Comedy star John Cleese is returning to British TV by making a show for right-leaning channel GB News.
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Spiritual leader, snooker enthusiast, greengrocer: Mohammed Shafiq, ran FreshSave in Didsbury for more than 23 years. He passed away last month and has been remembered by his communities across the world and today, by his family.
Mohammed was a familiar face throughout Didsbury, where he worked, and Bolton where he lived, and was known for his joy, wisdom, and the free, fresh fruit in his shop. The announcement of his death caused an outpouring of heartfelt responses, with more than 600 likes and 167 comments across two obituary posts on the Facebook page Didsbury M20 and letters, cards and drawings sent to the shop.
Mohammed moved to Bolton from Pakistan aged six with his mother, who worked in the cotton mills. He took a job collecting from the markets when he was 14 and would work before school to help his mother. In January of this year he was diagnosed with cancer.
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The Manchester Evening News sat down with Mohammed’s wife, Mrs. Shafiq, and two of his sons, Omar, 31, and Hammaad Shafiq, 23, to talk about his life. The family are no strangers to the media, with Hammaad and Mohammed being featured in the Guardian last year and Mohammed featuring in, not only an episode of Rip Off Britain, but the title sequence as well.
Mrs. Shafiq explained: ‘He’s always been in the limelight, he’s in the intro of Rip Off Britain.
“He was on, talking about products, when they have sell by dates, and how there’s no such thing as you can tell when something has gone wrong and you don’t need to eat it. Things go to waste because of the sell-by date.
“He says, you can tell when something’s wrong, you can taste it, you can smell it. No
Comedy star John Cleese is returning to British TV by making a show for right-leaning channel GB News.
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HBO series Succession.On Monday (October 3), the Chancellor of the Exchequer said in a statement that “we get it and we have listened”, as he announced plans to scrap a controversial tax cut for those earning over £150,000 a year.His statement, however, was soon mocked on social media, with many comparing it to a speech given by Sarah Snook’s character Shiv Roy in Succession.In a season three episode of the hit show, Shiv used the phrase “we get it” while addressing Waystar Royco employees about a series of scandals that had hit the company.“As a #Succession obsessive, I’m really enjoying the tories leading with “We get it” on the 45p tax rate climb down. Is @lucyprebblish writing the script for our government now?” wrote one person.Another joked: “Does the UK government have the same PR advisers as Waystar Royco?”“Wasn’t ‘we get it’ literally the slogan Waystar went with in Succession after it came out that they’d done a bunch of shady things? And then ‘we hear you’ after their version of Siri was spying on people?” added another.As a #Succession obsessive, I'm really enjoying the tories leading with "We get it" on the 45p tax rate climb down.
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