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Jeane Freeman, who has died aged 72 four weeks after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, was a Labour-turned-SNP feminist who became a protégée of Nicola Sturgeon and was Scotland’s Cabinet ...

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Martin Creed stirred some debate when he won the Turner Prize in 2001, but it has been part of a glittering career in the art world ...

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Connie McLaughlin had been working at the Glasgow derby when fans stormed the pitch and clashed with one another at Ibrox ...

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Claudia Winkleman has, to paraphrase Ernest Hemingway, conquered British TV two ways: gradually, then suddenly.

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A teenage boy has been charged with attempted murder after a stabbing at a school near Norwich. Police were called to Thorpe ...

Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that the revelations over his appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the US could spark his downfall, in the same way the drip-drip of th ...