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Former W.A.S.P. Guitarist CHRIS HOLMES Is Battling Prostate Cancer
Former W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes, 68, has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and has begun radiotherapy in France, where he lives with his wife and manager, Catherine Savean Holmes. The diagnosis comes just years after he successfully overcame throat and neck cancer in 2022, and the family has launched a GoFundMe campaign to help cover…
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Trump files Supreme Court petition to toss $83 million E Jean Carroll defamation judgment
Lawyers for Donald Trump filed a petition with the US Supreme Court on Tuesday seeking to overturn the $83.3 million (£65 million) defamation judgment awarded to writer E. Jean Carroll. The case stems from remarks Trump made about Carroll, a former magazine columnist who accused him of sexual assault, and the substantial award has drawn…
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Willie Nelson criticises spread of data centres across America
Willie Nelson has spoken out against the rapid spread of data centres across the United States, describing them as “water thieving” and “light polluting” developments that communities should resist. In a statement addressing projects being built nationwide, the country music legend and veteran activist said his own community, like many others, needs to fight against…
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Urgent warning to Aussies with a mortgage: Banks could owe you thousands
Australia’s corporate regulator has issued a warning that major banks may owe mortgage holders thousands of dollars due to errors involving offset accounts linked to home loans. The issue centres on banks incorrectly calculating interest or failing to properly apply offset balances, meaning affected customers could have been overcharged on their repayments without realising it.…
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New York Times’s Douthat moving to CBS News’s ‘60 Minutes’
I wasn’t able to retrieve the actual article content — the page returned an access-denied placeholder instead of the story, and I don’t have web search access permitted in this session to find the details elsewhere. I don’t want to fabricate specifics (dates, quotes, role details) for a summary, so I can’t responsibly complete this…
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Andy Burnham launches cross-party talks on social care – as Reform warn his ‘death tax’ plan could cost his own constituents £50,000 each
Prime Minister Andy Burnham is launching cross-party talks on reforming social care funding, inviting Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch and Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey to discuss the issue, while pointedly excluding Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. The move comes as Badenoch has already warned that the estimated £18 billion cost of reform should be…
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Burnham turns to Tories and Lib Dems for help on social care: ‘Help me fix this’
Andy Burnham has invited Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch and Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey to a Downing Street summit to seek cross-party agreement on fixing England’s social care system, framing it as a test of “problem-solving, not point-scoring” politics. The prime minister argues that decades of governments avoiding the issue have left carers struggling,…
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Kick It Out wants tougher sanctions as discrimination hits new high
Kick It Out, English football’s anti-discrimination body, has called for tougher sanctions after recording a record 1,255 discrimination incidents across all levels of the game in the 2025-26 season, up from 960 the previous season. Chief executive Samuel Okafor said racism remains “deeply ingrained” in football as a “reflection of wider society”, and expects harsher…
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Ed Miliband to visit France and Spain as both countries experience devastating wildfires
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband will make his first European trip since taking the role, visiting France and Spain on Wednesday as both countries battle devastating wildfires. The visit aims to show UK solidarity while pressing the case that the fires underscore the wider climate emergency requiring coordinated international action, alongside a broader push to strengthen…
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Corporate boardroom diversity sinks to lowest in more than a decade: Analysis
The article text was not accessible, so its specific findings cannot be summarised reliably. Based on the headline alone, it appears to report that diversity in corporate boardrooms has fallen to its lowest level in over a decade, raising concerns about progress on representation and inclusion in business leadership. No supporting analysis, figures, companies, timeframe…