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Witnesses blocked from Marine A's court martial

Colonel Oliver Lee - one of the few top brass to emerge with credit (pictured in Afghanistan) – resigned in protest at the treatment of Sgt Blackman.




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Marine A's wife should get a medal for courage  

Standing outside the High Court on Wednesday was a shy, unassuming woman clearly unused to the media spotlight. It was Claire Blackman, wife of Sergeant Alexander Blackman.




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Sgt Blackman may be free on Friday

Frances Blackman's soldier son Alexander Blackman was jailed on her 74th birthday for shooting dead a Taliban insurgent during a battle in Afghanistan.




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Sgt Blackman's wife arrives to hear if he will be freed

Sergeant Alexander Blackman killed more than 30 of the ‘Queen’s enemies’ during his service in the Royal Marines, a court heard yesterday.




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Lord Carey asks for clemency for 'Marine-A' Sgt Blackman

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey (pictured) defended former Royal Marine Alexander Blackman, saying he was a 'magnificent' soldier who made a split second choice in the heat of battle.




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Alexander Blackman is driven out of jail after his release

Sgt Al Blackman, known as Marine A, left HMP Erlestoke, Wiltshire, on the backseat of an Audi car (pictured) just after 12.30am today, having spent 1,277 days behind bars.




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BBC radio host quits over Marine A impartiality row

Richard Spendlove, who has been broadcasting since 1989, has quite the BBC after accusing Radio Cambridgeshire of throwing him to the lions after it found he'd supported Marine A on air.




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Marine Alexander Blackman thanks his supporters

Sergeant Blackman was reunited with wife Claire in April after serving 1,277 days behind bars for shooting a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan.




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Freed Royal Marine Alexander Blackman gets a new job

Sgt Alexander Blackman - known as Marine A - has joined a new scheme supporting wounded servicemen find work, which was officially launched yesterday at the Houses of Parliament.




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Marine A Alexander Blackman tells how he is now back hunting for work

Marine A Sergeant Alexander Blackman, who was released from prison in 2017, appeared on ITV on Wednesday, where he said he was looking for work following his manslaughter charge.




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Pie Fidelity is a study of the nation's favourite meals

This mouthwatering menu is rendered even more piquant by his decision to sample an archetypal example of each dish, rather than necessarily the best




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Fashion: A girl’s best friends 

... are her trusty accessories, of course! These are spring’s most wanted, modelled by the cutest pooches in the park




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HOROSCOPES: Your patience will be rewarded, Aries

If employers or other authority figures are dragging their feet over something that is important to you, you will just have to grin and bear it.




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Travel: All-inclusive but not as you know it, Rixos Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi 

It's well acknowledged that all-inclusive holiday options can divide traveller opinions rather radically




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Go wild with water: Create your own wetland pond habitat and let nature flourish

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for maintaining a healthy, clear-water pond with thriving wildlife. He recommends placing a site in part-shade or sun.




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Tom Parker Bowles reviews Gloria in Shoreditch

Gloria, a raucously flamboyant Shoreditch trattoria, doesn’t do things by halves. Like a kitsch explosion in a Dolce & Gabbana factory




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Craig Brown reviews a book on women during the Sixties

The renowned social historian Virginia Nicholson interviewed 40 veterans of the Swinging Sixties for her latest book, How Was It For You? One of them now walks with the aid of a Zimmer frame




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The Game Of Thrones cast give Event a tease of what to expect from the series finale

As winter finally arrives in Westeros, the Game Of Thrones cast and crew tell Event why the dazzling finale of this epic fantasy saga will take your breath away




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Corrections and clarifications

Articles of 22 October 2018 and 28 January 2019 may have suggested that Camilla Austin was knowingly involved in a £13.7m pension scam run by her father. The court found no wrongdoing.




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Prince Edward, Sophie Wessex and Princess Anne video call veterans

Earlier this week, and ahead of VE Day today, Sophie Wessex, 55, Prince Edward, 56, and Princess Anne, all telephoned several veterans to learn about their experiences in the war.




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Family's vintage vacation footage shows a grittier New York City during the 1976 holiday season

A video shared by Stuart Bailey shows the Big Apple in the full swing of its more tumultuous decade, when the city was in the midst of a financial crisis.




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Machete attack every TWO hours: UK thugs have new favourite weapon

In the latest example of 'Wild West Britain', stats uncovered using freedom of information requests show that in the final two months of 2019 police dealt with 664 crimes involving machetes.




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8,000 more people than normal have died in their homes during pandemic, figures reveal

Data from the Office for National Statistics shows there were 8,196 more deaths at home in England, Wales and Scotland compared with the five-year average for this time of year.




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Fancy a Michelin-starred takeaway during lockdown? Service offers meals from high-end restaurants

The London-based delivery company, named Supper, had been 'tootling along' with a few well-loved restaurants on its books before coronavirus hit and customer demand rose 700 per cent.




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SAS: Who Dares Wins host Ant Middleton's wife crashed £200,000 Lamborghini Huracan on shopping trip

EXCLUSIVE: Emilie Middleton, 40, span off the road near their home in Great Leighs, Chelmsford, Essex and ended up with the super charged yellow Lamborghini Huracan buried in a hedge.




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E-scooters trials to allow them on the roads to be fast-tracked

The government hope that battery-powered electric scooters - which can travel up to 30mph and cost between £200 and £500 - will offer an alternative to public transport after coronavirus lockdown.




