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New Year’s Honors 2023: Pat Jennings, Dara McAnulty and John Bennett shortlisted for NI BBC Countdown star Rachel Riley made MBE for her Holocaust Evening Standard campaign work Stephen Graham, star of This Is England, made OBE for services to drama The Independent New Year’s Honors 2023: Brian May and Lionesses in the BBC shortlist …

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Trump’s tax returns reveal BBC chairman’s foreign bank accounts Foreign accounts, Melania model, no charities in 2020: What we know about Trump’s tax returns The Independent Donald Trump’s tax returns released after years of effort – BBC News BBC News See full coverage on Google News

Vladimir Putin on Friday invited his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to pay a state visit to Russia next spring, as Moscow seeks to deepen ties with China amid growing international isolation over the war in Ukraine. Speaking to Xi via video conference, Putin said Russia’s ties with China are the “best in history”, expressing his …

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Vivienne Westwood: Tributes to ‘Queen of British Fashion’ after her death BBC Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood dies aged 81 The Independent Vivienne Westwood did the most unfashionable things: she made clothes for real women’s bodies The Guardian The Vivienne Westwood Bicester Village store is closing in ‘respect’ to Oxford Mail Vivienne Westwood caught up with …

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The role of a victims’ champion in England and Wales has been “deceptively and deliberately” undermined, leaving people affected by crime without a voice in the corridors of power, the outgoing victims’ commissioner has said. In her first major interview since stepping down in September, Dame Vera Baird accused Justice Secretary Dominic Raab of seeking …

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Sales of “super prime country houses” have hit a 15-year high as wealthy London bankers and lawyers are using huge bonuses to buy grand Downton Abbey-style mansions just a stone’s throw from the capital. A total of 168 homes outside London sold for more than £5m in the year to the end of October, according …

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Rail strikes have cost bars, pubs, restaurants and hotels in the UK at least £1.5 billion in December alone and, coupled with the cost of living crisis, will result in “a huge number of businesses and places of lost work”, reported industry bodies. warned Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UKHospitality, said the financial impact of …

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Social media influencer Andrew Tate has been arrested in Romania on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organized crime group, prosecutors have confirmed. The 36-year-old British-American and his brother Tristan were arrested on Thursday evening and are being held for 24 hours alongside two Romanian suspects, the country’s prosecutors said. “The four suspects …

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Five drones registered in a night attack in Kyiv – Kyiv City Military Administration The military administration of the city of Kyiv has just published its preliminary information about the attack. He told Telegram that five Shahed drones entered Kyiv’s airspace and all were destroyed by Ukraine’s air defense, but shelling munitions from one of …

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UNITED TEAM NEWS A big boost for the Ten Hag in the 3-0 win against Nottingham Forest at Old Trafford on December 21 was the return of Raphael Varane to the starting XI. The Frenchman was the first World Cup finalist in Qatar to return to play for his club and looked impressive and composed …

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