Thousands of banks have shut their doors in recent years (Picture: Getty Images Europe) Another day, another high-street shop closing down. Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed it will close 292 branches between 2024 and 2025. The group, which has more than 27 million customers, confirmed the wave of closures will also affect Halifax and Bank … Read more
Phoebe Plummer (L) and Anna Holland (R) have been jailed for vandalising Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting (Picture: Shutterstock) Two Just Stop Oil activists who poured soup over Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting have been jailed for nearly ‘destroying’ the masterpiece. Phoebe Plummer 23, and Anna Holland, 22, received a combined sentence of three years and … Read more
If they can get past the exterior looks, well-heeled customers will find a smooth driving, luxurious EV crossover with serious range 2024 BMW iX xDrive50Photo by Brian Harper This is something most consumers won’t appreciate but for we keyboard-pounding wretches who test and then write about new cars and trucks, an informative press release detailing … Read more
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Stomach-churning CCTV footage shows the blast of browny orange waste showering the road, covering walkers and commuters. Pedestrians and cars were soaked with sewage after a major pipe exploded near a motorway. A pipe ruptured … Read more
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next This drone footage shows one of Britain’s loneliest homes which has gone on sale – in the middle of a traffic island. The video shows how the two-bed, £350,000 property in York is marooned in the middle of a triangular plot of land leading up to a road … Read more
Former ESPN columnist Bill Simmons piled onto the avalanche that has collapsed on the “Worldwide Leader” for firing Zach Lowe on Thursday. Simmons said on “The Bill Simmons Podcast” that the Worldwide Leader “lost its soul” when it fired his close friend Lowe, whom the Ringer founder employed at his ESPN vertical, Grantland, from 2011-15. … Read more
A protester is arrested at UC Irvine as police break up an encampment of pro-Palestinian demonstrators May 15. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) To the editor: In 1990, UC Berkeley held a graduation for members of the class of 1970, whose ceremony was canceled due to the anti-Vietnam War protests. (“UC police seek approval … Read more
Angel Reese said she can’t imagine a future playing for the Sky without Teresa Weatherspoon, who was fired after one season as head coach Thursday. Chicago finished the 2024 season with 13-27 record and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2018. “I can’t imagine playing for the Sky without [Spoon,]” Reese told the … Read more
Maggie Smith speaks on stage during the “In Conversation With” chaired by Mark Lawson at the BFI & Radio Times TV Festival at the BFI Southbank on April 8, 2017 in London.Photo by Tabatha Fireman /Getty Images Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases … Read more
Dame Maggie Smith, who played Professor Minerva McGonagall in the “Harry Potter” franchise, died on Friday, her family confirmed to BBC. The actress was 89 years old. “It is with great sadness we have to announce the death of Dame Maggie Smith,” her sons, Toby Stephens and Chris Larkin, wrote in a statement. 10Dame Maggie … Read more
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