ways to celebrate Christmas Day if you are forced to self-isolate
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Ho, ho … oh no. This second Covid Christmas will not be a huge improvement from the first for many in the UK. More than 600,000 people will be forced to self-isolate on Christmas Day after a record 119,789 tested posi...
Queen cancels Sandringham plans and will celebrate Christmas at Windsor
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The Queen is to celebrate Christmas at Windsor Castle, breaking with the tradition of spending festivities at Sandringham in Norfolk for a second year. Sources said the decision was a personal one taken after careful ...
Saturday Night Live: Simu Liu and a returning Trump celebrate Thanksgiving
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For the second time this month, Saturday Night Live opens with a new segment of Judge Jeanine Pirro’s Fox News show. The rightwing pundit (Cecile Strong) invites on “fellow judge” Bruce Schroeder (Mikey Day), who defe...
‘We are more powerful than Modi’: Indian farmers celebrate U-turn on laws
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The scent of victory was in the air. As tractors rolled through the protest camp on the outskirts of Delhi set up by farmers almost exactly a year ago, rousing cries of “long live the revolution” and “we defeated Modi...
Campaigners celebrate new UK environment law but vow to fight on
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After 1,056 days, three Queen’s speeches, countless hours of drafting, campaigning, protest and debate, the first environment bill for 26 years has passed into law. Environmental activists at the heart of first pressi...