Yellowstone and Fifty Shades actor Luke Grimes working on country album @etheljohnson6942

Ethel Johnson Luke Grimes is working on a country music album....
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BANG Showbiz
2022-09-12T09:00:00Z
Luke Grimes has a country album on the way.
The 'Yellowstone' and 'Fifty Shades' actor - who plays Kayce Dutton in the Emmy-nominated neo-Western drama series and Elliot Grey in the blockbuster erotic trilogy, respectively - is never without his beloved guitar and is constantly playing even when he's not working on a record.
Luke, 38, told Country Living: “The first place I moved after Ohio was New York City. Having a drum set in New York is impossible—your neighbors would kill you—so I got a guitar and started teaching myself chords.
It’s been a part of my life ever since. If I have an acting gig, I always have a guitar. And not just because I’m working on an album.
It’s always been a little buddy that I can take around anywhere. It’s somewhere to put some of that energy when you’re in a new place and don’t know what else to do.”
It was his pastor father who got the 'American Sniper' star into country music.
He said of his childhood musical influences: “Church music was the first music in my life. My dad was a pastor, and I was at church three days a week. I was the church drummer starting at age nine.
"From there, my dad listened to Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard—all of those old-school outlaw country guys.
We would always play that on boys’ trips. It’s what got me into country music.”
Luke used to be the drummer of the alt-country band Mitchells Folly, and he's set his sights on returning to his roots.
He previously said: “I think it would be weird if Kayce stared singing.
“But here pretty soon, you’ll see Luke singing.”

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Yellowstone and Fifty Shades actor Luke Grimes working on country album

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-12 | Luke Grimes is working on a country music album....
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BANG Showbiz
2022-09-12T09:00:00Z
Luke Grimes has a country album on the way.
The 'Yellowstone' and 'Fifty Shades' actor - who plays Kayce Dutton in the Emmy-nominated neo-Western drama series and Elliot Grey in the blockbuster erotic trilogy, respectively - is never without his beloved guitar and is constantly playing even when he's not working on a record.
Luke, 38, told Country Living: “The first place I moved after Ohio was New York City. Having a drum set in New York is impossible—your neighbors would kill you—so I got a guitar and started teaching myself chords.
It’s been a part of my life ever since. If I have an acting gig, I always have a guitar. And not just because I’m working on an album.
It’s always been a little buddy that I can take around anywhere. It’s somewhere to put some of that energy when you’re in a new place and don’t know what else to do.”
It was his pastor father who got the 'American Sniper' star into country music.
He said of his childhood musical influences: “Church music was the first music in my life. My dad was a pastor, and I was at church three days a week. I was the church drummer starting at age nine.
"From there, my dad listened to Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard—all of those old-school outlaw country guys.
We would always play that on boys’ trips. It’s what got me into country music.”
Luke used to be the drummer of the alt-country band Mitchells Folly, and he's set his sights on returning to his roots.
He previously said: “I think it would be weird if Kayce stared singing.
“But here pretty soon, you’ll see Luke singing.”

25 years after Kentucky school shooting, a chance at parole

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-17 | When 14-year-old Michael Carneal opened fire on his fellow students during a before-school prayer meeting in 1997, school shootings were not yet a part of the national consciousness. The carnage that ...
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Associated Press
2022-09-17T11:44:12Z
When 14-year-old Michael Carneal opened fire on his fellow students during a before-school prayer meeting in 1997, school shootings were not yet a part of the national consciousness. The carnage that left three students dead and five more injured at Heath High School, near Paducah, Kentucky, ended when Carneal put down his weapon and the principal walked him to the school office — a scene that seems unimaginable today.
Also stretching today's imagination — Carneal's life sentence guaranteed an opportunity for parole after 25 years, the maximum sentence permissible at the time given his age.
“Twenty-five years seemed like so long, so far away,” Missy Jenkins Smith recalls thinking at the time of the sentencing. Jenkins Smith was 15 when she was shot by Carneal, someone she considered a friend. The bullet left her paralyzed, and she uses a wheelchair to get around. Over the years, she has counted down the time until Carneal would be eligible for parole.
“I would think, ‘It’s been 10 years. How many more years?' At the 20-year anniversary memorial, I thought, ‘It’s coming up.'”
Ron Avi Astor, a professor of social welfare and education at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has studied school violence, said public opinion around school shootings and juvenile punishment has changed a lot over the last 25 years. In the 1980s and 1990s, Astor provided therapy to children who had committed very serious crimes, including murder, but were rehabilitated and not jailed.
“Today all of them would have been locked up,” he said. "But the majority went on to do good things.”
Jenkins Smith knows first-hand that troubled children can be helped. She worked for years as a counselor for at-risk youth, where her wheelchair served as a stark visual reminder of what violence can do, she said.
“Kids who would threaten school shootings, terroristic threatening, were sent to me,” she said. Some are now adults. “It’s great to see what they’ve accomplished and how they’ve changed their lives around. They’ve learned from their bad decisions.”
But that doesn't mean she thinks Carneal should be set free. For one thing, she worries that he is not equipped to handle life outside of prison and could still harm others. She also doesn’t think it would be right for him to walk free when the people he injured are still suffering.
“For him to have a chance at 39. People get married at 39. They have children,” she said. “It’s not right for him to possibly have a normal life that those three girls he killed will never have.”
Killed in the shooting were 14-year-old Nicole Hadley, 17-year-old Jessica James, and 15-year-old Kayce Steger.
Astor said that when it comes to the worst crimes, like many people, he struggles with the question of what age children should be held strictly accountable for their actions. As a class exercise, he has his students consider the appropriate punishment for a perpetrator at different ages. Should a 16-year-old be treated the same as a 12-year-old? Should a 12-year-old be treated the same as a 40-year-old?
Without any national consensus, you end up with a patchwork of laws and policies that sometimes result in very different punishments for nearly identical crimes, he said.
The shooting at Heath High School took place on Dec. 1, 1997, the Monday after Thanksgiving break. Less than four months later, 11-year-old Andrew Golden and 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson shot and killed four classmates and a teacher at Westside Middle School near Jonesboro, Arkansas. They wounded another nine children and one adult. The pair were tried as juveniles and released on their 21st birthdays.
Jenkins Smith has tried for years to understand why Carneal opened fire on his fellow students that day. She was in the marching band with Carneal, and, before the shooting, “I loved being around him because he made a boring day fun,” she said.
She met with Carneal in prison in 2007 and had a long conversation with him. He apologized to her, and she said she has forgiven him.
“A lot of people think that exonerates him from consequences, but I don’t think so,” she said.
Carneal's parole hearing is scheduled to start on Monday with testimony from those injured in the shooting and close relatives of those who were killed. Jenkins Smith said she knows of only one victim who supports some form of supervised release for Carneal — less confining than prison but not unrestricted freedom. On Tuesday, Carneal will make

Fights, freezing and fainting: What it was like queuing through the night to see the Queen’s co

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-17 | Fights, freezing and fainting: What it was like queuing through the night to see the Queen’s coffin - Police forced to intervene when drunken hecklers began disturbing mourners...
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The Independent
2022-09-17T09:47:42Z
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Still three to four hours away from the front of the line, they braved the worst of the London night when temperatures dropped to as low as 6C. Some stepped out of the line to get a hot drink, while others visibly beaten by the cold and hours of standing were forced to sit down and gather themselves.
Brenda Hornsby, 60, who travelled from the Lake District with her husband, said she almost fainted in the queue after it was stopped for more than an hour last night.
“We were left down by the river for an hour without moving - I saw two people collapse, I nearly collapsed I had to sit down,” Ms Hornsby told
“We’ve been here since 11pm we joined at Bermondsey - it’s been extremely cold,” she added. “There was a long gap between where we started and the facilities - some people were struggling.”
Ms Hornsby said the experience in the queue is different from what she expected after watching TV coverage where scenes had been more jovial. She described anger stirring among mourners after some visitors said they were told they couldn’t regain their position after using the toilet or getting a hot drink.
Amber Jardine, 45, a conservationist from Glasgow, said the line had been chaos through the night after the queue was paused -causing arguments and disorder in the freezing cold.
She said police were forced to intervene as a group of drunk hecklers started to disturb mourners.
“It’s been extremely cold but the fact the queue stopped twice for a medical incident and for them to do a rehearsal meant people were getting angry and skipping the queue. You couldn’t go to the bathroom without people getting angry,” Ms Jardine told
She said it was clear that people couldn’t handle the cold and at many points she wanted to give up, but a sense of comradery among visitors and respect for the Queen made the chaos bearable.
“The fact that we have come to pay our respects to the Queen is what’s keeping things together,” she said, but lamented the lack of support from stewards through the night.
“The stewards are not helpful, they were letting people skip the queue I saw someone almost get in a fight because of it. It would have been good if they knew more information about where the facilities were and what was going on at points.
Blanket-clad sisters Caroline, Rosie and Sandra, who travelled from Dublin on Friday to pay their respects to the Queen, said there was “no chance of turning back now” despite the cold and tiredness.
“We’ve been here since 10pm last night,” Caroline Delaney said. Asked how the experience was through the night, she quipped: “What do you think?”
“It was freezing, there should have been more tea places and the toilets were very spaced out from the park [Southwark Park], it was about two in there without the toilet,” her sister Rosie McBride added.
“At one point we were stuck for about an hour and a half without moving - that’s terrible in the cold. There was a rehearsal so things really slowed down,” Ms McBride said.
“You didn’t know what was happening, one of the ushers told us what the problem was eventually,” the sister’s new Yorkshire friend Gordon Walker added.
“We’re excited now to get to the front,” the group said.
However, for some mourners, the queue was only just starting and a possible 16-hour w

Roger Waters announces European tour

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-17 | Roger Waters has announced new European tour dates for 2023, kicking off in Lisbon on March 17....
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BANG Showbiz
2022-09-17T07:00:00Z
Roger Waters has announced new tour dates for 2023.
The former Pink Floyd frontman will kick off his European 'This Is Not A Drill' tour in Lisbon on March 17.
He will also visit Barcelona, Madrid, Milan and Krakow, before finishing up in Prague on May 24.
He is currently on the US leg of the tour, which was originally due to begin in 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
He said previously: "'This Is Not A Drill' is a groundbreaking new rock roll/cinematic extravaganza, performed in the round. It is a stunning indictment of the corporate dystopia in which we all struggle to survive, and a call to action to love, protect, and share our precious and precarious planet home.
"The show includes a dozen great songs from Pink Floyd’s Golden Era alongside several new ones — words and music, same writer, same heart, same soul, same man. Could be his last hurrah. Wow! My first farewell tour! Don’t miss it. Love, R."
Meanwhile, Roger, 78, recently defended himself after calling President Joe Biden "a war criminal".
The highly-political rocker didn't hold back when debating his decision to include the 79-year-old world leader in a slideshow of "war criminals" at his tour shows.
The concert opens with the stern statement: “If you’re one of those ‘I love Pink Floyd, but I can’t stand Roger’s politics’ people, you might do well to f*** off to the bar.”
Waters blasted Biden for "fuelling the fire in the Ukraine" amid Russia's ongoing invasion of the country led by Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
He told CNN's Michael Smerconish: “Well, he’s [Biden] fuelling the fire in the Ukraine, for a start – that is a huge crime.
“Why won’t the United States of America encourage [Volodymyr] Zelensky, the [Ukrainian] president, to negotiate, obviating the need for this horrific, horrendous war that’s killing … We don’t know how many Russians.”
Smerconish told Waters he was wrong to blame "the party that got invaded”.
However, Waters insisted it was NATO and the US that caused the conflict.
He went on: “Well, any war, when did it start? What you need to do is look at the history, and you can say, ‘Well it started on this day.’ You could say it started in 2008 – this war is basically about the action and reaction of NATO pushing right up to the Russian border, which they promised they wouldn’t do when [Mikhail] Gorbachev negotiated the withdrawal of the USSR from the whole of Eastern Europe.”

