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For some fans, what their favourite celebs wore to the Oscars is actually more of a deal than who actually won. The 95th annual event was held in the Dolby Theatre in LA, California on Sunday night, and as always the attendees dressed to impress.

EXCLUSIVE: Banijay Rights has acquired global distribution rights to 72 Films’ four-part doc series on former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Peter Rawley, a longtime ICM talent agent who repped Richard Dreyfuss, Richard Gere and Faye Dunaway and also was head of European production for MGM and a successful indie producer, died January 3. He was 85.

AJ Tracey has announced a new partnership with St Peter’s College Oxford which will see him funding opportunities for black students at the University Of Oxford college.“We are delighted that AJ Tracey has become a close friend of St Peter’s College”, says Judith Buchanan, Head of the college. “We welcome the useful questions he asks about black experience in Oxford and his attentive interest in the wellbeing of our students.

weight loss diets have long been marred with controversy and branded unhealthy, much like crash dieting to shift as much body weight as possible in a short space of time. But Dr Michael Mosley revealed that numerous studies have in fact proven the opposite and explained that if people do it "safely and properly" then they are "much more likely to succeed" than if they followed slower diets. He referenced research conducted by weight loss specialist Professor Susan Jebb from Oxford University, who found rapid weight loss is the better option.

Eve Best is set to be inducted into the Game of Thrones hall of fame when its debut series first airs on Sky Atlantic tonight. Fans will soon come to know her as Princess Rhaenys Velaryon in the eagerly-anticipated prequel House of the Dragon.

Emma D’Arcy is one of the actors appearing on the new Game of Thrones prequel, House of The Dragon.

With results day well underway, many future uni students will be getting a better idea of what their prospects are and which university they want to attend.

Covid-19 can raise the risk of certain brain and mental disorders, even two years after recovery, according to new research.

Drinking more than seven pints of beer a week causes alcohol to age your DNA, according to a new study.

Insomnia can be tough to live with and while there are medications available to treat the sleep disorder, experts continue to seek out more effective options. Through continued research, two new drugs have been identified by scientists which are more successful at treating insomnia than other medications.

After first stepping into the role of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 2019, Boris Johnson is to step back from the position following a series of government resignations. The 58 year old, who recently welcomed his second child with wife Carrie, is set to resign today (Thursday 7 June) as leader of the Conservative Party, though he will continue as Prime Minister until the autumn, the BBC reports. A spokesperson for No.

writing: “I am the luckiest guy in the world to have had such an amazing and loving father. May he rest in peace.”My dad #PeterBrook passed away last night.

Gerome Ragni, who had participated in that off-Broadway ideological maelstrom with Joe Chaikin’s Open Theatre and Ellen Stewart’s La Mama. Rado was already writing songs and acting in New York – he had appeared on Broadway in 1963 in June Havoc’s play Marathon ’33, about the dance marathons in the Depression era, supervised by the acting guru Lee Strasberg – when, in 1964, he met Ragni as a fellow off-Broadway cast member in the British hit protest revue (about capital punishment) from Oxford University, Hang Down Your Head and Die, devised by David Wright and staged by Braham Murray.

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The celebration of the Queen’s Jubilee this weekend has naturally piqued interest in some of the less well known members of the royal family, and especially those who’ve been out of the limelight in recent years. Katharine the Duchess of Kent, however, was once considered one of the most fashionable women in the world and regularly topped lists that said as much.

Theatre-goers are being warned to plan ahead with disruption expected this weekend. Road closures are due to come into force across the city centre tomorrow ahead of Sunday's Great Manchester Run.

A hiker who was only 100 meters away from bagging her 184th Scots Munro had to be saved by mercy crews after she snapped her ankle just 15 minutes from the summit.

Netflix anthology series, written by TV veteran David E. Kelley and Melissa James Gibson and premiering April 15, is a standard “Did he or didn’t he?” tale involving British politician James Whitehouse (Rupert Friend), a high-level minister who’s accused by one of his staffers, Olivia Lytton (Naomi Scott), of raping her in a workplace elevator a week after breaking off their torrid five-month affair.

Bridgerton is the regency love story that took Netflix by storm in 2021.

The institutions that went on to become the University of Manchester received donations from donors with connections to slavery, a report has revealed.

