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posted on 25/2/20

You've Been Framed! is a British television series where viewers can contribute to the programme with their humorous home movies for the entertainment of others. It is produced by ITV Studios and comedian Harry Hill has been providing narration to the programme since 2004. The series began in 1990, and is currently in its 30th series. As of the 29th series, there have been 458 main-series episodes, excluding specials, of which there have been approximately 67. This brings the total number of episodes to 525.

posted on 25/2/20

In 2001 Beadle was presented with an MBE for services to charity for his work with Children With Leukaemia, and is estimated to have raised more than £100 million for various charities. He is survived by his wife Sue, his two grown-up daughters Cassie and Bonnie, and two step-children, Leo and Clare.

posted on 25/2/20

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posted on 25/2/20

Jake Lloyd, who played young Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace, retired from acting when he was 12 due to bullying, destroyed all his Star Wars memorabilia, and was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia after being involved in a high speed chase with police.

posted on 25/2/20

American and Russian astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) have different water supplies. Its because the Americans drink recycled urine while the Russians refuse to do so. The NASA astronauts even collect the Russians urine to increase their own supply.

posted on 25/2/20

Chelsea hammered.

posted on 25/2/20

Chelsea's Champions League campaign is surely over after they were brutally outclassed by Bayern Munich in the last-16 first-leg tie at Stamford Bridge.

posted on 26/2/20

Claire Saffitz (born September 16, 1986) is a Contributing Food Editor at Bon Appétit magazine, professional pastry chef, and YouTube personality. Saffitz stars in several series on the Bon Appétit YouTube channel, most notably Gourmet Makes, in which she creates gourmet versions of popular snack foods by reverse engineering them.

posted on 26/2/20

A former Come Dine With Me contestant has been exposed as the joint owner of a telecoms firm fined £400,000 for making an 'unprecedented' 100 million cold calls.

Rachael Tooher-Rudd and her husband Gregg own the firm Keurboom Communications Ltd, which bombarded millions of Britons with unwanted phone calls from early morning until late at night.

posted on 26/2/20

Travellers are being warned to expect disruption as snow and ice is forecast across large parts of the UK on Wednesday night and Thursday.

The Met Office said wintry conditions, freezing showers and icy patches could lengthen journey times and cause falls.

The first snow and ice warning from 22:00 GMT covers western parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland, north Wales and northern England.

posted on 26/2/20

I've long been fascinated by the huge stretch of time between Baby Peggy's peak of fame and the present day. Incredible that someone who was an irrelevant hasbeen by the time The Great Gatsby was published was still alive in 2020.

posted on 26/2/20

It must be disorientating for a once-huge star to quite possibly outlive their entire contemporary fanbase. It should be almost impossible for a celebrity to live beyond all first-hand memories of their stardom, but then most people her age are probably too young to remember her. She lived to see her fans become 100% second-hand – people taking a historical interest, far removed from Peggymania. When's the last time she'd have heard from anyone who was authentically nostalgic for her? I don't know of any other figure who was a living relic in quite the same way.

posted on 26/2/20

Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova is "saying goodbye" to tennis at the age of 32.

In an article written for Vogue and Vanity Fair, Sharapova said her body "had become a distraction" after a struggle with shoulder injuries.

The Russian won her first Grand Slam at Wimbledon in 2004 aged 17 and completed the career slam - all four major titles - by winning the French Open in 2012.

In 2016, she served a 15-month ban after testing positive for meldonium.

posted on 26/2/20

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posted on 26/2/20

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posted on 26/2/20

Three firms in London have now asked staff to work from home as a precaution against coronavirus.

Oil giant Chevron has asked 300 staff not to come into its office in Canary Wharf "for the time being".

posted on 27/2/20

It's much easier for an actor to give a great performance when they believe in the material, it's not so easy when they don't, and that often translates on screen.

posted on 27/2/20

David Beckham says there were times he thought his Inter Miami Major League Soccer franchise "might not happen".

Inter Miami play their first official match when they visit LAFC on Sunday.

It is six years since Beckham exercised an option to own a franchise - included in the deal that brought him to MLS from Real Madrid as a player in 2007.

In the intervening years Beckham was embroiled in arguments over a stadium site, with the club playing 30 miles from Miami before it relocates in 2022.

posted on 27/2/20

Just been out on the local reserve and the barn owl flew straight over to me then resumed hunting, it felt like she remembered me.

posted on 27/2/20

Uni admissions could scrap use of predicted grades

posted on 27/2/20

US President Trump has appointed his Vice-President Mike Pence to coordinate the government response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Both men told a White House news conference that the risk to the American people remained very low.

The announcement came as new cases of Covid-19, the infection caused by the Wuhan coronavirus, continue to spread at a rapid pace around the world.

Sixty cases have so far been reported in the US.

posted on 27/2/20

Matthew John Gadsby (6 September 1979 – 9 September 2006) was an English professional footballer. Born in Sutton Coldfield, he played for Walsall, Mansfield Town, Kidderminster Harriers, Forest Green and Hinckley United as a defender and midfielder.

posted on 27/2/20

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posted on 27/2/20

Gadsby collapsed on the pitch on 9 September 2006, playing for Hinckley United in a Conference North game against Harrogate Town. Despite efforts by paramedics to revive him, he died soon afterwards in Harrogate District Hospital, three days after his 27th birthday. Medical tests revealed that Gadsby died from a heart condition known as Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy, an inherited condition that affects the muscle of the right ventricle of the heart.

posted on 27/2/20

Hinckley United's next game away at Moor Green was postponed after his death. The club, after consultation with the Football Conference, also decided to withdraw the number five shirt worn by Gadsby for the remainder of the season. It was replaced by the number 18 shirt in the starting line-up. A remembrance area was set up at the Marston's Stadium by the turnstiles, and a memorial game was played on 29 October 2006, at the Newton Regis recreational ground, between Tamworth Sunday league team Newton Thistle and a Leicester City old stars side.

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