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Coronavirus UK: Job fears as tourism among industries hit

Hundreds of thousands of UK jobs in the tourism, fast food, retail, and leisure sectors could be axed within weeks because of coronavirus (pictured, BA logo on aircraft at London Heathrow Airport).




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Sean Bean 'hurled a glass at his wife after she poured wine in his lap during BA flight'

The actor is said to have become enraged with his partner Ashley Moore, 33, after the pair downed free alcohol on a nine-hour flight from Vancouver to Heathrow over the weekend.




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Flights from Italy, Iran and China still landing in Britain despite UK coronavirus lockdown

Passengers from Italy, China and Iran have arrived a Gatwick and Heathrow this week, even as the UK went in to lockdown. Planes from Rome, Beijing and Shanghai have landed.




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Thibaut Courtois and Ian Poulter join Formula One stars in virtual race as Esports takes over

Well, I thought I would spend Sunday telling you how Lewis Hamilton had won the Bahrain Grand Prix. And then on to a gin and tonic the size of an Olympic swimming pool with a few pals.




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Coronavirus: UK airports could be shut within weeks after airlines ground fleets

Flatlining footfall could see UK airports shut within weeks, with plummeting passenger numbers forcing airlines such as easyJet and Ryanair to ground their whole fleet.




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Cruise ship dancer slams BA and American Airlines as passengers were forced to sit together

Alice Percival, 26,was shocked to discover upon boarding her American Airlines flight from Miami to London on Saturday that social distancing measures were not taking place.




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Coronavirus UK: Billionaire Sir Philip Green wants taxpayer help

Furious Twitter users called on the British retail mogul to sell one of his three yachts, which includes the £122million Lionheart, or use some of his estimated £1.8billion fortune.




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Mother of quadruplets, 39, who died of coronavirus feared she was infected by Chinese passengers

Shabnum Sadiq, 39, was employed as a customer care relations manager for BA at Heathrow's Terminal 5. Before falling ill she had told her husband of her fears about catching the virus from passengers.




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Coronavirus UK: BA flies 2.5m pieces of PPE from China

Seven pilots and six crew made the trip from London Heathrow to Shanghai and back again to pick up the supplies and bring them back to be used by NHS frontline staff.




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An 'electrifying' exhibition about 'ways of reacting to life'

Is ‘painting life’ really a subject? Or does this exhibition just amount to an agreeable collection of pretty well-known figurative painting?




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Last Paintings at the Gagosian reveals Howard Hodgkin's reputation is soaring says Philip Hensher

After the death of a great artist, their professional life continues for some time. So, a year after the great English painter Sir Howard Hodgkin died in March 2017, new work continues to emerge.




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'It is blazingly hideous. I rather recommend it.' The Ashmolean's Jeff Koons show is worth a visit

In a way, the work of the American artist Jeff Koons is the most terrific dare. Of course, if you saw a porcelain model of a ballerina in your great-aunt’s cabinet, you might call it kitsch, or bad taste.




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The Renaissance Nude exhibition at the Royal Academy is not just enjoyable, but thought-provoking

Our ideas about what the naked human body means probably amount to two – sex and suffering. Either the concentration-camp victim or the centrefold.




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Only Human: Martin Parr at the National Portrait Gallery is an exhibition full of charm

You’ve certainly seen Martin Parr’s work many times, even if you weren’t aware of it.




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The Manga exhibition at the British Museum isn’t going to satisfy an enthusiast

It’s quite hard to say just what manga is. The attempt to define it has defeated many observers.




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Leonardo: A Life In Drawing is a stunning exhibition

It’s 500 years since Leonardo da Vinci’s death.




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Tate Modern's Natalia Goncharova exhibition may be engaging... but it could have been better

One of the most positive developments in recent culture is the rediscovery of artists who didn't necessarily look like their contemporaries' idea of an artist.




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The Antony Gormley exhibition is a lovely show, full of the poetry of simplicity

Antony Gormley has the honour of having created a work of art much more famous than he is.




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Pre-Raphaelite Sisters review: A compelling and powerful exhibition

Though the group of 19th-century British painters known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were all men, women occupied unusually prominent positions in their world.




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Evidence of Egyptian pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut's alleged affair is uncovered in hidden wall carvings

Evidence of Egyptian pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut's alleged affair with a local is hinted at in hidden wall carvings in C5 documentary: The Nile: Egypt's Great River With Bettany Hughes.




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Mother, 51, stripped naked and nearly paralysed in TUI Sharm El Sheikh waterpark wave machine

Tracy Turner says her 'life has changed forever' after she sustained crushed bones, back and neck fractures on the machine at the waterpark attached to the Coral Sea Aqua Club Hotel in Egypt.




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British girl, four, drowns in a hotel pool in Egypt after she 'hit her head'

Skia Watson (pictured with mother Elisha) from Bristol was only out of sight of her family for a split second while on holiday at Seagull Beach Resort in Hurghada, on the Red Sea, south of Cairo.




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Group of 11 Britons sue five-star hotel in Egypt after 'catching gastric illness'

A group of Britons who were holidaying in Egypt are launching legal action against a five-star hotel after claiming they were struck down with gastric illness last month.




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TV historian Bettany Hughes reveals Egypt is most memorable place she has visited

Here Bettany Hughes reveals the most memorable place she has visited and her idea of holiday hell. The TV historian also divulges what she never travels without.




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Food historian recreates ancient Egyptian BEER

Food historians worked alongside the British Museum used ancient pots to accurately recreate Egyptian brewing methods to produce a 'delicious' brew.




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British traveller opens up his photo album from a trip through Africa in 1970 

The snaps were taken by Allan Hailstone in 1970 on a trip from London to Cape Town. He stopped off in Cairo, Nairobi, Johannesburg and Salisbury (now Harare) en route.