"Deltacron" has been officially identified as a coronavirus variant.

Clive Myrie in Ukraine who tweeted on Tuesday, March 8 that he was returning to London, but would be back. Reeta is a very experienced journalist, with a long career behind her at the BBC, beginning in 1994 on the Breakfast Programme as well as BBC Radio 5 Live. She became political correspondent for the BBC in 1999 and in 2014 she was appointed as news presenter on BBC One and the BBC News Channel.

Work is being carried out on the old Cornerhouse building in Manchester city centre after officials warned it could 'potentially collapse'.

Researchers in Greater Manchester are calling on adults who test positive for coronavirus to sign up for a 'world-first' study investigating new antiviral treatments.

Glass Animals have become the first UK band to reach the top of Spotify‘s global singles chart.The Oxford four-piece have hit the heights through the continued success of their 2020 single ‘Heat Waves’, which originally featured on their third studio album ‘Dreamland’.The track, which has been streamed over 1.1billion times on Spotify, has now hit the top of Spotify’s Global Top 50 Chart, making Glass Animals the first British band to reach the top spot.‘Heat Waves’, which is solely credited to Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley, is currently amassing over 4.26million streams a day on Spotify.The song has been nominated for a BRIT Award for ‘Song Of The Year’, while Glass Animals are up for both Best Band In The World and Best Band From The UK: Supported by Pizza Express at the BandLab NME Awards 2022.‘Heat Waves’, which was re-released in March 2021 featuring a new verse by Iann Dior, helped Glass Animals make US chart history back in November.The song reached number 10 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 for the first time that month, having already spent 42 weeks on the chart.It was the longest climb to the top 10 in US chart history: beating American Idol winner Carrie Underwood, whose 2006 single ‘Before He Cheats’ took 38 weeks to reach the same position.

NEW YORK -- “Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband” by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn (Pamela Dorman Books)Yinka Oladeji is a 30-year-old, Oxford educated, British Nigerian woman with a good job, living in London who happens to be single. Her accomplishments should carry weight within her family but unfortunately, the fact that she's not married is a big source of worry and tension for her elders. The novel opens with Yinka attending her sister's baby shower when both her mother and aunt lead a group prayer to find Yinka a “huzband" — slang for “a non-existent man in a non-existent marriage whose whereabouts is often asked.”When at the same party Yinka's cousin announces her engagement, it's all too much.

Prince Andrew will face civil trial over claims he sexually abused Virginia Giuffre when she was just 17.

Kate Middleton is all smiles as she arrives at Nower Hill High School on Wednesday (November 24) in London, England.

A few years ago midwives at the Royal Oldham Hospital created 'dilation pumpkins' - and this Halloween they're going viral all over again - and it's all because of one Tweet.

Love Island star Sharon Gaffka has revealed what her family and friends think of her newfound fame. Speaking exclusively to OK!, the star shared how much her life has changed since leaving the villa back in July, and how her family and friends have adapted to her new way of life.

Love Island fans were left in stitches as they watched Chloe Burrows and Toby Aromolaran break their bed in the villa during Friday night’s instalment.The loved-up couple, who can’t keep their hands off each other at the moment, were partaking in some late night antics when their fellow islanders suddenly heard a massive bang.

Is that you, Brad Pitt? No, it’s actually just a dad from Oxford, England.Nathan Meads is a single dad who works as a groundworker but moonlights as a Brad Pitt impersonator. Meads, 35, bares an uncanny resemblance to Pitt, 57, and explained to Jam Press how it’s hard to date women who are obsessed with the Oscar winner.

detected in the United States, a trial for a new vaccine has been launched.The University of Oxford has announced commencement of a phase 1 trial of a newly developed vaccine, HIVconsvX,  as part of efforts to finally end the HIV/AIDS epidemic.The vaccine involves two shots, spaced four weeks apart, and is designed to target a “broad range” of HIV variants by inducing the immune system’s T cells to target highly conserved and vulnerable areas of the virus, PharmaTimes reports.Thirteen people

Love Island star Sharon Gaffka has been open about her families feelings about her appearance on the reality show. Before going into the show, the 25-year-old civil servant from Oxford revealed that her mum and dad had their reservations about her application.

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