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This City Is Ours review – the Liverpudlian gang drama is back … and the acting’s as terrific as ever
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This City Is Ours review – the Liverpudlian gang drama is back … and the acting’s as terrific as ever

“’Ee’s gone,” whimpers Cheryl (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), blinking weepily in the Marbella sunshine as troubled mobster Michael (James Nelson-Joyce) manoeuvres the decomposing remains of her late husband into a makeshift grave. Shot by erratic kingpin Ronnie Phelan (Sean Bean) for leaking information about a drug deal, his life snuffed out like a heavily discounted Yankee Candle.

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Where is your ‘Cape Point’? By Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi
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Where is your ‘Cape Point’? By Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi

I used to scour the stalls of young TingaTingabatik artistes in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, looking for paintings that did not have African women with pots on their heads and babies on their backs, men hunting and Zebras roaming around. In January 2017, I was in Cape Town, and I thought it was time to make it to Cape Point.

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Adeboye’s granddaughter weds in US
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Adeboye’s granddaughter weds in US

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, and his wife, Pastor Folu Adeboye, have attended the wedding of their granddaughter, Oluwafunmilayo Adubi, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Oluwafunmilayo married David Joseph at House of Praise Baltimore on October 21, 2026.

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New York Archdiocese agrees to pay $800m to sex abuse victims
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New York Archdiocese agrees to pay $800m to sex abuse victims

“We are on the verge of being able to, please God, bring some measure of healing and reconciliation to all victim-survivors,” New York Archbishop Ronald Hicks wrote in an email sent to his priests and forwarded to AFP by the archdiocese. The Archdiocese of New York, which covers Manhattan, Staten Island, the Bronx and several counties north of the city, will now be able to “turn its full attention once again to its mission of preaching the Gospel, healing the sick, caring for the poor and needy, welcoming the stranger, and educating our children,” Hicks’ email said.

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New York archdiocese finalizing $800m settlement with clergy sex abuse survivors
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New York archdiocese finalizing $800m settlement with clergy sex abuse survivors

Agreement with more than 1,300 victims of clergy members and lay leaders would resolve long legal fight The Catholic archdiocese of New York is finalizing a settlement for at least $800m with more than 1,300 people who said they were sexually abused by clergy members and lay leaders, according to one of the plaintiff’s attorneys. The agreement would resolve a long legal fight, as well as reportedly reduce the risk of the diocese going bankrupt.

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The joy of veg-maxxing: how to eat many, many more plants – without really trying
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The joy of veg-maxxing: how to eat many, many more plants – without really trying

Here is how to get your five portions of fruit and veg a day, easily and affordably – and potentially increase that to ten When Eva Humphries first started working as a nutritionist, she met a client who had just found out he had high blood pressure and high cholesterol, and was on the verge of type 2 diabetes. The man broke down and cried for 45 minutes, leaving Humphries with “no idea of what to do”, she says.

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How to make mushroom stroganoff – recipe
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How to make mushroom stroganoff – recipe

An age-old Russian favourite, rich and full of flavour, in nine easy steps Stroganoff is a richly savoury dish of sautéed beef in soured cream named after a 19th-century count (though no one seems quite sure exactly which one). Prep 15 min Cook 40 min Serves 4 Continue reading...

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Stephen Fry: ‘Sherlock Holmes altered the course of my whole life’
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Stephen Fry: ‘Sherlock Holmes altered the course of my whole life’

Nearly a hundred years after Arthur Conan Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes story, the writer and broadcaster unravels the mystery of the detective’s enduring appeal It has become quite the fashion for contemporary writers to have a go at reinventing past classics. Sherlock Holmes was the conception of Arthur Conan Doyle, a Scottish doctor down on his luck who had turned his hand to fiction to make up for a worrying lack of success in attracting patients to his surgery.

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Zadie Smith tells Dua Lipa inequality has made culture clashes feel ‘existential’
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Zadie Smith tells Dua Lipa inequality has made culture clashes feel ‘existential’

Novelist says demise of Britain’s ‘incredible’ welfare system and housing struggles have led to deeper divisions The novelist Zadie Smith has said that inequality has made culture clashes feel “existential”, adding that it has become “natural to look to your left and think ‘who the fuck are you?’” In an interview with Dua Lipa as part of the Southbank Centre’s London literature festival, Smith argued that the demise of Britain’s “incredible, historic” welfare system has led to greater divisions.

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