Could a comment about cats really affect Jessie Buckley’s Oscars chances?
A recently resurfaced interview saw the ‘Hamnet’ star admit to making her husband rehome his pets

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A recently resurfaced interview saw the ‘Hamnet’ star admit to making her husband rehome his pets

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It’s no surprise that supermarkets have got in on the action and created their own sourdough loaves

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This is an objectively terrible melange of synthesisers and a very loud man, but at least it’s not beige

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The new entertainment hub will include experiences like roof walk experience, abseiling and zipwires
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The Red Roses full-back travelled to Dubai for a short break during the Premiership Women’s Rugby’s reserve week but is stranded, along with England team-mate Sadia Kabeya

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The Independent’s Jonathan Doidge makes his selections for Friday’s meetings at Ayr and Exeter

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The two singles grand slam champions could come face-to-face on the doubles court in California

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Comedian starred in sketch show ‘Harry and Paul’ from 2007 until 2012

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Your file contains borrowing history and three major agencies carry details on how you handle money

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PayPal has become one of the most widely used payment methods at UK casino sites, offering players a simple and fast way to deposit and withdraw funds without sharing their bank details directly with gambling operators.

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‘They went to their deaths with their heads held high so that we could be free today’

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Will your team still be in the hat after the FA Cup fifth round?
Here are some things to look out for over the weekend – starting with Wolves v Liverpool, which kicks off in under 12 hours.
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Deputy prime minister says while jets currently only shooting down missiles, there is legal basis for them to do more
The home secretary has defended her plans for asylum reform after one backbencher said she was mimicking Donald Trump and another claimed it could lead to a Windrush-style scandal.
Shabana Mahmood announced her plans on Thursday, including an end to permanent refugee status and the removal of government support from asylum seekers who are deemed not to need it or who break the law.
This is about immigration enforcement and it’s about being in a process where you are able to enforce your rules.
If you don’t do that, the flip side is you just end up picking up the tab for hundreds of families, hundreds of thousands of pounds per family every single year.
Otherwise you might as well say to everybody, there’s no rules enforced at all. It’s an open border situation. And I don’t think that has public support either.
I don’t recognise those reports and I have to say I think it is a travesty that any anyone should report from a National Security Council... because of course it puts British lives at risk and I hope that is properly investigated.
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Hungarian tax authority says seven people are detained in Budapest as part of an alleged money laundering probe
On the back of the detention of seven Ukrainian citizens, Ukraine’s foreign ministry said it advises Ukrainians against travel to Hungary “due to the inability to guarantee their safety amid arbitrary actions by the Hungarian authorities.”
Expect them to try to raise it with the EU in the coming hours.
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The 17-and-a-half-hour route was scheduled to begin in June

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Documentary First They Came for My College goes inside the fight for academic freedom at Florida’s New College
It took a half century to build New College into a sanctuary of independent thought and less than a year to destroy it. In 2023 the beloved Florida liberal arts school became state governor Ron DeSantis’s latest target in his so-called war on woke. DeSantis decimated the school’s trustee board and installed a cabal of rightwing cronies, aiming to transform it into a conservative institution modeled after Michigan’s evangelical Hillsdale College.
Library shelves were stripped, with books from Black and Indigenous authors and the shuttered gender studies department tossed into dumpsters. Frat boys arrived in droves and the campus was transformed into a meathead’s playground where queer couples stopped holding hands for fear of homophobic slurs. In a move ripped from the playbook of a spiteful cartoon villain, the community garden with its koi pond and roosting barn owls was bulldozed to make way for a baseball stadium.
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Britain is sending more fighter jets to the Middle East as the US-Israeli war with Iran has enters its seventh day

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The 91-year-old man, who can no longer drive, was taken to court by the DVLA over an unpaid bill on his Renault Megane

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