Coronation Street: Toyah makes a shocking confession

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-17 | Spider and Leanne are both stunned....
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Digital Spy (UK)
2022-09-06T09:28:11Z
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Abi asks Toyah if she'd like to have Alfie for a couple of hours ahead of her trial. An emotional Toyah cries over Alfie's pram, telling him how sorry she is for taking his daddy away.
Back at home, Leanne walks in to hear Toyah confessing to Spider that she lied to the police, crashed the car on purpose and intended to kill Imran. As both Spider and Leanne reel, what will they do with Toyah's confession?
Meanwhile, with Kelly by his side, Aadi blurts out the news to Dev that they're planning to get married in Gretna Green. In shock, Dev rails at Aadi for wanting to chain himself to someone like Kelly.
In a bid to win Dev round and prove how serious they are about one another, Kelly and Aadi decide to throw an engagement party. Gary advises Dev to accept Aadi and Kelly's marriage or he could risk losing his son altogether. Will Dev listen?
Elsewhere, Eileen complains to George about his overbearing sister and wonders how long she's planning to stay. George promises to have a word with Glenda, but when Jenny offers her a job at The Rovers, Eileen worries that she's here to stay.
Also today, James tells Aggie that a life without football doesn't bear thinking about and he can't wait to get back on the pitch. Aggie masks her inner turmoil.
Finally, Billy urges Sean to have his birthday party at Speed Daal, pointing out that he was homeless once and a show of support for Stu wouldn't go amiss. With Sean's party booked, Alya and Zeedan hope the tide is turning.
They want to prove their maturity to Dev.
He lectures his son over wanting to "chain himself" to someone like Kelly.
It seems there'll be no talking Dev round.
She offers Glenda a job at the pub.
But Eileen worries this means Glenda will be here to stay.
He wishes that Toyah hadn't told him this.
She's equally shocked.
Will Toyah be just as honest in court?
It's the first day of her trial.
Leanne has urged her not to say anything she'll regret.
She tries to defend her sister.
But will the jury believe this?
She decides that she has to give evidence herself.
Is it really a good idea to testify?
What has he unleashed?
She wants to know who really killed her father.
Will he finally come clean?
Will she be found guilty or not guilty?
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Voices: This Morning’s bleak energy bill game feels like an episode of Squid Game

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-17 | This Morning’s bleak energy bill game feels like an episode of Squid Game - It’s nothing short of a dystopian nightmare, playing out before our eyes...
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The Independent
2022-09-06T10:12:20Z
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Schofield opened by saying: “This week we’ve got our usual cash prizes, but you could also win some extra cash to pay your energy bills until the end of the year. That’s four months of energy bills taken care of.”
To which Willoughby exclaimed: “Wow, that’s very important right now.”
It reads like a badly written script, a script that continued to get worse once a caller named Alex was offered the chance to spin the wheel. To try to soften the inhumane tone of the game, Schofield assured Alex that they would get “some money” even if they didn’t win the paid energy bills prize. Such assurances held little warmth, the words more an afterthought than genuine empathy or concern.
Even if we remove the setting from this analogy and focus solely on the prize itself, the painful similarities are still there.
The nation’s pain and struggle was turned into a jovial affair. Cheers from the studio crew when the winner bagged their prize were the sound of pain being turned into sport. Perhaps the crew genuinely felt relief that they’d “helped’’ in some way. However, the question must be asked of why that “help” came at the expense of our dignity. Although there’s no shame in admitting you need financial help, that admission shouldn’t be turned into a game. For many of us watching, all we saw was desperation utilised as a means to entertain. Instead of our plight being taken seriously, this competition segment turned it into a joke. It trivialised it.
It’s a sentiment many of us can relate to. We don’t want to see our lives mirror dystopian fiction, yet we’re in a position where any aid, even ones that treat us like pawns, becomes appealing. Arguably, that’s what makes
We’re no longer playing for cash prizes, we’re playing for our bills. The subtle shift in marketing speaks of a much larger and deeper issue with how our society functions; to explain that away so off-handedly is part of the reason our country is in this position in the first place. Our government has shooed away our cries for help time and again, and even now it’s still loath to implement any real change that would help us.

More than 600 migrants arrive in UK after Channel rescue

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-17 | More than 600 migrants arrive in UK after Channel rescue - One dinghy sank off the Kent coast, and 38 people were rescued from the water....
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The Independent
2022-09-16T09:26:20Z
Among the new arrivals were 38 people who were in the sea for almost an hour after their dinghy rapidly deflated in UK waters at around 6.17am.
The Coastguard launched a search and rescue operation, working alongside the RNLI, Royal Navy, Border Force and police.
By around 7.07am, all of the migrants who ended up in the water had been rescued.
More than 29,700 people have crossed the Channel to the UK so far this year, according to provisional Government figures.
This is higher than the number for the whole of 2021, which was 28,526.

Killing Eve star becomes one of first celebrities confirmed to attend Queens funeral

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-17 | Sandra Oh from BBC's hit show Killing Eve will be attending the Queen's funeral as part of the delegation from Canada, which will be led by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
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2022-09-16T12:10:59Z
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She joins as a member of the Order of Canada alongside musician Gregory Charles and Olympic gold medallist swimmer Mark Tewksbury.
Sandra was granted the honour recently in June 2022, after building her profile in the comedy-drama show.
Canada’s delegation to the funeral will be led by the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau.
Other senior officials from Canada will also be attending, including governor general Mary Simon as well as former prime ministers.
The group which includes the actress, Olympian and senior officials are set to arrive in the UK on Friday, ahead of the service in the UK next week.
Timings and details of the Queen's funeral have been released so that those watching at home can keep up to date with proceedings as the nation prepares for an emotional goodbye.
Details of Canada's delegation attending the procession were made public on Thursday during a special address given by Trudeau during a special session of Canada’s House of Commons.
As Canada is part of the commonwealth, it was announced that the day of the Queen’s funeral will be marked in the country with a national day of mourning.
Other representatives from countries around the world will also be in attendance at the funeral.
American president Joe Biden has confirmed he will be at the service.
The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II is likely to attract one of the largest UK television audiences of recent decades.
The Queen’s funeral is taking place at Westminster Abbey and is due to begin at 11am on Monday.
BBC One will broadcast uninterrupted coverage of the funeral from 8am to 5pm, with ITV’s coverage starting at 9.30am.

Protesters boo King Charles in Cardiff

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-16 | A group of demonstrators held banners calling for a Welsh Republic during King Charles and Camilla's visit to Cardiff although the protesters were outnumbered by well-wishers....
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Daily Mail
2022-09-16T19:20:14Z
Boos from anti-monarchy protesters could be heard over the hundreds of cheering well-wishers who greeted the King and Queen Consort at Cardiff Castle.
Around 40 demonstrators gathered outside the castle walls on Friday with banners displaying messages such as 'Abolish the Monarchy' and 'Democracy Now'.
It is the first negativity the King has encountered during his tour of the devolved nations as the new monarch.
Some protesters held giant Owain Glyndwr flags as the visit fell on the day that celebrates the legacy of the rebel who is considered to be the last native-Welsh Prince of Wales.
Many wore T-shirts bearing the words 'Yes Cymru' - the slogan of independence campaigners.
Despite the protests, the reception for Charles and Camilla was largely positive, with 150 primary school children chanting 'King Charles, King Charles' ahead of his arrival.
The atmosphere was also welcoming around Llandaff Cathedral where members of the public chanted 'God save the King' and showered the couple with flowers and gifts.
However, a lone male voice at one point shouted over the crowd: 'We pay £100 million a year for you, and for what?'
At Cardiff Castle, six-year-old Nia Harvey-Pugh handed the Queen Consort a drawing she had done of the royal couple, with the message 'To Queen, from Nia'.
The youngster had been queueing since 7am after being granted a day off school to meet the royals.
Nia managed to hand the drawing to Camilla as the couple did a walkabout, with all members of the public allowed inside the castle grounds giving them a warm reception.
But as they made their way into the castle walls earlier in the day, following their visit to the Senedd, anti-monarchy protesters could be heard booing while holding signs reading: 'We want a democracy, a Welsh republic'.
Although it was meant to be a silent protest by a number of groups under the banner Real Democracy Now, the rally also at times broke into song led by members of the Cor Cochion, a socialist choir based in Cardiff.
Campaigners, led by former Senedd member Bethan Sayed, said they want the Welsh public to consider whether a future without the monarchy is possible.
A petition calling for the end of the use of the Prince of Wales title by the British monarchy has gathered almost 30,000 signatures in a week.
When Charles and Camilla left the Senedd, there were a small number of boos from a few protesters but these were drowned out by people singing God Save The King.
On leaving, the couple met pupils from Ysgol Gymraeg Hamadryad in Butetown, Cardiff, and Osian Powell, 11, presented Camilla with a posy.
The royal couple then did a walkabout outside, meeting well-wishers.
Inside the Senedd, Charles said Prince William, whom he appointed to be the new Prince of Wales last week, had a 'deep love' for the nation.
He added the title dated back to 'those great Welsh rulers like Llywelyn ap Gruffydd' whose 'memory is still rightly honoured'.
Opinion polls taken over the years have consistently shown a majority of people in Wales support having a Prince.

United Nations allows Zelenski to participate in General Assembly by videoconference

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-16 | Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski will be able to participate by videoconference in the next UN General Assembly, scheduled for next week, despite criticism and opposition from Russia. A total of...
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2022-09-16T17:49:33Z
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski will be able to participate by videoconference in the next UN General Assembly, scheduled for next week, despite criticism and opposition from Russia.
A total of 101 UN member states have given the 'green light' to the telematic intervention of the Ukrainian leader, while seven countries voted against and 19 others abstained.
Belarus, for its part, tabled an amendment which, had it passed, would have allowed all UN countries to send a video message.
Zelenski's message will be watched live from New York by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who will attend the event on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Azerbaijans Aliyev tells Putin that fighting with Armenia stabilised

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-16 | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Azeri President Ilham Aliyev told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that a bout of skirmishes between Azerbaijan and Armenia this week had "stabilised", and a ceasefire h...
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Reuters
2022-09-16T15:20:56Z
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that a border conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia this week had "stabilised", and a ceasefire had been in place for the last two days.
Speaking to Putin on the sidelines of a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Uzbekistan, Aliyev said:
"Border conflicts happen. Unfortunately, they have been associated with numerous casualties on both sides, but the main thing is that we have managed to stabilise the situation and shift it to a peaceful course."
Putin said it was "good" that the conflict had de-escalated, but that the situation was still tense.
More than 200 service personnel were killed the clashes, according to new figures from both countries on Friday.
Armenia and Azerbaijan blame each other for the fighting, their deadliest confrontation since thousands were killed in a six-week war over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

Izyum mass grave: Other bodies were ‘put in sacks and thrown onto trucks’ say residents

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-16 | Izyum mass grave: Other bodies were ‘put in sacks and thrown onto trucks’ say residents - Some locals were ‘taken to Russia’ during occupation, others are dead or missing...
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The Independent
2022-09-16T13:23:25Z
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The crosses are in neat rows, placed with almost military precision in a silent forest of falling autumn leaves. The tranquil scene hid what lay beneath: bodies, in their hundreds, of the dead of Izyum.
The mass grave was found by Ukrainian forces who recaptured the town; around 440 corpses out of over a thousand estimated to have been killed during Russian occupation.
Volodymyr Zelensky described what has happened here as another symbol of the savage violence in this conflict.
“We want the world to know what the Russian occupation has caused - Bucha, Mariupol, now, unfortunately, Izyum”, said Ukraine’s President.
Some of those buried in the forest appear to have been killed by bombs and artillery strikes in the fierce fighting for the town, which became the main Russian stronghold in the area.
But there are dozens of others still missing after being arrested by the Russians amid reports of summary executions. Searches are taking place for other burial sites.
The crosses were placed to mark the graves by Ukrainian officials. The bodies will be removed to Kharkiv. The head of President Zelensky’s office, Andriy Yarmuk, said more information would be provided after forensic tests have been carried out.
Serhii Bolvinov, Kharkiv’s chief investigator, said: “We know that some were killed, some died because of artillery fire, so-called mine explosion traumas. Some died because of airstrikes. Also we have information that a lot of bodies have not been not identified yet; the reasons of death will be established during the investigations."
Anton Shvets spoke of neighbours being killed in a missile strike as the fighting intensified. “There was a family of five people living in the house, three of them were children,” he said. “The mother and a girl were killed. It was a big rocket, you can see it left nothing much of the house. There were many others killed as well, it was all really terrible.”
Around 50 residents were killed in an airstrike on a five-storey block of flats in May. The skeleton of the building still stands, but the internal structure has been blown away.
“I don’t think they found all the bodies from then,” said Lyudmilla Doroshenka. “There will be some people buried from that, others were taken away to be buried, they were put in sacks and thrown on to trucks.
“Quite a few people died from their injuries from bombings. The hospitals had run out of medicine, there were no supplies coming in, a lot of these people would have lived if they could get treatment.”
There are still more who have disappeared, said Ms Doroshenka. “We know of some who have been taken to Russia. They were arrested and accused of all kinds of things. Some we hear were killed here. They were not soldiers, just people who worked for the local authority and others.”
Among the burned and wrecked buildings lay Russian tanks destroyed by Ukrainian fire. Other armoured cars and trucks, relatively undamaged, lie abandoned by retreating forces.
“They oppressed us for months, it’s difficult to believe how quickly they fled,” said Artem, one of a group of local residents talking to Ukrainian soldiers. “We know they have gone, but there’s always a fear they’ll try to come back.”

