Day: February 19, 2025
Iconic Camden comic shop saved weeks after closing
February 19, 2025A legendary Camden comic shop has been saved weeks after it was forced to close. Mega City Comics shut up shop at the end of January when owner Martin Kravetz retired without a suitable replacement found. The retailer will now reopen with cult entertainment chain Forbidden Planet taking the reigns. Mega City Comics, in Inverness Street […]
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Trump’s mineral grab has all the elements of an earworm | Brief letters
February 19, 2025Your article, referring to rare earth elements including europium, dysprosium, gadolinium, praseodymium, holmium and ytterbium, was very enlightening (What are Ukraine’s critical minerals – and why does Trump want them?, 17 February). However, it was difficult for me to read, owing to the persistent intrusion of the earworm of a certain song by Tom Lehrer.John O’DwyerSteeple […]
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Joe Haines obituary
February 19, 2025The most important characteristic in the makeup of the complex personality of the journalist Joe Haines, who has died aged 97, was loyalty. He was loyal to his family and a few carefully chosen friends; he never forgot the poverty and the culture of his working-class childhood and was thus always loyal to the journalistic […]
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Woman in court charged with killing girl, 5, by ‘forcing her into scalding bath’
February 19, 2025Sam Corbishley Published February 19, 2025 1:33pm Updated February 19, 2025 1:33pm A woman has appeared in court accused of killing a five-year-old child by forcing her into a scalding hot bath. Janice Nix, 66, is charged with manslaughter over the death of Andrea Bernard, who was taken to hospital after she suffered burns in […]
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Large sinkhole forces closure of village high street
February 19, 2025Surrey Police said on Tuesday that Godstone High Street was closed following reports of a sinkhole.
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Godstone: Huge sinkhole forces Surrey village high street to close
February 19, 2025A council has declared a major incident after a large sink hole opened up in a Surrey village. The hole first appeared on Godstone High Street on Monday night after a water pipe burst, growing to at least 20 metres long (65ft) by midday on Tuesday. A number of homes have since been evacuated and […]
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Survivors say Omagh turned into a ‘war zone’ following Real IRA bombing
February 19, 2025The centre of Omagh was turned into a “war zone” after a Real IRA bomb exploded in 1998, survivors have told a public inquiry. One woman injured in the blast described how a large piece of the car in which the explosive device had been hidden ended up embedded in her leg. The Omagh Bombing […]
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Harold Wilson’s former press secretary Joe Haines dies aged 97
February 19, 2025Joe Haines, Harold Wilson’s former press secretary, has died aged 97, the Labour Party said. “Lifelong Labour supporter” Mr Haines died at his home in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on Wednesday, the party confirmed. He served two spells as press secretary to the then-Labour prime minister Mr Wilson in the late 1960s and mid 1970s A […]
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Woman in court accused of killing child by scalding her in bath in 1978
February 19, 2025Janice Nix, 66, appeared in court accused of manslaughter in relation to the death of a child in 1978 (Steve Parsons/PA) PA Archive A 66-year-old woman has appeared in court accused of killing a child by scalding her in a hot bath in 1978. Janice Nix was charged on Tuesday over the death of five-year-old […]
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London rail trespasser disrupted nearly 1,000 trains at a cost of £1,200,000
February 19, 2025A man has been jailed after he wreaked havoc on one of the UK’s busiest railway lines in southwest London. He disrupted almost 1,000 trains after slipping onto the South West Main Line, which ferries thousands of commuters between London Waterloo and Surrey, Somerset, Dorset and Hampshire. Ryan Seymour, 41, trespassed onto the railway tracks […]
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