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Rishi Sunak 'making final decision on future of furlough scheme this weekend'

Chancellor Rishi Sunak will make a final decision this weekend on when and how to phase out the government's coronavirus furlough scheme, it was claimed today.




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Last member of The Few from Battle of Britain has 'luck of the Irish'

John 'Paddy' Hemingway, at age 100, is the last member of The Few, a crew of RAF pilots who protected the UK from the Luftwaffe over the English Channel in 1940.




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'Two thirds of coronavirus cases in Britain are going undiagnosed'

Professor Tim Spector, a leading genetic epidemiologist, said the failure to class common symptoms in with the dry cough and fever has led to statisticians collecting data which is 'nonsense'.




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Private detective, 56, who conned Madeleine McCann's parents out of £300,000 died in fall

Kevin Halligen, 56, ran Oakley International, which received the publicly donated cash after Madeleine McCann vanished from Praia da Luz in Portugal aged three in 2007.




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Ribblehead viaduct threatens to collapse after walkers hit by falling rubble

The 145-year-old grade II structure has developed defects which are causing masonry to plunge off the edge. Engineers have discovered fractures along its 24 arches, which tower 100ft above ground.




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Driver's bid to throw £25,000 of cocaine from his van fails when he forgets to open window

Officers from Devon and Cornwall Police stopped the driver on the M5 and when they got to the cab they discovered the inside was covered in white powder.




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Honda Jazz driver, 91, surrenders his licence after terrifying motorists

The pensioner's silver Honda Jazz was captured on dashcam hurtling towards oncoming traffic on the A30 near Sherborne, Dorset, at 4.30pm on April 27.




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Rolls-Royce latest £405,000 Black Badge SUV attracts younger customers with black Spirit of Ecstasy

The debut of Rolls-Royce's £405,000 Cullinan Black Badge has attracted a younger brand of car buyers with the average age of Rolls-Royce customers falling to 42-years-old.




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Belgians have to choose just FOUR friends or relatives to visit their home as nation eases lockdown

'Buddy system' is to be introduced tomorrow on Belgium's Mothering Sunday. Similar ideas are being contemplated in the UK.




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Married Welsh man wins harassment case after female colleague repeatedly pestered him for sex

An employment tribunal in Llandudno, Wales, ruled Andrew Weatherby, 50, was sexually harrassed by a female coworker. It heard that she threatened to make 'his life hell' if he reported her to his boss.




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Workers could get legal right to work from home in 'workplace revolution'

Whitehall officials are modelling the plans on rules that already allow new parents to request flexible working. It will make it easier for those who do go in to the office to socially distance.




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What lockdown? Britain's parks are packed with sunworshippers amid 79F heat

Temperatures are predicted to hit 26C (78.8F) as most of the country will bask in warm sunshine while London and the South East will be hotter than Ibiza and St Tropez.




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Irish magic - and not a leprechaun in sight

Despite being owned by three Irishmen, and having a menu packed with Ireland's bounteous bounty, it steers admirably clear of hoary-handed cliché




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Naans vast and crisp, the size of a pillow

This Monday lunch just reminds me why I love London so much. New things to learn, fresh dishes, cultures, thrills and delights




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Tom Parker Bowles picks Britain's 50 most romantic restaurants

The following restaurants are chosen not for their short-term charms, rather their eternal allure, that enigmatic, mysterious spirit that is made, not bought




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Pure, not prissy: Indian at its best

This is modern Indian cooking at its best, pure but never prissy, with the most eloquent understanding of spice




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Pamela Smart opens up about being the most hated woman in America

Pamela Smart is now reflecting on that period in a new episode of Dateline's Deadly Secret that will air Monday, and revealing how it felt to be the subject of so much attention during her trial.




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Kris Jenner gets emotional discussing the death of Nicole Brown Simpson 25 years ago

Kris Jenner is still feeling raw emotions when discussing her late friend. She was a longtime friend of Simpson and, in a clip for an upcoming episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashian.




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President Trump is considering adding Alan Dershowitz to his impeachment legal team

Trump and his advisors are considering bringing on Dershowitz to defend the president at a trial in the Senate, which would follow a House vote passing articles of impeachment.




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Democratic donor Ed Buck hires OJ Simpson prosecutor Christopher Darden to fight charges

Christopher Darden was on the prosecution team in OJ Simpson's 1995 murder trial and had a brief stint defending the man accused of killing Nipsey Hussle.




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Alan Dershowitz meets his old client Jeffrey Epstein in HELL in SNL cold open featuring Jon Lovitz

Adam Driver portrays Jeffrey Epstein and Jon Lovitz plays Alan Dershowitz on SNL's cold open which also included Beck Bennett as Mitch McConnell and Cecily Strong as Susan Collins.




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OJ Simpson goes golfing in backyard for TikTok debut as he goes stir crazy at home during quarantine

He recently joined yet another popular app, making his TikTok debut with a trending meme while going stir crazy in quarantine.




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Fasting for 14 hours a day may cut risks for diabetes, heart disease

University of California, San Diego, researchers put 19 people at risk for the three chronic disease on a schedule that let them eat whatever they wanted, but only in a 10-hour window for 12 weeks.




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Kendall Jenner wears TINY string bikini poolside in Miami 

The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star, 23, looked incredible in a scanty bikini with a tiny top and bottoms which flashed her posterior and a mass of underboob