Kaia Gerber cant get enough of this stylish autumn staple

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-16 | Kaia Gerber rocks a shacket in latest Instagram post and now we want to dig out ours – see photos...
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Hello!
2022-09-16T11:33:12Z
While just a few days ago Kaia had dressed to the nines to attend
Kaia opted for a cosy shacket – a style that has been hugely popular over the last few years in autumn/winter collections. The hybrid design, in case you somehow missed it, is named after an amalgamation of the words "shirt" and "jacket", therefore, as one might expect, the style sits somewhere between the two.
Shackets tend to be oversized, straight-cut pieces that are often constructed from boiled wools or thick corduroys – giving them a look that feels rooted in traditional workwear.
Kaia's shacket was a key player in her low-key transitional dressing moment, pairing perfectly alongside a pair of relaxed-fit jeans and a classic cream polo neck jumper.
While we are seriously loving the model's choice of outerwear, there was another standout piece which made a gallant bid for the limelight. Celine's Matelasse design, a black quilted goatskin shoulder bag which sat nestled under Kaia's shoulder, was the perfect addition to the ensemble.
It's official - autumn is calling, and Kaia is more than ready to respond.

Emmerdale fans baffled as credits roll in the middle of triple bill

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-16 | Fans were very vocal in their confusion....
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Metro
2022-09-16T09:28:36Z
The episodes in question covered a wide range of storylines, with Kim (Claire King) making a huge discovery being one of the main focuses.
The story continued over three episodes, but some fans were left baffled when the credits began to roll at the end of episode one, despite there still being an hour left of programming to go.
One Twitter user took to the site to ask ‘What is the point of having closing credits if we’re having one and a half hours of the same programme ? [sic]’.
Another questioned ‘Why don’t they just show the episodes as a 90 minute episode rather than dividing them up?’
Due to ITV’s ongoing coverage of the Queen’s death, Emmerdale and Coronation Street have been pulled off air and rescheduled multiple times.
While many viewers were thrilled by the extra dose of drama on a Thursday night, others thought that three episodes at once was too much.
Fans of back-to-back episodes will be pleased to know that ITV will be airing another hour’s worth of Emmerdale tonight at 8pm.

Harrys private birthday celebration with Meghan as William insists he didnt forget

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-16 | Prince Harry turned 38 on Thursday and he celebrated the milestone privately at Windsor with his wife Meghan Markle by his side during the mourning period for the Queen...
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2022-09-16T07:42:47Z
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Prince William and Kate greeted well-wishers at Sandringham on Thursday as they went on a walkabout and viewed floral tributes to the late Queen, and William responded positively when one person pointed out that it was Harry's birthday.
William replied: “It is his birthday today - you’re absolutely right, it is," and when asked if he’d forgotten, the Prince chuckled, and said: “No, I’ve not forgotten.”
Some of the icy tension between the two brothers appears to have thawed in the past week following the death of their beloved grandmother, the Queen.
It was a hugely pivotal moment, as it was the first time the two couples - formerly known as the 'Fab Four' - had been seen together in public for two years, since Harry and Meghan completed their last official duty as senior royals in 2020.
In the years that followed, Harry and Meghan have levied a number of accusations at the royal family, initially through their tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021, including one where they accused a senior royal of wondering "how dark" their son Archie's skin might be when he was born, as Meghan is biracial.
Meghan also claimed that Kate had made her cry over a disagreement about bridesmaid dresses in the run up to her 2018 wedding to Prince Harry, contradicting reports claiming it was the opposite way around.
Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle joined their husbands and other senior members of the royal family when they stood behind the late Monarch's coffin during the Service of Thanksgiving for the life of the Queen on Tuesday before the Lying-in-State commenced.

Violent death of moon Chrysalis may have created Saturns rings

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-16 | Discovered by Galileo 400 years ago, the rings of Saturn are about the most striking thing astronomers with small telescopes can spot in our solar system. But even today, experts cannot agree on how o...
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France 24
2022-09-16T05:37:35Z
Discovered by Galileo 400 years ago, the rings of Saturn are about the most striking thing astronomers with small telescopes can spot in our solar system.
But even today, experts cannot agree on how or when they formed.
While most of it made impact with Saturn, its remaining fragments broke into small icy chunks that form the planet's signature rings.
But a few decades ago, scientists suggested that Saturn's rings appeared much later: only about 100 million years ago.
The hypothesis was reinforced by observations made by the Cassini probe, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017.
"But because no one could think of a way to make the rings 100 million years ago, some people have been questioning the reasoning that led to that deduction," said Wisdom.
By constructing complex mathematical models, Wisdom and colleagues found an explanation that both justified the timeline, and allowed them to better understand another characteristic of the planet, its tilt.
Saturn has a 26.7 degree tilt. Being a gas giant, it would have been expected that the process of accumulating matter that led to its formation would have prevented tilt.
Scientists recently discovered that Titan, the largest of Saturn's 83 moons, is migrating away from the planet, at a rate of 11 centimeters a year.
This changes the rate at which Saturn's axis of tilt loops around the vertical — the technical term is "precession." Think of a spinning top drawing circles.
Around a billion years ago, this wobble frequency came into sync with Neptune's wobbly orbit, creating a powerful gravitational interaction called "resonance."
In order to maintain this lock, as Titan kept moving out, Saturn had to tilt, scientists argued.
But that explanation hinged on knowing how mass was distributed in the planet's interior, since the tilt would have behaved differently if it were concentrated more at its surface or the core.
In the new study, Wisdom and colleagues modeled the planet's interior using gravitational data gathered by Cassini during its close approach "Grand Finale," its last act before plunging into Saturn's depths.
The model they generated found Saturn is now slightly out of sync with Neptune, which necessitated a new explanation — an event powerful enough to cause the drastic disruption.
Working through the mathematics, they found a lost moon fit the bill.
"It's pulled apart into a bunch of pieces and those pieces subsequently get pulled apart even more, and gradually rolls into the rings."
The missing Moon was baptized Chrysalis by MIT's Wisdom, likening the emergence of Saturn's rings to a butterfly emerging from a cocoon.
The team thinks Chrysalis was a bit smaller than our own Moon, and about the size of another Saturn satellite, Iapetus, which is made entirely of water ice.
"So it's plausible to hypothesize that Chrysalis is also made of water ice, and that's what it needs to make the rings, because the rings are almost pure water.
Asked whether he felt the mystery of Saturn's rings stood solved, Wisdom replied, soberly, "We've made a good contribution."
The Saturn satellite system still holds "a variety of mysteries," he added.

Leah Bracknells widower Jez Hughes posts a moving tribute

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-16 | Taking to Facebook on Thursday, he shared a throwback photo of them both as he reflected on their time together and his grief....
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Daily Mail
2022-09-15T09:34:17Z
Jez, was married to the actress best known for playing Zoe Tate until her death from lung cancer at aged 55 in September 2019.
Jez penned: 'Three years tomorrow. I’ll be in the woods teaching and holding a sweat which seems fitting. I found this old, blurred photo from way back when and it brought back good, if painful memories.
'Grief is like an eagle, it soars so high and close to the sun you thinks it’s gone, then suddenly it’s down upon you, talons tearing you to shreds til you’re bloody and bruised all over again, raw flesh exposed to the wind.
But as we know grief is the price for love and even in this world of late stage capitalism there’s no discounts on offer, no deals to be made, it’s as non negotiable as death itself.'
He continued: 'Time changes everything, yet nothing at the same time, for grief knows no time, it operates to its own inner workings, dances to its own mysterious tune.
'And it is both awe inspiring and awful, sensitising the already over sensitised, ripping away the paper thin protections that laughingly you thought were grafting over. Until you feel it all again.
'Yet, despite all this, I pay the ferryman, the gatekeeper of all love and all loss, and will pay over and over again through this, and many lifetimes.'
Jez concluded: 'Grudgingly and gratefully all at once. For it is always a price worth paying, as the rain turns again to sunshine and the world is renewed.
'Ali, you died on the same full moon as the queen, which I know will make you smile. That Piscean ocean transitioning you to another world where I know, deep in my heart, you are soaring and tearing up another adventure anew. And this makes my heart sing, a balm to all these earthly sorrows.'
Leah, who also had roles in A Touch of Frost, The Royal Today and DCI Banks, was diagnosed in September 2016 after rapid weight gain around her abdomen and breathlessness prompted her to seek medical help.
While undergoing treatment, the media personality married her long-term partner Jez in a quiet ceremony at a grade II listed Georgian building in Horsham, West Sussex.
Before her death, Leah described how she had an 'attitude of gratitude' during her cancer battle.
She was often vocal about her cancer treatment, sharing her experiences in a blog and through interviews.
In the months leading up to her death she wrote 'The Cancer Rebel's Manifesto for Life' to 'reject the notion of being a victim'.
In it, she said: 'I rebel against the fear of cancer, against pity from others and myself, against being defined by cancer, and against being bullied by cancer.'
In her final interview in August 2019, she said that she wouldn't 'let herself live in fear' adding that she was 'just going to have a good life.'

Are you an active couch potato? Study suggests 30 minutes of exercise isnt enough

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-16 | One workout a day isn't enough if we then don't move much, a new study shows....
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Metro
2022-09-15T11:19:06Z
Let’s paint a picture: you’ve heaved yourself to the gym, done your workout, showered, and now you can relax on the sofa feeling good you’ve done your bit.
Sorry to burst that bubble, but a new study says this makes you an ‘active couch potato’ – and it’s not enough to keep keep health problems associated with being static at bay.
A study of over 3,700 men and women in Finland found after 30 minutes of exercise, most people then spend 10 to 12 hours a day sat down still.
The people in this category all had higher levels of blood sugar, cholesterol and body fat.
Having a workout habit in place, sadly, doesn’t look to be enough.
The same study found people that still include some level movement in their day – such as walking – were significantly more healthy than the ‘active couch potatoes’.
Vahid Farrahi, a postdoctoral scientist at the University of Oulu who is the lead author of the study, concluded that small amount of exercise aren’t enough to combat the health issues associated with prolonged sitting.
This study looks at exercise and movement more holistically – we’ve always been told 30 minutes of exercise is enough, but almost as a tick box activity without looking at the circumstances around it.
This study shows we need to look at the full picture when it comes to health.
‘It’s only in the last five years or so that we’ve begun to understand that physical activity isn’t the whole story,’ said Raija Korpelainen, co-author of the new study.
Actually, researchers on this study say the small activities – such as getting a cup of tea or walking up an escalator – can have a big impact accumulatively.
In the study, those dubbed ‘the movers’ did about an hour of exercise on most days, as well as light movement for about two hours more than the active couch potatoes.
Their health was much better for it.

Harry and Meghan had dinner with William and Kate after receiving Queen’s coffin

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-15 | The Duke and Duchess of Sussex joined the Prince and Princess of Wales for dinner following the Queen’s coffin procession to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday evening...
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OK! (UK)
2022-09-15T15:25:50Z
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The group are said to have sat down for dinner together after the Queen’s highly emotional return to her home of 70 years, Buckingham Palace.
Other royals, including Princess Beatrice and Edo Mapelli Mozzi, Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank as well as Zara Philips and Mike Tindall, were also at the Palace.
Harry had been due to speak at the Wellchild Awards in London the night of the Queen’s death, but dropped everything to travel to Scotland to be by her side.
Jennie Bond told us: "[Harry and William] have been thrown together in this period of grief. They are united in grieving and honouring their grandmother and perhaps there will be an opportunity for them to get over their differences and to begin the healing process."
While things appear optimistic, Jennie warned that there is still a "rocky road ahead" with the particularly tough obstacle of Prince Harry's forthcoming book to navigate.
"Harry's memoir does hang like a sword of Damocles and until that comes out and we know what has been said, nothing can be normal. Presumably it can't be unsaid now either, presumably it's at the publishers and it can't be altered, even if he wanted to," Jennie said.

Viola Davis worried shed have heart attack while training for The Woman King

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-15 | Viola Davis was worried she was going to have a heart attack while training for epic new movie The Woman King. During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night, the Os...
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Cover Media
2022-09-15T21:30:00Z
Viola Davis was worried she was going to have a heart attack while training for epic new movie The Woman King.
During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night, the Oscar-winning actress described the gruelling fitness regime she had to undertake to prepare for her role as General Nanisca in the historical drama about the Agojie, the all-female warrior unit that protected a West African kingdom during the 17th to 19th centuries.
"I was 56 when I trained to be this warrior. Now, five hours a day, hour and a half of weight training, three and a half hours of martial arts. Punching. 10.0 on the treadmill," she explained. "And as I was running on that treadmill, Jimmy, I said, 'I'm going to have a damn heart attack.'"
But while Viola was exhausted by the intense programme, she was thrilled with the final result when she watched the film.
"You see it on the screen, and I'm like, "I did that!" the star exclaimed.
Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, The Woman King opens in U.S. cinemas on 16 September.

