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Billy Mitchell takes his Donkey Kong high-score cheating case to court

Newly revealed Twin Galaxies defamation suit has been quietly proceeding for months.




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Sniff Petrol’s wonderfully interesting book of boring car facts: A review

A Medium-Sized Book of Boring Car Trivia is inaccurately named.




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What I’m really thinking: the secret smoker

If I was ever going to ‘come out’, I should have done it when I was younger

If anyone ever offers me a cigarette, I always reply: “No thanks, I don’t smoke.” But I’m lying.

I started smoking at 16. I thought it made me look grown-up, but I was shy so I’d do it on my own. I would go into the woods near my home, or occasionally “bravely” have one in the house if nobody was else in.

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The Biden Campaign Is Trying To Reach Voters Virtually

President Trump and Vice President Pence have made official visits to battleground states this week, while the Biden campaign tries new ways to reach voters in key states virtually.




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Some Canadian cruise ship crew members finally heading home

Roughly 19 Canadian crew members aboard Holland America’s MS Koningsdam disembarked at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, Calif. on Friday while another group of 53 aboard the Emerald Princess is hoping to do the same on Saturday at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.




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What Traveling Internationally Is Like in the Age of Coronavirus

I've traveled a lot over the years, saving up all the dollars and vacation days I can manage to embark on solo adventures around the globe. Whether I've ended up road-tripping...




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Tracy Brabin 'forced to change her number' after it was accidentally shown on screen on ITV's This Morning

Tracy Brabin has said she will have to change her phone number after it was inadvertently shown on screen while she was being interviewd on ITV's This Morning.




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Home Secretary Priti Patel facing legal action from Sir Philip Rutnam after bullying allegations

Legal action has been formally launched against Priti Patel following allegations of bullying from a top civil servant.




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Home Secretary Priti Patel 'cleared of bullying staff after investigation'

Priti Patel has reportedly been cleared of bullying members of staff after an official investigation.




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Labour calls for immediate release of Priti Patel bullying probe after reports she has been cleared

The investigation into bullying accusations against Priti Patel must be released "as soon as possible", Labour has demanded.




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Boris Johnson ally Conor Burns resigns as minister after suspension from Commons for attempting to intimidate member of public

One of Boris Johnson's closest allies quit as a minister today after being found to have breached the MPs' code of conduct by trying to "intimidate" a company chairman involved in a loan row with his father.




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Boris Johnson ally Conor Burns replaced after quitting over intimidation in financial dispute

Downing Street has replaced a trade minister who resigned when an investigation found he threatened a company chairman over a financial dispute with his father.




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Trump attacks Joe Scarborough, who tells him 'take a rest' and 'let Mike Pence actually run things' 

With the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus mounting, President Trump on Monday took aim at MSNBC's Joe Scarborough. The cable news host responded by telling Trump to let Vice President Mike Pence “run things for the next couple of weeks.”





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Leaked intelligence report saying China 'intentionally concealed' coronavirus to stockpile medical supplies draws scrutiny

The Trump administration has issued an intelligence analysis claiming China purposely delayed notifying the World Health Organization about the spread of the coronavirus.





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Weather: Chilly, possible flurries for Mother's Day weekend

It’s chilly out there this morning. The temperature at 7 a.m. Saturday morning sat at -3 C. Making it feel more like March than May. Clouds shouldroll in later this morning, bringing a 40 per cent chance of flurries, the high reaching only 4 C. Yep, more like March than May. The wind kicks up […]




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For too many Britons, Boris Johnson's easing of lockdown will be no picnic | Polly Toynbee

Despite everything, the Tory party is sticking to the ideology of the free market, rather than saving lives and jobs

“How on earth did it come to this?” Keir Starmer’s question could skewer Boris Johnson at every PMQs from now on. It encompasses all the damage the government did in the last decade, as well as all it has failed to do to protect the country from Covid-19. The list of derelictions in the early stage of the crisis is long, the testing and the protective equipment still shamefully inadequate. Have lessons been learned? The auguries are not good.

Related: Picnics and sunbathing on cards as PM expected to allow more time outside

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Seinfeld's Jason Alexander, Fran Drescher, Billy Porter and more raise $1.5m for CDC with remote Seder

Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing, Finn Wolfhard and many others joined




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Amy Schumer legally changes son's name after realising it sounded like 'genital'

Comedian explained on her podcast that she hadn't realised what the name sounded like until recently




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Netflix to make romcom based on sexually fluid dating life of Queer Eye's Antoni Porowski

Reality show star is working on the project with the writers of Pen15 and Black-ish




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Joe Lycett reverts to using own name after legally changing it to Hugo Boss

The 'Joe Lycett's Got Your Back' presenter legally changed his name in March




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Sue Perkins 'devastated' by end of friendship with Paul Hollywood after leaving Bake Off

Sue Perkins presented 'The Great British Bake Off' with Mel Giedroyc from 2010 to 2016




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Normal People: First-look clip released from BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney's best-selling novel

New clip gives viewers a sense of what the much-anticipated series will be like




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Ranjit Chowdhry death: The Office star and 'towering icon' of Bollywood dies aged 64

