Day: March 15, 2023
Hilary Embling obituary
March 15, 2023My mother, Hilary Embling, who has died aged 94, was a teacher, librarian, peace campaigner and leftwing activist. Born in the town of Croydon to Margaret (nee Bingham) and Graham Down, a bank manager, Hilary was the youngest of five daughters. During the second world war she was a day girl at a private boarding […]
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Duchess of Sussex to contribute recipe to charity cookbook
March 15, 2023For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The Duchess of Sussex will contribute a lemon olive oil cake recipe to a forthcoming charity cookbook. Meghan is among a number of celebrities set to contribute to […]
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Woman who made £500,000 claiming refunds on stolen items convicted of fraud
March 15, 2023A woman who made more than £500,000 by claiming refunds on items she shoplifted on an “industrial scale” has been convicted of multiple counts of fraud. Narinder Kaur, also known as Nina Tiara, travelled all over the the UK, defrauding various retailers more than a thousand times between July 2015 and February 2019. During two […]
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Sir Michael Caine celebrates 90th birthday with Tom Cruise and Loose Women’s Denise Welch
March 15, 2023Sir Michael Caine celebrated his 90th birthday with a star-studded dinner attended by Tom Cruise, David Walliams and Loose Women panellist Denise Welch. The Oscar-winning actor was joined by friends and family at top London restaurant The River Cafe in Hammersmith. Sir Michael worked with Cruise on the 2002 Austin Powers film Goldmember but the […]
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Aleksander Ceferin apologises for chaotic scenes at Paris Champions League final
March 15, 2023Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has apologised for the chaotic scenes at last season’s Champions League final and expressed his relief “nothing terrible happened” in Paris. An independent report published last month […]
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Residents demand independent inquiry into council’s role before fatal fire
March 15, 2023Pressure is growing for an independent investigation into the role of the London borough of Tower Hamlets before a fatal fire in an overcrowded flat as it was claimed 10 officials and councillors knew about problems. The Tarling West estate residents’ association published excerpts from correspondence from officials at the council dating back to last […]
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Moped rider ‘smashed £3,000,000 Bugatti with hammer to get owner’s Rolex’
March 15, 2023To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Thieves on mopeds attacked a millionaire’s £3,000,000 Bugatti supercar and attempted to steal his £110,000 Rolex watch in Mayfair, a court heard. Footage caught the moment a boy, 15, dressed as a Deliveroo driver repeatedly hammered the […]
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Example confirms romance six months after split from wife of 11 years and they’re all pals
March 15, 2023Musician Example has confirmed that he has a new girlfriend after his split from Erin McNaught last year. The Kickstarts hitmaker and model Erin were married for 11 years until they announced their separation in September. The singer, real name Elliot Gleave, 40, is seeing an art advisor from London called Daisy Cox. Taking to […]
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London council first in England to offer pupils free school meals up to age 16
March 15, 2023A council has become the first in the country to promise all children from Reception to Year 11 a free school meal every day. Tower Hamlets in east London has made the landmark move to extend the free school meals policy to secondary school children. The council has been giving out meals to primary school […]
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Man who killed rough sleeper with concrete slab to serve sentence in hospital
March 15, 2023A man has been sentenced to a hospital order after killing a homeless man with a concrete slab. Jermaine Myers, 37, pleaded guilty to killing Nicholas Sutin by admitting to manslaughter with diminished responsibility. An investigation was launched after police and paramedics were called shortly after 4am on May 27 last year to reports of […]
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