Image copyright Catherine Southon Auctioneers Image caption The prop chocolate bar and shiny slip of foil paper was the one Veruca Salt found in the movie A Wonka bar and golden ticket from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory has sold at auction for more than £15,000. The “chocolate” bar, which is […]
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Image copyright Reuters A father who lost his whole family in the March Boeing crash, said he misses them “every minute of every day”. Paul Njoroge said he has “nightmares about how (his children) must have clung to their mother crying” during the doomed flight. The Canadian’s wife, three children and mother-in-law were on the
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The Latest on efforts to keep a group of pilot whales from beaching themselves in Georgia (all times local): 12:55 p.m. Crews are keeping a close watch on about 30 pilot whales off the Georgia coast a day after the large animals were prevented from swimming ashore and beaching themselves. Georgia Department of Natural Resources
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Tour de France debutant Caleb Ewan sprinted to victory on Stage 11 of the Tour de France on Wednesday, while Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe kept the race leader’s yellow jersey a day before the race enters the high mountains. Ewan, a 25-year-old Australian, edged fellow sprinter Dylan Groenewegen by a tire’s width and was awarded the
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Paul N. Van de Water, a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal research center, described the tax as “one of the A.C.A.’s most important cost-containment measures,” and said that by curbing the growth of health insurance costs, it could have the effect of allowing for more wage increases. “Unfortunately
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Image copyright South Beds News Agency Image caption Discharge summaries can contain details of any changes to medication as well as follow-up appointments or tests A computer problem affecting thousands of hospital patients has not led to anyone coming to harm, the NHS said. Last September, East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust found 14,600 patients
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Country music listening numbers are on the rise. And yet, while black artists dominate charts across multiple genres, country music charts are a predominantly white space. So when Billboard removed Lil Nas X’s smash hit “Old Town Road” from its Hot Country Songs chart in March, some fans weren’t surprised. In a statement to Rolling Stone, Billboard
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Image copyright PA Media Cross-channel ferry companies have warned of gridlock around British ports, as they confirm they will not allow trucks to board ferries bound for France after a no-deal Brexit, unless they have the right paperwork. “We cannot take lorries across that cannot enter the country,” one ferry company told BBC Newsnight. Many
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Feel-good news stories are hard to resist. And why wouldn’t they be? The rest of the news is stressing us out. Political divides are deepening. The world is getting hotter. Ending, maybe. So we all take comfort in stories about people being kind to one another. Like the one about the woman in Missouri who
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A single by Nicholas Castellanos in the fifth inning prevented Zach Plesac and three Cleveland Indians relievers from making history. Castellanos hit a grounder up the middle off Tyler Clippard for the only hit allowed by Cleveland in an 8-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night. It was the second one-hitter tossed by
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