Emmerdale fans suspicious Kim being played as horror attack launches hunt for Jamie

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-15 | Emmerdale's Kim Tate finally found out the truth, as Jamie's actions led to his true fate being exposed – leaving Hazel injured and fans doubtful...
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Mirror
2022-09-15T19:19:16Z
Emmerdale fans have been left suspicious of Hazel after she claimed she was pushed down the stairs to Jamie Tate, finally telling his grieving mother Kim Tate h’s still alive.
The broadcaster and other channels have been continuously revising their published schedules following the death of Her Majesty The Queen.
In the scenes on Thursday, Kim finally found out the truth, as Jamie's own actions led to his true fate being exposed – and Hazel injured.
Kim was gutted when Hazel and her granddaughter failed to show up to their planned meet-up, only for some shocking news to lead to a further bombshell.
The character learned Hazel had suffered an accident, but nothing could prepare her for what she finds out as she learns Hazel was pushed down the stairs by Jamie.
Kim demanded answers and to know what Jamie had been up to and quickly picked up the phone to call the police and report Jamie.
But as Hazel explained the state of affairs, many Emmerdale fans smelled a rat and became suspicious she could be trying to pull one over on Kim.
A third fan demanded: “Sooo..Jamie pushes her down the stairs for trying to prevent him fleeing the country with Millie yet flees the scene without Millie…please make that make sense!”
“Wtf is this writing? She’s been hiding Jamie for months then suddenly changed her mind,” another penned.
Earlier this year, Gabby Thomas and Dawn Taylor made the startling discovery that Jamie was most likely alive - after he faked his death in a car crash in September 2021.
Kim's partner Will Taylor has been let in on the secret, after a case of mistaken identity led to Gabby accidentally shooting him.
It was believed Jamie was back and alive, after last year's car crash, and Will soon asked his ex Harriet Finch to do some looking into the matter.
Deciding not to tell his partner Kim for the time being, he sought help from Harriet to find out if it was true.
But after some dodgy goings on with a private investigator, Will decided to leave well alone - and he was left wondering if he'd got it all wrong.

EastEnders Alfie Moons darkest moments: Baby twist, fire horror and brain tumour

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-15 | EastEnders' Shane Richie has returned to the BBC soap as Alfie Moon - and the character has faced tough and shocking storylines in the past...
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Mirror
2022-09-15T17:30:00Z
The character quickly became one of the most loved residents of Walford ever, with his cheeky ways and caring persona, as well as his will-they-won't-they romance with Kat Slater before they eventually married.
That said, many viewers fell out of love with Alfie, as he made numerous returns over the years and became embroiled in huge and dark storylines.
Even actor Shane has confessed he wasn't keen on his character post-2005, as the character changed for the worse, some would say.
In fact, Shane has revealed his latest comeback was down to the knowledge that the "old" Alfie Moon was on the cards, stating 2002-2005 Alfie was the "best" version of his character.
With fans thrilled to see the "old" Alfie back in Walford, we've taken a look back at some of the darker moments in Alfie's past, as well as the moments fans were not so keen on...
The Slaters were left reeling in 2018 when pregnant Hayley Slater headed to Walford, only for it to be confirmed the baby's dad was Alfie - the partner of her cousin Kat.
It emerged after a secret meet-up that Alfie was trying to cover up his deceit, but the truth soon came out leading to a fiery showdown.
Things came to a head on Christmas Day 2018 when Alfie turned nasty and began taunting Kat during a row, only for Hayley and Stacey to get involved.
Alfie then turned on Hayley and became threatening towards her, leading to her shoving him down the stairs.
He did a runner and then kidnapped baby daughter Cherry, before finally returning her to her mother and leaving Walford a few months later.
Alfie has been caught up in a few scams over the years, including a bid to claim on insurance and conning someone with the help of Kat in 2010.
His biggest scam, and the one that is likely to have repercussions, was when he stole money from Phil Mitchell - Kat's current flame.
Towards the end of his last stint in Walford in 2019, the character was accused of stealing from clients of his new funeral business and was left struggling to pay what he owed.
In the end, he begged Phil for a £30,000 loan and even offered his car as collateral. Phil gave him the money but Alfie then did a runner, leaving him furious.
What Phil didn't know at the time though was Alfie had left the money for Kat to use, which she spent on Jean's cancer treatment leaving her in further debt with Phil.
One of the hardest times in Alfie's life was when he learned he had a brain tumour.
Alfie initially kept this from Kat and confided in Phil and Ian, but he soon decided to open up to his partner leaving her reeling.
After they exited Walford in 2016, the pair featured in a spin-off series called Redwater where his tumour was addressed, and Alfie was shown having treatment.
The series left his fate on a cliffhanger though, and it wasn't until later on that viewers learned he had survived on the main show and that he and Kat had moved to Spain.
Speaking of scams, Alfie did the unthinkable in 2014 when he set fire to his and Kat's home to get the insurance money.
What he didn't realise though when he caused the blaze was that Kat was trapped inside. He managed to rescue her but she suffered serious burns.
Alfie covered up his crime initially, but Stacey soon rumbled the truth and urged him to tell Kat with him eventually doing so.

This is where most people now source their nutrition advice from - but is it safe?

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-15 | Traditional information channels, like doctors and search engines, have been falling out of favour......
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Women's Health UK
2022-09-15T13:37:44Z
Getting clued up on what to eat via social media sounds tempting - after all, it is free and easily accessible at the tap of a screen.
That’s not to say you should avoid health eating directions completely on social media. ‘There are excellent professionals offering valid advice on social media, but remember that information is not directed specifically to you,’ adds Chamon. ‘If you are in good health and curious, then it is a great place to learn, but if you are dealing with chronic symptoms, no amount of social media pointers will solve them - you must work with someone on a one-to-one basis to achieve long-term, effective relief.’
Additionally, a good old Google search wouldn’t go amiss. ‘Have they been featured in reputable media outlets?’ notes Chamon. ‘Or do they just have a large social media following?’ If they also operate in-person in clinical practice then that can be another good sign.
And, if you're still unsure about what you're being told on social, it's always best to check first with a nutritionist, dietician or doctor IRL.

Bacon-roasted Christmas turkey recipe

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-15 | Give your Christmas turkey a twist this year by adding a lattice of streaky bacon, your guests will love it!...
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Good Housekeeping UK
2022-09-15T11:30:04Z
In order to check whether your turkey is cooked, pierce the thickest part of the breast and leg with a skewer or fork. The juices should run clear, if there is a trace of pink then return the turkey to the oven and check every 10min until the juices run clear. Alternatively, use a meat thermometer. Push the thermometer into the thickest part of the breast and leg and leave for 2min. The temperature should read at least 72C.
It's important to rest your turkey for at least 30min but for up to 2hr, in order for the meat juices to redistribute themselves throughout the bird. Place clean tea towels on top of the foil in order to keep it warm if you're resting for longer than 30min.
Yields: 8
Prep Time: 15 mins
Process Time: 4 hours 24 mins
Total Time: 4 hours 39 mins
Calories per Serving: 250
5.4-6.3kg (12-14lb) turkey with giblets removed to make stock
(4oz) butter, softened, plus extra to grease
rosemary sprigs
(11oz) rindless, smoked streaky bacon rashers
Take the turkey out of the fridge 30min before stuffing to take the chill off it. Preheat oven to 220ºC (200ºC fan oven) mark 7.
Put the turkey on a board, breast side down. Use your hands to push some of the stuffing into the neck end of the turkey, easing it up between the flesh and the skin towards the breast. Don't pack it in too tightly as it will expand on cooking.
Shape the protruding stuffing into a neat round, then tuck neck skin under the bird and secure with a skewer. Weigh bird and calculate the cooking time if outside the range given for this recipe.
Put any leftover stuffing into a buttered ovenproof dish. Cover with buttered foil.
Put one or two large sheets of strong foil across a large roasting tin. Put the turkey in the middle and spread the butter all over it. Season with a little salt and plenty of ground black pepper and pop two rosemary sprigs inside the cavity. Overlap the bacon rashers across the turkey breast. Snip over the remaining rosemary. Tie the legs together with string.
Bring the edges of the foil together; fold into a pleat along the length of the breastbone but well above it to make a tent with plenty of air space above the breast.
Put the turkey on a low shelf in the oven and roast for around 30min. Reduce oven temperature to 170ºC (150ºC fan) mark 3 and cook for a further 3½hr.
Fold back the foil from the top and sides of the turkey and push the bacon slices off the breast to allow the skin to brown. Increase the oven temperature to 200ºC (180ºC fan) mark 6 and cook the turkey for a further 30-40min, basting it with the juices twice during this time.
When the bird is cooked, transfer it to a warm carving platter - you'll need help at this stage, so you can tip the bird upright and let the cooking juices run back into the roasting tin.
Cover turkey with foil and leave to rest for 30-40min before carving.
For this year's main event, we have glazed our turkey with sherry, marmalade and mustard and rubbed it in clementine juice, thyme and butter.
Brining, or marinating in a salt rub, adds tonnes of moistness to any roast, and seasons beautifully. Don’t let the long cooking time worry you, most of that is the gravy which can be done weeks or even months ahead.
For this year's main event, we have glazed our turkey with sherry, marmalade and mustard and rubbed it in clementine juice, thyme and butter.
Turkey crowns are simple to roast and carve, and delicious to eat.
This turkey is infused with tangy citrus and sweet maple syrup. If you prefer to stuff your bird under the skin, use either of the stuffing recipes below, but remember to weigh it after stuffing to calculate your cooking time.
Turkey crowns are simple to roast and carve, and delicious to eat.
A simple seasoned butter is all this turkey crown needs to make a spectacular centrepiece for your feast.
This turkey is infused with tangy citrus and sweet maple syrup. If you prefer to stuff your bird under the skin, use either of the stuffing recipes below, but remember to weigh it after stuffing to calculate your cooking time.
A simple seasoned butter is all this turkey crown needs to make a spectacular centrepiece for your feast.
A clever choice if you've never roasted a turkey before. No bones, easy to carve, and it takes less time to cook.
Our super simple, flavour packed stuffing is made with pork and apple sausagemeat and bread sauce for gentle nutmeg spice and to prevent it the meat juicy and moist whilst roasting.
Our sweet and savoury turkey crown is easy to prepare and simple to carve.
Our super simple, flavour packed s

Woman arrested in South Korea for murder of children whose bodies were found in suitcases in Ne

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-15 | Woman arrested in South Korea for murder of children whose bodies were found in suitcases in New Zealand - Seoul High Court will decide within two months whether to extradite the woman to New Zealand...
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The Independent
2022-09-15T09:10:23Z
Authorities said that she was “hiding in an apartment” in the South Korean city of Ulsan. However, her identity has not been revealed by either New Zealand or South Korean police.
The two children who were allegedly murdered were a girl and a boy born in about 2009 and 2012, the local media reported.
The Korean police released a statement confirming the details of the arrest. “Police arrested the suspect at an apartment in Ulsan on Thursday following a stakeout with tips on her whereabouts and CCTV footage.”
Seoul’s National Police Agency said that the suspect is “accused by the New Zealand Police of having murdered two of her children, aged seven and 10 then, in around 2018 in the Auckland area.”
The suspect was arrested at about 1am Korean time in Ulsan. Yonhap News agency reported that while being transported to Seoul by police, the woman told reporters who had gathered outside “I didn’t do it.” Her head was covered and her face was not shown to the media.
The New Zealand Police also issued a statement which said that they had requested an arrest warrant for the woman under the country’s extradition treaty with South Korea and have applied to extradite her to New Zealand to face charges.
“To have someone in custody overseas within such a short period of time has all been down to the assistance of the Korean authorities and the coordination by our (New Zealand) Police Interpol staff,” Tofilau Fa’amanuia Vaaelua, New Zealand Detective Inspector said.
The woman will remain in custody while awaiting the completion of the extradition process, authorities said.
South Korean authorities confirmed last month that the suspect was born in South Korea and got her New Zealand citizenship a long time ago.
Now the Seoul High Court will decide within two months whether to extradite the woman to New Zealand, the

The Queens funeral: All the West End and theatre shows cancelled from Hamilton to Grease on Mo

