“I unequivocally apologise for the words I used,” Justin Welby wrote on Twitter. “It’s never right to make comparisons with the atrocities brought by the Nazis, and I’m sorry for the offence caused to Jews by these words,” said the Church of England’s most senior bishop, whose father was born …
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Michelle Hadaway – the mother of 9-year-old Karen Hadaway, who was found strangled to death in Brighton in 1986 – loaned her daughter’s clothes to former BBC presenter and editor Martin Bashir in 1991 after he said the network could do further DNA testing on the items in an effort …
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On Thursday evening, Twitter user Juan Mac apologised to Harry Potter writer JK Rowling for a “defamatory” tweet sent on July 16 which quoted an earlier post by the author. In the now-deleted post from July, Mac, citing Rowling, wrote “I ignore porn tweeted at children,” attributing the quote to …
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The costume and the actor wearing it came from Mandinga Arts, a troupe of street performers based in Clapham South that has “a distinctive style bringing together live music, carnival, street costume, puppetry and dance, drawing on diverse influences from Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa,” according to its …
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Almost 50 pages of documents were discovered in a “soggy heap” by a member of the public at a bus stop in Kent on Tuesday morning. The finder handed them over to the BBC, the public broadcaster said. The dossier revealed British military officials’ considerations of Moscow’s potential reaction to …
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Local residents and parents descended on the Yorkshire grammar school on Thursday despite headmaster Gary Kibble writing a “sincere and full apology” to those offended by a picture allegedly shown in a religious studies lesson, which Kibble labelled “completely inappropriate.” The gathering began around 7:30am on Thursday at the non-fee-paying …
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The UK decriminalised same-sex relationships in 1967, but until 1991 its intelligence agencies had a “security bar” against LGBT+ spies due to the idea that they would be more easily blackmailed than their straight counterparts. This view was “misguided,” MI6 chief Richard Moore – or “C” – admitted in a …
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The 55-year-old admitted breaching coronavirus guidelines while getting into a taxi with his wife Celia Walden on Saturday night. Morgan claims he quickly donned his mask after realising his mistake, but not before the paparazzi had photographed his pandemic-era faux-pas, something which he has blasted many others for during his …
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