Actor starred in both Bollywood films and US dramas




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Sam Heughan: Outlander star hits out at 'years of bullying and harassment'

Many of the actor's co-stars expressed support for him after the emotional social media post




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Real Housewives star Kelly Dodd apologises after claiming coronavirus is 'God's way of thinning the herd'

Reality TV star went on a rant after she was criticised for travelling while experiencing Covid-19 symptoms




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Stranger Things star Maya Hawke thinks her parents' generation 'really f***ed us over'

Actor also spoke about how she feels the traditional image of the Hollywood movie star has faded in recent years




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Better Call Saul: Vince Gilligan admits he initially didn't want to bring Breaking Bad's Lalo back

'Man, I was wrong'




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Dolly Parton secretly produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and fans have only just found out

Unexpected crossover between pop culture icons has been a secret for almost three decades




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Will and Grace creators finally discuss Debra Messing and Megan Mullally feud rumours

Rumours of a rift between the actors began earlier this year, when the two unfollowed each other on Instagram




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Normal People review: Adaptation of Sally Rooney's intense love story is pitch-perfect

Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal inhabit lovers Marianne and Connell so utterly that it is instantly impossible to imagine them being played by anyone else




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Van Der Valk review: ITV's Amsterdam-set sleuth remake is woefully miscast

The Dutch capital is captured here in all its tawdry beauty, but plot contrivances and a distracting lead make this Seventies re-hash a hard sell




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Normal People: Viewers hail 'abnormally brilliant' BBC drama and praise consensual sex scenes

Adaptation of Sally Rooney's love story stars Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones




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Great British Bake Off: Paul Hollywood says new series could still air this summer

'Bake Off' is due to return for its 11th series in August




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Paul Hollywood Eats Japan: Viewers call new Channel 4 show 'racist' and 'cringeworthy'

Channel 4 show saw Bake Off judge ask if the Japanese eat bread, and give a Michelin-starred chef a Pot Noodle




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Billy Bush says p**** tape scandal made him a 'much nicer person'

'Of course you want to delete it, but you can't'




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Hollywood on Netflix: Who are the real-life stars of the 1940s-set series?

Ryan Murphy's latest series reimagines the golden age of Hollywood




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Hollywood review: This big shiny mess shows Netflix has more money than time

In his latest series, Ryan Murphy turns his attention to the post-war 'golden age' of Tinseltown, where a glossy facade concealed racism, sexism and homophobia




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Michael Palin says he was saved by elderly neighbour after accidentally setting house on fire

Monty Python star was recovering from open-heart surgery when he says incident took place




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Normal People's Paul Mescal: 'I was really nervous portraying Connell's depression – there were three suicides at my school'

The actor bringing Sally Rooney's smash-hit novel to life talks to Ellie Harrison about experiencing tragedy at a young age, how Normal People's depiction of sex is the antidote to porn and Hollywood, and what it's like to promote the biggest role of his life in lockdown




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Celebrity Juice: Holly Willoughby quits series and thanks Keith Lemon for '12 years of chaos'

Lemon praised Willoughby for 'getting hands dirty' on ITV2 show




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The Witcher: Two Hollywood stars 'turned down role of Vesemir' in season 2

Hit Netflix show expected to return in 2021




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Homeland: Who the makers originally wanted to play Carrie and Brody (and why they rejected Damian Lewis several times)

Show's creators were told 'he will never play this role – please do not bring him up ever again'




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Hollywood: Cast of Netflix series were fitted for prosthetic penises ahead of full frontal sex scenes

'Uber-salacious' scenes were ultimately not filmed, with star Darren Criss revealing the show chose to instead emphasise 'the heart and the hope'




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Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel hit back at Trump after Twitter attacks: 'Now get back to work royally f***ing everything up'

Trump took time away from coronavirus crisis to call Kimmel 'wacko' in a social media rant




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'Get back in your own area': Holly Willoughby forgets about social distancing on This Morning

Presenter said she was 'genuinely sorry' for blunder




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The Simpsons writer concedes series really did 'predict 2020' after new double 'prediction' emerges

People have noted a certain timeliness in a clip from the 1993 episode 'Marge in Chains'




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Kelly Lee Owens: ‘I still have to fight to not be seen as ‘just the singer’’

The Welsh nurse-turned-indie rocker is now one of electronic music’s best exponents. She talks proving herself, the NHS and climate-crisis bangers

Kelly Lee Owens is showing me her crumpled bed, pixelated on the screen. It is five weeks into quarantine and this has quickly become the norm: an interview with an artist in their close quarters; ambivalent levels of grooming. Neither of us is wearing makeup, and neither of us care. “You know what I read?” begins the electronic musician, incredulously. “This is bullshit. There’s a [Daily Mail] headline saying that women’s breasts will be sagging because they’re not going to be wearing bras during this lockdown. So what?! Leave me to my saggy breasts.”

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Can Mushrooms Actually Help Save the Planet?

Many people think mushrooms have the potential to be environmental game-changers by replacing some plastics, meats and even eating through landfill waste. Could these fungi really help save the planet?