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-15 | Popular productions such as Marry Poppins, Mamma Mia! and The Phantom of the Opera will not be running...
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MyLondon
2022-09-14T10:08:19Z
Several West End and London theatre shows will close for the Queen's funeral on Monday 19 September. King Charles III has declared the day a bank holiday and many venues across the capital have closed as a result and out of respect for the Queen.
Queen Elizabeth II sadly passed away "peacefully" in Balmoral on Thursday 8 September. And for the first time since the death of Winston Churchill, London will be the home of the state funeral held for the Queen.
Despite London theatres releasing statements following the death of the Queen that they would mirror her 'show-must-go on attitude', many West End shows have now announced they will close on Monday. We've rounded-up a list of all closures announced so far.
They said in a statement: "Together with the nation and people around the world we pay tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her extraordinary reign. The state funeral of Her Majesty The Queen will be held on Monday 19th September.
"The 7.30pm performance of Hamilton on that day at Victoria Palace Theatre, London will be cancelled. All affected customers will be contacted by their point of purchase with further details. All other performances will take place as scheduled."
"All other performances will go ahead as planned. Ticketholders will receive an email from their point of purchase with details regarding exchanges and refunds. Thank you for your understanding."
"As a mark of respect the performance of Jersey Boys on Monday 19 September at the Trafalgar Theatre, London will be cancelled. Ticket holders will be contacted by their point of purchase with further details. All other performances will take place as scheduled."
Performances resume on Tuesday 20 September.
Moulin Rouge! The Musical at the Piccadilly Theatre is also cancelled. The stage-adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's iconic film released the statement: "In respect of Her Majesty the Queen, we announced that Monday 19th September's performance of Moulin Rouge! The Musical will be cancelled.
"We're sorry to our affected customers - your point of purchase will be in touch soon with ticket options. We look forward to welcoming you back to Moulin Rouge! The Musical. All other performances are planned to go ahead as usual."
Antigone at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre has cancelled its performance on Monday. The play, which is an adaptation of Sophocles‘ ancient tragedy, said: "Please note that, as a mark of respect on the day of the funeral of Her Majesty The Queen, the performance of Antigone on Monday, 19 September has been cancelled.
If you hold tickets for this performance, please visit our blog for more information." The play only runs until 24 September and performances resume the day following the funeral.
"Our thoughts are with our Bicentenary Patron, His Majesty King Charles, and the Royal Family at this time." Performances of the play will resume on Tuesday.
Jews. In Their Own Words at the Royal Court Theatre will not be running on the day of the funeral. The opening night has been rescheduled and the play will now instead begin on Tuesday 20 September.
"Ticket holders will be contacted by their point of purchase with more details. All other performances will take place as scheduled. We appreciate your understanding at this time."
The National Theatre, Royal Albert Hall and Royal Opera House will also be completely closed on the day of the funeral. Dear Evan Hansen at the Noël Coward Theatre, which is due to close on 22 October, is still set to run on Monday. Many London productions do not run on Mondays so those theatres will remain closed as normal.
Following the announcements of theatre closures, the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre released the following statement: "Due to the scheduling of the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and out of respect for all who are mourning, most shows in central London have now announced that they will be closing on 19 September.
"Ticketholders will receive an email from their point of purchase with details regarding exchanges and refunds. Throughout the period of national mourning, performances will go ahead as planned but we would advise audiences coming into central London to allow more time for their journeys to and from the theatre from Wednesday when the Queen will be lying in State. In regards to the national one minute silence at 8pm on Sunday 18 September, shows that are playing on that evening will mark this prior to curtain up."
Ticket holders should check their venue's site ahead of visiting to check if their show is still going ahead. We'll c

Why is Australia having a bank holiday for the Queen’s funeral?

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-15 | Why is Australia having a bank holiday for the Queen’s funeral? - The late monarch’s funeral will take place on Monday 19 September...
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The Independent
2022-09-14T10:45:52Z
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Australians will be given a bank holiday on Thursday 22 September, after the Queen’s funeral.
It will officially be called the National Day of Mourning for Her Majesty the Queen.
Until her death, the Queen was Australia’s head of state. The new head of state is King Charles III.
He said at the time: “Over the coming weeks, Australia will continue to commemorate our late Queen.
“I encourage all Australians, wherever you may be, to take time to pause and reflect on Her Majesty’s extraordinary life of service.”
Albanese and Hurley will travel to London on Thursday 15 September and return on Wednesday 21 September.
“Australia needs to, it wants to mourn the contribution of Queen Elizabeth II. A one-off public holiday is an appropriate response.”
No, the bank holiday to mourn the Queen is a one-off event and will not reoccur after this year.
A handful of other countries where the Queen was head of state have also announced public holidays to mourn her death.
She said a state memorial service for the late monarch will be held in the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, in the city of Wellington, on the same day.
Canada has also announced a national day of mourning that will take place on Monday (19 September), which will be a bank holiday.
Prime minister Justin Trudeau said that while the Canadian government is still working out “a few details” with provinces and territories, “declaring an opportunity for Canadians to mourn on Monday is going to be important”.
Some Caribbean nations, such as Jamaica, announced a period of mourning to mark the death of the Queen. However, only the Cayman Islands has declared that Monday (19 September), the day of Her Majesty’s funeral, will be a public holiday.

Princes William and Harry walk behind Queen Elizabeths coffin in poignant reminder of Dianas

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-15 | The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex are walking behind the coffin of their late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II. Both brothers are joined by the King, as the late monarch is driven up The Mall ...
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The Telegraph
2022-09-14T13:27:20Z
It was a show of unity so poignant, it was at times almost unbearable to watch.
It is, of course, impossible to say how significant the positioning of the brothers was - next to each other, without their cousin Peter Phillips between them, as had been the case at the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh in April of last year. It could have been an arbitrary, last-minute decision as the three got into line in the Buckingham Palace quadrangle. And yet in the context of all that has come before, it seemed a moving show of strength, solidarity and service.
For theirs is a relationship forged partly in unimaginable tragedy, and it is almost impossible for us to comprehend the full scale of their grief after the sudden death of their mother in 1997. They have, over the years, tried to put it into words. Prince Harry has admitted that for almost two decades after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, he “shut down all emotions”.
In 2017, he told me that he had spent years experiencing a “flight or fight” reaction at public engagements, without ever understanding why. He was, in essence, having panic attacks, that he only began to unravel when he entered his thirties.
“I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions when all sorts of grief and sort of lies and misconceptions and everything are coming to you from every angle,” he explained. “During those years I took up boxing, because everyone was saying boxing is good for you and it’s a really good way of letting out aggression. And that really saved me because I was on the verge of punching someone, so being able to punch someone who had pads was certainly easier.”
His brother was one of the people who encouraged him to seek help. “He was a huge, huge support to me. He kept saying this is not right, this is not normal, you need to talk to [someone] about stuff, it’s OK.”
On Wednesday, once more, they walked slowly and in step with one another down the Mall. They followed the gun carriage into Horse Guards Road, and up through the arch into Whitehall, crowds that had been silent for an hour suddenly erupting into applause as their figures disappeared into the distance.
Everyone was there for the late Queen. But only William and Harry could be there for each other.
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Could every Met Police officer have to repledge allegiance to King Charles

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-15 | New Met Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, pictured, who started his new job on Monday, said he found the experience of reswearing the oath of allegiance as 'very powerful'....
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Daily Mail
2022-09-15T00:43:54Z
Under UK law, all serving police officers must take the oath in which they swear to truly serve the monarch with ‘fairness, integrity, diligence and impartiality’.
But Sir Mark Rowley has launched an internal survey to decide whether his 33,843 officers should reswear their oath to the new King.
The Commissioner, who is embarking on a period of major reform at the Met, told rank and file officers that he had found it ‘very powerful’ when he was sworn back into office as he took the helm at Britain’s biggest police force on Monday.
He asked for officers’ feedback on the proposal during a staff Q&A a day later.
The former national head of counter terrorism became the first chief officer to swear allegiance to the King after previously retiring from policing to spend four years in the private sector.
Police must swear their oath in front of a magistrate.
They either attend court for a ceremony, or a magistrate may travel to police premises to swear in large numbers of officers.
But the need for the symbolic gesture will be questioned by some at a time when the courts backlog has now reached 60,000 cases.
Speaking after his attestation on Monday, Sir Mark said: ‘I join the nation in sorrow at the death of Her late Majesty The Queen and share my condolences with His Majesty The King and The Royal Family.
‘Her late Majesty’s unstinting public service, stoicism in times of turbulence and dedication to the people she served has shaped our nation immensely.
‘As your new Commissioner, I have sworn an oath to serve with fairness, integrity, diligence and impartiality.’

Dinosaurs, Worlds Largest Rubber Duck Part Of New Detroit Auto Show

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-14 | The North American International Auto Show is indoors and outdoor for 2022, and apparently, it's duck-friendly....
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motor1.com
2022-09-14T23:08:25Z
After countless delays due to COVID-19 and a truncated outdoor event last year, the 2022 North American International Auto Show in Detroit returns in full force to its native downtown venue. It's a very different show, however, with displays and events taking place indoors and outdoors. And to hammer home just how different it is, 2022 includes dinosaurs and a gigantic duck. Wait ...
For those not interested in massive ducks, massive dinosaurs are also on-site for your entertainment. It's part of an interactive experience called the Dinosaur and Off-Road Vehicle Encounter, featuring over 80 dinosaurs with some nearly half as tall as a certain rubber duck. Interspersed among the prehistoric creatures are a bevy of trucks and SUVs on static display. The walk-through area includes activities such as fossil digs, storytelling, and hands-on crafts.
The 2022 North American International Auto Show runs from September 17 - 25 in downtown Detroit.
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Corrie fans work out new twist after clue as Toyah makes deadly confession on ITV soap

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-14 | Coronation Street was full of drama on Wednesday night as fans "worked out" a new twist on the ITV soap after Toyah Battersby confessed to Spider Nugent that she killed late husband Imran Habeeb...
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2022-09-14T20:58:25Z
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During the latest instalment, Toyah was spent time with baby Alfie, who is Imran's son with Abi Franklin after a one-night stand, and she was soon left feeling guilty over taking his dad from him.
Later at the flat, Toyah broke down in tears in front of Spider, who she recently rekindled her romance with, and declared: "Please don't be kind to me, shut up, just shut up."
She added: "You deserve to know the truth, it wasn't an accident, I murdered him, I murdered Imran... you're not listening to me, no, I lied to the police. I remember exactly what happened, I crashed the car on purpose!"
Spider was left distressed as he declared: "No, don't say that, I can't be hearing this" to which he stormed out and at the end of the episode he was blanking Toyah's calls.
She said: "Get her to talk about her husband. I want to know everything!", threatening to end his career if he didn't do what was asked of him.
"What happens when I tell your handler who’s been keeping you warm at night?", adding: "If I let on you’re helping a murderer walk free, your case and your career are both dead. Is she worth it?"
Viewers now think that Spider was secretly wearing a recording device or wire in his necklace after soap watchers were left suspicious over the item of jewellery.
Taking to Twitter, one person said: "Ooo, is Spider's necklace a wire...? Lol #Corrie."
A different account said: "Is there a wire hidden in Spider's necklace? #corrie?"
While another follower added: "Is Spider ’s funky necklace a wire? #Corrie."

