Month: January 2024

Joni Mitchell will perform at the Grammy Awards for the first time in her five-decade music career this weekend. The 80-year-old singer-songwriter, who’s best known for her hit Big Yellow Taxi, is up for best folk album. Image: Mitchell in 1969. Pic: PA The Canadian star’s previously won nine Grammys and a lifetime achievement award,
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has again slammed the government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, telling the House of Lords: “We can as a nation do better than this bill.” Speaking in the upper chamber, the Most Rev Justin Welby said the government was “continuing to seek good objectives in the wrong way”, leading
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Lloyds has confirmed it is axing its mobile banking vans – just days after it announced plans to cut 1,600 jobs as it increasingly shifts services online. The banking giant said visits to the branches had fallen by 90% since 2018, with as few as two people regularly using the service in some locations. The
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Erin Moriarty says she’s been targeted by online “verbal abuse”, leaving her barely able to eat or sleep, since former Fox news anchor Megyn Kelly accused her of getting plastic surgery. The 29-year-old actress, who played Starlight in the Amazon Prime show The Boys, wrote a long post on Instagram, describing “bullying” she’d been subjected
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Jeane Freeman has told the UK COVID-19 Inquiry she will ‘regret for the rest of her life’ care home deaths caused by Scottish government decision-making. Ms Freeman, who was Scotland’s health secretary during the pandemic up to the 2021 Holyrood election, said there were “no risk-free choices” when considering whether to introduce social distancing measures
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A Hong Kong court has ordered the liquidation of China Evergrande, the real estate firm with more than $300bn (£236.1bn) of debts, amid deepening fears for the territory’s wider corporate health. Justice Linda Chan ruled Evergrande had been unable to offer a concrete restructuring plan to creditors – more than two years after defaulting on
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Iceland supermarket boss Richard Walker has switched his support from the Conservatives to Labour, saying Sir Keir Starmer’s party is “the right choice” for his customers. Mr Walker, a former Tory donor and the executive chairman of Iceland, said under Sir Keir’s leadership Labour had “progressively moved towards the ground on which I have always
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