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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Terrifying Nazis is the Good Life for this fearless Margo lookalike!

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Crikey, Adolf had better watch his goosestep. Imperious and haughty, it looks like The Good Life's Margo Leadbetter is taking on the Nazis.




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Egypt speaker praises Hitler in bizarre attempt to back President's building plans

Ali Abdel Aal said: 'Hitler had his mistakes but he created a strong infrastructure.' He made the comments while defending Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.




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Father, 21, admits causing death of his fiancee in horror M5 crash

Dominic Evans, 21, of Devon has admitted to causing the death of his fiance Rayleigh Gill, 22, due to careless driving as they drove back from Gatwick airport after a family holiday to Egypt.




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Queues expected for Tutankhamun exhibition as Saatchi Gallery

The Saatchi Gallery has been criticised for its £37.50 ticket price to its show Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh, with claims it is Britain's most expensive exhibition.




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New Buckingham Palace exhibition will display the royal family's pets over the years

Buckingham Palace is to stage a special exhibition dedicated to royal animals in the summer of 2020, showcasing the royal family's pets over the past decades.




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A right earful! Stomach-churning moment man removes a massive lump of wax from his son's ear 

A father removed a massive lump of ear wax from his son's ear while on holiday in Hurghada, Egypt. He soaked his son's ear in baby oil and then resorted to using a pin.




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Mohamed Salah receives ankle treatment while on Egypt duty ahead of Liverpool vs Crystal Palace

Mohamed Salah has stepped up his bid to be fit in time for the return of the Premier League, after a re-occurrence of his troublesome ankle injury.




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Father, 21, who caused death of his fiancée when he fell asleep at the wheel is spared jail

Dominic Evans was driving his partner Kayleigh Gill, 22, and their two children back from Gatwick Airport in the early hours of the morning when his car veered across a motorway and hit an 18-tonne truck.




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Alicia Keys discusses the rewards of motherhood and her 'chill' plans for holidays 'safe at home'

The 38-year-old Grammy winner has two sons with husband




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Scottish tycoon is missing after his empty £300,000 yacht is found abandoned off Egypt

Colin Finnie's empty yacht Simba was reportedly found crashed on a reef weeks after the 67-year-old picked it up in Australia.




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Drunken passenger who wet and soiled himself after downing vodka and rum is jailed for eight months

James Petford, 39, of Kings Norton, Birmingham, urinated and vomited in his seat after downing vodka and rum on a flight from Birmingham to Egypt. He has been jailed for eight months.




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'Superdad' leaps onto tracks and shields his daughter as train passes over them

The shocking footage shows him protecting her from a thundering train passing by after she tripped on to the tracks. The incident happened at Ismailia station, in north-eastern Egypt.




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Hidden chambers found at the 3,400-year-old tomb of Tutankhamun

A team of archaeologists, led by former Egyptian minister of antiquities, Mamdouh Eldamaty from Ain Shams University, used ground penetrating radar (GPR) to make their discovery.




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Amy Hart and Jade Thirlwall turn out for the gala night performance of The Prince of Egypt

Celebrities including Amy Hart and Jade Thirlwall turned out in force on Tuesday to attend the gala night performance at the West End's Dominion Theatre in London.




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Moses whips up a storm: PATRICK MARMION reviews The Prince of Egypt 

PATRICK MARMION: With monumental staging evoking the Valley of the Kings, and seismic set-piece belters, this story of Moses and Egyptian pharaoh Ramses has hyperbole with G-force.




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The Prince Of Egypt review: As musical theatre, this gives banality a bad name

Half a century ago Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz had a hit with Godspell . Then, in 1991, he begat an Old Testament stinker called Children Of Eden .




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At least 26 US tourists are held in 14-day quarantine aboard River Nile cruise ship in Egypt

The Americans that are held on the MS Asara ship in Luxor are all part of the same tour group and were in the middle of a 12-day vacation in Egypt.




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Former MI5 'child killer' gets £60k after claiming his crime was sparked by PTSD

A former British spy who murdered a child was awarded £60,000 by blaming his horrific crime on alleged PTSD caused by working for UK intelligence (pictured, MI6 building, Vauxhall).




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ALEXANDRA SHULMAN'S NOTEBOOK: Stop bashing Baby Boomers like me. We gave the world so much, OK? 

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: The generation now disparaged for not being woke fought for and welcomed: the legalisation of homosexuality and the 1965 Race Relations Act.




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ALEXANDRA SHULMAN'S NOTEBOOK: Punishing private school pupils won't make life fair

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN:One set of my grandparents fled the Ukrainian pogroms early last century to build a life in Toronto, starting with nothing.




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PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Why Ed Sheeran is the patriotic rock star who puts his peers to shame 

PLATELL'S PEOPLE: With his mop of ginger hair, geeky glasses and hoodie, Ed looks as though he's just fallen out of the local Oxfam shop.




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AMANDA PLATELL: This Instagram star is a one-man argument for RAISING the voting age

AMANDA PLATELL: Freddie Bentley, 22, a reality TV star, is seemingly 'gobsmacked' that we should rake over our past, saying schools should no longer teach pupils about World War II.




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PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Hijacking the Tate pusher tragedy to score political points is simply appalling

AMANDA PLATELL: As revealed in the Mail yesterday, the man who threw the child to what he hoped would be his death, Jonty Bravery, had warned, even bragged of, his plans.




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AMANDA PLATELL: Mums need us more than ever on Mother's Day this year amid the coronavirus crisis

AMANDA PLATELL: Whatever we do, wherever we roam, a mother's love is unconditional, unextinguishable. They are the ones who are always our rocks.