‘Lie of gender identity’ spurred founding of LGB Alliance, court told

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-14 | The organisation LGB Alliance was founded to “prevent the dissemination of the lie of gender identity”, a court was told on Wednesday, during a hearing over whether the Charity Commission was right to...
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The Guardian
2022-09-14T19:09:18Z
The organisation LGB Alliance was founded to “prevent the dissemination of the lie of gender identity”, a court was told on Wednesday, during a hearing over whether the Charity Commission was right to grant the body charitable status.
Co-founder Kate Harris told a hearing that a surge in anti-lesbian discrimination was another motivation for the creation of the organisation.
The General Regulatory Chamber is considering a challenge by the transgender children’s charity Mermaids to the Charity Commission’s decision to award charitable status to LGB Alliance last year.
The hearing examined whether the defence of trans rights can lead to conflicts with women’s rights or the rights of lesbian, gay and bisexual people.
Michael Gibbon, KC for Mermaids, on Wednesday questioned the two co-founders of LGB Alliance, Bev Jackson and Harris, both of whom are lesbians, over whether the organisation was primarily focused on an anti-trans political and lobbying agenda or whether it was created to undertake charitable activities in support of lesbian, gay and bisexual people.
Asked about the organisation’s creation, Jackson said organisers were in part motivated by a change in the definition of homosexuality adopted by Stonewall and other leading LGBT groups in around 2015 from same-sex attraction to same-gender attraction.
She said the founders wanted to bring together “other LGBT people who agreed with our view that homosexuality was being redefined in a way that we found offensive”.
She said lesbians had found the redefinition particularly challenging, with some feeling that they were no longer free to express same-sex attraction; she pointed to the ejection of lesbian activists from a pride march for asserting same-sex rather than same-gender attraction.
The hearing spent some time addressing the concept of gender. “We objected to the view that everyone has a gender identity. I don’t have a gender identity, and I object to being told that I do,” Jackson said.
Gibbon questioned Jackson on the “provocative and inflammatory” language used in tweets by associates of the charity, including use of the hashtags #endgayconversion and #transingthegayaway – referring to LGB Alliance’s belief that gay children were being influenced by messaging on YouTube and social media into thinking that they were trans and subsequently seeking treatment.
Jackson responded that LGB Alliance used these hashtags to draw attention to their work. “Anti-lesbian prejudice and fear is leading many teens, especially lesbians, to believe that they have ‘gender identity’ issues when they are in fact grappling with their emerging lesbian/gay sexual orientation,” Jackson said in her witness statement.
She said the organisation believed the use of puberty blockers by gender identity development services (GIDS) for children “who might otherwise grow up to become gay adults” was “a huge medical scandal in the making”.
Co-founder Harris described gender identity as “a lie” during a speech given at the launch of LGB Alliance Scotland in 2020, the court heard, and dismissed it as “pseudo-science”. She said she had “a personal interest” in the question of how discussion of gender identity could impact children, describing how she was “considered boyish by others” as a child and placed in the boys’ groups for sport at school.
She said she was “100 percent sure” that if she had been taught in sex education lessons that everyone has a gender identity that could differ from the sex assigned at birth she would have asked to be “fast-tracked on to puberty blockers, insisted on hormone treatment and no doubt ended up having surgery”, rather than “growing up to become a happy lesbian”.
In evidence given earlier in the week Dr Belinda Bell, chair of the trustees of Mermaids, said it was implausible to suggest that gay children would embark on the difficult process of transitioning in response to homophobia, and noted that the vast majority of trans adults are not straight, so the process of transition could not accurately be described as gay conversion.
“LGB Alliance appears to take the view that trans children do not exist, or that they cannot know they are trans before adulthood,” she said. “LGB Alliance has repeatedly stated in public forums that Mermaids seeks to inappropriately push LGB children into identifying as trans. Such allegations are false and harmful to Mermaids’ ongoing work.”

Royal mourner collapses outside Westminster Hall while waiting for Queens coffin to arrive

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-14 | Others waiting to pay their respects were left looking shocked...
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MyLondon
2022-09-14T17:02:59Z
People from all over the UK gathered to mourn the passing of the Queen were left shocked in Westminster today as one of those there to pay tribute collapsed among the crowds. Pictures from the scene just outside Westminster Hall where the Queen's coffin was taken show the person, who had come to pay their respects to the monarch, being carried off in a stretcher.
Both police and paramedics could be seen tending to the individual after witnesses saw them collapse ahead of the funeral procession's arrival. Attempts to treat them made harder by the gridlock preparations for the Queen's funeral have caused in central London.
Thousands of people have been descending on the areas around Buckingham Palace and Westminster over the last week since the Queen's death aged 96 in Balmoral last Thursday (September 8). Whether to pay their respects by laying flowers and candles in Green Park outside the palace or to show their support for the new King Charles III the numbers arriving in the area have been unprecedented.
Today the crowds have been even more intense with the Queen's coffin making its way down to London from Scotland last night, many hoping to catch a final glimpse of the monarch before her burial in Windsor on Monday.
After the coffin arrives at Westminster Hall today the Queen will lie in state there for four days, giving the opportunity for hundreds of thousands more people to pay their final respects. The queue for seeing her is now already as far back as London bridge with many camping overnight to be the first few in the line.
On Monday this period of lying in state will end and the period of national mourning will also come to an end following the Queen's burial.

James, Viscount Severn seen alongside sister Lady Louise Windsor for first time following Queen

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-14 | James. Viscount Severn has been seen alongside his sister, Lady Louise Windsor, for the first time following the death of the Queen on 8 September...
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2022-09-14T15:16:17Z
The 14-year-old looked very smart in a black suit and was visibly moved by the occasion as he bowed his head in respect to his late grandmother. His sister stood beside him looked equally emotional.
The Queen's coffin was transported to Westminster Hall on Wednesday, in a procession that was followed by King Charles, Prince William, Prince Harry, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward and other royals.
Her Majesty will now lie in state at Westminster Hall until her state funeral on 19 September. After the service, she will be laid to rest in the King George VI memorial chapel alongside her beloved Prince Philip, her father King George, the Queen Mother and sister Princess Margaret.
James rarely makes public appearances, but the young royal was part of the service at the funeral of his grandfather, Prince Philip.
He was also seen during the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations earlier in the year.
Lady Louise rushed to Balmoral following the news of the Queen's passing, as she was nearby having recently begun studying at St Andrews University.
While there, she reunited with her mother and looked upset as she viewed floral tributes that had been left for her late grandmother outside the Scottish residence.

Protesters heckle GOP senators in downtown DC after Lindsey Graham unveils national abortion ba

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-14 | Protesters heckle GOP senators in downtown DC after Lindsey Graham unveils national abortion ban - Smattering of demonstrators chastise conservatives outside anti-abortion gala...
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2022-09-14T13:04:01Z
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Republican senators were heckled in downtown Washington DC Tuesday evening as they attended a gala hosted by an anti-abortion group celebrating the downfall of
Roughly 100 protesters gathered outside the National Building Museum late in the afternoon and chanted slogans which included “our bodies our choice”, and “pro-life is a lie, you don’t care if people die”.
Mr Graham’s presence almost certainly contributed to the commotion outside. The Republican senator surprised some of his own colleagues and enraged many more earlier on Tuesday by standing beside those same anti-abortion activists in the Senate and announcing the introduction of a national ban on abortion after 15 weeks into the pregancy, a major step for the movement to criminalise abortion and a reversal of his own position of “leave it to the states” which he espoused only weeks ago.
The introduction of that bill was cited on Tuesday by several protesters outside of the National Building Museum, the gala’s venue, ahead of the actual protest. Some demonstrators were heard predicting that far-right groups would use it as motivation for their voters in November.
The gala attendees, dressed in suits and chic finery, clashed sharply with the casually-clad demonstrators who hecked their arrival with a bass drum, tambourine and angry chants. Some appeared to taunt their detractors from a distance, dancing to the drums or shooting video on their phones, but none had interest in engaging face-to-face.
Those members of Congress who did attend were not among the guests who streamed in the advertised G Street entrance where valets attended to anyone not holding a sign, and therefore probably never saw the protesters or made out the content of their chants; it’s likely that the lawmakers entered the private event through another entrance.
In the background, the office of the Government Accountability Office loomed overhead reflecting the Washington sunset on the federal watchdog’s edifice as well as signs that read “building closed until further notice”, an apt metaphor for the despair that pro-choice demontrators have felt in the wake of the Supreme Court’s gutting of federal abortion protections.

Stansted: Travel expert says flights from London to Milan cost as little as £20 until Christmas

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-14 | Ryanair and EasyJet are offering particularly low prices for trips to Italy, says travel expert Tom Church...
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MyLondon
2022-09-14T09:16:08Z
"I was pleasantly surprised to find that there are consistent prices between the end of September and the beginning of December." While Ryanair flights to Milan only operate from London Stansted, Tom advised that tickets can be found for as little as £20.
Elsewhere, flights from other areas of the UK are only marginally more expensive. Flights from Manchester and Newcastle can cost as little as £33, and just £34 from Bristol and Edinburgh respectively.
And as for the city itself, the expert only has good things to say: "Milan is a great place to visit. There are all kinds of stunning architecture and classy cocktails which were invented in this stylish city. Plus, you get to avoid the touristy vibes of other popular destinations, such as Rome."
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Where to watch the late Queens funeral in London: best viewing points and public screens

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-14 | The state funeral for the late Queen, who passed away in Balmoral on Thursday, will take place in London next week. Around 2,000 people, including heads of state from across the world, have been invit...
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The Telegraph
2022-09-14T07:23:27Z
However, crowds are expected to travel to central London to watch the funeral procession as the carriage is led through the city from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey.
Here are details of the best viewing points along the way - as well as some of the public screens showing the procession and service.
No, just 2,000 guests have been specifically invited to attend the private service at Westminster Abbey.
Members of the public who wish to watch the funeral procession on the day can travel to The Mall, where the bollards will be removed to make space for those who wish to pay their respects.
The nearest Tube stations are St James' Park, Green Park, Hyde Park Corner, Charing Cross and Victoria - but mourners are advised to check their journeys in advance as there have already been warnings of transport issues owing to the number of people expected to visit central London on Monday.
The Mall is a good place to secure a spot to watch the funeral procession, as the coffin will be led in a procession via Queen's Gardens, The Mall, Horse Guards and Horse Guards Arch, Whitehall, Parliament Street, Parliament Square and New Palace Yard.
The funeral will be broadcast live on television and there are also expected to be various big screens pitched up around London and the rest of the UK to allow people to watch the event.
People in London will be able to watch the funeral procession in person at ceremonial viewing areas along the route or at a screening site in Hyde Park. These sites will open at 11am, with people admitted in order of arrival time.
Hull City Council confirmed that a 20-metre screen will be installed on the balcony of Hull City Hall for people to reflect upon the late Queen's reign and pay their respects.
People in Leeds should head to Millennium Square in the city centre on Monday to watch the service live, while the funeral will be shown on big screens at Nottinghamshire cinemas.

Read in full: Official poem to mark the Queens death

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-14 | The British Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, pays homage to "a promise made and kept for life"...
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Prima (UK)
2022-09-13T10:15:37Z
The British Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, has penned a poem to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Floral Tribute, which has been distributed by Armitage's publisher, Faber, describes the coming of a September evening and the appearance of a Lily-of-the-valley as a "token of thanks" – one of the Queen's favourite flowers.
The beautiful white bloom, which featured in Her Majesty's coronation bouquet in 1953, is a permanent feature of the floral displays at Buckingham Palace. Elegant and hardy, it has dark green leaves, bell-shaped, fragrant flowers, and is famed for being relatively easy to grow.
In the poem, Simon employs the form of a double acrostic, using the first letter of each line to spell out Elizabeth. He uses the metaphor of a lily to represent both the poem and the Queen, writing: "This lily that thrives between spire and tree, whose brightness/Holds and glows beyond the life and border of its bloom."
Later he adds: "The country loaded its whole self into your slender hands, Hands that can rest, now, relieved of a century's weight" and pays homage to "a promise made and kept for life".
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King Charles pledges to follow Queen Elizabeths shining example in Northern Ireland

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-13 | Queen Elizabeth had a "great affection" for Northern Ireland, according to King Charles....
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BANG Showbiz
2022-09-13T15:00:00Z
King Charles intends to follow Queen Elizabeth's "shining example" in Northern Ireland.
The 73-year-old king has paid a glowing tribute to the late monarch, acknowledging the "great affection" that she had for the country and the "momentous and historic changes" that she witnessed during her reign.
During a speech at Hillsborough Castle in Northern Ireland on Tuesday (13.09.22), Charles - who held a private audience with the new Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris - said: "On behalf of all my family, I can only offer the most heartfelt thanks for your condolences.
"I am here today at a time of great personal sorrow as we mark the death of my beloved mother, after a life most faithfully dedicated to the duty to which she had been called.
"It is fitting that we should meet at Hillsborough, which my mother knew so well, and in whose beautiful rose garden she always took such pleasure."
Charles observed that his mother played a significant role in helping to bring people together in Northern Ireland.
His speech continued: "In the years since she began her long life of public service, my mother saw Northern Ireland pass through momentous and historic changes.
"Through all those years, she never ceased to pray for the best of times for this place and for its people, whose stories she knew, whose sorrows our family had felt, and for whom she had a great affection and regard.
"My mother felt deeply, I know, the significance of the role she herself played in bringing together those whom history had separated, and in extending a hand to make possible the healing of long-held hurts.
"At the very beginning of her life of service, the queen made a pledge to dedicate herself to her country and her people and to maintain the principles of constitutional government.
"This promise she kept with steadfast faith."
Charles the pledged to follow the example of his mother.
The king said: "Now, with that shining example before me, and with God's help, I take up my new duties resolved to seek the welfare of all the inhabitants of Northern Ireland.
"During the years of my mother's reign, it has been a privilege to bear witness to such a devoted life. May it be granted to us all to fulfil the tasks before us so well."
Alex Maskey, the speaker of the Stormont Assembly, echoed Charles' thoughts, saying the queen had not been "a distant observer" in the country's transformation.
He said: "[The queen] demonstrated how individual acts of positive leadership can help break down barriers and encourage reconciliation."

