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They cannot even flush their toilets: life in east London blocks where taps often run dry
Hundreds of residents in nine housing association blocks on the Devons Road estate in Tower Hamlets, east London, have been left without a reliable water supply since Christmas Day last year, with taps frequently running dry for much of the day. The prolonged disruption, which landlord Poplar Harca has been slow to resolve, has left…
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RBA holds rates as ASX reaches record high
The Reserve Bank of Australia held interest rates steady, easing pressure on mortgage holders and other borrowers who had braced for a further increase in borrowing costs. The decision coincided with the Australian share market (ASX) climbing to record highs, suggesting investors welcomed the central bank’s cautious, steady-as-she-goes stance, though the RBA governor made clear…
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Sheffield taxi company owner shares fears attacks are fuelled by ‘racism’
“The kids have got a lot braver, and they are more likely to target drivers in a racist attack”
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Téa Leoni & Tim Daly Say “We Don’t Need An Intimacy Coordinator” On ‘Newlyweds’; Jamie Lee Curtis Shares Her NSFW Title On NBC Comedy
Actors Téa Leoni and Tim Daly, who married earlier this year, are playing an on-screen married couple in the new NBC multi-camera comedy Newlyweds, marking a reunion after previously portraying spouses in the 2014 CBS drama Madam Secretary. Speaking at an NBCUniversal event ahead of the show’s autumn debut, the pair said the casting was…
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“The peak had passed. But some albums kept the flame alive”: What did the 80s ever do for prog?
Louder’s Prog feature reassesses progressive rock in the 1980s as a period of adaptation rather than simple decline. It argues that, after the genre’s 1970s commercial and cultural high point, long-form epics and elaborate arrangements were less fashionable; established acts therefore pursued more concise, synthesiser-led or radio-friendly approaches. Its ten-album selection includes Rush’s Moving Pictures,…
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Biggie’s Manager Wins Battle Against Widow Faith Evans, Gains Partial Control Over Rapper’s Catalog
A Delaware Chancery Court judge has ruled in favour of Wayne Barrow, one of the Notorious B.I.G.’s former managers, in his legal dispute with the rapper’s widow, Faith Evans, over control of his music catalogue and estate income. The ruling, the first of two lawsuits concerning Biggie’s intellectual property, found that Evans had wrongly withheld…
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Judge deals blow to Mamdani plan to tax second homes
A judge in Staten Island, N.Y., temporarily blocked New York City Zohran Mamdani’s (D) rollout of a new tax on second homes worth more than $5 million, according to multiple reports. The ruling from Judge Wayne Ozzi, a Democrat on the state’s Supreme Court, required the city to take down a public list of 900,000-plus…
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Netflix Adds Logan Marshall-Green, Scott Bakula and More to ‘The Sticks,’ Shares First-Look at Hockey Drama
The show centers on a grieving wife who steps behind the bench of the hockey team her husband built.
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Sheffield park battle, RFK’s food fight and Pentagon races to rearm
In Sheffield, a proposed Orgreave Park development at Handsworth Hall Farm became part of the wider dispute over the city’s green-belt housing plans. The scheme’s early environmental assessment envisaged up to 900 homes and a 49-acre business park on farmland near Orgreave Lane. It sits alongside a Local Plan that allocates 14 green-belt sites for…