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Roger phoned me in a foul mood. ‘How dare they!’ he said. ‘What a nerve!’ ‘What’s happened?’ I asked, knowing he’d been awaiting a script from the BBC and it was all very hush-hush. ‘They’ve sent the scene. They want me to play an old fart in a club. With one line. One line!’ He … Read more
Julian Assange’s lawyer tells court Donald Trump offered the Wikileaks co-founder a pardon if he said the Russians didn’t play a role the leak of DNC emails Assange is wanted on 18 charges in the US for conspiring to expose state secrets He appeared from Belmarsh Prison, south east London, via video link today His … Read more
A French infantry helmet from World War I offered better protection from blasts than the modern US Army helmet, new experiment shows A group of engineering researchers at Duke tested four military helmets They compared the current US standard helmet to three World War I helmets They found the French WWI helmet, called Adrian, outperformed … Read more
NHS guidelines will be changed to offer blood pressure-lowering drugs to hundreds of thousands more people in the UK. The threshold a patient has to hit before being given the life-saving drugs will be lowered and more than triple the number of people diagnosed with stage one high blood pressure. Health service watchdog, the National … Read more
I booked a family holiday to Greece for myself, my husband and three children going out with British Airways and returning with easyJet. In late March I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and told I could not travel abroad in the summer as I would be undergoing chemotherapy. EasyJet was amazing, offering a voucher for … Read more