Lying-in-state queue: Full details of the five-mile line as mourners pay respects to the Queen

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-13 | Samaritans will be offering 'emotional support' to grieving visitors and the Salvation Army are to provide a 'listening ear' for mourners, the Government said...
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The i
2022-09-13T21:00:00Z
And Lambeth Palace is due to arrange a street pastor multi-faith service to provide support to members of the public.
Welfare areas providing tea and coffee with places to sit down will be set up in churches and community centres throughout the route, as well as eight first-aid points.
Toilets and cafés in local buildings will be opened 24-hours a day for those in the queue, with mourners able to head to the National Theatre, and Shakespeare’s Globe for refreshments.
Entertainment will be provided by the British Film Institute, which will have an outdoor screen showing archive footage of The Queen and her reign.
And the Southbank Centre will be presenting an archive display as well as playing out specially-curated playlist from speakers in trees dotted along the river.
The Government has warned anyone considering attending, especially those with medical conditions, to plan accordingly and be prepared for significant wait times, including overnight.
Anyone thinking of bringing children with them to visit the Queen’s coffin has been urged to consider the long waiting times.
There are also expected to be transport delays, due to large crowds travelling into central London, although some train services will be operating overnight.
Thousands of members of the public are expected to turn out to file past the Queen’s coffin from the start of the official lying-in-state on Wednesday at 5pm, until it closes at 6.30am on Monday.
The line will run for five miles up the River Thames from the Palace of Westminster to Southwark Park, trailing past landmarks including the London Eye, Tate Modern and HMS Belfast.
Once in the queue, people will be given a numbered wristband which will allow them to briefly leave the line to use facilities.
Upon arrival to Victoria Gardens, next to the Palace of Westminster, mourners will pass through airport-style security and face strict restrictions on what can be taken into Westminster Hall.
Inside the palace attendees will file past the Coffin which will be raised on a catafalque and draped in the Royal Standard, with the orb and sceptre placed on top.
The Government said the queue will be shut early once the capacity has been reached and said it will be providing regular updates will be provided on queue length and estimated time on social media channels for the public to keep up to date.
Chair of Samaritans Keith Leslie said the organisation was “honoured to have been appointed the official emotional support service for members of the public during the 10 days of mourning”.
“We know that this news will affect people in different ways, it might be that they are reminded of their own experience of loss or the news has triggered other feelings that people would like to talk about,” he said.
“Our listening volunteers are on hand near sites of public mourning in London including the lying-in-state queue to listen and support anyone who would like to talk openly about how they are feeling.”
Chief executive of the Scouts, Matt Hyde, said 120 young volunteers from across the country would be attending to the queue, adding that the historic organisation was “honoured to play our part”.
Michelle Terry, artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe, said it would be decorated with “a wreath of remembrance made of rosemary – a reference to Shakespeare’s

Renault 5 Spy Photos Capture Future EV Hiding Under A Clio Body

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-13 | The new car won't arrive until 2024....
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motor1.com
2022-09-13T18:56:42Z
Renault announced the new 5 EV well over a year ago, and we're still over a year away from it arriving. New spy photos have captured an early development prototype out testing, showing off the new car for the first time. However, the vehicle is so early in its development that Renault hides it underneath a Clio body, revealing little of the upcoming car.
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Borrell finds it «unacceptable» to change Taiwan’s status by force and advocates increased coop

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-13 | The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, has stressed on Tuesday that it is «unacceptable» to change Taiwan’s status by military means and, in the face of...
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News 360
2022-09-13T17:18:01Z
The European Union's High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, has stressed on Tuesday that it is "unacceptable" to change Taiwan's status by military means and, in the face of growing pressure from China, has advocated acting intelligently and increasing cooperation with the island.
"No one should unilaterally change the 'status quo' in the Taiwan Strait by force. Our position does not prevent the European Union from intensifying its cooperation with Taiwan and we certainly have a strong commitment to Taiwan," he has defended in a debate in the plenary of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.
Faced with China's growing tensions with Taiwan, the head of European diplomacy has stressed that differences must be resolved by peaceful means and that the use of force to change the 'status quo' on the island "is not acceptable".
"The 'status quo' has to be preserved and therefore it is key to manage tensions so that there is no open conflict," said Borrell, to reiterate to MEPs that no one is interested in a new major conflict in the world.
In any case, he called for an intelligent management of these tensions, since in his opinion they are not going to disappear in the short term. In this sense, he stressed that although the EU position does not recognize Taiwan as an independent country, it does allow for increased cooperation with the island.
"We have to be smart to play the cards intelligently. We have to move in this situation with the firm conviction of our defense of peace and stability, of our will to have good relations with Taiwan, making it possible with the 'One China' Policy and the preservation of the 'status quo'," the High Representative stressed.

Benefits payment dates for the bank holiday: If child benefit and more will be paid early for Q

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-13 | The bank holiday, which will be observed as a national day of mourning, was confirmed by the King at his Accession Council...
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2022-09-13T14:50:40Z
Lord President of the Council, Penny Mordaunt, said: “Drafts of two proclamations. One – appointing the day of Her late Majesty’s state funeral as a bank holiday in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
“Two – appointing the day of Her late Majesty’s state funeral as a bank holiday in Scotland. And of two orders in council, directing the Lord Chancellor to affix the great seal to the proclamations.”
Charles answered: “Approved.”
If you were expecting your benefit, tax credit, other Government allowance or pension to be paid on 19 September, you may be nervous about how it could be affected.
Usually, benefits are paid early if there is a bank holiday that could impact them.
This is the last working day before the bank holiday weekend.
Child benefit is usually paid four-weekly on a Monday or a Tuesday, so this applies if you usually receive money on a Monday.
If other benefits follow the pattern of past bank holidays, the change should apply to universal credit if you are usually paid on the 19th each month, as well as for State Pension recipients who have numbers from 00 to 19 as the last two digits of their National Insurance and normally get it on Mondays.
Job Centres are also expected to be closed on September 19 and benefits helplines will not be open.
The DWP has been contacted.
This will give thousands of youngsters the chance to watch the televised service and pay their respects, Government sources revealed to the PA news agency.
It told headteachers: “Schools and further education settings should remain open.
“While normal attendance is expected, headteachers continue to have the power to authorise leaves of absence for pupils in exceptional circumstances.”
The DfE also advised that schools may “consider conducting special activities, holding assemblies or adapting planned lessons” in honour of the Queen.
Retailers including John Lewis, Sainsbury’s and Aldi confirmed they will close on Monday.
DIY stores Homebase and B&Q, which typically enjoy brisk trade on Bank Holidays, also announced their intention to remain shut, along with Primark, Poundland and WH Smith.
The John Lewis Partnership, which also operates Waitrose supermarkets, will close almost all its stores on the forthcoming bank holiday Monday.
In a statement it said: “When full details of the funeral are confirmed, an exception may be a very limited number of Waitrose stores on the route of the funeral procession to serve members of the public who we know will be lining the route for many hours. These shops will, however, close for the funeral itself.”
The British Retail Consortium said: “Retailers are taking their lead from Government and are choosing to mark the Queen’s passing in ways they deem appropriate for their staff and customers.”

Starvation fears as Xinjiang, home of the Uyghurs, quietly falls under strict lockdown

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-13 | China has quietly imposed one of its strictest lockdowns, pushing people to the brink of starvation in a region where the Communist Party is accused of carrying out genocide among the Muslim populatio...
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The Telegraph
2022-09-13T13:01:30Z
Millions of people have been confined to their homes in Xinjiang, often without food and medicine since early August, according to testimonies shared online that have been quickly deleted by censors.
Members of the Uyghur diaspora told The Telegraph they were facing an information blackout on the current draconian lockdown, and were battling censors to post videos on Chinese social media taken inside the region.
The lockdown has not been confirmed by authorities, but videos show malnourished youths and empty fridges, raising renewed alarm among rights activists and Xinjiang people living abroad.
In one post circulated widely, a resident in Ili, a region of 4.5 million people in northern Xinjiang, said his 17-month-old child had died after being refused medical care due to the lockdown.
In another video posted and later censored on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, a man said he had nothing left to feed to his three young children, who were sitting around a table. In yet another video shared widely, a teenage girl told her mother her stomach hurt from hunger.
While the videos could not be independently verified, the scenes were reminiscent of lockdowns elsewhere in China.
But in Xinjiang, home to about 12 million Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities, concerns about the lockdown conditions are compounded by worries about Beijing’s campaign of suppression.
The United Nations said this month China may be committing crimes against humanity in the region, including through the arbitrary detention of at least one million Uyghurs.
“During this lockdown, [authorities] locked up entire families in their homes … and even welded the doors shut,” Zumret Dawut, a Uyghur activist and internment camp survivor who currently lives in the US, told The Telegraph.
“There is no emergency preparedness, even in the case of a fire or an earthquake, or in a flood as recently occurred in the city of Kashgar, there will be no help for the locked-up residents.
“This situation has continued for more than 50 days now. People with chronic ailments and vulnerable populations such as elderly people and infants and children suffer the most,” Ms Dawut added.
From her home in the state of Virginia, she has been monitoring videos posted by people inside Xinjiang on Douyin and reposted them to Facebook and Twitter before Chinese censors could remove them.
In some videos, small groups of Uyghurs were shown confronting local officials over the lack of food supplies, in a rare show of dissent in the suppressed region.
While Ili authorities have not admitted to an official lockdown, the prefecture’s deputy governor, Liu Qinghua, apologised for failures in the access to medical services, saying they reflected “many shortcomings and weaknesses of the work of the local authorities.”
“The Communist Party committee and government want to express their deepest apology for the disruption of life caused to all ethnicities,” Mr Liu said.
Officials did not directly address starvation complaints but promised to ensure enough food supplies and organise squads to send food to locked-down families.
Police in Yining, a county in the Ili prefecture, on Sunday said they arrested four internet users over spreading “rumours” about the Covid lockdown.
Authorities also ordered censors to flood social media with innocuous posts about life in Xinjiang – including food and tourism – in order to drown out complaints about the lockdown, according to a leaked directive published by China Digital Times.
The Xinjiang Covid outbreak is relatively minor, with only 28 new infections reported on Monday. Across the country, authorities reported a total of 1,094 new locally transmitted infections on Monday.
Chinese officials cannot afford new major Covid outbreaks, especially ahead of a major political congress in mid-October during which China’s president, Xi Jinping, is expected to begin a third term in office.
Elsewhere in China, officials in the southern city of Guiyang were punished this week for failing to contain the virus from spreading to certain districts. Guiyang residents had previously complained online of food shortages amid the lockdown.
While there have been no Covid-related deaths reported in recent weeks in China, Radio Free Asia, a news service funded by the US government, quoted unnamed Xinjiang officials as saying as many as a dozen Ili residents died from starvation or lack of access to medicine.
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Schiphol queues: Airport slammed for flight cancellations and four hour delays as lines build a

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-13 | Passengers are angry that staff shortages at Schiphol have caused hours-long queues yet again, after the airport’s efforts to ease pressure fell through....
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Euronews
2022-09-13T11:12:18Z
Queues are building again at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport after more than 80 flights were cancelled on Monday.
Lines stretched hundreds of metres outside the terminal doors yesterday, as the beleaguered airport asked multiple airlines to cancel flights from 4pm onwards.
The airport is less busy today than it was yesterday, though the queues are currently building.
“Staffing levels at security today are lower than what Schiphol had requested of the security companies,” an airport spokesperson said.
“As a result, there is a shortage of security personnel and the number of waiting travellers is increasing, especially in Departures 3.”
The shortages come as security staff look elsewhere for jobs. During July and August, employees received an extra of €5.25 allowance per hour.
Now that the bonus period is over, staff are quitting in droves, claimed union Joost van Doesburg, a representative for the Netherlands Trade Union confederation.
“Many staff came especially for this allowance. The summer allowance has thus helped to cope with the summer problems but has not helped make the problems at Schiphol disappear in a sustainable way,” he said.
The airport apologised for the situation and the “disappointment” it would cause.
It was cold comfort to thousands of frustrated travellers, many of whom took to social media to vent their anger at the long delays.
Others described waiting on the tarmac for up to five hours to allow stranded passengers time to board.
“Dozens of missed connections on the other end. Disgrace is the right word,” one woman said.
Many airlines urge their passengers not to arrive more than four hours before their flights, to avoid putting undue pressure on the airport.
However, some passengers who followed this advice described missing their flights - and advised others to arrive at least five hours before scheduled take-off.
Will passengers get compensation?
Schiphol invited passengers with cancelled or missed flights to apply for compensation.
As air travel rebounds from two years of restrictions, the entire industry is struggling to cope.

