Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionKylie Minogue sings with twins Lauren and Sophie backstage at Blenheim Palace Kylie Minogue surprised a pair of eight-year-old twins by singing their late mother’s favourite song with them. A video of Lauren and Sophie Cripps singing Kylie’s hit Dancing to their dying mother Alex went viral […]
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Image copyright Getty Images The Information Commissioner (ICO) has fined mobile network EE £100,000 for sending text messages to customers without their consent. The ICO says more than 2.5 million messages were sent in 2018. The purpose of the texts was to encourage EE customers to use the firm’s app and also to upgrade their
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A passenger train derailed on a bridge in north-east Bangladesh on Sunday evening, killing at least five people and injuring more than 100. Six carriages of the passenger train derailed on a bridge at Baramchal in Moulvibazar, around 140 miles from the Capital, Dhaka. All train services between Sylhet and other districts were suspended after
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In the middle of the night before the most important round of golf in Hannah Green’s life, a storm rolled through that produced a crack of thunder loud enough to shake the house she was staying at with a handful of fellow Australians. Green didn’t stir, as housemate Karrie Webb was glad to find out
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Deacon Frey ably filled his father’s shoes When Glenn Frey died in 2016, his fellow Eagles founder Don Henley said the band would never play live again. Speaking to BBC Radio 2, he said that playing a tribute to his co-star at the 2016 Grammys had been “very difficult
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After the Toronto Raptors clinched the NBA championship earlier this month, President Donald Trump praised the Canadian team for playing “phenomenal basketball” and said he was considering inviting them to the White House. “If they’d like to do it, we’ll think about that,” the president told reporters last week of the potential invitation. Raptors guard
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Image copyright Disney/Pixar Image caption The film reunites much of the original cast of the first movie, with some new additions such as Sporky Toy Story 4, the long awaited fourth film in the animated franchise, has broken global box office records for an animated movie. It earned $238m (£187m) since opening worldwide over the
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Image copyright BOOTS Health and beauty chain Boots has started to replace plastic bags with brown paper bags in an attempt to cut down on the use of single-use plastic. The retailer is also introducing bleached paper dispensing bags for prescriptions. However, prescriptions assembled at its central pharmacy will still be sent out in plastic
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As Democratic presidential hopefuls prepare for their first 2020 primary debate this week, 74 medical and public health groups aligned on Monday to push for a series of consensus commitments to combat climate change, bluntly defined by the organizations as “a health emergency.” The new climate change agenda released by the groups, including the American
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Australia’s greatest female tennis players, Margaret Court and Evonne Goolagong Cawley, have joined in celebrating the rise of compatriot Ashleigh Barty to the No. 1 world ranking which they both held. Barty became the first Australian woman in more than 40 years to take the top ranking by claiming her third title of 2019 on
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