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Looking to lighten the mood, host Fiona Bruce gave the floor to an audience member who asked the question: “Will members of the panel be watching the Queen’s speech on Christmas day?” Ms Bruce added: “Well we’re not entirely sure if Jeremy Corbyn will or he won’t.” But one of the biggest laughs was saved for Mr Tice who responded: […]
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One of the key reception rooms in which James Joyce’s short story ‘The Dead’ is set is to be turned into a dormitory as part of plans to turn the building into a tourist hostel. That is according to one of the country’s most acclaimed authors, Colm Tóibín, who has hit out at the contentious proposal in an objection lodged […]
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Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has rejected claims that there was “a culture of fear” among the airline’s pilots out on sick leave. The issue of pilot attendances was an area of responsibility of Chief Operations Officer (COO) Peter Bellew, who Ryanair has sued over his decision to take up employment with EasyJet. In a claim denied by Mr Bellew, Ryanair […]
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Mr Cleverly was appearing on BBC’s Question Time from Hull on Thursday night. The city voted 67.6 percent to 32.4 percent to leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum. The first question from the audience wanted to know what was the point of “getting Brexit done” if it would not solve any of the problems that “ordinary people” cared […]
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PARIS (REUTERS) – A strike that crippled public transport and closed schools across France entered a second day on Friday (Dec 6), with trade unions saying they planned to keep going until President Emmanuel Macron backs down from a planned reform of pensions. The strike pits Mr Macron, a 41-year-old former investment banker who came to power in 2017 on […]
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PARIS — The streets of French cities were filled with anti-government demonstrators, tear gas and police officers on Thursday as Emmanuel Macron again faced what has become an emblem of his presidency: social unrest. This time it was a general strike over his plans to overhaul the country’s pension system. Much of the country came to a halt as transport […]
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An 11-year-old vegan chef is speaking out against bullies after being attacked at school for opening a Caribbean restaurant. But instead of hating the boy who punched him in the face, Omari McQueen has decided to help him. Omari is in his first year of secondary school after launching a pop-up restaurant this summer, selling vegan dips out of a […]
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Kate, 37, embarked on one of her final royal engagements of the year on Wednesday, as she helped excited young children pick out a Christmas tree for their classroom. During the visit to Peterley Manor Farm, the Duchess revealed some of the royal secrets to farm owner Roger Bill, including the type of Christmas tree the royals have inside Kensington […]
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Jeremy Corbyn has insisted that he is ‘not scaremongering’ when he claims the Tories have put the NHS on the table in US trade talks. The Labour Party leader was grilled by Julie Etchingham on ITV’s Tonight programme, with just one week until the UK takes to the polls on December 12. During the interview, Mr Corbyn also apologised over […]
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Oxford graduate and rapper Zuby went viral when he posted a video of himself breaking the women’s deadlift record on Twitter. He claimed to identify as a woman while doing it – a statement that put him right in the centre of the debate over trans people taking part in women’s sport. Here, he explains why he posted that video […]
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