Samantha Morton wants studios to support her film projects

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-13 | Samantha Morton has called on film studios to support her projects about the care system....
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BANG Showbiz
2022-09-13T09:00:00Z
Samantha Morton has written a trilogy of films about the care system.
The 45-year-old actress spent nine years in foster care and children’s homes during her younger years - but she's recently been frustrated in her attempts to get two of her film projects off the ground.
Samantha - whose first film was called 'The Unloved' and was released in 2009 - explained: "'Starlings' is about leaving care and being placed in a homeless hostel.
"Then my third film is about the perspective of a parent having a child taken away from them and fighting social services. That’s called 'Pamela' and it’s based on my mother."
Samantha can't understand why film studios have been so reluctant to support the projects.
She told The Independent: "If people read the scripts and didn’t like them I’d say fair dos. But there’s no interest. Film 4 just wants to make comedies and films with Shane Meadows."
The Oscar-nominated actress experienced abuse during her younger years - but she's never had any desire to find "personal revenge".
Samantha - whose film credits also include 'The Messenger', 'Decoding Annie Parker' and 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' - shared: "Without sounding like a twit, I honestly can’t say I’ve ever sought revenge.
"I’ve felt absolute horror and grief and confusion when human beings do awful stuff, either to society or to each other. I’ve never had that kind of desire to have personal revenge."
Despite this, Samantha believes people eventually pay the price for their bad behaviour.
She said: "I’ve always believed that it all comes out in the wash, that you have to be careful what you sow."

The new Lincoln Corsair will handle highways for you

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-13 | An American luxury SUV that isn’t also a luxo-barge? Shiver me timbers...
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Top Gear
2022-09-13T07:10:00Z
We’re just going to say it: Corsair is such a cool name. Refers to a lot of bad things throughout history, of course, but it’s been a hot minute since we’ve called pirates (or their ships) corsairs, so it’s likely an unfamiliar association for most people.
For those unfamiliar with the Lincoln Corsair, on the other hand, it’s a smallish SUV that sits on the same platform as the Ford Focus, Kuga (Ford Escape, for our American cousins) and Maverick, to name a few.
It’s actually Lincoln’s best-selling vehicle, apparently, which is a) quite an achievement for a model that only started back in 2019, and b) likely why Lincoln’s put a decent amount into the facelift.
So while the 250bhp 2.0-litre four-cylinder and 266bhp 2.5-litre hybrid are untouched, as is the eight-speed-auto, Lincoln’s focus has been on more tech, fancier interiors and updated styling. The new giganto-grille is SUV styling du jour, of course, while the addition of an IMAX-worthy screen – that now houses all the controls for radio, climate and so on – is bang on-trend as well. Not, as we would argue, a good thing, but then you could say that about almost any trend and get at least a few to agree with you.
More important than ever-expanding grilles and touchscreens is the addition of Lincoln’s ‘ActiveGlide 1.2’, which offers proper hands-free driving on highways.
It’s something that’s perhaps just as du jour and on-trend – and, again, hardly something we’re fans of – but if robots taking the wheel makes sense anywhere, it’s on the drudgery of boring highways. And just because we still find it amazing to be in control of a motor vehicle in any circumstance doesn’t mean that everyone else has to view it with such starry-eyed wonder. As for the ‘ActiveGlide’ moniker... well, not everything can have a cool name.
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Seoul says N. Korea will self-destruct if it uses nukes

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-13 | SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea warned Tuesday North Korea that using its nuclear weapons would put it on a “path of self-destruction,” in unusually harsh language that came days after North Kor...
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Associated Press
2022-09-13T04:38:54Z
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea warned Tuesday North Korea that using its nuclear weapons would put it on a “path of self-destruction,” in unusually harsh language that came days after North Korea legislated a new law that would allow it to use its nuclear weapons preemptively.
North Korea will likely be infuriated by the South Korean rhetoric as Seoul typically shuns such strong words to avoid raising tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
To get North Korea not to use its nuclear weapons, the ministry said South Korea will sharply boost its own preemptive attack, missile defense and massive retaliation capacities while seeking a greater U.S. security commitment to defend its ally South Korea with all available capabilities, including nuclear one.
“We warn that the North Korean government would face the overwhelming response by the South Korea-U.S. military alliance and go on the path of self-destruction, if it attempts to use nuclear weapons,” Moon Hong Sik, an acting ministry spokesperson, told reporters.
Last week, North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament adopted the legislation on the governing rules of its nuclear arsenal. The legislation would allow North Korea to use its nuclear weapons if its leadership face an imminent attack or if it aims to prevent an unspecified “catastrophic crisis” to its people.
The loose wording raised concerns the rules are largely meant as a legal basis to use its nuclear weapons pre-emptively to intimidate its rivals into making concessions amid long-stalled diplomacy on its weapons arsenal.
During the parliament’s meeting, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in a speech that his country will never abandon its nuclear weapons it needs to cope with U.S. threats. He accused the United States of pushing to weaken the North’s defenses and eventually collapse his government.
Kim has dialed up weapons tests to a record pace this year by test-launching a slew of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles targeting both the U.S. mainland and South Korea. For months, U.S. and South Korean officials have said North Korea could also carry out its first nuclear test in five years.
Since taking office in May, South Korea’s new conservative government, led by President Yoon Suk Yeol, has said it would take a tougher stance on North Korean provocation but also offered massive support plans if the North denuclearizes. North Korea has bluntly rejected that aid-for-disarmament offer and unleashed crude insults on the Yoon government.
Seoul’s use of words like “self-destruction” is unusual but it’s not the first time. When South Korea was governed by another conservative leader, Park Geun-hye, from 2013-2017, her government also warned North Korea would evaporate from Earth or self-destruct with its provocations, as the North conducted a slew of missile and nuclear tests.
Liberal President Moon Jae-in, who served from 2017 until this year, championed greater reconciliation between the Koreas. He was credited for arranging now-stalled nuclear diplomacy between Pyongyang and Washington but also faced criticism that such a diplomacy only allowed Kim Jong Un to buy time to prefect weapons technology while enjoying an elevated standing on the world stage.

Emmy Awards: Jean Smart wins for second year running

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-13 | Jean Smart won the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy Award for the second year in a row....
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BANG Showbiz
2022-09-13T02:45:00Z
Jean Smart paid tribute to the writers of 'Hacks' as she picked up her Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy Award on Monday (12.09.22).
The 70-year-old actress took home the honour for the second year in a row and credited her success to those who penned scripts that made the second season of the show even better than the first.
She said: "My second time honouring this show, I am so blown away by our writers who not only matched season one but surpassed it.
"As we all know season two of a show is kind of a litmus test, so this has just been a thrill... The crew went above, above, above and beyond,
Supporting actors who added so much to the show...All our nominees, our darling cohort, Hannah [Einbinder], Christopher McDonald, Kaitlyn [Olson], who played my darling daughter, best legs in Hollywood...
"I didn't realise the appeal of our show but we were shooting in a mall and there were three little boys there who were like 10 or 11 and they went 'Look, it's Deborah Vance' and I went 'Hi! You should not be watching this show.' "
Jean then thanked fellow nominee Rachel Brosnahan ('The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel') for sending a gift before the ceremony but joked she thought the actress was trying to sabotage her.
She said: "Rachel Brosnahan, one of our fabulous nominees, pure classy, sent this box of unbelievable designer cookies. And I thought that was so nice and classy until I realised she was hoping I wouldn't fit into a single dress in Hollywood. Thanks anyway."
The veteran actress - who was also nominated alongside Quina Brunson ('Abbott Elementary'), Kaley Cuoco ('The Flight Attendant'), Elle Fanning ('The Great') and Issa Rae ('Insecure') - then hilariously ended her speech with a shout-out to the practitioner who gives her Botox injections.
She said: "One more thing, I promised - I lost a bet - Hermine, thank you for the Botox."

Type 2 diabetes breakthrough as weekly jab slashes risk of disease in obese patients

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-13 | THE RISK of developing type 2 diabetes can be more than halved through weekly injections of a new obesity drug that make people feel full....
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2022-09-12T11:52:05Z
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The drug - "semaglutide" - works to encourage weight management by reducing feelings of hunger, and also improves the body's ability to regulate blood sugar levels. Semaglutide is similar to a natural hormone, glucagon-like peptide-1, which is produced in the body after eating a meal. It was recently approved in the US - and is provisionally approved in England - for use as an obesity treatment. Obesity is known to be a risk factor for type 2 diabetes, increasing the risk of the metabolic disorder up to six times.
Study leader and endocrinologist Dr W. Timothy Garvey of the University of Alabama at Birmingham said: "Semaglutide appears to be the most effective medication to date for treating obesity."
The drug, he added, "is beginning to close the gap with the amount of weight loss following bariatric surgery".
"Its approval was based on clinical trial results showing that it reduces weight by over 15 percent on average, when used together with a healthy lifestyle programme," he said.
"This amount of weight loss is sufficient to treat or prevent a broad array of obesity complications that impair health and quality of life and is a game changer in obesity medicine."
In their study, Dr Garvey and his colleagues conducted two separate trials - confusingly named STEP1 and STEP4 - to explore the potential of semaglutide in also combatting the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
In the STEP1 trial, 1,961 participants who were either overweight or obese were given a weekly 2.4 milligram injection of either semaglutide or a placebo for a total of 68 weeks.
Meanwhile, the 803 subjects in the STEP4 trial - who were also either overweight or obese - all received weekly 2.4 milligram injections of semaglutide over the course of 20 weeks.
At the end of this period, each volunteer was either kept on semaglutide for the following 48 weeks, or switched over to a placebo.
Participants in both trials were also given advice on diet and exercise.
To assess each participant's risk of developing type 2 diabetes within the next ten years, the team used a technique known as "Cardiometabolic Disease Staging", which accounts for such factors as age, blood glucose levels, blood pressure, body mass index, HDL cholesterol race, sex and triglyceride levels.
In the STEP 1 trial, the ten-year risk scores for those volunteers given semaglutide were seen to decrease by a whopping 61 percent on average - falling from 18.2 percent at the start of the study to 7.1 percent come week 68.
In comparison, the average risk score for those given the placebo fell by only 13 percent, having begun at 17.8 percent and ended at 15.6 percent.
The changing risk scores, the researchers noted, mirrored weight loss, which was 17 percent on average for those subjects given semaglutide and 3 percent for those in the placebo group.
According to Dr Garvey and his colleagues, the Cardiometabolic Disease Staging risk scores were higher among those participants with pre-diabetes than in those with normal blood sugar levels.
However, the team found that semaglutide reduced the risk by a similar amount in both groups.
In the STEP4 trial, meanwhile, the largest decrease in risk scores were seen in the first 20 weeks of the study, with scores falling from an average of 20.6 percent at the start to 11.4 percent at week 20.
In those participants who continued to receive semaglutide, the average risk score decreased further to 7.7 percent.
In those switched to the placebo, however, the average risk score rose to 15.4 percent.
This finding, the team said, indicates that sustained treatment with semaglutide is needed

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage marks death of Queen with poem

Ethel Johnson 2022-09-12 | Poet Laureate Simon Armitage marks death of Queen with poem - Floral Tribute references the lily of the valley, one of the late monarch’s favourite flowers....
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The Independent
2022-09-12T23:01:00Z
Floral Tribute is composed of two stanzas of nine lines each, describing the coming of a September evening and the appearance of a lily as “a token of thanks”.
The lily of the valley was one of the Queen’s favourite flowers and appeared in her coronation bouquet.
Since then it has held special associations and grows in the garden of Buckingham Palace.
The poem employs the form of a double acrostic, meaning the first letter of each line spells out Elizabeth when taken together.
In the first stanza, Armitage writes of “A promise made and kept for life – that was your gift”.
Armitage has served as Poet Laureate since May 2019 when he met with the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
The poet, who was brought up in Marsden, West Yorkshire, has published some 30 collections of poetry and his work is studied by children as part of the national curriculum.
Evening will come, however determined the late afternoon,Limes and oaks in their last green flush, pearled in September mist.I have conjured a lily to light these hours, a token of thanks,Zones and auras of soft glare framing the brilliant globes.A promise made and kept for life – that was your gift –Because of which, here is a gift in return, glovewort to some,Each shining bonnet guarded by stern lance-like leaves.The country loaded its whole self into your slender hands,Hands that can rest, now, relieved of a century’s weight.
Evening has come. Rain on the black lochs and dark Munros.Lily of the Valley, a namesake almost, a favourite flowerInterlaced with your famous bouquets, the restrainedZeal and forceful grace of its lanterns, each inflorescenceA silent bell disguising a singular voice. A blurred new dayBreaks uncrowned on remote peaks and public parks, andEverything turns on these luminous petals and deep roots,This lily that thrives between spire and tree, whose brightnessHolds and glows beyond the life and border of its bloom.